Prom 8: Invitation to the Dance

Dance – whether in the exotic pulse of Bartók’s Dance Suite, the insistent Russian folk rhythms of Stravinsky’s The Firebird or the languorous ballet of Debussy’s faun – runs right through tonight’s Prom.

Peter Eötvös conducts his new violin concerto Alhambra – performed here by the work’s original soloist, award-winning German violinist Isabelle Faust.

Programme

Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Henry Wood Novelties: UK premiere, 1904

Peter Eötvös Alhambra (violin concerto)
BBC co-commission with Festival Internacional deMúsica y Danza de Granada, Orchestre de Paris and Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker: UK premiere

– interval –

Bartók Dance Suite
Henry Wood Novelties: UK premiere, 1925

Stravinsky The Firebird – suite (1919)
Henry Wood Novelties: UK premiere, 1913

Performers

Isabelle Faust violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Peter Eötvös conductor