Prom 61: Stravinsky, Brahms & Charlotte Seither

28 Aug 2013, Royal Albert Hall

19:00 Wed 28 Aug 2013 Next Event

19:00 Wed 28 Aug 2013 Royal Albert Hall

Josep Pons conducts the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of Charlotte Seither’s Language of Leaving. Frank Peter Zimmermann plays Brahms’s Violin Concerto in a concert that contrasts Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka with a cappella motets.

Programme

- - Igor Stravinsky
  - Scherzo à la russe(4 mins)
  - Ave Maria(2 mins)
  - Pater Noster(2 mins)
- - Johannes Brahms
  - Violin Concerto in D major(40 mins)
- - interval
- - Charlotte Seither
  - Language of Leaving(18 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- - Igor Stravinsky
  - Petrushka (1947 version)(30 mins)

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About this event

German composer Charlotte Seither adapts the words of the 17th-century poet Francesco de Lemene in a new work for the BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, using voices and syllables as spots of ‘human colour’.

Josep Pons conducts this world premiere alongside the 1947 version of Stravinsky’s Petrushka, the a cappella motets Ave Maria and Pater noster, and the four-minute novelty Scherzo à la russe, written in Hollywood for the bandleader Paul Whiteman. Frank Peter Zimmermann is the soloist in Brahms’s much-loved Violin Concerto.