Prom 32: Lutosławski & Holst

7 Aug 2013, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Wed 7 Aug 2013 Next Event

19:30 Wed 7 Aug 2013 Royal Albert Hall

Two works by Gustav Holst, and two from the Polish composer Witold Lutosławski. Edward Gardner directs the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Holst’s Egdon Heath and The Planets and Lutosławski’s Symphonic Variations. Louis Lortie is the soloist in Lutosławski’s Piano Concerto.

Programme

- - Witold Lutoslawski
  - Symphonic Variations(9 mins)
- - Gustav Holst
  - Egdon Heath(12 mins)
- - Witold Lutoslawski
  - Piano Concerto(25 mins)
- - interval
- - Gustav Holst
  - The Planets(50 mins)

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Composers

About this event

Leading champion of Lutosławski’s music and Music Director of English National Opera, Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a programme contrasting one each of the Polish composer’s earliest and latest works with music by the British composer Gustav Holst.

Completed shortly before the occupation of Poland, Lutosławski’s Symphonic Variations is juxtaposed with Holst’s rarely heard tribute to Thomas Hardy, Egdon Heath. Louis Lortie is the soloist in Lutosławski’s monumental 1988 Piano Concerto in a concert that closes with Holst’s extraordinarily visionary The Planets.

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