Name: Prom 53: Stravinsky, Ravel & Tchaikovsky
Start: 2011-08-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2011-08-24T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Admin

BBC Proms

Conductor

Colin Davis

Orchestra

Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Susan Graham

Prom 53: Stravinsky, Ravel & Tchaikovsky

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Public

Concert

Oratorio / Orchestral

Symphony in Three Movements

Sheherazade, M.41

Symphony No. 4

Paul Koneri

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About this event
A great youth orchestra and a distinguished and much-loved conductor. The programme begins with Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, partly inspired by newsreel footage of the Second World War.

A long standing favourite of Sir Colin's, it is a work he first conducted at the Proms all of 50 years ago. The biggest piece is Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony, in which the composer grapples with a malign Fate and, in his coruscating finale, makes use of a well-known Russian folk song. Before the interval, Ravel's exotic, ambiguous Shéhérazade is sung by Susan Graham, a supreme interpreter of the cycle.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble