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8 Aug 2014, Royal Albert Hall
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Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Philharmonic at the Proms Prom 29: Chopin, Franck, Saint-Saëns & Casella

Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Philharmonic
Prom 29: Chopin, Franck, Saint-Saëns & Casella
18:30 Fri 8 Aug 2014 Royal Albert Hall

Programme

Concert Information:

Casella’s haunting ‘Heroic Elegy’, dedicated to the ‘unknown soldier’, forms part of a series of works in this year's Proms written in the shadow of the First World War.

Former Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor, still only 22, returns for his fourth Proms appearance in Chopin’s lyrical but virtuosic First Piano Concerto; he is also the soloist in Franck’s Symphonic Variations – once a Proms favourite (performed here on 60 occasions), though it has been largely absent since the 1960s.

Saint-Saëns’s ‘Organ’ Symphony continues the French theme. ‘With it I have given all I could give,’ the composer observed. ‘What I did I could not achieve again.’