Proms 2017 Prom 18: Sirens and Scheherazade - BBC Proms

28 Jul 2017, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Fri 28 Jul 2017 Next Event

Prom 18: Sirens and Scheherazade

19:30 Fri 28 Jul 2017 Royal Albert Hall

James Gaffigan and the BBC Symphony Orchestra take you on a journey from the exotic oceans of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade to the Siren-filled waters of Homer’s Odyssey and the stormy seas of Korngold’s stirring film score for The Sea Hawk.

Performances & Interviews

01:55

Anders Hillborg: Sirens – excerpt (2017)

Hillborg sustains a compelling tension through strikingly unusual sonic effects.

Aug '17BBC Radio 3

Programme

- - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
  - The Sea Hawk – overture(6 mins)
- - Anders Hillborg
  - Sirens(33 mins)UK premiere
- - interval
- - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  - Scheherazade(45 mins)

Performers

Composers

About This Event

Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade tells magical tales from the Thousand and One Nights in music suffused with oriental colour and seafaring drama.

Swashbuckling battles are played out on the high seas in Korngold’s stirring score to the 1940 film The Sea Hawk, while danger also lurks in the waters of Anders Hillborg’s Sirens, inspired by the mythical seductresses of Homer’s Odyssey.

Part of

Proms 2017 Classical for Starters 2018-19

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