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BBC Proms 2026-07-21 Betsy Jolas, Sibelius, R. Strauss

‘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.


Tue 21 Jul 2026
Royal Albert Hall

John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra perform Strauss’s monumental tone-poem alongside Betsy Jolas’s evocative Tales of a Summer Sea. Sueye Park joins them for Sibelius’s Nordic-tinged Violin Concerto.

Programme

Betsy Jolas
Tales of a Summer Sea (15 mins) UK premiere

Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor (35 mins)

interval

Richard Strauss
Also sprach Zarathustra (33 mins)


Performers

        Sueye Park violin
        BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
        John Storgårds conductor


Video
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Frame rate                               : 50.000 FPS
Scan type                                : Progressive

Audio
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Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz

Menu
00:00:00.060                             : 1 Betsy Jolas - Tales of a Summer Sea
00:14:12.582                             : 2 Sibelius - Violin Concerto
00:51:27.505                             : 3 R. Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra


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