Record

Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concert 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season - Prom 62 - Beethovem Berlioz and Dvorak
Performance Date3 September 2014
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:33
Orchestra or BandStuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR)
ConductorsSir Roger Norrington
Set List'Symphony No.8 in F Major', Beethoven,
'Romeo Alone' from Romeo and Juliet, Berlioz
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.9 in E Minor, 'From the New World', Dvorak
ENCORES
'Prelude from Pelleas and Melisande - Suite', Faure
Performance NotesFollowing his St John Passion earlier in the season, Roger Norrington returns here as Honorary Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Symphonies from Beethoven and Dvorák bookend a programme of big musical emotions that has at its core the wistful romance of the Romeo Alone section of Berlioz's sprawling choral symphony.

Beethoven's 'little symphony in F' brings joy and wit to the mix, belying the composer's troubled personal life with its sunny good humour.

By contrast, biography is woven tightly into the melodies and rhythms of Dvorák's final symphony – the elegiac testimony to his love of his Bohemian homeland and his new-found fascination for the stories and traditions of America.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2014/53),
Programme (RAHE/1/2014/113),
Posters (RAHE/2/2014/41),
Proms Mini-Guide
Ticket Prices£5.00-£46.00
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/asZa92axd0dX
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2014/113BBC Proms 2014 - Prom 623 September 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/918Norrington; Sir; Roger Arthur Carver (1934-); British conductor
DS/UK/20328Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR); 1945-; German orchestra
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