BBC Proms 2011

• BBC Philharmonic Proms Announced

  

  The BBC Philharmonic is delighted to be returning to The Royal Albert Hall this Summer for four concerts as part of the legendary BBC Proms.
  
  In July the BBC Philharmonic’s Chief Conductor Designate Juanjo Mena, brings us images of musical Spain, dancing days, moonlit caresses and sultry nights with music from Ravel, Debussy and de Falla. Later in the month Chief Conductor Gianandrea Noseda is joined by a raft of operatic talent and the Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre, as he explores five masterpiece by Sergei Rachmaninoff. Never previously given complete at the Proms, the Three Russian Songs are poignant, gem-like time capsules of a Russia now irretrievably lost.
  
  On 1st August Gianandrea Noseda bows out in his last ever concert as Chief Conductor of the orchestra, revisiting repertoire by Liszt and Beethoven, which he has performed and recorded with his orchestra to stunning effect in recent years. Written back to back with the Faust Symphony heard earlier in the season, Liszt's Dante Symphony should leave listeners looking to the heights of Heaven. And on 11th August, it is also the final concert of much-loved Chief Guest Conductor Vassily Sinaisky, who has served the orchestra for more than a decade steps down in September to become Conductor Emeritus. He conducts a programme which combines less frequented corners of the repertoire with Elgar's affectionate sketches of friends pictured within.
  
  Concert Details are listed below:
  
  Friday 22 July at 7.30pm
  Prom 10 : Images of Musical Spain
  
  Debussy Images - Gigues
  Ravel Rapsodie espagnole
  Debussy Images - Rondes de printemps
  Ravel Alborado del gracioso
  de Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain
  Debussy Images - Ibéria
  
  Juanjo Mena conductor
  Steven Osborne piano
  
  
  Sunday 31 July at 7pm
  Prom 22: A Sunday Choral Portrait of Rachmaninoff
  
  Rachmaninoff Spring
  Rachmaninoff Aleko - Women's and Men's Dances
  Rachmaninoff Three Russian Songs
  Rachmaninoff Vocalise
  Rachmaninoff The Bells
  
  Gianandrea Noseda conductor
  Svetla Vassileva soprano
  Misha Didyk tenor
  Alexei Tanovitsky baritone
  Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre
  
  
  Monday 1 August at 7.30pm
  Prom 23: Liszt's Dante Symphony
  
  Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B flat major
  Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, 'Egyptian'
  Liszt Dante Symphony
  
  Gianandrea Noseda conductor
  Julia Doyle soprano
  Stephen Hough piano
  CBSO Chorus (women's voices)
  
  
  Thursday 11 August at 7.30pm
  Prom 37: A concert of surprises and classical music's best-loved enigma.
  Bridge Overture 'Rebus'
  Brahms Piano Concerto No. 3 in D major (after Violin Concerto)
  Holst Invocation
  Elgar Enigma Variations
  
  Vassily Sinaisky, conductor
  Julian Lloyd-Webber cello
  Dejan Lazic piano
  
  
  

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