Name: Prom 32: Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony
Start: 2024-08-12
End: 2024-08-12
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Admin

BBC Proms

Conductor

Nil Venditti

Orchestra

BBC Welsh National Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Jess Gillam

Saxophone

Prom 32: Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Prom 32: Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony: Concert Overture Williams, Grace (+3 More)

Public

Concert

Oratorio / Orchestral

Concert Overture

Stravaganza (2019)

Overture No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 23

Symphony No. 7

Paul Koneri

Approved

About This Event
With his Symphony No. 7 Beethoven permanently realigned Western music’s fundamental relationship with rhythm. In the process he created some of the most compelling music of his age. Young Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti places this momentous symphonic dance alongside music by a composer from the generation after Beethoven, one who picked up the master’s baton and ran with it: Louise Farrenc. The first half spotlights two Welsh composers born less than 40 years apart. Grace Williams’s jaunty Concert Overture, written in her mid-twenties, came ‘highly recommended’ after its entry in a Daily Telegraph competition in 1932–3. And Sir Karl Jenkins, one of the most popular composers of our time, wrote his Stravaganza especially for tonight’s soloist, Jess Gillam.

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

English

Prom 32: Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony by Williams, Grace, Jenkins, Farrenc, L., Beethoven, Mon 12 Aug 2024, From (2024/2024), Conductor Nil Venditti, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

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Ensemble

Programme, About & Synopsis

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