{"id":45887,"date":"2024-08-08T11:38:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T09:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/335dd149-a1a2-42bd-9f9c-71acf37f996c"},"modified":"2024-08-08T12:08:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T10:08:59","slug":"today-at-the-bbc-proms-beethoven-and-brahms-and-a-poignant-tribute-to-a-much-loved-composer","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/today-at-the-bbc-proms-beethoven-and-brahms-and-a-poignant-tribute-to-a-much-loved-composer\/","title":{"rendered":"Today at the BBC Proms: Beethoven and Brahms, and a poignant tribute to a much-loved composer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published: Thursday, 08 August 2024 at 09:38 AM<\/p>

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Here’s your guide to today’s BBC Proms<\/a><\/strong> concert at the Royal Albert Hall<\/a><\/strong>. We’ve got everything you need to know about today’s concert (Thursday 8 August), which features music from Beethoven, Brahms, and the much-missed American composer Sarah Gibson, who sadly passed away earlier this summer.<\/p>

Need more Proms? Visit our unmissable 2024 BBC Proms guide<\/a><\/strong> for all the info on every 2024 BBC Proms concert. <\/p>

What’s on at the BBC Proms today?<\/h2>
Today’s Prom, Prom 26, features two cornerstones of the classical repertoire, plus a poignant tribute to a much-loved classical composer whom we sadly lost earlier this summer.<\/p>
There’s a performance of Beethoven<\/a><\/strong>‘s much-loved Violin Concerto. We voted Beethoven’s concerto one of the greatest violin concertos of all time<\/a><\/strong>. However, it hasn’t had the smoothest of journeys towards this acclaim.<\/p>
Its first performance (by\u00a0Franz Clement, a composer, conductor, performer and friend of Beethoven’s)\u00a0was not a success. After this inauspicious start, the piece remained very little known for decades. That situation changed when, in 1844, the 12-year-old violinist\u00a0Joseph Joachim\u00a0presented the work to great acclaim, with a certain\u00a0 Felix Mendelssohn<\/strong><\/a> conducting.\u00a0 <\/p>
<\/div><\/figure><p>We will also hear <em>warp & weft<\/em>, a 2021 orchestral work by American pianist and composer <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarahgibson-music.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sarah Gibson<\/a><\/strong>. We were to hear the world premiere of Gibson’s <em>beyond the beyond<\/em>, a BBC commission, but the composer tragically died in July, at the age of just 38, with the work still unfinished. Instead, the BBC Philharmonic will pay her the tribute of performing this popular orchestral work.<\/p><p>Tonight’s major work is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/johannes-brahms\">Brahms’s<\/a><\/strong> monumental and profoundly moving Symphony No. 4. This great symphony has many memorable features, including a noble and tragic <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/musical-terms\/what-does-allegro-mean-in-music\"><em>Allegro<\/em><\/a><\/strong> first movement, an exuberant, <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/musical-terms\/what-scherzo\">Scherzo<\/a><\/em><\/strong>-like third movement, and a Finale of impressive complexity and increasing emotional tension, which takes the form of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/musical-terms\/discovering-music-passacaglia\"><strong>passacaglia<\/strong><\/a>. A symphony of immense power, emotional weight and intellectual rigour, Brahms’s Fourth is one of the greatest works from the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/best-romantic-composers\">Romantic<\/a><\/strong> era, as well as one of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/works\/20-greatest-symphonies-all-time\">greatest symphonies of all time<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brahms: 4. Sinfonie \u2219 hr-Sinfonieorchester \u2219 Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o69YVL_XKJo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/><\/div><\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-who-is-performing-at-tonight-s-prom\">Who is performing at tonight’s Prom?<\/h2><p>Performing at Prom 26 are the BBC Philharmonic orchestra and conductor <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/news\/anja-bihlmaier-bbc-philharmonic-principal-guest-conductor\">Anja Bihlmaier<\/a><\/strong>, who as we reported has just been named the orchestra’s principal guest conductor. The soloist for the Beethoven concerto is the German violinist Tobias Feldmann.<\/p><ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/20-greatest-violinists-ever\">The greatest violinists of all time<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-is-today-s-bbc-prom-on-tv\">Is today’s BBC Prom on TV?<\/h2><p>Today’s Prom is not being broadcast on television. Don’t worry, though: you’ll be able to hear it on BBC Radio 3, as you can all the BBC Proms.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-time-does-tonight-s-prom-start\">What time does tonight’s Prom start? <\/h2><p>Prom 26 kicks off at 7.30pm. <\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-and-how-much-are-tickets-for-the-bbc-proms-today\">And how much are tickets for the BBC Proms today?<\/h2><p>Tickets for Prom 26 are priced between \u00a310 and \u00a344. As always, you also have the option of joining those Proms phenomena, the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/musical-terms\/what-prommer\">Prommers<\/a><\/strong>, and queuing for the chance of one of the 800 \u00a38 tickets issued for each Prom.<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Published: Thursday, 08 August 2024 at 09:38 AM Here’s your guide to today’s BBC Proms concert at the Royal Albert Hall. We’ve got everything you need to know about today’s concert (Thursday 8 August), which features music from Beethoven, Brahms, and the much-missed American composer Sarah Gibson, who sadly passed away earlier this summer. 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