BBC Proms to feature premiere of musgrave’s Bassoon concerto
Robbie Guthrie
The BBC Proms returns to the UK this summer with as exciting and varied a program as we have come to expect from the festival. Between plenty of the classics, celebrations of musical legends from Marvin Gaye to Morton Feldman, rock highlights from psych- to Turkish-folk-, there is still room for plenty of new BBC commissions, including Thea’s brand new Bassoon Concerto.
On Sunday, August 23rd, conductor Benjamin Marquise Gilmore and the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields spotlight the French horn and bassoon in two concertos: one classic, one contemporary. With virtuoso bassoonist Amy Harman they will perform the World Premiere of Thea’s concerto, programmed alongside Mozart’s good-natured Horn Concerto No. 3, featuring soloist Felix Kleisner, Britten’s playful Simple Symphony, Elgar’s Romance for bassoon and orchestra and finally Mozart’s Symphony No. 35 in D major, ‘Haffner’.
Find out more here and be sure to check out the rest of the festival’s program.