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Prom 47: Les Si猫cles play Ligeti and Mozart

Live at the 主播大秀 Proms: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth conducts Les Si猫cles, with soloists Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov, in music by Ligeti and Mozart.

Live at the 主播大秀 Proms: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth conducts Les Si猫cles with soloists Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov in music by Ligeti and Mozart.

Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Ligeti: Concert Rom芒nesc
Ligeti: Violin Concerto

c. 8:15pm INTERVAL
Andrew McGregor is joined by writer and historian Dr Flora Willson, to look ahead to Proms highlights in the coming week.

c. 8:35pm
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23 in A major
Mozart: Symphony No 41 in C major, 鈥楯upiter鈥

Isabelle Faust (violin)
Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Les Si猫cles
Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth (conductor)

Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, Fran莽ois-Xavier Roth鈥檚 award-winning orchestra Les Si猫cles presents music from sonic pioneer Gy枚rgy Ligeti alongside two late works by Mozart 鈥 pieces separated by two centuries, but united by the spirit of revolution. Unperformed until 1971, Ligeti鈥檚 vibrant Concert Rom芒nesc (鈥楻omanian Concerto鈥) is a light-footed celebration of Romanian folk music 鈥 real and invented. His Violin Concerto 鈥 performed here with German soloist Isabelle Faust 鈥 is one of the most original of any age, while Mozart鈥檚 final symphony, the 鈥楯upiter鈥, with its astonishing finale, is the last word on the genre from a master innovator. Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov is the soloist in the composer鈥檚 Piano Concerto No. 23.

02:28 Ligeti: Concert Rom芒nesc
27:31 Ligeti: Violin Concerto
01:04:13 Interval: Andrew McGregor and historian Dr Flora Willson look ahead
01:26:59 Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23 in A major
02:01:10 Mozart: Symphony No 41 in C major, 鈥楯upiter鈥

2 hours, 29 minutes

Last on

Sun 20 Aug 2023 19:30

Music Played

  • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

    Romanian Concerto

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
  • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

    Concerto

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
  • Rachel Laurin

    Symphony No. 1 for Organ, Op 36: Toccata

    Performer: Rachel Mahon.
    • Canadian Organ Music on the Organ of Coventry Cathedral.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 19.
  • Robert Schumann

    Das Paradies und die Peri, Op. 50; No. 16 O lass mich von der Luft durchdringen

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • LSOlive.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 1; Return, O God of Hosts!

    Singer: Jess Dandy. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • Linn.
  • Julia Adolphe

    Unearth, Release; 3rd mvt - Embracing Mist

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 9: III. Rondo-burleske

    Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (Live).
    • BR-Klassik.
    • 103.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto No. 23 In A Major K.488

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov. Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 41 In C Major K.551 (Jupiter)

    Orchestra: Les Si猫cles. Conductor: Fran莽ois鈥怷avier Roth.

Broadcast

  • Sun 20 Aug 2023 19:30

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