BBC Proms - Season 75 Episode 4 Prom 8: Gražinytė-Tyla Conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla champion the music of a too-long neglected composer. A pupil of Vaughan Williams, Ruth Gipps started her career as an oboist with what was then the City of Birmingham Orchestra in 1944, before becoming established as a composer. Her Symphony No. 2 takes a wide-screen, cinematic view of the Second World War, embracing exhilaration, anxiety and, finally, ecstatic rejoicing. Conflict of a very different kind runs through The Exterminating Angel Symphony by Thomas Adès (50 this year), inspired by Louis Buñuel’s Surrealist film. Brahms’s Third Symphony strikes a more autumnal tone, inspired by a visit to the River Rhine in 1883. The critic Eduard Hanslick pronounced it ‘artistically the most nearly perfect’ of the composer’s symphonies to date.
- Title: BBC Proms
- Year: 2024
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- Studio: BBC One, CBBC, BBC Four, CBeebies, BBC Two, BBC iPlayer, BBC Television
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- Keyword: classical music, concert film
- Runtime: 180 minutes
- IMDb: 7.50 / 10 by 1 users
- Popularity: 36.656
- First Air Date: Sep 06, 1947
- Last Air date: Oct 19, 2024
- Season: 78 Season
- Episode: 379 Episode
- Language: English
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