Record

Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concert 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season - Prom 48 - Classical Tectonics
Performance Date22 August 2014
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time19:35
Main PerformersJonathan Biss - piano
Orchestra or BandIceland Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsIlan Volkov
Set List'Magma', Haukur Tómasson,
'Piano Concerto in A Minor', Schumann
INTERVAL
'Geysir', Leifs,
'Symphony No.5 in C Minor', Beethoven
ENCORES
1st Half
'Kinderszenen' - Der Dichter Spricht, Schumann,
2nd Half
'Consolation', Leifs,
'Sprengisandur', trad.
Performance NotesIlan Volkov directs the Iceland Symphony Orchestra (of which he is Music Director) in the ensemble's Proms debut.

Together they bring works from two major Icelandic composers, both inspired by the power and drama of their native country's geology. There's a slow-growing, primal force to Leifs's Geysir that balances the shifting tectonics of Tómasson's Magma.

Jonathan Biss makes his second appearance this season with Schumann's Piano Concerto, written for the composer's wife Clara, and the concert closes with Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, whose darkness-to-light scenario culminates in a blaze of glory.

UK premiere of 'Magma', Haukur Tómasson.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2014/53),
Programme (RAHE/1/2014/99),
Posters (RAHE/2/2014/41),
Proms Mini-Guide
Ticket Prices£5.00-£38.00
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2014/99BBC Proms 2014 - Prom 4822 August 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/19757Biss; Jonathan (1980-); American pianist, teacher, and writer
DS/UK/1139Volkov; Ilan (1976-); Israeli orchestral conductor
DS/UK/20007Iceland Symphony Orchestra, (ISO); 1925-; Icelandic orchestra
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