BBC Proms 2020 Season - Colin Davis conducts Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Symphony [2001] (320kbps .mp3)



In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.



BBC Proms: Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony is surely the apogee of the pastoral. Here it is prefaced by Sibelius’s late tone-poem, which he premiered in the USA, and Michael Tippett’s shimmering evocation of a Senegalese lakeside view. The last orchestral piece Tippett wrote, The Rose Lake was commissioned jointly by the London Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra to celebrate the composer’s 90th birthday.



As with Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, Tippett's piece is concerned with expressions of feeling rather than description. The late Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra give free reign to that feeling in this thrilling concert from the 2001 Proms.



01. Sibelius - The Oceanides, Op. 73

01a. Introduction to the Colin Davis prom

02. Tippett - The Rose Lake

02a. Introduction to Tippett’s The Rose Lake

02b. Interval - Interview with David Alberman  (Principal Second Violin, LSO)





London Symphony Orchestra

Colin Davis (conductor)



Presented by Martin Handley



(From the BBC Proms 2001, 13 September)