BBC Proms 2019 Prom 04, The Planets (320kbps .mp3)
Live at BBC Proms: the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Kirill Karabits play Holst's The Planets and before that music by John Adams and Barber's Violin Concerto.
01. John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine
01a. General introduction to BBC Proms 2019 Prom 04
02. Samuel Barber - Violin Concerto
02i. Introduction to Barber’s Violin Concerto
03. Serbian folk music - Pashona - a Kolo (encore)
03. Gustav Holst - The Planets
03a. Introduction to Holst’s The Planets
Nemanja Radulović (violin)
Trinity Boys Choir
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits (conductor)
04. Proms 2019 Prom 04, Proms Plus Talk
50 years to the day since men first walked on the Moon, Professor Richard Wiseman and Melanie Vandenbrouck, curator at the Royal Museums Greenwich reflect on the long footprint of those small steps. Hosted by Rana Mitter. Richard Wiseman is author of Shoot For The Moon. Melanie Vandenbrouck has co-curated an exhibition The Moon which runs at the National Maritime Museum from 19 July 2019 – 5 January 2020 and co-edited an accompanying book The Moon, A Celebration of Our Celestial Neighbour.
Producer: Zahid Warley
A concert of 20th-century classics from Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra continues a weekend marking the 50th anniversary of the first manned mission to land on the Moon.
Space travel has never been more richly imagined than in Holst’s suite The Planets, but in order to get there you’ll need to take a Short Ride in a Fast Machine, courtesy of John Adams’s exhilarating, propulsive Minimalist masterpiece.
The lyrical beauty of Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, with its exquisite slow movement, offers a contrasting moment of contemplation. Dynamic Franco-Serbian violinist Nemanja Radulović makes his Proms debut as soloist.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Presented by Martin Handley.
