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Prom 38: Tchaikovsky, Missy Mazzoli and Prokofiev

Live at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms: Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali with volinist Jennifer Koh perform Tchaikovsky, Missy Mazzoli and Prokofiev.

Live at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms: Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali with volinist Jennifer Koh perform Tchaikovsky, Missy Mazzoli and Prokofiev.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Albert Hall, London.

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (suite)
Missy Mazzoli: Violin Concerto (Procession)

8.15 pm
INTERVAL: Poet Hannah Lowe, whose collection of sonnets The Kids won the Costa Book Award for Poetry in 2021, joins Martin Handley before the performance of excerpts from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet to explore how poets from Shakespeare to the present day have written about love.

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)

Jennifer Koh (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor)

Enchantment, potions, and deep emotions suddenly transforming into passionate music. And it’s not just the star-crossed lovers of Prokofiev’s great Shakespearean ballet score. Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake is a story of love blossoming under the shadow of a dark magic. Missy Mazzoli’s new Violin Concerto, ‘Procession’, meanwhile, casts the soloist (in the composer’s words) ‘as a soothsayer, sorcerer, healer and pied piper’, playing music that begins with medieval charms and ends by reaching for the sky. It’s played tonight by its dedicatee Jennifer Koh, with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Santtu Matias-Rouvali, at the end of his first (critically acclaimed) season as Music Director.

2 hours, 29 minutes

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake (suite)

    Performer: Jennifer Koh. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
  • Missy Mazzoli

    Violin Concerto (Procession)

    Performer: Jennifer Koh. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata for solo violin No. 2 in A minor, BWV1003: III. Andante

    Performer: Jennifer Koh.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Piano Quintet no.1 in C minor, Op.1 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin. Ensemble: Takács Quartet.
    • Dohnanyi: Piano Quintets etc..
    • Hyperion.
    • 03.

Broadcast

  • Sun 14 Aug 2022 19:30

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