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Also sprach Zarathustra

BBC Proms 2026

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Philharmonic and John Storgårds in music by Richard Strauss. They are joined by violinist Sueye Park.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Philharmonic and John Storgårds in music by Richard Strauss. They are joined by Sueye Park for Sibelius's Violin Concerto.

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

Betsy Jolas: Tales of a Summer Sea (UK premiere)
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor

c.6.55pm
Interval: Composer Anne Dudley won an Academy award for her film score to The Full Monty. She joins Martin to talk about the differences in writing for orchestra, pop and to pictures.

c.7.20pm
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

Sueye Park (violin)
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds (conductor)

'Sensational' 2025 Sibelius Competition-winner Sueye Park makes her Proms debut, joining John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra as soloist in Sibelius's Violin Concerto. All fire and ice, a love song for the composer's own instrument, it's the Romantic concerto 'par excellence': deeply personal and powerfully expressive. Sibelius's Nordic lakes meet the choppy ocean waters of Betsy Jolas's 'Tales of a Summer Sea', and later the dark forests and tectonic stirrings of Strauss's Nietzsche-inspired tone-poem 'Also sprach Zarathustra', its blazing orchestral sunrise made famous by Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey'.

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Music Played

  • Betsy Jolas

    Tales Of A Summer Sea

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Concerto In D Minor Op.47

    Performer: Sueye Park. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Largo from Solo Violin Sonata No. 3, BWV 1005

    Performer: Sueye Park.

  • Anne Dudley

    Resurgam from Poldark

    Performer: Christian Garrick. Orchestra: The Chamber Orchestra of London. Conductor: Anne Dudley.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

  • Anne Dudley

    Benedictus from American History X soundtrack

    • American History X original soundtrack.
    • Angel.
    • 17.

  • Johann Strauss II

    The Blue Danube - waltz

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Johann Strauss - Waltzes & Polkas.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 006.

  • Richard Strauss

    Also Sprach Zarathustra Op.30

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Storgårds.

  • John Dowland

    The King of Denmark's Galliard; Can she excuse my wrongs?

    Singer: Lea Desandre. Singer: Jess Dandy. Singer: Laurence Kilsby. Singer: Alex Rosen. Ensemble: Jupiter Ensemble. Director: Thomas Dunford.
    • Songs of Passion.
    • ERATO.

Broadcast

  • Yesterday 18:00
    BBC Radio 3