BBC Proms S76E13 - Prom 36: Marin Alsop conducts the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
BBC Proms S76E13 - Prom 36: Marin Alsop conducts the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
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Viennese orchestral playing is a byword for excellence, rooted in generations of tradition. But under its distinguished (and adventurous) American Music Director Marin Alsop, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra takes that tradition as a starting point to look outwards – to explore. Bartók’s bloodcurdling ballet suite prepares the way for Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto: energising, unsentimental brilliance, brought to life by former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor. And then, two very different facets of the Central European tradition: the windswept drama and dancing Bohemian melodies of Dvořák’s magnificent Seventh Symphony, and the UK premiere of Heliosis – written specially for Alsop and the Vienna RSO by a young Viennese composer with a flair for drama.
Released Sep 13, 1947
Runtime 180min
Genre Documentary
Actor N/A
Director N/A
Production Livewire Pictures