| Main Performers | Michael Cox - alto flute,
Sarah Connolly - vocal,
Isabelle Faust - violin |
| Set List | 'Gnosis', Taverner,
'Violin Concerto No.2', Bartok
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.10 in E Minor', Shostakovich
ENCORE
'Sarabande' from Partita in D Minor, Bach (Isabelle Faust) |
| Performance Notes | BBC commission and world premiere of 'Gnosis', Taverner.
Isabelle Faust's association with Bartók extends back to her very first recording. Now, fresh from an acclaimed disc of both the composers violin concertos, she joins the BBC SO and Conductor Laureate Jirí Belohlávek for Bartók's Second Violin Concerto.
Written under the threat of Fascism, it's a passionate national statement, lively with folk rhythms. By the early 1950s and Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, threat had become reality.
This violent, despairing work paints a vivid portrait of the horrors of Stalin's Russia. The evening opens with the first of two posthumous premieres this season from the late John Tavener some of the last works from England's great musical mystic.
The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3. |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2014/53),
Programme (RAHE/1/2014/60),
Posters (RAHE/2/2014/41),
Proms Mini-Guide,
Digital Photographs |