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23 Aug 2022, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2022 Prom 48: Zubin Mehta conducts the Australian World Orchestra

Prom 48
Prom 48: Zubin Mehta conducts the Australian World Orchestra
19:30 Tue 23 Aug 2022 Royal Albert Hall
The Australian World Orchestra is a classical supergroup unlike anything on earth: for conductor Zubin Mehta, it’s ‘one of the top 10 orchestras in the world’. Its Proms debut includes Brahms’s Second Symphony, plus music by Webern and Brett Dean.
The Australian World Orchestra is a classical supergroup unlike anything on earth: for conductor Zubin Mehta, it’s ‘one of the top 10 orchestras in the world’. Its Proms debut includes Brahms’s Second Symphony, plus music by Webern and Brett Dean.

Programme

      • Passacaglia, Op. 1(11 mins)
      • Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6 (revised version, 1928)(13 mins)
      • Ariettes oubliées(16 mins)arr. Brett Dean
        • interval
        • Symphony No. 2 in D major(43 mins)

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    Australian musicians play in most of the world’s leading orchestras, from the Berlin Philharmonic to our own Â鶹Éç orchestras. The Australian World Orchestra gathers many of them together, back home in Australia, to create a classical supergroup unlike anything on earth: the result, says conductor Zubin Mehta, ‘is one of the top 10 orchestras in the world’. But hearing is believing and tonight Mehta – a household name – conducts the AWO in its Proms debut, performing music that ranges from the multicoloured Expressionism of Anton Webern, to the rolling, sunlit slopes of Brahms’s expansive Second Symphony. Plus jewel-like miniatures by Debussy, exquisitely reworked by another great Australian musical export, Brett Dean.

    Image: Siobhan Stagg © Simon Pauly

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