Name: George Lewis & Beethoven
Start: 2021-08-26T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-08-26T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Organization

Conductor

Ilan Volkov

Mezzo-soprano

Lucy Crowe

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Orchestra

George Lewis & Beethoven

London

United Kingdom

BBC Proms

Royal Albert Hall

George Lewis & Beethoven: Ah! Perfido, op. 65 ILB 7 Beethoven (+1 More)

Public

Private

Ah! Perfido

Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36

Approved

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov pair Beethoven’s dramatic concert aria ‘Ah! perfido’ with the Second Symphony – a work whose vitality and ‘smiling’ mood belie the private struggles and despair of a composer wrestling with hearing loss – with a new commission from celebrated American composer George Lewis. This world premiere blends a conventional orchestra with spatialised electronics, exploiting the unique space of the Royal Albert Hall to create, in Lewis’s words, ‘a medium for meditation on what processes of decolonisation might sound like’.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble