Proms 2022 Prom 38: Tchaikovsky, Missy Mazzoli and Prokofiev - BBC Proms

14 Aug 2022, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Sun 14 Aug 2022 Next Event

Prom 38: Tchaikovsky, Missy Mazzoli and Prokofiev

19:30 Sun 14 Aug 2022 Royal Albert Hall

Music from two great ballets, Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet and Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake – and Missy Mazzoli’s new Violin Concerto, ‘Procession’ – played by the Philharmonia Orchestra under its new Music Director Santtu-Matias Rouvali.

Programme

- - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  - Swan Lake(23 mins)suite
- - Missy Mazzoli
  - Violin Concerto (Procession)(20 mins)BBC co-commission: European premiere
- - interval
- - Sergey Prokofiev
  - Romeo and Juliet(45 mins)excerpts

Performers

Jennifer Koh
violin
violin
Philharmonia Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

Enchantment, potions, and deep emotions suddenly transforming into passionate music. And it’s not just the star-cross’d lovers of Prokofiev’s great Shakespearean ballet score. Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake is a story of love blossoming under the shadow of a dark magic. Missy Mazzoli’s new Violin Concerto, ‘Procession’, meanwhile, casts the soloist (in the composer’s words) ‘as a soothsayer, sorcerer, healer and pied piper’, playing music that begins with medieval charms and ends by reaching for the sky. It’s played tonight by its dedicatee Jennifer Koh, with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Santtu Matias-Rouvali, at the end of his first (critically acclaimed) season as Music Director.