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Prom 61

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Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Festival: BBC Proms
German composer Charlotte Seither
adapts the words of the 17th-century poet
Francesco de Lemene in a new work for the
BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra,
using voices and syllables as spots of ‘human colour’.
Josep Pons conducts this world premiere alongside
the 1947 version of Stravinsky’s Petrushka, the a
cappella motets Ave Maria and Pater noster, and the
four-minute novelty Scherzo à la russe, written
in Hollywood for the bandleader Paul Whiteman.
Frank Peter Zimmermann is the soloist in Brahms’s
much-loved Violin Concerto.

Tickets £7.50 - £36.
BBC Proms