大象传媒

Alison Balsom, Camerata Ireland, and Barry Douglas, live at the 大象传媒 proms, play music by Britten and his contemporaries.

Live from Cadogan Hall, London

Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill

Britten: Young Apollo
Lennox Berkeley: Serenade For Strings
Shostakovich: Concerto For Piano, Trumpet and Strings (Piano Concerto No. 1)
Priaulx Rainier: Movement For Strings (World Premiere)
Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge

Alison Balsom (trumpet)
Barry Douglas (piano/director)
Camerata Ireland

Pianist Barry Douglas directs Camerata Ireland in its Proms debut with a programme continuing the season's focus on the music of Benjamin Britten and his contemporaries. Withdrawn from performance for 40 years after its 1939 premiere, Britten's Young Apollo opens a sequence of works of brittle, edgy beauty, including the world premiere of Priaulx Rainier's 1951 Movement for strings. Lennox Berkeley's Serenade for strings and Britten's Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge frame a performance of Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No.1, whose witty trumpet part is played by Alison Balsom.

An edited version of this Prom will be broadcast on Wednesday 14th August at 2pm.