BBC Proms 2018 Prom 24, A Hero's Life (320kbps .mp3)
Live at BBC Proms: BBC NOW and conductor Otto Tausk with the cellist Daniel Müller‐Schott in Dvořák's Cello Concerto. Plus performances of Strauss's Ein Heldenleben and the Prelude to Act 2 of Dame Ethel Smyth's opera The Wreckers.
Triumphant horns and a flirtatious, vivacious solo violin set the tone for Strauss's vivid autobiographical tone-poem Ein Heldenleben - 'A Hero's Life', outwardly inspired by 'an ideal of great and manly heroism'. The orchestra is also at the forefront in Dvořák's Cello Concerto, sounding as an equal partner to the soloist - German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott, who returns to the Proms under tonight's debut conductor Otto Tausk - in an intensely personal work that marries a pervasive sense of longing with real passion. And in the centenary year of British women gaining the right to vote, Ethel Smyth's evocative Act 2 Prelude from The Wreckers celebrates a key British composer who, as a suffragette, spent two months in Holloway Prison.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Presented by Ian Skelly
01. Smyth - The Wreckers - On the Cliffs of Cornwall (Prelude to Act 2) 01i. General introduction to BBC Proms 2018, Proms 24 02. Dvořák - Cello Concerto in B minor 02i. Introduction to Dvořák’s Cello Concerto 03. Bloch - The Prayer (from ‘Music for a Jewish Life,’ B.54)(encore) 04. Strauss - Ein Heldenleben 04i. Introduction to Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben
Daniel Müller-Schott (cello) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Otto Tausk (conductor)
05. BBC Proms 2018, Prom 24, Interval, Proms Plus c. 8pm Interval: commemorating 50 years since the Russian maestro Mstilav Rostropovich famously performed Dvorak's Cello Concerto at the Proms as Soviet tanks entered Prague, Sir John Tusa and Marina Frolova-Walker discuss with Petroc Trelawny the cultural repercussions started by the upheaval across the Iron Curtain. Recorded earlier at the Imperial College Union.
Broadcast: 1 August 2018, BBC Radio 3
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01. Smyth - The Wreckers - On the Cliffs of Cornwall (Prelude to Act 2).mp3
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01i. General introduction to BBC Proms 2018, Proms 24.mp3
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02. Dvořák - Cello Concerto in B minor.mp3
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02i. Introduction to Dvořák’s Cello Concerto.mp3
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03. Bloch - The Prayer.mp3
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04. Strauss - Ein Heldenleben.mp3
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04i. Introduction to Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben.mp3
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05. BBC Proms 2018, Prom 24, Interval, Proms Plus.mp3