Also sprach Zarathustra

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 is a former Academy award winner for her film score for The Full Monty. She talks 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 Philharmoic 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 Nietzche-inspired tone-poem 'Also sprach Zarathustra', its blazing orchestral sunrise made famous by Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey'.