Proms 2016 Prom 62: Bayan Northcott, Mozart And Zemlinsky by Bayan Northcott, Mozart, Von Zemlinsky, Ó (2016/2016), Seoltóir Simone Young, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

Baiba Skride performs Mozart’s ‘Turkish’ Violin Concerto before a performance of Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony, with baritone Christopher Maltman and soprano Siobhan Stagg. Simone Young conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Simone Young makes her Proms debut with the world premiere of Bayan Northcott’s Concerto for Orchestra and Mozart’s Eastern-influenced violin concerto. Then, a rare chance to hear Zemlinsky’s setting of Hindu poetry by Rabindranath Tagore, an alluring and mysterious slice of late-Romantic lusciousness in which soprano and baritone drape verses over a kaleidoscopic orchestra