Prom 30

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Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom

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Programme

Borodin, Alexander Porfiryevich (1833-1887)	Prince Igor: overture
Borodin, Alexander Porfiryevich (1833-1887)	Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances
Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953)	Piano Concerto no. 2 in G minor, Op.16
Cowie, Edward (b. 1943)	Earth Music I - The Great Barrier Reef (BBC commission, world première)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-1893)	Symphony no. 2 in C minor "Little Russian", Op.17

Performers

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet	Piano
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda	Conductor

Borodin’s overture to Prince Igor
opens a programme celebrating the
70th birthday of composer Edward
Cowie and the close musical relationship between
the BBC Philharmonic, conductor Gianandrea
Noseda and pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Bavouzet
plays Prokofiev’s brilliant Second Piano Concerto, its
orchestral score destroyed in the Russian Revolution
and revised by the composer in Paris in 1923.
The fragile beauty of the Great Barrier Reef is
the subject of Cowie’s Earth Music I, while the
‘Little Russian’ continues the season’s Tchaikovsky
symphony cycle.

Tickets £7.50 - £36.

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Prom 30: Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic dance with the Russians

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 7th August

Prom 30 saw the return of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under its Conductor Laureate Gianandrea Noseda with a Russian-themed programme. Prokofiev, Borodin and Tchaikovsky were played alongside Edward Cowie’s BBC commission and world première Earth Music I – The Great Barrier Reef.The Borodin overture and Polovtsian dances from Prince Igor served as an energy-injection to the start of the evening.

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