91Èȱ¬

Live at the 91Èȱ¬ Proms: The 91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales and Tadaaki Otaka perform Beethoven and Rachmaninov, and Elena Urioste is soloist in Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto.

Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

c. 7.00pm
Rachmaninov, orch. Respighi: Five Études-tableaux
Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto in G minor, Op 80

c. 8.15pm
Interval: Penny Gore talks to pianist and musicologist Dr Samantha Ege about the composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, who attended the first Pan-African conference held in London in 1900, made three tours of the United States where he was received by President Theodore Roosevelt.

c. 8.35pm
Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor, Op 67

Elena Urioste (violin)
91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony has one of classical music’s most famous openings. This iconic four-note motif returns again and again. Is it a thunderclap – or fate, knocking at the door? Make up your own mind at a Prom that also features lush orchestrations of music by the Romantic composer Sergey Rachmaninov, plus a rhapsodic work for solo violin by pioneering Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – originally premiered in 1912, just weeks before the composer’s tragic death at the age of just 37.