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Proms 2023 Prom 33: Rachmaninov, Mahler-Werfel and Pejačević

Prom 33
Prom 33: Rachmaninov, Mahler-Werfel and Pejačević
19:00 Wed 9 Aug 2023 Royal Albert Hall
John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic return to the Proms for Rachmaninov’s First Symphony. Dame Sarah Connolly joins them for songs by Alma Mahler-Werfel and Dora Pejačević.
John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic return to the Proms for Rachmaninov’s First Symphony. Dame Sarah Connolly joins them for songs by Alma Mahler-Werfel and Dora Pejačević.

Programme

      • Oberon – overture(10 mins)
      • Zwei Schmetterlingslieder, op. 52(4 mins)
      • Verwandlung, op. 37b(6 mins)
      • Liebeslied, op. 39(6 mins)
      • Die stille Stadt(3 mins)orch. C. & D. Matthews
      • Licht in der Nacht(3 mins)orch. C. & D. Matthews
      • Bei dir ist es traut(3 mins)orch. C. & D. Matthews
      • Symphony No. 1 in D minor(42 mins)

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About This Event

If the first-night audience was hostile to the 23-year-old Rachmaninov’s First Symphony, history has been far kinder, embracing its ability to reimagine Russian musical tradition. John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic are joined by mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly for turn-of-the-century songs by Alma Mahler-Werfel and Croatia’s Dora Pejačević, and the curtain rises with the overture to Weber’s ‘Grand Romantic and Fairy Opera’, written for London’s Covent Garden.

There will be no interval

Image: John Storgårds © Marco Borgreve

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