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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 66: Chineke! plays Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pathétique’ Symphony
Performance Date8 September 2024
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersStewart Goodyear - piano
Orchestra or BandChineke! Orchestra
ConductorsAndrew Grams
Set ListTchaikovsky, arr. Ellington & Strayhorn, arr. and adapted J. Tyzik The Nutcracker Suite 24’
Stewart Goodyear Callaloo – Caribbean Suite for piano and orchestra 28’
Interval
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B minor, ‘Pathe´tique’ 46’
Performance NotesBritain’s only orchestra of Black and ethnically diverse musicians returns to the Proms with music that celebrates its own heritage as well as universal dreams and aspirations.

Stewart Goodyear is the soloist in his own vibrant celebration of Caribbean music, Callaloo, while Duke Ellington’s jazzed-up take on Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker turns waltz into swing and Sugar Plum into heady rum. Conductor Andrew Grams ends with the most emotionally intense and musically robust symphony Tchaikovsky ever wrote, his heartbreakingly autobiographical ‘Pathe´tique’.

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/1/2024/99BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season - Prom 66: Chineke! plays Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pathétique’ Symphony8 September 2024
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work13252BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2024 - One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Season73
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