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Prom 4: Daniel Barenboim and Staatskapelle Berlin

Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin. Harrison Birtwistle: Deep Time (UK premiere). Elgar: Symphony No 2 in E flat.

Live at 麻豆社 Proms: Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin perform the UK premiere of Birtwistle's Deep Time, followed by Elgar's Second Symphony.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill

Harrison Birtwistle: Deep Time (麻豆社 co-commission with the Staatskapelle Berlin: UK premiere)

8.10pm INTERVAL - Proms Extra
Geologist Professor Iain Stewart and geographer and broadcaster Nicholas Crane talk to Rana Mitter about Deep Time in geological and scientific terms. Recorded earlier this evening as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College.
Produced by Zahid Warley.

8.30pm
Elgar: Symphony No 2 in E flat major

Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim, conductor

Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin bring the generous scope of their interpretation of Elgar's Second Symphony to their second concert of the season, celebrating a work whose modernity and astonishing textural effects startle even now.
Dedicated to the memory of Peter Maxwell Davies, who died last year, Sir Harrison Birtwistle's Deep Time continues his career-long fascination with time and its manipulation in a sweeping new orchestral work that swaps the relentless tick-tock of the everyday for something more powerful and more alien.

2 hours, 15 minutes

Music and featured items

  • Part 1

    Duration: 32:57

  • Harrison Birtwistle

    Deep Time (Proms 2017)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
  • Interval

    Proms Extra Intro: Deep Time in geology and science

    Duration: 21:23

  • Part 2

    Duration: 01:03:57

  • Edward Elgar

    Symphony No 2 in E flat major (Proms 2017)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
  • Encore

    Duration: 21:01

Broadcast

  • Sun 16 Jul 2017 19:45

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