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Prom 71: The Philadelphia Orchestra with Lisa Batiashvili

Live at the ѿý Proms: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin conducts The Philadelphia Orchestra with violinist Lisa Batiashvili in music by Rachmaninov, Chausson, Saint-Saëns and Florence Price

Live at the ѿý Proms: Yannick Nézet‐Séguin conducts The Philadelphia Orchestra with violinist Lisa Batiashvili in music by Rachmaninov, Chausson, Saint-Saëns and Florence Price.

Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead
Chausson: Poème
Saint‐Saëns: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso

8.25pm - INTERVAL: Ian Skelly talks to Samantha Ege about the music of Florence Price. ѿý Sounds Champion Keelan Carew drops in to chat about his highlights from this final exciting week of Proms!

8.50pm - Florence Price: Symphony No. 1 in E minor
Lisa Batiashvili (violin)
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Conductor Yannick Nézet‐Séguin

Rachmaninov worked closely with The Philadelphia Orchestra, captivated by its famously beautiful sound. So his eerie tone-poem The Isle of the Dead is part of the Philadelphia tradition, as well as a marvellously atmospheric upbeat to a pair of Romantic violin showpieces from 19th-century France. No-one plays them with more panache than former ѿý Radio 3 New Generation Artist Lisa Batiashvili. And then comes the first Proms performance of the impassioned First Symphony by the African American composer Florence Price. ‘Nézet-Séguin and his Philadelphia Orchestra are body and soul into the joy and resolve of this music,’ wrote Gramophone magazine of their recent, Grammy-nominated recording.

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