Through the Night: First Night of the BBC Proms 2023

Penny Gore presents a sequence of music, beginning with Dalia Stasevska conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Grieg, Sibelius, Britten and Bohdana Frolyak. Sibelius: Finlandia, Op 26. Bohdana Frolyak: Let There Be Light. Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16. Sibelius: Snöfrid, Op 29, melodrama for narrator, mixed chorus and orchestra. Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op 34. Lesley Manville (narrator), Paul Lewis (piano), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska (conductor). 1.48 Purcell: Four Dances from Abdelazer. 01.52 Britten: Piano Concerto, Op 13. 2.31 Poulenc: Sonata for Violin and Piano. 2.52 Telemann: Suite in G minor - La Musette, TWV 55:g1. 3.06 Schein: Selection from Diletti Pastorali, Hirten Lust: madrigals for 5 voices & continuo. 3.28 Kyurkchiyski: Bulgarian Madonna (excerpts Paintings of Vladimir Dimitrov - the Master). 3.34 Schubert: Impromptu No 3 in B flat, from 4 Impromptus, D 935. 3.43 Mozart: Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo, K.584, from Cosi fan tutte. 3.48 Jiránek: Flute Concerto in G. 4.00 Fauré: Dolly - Suite for piano duet, Op 56. 4.14 Tchaikovsky arr. Markus Theinert: The Nutcracker Suite, Op 71a. 4.22 Beethoven: Two Sonatinas for mandolin - C minor WoO 43/1 and C major WoO 44/1. 4.31 Hildegard of Bingen: O clarissima Mater (respond). 4.40 Alice Mary Smith: The Masque of Pandora (Two Intermezzi). 4.49 Corelli: Sonata da chiesa in F, Op 1 No 1. 4.55 Chopin: Variations on La ci darem la mano, Op 2. 5.12 Handel: Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion, aria from The Messiah. 5.17 Veremans: Nacht en Morgendontwaken aan de Nete. 5.28 Hummel: Piano Trio in F, Op 22. 5.42 Haydn: Ave Regina for double choir, MH 140. 5.53 Grainger: Suite on Danish folk songs. 6.12 Sanz: Four pieces from Instruccion de música sobre la guitara espanola