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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concert 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season - Prom 19 - Richard Strauss and Edward Elgar
Performance Date31 July 2014
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:33
Main PerformersInger Dam-Jensen,
Suzanne Shakespeare,
Tara Erraught,
Adrian Dwyer,
Brindley Sherrat - vocals
Orchestra or BandRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Singers
ConductorsVasily Petrenko
Set List'Festival Prelude', Richard Strauss,
'Deutsche Motette', Richard Strauss,
'Four Last Songs', Richard Strauss
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.2 in E flat major', Elgar
Performance NotesTwo rarely heard works continue our 150th anniversary celebration of Richard Strauss.

Scored for organ and an orchestra calling for no fewer than 10 trumpets (six offstage), the Festival Prelude packs symphonic weight into its brief duration. It is matched for impact by the Deutsche Motette – a concerto for choir by any other name: its vocal lines trace the same expansive arcs and arabesques as the composer's exquisite, autumnal Four Last Songs.

Maintaining the mood of late-Romantic nostalgia, Elgar's Second Symphony delights in flexible chromaticism, its shifting moods coloured in delicate shades.

The concert was recorded and broadcast on BBC Four on 3 August 2014.
The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Suzanne Shakespeare and Adrian Dwyer were both Proms debut artists.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2014/53),
Programme (RAHE/1/2014/71),
Posters (RAHE/2/2014/41),
Proms Mini-Guide
Ticket Prices£5-£38
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2014/71BBC Proms 2014 - Prom 1931 July 2014
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work9894BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season76
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
DS/UK/17015Jensen; Inger Dam- (1964-); Danish operatic soprano
DS/UK/1275Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; 1840-; English orchestra
DS/UK/958British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Singers; 1924-; British chamber choir
DS/UK/1277Petrenko; Vasily (1976-); Russian conductor
DS/UK/19418Shakespeare; Suzanne (fl 2011-); Australian soprano
DS/UK/19233Erraught; Tara (fl 2000s-); Irish-born mezzo-soprano
DS/UK/19419Dwyer; Adrian (fl 2013-); Australian tenor
DS/UK/7252Sherratt; Brindley (fl 1990s-); English bass
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