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Proms 2021 Parallel Universes

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Parallel Universes
19:30 Tue 10 Aug 2021 Royal Albert Hall
Sibelius’s great Romantic Violin Concerto lies at the heart of a Prom also featuring a new commission from Britta Byström inspired by Cosmologist Max Tegmark’s notion of a ‘hierarchical multiverse’.
Sibelius’s great Romantic Violin Concerto lies at the heart of a Prom also featuring a new commission from Britta Byström inspired by Cosmologist Max Tegmark’s notion of a ‘hierarchical multiverse’.

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Dutch violinist Liza Ferschtman joins the BBC Philharmonic and Chief Guest Conductor John Storgårds for Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, which seemingly opens with the breath of a mystical legend and ends with what one commentator described as ‘a Polonaise for polar bears’.

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