BBC Proms 2018 Prom 9 - World Orchestra For Peace

Live at the BBC Proms from the Royal Albert Hall: the World Orchestra For Peace perform a programme including Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem under conductor Donald Runnicles.

In the centenary year of the 1918 armistice, the World Orchestra for Peace returns to the BBC Proms with one of classical music’s most potent statements of brotherhood and fellowship: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem, composed in the shadow of the Second World War, adds its own emotive warning against war. The concert opens with a new, First World War-themed work by Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds, commissioned for the talented young singers of the BBC Proms Youth Choir.

Programme
Eriks Esenvalds: Shadow (BBC commission, World Premiere)
Benjamin Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'Choral'

Erin Wall, soprano
Judit Kutasi, mezzo-soprano
Russell Thomas, tenor
Franz-Josef Selig, baritone
BBC Proms Youth Choir
World Orchestra for Peace

Conducted by Simon Halsey and Donald Runnicles

In the Interval…

The Narrative Voice: Dr Sarah Dillon is joined by the novelist Richard Beard, whose memoir The Day That Went Missing was published to great acclaim last year. They’ll be discussing the literary voice: first, third or rarely-seen second person narrators, comic narrators and unreliable narrators, illustrated with a selection of readings.

• Producer: Helen Garrison

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