Prom 8: Youthful Beginnings

20 Jul 2018, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Fri 20 Jul 2018 Next Event

19:30 Fri 20 Jul 2018 Prom 8

Mendelssohn’s precocious First Piano Concerto joins Schumann’s forward-looking Fourth Symphony and music by Lili Boulanger and Morfydd Owen – both of whom died tragically young – in the BBC National Orchestra of Wales’s first Prom of the season.

Performances & Interviews

21:31

Prom Plus - interval talk: The life and music of Morfydd Owen

Jul '18BBC Radio 3

20:19

The life and music of Lili Boulanger

Caroline Rae and Caroline Potter discuss the life and music of Lili Boulanger.

Aug '18BBC Radio 3

01:50

Lili Boulanger: D’un soir triste - Extract (Prom 8)

'Of a sad evening' was one of the last pieces composed by Lili Boulanger.

Aug '18BBC Radio 3

02:09

Morfydd Owen: Nocturne - Extract (Prom 8)

Born in South Wales in 1891, Owen won a silver medal for composition, for her Nocturne.

Aug '18BBC Radio 3

Programme

- - Lili Boulanger
  - D’un matin de printemps(5 mins)
  - D’un soir triste(11 mins)
- - Felix Mendelssohn
  - Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor(20 mins)
- - interval
- - Morfydd Llwyn Owen
  - Nocturne(15 mins)
- - Robert Schumann
  - Symphony No 4 in D minor (original 1841 version)(28 mins)

Performers

Composers

About This Event

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and its Principal Conductor Thomas Søndergård explore the music of two 20th-century female composers whose early deaths cut their careers tragically short: Prix de Rome winner Lili Boulanger and Wales’s Morfydd Owen, whose Nocturne showcases a sensuous and utterly original musical voice.

Bertrand Chamayou makes his Proms debut in Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concerto – composed when Mendelssohn was just 22 – while Schumann’s jubilant Fourth Symphony is also the work of a composer exploring new musical maturity.

Broadcast on BBC Four on Sunday 22 July