Name: Prom 70: Bridge, Sir Harrison Birtwistle & Holst
Start: 2011-09-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2011-09-07T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Admin

BBC Proms

Dirigat

David Robertson

Orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Instrument

Christian Tetzlaff

Violine

Others

Holst Singers

Prom 70: Bridge, Sir Harrison Birtwistle & Holst

London

Vereinigtes Königreich

Royal Albert Hall

Public

Concert

Oratorium / Orchestral

Isabella

Concerto For Violin And Orchestra

Die Planeten

Paul Koneri

Genehmigt

About this event
Frank Bridge is at his most romantic and Lisztian in the Keats-inspired Isabella, given its world premiere at the Proms by founder-conductor Henry Wood.

Sir Harrison Birtwistle's concerto, his first for a string instrument, was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Christian Tetzlaff and unveiled by him in March to rave reviews.

The composer himself studied the clarinet, although he says, 'I had some violin lessons at school, so I have a memory of the physical feel of the instrument, in a sense. It's rather like remembering how to bowl a leg break in cricket, even if I couldn't do it now.'

Holst's planetary survey displays astonishing verve in its orchestration and in the radicalism of much of its content for its time.

English

Prom 70: Bridge, Sir Harrison Birtwistle & Holst by Bridge, Frank, Birtwistle, Holst, Ab (2011/2011), Dirigat David Robertson, Royal Albert Hall, London, Vereinigtes Königreich

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