BBC Proms 2020 Season Mark Elder and the Hallé [2014] [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.

Works inspired by the sea and night-time, plus Beethoven’s barnstorming ‘Eroica’ Symphony - Mark Elder conducts the Hallé in a classic BBC Prom from August 2014.

The sunshine glitters on the waves in Berlioz’s overture Le corsaire, while the ocean ebbs and flows in Elgar’s Sea Pictures. Human rather than natural drama is what drives Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony, however – a stirring musical meditation on heroism and valour. Presented by Hannah French.

01. Berlioz - Overture ‘Le corsaire’
01a. Introduction to the Halle concert
02. Elgar - Sea Pictures, Op. 37
with Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
02a. Introduction to Elgar’s Sea Pictures
02b. Interview with Mark Elder and intro to Helen Grimes
03. Helen Grime - Near Midnight (London premiere)
04. Beethoven - Symphony No 3 in E flat major, ‘Eroica'
04a. Introduction to Beethoven’s Symphony No 3

Hallé
Sir Mark Elder

(From BBC Proms 2014, 9 August)

The sea lies at the centre of tonight’s concert from Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé. Berlioz composed his swashbuckling overture Le corsaire on holiday by the Mediterranean Sea in Nice.

A celebrated Elgar champion, Elder is joined by British mezzo-soprano Alice Coote for Sea Pictures: Elgar’s only orchestral song-cycle, which explores the fascination and fear inspired by the sea. While Helen Grime’s Near Midnight explores a nocturnal theme, Beethoven created a storm of human drama in his ‘Eroica’ Symphony.

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