BBC Proms, 2018, Proms at The Roundhouse - George Benjamin conducts the London Sinfonietta (320kbps .mp3)

Live at BBC Proms: George Benjamin conducts the London Sinfonietta in music by Ives, Stravinsky and Messiaen plus a quartet of premieres marking 100 years since the end of the First World War.

The Proms returns to Camden's Roundhouse - a former railway engine shed reinvented as a spectacular contemporary space - with a programme of 20th- and 21st-century works.

Composer-conductor George Benjamin directs new-music specialists, the London Sinfonietta - celebrating its 50th anniversary this year - in a concert that continues our series marking 100 years since the end of the First World War.

Alongside a quartet of war-themed premieres (co-commissioned with 14-18 NOW), the programme features Stravinsky's homage to Debussy, the elegant Symphonies of Wind Instruments; Messiaen's monumental tribute to the dead of both world wars, Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum, and Charles Ives's The Unanswered Question, whose haunting solo trumpet famously raises 'the perennial question of existence'.

01. Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question
01i. General introduction to Proms at The Roundhouse
02. Igor Stravinsky - Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947 version)
03. Olivier Messiaen - Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum

Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
London Sinfonietta
Conductor Sir George Benjamin




Live from the Roundhouse, London
Presented by Tom Service