| Orchestra or Band | Melbourne Symphony Orchestra |
| Set List | 'Don Juan', Richard Strauss,
'Cello Concerto in E Minor', Elgar
INTERVAL
'Symphonie Fantastique', Berlioz |
| Performance Notes | This season's showcase of global orchestras continues with the Proms debut of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, under its new Chief Conductor, Sir Andrew Davis. Together they explore the musical extremes of passion, despair, love and death.
Perhaps the most powerful artistic expression of unrequited love, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique is a dark, vivid fantasy inspired by the woman who would eventually become his wife.
Strauss too had just married when he composed the soaring love theme of Don Juan. Elgar's last major work, the Cello Concerto, traces more questioning shades of emotion. There's a beautiful melancholy and tentative yearning to this work, coloured by the First World War: an elegy by any other name.
The concert was recorded and broadcast on BBC Four on 24 August 2014.
The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3. |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2014/53),
Programme (RAHE/1/2014/95),
Posters (RAHE/2/2014/41),
Proms Mini-Guide |