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Prom 50: John White / Gerald Barry / Frederic Rzewski / Feldman

Monday 19 August 2013 - 10:15 PM

Proms 2013 Prom 50 RZEWSKI Frederic © Annette Morreau

Approximate end time 11:30pm

Presented by:

John White
Chord-Breaking Machine 10'

Gerald Barry
No other people. 12'
UK premiere

Frederic Rzewski
Piano Concerto c20'
BBC commission: world premiere

Feldman
Coptic Light 28'

Frederic Rzewski piano

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov
conductor

There will be no interval

Inspired by ancient textiles seen in the Louvre Museum, Morton Feldman's Coptic Light glows heavily in the air, stopping time.

Ilan Volkov directs the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in this late masterpiece from the American modernist and the world premiere of Frederic Rzewski's Piano Concerto, with the composer as soloist.

English experimentalist John White's Chord-Breaking Machine opens a Late Night Prom of unusual
orchestral textures in which the Irish composer Gerald Barry's 2008 work No other people. receives
its UK premiere. 

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