Proms-Music-Vault's video: BBC Proms 2020 - Kendall Whitacre Copland Beethoven

Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ 28.08.2020, 7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall Sakari Oramo leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra for the first live Prom of the season. Beethoven’s epic ‘Eroica’ Symphony sits alongside Copland’s Quiet City, Eric Whitacre’s Sleep and a Basquiat-inspired world premiere from Hannah Kendall. Programme Hannah Kendall Tuxedo: Vasco 'de' Gama (5 mins) (BBC commission: world premiere) Eric Whitacre Sleep (6 mins) Aaron Copland Quiet City (10 mins) Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No.3 in E flat major, ‘Eroica’ (47 mins) Performers Alison Teale cor anglais Phillip Cobb trumpet Nicholas Chalmers conductor BBC Singers BBC Singers BBC Symphony Orchestra Sakari Oramo conductor About This Event Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra kick off this season’s live offering with a specially commissioned work by English composer Hannah Kendall. Tuxedo: Vasco ‘de’ Gama – its title a quote from American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat’s iconic matrix of hieroglyphs, symbols and words – launches a voyage across the Atlantic that takes us via Eric Whitacre’s tender Sleep, sung by the BBC Singers, to the expansive, desolate sound-world of Copland’s Quiet City. For the concert’s climax we plunge into the stormy waters of Beethoven’s revolutionary ‘Eroica’ Symphony, noted by one early reviewer for its ‘strange modulations and violent transitions’ – a passionate musical vision of heroism.