Proms Saturday Matinee 1: Bach - The Art of Fugue - T1255933058Following his much-acclaimed account of Bach's 'Goldberg' Variations in last year's Proms Chamber Music series, former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Mahan Esfahani takes on another of Bach's landmark works, The Art of Fugue, this time in his own instrumental arrangement. In doing so he revivies the informal spirit of Bach's Leipzig coffee-house concerts, in which the composer would direct his own band of musicians. There will be no interval. Finish time: approx. 16:30Director Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord). Company Academy of Ancient Music. | |
| 21 Jul 12 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L0572669915 |
Bennett/Dutilleux & Maconchy - T223174035Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, one of Britain's most respected and versatile musicians, turned 75 this year and the first of this season's contemporary music matinees pays tribute to his distinctive creative voice and its French connections. His sensuous, Debussy-inspired Dream Dancing was written for the London Sinfonietta in the mid-1980s. Dutilleux is one of the living composers he most admires, while Elizabeth Maconchy, impulsively contacted when he was still a schoolboy, would later become a friend. Her Romanza is quietly tough-minded, though not too tough to disturb its prevailing mood of gentle soulfulness. Starting life as a BBC commission for an extended jazz composition, Jazz Calendar was developed into a Frederick Ashton ballet, starrily cast and with designs by the young Derek Jarman. There will be no interval. Finish time: approx. 16:30Performer Paul Silverthorne (viola). Company London Sinfonietta. Conductor Nicholas Collon. | |
| 13 Aug 11 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L1749094682 |
Brandenberg Concertos Part 1 - T1520418331Following our day-long celebration of the great 'J. S.' in 2008, we return to expose further layers of the composer's enduring genius. The first two concerts of this year's Bach Day bring the complete Brandenburg Concertos, performed by the English Baroque Soloists under the guidance of Sir John Eliot Gardiner. 'No other set of concertos,' maintains Gardiner, 'can compare with Bach's for diversity of instrumental make-up, for the prominence and variety of wind instruments, or for the myriad textural contrasts that this allows.'Conductor John Eliot Gardiner (Sir). Company English Baroque Soloists. | |
| 14 Aug 10 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L752390338 |
T01561681226Finish time approx. 16:45Conductor Alexander Shelley. Performer Anna Dennis (mezzo soprano). Company Britten Sinfonia. Music Mendelssohn (A Midsummer Night's Dream - excerpts). Music Korngold (Much Ado About Nothing - Suite). Music Stravinsky (Three Songs from William Shakespeare). Music Bridge (There is a willow grows aslant a brook - Proms Firsts World Premiere 1927). Music Shostakovich (Hamlet - Suite from the incidental music Op 32a). | |
| 14 Jul 07 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L0821712056 |
