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.
Episodes in Season 75
First Night of the Proms: Part 1
180 min
First Night of the Proms: Part 2
180 min
Prom 4: An Evening of Mozart with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
180 min
Prom 8: Gražinytė-Tyla Conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
180 min
Prom 5: Ryan Bancroft Conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
180 min
Prom 2: The Golden Age of Broadway
180 min
Prom 10: Nicola Benedetti and the NYOGB
180 min
Prom 14/15: Stravinsky from Memory
180 min
Prom 17: Víkingur Ólafsson Plays Bach and Mozart
180 min
Prom 20: To Soothe the Aching Heart (A Night at the Opera)
180 min
Prom 22: Nubya Garcia
180 min
Prom 26: Sir Simon Rattle Conducts the London Symphony Orchestra
180 min
Prom 28: Chineke! Orchestra
180 min
Prom 29/30: Joshua Bell's Seasons: Vivaldi vs Piazzolla
180 min
Prom 34/35: Family Prom - The Carnival of the Animals with the Kanneh-Masons
180 min
Prom 31: George Lewis & Beethoven
180 min
Prom 25: Moses Sumney Meets Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra
180 min
Prom 38: Sir John Eliot Gardiner Conducts the Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists
180 min
Prom 42: John Wilson Conducts the Sinfonia of London
180 min
Prom 47: Bach’s St Matthew Passion
180 min
Last Night of the Proms 2021 - Part 1
180 min
Last Night of the Proms - Part 2
180 min
