Prom 70: Missy Mazzoli, Bartok and Dvorak

Live at BBC Proms: BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Karina Canellakis. Dvorak's Symphony No. 8, Missy Mazzoli's Sinfonia, & Bartok's 2nd Piano Concerto with pianist Jeremy Denk.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly

Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
European premiere of orchestral version

Bartók: Piano Concerto No 2

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Interval: Proms Extra: presenter Andrew McGregor talks to composer Missy Mazzoli about her work and career.

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Dvořák: Symphony No 8 in G major

Jeremy Denk (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Karina Canellakis (conductor)

Following her recent UK debut, American conductor Karina Canellakis now makes her first visit to the Proms, joining the BBC Symphony Orchestra and fellow American Jeremy Denk for Bartók's ferociously brilliant Second Piano Concerto.
Dvořák's Symphony No. 8, by contrast, is a work of genial lyricism. 'Melodies simply pour out of me,' wrote the composer, and the result is a pastoral symphony in all but name.
The concert opens with the European premiere of Missy Mazzoli's mesmeric Sinfonia - music 'in the shape of the solar system' that weaves and coils itself in a sequence of pulsing loops.