Prom 41: Aurora Orchestra
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, the Aurora Orchestra under Nicholas Collon. Mozart: Symphony No 40. Dobrinka Tabakova: Spinning a Yarn. Benedict Mason: Meld.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Christopher Cook
The Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon live at the ±«Óãtv Proms in music by Dobrinka Tabakova, the world premiere of Benedict Mason's Meld, and Mozart's Symphony no 40
Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550
Dobrinka Tabakova: Spinning a Yarn
Benedict Mason: Meld (±«Óãtv commission: world premiere)
Alexandra Wood (violin) (Proms debut artist)
Stevie Wishart (hurdy-gurdy)
Chantage
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon (conductor)
Admired by Schumann for its 'Grecian light and grace', Mozart's evergreen Symphony No. 40 combines rhythmic verve and dance-like elegance, streaked with stormy drama. For a performance in Vienna, the composer added parts for two clarinets - an instrument at the time still largely absent from the orchestra. Bulgarian-born Dobrinka Tabakova goes one further in her recent Spinning a Yarn, in which the rustic hurdy-gurdy takes a solo role alongside the violin.
Benedict Mason experiments with much more besides in his ±«Óãtv commission, Meld - at once an enigma and a spectacle, that confounds what we think of as an orchestra, of a concert, and even of music itself. Prepare to be surprised ?!
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Mozart: Symphony No. 40
Charles Hazlewood explores the intricacies of Mozart's Symphony No. 40.
Music Played
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Benedict Mason
Meld (±«Óãtv commission: world premiere)
Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon. -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 40 in G minor
Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon. -
Dobrinka Tabakova
Spinning a Yarn
Performer: Alexandra Wood. Performer: Stevie Wishart.
Broadcast
- Sat 16 Aug 2014 22:15±«Óãtv Radio 3
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