Record

Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2015 - One Hundred and Twenty First Season - Prom 9 - Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Lief Ove Andsnes
Performance Date23 July 2015
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:32
Main PerformersLeif Ove Andsnes - piano, director,
Matthew Truscott, violin, director
Orchestra or BandMahler Chamber Orchestra
Set List'Piano Concerto No.1 in C Major', Beethoven,
'Apollon Musagète', Stravinsky
INTERVAL
'Piano Concerto No.4 in G Major', Beethoven
Performance NotesNorwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes embarks on his Proms cycle of Beethoven piano concertos, directing the dynamic Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Each concert features a work by Stravinsky (in this case the composer’s classically inspired ballet Apollon musagète (‘Apollo, Leader of the Muses’) – music, the impresario Diaghilev claimed, ‘not of this world, but of somewhere above’.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2015/60),
Programme (RAHE/1/2015/68),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2015/37),
Digital Photographs
Ticket Prices£5-£57.00
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2015/68BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2015 - One Hundred and Twenty First Season - Prom 9 23 July 2015
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work10256BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2015 - One Hundred and Twenty First Season76
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/18241Andsnes; Leif Ove (7 April 1970); Norwegian pianist and chamber musician
DS/UK/6527Mahler Chamber Orchestra; 1997-; Chamber orchestra
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
DS/UK/20920Truscott; Matthew (fl 2015-); British violinist
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