Where To Stream BBC Proms Season 2016 Episode 23
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Plays Tchaikovsky
- Aired September 4, 2016
- 105 Min
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra perform Tchaikovsky's fourth symphony with their new Music Director, 30 year old Lithuanian Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla. Mozart's overture to The Magic Flute and a new piece by Hans Abrahamsen also feature in this broadcast presented by American soprano Angel Blue. Written in 1877 Tchaikovsky's fourth symphony famously explores the forces of fate wrestling with human happiness, through music that is tragic, yearning and celebratory. The curtain-raiser is...