It wasn’t even an Ashes summer, in truth.
Here is a link to the BBC stub for this Prom.
This will have been the very first time that Janie and I pandered to her mum’s (Pauline “The Duchess of Castlebar”) taste for seeing youth orchestras.
Yakov Kreizberg conducting the Australian Youth Orchestra.
We heard:
- Brenton Broadstock – Festive Overture
- Jean Sibelius – Violin Concerto
- Béla Bartók – The Miraculous Mandarin – suite
- Maurice Ravel – Pavane pour une infante défunte (Orchestral version)
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Capriccio espagnol, Op 34
Cho-liang Lin was a superb soloist on the violin for the Sibelius, which was worth the price of admission alone.
Here’s the kid playing the first movement with The Philharmonia under Esa-Pekka Salonen:
Stephen Johnson in the Independent was full of praise:
Kreizburg Prom Johnson Indy 25 Jul 1994, Mon The Independent (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com