Prom 49


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Brahms - Piano Concert No 2 & Symphony No 4 - T510472476

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe's second pairing of Brahms masterworks opens with a work long central to Emanuel Ax's repertoire which he has recorded with tonight's conductor. Brahms's Second Piano Concerto is even bigger in scale than the First and just as technically demanding. After the interval, the composer's astonishing final symphony, where the balance between expressiveness and iron structural control is most perfectly maintained. It ends with an imposing set of variations, Brahms's late-Romantic take on the Baroque-style passacaglia, which uses material borrowed from J. S. Bach. Finish time: approx. 21:40Performer Emanuel Ax (piano). Company Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor Bernard Haitink.
20 Aug 11The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L0792917657

A Celebration of Rodgers and Hammerstein - T2039318610

Following our Sondheim celebration in Prom 19, Broadway lights up the Royal Albert Hall again to honour the greatest creative partnership of American musical theatre. Its 50 years since the death of Oscar Hammerstein II, the lyricist whose partnership with Richard Rodgers resulted in a series of inimitable hit musicals. Returning with his orchestra of hand-picked players, following their extraordinary success at the Proms last year, John Wilson conducts excerpts from the movie orchestrations of Carousel, Flower Drum Song, Oklahoma!, The King and I and The Sound of Music. Finish time: approx. 17:30. No intervalConductor John Wilson. Company Maida Vale Singers. Company John Wilson Orchestra. Performer Kim Criswell (vocalist). Performer Anna Jane Casey (soprano). Performer Julian Ovenden (baritone). Performer Rod Gilfry (baritone).
22 Aug 10The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L0579140299

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra - T985981952

Bicentenary composer Felix Mendelssohn was only 16 when he wrote his masterly Octet: sprinkled with the same fairy dust as his music for A Midsummer's Night Dream (Prom 72), the airy, scampering Scherzo is said to have been inspired by lines from Goethe, the great German poet whom he had met in Weimar at the age of 12 and whose Persian-inspired collection, West–Eastern Divan, gave tonight's orchestra its name. The 2009 recipient of the Moses Mendelssohn Medal - named after the composer's philosopher grandfather and awarded to campaigners for peace and tolerance - Daniel Barenboim conducts Berg's musical monument to friendship with an ensemble including his violinist son Michael and his pianist protégé Karim Said (a relative of the orchestra's co-founder, the late Edward Said). Approx finish time: 23:30. Live on BBC Radio 3.Performer Michael Barenboim (violin). Performer Karim Said (piano). Company Members of West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Conductor Daniel Barenboim.
21 Aug 09The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L581737051

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain - T0988036258

Finish time approx. 20:45Music Varese (24 mins)). Music Rachmaninov (26 mins)). Music Copland (43 mins)). Performer Boris Berezovsky (piano). Company National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Conductor Antonio Pappano.
23 Aug 08The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L023707663

T1254931966 (PROM07)

Finish time approx. 21:25Conductor Christoph von Dohananyi. Performer Charlotte Hellekant (Judith). Performer Falk Struckmann (Duke Bluebeard). Company Philharmonia Orchestra. Music Thomas Ades (Powder Her Face - Suite - London Premiere). Music Bartok (Duke Bluebeard's Castle).
20 Aug 07The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L01417058031

T0458916921 (PROM06)

Concert Performance sung in Russian. Finish time approx. 21:55Conductor Valery Gergiev. Company Soloists Chorus and Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre (Kirov Opera). Music Shostakovich (Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District).
20 Aug 06The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L136617118

T1253029839 (PROM05)

Company Finchley Children's Music Group. Company London Philharmonic Choir. Company London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Kurt Masur. Performer Christine Goerke (soprano). Performer Carolin Masur (mezzo-soprano). Performer Thomas Studebaker (tenor). Performer Hanno Muller-Brachmann (bass-baritone). Music Sofia Gubaidulina (The Light of the End - UK premiere). Music Beethoven (Symphony No 9 in D minor - Choral).
20 Aug 05The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L797709766

T0938913457 (PROM04)

Finish time approx. 20:30Music Ravel (orch Grainger - Miroirs - La vallee des cloches). Music McPhee (Tabuh-tabuhan). Music Ives (arr. John Adams - Songs of Ragtime and Reminiscence - UK premiere). Music John Adams (Doctor Atomic - Easter Eve 1945 - UK premeire). Music John Adams (The Dharma at Big Sur - UK premiere). Performer Audra McDonald (soprano). Performer Tracy Silverman (electric violin). Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor John Adams.
22 Aug 04The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L766084422

T355429205 (PROM03)

Music Mahler (Symphony No 6 in A minor). Company European Union Youth Orchestra. Conductor Bernard Haitink.
26 Aug 03The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L1798856996

T02116772610 (PROM02)

Company Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor Andras Schiff (piano). Music Bach (Suite No 3 in D major BWV 1068). Music Beethoven (Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major). Music Janacek (Capriccio). Music Haydn (Symphony No 88 in G major).
26 Aug 02The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L01574755311

T0808312770 (PROM01)

Music Takemitsu (Ceremonial). Music Prokofiev (Piano Concerto No 3 in C major). Music Shostakovich (Symphony No 5 in D minor). Performer Mayumi Miyata (sho). Performer Martha Argerich (piano). Company NHK Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Charles Dutoit.
27 Aug 01The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L0492176303

T0763553214 (PROM00)

18:00 Pre-Prom Talk [Leonard Slatkin] on [Copland]Music Bach (orch. [Respighi] Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor). Music Prokofiev (Violin Concerto No 1 in D major). Music Copland (Symphony No 3). Performer Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin). Company Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor Leonard Slatkin.
21 Aug 00The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L01111456539

T744996864 (PROM99)

Music Shostakovich (Symphony No 6 in B minor). Music Berlioz (Symphonie fantastique). Company Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Mariss Jansons.
24 Aug 99The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L0954177957

T1292788058 (98)

Music Martinu (The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca). Music Mendelssohn (Violin Concerto in E minor). Music Goldschmidt (Deux Nocturnes; world premiere). Music Debussy (Le Mer). Performer Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin). Performer Rosemary Hardy (soprano). Conductor Jiri Belohlavek. Company BBC Symphony Orchestra.
26 Aug 98The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L0563922034

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