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WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2009
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- 5.45pm Proms Intro: Xenakis
- 7.30pm Prom 63: BBC Symphony Orchestra
5.45pm Proms Intro
Percussionist Colin Currie and Xenakis's friend and biographer, Nouritza Matossian join Martin Handley to discuss
Xenakis and his works in tonight's Prom.
Edited version broadcast on Radio 3 during tonight's interval.
Prom 63: BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Date Wednesday 2 September 2009
- Time 7.30pm - c9.40pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £7 - £35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
- This programme is no longer available.
With its 98 players dispersed among the audience, Xenakis's Nomos gamma should make a stunning Proms piece, not least as the final drumrolls from its eight percussionists ricochet around the Arena. Both Aïs – a searing setting of ancient Greek texts by Homer and Sappho, with a wildly wide-ranging vocal line – and Rachmaninov's Stygian tonepoem, composed a century ago, confront the transience of life and the finality of death, while Shostakovich's 1945 Ninth seems almost to laugh off the horrors of war. A former New Generation Artist, percussionist Colin Currie also appears in our NGA 10th-Anniversary Weekend (PCM 7) and in Prom 33.
- Xenakis Nomos gamma (15 mins)
- Rachmaninov The Isle of the Dead (20 mins)
- interval
- Xenakis Aïs (18 mins)
- Shostakovich Symphony No.9 in E flat major (25 mins)
- Leigh Melrose baritone
- Colin Currie percussion
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- David Robertson conductor
- Colin Currie is a member of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme.
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