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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 5: Zemlinsky’s The Mermaid
Performance Date22 July 2024
Performance DayMonday
Performance Time19:30
Orchestra or BandBBC National Orchestra of Wales
ConductorsRyan Bancroft
Set List'Pelleas and Melisande'. Schoenberg,
INTERVAL,
'The Mermaid', Zemlinsky
Performance NotesAt a concert in Vienna on 25 January 1905, two new, constrastingly impactful orchestral works were heard for the first time. In his response to Maurice Maeterlinck’s drama on the doomed love between Pelleas and Melisande, Arnold Schoenberg (born 150 years ago) pushes a colossal symphony orchestra to its limits. But Alexander Zemlinsky wasn’t going to let Schoenberg (also his brother-in law) steal the show, and wore his broken heart on his sleeve in his orchestral response to the well-known Hans Christian Andersen story The Little Mermaid.

Ryan Bancroft marshals his BBC National Orchestra of Wales in two monumental tearjerkers that share far more than a birthday.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProm Guide (RAHE/1/2024),
Programme (RAHE/1/2024)
Ticket Prices£10-150, promming tickets £8
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2024/40BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 5: Zemlinsky’s The Mermaid22 July 2024
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work13252BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season73
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/23494Bancroft; Ryan (1989); American conductor
DS/UK/1019British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC National Orchestra of Wales; 1935-; Welsh orchestra
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