Prom 8: Invitation to the Dance

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

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Programme

Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)	Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Eötvös, Peter (1944-2024)	Alhambra (violin concerto) BBC co-commission with Festival Internacional deMúsica y Danza de Granada, Orchestre de Paris and Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker: UK premiere
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)	Dance Suite
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)	The Firebird – suite (1919)

Performers

Isabelle Faust	Violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Peter Eötvös	Conductor

Dance – whether in the exotic pulse of Bartók’s Dance Suite, the insistent Russian folk rhythms of Stravinsky’s The Firebird or the languorous ballet of Debussy’s faun – runs right through tonight’s Prom. Peter Eötvös conducts his new violin concerto

Alhambra – performed here by the work’s original soloist, award-winning German violinist Isabelle Faust.

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Prom 8: an invitation to the dance from Eötvös and the BBC SO

Benjamin Poore, 24th July

Peter Eötvös and the BBC Symphony Orchestra offer a new music and a clever programme for this lively Prom concert.

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