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BBC Proms - 18 July-13 Sept 2008 - The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival

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Prom 33: BBC Symphony Orchestra

Susanna Andersson

The young Music Director of English National Opera, Edward Gardner, gives the premieres of two British works: Stuart MacRae's nature-inspired Gaudete and Michael Berkeley's revisiting of his Slow Dawn, which he describes as depicting 'the gradual appearance of the sun (in the form of the tuba) as it climbs into the sky. Shafts of light and playful reflections accompany the increasing warmth of day.'

The sun theme first arises in Sibelius's evocative Night Ride and Sunrise, a typically brooding tone-poem. Elgar's affectionate sketches of his 'friends pictured within' have caught the imaginations of thousands over the past 100 years.

  • Sibelius Night Ride and Sunrise (15 mins)
  • Michael Berkeley Slow Dawn (world premiere of new version) (6 mins)
  • Stuart MacRae Gaudete (BBC commission: world premiere) (28 mins)
  • Interval
  • Elgar Enigma Variations (30 mins)

Susanna Andersson soprano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor

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