BBC Proms 2007New music
The BBC Proms maintains its long tradition of commissioning and performing new music
with the premieres of 12 specially commissioned works for the 2007 season. From a
dramatic musical piece about climate change by a leading film composer, to new
symphonies and concertos by the likes of John Adams and Esa-Pekka Salonen, the BBC
Proms present new work by top British and international talent. There are a further seven major works receiving world, UK or London premieres and more
than 70 works new to the Proms. - Twelve BBC commissions and co-commissions from John
Adams, Richard Rodney Bennett, Judith Bingham, Sir
Harrison Birtwistle, Brett Dean, Sam Hayden, Aaron Jay
Kernis, Rachel Portman, Guto Puw,Thea Musgrave, Esa-
Pekka Salonen and Peter Wiegold.
- Oscar-winning composer Rachel Portman and poet/novelist
Owen Sheers create a 'dramatic musical piece' to be
performed by hundreds of children, some of whom are cast
through a nationwide BBC talent search (27 August).
- Contemporary subjects for John Adams (nuclear bombs;
21 August), Brett Dean (miseries of reality TV; 22 July), and
Rachel Portman (climate change; 27 August)
- Peter Wiegold creates a huge new piece for hundreds of
amateur and professional brass players as centrepiece of
Brass Day (28 July).
- John Adams, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Peter Wiegold and
Benjamin Yusupov conduct their own works (21 August,
30 July, 28 July, 18 August).
- World premiere of David Matthews’s Symphony No. 6
(commissioned by the John S. Cohen Foundation, 2 August).
- UK premieres for living composers including Elliott Carter,
Hans Werner Henze, Aaron Jay Kernis and Benjamin
Yusupov.
- Maxim Vengerov dances tango in UK premiere of viola
concerto by Yusupov (18 August).
- UK premiere of newly orchestrated song by Alban Berg
from Renée Fleming (6 August).
- Two Composer Portraits featuring chamber music by
Thomas Adès (20 August) and David Matthews (2 August).
- Major works by more than 30 living composers.
- More than 70 works new to the Proms (see asterixed
entries in the BBC Proms Guide’s Index of Works, page
156, for details).
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