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5.30pm: Young Composers Performances of the winning entries of this year's BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers' Competition. Please note that tickets are very limited for this event.
Broadcast on Radio 3: Friday 8 August, 9.10pm
Prom 27: BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Date Wednesday 6 August 2008
- Time 7.30pm - c9.45pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £6-£35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
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A former pupil of Messiaen, Benjamin opens with L'Ascension, a sequence of meditations on religious themes. Carolin Widmann makes her Proms debut in Stravinsky's coolly neo-Classical concerto. Benjamin's own Ringed by the Flat Horizon, premiered while its composer was still a student at Cambridge, is dedicated to Messiaen and vividly depicts a storm brewing over a desolate New Mexico desert.
The concert ends, as it began, in France, with one of Ravel's most limpid scores and one of his most popular.
- Messiaen L'Ascension (25 mins)
- Stravinsky Violin Concerto (22 mins)
- Interval
- George Benjamin Ringed by the Flat Horizon (20 mins)
- Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte (7 mins)
- Ravel Boléro (15 mins)
Carolin Widmann violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
George Benjamin conductor
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