Doreen Carwithen
The Men of Sherwood Forest – overture
arr. P. Lane
Elizabeth Kelly
Lace Machine
BBC commission: world premiere
Sergey Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The Adventures of Robin Hood
suite
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No 3 in C major
Clare Hammond
piano
BBC Concert Orchestra
Anna-Maria Helsing
conductor
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Reviewed: 8 September, 2024
Venue: Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
There’s a strong local feel to the first visit by the Proms to one of the country’s finest acoustics, the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham. Anna-Maria Helsing leads the BBC Concert Orchestra in music that celebrates the derring-do of local hero Robin Hood, as imagined in film scores by both Erich Korngold and Doreen Carwithen. Nottingham native Clare Hammond takes on Rachmaninov’s devilish Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and we hear a brand-new work by composer Elizabeth Kelly, Head of the University of Nottingham’s Music Department. All that is rounded off by a symphony of ecological awakening from Helsing’s Finnish compatriot Jean Sibelius.
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