Prom 17: Brahms’s A German Requiem
Live at the Â鶹Éç Proms: the Â鶹Éç SSO and Ilan Volkov are joined by Elena Tsallagova and Shenyang for Brahms's A German Requiem. Jennifer Walshe is the soloist in her own piece.
Live at the Â鶹Éç Proms: the Â鶹Éç SSO and Ilan Volkov are joined by Elena Tsallagova and Shenyang for Brahms's A German Requiem and Jennifer Walshe is the soloist in her own piece.
Presented by Linton Stephens, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Jennifer Walshe: The Site of an Investigation
20.00
Interval: Chain Reaction (1/6)
Georgia Mann and Tom Service take us on the first of six unpredictable musical journeys which connect the last piece in the first half of a Prom to the first piece after the interval. Expect the unexpected in this refreshing interval G&T with Georgia and Tom!
20.20
Brahms: A German Requiem
Jennifer Walshe, voice
Elena Tsallagova, soprano
Shenyang, bass-baritone
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor
Be here now, they say – but in 2022, and a world in which threats come as fast as wonders, why would you even want to? The Site of an Investigation is Jennifer Walshe’s one-woman response. It’s a massive, multilayered symphonic deep-dive into social media, algorithm madness, streaming playlists and micropollutants – all in search of a very personal path into the open. Conductor Ilan Volkov never takes the obvious perspective and, after the interval, he conducts Brahms’s heartfelt A German Requiem: a service of consolation from a composer without conventional religious faith, but with a limitless depth of compassion. An answer, of sorts? Decide for yourself …
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Music Played
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Jennifer Walshe
The Site Of An Investigation
Performer: Jennifer Walshe. Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov. -
Johannes Brahms
Ein Deutsches Requiem Op.45
Performer: Elena Tsallagova. Performer: Shenyang. Orchestra: Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov. Choir: National Youth Choir. -
Dmitry Shostakovich
Prelude and Fugue in E minor
Performer: Igor Levit.- SONY.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue in F sharp minor, BWV 883 (Book 2, The Well-Tempered Clavier)
Performer: Angela Hewitt.- Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Angela Hewitt.
- Hyperion.
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Broadcast
- Thu 28 Jul 2022 19:30Â鶹Éç Radio 3
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