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1 Sep 2013, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2013 Prom 67: Arvo Pärt, Britten, Berlioz & Saint-Saëns

Prom 67: Arvo Pärt, Britten, Berlioz & Saint-Saëns
Prom 67: Arvo Pärt, Britten, Berlioz & Saint-Saëns
19:30 Sun 1 Sep 2013 Royal Albert Hall
Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten opens Paavo Järvi’s performance with the Orchestre de Paris. Janine Jansen is the soloist in Britten’s Violin Concerto. Berlioz’s Le corsaire overture and Saint-Saëns’s ‘Organ’ Symphony complete a programme of vivid contrasts.
Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten opens Paavo Järvi’s performance with the Orchestre de Paris. Janine Jansen is the soloist in Britten’s Violin Concerto. Berlioz’s Le corsaire overture and Saint-Saëns’s ‘Organ’ Symphony complete a programme of vivid contrasts.

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Paavo Järvi directs his Orchestre de Paris in Arvo Pärt’s meditative Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten. Janine Jansen is the soloist in Britten’s Violin Concerto, written during the composer’s war-time years in New York. ‘I feel so deeply about this piece … one experiences the incredible strength of it,’ Jansen says.

The Mediterranean verve of Berlioz’s overture Le corsaire and the shimmering weight of full orchestra and organ in Saint-Saëns’s Third Symphony complete a programme of introspective reflection and extrovert display.

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