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8 Sep 2024, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2024 Prom 66: Chineke! play Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pathétique’

Prom 66
Prom 66: Chineke! play Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pathétique’
19:30 Sun 8 Sep 2024 Royal Albert Hall
Chineke! Orchestra returns to the Proms with Duke Ellington’s jazzed-up take on Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker, Stewart Goodyear’s celebration of Caribbean music, Callaloo, and Tchaikovsky’s heartbreaking ‘Pathétique’ Symphony.
Chineke! Orchestra returns to the Proms with Duke Ellington’s jazzed-up take on Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker, Stewart Goodyear’s celebration of Caribbean music, Callaloo, and Tchaikovsky’s heartbreaking ‘Pathétique’ Symphony.

Programme

      • The Nutcracker Suite(24 mins)arr. Ellington & Strayhorn, arr. and adapted J. Tyzik
      • Callaloo – Caribbean Suite for piano and orchestra(28 mins)
        • interval
        • Symphony No. 6 in B minor, ‘Pathétique’(46 mins)

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    Britain’s only orchestra of Black and ethnically diverse musicians returns to the Proms with music that celebrates its own heritage as well as universal dreams and aspirations. Stewart Goodyear is the soloist in his own vibrant celebration of Caribbean music, Callaloo, while Duke Ellington’s jazzed-up take on Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker turns waltz into swing and Sugar Plum into heady rum. Conductor Andrew Grams ends with the most emotionally intense and musically robust symphony Tchaikovsky ever wrote, his heartbreakingly autobiographical ‘Pathétique’.

    Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

    Stewart Goodyear © Anita Zvonar

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