麻豆社

Proms 2024
2 Aug 2011, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2011 Prom 24: Elgar, Grainger & Strauss

Prom 24: Elgar, Grainger & Strauss
19:00 Tue 2 Aug 2011 Royal Albert Hall
Tasmin Little, Sir Andrew Davis and the 麻豆社 Symphony perform contrasting impressions of Elgar and Grainger and to mark the 50th anniversary of Grainger鈥檚 death, his In a Nutshell suite receives a first outing at the Proms.
Tasmin Little, Sir Andrew Davis and the 麻豆社 Symphony perform contrasting impressions of Elgar and Grainger and to mark the 50th anniversary of Grainger鈥檚 death, his In a Nutshell suite receives a first outing at the Proms.

Programme

      • There is sweet music(4 mins)
      • Violin Concerto in B minor(50 mins)
        • interval
        • County Derry Air(4 mins)
        • Suite 'In a Nutshell'(20 mins)
        • Till Eulenspiegel鈥檚 Merry Pranks(15 mins)

    About this event

    Tasmin Little and Sir Andrew Davis tackle a favourite concerto which the violinist has only recently felt ready to commit to disc.

    It is preceded by one of Elgar's most radical part-songs, notated in two keys simultaneously in a manner which might be said to parallel the incorrigible experiments of Percy Grainger.

    To mark the 50th anniversary of that composer's death, his In a Nutshell suite receives a first outing at the Proms, reaching its popular march finale by way of some unpredictable and darkly complex invention. Once considered dangerously radical itself, Strauss's perky symphonic poem documents the adventures of a purely mythical rascal.