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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eighth Season - Prom 39: Ligeti, Bartok and Beethoven
Performance Date13 August 2023
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersAnna-Lena Elbert - vocal,
Sir András Schiff - piano
Orchestra or BandBudapest Festival Orchestra
ConductorsIván Fischer
Set List'Mysteries of the Macabre', Ligeti,
'Piano Concerto No.3', Bartok
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.3 in E Flat Major, ‘Eroica’', Beethoven
Performance NotesIván Fischer, his Budapest Festival Orchestra and soprano Anna-Lena Elbert mark the 100th anniversary of one of the 20th century’s great originals with Mysteries of the Macabre – three arias from Ligeti’s opera Le Grand Macabre that explode in a cartoonish riot of irony and remarkable technique.

Meanwhile Sir András Schiff is the soloist in Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto, an exquisite, elegiac musical farewell. Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony ends the programme: a passionate, provocative statement of musical and human possibility.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC television.
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/11098Fischer; Ivan (1951-); Hungarian conductor and composer
DS/UK/17063Budapest Festival Orchestra; 1983-; Hungarian orchestra
DS/UK/11032Schiff; Sir; Andras (1953-); Hungarian-born British classical pianist, conductor
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