Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom
Festival: BBC Proms
Dates/times in London time zone
| Tuesday 21 July 2026 | 18:00 |
Programme
| Jolas, Betsy (b. 1926) | Tales of a Summer Sea (UK premiere) | |
| Sibelius, Jean (1865-1957) | Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47 | |
| Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) | Also sprach Zarathustra, Op.30 |
Performers
| Sueye Park | Violin |
| BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | |
| John Storgårds | Conductor |
‘Sensational’ 2025 Sibelius Competition-winner Sueye Park makes her Proms debut, joining John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra as soloist in Sibelius’s Violin Concerto. All fire and ice, a love song for the composer’s own instrument, it’s the Romantic concerto par excellence: deeply personal and powerfully expressive. Sibelius’s Nordic lakes meet the choppy ocean waters of Betsy Jolas’s Tales of a Summer Sea, and later the dark forests and tectonic stirrings of Strauss’s Nietzsche- inspired tone-poem Also sprach Zarathustra, its blazing orchestral sunrise made famous by Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Seats from £19.34 to £71.36 (including booking fee*)
Recorded for broadcast on BBC TV and BBC iPlayer
