BBC Proms 2019 Prom 67 - Sakari Oramo conducts Sibelius (320kbps .mp3)



Live at BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the final version of Sibelius's 5th Symphony. Plus works by Mussorgsky, Weir and Louis Andriessen - The Only One (UK premiere).



01. Modest Mussorgsky (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov) - A Night on the Bare Mountain

01a. General introduction to BBC Proms 2019 Prom 67

02. Louis Andriessen - The Only One (UK premiere)

BBC co-commission with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and NTR ZaterdagMatinee

02a. Introduction to Andriessen’s The Only One

03. Judith Weir - Forest

03a. Introduction to Weir’s Forest

04. Jean Sibelius - Symphony No 5 in E flat major (final version, 1919)

04a. Introduction to Sibelius’s Symphony No 5



Nora Fischer (singer)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo (conductor)



A Prom celebrating Nature in all her moods. A flight of 16 swans was the catalyst for Sibelius’s stirring Fifth Symphony, with its ambiguous, mysterious ending. We hear the composer's final 1919 version - after the thrilling UK premiere of the original 1915 version performed at the BBC Proms earlier this season by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. While for Judith Weir it was nature’s process – forests sprouting outwards from a single seed, endlessly growing and multiplying – that offered inspiration.



Nature turns menacing in Mussorgsky’s vivid tone-poem A Night on the Bare Mountain. Boundary-breaking singer Nora Fischer is the soloist in the UK premiere of The Only One by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, who turned 80 this year, setting texts by the Flemish poet Delphine Lecompte.



05. BBC Proms 2019 Prom 67 Interval Proms Plus

Witchcraft, witch-trials and the image of the witch are explored by historian Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and activist Laura Bates. Hosted by New Generation Thinker Fern Riddell. Laura Bates is founder of Everyday Sexism and author of The Burning, a novel about a young woman’s trial by social media. Suzannah Lipscomb has presented a Channel 5 TV programme on witchcraft and written a Ladybird Expert Book on the topic. Produced by Luke Mulhall.



Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Penny Gore

8 September 2019