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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 46: Holst’s The Planets
Performance Date25 August 2024
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersAnu Komsi - vocals
Orchestra or BandRoyal College of Music Symphony Orchestra
Sibelius Academy Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsRoyal College of Music Chamber Choir
ConductorsSakari Oramo
Set ListSibelius The Wood Nymph 22’
Lara Poe Laulut maaseudulta (‘Songs from the Countryside’) c18’
BBC commission: world premiere
Interval
Holst The Planets 50’
Performance NotesSome phenomena only music can depict. From an age before space travel, Gustav Holst’s orchestral suite evoking the astrological associations of the planets represents one of classical music’s most extraordinary acts of imagination.

Before heading into space, we are lured into the wilderness courtesy of music from conductor Sakari Oramo’s home country of Finland. The looping repetitions of Sibelius’s The Wood Nymph lead us shaman-like into a seductive woodland, while Lara Poe’s brand new work for soprano and orchestra channels haunting Nordic cow-calling traditions.

Student musicians from Helsinki and London unite for a Prom all about music’s conjuring power.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Broadcast on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer this season.
Related Archival MaterialProm Guide (RAHE/1/2024),
Programme (RAHE/1/2024)
Ticket Prices£10-150, promming tickets £8
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2024/80BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 46: Holst’s The Planets25 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/969Oramo; Sakari Marcus; OBE; Finnish conductor
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