
BBC Proms presents
Proms 2020: Proms at… City Halls, Glasgow
broadcast from City Halls, Glasgow
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This Prom will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and live-streamed to BBC iplayer at 19:30 BST.
Please note that it will not be possible to have a live audience for this concert.
First heard at the Proms in 2017, the late George Walker’s hauntingly beautiful Lyric for Strings was written at the age of only 24 and dedicated to his grandmother.
Beethoven’s economically scored Second Piano Concerto – completed before his First and among the earliest of his works performed in concert halls today – looks both backwards to Haydn and Mozart and forwards to the Beethoven’s future innovation and rhythmic fascination.
Tonight’s BBC commission is from Glasgow-based composer Jay Capperauld. Expressed in the context of the recurring 24-hour process that regulates our sleeping patterns, Circadian Refrains (172 Days Until Dawn) is Capperauld’s response to the cyclical nature of lockdown, enforced as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Continuing the theme of mass upheaval, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra closes with Strauss’s devastating Metamorphosen. Written for 23 solo strings during the final months of the Second World War (which Strauss described as ‘the most terrible period of mankind’), it quotes from the Funeral March of Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony (No. 3).
PROGRAMME
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19 28’
Jay Capperauld
Circadian Refrains (172 Days Until Dawn) 8’
BBC commission: world premiere
Richard Strauss
Metamorphosen 26’
Stephen Hough piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan conductor
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Performance Information
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It will not be possible to have a live audience for this concert
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Conductor Thomas Dausgaard is no longer able to appear with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on Saturday 5 September due to travel difficulties. Alpesh Chauhan, Associate Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, will now appear with the BBC SSO and pianist Stephen Hough at City Halls in Glasgow.
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