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Proms Saturday Matinee 1

Time: 3.00pm - c4.45pm

Venue CADOGAN HALL

Tickets £12 & £15, day seats £5 ticket details


Alexander Shelley, credit: Clive Barda

Broadcasts


Live on BBC Radio 3
Available as audio on demand
for the following week

Today's Shakespeare themed programme of music and speech draws on the enchanted spirit-world of Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream music and Korngold's Much Ado About Nothing, popularly championed in its violin-and-piano incarnation. Bridge's 'impression', inspired by Gertrude's description of Ophelia's suicide in Hamlet, contrasts with Shostakovich's music for the same play.

There will be no interval.

Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream - excerpts (16 mins)
Korngold
Much Ado About Nothing - Suite (20 mins)
Stravinsky
Three Songs from William Shakespeare (7 mins)
Bridge
There is a willow grows aslant a brook (10 mins)
Shostakovich
Hamlet – Suite from the incidental music, Op. 32a (20 mins)

Anna Dennis mezzo-soprano
Speakers to be announced
Britten Sinfonia
Alexander Shelley conductor



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Prom 2: Music from Great British Films

Time: 7.30pm - c9.45pm

Venue ROYAL ALBERT HALL

Tickets £6-£27.50 price code A or Prom for £5


John Wilson

Broadcasts

Broadcast on BBC TWO
Live on BBC Radio 3
Available as audio on demand
for the following week

In the year of BAFTA's 60th anniversary and the month that BBC TWO begins its Summer of British Film, a wide-ranging feast of some of the finest scores. John Wilson directs a celebration of the vivid musical colour that composers have brought to the silver screen through more than 60 years of British film-making.

Walton
Battle of Britain - 'Battle In The Air' (5 mins)
Lambert
Anna Karenina – Suite (10 mins)
Vaughan Williams
The 49th Parallel - Prelude (2 mins)
Adler
Genevieve – Waltz (3 mins)
Maurice Jarre
Lawrence of Arabia - Theme (3.30 mins)
Easdale
The Red Shoes - Suite (15 mins)
Arnold
Bridge On The River Kwai – March (3 mins)

Interval

Ireland
The Overlanders – March – Scorched Earth (4.30 mins)
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
Love Theme From 'Yanks' (3.30 mins)
Eric Rogers
Carry On... Medley (7 mins)
Patrick Doyle
Much Ado About Nothing - Overture (4.20 mins)
Stephen Warbeck
Shakespeare In Love (5 mins)
Debbie Wiseman
Wilde – Suite (4.30 mins)
John Powell/Harry Gregson-Williams
Chicken Run (4 mins)
Addison
A Bridge Too Far (3.30 mins)
John Williams
Harry Potter - Harry's Wondrous World (4.30 mins)
Coates
The Dam Busters (3.45 mins)

Richard E. Grant narrator
Philip Achille Harmonica
Cynthia Millar Ondes Martenot
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Wilson conductor

Detailed notes about the music will be available one hour before the concert.



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27/08  PROM 58: AN EVENING WITH MICHAEL BALL

01/09  PSM 4: BRITTEN'S 'NIGHT MAIL'



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