Prom 47: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

saw the Prom 47: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Date Friday 20 August 2010
Time 10.00pm–c11.20pm
Venue Royal Albert Hall
Tickets £10/£15, price band D or Prom for £5
Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Available on demand for 7 days.

This late-night mixed platter of English and American Experimental traditions opens with John Cage's metallic First Construction – whose eight anvils and four car brake-drums resonate with Mosolov's The Foundry earlier this evening.

Cornelius Cardew's Bun No. 1 recalls a composer known as much for his political as for his musical activism. Howard Skempton, a co-founder with Cardew of the experimental Scratch Orchestra, and Morton Feldman, whose music Cardew championed in Europe, complete the line-up.

John Cage First Construction (in Metal) (9 mins)
Cardew Bun No.1
(London Premiere) (17 mins)
Howard Skempton Lento (13 mins)
Feldman Piano and Orchestra
(London Premiere) (22 mins)
There will be no interval
John Tilbury piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov conductor
coppied by http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2010/whatson/2008.shtml

Watch Prom 46: Philharmonia Orchestra

We are see the Prom 46: Philharmonia Orchestra
Date Friday 20 August 2010
Time 7.00pm–c9.00pm
Venue Royal Albert Hall
Tickets £7–£35, price band A or Prom for £5
Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Broadcast on BBC Four at 7.30pm. Available on demand for 7 days.

This programme will be available after the broadcast.

Esa-Pekka Salonen
© Nicho Södling
The Philharmonia and its Principal Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen are joined by one of today's leading French pianists in Ravel's fiendish test of the left hand, stretching ears as much as fingers in a racy, sometimes macabre mix of styles from Romantic to jazz.

In the climax to our 75th-birthday celebrations for Estonian Arvo Pärt, Salonen conducts the composer's first symphony for over 35 years, having given the world premiere last year with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Mosolov's clangorous outburst of 1920s industrial optimism, unheard at the Proms for 70 years, is complemented by Scriabin's breathtakingly prolonged crescendo of mystical sensuality.
Coppied by http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2010/whatson/2008.shtml