Violin concertos will be well represented at the 2013 BBC Proms,
although string quartets and trios are almost absent from this
year’s programme. Despite a series of chamber music and Saturday
lunchtime concerts set for Cadogan Hall during the Proms period,
the only quartet to be performing this year will be the Arditti
Quartet, joining forces with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra in the
UK premiere of Helmut Lachenmann’s Tanzsuite mit
Deutschlandlied.
Soloists performing violin concertos will include Lisa Batiashvili
performing Sibelius, Joshua Bell in Tchaikovsky, Vilde Frang in
Bruch, Janine Jansen in Britten, Vadim Repin in James MacMillan,
Baiba Skride in Szymanowski, and Frank Peter Zimmermann in Brahms.
Nigel Kennedy will give a late-night performance of Vivaldi’s
Four Seasons, and make an appearance at the Last Night of
the Proms, playing Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending
with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
In addition, Midori gives the UK premiere of Peter Eötvös’s
DoReMi with the Philharmonia Orchestra, and Raphael
Wallfisch plays Granville Bantock’s Sapphic Poem, in a Proms
premiere. Fellow cellist Paul Watkins performs Lutoslawski's Cello
Concerto with the BBC Symphony. Swedish string ensemble Camerata
Nordica is to give the world premiere of Britten’s Elegy for
Strings, an early work written four years before the Simple
Symphony.
Viol consort Fretwork will mark the 450th anniversary of the birth
of John Dowland in a concert filled with galliards, lachrimaes and
fantasias. Vilde Frang appears gain in a recital with pianist
Michael Lifits in a programme mixing Ravel, Mozart and
Lutoslawski.
Photo: Marcus Ginns
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