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Subject: Six Proms you won't want to miss Author: David [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 13:28:24 30/04/2004 Friday 16 July 2004  7:30pm  PROM 1: BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The First Night of the Proms 7.30pm - c9.45pm ROYAL ALBERT HALL Tickets £7-£32.50 (price code B) Broadcasts Live on BBC Radio 3, and BBC TWO Available as audio on demand from 17-24 July LISTEN ONLINE Bach/Henry Wood Toccata* and Fugue in D minor (9 mins) Elgar The Music Makers (40 mins) interval Holst The Planets (50 mins) Lorraine Hunt Lieberson mezzo-soprano Martin Neary organ* BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin conductor Holst's ever-popular planetary trip and choral ode by Elgar that quotes from several of his best-known works launch the 2004 Proms - and this year's English music theme. Chief Conductor Leonard Slatkin conducts the BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, acclaimed American mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson returns to the Proms, and we welcome back the newly-restored Royal Albert Hall organ in a famous Toccata twinned with an orchestration of its Fugue by Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood. Sunday 25 July 2004  7:30pm  PROM 13: DVORAK'S MASS IN D MAJOR  Prom 13 7.30pm - c9.35pm ROYAL ALBERT HALL Tickets £6-£25 (price code A) Broadcasts Live on BBC Radio 3, and repeated on 29 July at 2.00pm LISTEN ONLINE Elgar Violin Concerto in B minor (50 mins) interval Dvorak Mass in D major (42 mins) Pinchas Zukerman violin Rebecca Nash soprano Louise Winter mezzo-soprano Benjamin Hulett tenor Neal Davies bass BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis conductor The BBC Symphony Orchestra's Conductor Laureate returns for a pairing of two of this year's major anniversary composers. The great Pinchas Zukerman returns as the soloist in Elgar's glorious concerto. Originally composed with organ accompaniment, Dvorak's lyrical Mass is heard here in the orchestration that the composer himself made for its London premiere. Sunday 8 August 2004   5:00pm  PRE-PROM TALK: RODERICK SWANSTON ON 'THE SPECTRE'S BRIDE' 6:30pm  PROM 32: DVORAK'S 'THE SPECTRE'S BRIDE' Prom 32 6.30pm - c8.45pm ROYAL ALBERT HALL Tickets £6-£25 (price code A) Broadcasts Live on BBC Radio 3 Repeated on Radio 3 on Tuesday 17 August at 2.00pm LISTEN ONLINE Janacek Sinfonietta (23 mins) interval Dvorak The Spectre's Bride (sung in Czech) (80 mins) Eva Urbanová soprano Peter Straka tenor Ivan Kusnjer baritone BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiri Belohlavek conductor Janacek's magnificent Sinfonietta - sonic snapshots of famous landmarks in his adopted home town of Brno - opens this all-Czech programme in which the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus are joined by their Czech-born former Principal Guest Conductor. Commissioned for the Birmingham Festival of 1885 (and later conducted by Janacek in Brno), Dvorak's once-popular, but now rarely-performed, oratorio retells a grisly legend of a love that reaches out from beyond the grave.   Saturday 21 August 2004  Prom 48 10.00-11.25pm ROYAL ALBERT HALL Tickets £9-£12.50 (price code D) Broadcasts Live on Radio 3. LISTEN ONLINE Janácek Our Father (sung in Czech) (15 mins) Mark-Anthony Turnage Calmo (3 mins) BBC commission: world premiere James MacMillan Le tombeau de Georges Rouault (14 mins) Holst Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda - Group 3 (13 mins) Petr Eben Sunday Music - Moto Ostinato (5 mins) Judith Bingham The Secret Garden (20 mins) BBC commission: world premiere Thomas Walker tenor Sioned Williams harp Thomas Trotter organ BBC Symphony Chorus Stephen Jackson conductor The BBC Symphony Chorus premieres new works by British composers, alongside settings of the Lord's Prayer and Hindu hymns by anniversary composers Janácek and Holst. Birmingham's City Organist plays a solo work specially written for him by James MacMillan and another by the Czech Republic's foremost composer for organ. Weds 1 September 2004 6:00pm  PRE-PROM TALK: JOHN CORIGLIANO AND JOHN ALLISON 7:30pm  PROM 62: BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Prom 62 7.30-c9.45pm ROYAL ALBERT HALL Tickets £6-£25 (price code A) Broadcasts Live on BBC Radio 3, and available as audio on demand 1-7 September LISTEN ONLINE Britten The Prince of the Pagodas - excerpt (c20 mins) John Corigliano Clarinet Concerto (29 mins) London premiere Interval Musorgsky, orch. various Pictures at an Exhibition introduced from the stage by Leonard Slatkin (c50 mins) Michael Collins clarinet BBC Symphony Chorus (men's voices) BBC Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin conductor Leonard Slatkin celebrates his 60th birthday with a concert featuring the gamelan inspired sounds of Britten's exotic ballet The Prince of the Pagodas, American composer John Corigliano's festive Clarinet Concerto, and Slatkin's own guided tour through lesser-known orchestrations of Musorgsky's famous picture gallery.   Saturday 11 September 2004  7:30pm  PROM 74: BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The Last Night of the Proms 7.30pm - c10.30pm ROYAL ALBERT HALL Tickets £20-£75 (price code F) Broadcasts Live on BBC Radio 3, BBC TWO (Part 1) and BBC ONE (Part 2) Available as audio on demand from 12-18 September LISTEN ONLINE Dvorak Overture 'Carnival' (10 mins) Richard Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1 in E flat major (16 mins) Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs (19 mins) Barber Toccata festiva (12 mins) interval Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Ojai Festival Overture (6 mins) Puccini Madam Butterfly - Humming Chorus (3 mins) Rodgers & Hammerstein Oklahoma! - 'O what a beautiful morning' (3 mins) Cole Porter Kiss Me, Kate - 'Where is the life that late I led?'(5 mins) Gilbert & Sullivan The Mikado - 'I've got a little list' (2 mins) Sousa Liberty Bell - march (5 mins) Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 (8 mins) Henry Wood, arr. John Wilson & Stephen Jackson Fantasia on British Sea-Songs (23 mins) Parry, orch. Elgar Jerusalem (2 mins) Traditional The National Anthem (2 mins) Traditional Auld Lang Syne (1 min) Sir Thomas Allen baritone Simon Preston organ David Pyatt horn BBC Singers BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin conductor The celebrations of the Last Night range from the anniversaries of Dvorak and Peter Maxwell Davies to echoes of our Eastern theme in Puccini's chorus and Sullivan's 'list' song, and the Royal Albert Hall organ at full throttle in Samuel Barber's festive toccata. Our soloists include one of Britain's most distinguished singers in Vaughan Williams and musical comedy, and a graduate of the BBC Young Musician competition in an extrovert concerto that Richard Strauss wrote for his father. The four nations of the UK once again join in for the rousing finale.   [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Re: Six Proms you won't want to miss Lee 13:39:29 30/04/2004 Re: Six Proms you won't want to miss Peter Stewart Kinnison 14:03:26 30/04/2004 Re: Six Proms you won't want to miss -- Wolfgang Zenker, 14:34:52 30/04/2004 Re: Six Proms you won't want to miss -- Peter Stewart Kinnison, 17:09:40 30/04/2004 Re: Six Proms you won't want to miss -- Wolfgang Zenker, 17:30:29 30/04/2004 Audra -- Alex, 09:48:07 01/05/2004 Re: Audra -- Peter Stewart Kinnison, 10:48:30 01/05/2004 Re: Audra -- Gary, 12:34:25 04/05/2004