Proms 2011 Prom 34: Bridge, Holt, Dupré & Saint-Saëns - BBC Proms

9 Aug 2011, Royal Albert Hall

19:00 Tue 9 Aug 2011 Next Event

Prom 34: Bridge, Holt, Dupré & Saint-Saëns

19:00 Tue 9 Aug 2011 Royal Albert Hall

A concert with roots on both sides of the channel takes in new music and an old favourite by Saint-Saëns guaranteed to raise the roof.

Programme

- - Frank Bridge
  - Enter Spring(17 mins)
  - Blow out you bugles(5 mins)
- - Simon Holt
  - Centauromachy(20 mins)London premiere
- - interval
- - Marcel Dupré
  - Cortège et litanie(6 mins)
- - Camille Saint‐Saëns
  - Symphony No. 3 in C minor, ‘Organ’(36 mins)

Performers

Ben Johnson
tenor
tenor
Robert Plane
clarinet
clarinet
Philippe Schartz
flugelhorn
flugelhorn
Thomas Trotter
organ
organ
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
François-Xavier Roth
conductor
conductor

Composers

About this event

An Anglo-French evening launched by the greatest of the nature tone-poems written by featured composer Frank Bridge. Simon Holt's double concerto for clarinet and flugelhorn takes its inspiration from the fantastical beasts of Greek mythology.

His solo instruments are drawn from different species, two distinct natures in one orchestral body. Marcel Dupré was a masterly executant who himself played Saint-Saëns's much loved 'Organ' Symphony at the Proms in 1935.