Proms 2016 Prom 35 - BBC Proms

11 Aug 2016, Royal Albert Hall

19:00 Thu 11 Aug 2016 Next Event

Prom 35: Bartók, Malcolm Hayes and Dvořák

19:00 Thu 11 Aug 2016 Royal Albert Hall

Thomas Søndergård conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a programme that includes the world premiere of Malcolm Hayes's Violin Concerto, performed by Tai Murray, and Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony.

TV & Radio

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Programme

- - Béla Bartók
  - Dance Suite(18 mins)
- - Malcolm Hayes
  - Violin Concerto(24 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- - interval
- - Antonín Dvořák
  - Symphony No. 7 in D minor(35 mins)

Performers

Composers

About This Event

When the London Philharmonic Society asked Dvořák for a new symphony in 1884, the composer knew he had to deliver something special. In the resulting Seventh, the doubts and frustrations Dvořák experienced as a composer are defeated by music that triumphs compellingly over its own nervous energy, bursting into radiant brightness in its final bars.

Tonight, Dvořák’s most fascinating symphony is heard after Malcolm Hayes’s new concerto, a work inspired by the mood and atmosphere of the Outer Hebrides, and performed by former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Tai Murray. Bartók’s colourful Dance Suite, featuring Hungarian and Arabic folk melodies, opens the concert.

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Proms 2016

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