Record

Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eighth Season - Prom 47: Les Siecles Play Ligeti and Mozart
Performance Date20 August 2023
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersIsabelle Faust - violin,
Alexander Melnikov - piano
Orchestra or BandLes Siècles
ConductorsFrançois-Xavier Roth
Set List'Concert Românesc', Ligeti,
'Violin Concerto', Ligeti
INTERVAL
'Piano Concerto No.23 in A Major', Mozart
'Symphony No.41 in C Major, ‘Jupiter’', Mozart
Performance NotesCelebrating its 20th anniversary this year, François-Xavier Roth’s award-winning orchestra Les Siècles presents music from sonic pioneer György Ligeti alongside two late works by Mozart – pieces separated by two centuries, but united by the spirit of revolution.

Unperformed until 1971, Ligeti’s vibrant Concert Românesc (‘Romanian Concerto’) is a light-footed celebration of Romanian folk music – real and invented. His Violin Concerto – performed here with German soloist Isabelle Faust – is one of the most original of any age, while Mozart’s final symphony, the ‘Jupiter’, with its astonishing finale, is the last word on the genre from a master innovator. Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov is the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2023/ ),
Programme (RAHE/1/2023/ ),
Digital Photographs
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Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work12976BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eightth Season71
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1048Roth; François-Xavier (6 November 1971-); French conductor
DS/UK/6291Les Siecles; 2003-; French orchestra
DS/UK/19251Faust; Isabelle (1972-); German violinist, music educator
DS/UK/7214Melnikov; Alexander Markovich (1973-); Russian pianist
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