Wed 4 Sep 2013

• 17:45

  Proms Plus Intro

  Royal College of Music

  Join Proms Director Roger Wright and Chris Cotton, Chief Executive of the Royal Albert Hall, as they look back over the 2013 season with Petroc Trelawny.

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  Proms Plus

  
• 19:30

  Prom 71: Górecki, Vaughan Williams & Tchaikovsky

  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.

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  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

  • Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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  Choral music and opera