The 34th concert of the current BBC Proms season will feature Norwegian pianist and composer Ola Gjeilo and the Voces8 choir.
Norwegian pianist and composer Ola Gjeilo (Skui, 1978), the Carducci String Quartet and the British choir Voces8 will be the stars of the 34th concert of the BBC Proms 2023 on Wednesday 9 August. The concert will be a foray into the themes of night, stillness and prayer through the vision of several contemporary composers personally chosen by Gjeilo, which will include, in addition to his own themes – Ubi Caritas and Serenity, which were already performed by Voces8 on the album Northern Lights (2012, Chandos Records) – pieces by composers such as Philip Glass (String Quartet No. 3 Mishima, VI: Closing), Arvo Pärt (The Deer’s Cry), Eric Whitacre (All Seems Beautiful to Me), Ken Burton (A Prayer), Samuel Barber (Agnus Dei), Caroline Shaw (And The Swallow) and Pyramid Song, a composition by the British band Radiohead, included on their 2001 album Amnesiac, which was later arranged for choir by British composer Geoff Lawson, and included on another Voces8 album, Enchanted Isle (2019, Decca Music). The concert will also feature the world premiere of Floral Tribute, a work by London composer Roxanna Panufnik – one of the twelve composers who premiered pieces for the coronation ceremony of Charles III of the United Kingdom on 6 May – commissioned specifically by the BBC for the Proms.
The concert, which will start at 22:15 UK time (21:15 Spanish mainland time), will be broadcast in its entirety, without interval, on BBC3.