Name: Prom 25: Dvořák’s Cello Concerto and Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle
Start: 2016-08-03T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2016-08-03T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Organization

BBC Proms

Conductor

Charles Dutoit

Cellist

Alban Gerhardt

Cello

Soprano

Komlósi Ildikó

Judith

Bass-baritone

John Relyea

Bluebeard

Orchestra

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Prom 25: Dvořák’s Cello Concerto and Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Prom 25: Dvořák’s Cello Concerto and Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle: Cello Concerto in B Minor, op.104 Dvořák,A (+1 More)

Public

Cello Concerto in B Minor, op.104

Bluebeard's Castle

Approved

The gothic horror story of Duke Bluebeard prompted some of the most imaginative, descriptive and shocking music Bartók would write. With its huge orchestra, underpinned in this concert performance by the mighty Royal Albert Hall organ, Bartók’s score speaks of the darkness of Bluebeard’s vast castle and the cold-blooded murder of his six wives.

Under Principal Conductor Charles Dutoit, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conjures up Bartók’s unsettling realm after Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, which the composer believed ‘outstrips the other two concertos of mine’.

Cellist Alban Gerhardt performs Dvořák’s Cello Concerto before the RPO and Charles Dutoit bring Bartók’s chilling Duke Bluebeard’s Castle to the Proms.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble