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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 38: Stravinsky’s ‘Firebird’ with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Performance Date18 August 2024
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time11:00
Main PerformersSol Gabetta - cello
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsTianyi Lu
Set ListDukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 12’
Francisco Coll Cello Concerto 24’
BBC co-commission: UK premiere
Interval
Puccini Preludio sinfonico 12’
Stravinsky The Firebird – suite (1945 version) 31’
Performance NotesStravinsky showed his true colours in The Firebird.

In this coruscating ballet music he unleashed for the first time the vivid colours that would captivate generations of theatregoers. He had the perfect subject matter in the compelling story of the young Prince Ivan outwitting the evil sorcerer Kashchey and freeing the 13 enchanted Princesses with the help of the magical Firebird.

Tianyi Lu also conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Puccini’s effortlessly lyrical Preludio sinfonico, Dukas’s retelling of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice tale and a new Cello Concerto by Francisco Coll, powered by dances ranging from the tango to the waltz.

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/1/2024/72BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 38: Stravinsky’s ‘Firebird’ with the BBC Symphony Orchestra18 August 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/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
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