Prom 5: BBC Symphony Orchestra July 17, 2007

Sam Hayden's new work, the first of ten BBC commissions this season, raises the curtain on a transatlantic programme conducted by the BBC SO’s dynamic Californian-born Principal Guest Conductor. Bernstein's The Age of Anxiety, inspired by Auden, launches our centenary celebration of this UK-born but US-drawn poet, and is based on the poem Bernstein saw as 'a record of our difficult search for faith'.The first of two Ives symphonies this year (see also Prom 64) is the innovative Fourth, whose practical and musical demands are so great that it only received its first complete UK performance at the Proms in 1966.

Sam Hayden
Substratum (BBC commission: world premiere) (15 mins)
Bernstein
Symphony No. 2, 'The Age of Anxiety' (36 mins)

Interval

Ives
Symphony No. 4 (32 mins)

Orli Shaham piano
Ralph van Raat piano
London Philharmonic Choir
BBC Symphony Orchestra
David Robertson conductor

Detailed notes about the music will be available one hour before the concert.

Official Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2007/whatson/1707.shtml#prom5