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SATURDAY 18 AUGUSTProms Saturday Matinee 3Time: 3.00pm - c4.30pm Venue Tickets £12 & £15, day seats £5 
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Handel's resplendent music for a royal river party on the Thames is the climax of today's concert with one of the country’s leading period-instrument orchestras, and also the focal point of a journey placing the great composer in the context of his English contemporaries.The nautical influence turns tragically full circle in the enchanted ode to Shakespeare by Thomas Linley Jr, a pupil of Boyce, who died aged 22 in a boating accident.
There will be no interval
Mark Padmore tenor Like this Prom? try these: Prom 46: City of Birmingham Symphony OrchestraTime: 6.30pm - c9.00pm Venue Tickets £6-£27.50 
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The magnificent first instalment of a planned trilogy upon which Elgar embarked after the success of The Dream of Gerontius is a highlight of this year's Elgar anniversary celebrations at the Proms. Sakari Oramo, a leading champion of British music, conducts his forces from the city whose festival commissioned this work in 1903. After its Birmingham premiere, one critic wrote of a growing recognition 'that [Elgar] is one of the great originals in the musical world of today'.
There will be one interval
Amanda Roocroft soprano Detailed notes about the music will be available one hour before the concert. Like this Prom? try these:
05/08
08/09 Prom 47: London Symphony Orchestra and Venezuelan Brass EnsembleTime: 10.15pm - c11.30pm Venue Tickets £12.50 & £15 
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Sadly Maxim Vengerov has had to cancel his appearance. Because of a minor injury he has been unable to dedicate the time necessary to prepare the concerto which was written specially for him. He was due to give the UK premiere of Benjamin Yusupov’s Viola Rock Tango Concerto.
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA VENEZUELAN BRASS ENSEMBLE
Alina Ibragimova violin * Detailed notes about the music will be available one hour before the concert. Like this Prom? try these:
16/08
19/08 
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