Prom 8: Britten, Lutos艂awski & Thomas Ad猫s

17 Jul 2013, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Wed 17 Jul 2013 Next Event

Proms 2013 Prom 8: Britten, Lutos艂awski & Thomas Ad猫s

19:30 Wed 17 Jul 2013 Royal Albert Hall

Thomas Ad猫s conducts the 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra, Christianne Stotijn and Simon Keenlyside in the world premiere of his Totentanz, a work inspired by a mural destroyed in the Second World War bombing of L眉beck. 叠谤颈迟迟别苍鈥檚 Sinfonia da Requiem and Lutos艂awski鈥檚 Cello Concerto complete a programme of remembrance and survival.

Programme

- - Benjamin Britten
  - Sinfonia da Requiem(20 mins)
- - Witold Lutos艂awski
  - Cello Concerto(24 mins)
- - interval
- - Thomas Ad猫s
  - Totentanz(45 mins)world premiere

Performers

Paul Watkins
cello
cello
Christianne Stotijn
mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
Simon Keenlyside
baritone
baritone
91热爆 Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Ad猫s
conductor
conductor

Composers

About this event

叠谤颈迟迟别苍鈥檚 Sinfonia da Requiem opens a programme of testimony and remembrance. Paul Watkins is the soloist in Lutos艂awski鈥檚 bleak and beautiful Cello Concerto, composed for and dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich in a period of violent protest and political repression in Poland.

Thomas Ad猫s conducts the 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra and soloists Christianne Stotijn and Simon Keenlyside in the world premiere of his Totentanz, a commission in memory of Lutos艂awski, which sets an anonymous 15th-century text that accompanied a frieze destroyed when L眉beck鈥檚 Marienkirche was bombed in the Second World War.

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