Proms Chamber Music 6: Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Time: 1.00pm - c2.00pm

Venue CADOGAN HALL

Tickets £8 & £10, day seats £5 ticket details

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Distinguished players from around the world come together each year to form the renowned Lucerne Festival Orchestra (see Prom 51), and here some of them take time out for a concert of chamber music. Mozart's delightfully high-spirited quartet gives the lie to his oft-quoted dislike of the flute, while the lush and wistful colours of Brahms's sextet unlock the warm Romanticism just below the surface of this famously brusque and prickly personality.

Mozart

Flute Quartet in D major, K285 (13 mins)

Brahms

String Sextet in G major, Op.36 (40 mins)

Soloists of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Jacques Zoon flute
Raphael Christ violin
Kolja Blacher violin
Anton Barachovsky violin
Wolfram Christ viola
Iseut Chuat cello
Valentin Erben cello
Jens Peter Maintz cello

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Prom 49: Philharmonia Orchestra

Time: 7.30pm - c9.25pm

Venue ROYAL ALBERT HALL

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

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Thomas Adès is enjoying spectacular success this year with festivals at home and abroad and a revival of The Tempest at Covent Garden. This new orchestral suite from his powerful chamber opera based on the life and public disgrace of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, precedes another tale of an oppressed woman in Bartók’s darkly psychological opera in which the newly married Judith unlocks the Duke's guilty secrets one by one.

J S Bach, orch. Webern

Ricercar from 'Musical Offering' (8 mins)

Thomas Adès

Overture, Waltz and Finale from 'Powder Her Face' - Suite
(London premiere) (11 mins)

Interval

Bartók

Duke Bluebeard's Castle (sung in Hungarian) (58 mins)

Charlotte Hellekant Judith (mezzo-soprano)
Falk Struckmann Bluebeard (bass)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi conductor

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

ABOUT THE MUSIC

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