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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concert 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season - Prom 56 - Holsts 'The Planets'
Performance Date28 August 2014
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:33
Main PerformersAlexander Toradze - piano
Orchestra or BandLondon Philharmonic Orchestra
ChoirsLondon Philharmonic Choir
ConductorsVladimir Jurowski
Set List'The Planets', Holst
INTERVAL
'Five Orchestral Pieces, Op.16', Schoenberg,
'Prometheus: The Poem of Fire', Scriabin
Performance Notes20th-century music takes three contrasting paths here in masterpieces by Holst, Schoenberg and Scriabin.

Tuneful good humour and vivid characterisation see the century at its most approachable in Holst's well-loved The Planets.

Scriabin's Prometheus is more eccentric – scored for piano, 'colour organ' and orchestra. This performance of it includes the optional part for choir and responds to the composer's imaginative ideas on colour.

Premiered at the Proms in 1912, Schoenberg's Five Orchestral Pieces take tonality to the limit, anticipating the composer's later development of serialism.

Final ever performance by Alexander Toradze at the Royal Albert Hall.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2014/53),
Programme (RAHE/1/2014/107),
Posters (RAHE/2/2014/41),
Proms Mini-Guide
Ticket Prices£5.00-£38.00
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2014/107BBC Proms 2014 - Prom 5628 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/1129London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO); 1932-; British orchestra
DS/UK/1004London Philharmonic Choir; 1947-; English choir
DS/UK/1148Jurowski; Vladimir Mikhailovich (1972-); Russian conductor
DS/UK/20171Toradze; Alexander (1952-2022); Georgian-born American pianist
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