Prom 55: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

27 Aug 2016, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Sat 27 Aug 2016 Next Event

19:30 Sat 27 Aug 2016 Royal Albert Hall

Hans Abrahamsen’s let me tell you is paired with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 for the CBSO’s first of two Proms, this one conducted by the orchestra’s new music director.

Performances & Interviews

21:03

Listen: Introduction to Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony

Ian Skelly discusses the work with Rosamund Bartlett and Marina Frolova-Walker.

Aug '16BBC Radio 3

TV & Radio

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Programme

- - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  - The Magic Flute (Overture)(7 mins)
- - Hans Abrahamsen
  - let me tell you(35 mins)London premiere
- - interval
- - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  - Symphony No. 4 in F minor(44 mins)

Performers

Barbara Hannigan
soprano
soprano
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Mirga Gražinytė‐Tyla
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra makes its first London appearance with young Lithuanian Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, who becomes the orchestra’s Music Director next season.

While Mozart’s overture combines infectious energy with Masonic symbolism, Tchaikovsky’s dramatic Fourth Symphony explores the shadow cast by Fate.

Hans Abrahamsen’s Grawemeyer Award-winning song-cycle for Barbara Hannigan centres on Shakespeare’s Ophelia, using only words allotted to her in Hamlet.