BBC Proms 2017 - Birtwistle & Elgar

Prom 4: Daniel Barenboim and Staatskapelle Berlin , , Royal Albert Hall Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin perform Elgar’s Second Symphony – a ‘passionate pilgrimage of the soul’. Hear the UK premiere of Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s Deep Time - a work that swaps the tick-tock of the everyday for something more alien. Programme Harrison Birtwistle Deep Time (25 mins) BBC co-commission with the Staatskapelle Berlin: UK premiere Edward Elgar Symphony No.2 in E flat major (56 mins) Performers Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim conductor About This Event Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin bring the generous scope of their interpretation of Elgar’s Second Symphony to their second concert of the season, celebrating a work whose modernity and astonishing textural effects startle even now. Dedicated to the memory of Peter Maxwell Davies, who died last year, Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s Deep Time continues his career-l