BBC Philharmonic: Celebrating 100 years of the BBC

BBC Philharmonic: Celebrating 100 years of the BBC

Saturday, 12 February 2022, 7.30pm

Happy birthday to us! The BBC celebrates its centenary in 2022, and the BBC Philharmonic is coming to the party with this Saturday-night special – part of a weekend-long, UK-wide showcase of the BBC’s orchestras and choirs.

The music runs from then to now. Hindemith’s dizzily thrilling Kammermusik No. 1 dates from 1922, the year the BBC was founded. By contrast, the UK premiere of Marionettes by Uzbek composer Aziza Sadikova, a work that looks back to the baroque and forward to the future, stands as testament to the BBC’s continued commitment to new music. Elisso Virsaladze takes centre stage for the joyful romanticism of Schumann’s Piano Concerto, before Chief Conductor Omer Meir Wellber transports us to mythical climes with Tippett’s sparkling Ritual Dances.

Programme
Paul Hindemith – Kammermusik No. 1(15 mins)
Aziza Sadikova – Marionettes(19 mins) – UK Premiere, BBC commission
INTERVAL
Robert Schumann – Piano Concerto in A minor(31 mins)
Michael Tippett – The Midsummer Marriage - Ritual Dances(24 mins)

Performers
Omer Meir Wellber – conductor
Elisso Virsaladze – piano
BBC Philharmonic

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Published by Journal of Music on 7 February 2022

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