Prom 47: Elgar, Prokofiev & Venables

17 Aug 2018, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Fri 17 Aug 2018 Next Event

Proms 2018 Prom 47: Elgar, Prokofiev & Venables

19:30 Fri 17 Aug 2018 Royal Albert Hall

Sunny musical optimism from Elgar鈥檚 Introduction and Allegro and Prokofiev鈥檚 life-affirming Fifth Symphony, performed by Sakari Oramo and the 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto premieres a new violin concerto by Philip Venables.Sunny musical optimism from Elgar鈥檚 Introduction and Allegro and Prokofiev鈥檚 life-affirming Fifth Symphony, performed by Sakari Oramo and the 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto premieres a new violin concerto by Philip Venables.

Programme

- - Edward Elgar
  - Introduction and Allegro(14 mins)
- - Philip Venables
  - B茅la Bart贸k
  - Venables Plays Bartok麻豆社 commission: world premiere
- - interval
- - Sergey Prokofiev
  - Symphony No. 5 in B flat major(44 mins)

Performers

Pekka Kuusisto
violin
violin
麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo
conductorConductor
conductorConductor

Composers

About This Event

Maverick Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto made a memorable Proms debut in 2016. Now he returns to premiere a new violin concerto written especially for him by award-winning young British composer Philip Venables.

The piece grows out of a recording the composer found of himself as a teenager playing one of Bartok鈥檚 Hungarian Sketches to his teacher鈥檚 teacher, Rudolf Botta, a Hungarian refugee 鈥� and the journey that ensued.

The concerto is framed by two works suffused with sunny optimism 鈥� Elgar鈥檚 lovely Introduction and Allegro for strings and Prokofiev鈥檚 Fifth Symphony, a piece that rejoices in 鈥榯he strength and beauty of the human spirit鈥�.

Image: Sakari Oramo 漏 Benjamin Ealovega