Prom 31

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

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Programme

Walton, William (1902-1983)	Orb and Sceptre, Coronation March
Rubbra, Edmund (1901-1986)	Ode to the Queen
Bruch, Max (1838-1920)	Violin Concerto no. 1 in G minor, Op.26
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang (1897-1957)	Symphony in F sharp major, Op.40

Performers

Vilde Frang	Violin
Susan Bickley	Mezzo-soprano
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
John Storgårds	Conductor

The BBC Philharmonic and
its Principal Guest
Conductor return to the
Royal Albert Hall for the
first Proms performance of
Erich Korngold’s Symphony.
Dedicated to the memory
of Franklin D. Roosevelt,
the symphony refers back
to Korngold’s score for the
1939 Errol Flynn and Bette
Davis romance The Private Lives of Elizabeth and
Essex. Rubbra’s Ode to the Queen and Walton’s
Orb and Sceptre celebrate the 60th anniversary
of the Queen’s coronation, while Vilde Frang
joins Storgårds and the orchestra for Bruch’s
ever-popular Violin Concerto.

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Prom 31: BBC Philharmonic and John Storgårds play coronation music, Bruch and Korngold

Julia Savage, 9th August

Prom 31 seems to have been loosely based around a royal theme, with two of several nods at this year’s Proms to the Coronation anniversary: explicitly, in the case of William Walton’s Orb and Sceptre march, which he wrote for the 1953 ceremony, and obliquely by way of Edmund Rubbra’s Ode to the Queen, which the BBC commissioned for the Coronation celebrations.

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