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Prom 60: Late Night with Eric Whitacre

Live at the ĢƵ Proms: Eric Whitacre conducts the world premiere of Eternity in an Hour with the ĢƵ Singers, Christopher Glynn, Nick Lisher and 12 Ensemble.

Live at the ĢƵ Proms: Eric Whitacre conducts the world premiere of Eternity in an Hour with the ĢƵ Singers, Christopher Glynn, Nick Lisher and 12 Ensemble.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Eric Whitacre: Eternity in an Hour, ĢƵ co-commission: world premiere

Christopher Glynn, piano
Lesjamusic, electronics
12 Ensemble
ĢƵ Singers
Eric Whitacre, conductor/electronics

William Blake’s great poem pitting childlike wonder and naivety against adult maturity and experience, Auguries of Innocence, contains the resonant line ‘eternity in an hour’. Eric Whitacre, whose apparently weightless music is often said to stop time, takes that line as the title for his Proms commission, receiving its world premiere at this Late Night Prom. Expect shimmering beauty and heavenly harmonies as Whitacre himself conducts the ĢƵ Singers and an ensemble of strings, piano and electronics.

1 hour, 14 minutes

Music Played

  • Eric Whitacre

    Eternity In An Hour

    Performer: Christopher Glynn. Performer: Lesjamusic. Choir: ĢƵ Singers. Ensemble: 12 Ensemble. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
  • Leoš Janáček

    Our Evenings (On an Overgrown Path Book 1)

    Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin.
    • Schumann - Kinderszenen & Waldszenen; Janacek - On the overgrown path I..
    • HYPERION.
    • 1.
  • Leoš Janáček

    On an Overgrown Path, Book 1 (They gossiped like Swallows)

    Performer: Marc‐André Hamelin.
    • Schumann - Kinderszenen & Waldszenen; Janacek - On the overgrown path I..
    • HYPERION.
    • 5.

Broadcast

  • Wed 4 Sep 2024 22:30