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BBC Proms: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

Royal Albert Hall, Auditorium, London, Great Britain
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Important Info
Festival: Proms
Type: Classical Concert
City: London, Great Britain
Starts at: 19:30

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

Cast
Performers
Violin: Joshua Bell
Conductor: Dalia Stasevska
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra
Soprano: Francesca Chiejina
Creators
Composer: Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer: Thomas de Hartmann
Festival

Proms

The BBC Proms is back for another summer of world leading orchestras, musicians and conductors. This year's season will run from Friday 18 July to Saturday 13 September.

Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland - chorale prelude in G Minor, BWV659
Thomas de Hartmann: Violin Concerto
Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki: Symphony No. 3, "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"
Overview

Joshua Bell is the soloist in Ukraine-born composer Thomas de Hartmann’s emotive, cinematic Violin Concerto, a lament for the Nazi destruction of his homeland. The concert opens with Respighi’s warmly expansive reworking of an organ chorale prelude by J. S. Bach

‘Perhaps people find something they need in this piece ... something they were missing.’ Henryk Górecki’s ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’ translates a century’s loss and pain into sound, gathering up the broken pieces – of history, prayer and poetry – and giving them a home in music that’s as much requiem as a symphony.

Venue Info

Royal Albert Hall - London
Location   Kensington Gore, South Kensington

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London. One of the United Kingdom's most treasured and distinctive buildings, it is held in trust for the nation and managed by a registered charity (which receives no government funding). It can seat 5,272.

Since the hall's opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres have appeared on its stage. It is the venue for the Proms concerts, which have been held there every summer since 1941. It is host to more than 390 shows in the main auditorium annually, including classical, rock and pop concerts, ballet, opera, film screenings with live orchestral accompaniment, sports, awards ceremonies, school and community events, and charity performances and banquets. A further 400 events are held each year in the non-auditorium spaces.

The hall was originally supposed to have been called the Central Hall of Arts and Sciences, but the name was changed to the Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences by Queen Victoria upon laying the Hall's foundation stone in 1867, in memory of her husband, Prince Albert, who had died six years earlier. It forms the practical part of a memorial to the Prince Consort; the decorative part is the Albert Memorial directly to the north in Kensington Gardens, now separated from the Hall by Kensington Gore.

Important Info
Festival: Proms
Type: Classical Concert
City: London, Great Britain
Starts at: 19:30
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