Proms 2019
Performances of Sally Beamish at BBC Proms
(See all works in BBC Proms by Sally Beamish)Tue 13 Aug 2019
- 19:00Royal Albert Hall
Elgar’s ‘Enigma’ Variations provides both model and inspiration for a new set of variations by 14 living composers premiered here to mark conductor Martyn Brabbins’s 60th birthday. The concert also includes Vaughan Williams’s exquisite Serenade to Music.
Elgar’s ‘Enigma’ Variations provides both model and inspiration for a new set of variations by 14 living composers premiered here to mark conductor Martyn Brabbins’s 60th birthday. The concert also includes Vaughan Williams’s exquisite Serenade to Music.
Programme
- Kalevi Aho
- Sally Beamish
- Sir Harrison Birtwistle
- Richard Blackford
- Gavin Bryars
- Brett Dean
- Dai Fujikura
- Wim Henderickx
- Colin Matthews
- Anthony Payne
- John Pickard
- David Sawer
- Iris ter Schiphorst
- Judith Weir
- Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M. C. B.(30 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- Serenade to Music(13 mins)Henry Wood Novelties: world premiere, 1938
- interval
- Song of Destiny(18 mins)
- Enigma Variations(29 mins)
Performers
- Idunnu Münchmezzo-soprano
- William Morgantenor
- Nadine Benjaminsoprano
- David Irelandbass-baritone
- Martyn Brabbinsconductor
