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Live at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: The Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir with conductor Fabio Luisi perform music by Bent Sørensen, Anna Clyne and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Bent Sørensen: Evening Land
Anna Clyne: The Years

c.8.10pm
During the interval, Martin Handley is joined by Anna Clyne to reflect on her love of the music of Beethoven and how she finds creative inspiration from him in her own music.

c.8.30pm
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, ‘Choral’

Clara Cecilie Thomsen, soprano
Jasmin White, contralto
Issachah Savage, tenor
Adam Pałka, bass
Danish National Concert Choir
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi, conductor

A concert of musical roars and whispers. A childhood memory inspires Bent Sørensen’s Evening Land – a sonic view from a window onto the calm, silent landscape of rural Denmark. Inspired by the isolation of the Covid-19 lockdowns, Anna Clyne’s The Years explores ideas of solitude and the passing of time, setting a text by Stephanie Fleischmann. Written when Beethoven was progressively deaf, the Ninth Symphony is a monumental statement of defiant hope, climaxing in a musical shout of joy. Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in a programme that charts the extremes of human experience and emotion.