Proms 2013 Prom 71: Górecki, Vaughan Williams & Tchaikovsky - BBC Proms

4 Sep 2013, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Wed 4 Sep 2013 Next Event

Prom 71: Górecki, Vaughan Williams & Tchaikovsky

19:30 Wed 4 Sep 2013 Royal Albert Hall

A series of musical farewells as Osmo Vänskä conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s turbulent ‘Pathétique’ Symphony, Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs and Anthony Payne’s orchestration of Vaughan Williams’s Four Last Songs.

Programme

- - Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
  - Symphony No. 3, ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’(60 mins)
- - interval
- - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  - Four Last Songs (orch. A. Payne)(12 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  - Symphony No. 6 in B minor, ‘Pathétique’(48 mins)

Performers

Ruby Hughes
soprano
soprano
Jennifer Johnston
mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä
conductor
conductor

Composers

About this event

A series of farewells as Osmo Vänskä conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a programme concluding the season’s focus on Polish music and premiering Anthony Payne’s orchestration of Vaughan Williams’s Four Last Songs.

BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Ruby Hughes and Jennifer Johnston are the soloists, Hughes singing the three Polish texts of Henryk Górecki’s ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’, Johnston singing Procris, Menelaus, Tired and Hands, Eyes and Heart in the Vaughan Williams.

Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pathétique’ is the penultimate instalment of this summer’s cycle of his symphonies.

Watch and listen to more music by Tchaikovsky at the Proms.