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Prom 32: Part One - Pejacevic and Williams

Live at the ѿý Proms: Jaime Martín conducts the ѿý National Orchestra of Wales in an overture by Pejacevic and Geneva Lewis joins as soloist in Grace Williams's Violin Concerto.

Live at the ѿý Proms: Jaime Martín conducts the ѿý National Orchestra of Wales in an overture by Pejacevic and Geneva Lewis joins as soloist in Grace Williams's Violin Concerto.

Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

c. 7.00pm
Pejačević: Overture, Op 49
G Williams: Violin Concerto

c. 7.35pm
Interval: Backstage Pass
Tasmin Little in conversation with Radio 3 New Generation Artist violinist Geneva Lewis during her Proms debut.

c. 7.55pm
Holst: The Planets, Op 32

Geneva Lewis (violin)
ѿý National Orchestra of Wales
London Symphony Chorus
Jaime Martín (conductor)

The Planets: Holst’s colourful character portraits of our Solar System’s seven planets (excluding Earth) is by turns powerfully visceral and captivatingly luminous, opening with the war-like ‘Mars’ and concluding with ‘Neptune’, whose alluring sounds float off into the ether. The ѿý National Orchestra of Wales and Jaime Martín present the suite alongside Welsh composer Grace Williams’s Violin Concerto. Suppressed by Williams for many years, it is an intensely lyrical work whose bittersweet opening gives way to an ecstatic slow movement – based on a Welsh hymn tune – and a joyful finale. The concert opens with Dora Pejačević’s surging single gesture of an Overture, sumptuous textures married to bold, thrusting energy.

02:25 Dora Pejačević: Overture, Op 49
13:50 Grace Williams: Violin Concerto

2 hours, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Dora Pejačević

    Overture, Op 49

    Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Jaime Martín.
  • Grace Williams

    Violin Concerto

    Performer: Geneva Lewis. Orchestra: ѿý National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Jaime Martín.

Broadcast

  • Tue 8 Aug 2023 19:00

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