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13 Aug 2022, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2022 Prom 36: Marin Alsop conducts the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Prom 36
Prom 36: Marin Alsop conducts the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
19:30 Sat 13 Aug 2022 Royal Albert Hall
The Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra comes to the Proms with its American Music Director Marin Alsop. Music by Bartók, Dvořák, Hannah Eisendle and Prokofiev – with Benjamin Grosvenor at the piano.
The Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra comes to the Proms with its American Music Director Marin Alsop. Music by Bartók, Dvořák, Hannah Eisendle and Prokofiev – with Benjamin Grosvenor at the piano.

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Viennese orchestral playing is a byword for excellence, rooted in generations of tradition. But under its distinguished (and adventurous) American Music Director Marin Alsop, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra takes that tradition as a starting point to look outwards – to explore. Bartók’s bloodcurdling ballet suite prepares the way for Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto: energising, unsentimental brilliance, brought to life by former ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor. And then, two very different facets of the Central European tradition: the windswept drama and dancing Bohemian melodies of Dvořák’s magnificent Seventh Symphony, and the UK premiere of Heliosis – written specially for Alsop and the Vienna RSO by a young Viennese composer with a flair for drama.

Broadcast on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Four on Sunday 21 August

Image: Marin Alsop © Nancy Horowitz