Calidore String Quartet & Javier Perianes - T01782579805Praised by The New York Times for their ?irrepressible dramatic spirit', BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Calidore String Quartet make their Proms debut here in a concert pairing a new work by Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Caroline Shaw with Schumann's richly Romantic Piano Quintet in E flat major ? a buoyant, virtuosic work that pioneered the piano quintet genre as we know it today.Company Calidore String Quartet. Performer Javier Perianes (piano). | |
16 Jul 18 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L01951937686 |
Fagiolini and Robert Hollingworth - T2145011575Who better to celebrate the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi's birth than I Fagiolini, who have spent a career unpicking the knotty conflicts and emotional truths of the composer's music. The vocal ensemble is joined by strings, cornetts and continuo to explore love, lust, anger, jealousy and despair in a concert that spans the gamut of Monteverdi's music, both sacred and secular. This season's first Monday-lunchtime Prom at Cadogan Hall also includes the world premiere of a new commission from composer, baritone and Proms regular Roderick Williams, inspired by the text of a well-known aria from Mozart's Don Giovanni.Company I Fagiolini. Director Robert Hollingworth. | |
17 Jul 17 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L0593750770 |
T84155673Paul Lewis joins his regular partners the Vertavo Quartet for the first of the season's Proms Chamber Music concerts. They begin with music from France: Debussy's Symbolist Cello Sonata and one of the most important string quartets of the 20th century, Henri Dutilleux's exploration of sound constructed on a single chord, Ainsi la nuit. To end, all five musicians are united for the quintet arrangement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 12, the jewel among his landmark concertos from the spring of 1782 and a work of rare intimacy, lightness and charm.Performer Paul Lewis (piano). Performer Bjorg Lewis (cello). Group/Band Vertavo Strong Quartet. | |
18 Jul 16 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L0745269128 |
Thomas Tallis - T1835729130The Cardinall's Musick returns to the BBC Proms with director Andrew Carwood to launch a major new project: the Tallis Edition, aiming to throw new light on the music of this most lyrical of English polyphonists. As well as a selection of the composer's liturgical music, the concert includes his extraordinary 40-part motet Spem in alium, in addition to the world premiere of a new tribute to Tallis by British composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad. Finish time: approx. 14:00Company The Cardinall's Musick. Director Andrew Carwood. | |
20 Jul 15 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L01124690131 |
Les Arts Florissants - T856060817Leading period-instrument ensemble Les Arts Florissants launches the Proms Chamber Music series with the first of its two Proms appearances marking 250 years since the death of Jean-Philippe Rameau. France's leading Baroque composer, whom some have called the 'French Bach', proved more progressive than Lully, more virtuosic than Couperin. This lunchtime Les Arts Florissants appears on an intimate scale, performing Rameau's only chamber music - the lively and virtuosic Pieces de clavecin en concerts. With movements named after people, places and moods, each is a miniature character study, an evocative musical portrait. Finish time: 14:00Performer Paolo Zanzu (harpsichord / director). | |
21 Jul 14 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L305499088 |
Ravel, Mozart & Lutoslawski - T1356840180Ahead of her Proms concerto debut with the BBC Philharmonic and John Storg?rds (Prom 31), Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang explores the cool contours and tart syncopations of Ravel's jazz-influenced Violin Sonata with German pianist Michail Lifits. An expressive Partita from centenary composer Lutoslawski and the lyrical dialogue of Mozart's 1781 Sonata in G, K379, complete the first programme of the Proms Chamber Music series at Cadogan Hall. There will be no interval Finiish time: approx. 14:00Performer Vilde Frang. Performer Michail Lifits (piano). | |
15 Jul 13 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L01820376161 |
Alice Coote sings French chansons - T0481921895 | |
16 Jul 12 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L01245577736 |
Esfahani plays Bach's Goldberg Variations - T2066228936The Proms Chamber Music series begins at the top with one of the unassailable peaks of the repertoire. Finish time approx: 14:00Performer Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord). | |
18 Jul 11 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L189672771 |
Mark Padmore and Imogen Cooper - T1905564085Our Schumann bicentenary celebrations begin with the composer at his most intimate and poignant. The 16 Heine settings of Dichterliebe ('A Poet's Love') trace a poet's increasing dejection as he reflects upon his imagined love. One of Britain's foremost tenors features as its protagonist - partnered by Imogen Cooper, who joins Padmore in a sequence of Schubert songs, and performs a lively Schubert miniature. Finish time: 14:00Performer Mark Padmore (tenor). Performer Imogen Cooper (piano). | |
19 Jul 10 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L1489937668 |
The Cardinall's Musick - T0978947529There will be no interval. Andrew Carwood and his vocal ensemble launch the Proms Chamber Music series by marking the 500th anniversary of the coronation of Henry VIII. Richly sonorous and grand in design, the music of the time combines massive choral writing with a complex layering of solo lines The programme's mix of sacred and secular includes songs by King Henry himself, and settings of texts in his honour by leading composers of the dayDirector Andrew Carwood. | |
20 Jul 09 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L01634704690 |
Pierre-laurent Aimard - T206238408Finish time approx. 14:00Performer Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano). Music Schumann (12 mins)). Music Elliott Carter (21 mins)). Music Messiaen (9 mins)). Music Bartok (12 mins)). | |
21 Jul 08 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L396863811 |
T1491016226Finish time approx. 14:00Performer Graham Johnson (piano). Performer Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano). Music Elgar (Pleading; Speak Music). Music Vaughan Williams (The Water Mill; Silent Noon; The splendour falls on castle walls). Music Quilter (Now sleeps the crimson petal; There be none of Beauty's daughters; Love's Philosophy). Music Judith Weir (The Voice of Desire - Proms Firsts World Premiere 2003). | |
16 Jul 07 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L01383178284 |