Prom 8: Youthful Beginnings

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

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Programme

Boulanger, Lili (1893-1918)	D'un matin de printemps
Boulanger, Lili (1893-1918)	D'un soir triste
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)	Piano Concerto no. 1 in G minor, Op.25
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)	On Wings of Song, transcription from Mendelssohn
Owen, Llwyn Morfydd (1891-1918)	Nocturne
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)	Symphony no. 4 in D minor, Op.120 (original version, 1841)

Performers

Bertrand Chamayou	Piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Søndergård	Conductor

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and its Principal Conductor Thomas Søndergård explore the music of two 20th-century female composers whose early deaths cut their careers tragically short: Prix de Rome winner Lili Boulanger and Wales’s Morfydd Owen, whose Nocturne showcases a sensuous and utterly original musical voice. Bertrand Chamayou makes his Proms debut in Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concerto – composed when Mendelssohn was just 22 – while Schumann’s jubilant Fourth Symphony is also the work of a composer exploring new musical maturity.

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Prom 8: Youthful beginnings and untimely ends

Dominic Lowe, 22nd July

To works by Mendelssohn and Schumann, Søndergård added music by two impressive female composers who died far too young and whose works are far less known than they should be, Lili Boulanger and Morfydd Owen.

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