| Orchestra or Band | BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra |
| Set List | 'Les Indes Galantes Suite', Rameau,
'Concerto for Piano and Orchestra', B Rands
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.1 in E Flat Major, K16', Mozart,
'Ein Heldenleben', R Strauss |
| Performance Notes | Rameau's opera Les Indes Galantes and Strauss's tone-poem Ein Heldenleben were both flops at their premieres, yet they soon won over a public suspicious of the new.
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra tackles both works, taking us from 18th-century France to fin-de-siècle Germany with a quick stop-off in Chelsea, where the 8-year-old Mozart composed his First Symphony.
Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Jonathan Biss gives the UK premiere of Bernard Rands's colourful new Piano Concerto, written for Biss himself.
UK premiere of 'Concerto for Piano and Orchestra', Bernard Rands.
The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3. |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2014/53),
Programme (RAHE/1/2014/90),
Posters (RAHE/2/2014/41),
Proms Mini-Guide |