08/08/2009

Prom 28 08/08/09 Bassoons and Broadway Ballets

The BBC Philharmonic and its Chief Conductor Gianandrea Noseda are joined by the brilliant young Scottish bassoonist Karen Geoghegan, who was a popular runner-up in BBC TV’s Classical Star in 2007 and here makes her Proms debut in Mozart's Bassoon Concerto.

The celebrated partnership between Stravinsky and ballet impresario Diaghilev began a hundred years ago: we mark it with Stravinsky’s vibrant Scènes de Ballet originally written for the 1944 Broadway review “The Seven Lively Arts.” Despite describing it as “featherweight and sugared” Stravinsky boasted that he had received the substantial fee of $5,000 for a score lasting only 15 minutes.

World Service broadcast programme:
Mozart: Bassoon Concerto in B flat major
Stravinsky: Scènes de ballet

Performers:
Karen Geoghegan, bassoon
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor