Prom 19a: Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra

31 Jul 2022, Royal Albert Hall

11:00 Sun 31 Jul 2022 Next Event

11:00 Sun 31 Jul 2022 Royal Albert Hall

Ukrainian musicians – from their besieged country and from around Europe – join together in a special addition to the Proms, to play Chopin, Brahms, Beethoven and Ukraine’s leading living composer, Valentin Silvestrov.

Programme

- - Valentin Silvestrov
  - Symphony No. 7(17 mins)
- - Frédéric Chopin
  - Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor(30 mins)
- - Ludwig van Beethoven
  - Fidelio – ‘Abscheulicher! … Komm, Hoffnung, lass den letzten Stern’(7 mins)
- - Johannes Brahms
  - Symphony No. 4 in E minor(40 mins)

Performers

Anna Fedorova
piano
piano
Liudmyla Monastyrska
soprano
soprano
Ukranian Freedom Orchestra
Keri-Lynn Wilson
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

The newly formed Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, made up of Ukrainian musicians – some from Ukraine’s major cities, some now displaced as refugees, and others who play in European orchestras – is a special late addition to this year’s Proms.

Under Canadian-Ukrainian conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson the orchestra is a symbol of the remarkable resolve and determination shown by the people of Ukraine. They celebrate Ukraine’s leading living composer, Valentin Silvestrov, who escaped Kyiv with his daughter and granddaughter in March.

His deeply reflective Symphony No. 7 from 2003 complements Chopin’s ravishing Piano Concerto No. 2. And, after music from Beethoven’s great ‘rescue’ opera, Fidelio, Brahms’s final symphony offers moments of turbulence as well as defiant joy.

There will be no interval

Broadcast on BBC Four