Jay Capperauld’s work Bruckner’s Skull (referencing composer Anton Bruckner’s obsession with, yes, skulls) begins our summer of highlights from this year’s BBC Proms Festival at the Royal Albert Hall in London — and it also serves as point of departure for this show’s theme of contemporary composers honoring composers from the past. Host Steve Seel also plays us Thomas Ades’ By Beauteous Softness (After Henry Purcell), Kalevi Aho’s Piano Sonata No. 2 (Hommage a Beethoven), Jonathan Dove’s Ludwig Games and much more. Listen now!
Playlist
Letter a l’Immortelle Bien-Aimee
Corentin Apparailly
Julien Martineau, mandolin
Naive 7083
Bruckner’s Skull
Jay Capperauld
Maxim Eleyanychev, conductor
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
2025 BBC Proms Prom 10
Piano Sonata No. 2 “Hommage a Beethoven”
Kalevi Aho
Sonja Frakl, piano
Bis 2186
Ludwig Games
Jonathan Dove
Krysia Osostowicz, violin
Somm 181
By Beauteous Softness (After H. Purcell)
Thomas Ades
Ruby Hughes, soprano
Bis 2568
Chorale for Nanine with Birds (Hommage a Messiaen)
Gerald Levinson
Marcantonio Barone, piano
Innova 948
Ornamental Air
Elena Kats-Chernin
Michael Collins, conductor
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Michael Collins, basset clarinet
Chandos 10756
Poems
Sally Greenaway
Sally Walker, flute
Avie 2626
Moonlight Sonata: Adagio
Ludwig van Beethoven
Maya Beiser, cello
Islandia 1
We See Things That Are Not There
Scott Wollschleger
Bearthoven
Cantaloupe 21145
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