July 17th, 21:30 -The Opening Concert of the 2009 BBC Proms Festival,
Live on Radio Romania Music
Just
like every year, Radio Romania Music will broadcast - live from the
Royal Albert Hall - some of the concerts held within the BBC Proms,
the most important British festival of classical music, which definitely
represents one of the most important festivals at an international
level as well.
In 2009, BBC Proms will open with a concert performed by the BBC
Symphonic Chorus and Orchestra, under the baton of the Czech conductor
Jiri Belohlavek, while soprano Ailish Tynan, mezzo-soprano Alice Coote,
pianists Stephen Hough, Katia and Marielle Labeque, will be the soloists.
Judging by the usual programme of a classical music concert, the
programme of this event is extraordinary, yet very much in line with
what Sir Henry Wood - the initiator of the Proms Festival in 1895
- intended: to attract as many people towards quality music as possible.
The programme includes several short pieces by Stravinsky, Chabrier,
Tchaikovsky, Poulenc, Elgar, Brahms and Bruckner.
Each edition of the BBC Proms Festival has a number of specific themes representing the central ideas of most of the concerts. This year, the themes suggested by the organisers are the following:
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2009 anniversaries / commemorations: Georg Friedrich Handel (the 250th commemoration of his death), Joseph Haydn (the 200th commemoration of his death), Felix Mendelssohn (the 200th anniversary of his birth), Henry Purcell (the 350th anniversary of his birth)
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100 years from the beginning of the collaboration between Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Diaghilev - the Russian ballets maestro
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1934 - a crucial year to the history of British music - composers Edward Elgar, Frederick Delius, Gustav Holst, Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle
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Concerto pieces for piano and orchestra by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (integrally)
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Young performers promoted by BBC 3: 10 years since the beginning of the "New Generation Artists" Project
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Contemporary composers - pieces commissioned by the BBC
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Pieces for one or more pianos
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Indian voices
The 2009 edition of BBC Proms consists of seventy-six concerts, ending
with the famous "Last Night" on September 12th.
Romania Radio Music will broadcast live nine more concerts of the BBC Proms Festival; other concerts will be broadcast within the programme Musical Europe Today (Monday to Friday, at 21:00).
A comprehensive list of the international live broadcasts can be found
on the muzical.srr.ro website.
Translated by Silvia Bratu, Elena Gheorghe
MA students, MTTLC, Bucharest University
