Proms Chamber Music 7: Sequentia

Time: 1.00pm - c2.00pm

Venue CADOGAN HALL

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

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What did secular European song sound like 1,000 years ago? Who were its singers and what instruments did they play? These are the questions which led Benjamin Bagby on a search for the lost songs of a performing musician whose name remains unknown to us.The songs include an early telling of the Norse legend of the cursed Rhinegold which so fascinated Wagner centuries later.

Lost Songs of a Rhineland Harper

Ensemble Sequentia
Benjamin Bagby singer/harp
Eric Mentzel singer
Norbert Rodenkirchen harp/flutes
Agnethe Christensen singer

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Prom 57: BBC Concert Orchestra

Time: 3.00pm - c4.00pm

Venue ROYAL ALBERT HALL

All seats £10 (under-16s £5) price code G or Prom for £5

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Following the success of The Little Prince on BBC TWO and in concert, film composer Rachel Portman and poet/novelist Owen Sheers have created a new 'dramatic musical piece for all ages' on the subject of climate change – a BBC commission in which professional singers perform alongside massed youth choirs and a 40-strong children's ensemble specially chosen in collaboration with the BBC's New Talent scheme.

Rachel Portman/Owen Sheers

'The Water Diviner's Tale' (BBC commission: world premiere) (50 mins)

Nonso Anozie 'The Water Diviner'
Helen Williams soprano
Frances Bourne mezzo-soprano
Robert Burt tenor
Riccardo Simonetti baritone
Paul Reeves bass
Children's Ensemble
Youth Choirs of Berkshire, Bromley and Hertfordshire
BBC Concert Orchestra
David Charles Abell Conductor
Denni Sayers Director

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

ABOUT THE MUSIC

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Prom 58: An Evening with Michael Ball

Time: 8.00pm - c10.00pm

Venue ROYAL ALBERT HALL

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

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An Evening with Michael Ball

John Miles/Queen, arr. Martin Williams

Overture

Frank Wildhorn/Leslie Bricusse

Jekyll & Hyde - This Is The Moment

Jule Styne/Bob Merrill

Funny Girl - Don't Rain On My Parade

Leslie Bricusse/Anthony Newley, adapted M.Williams

The Roar Of The Greasepaint-The Smell Of The Crowd - Feeling Good

Gilbert & Sullivan

Patience - Am I Alone/If You're Anxious For To Shine

Borodin/Robert Wright/George Forrest, orch. Richard Balcombe

Kismet - Stranger In Paradise/And This Is My Beloved (Medley)

Bizet

Les pêcheurs de perles - Au fond du temple saint duet with Alfie Boe

Ernesto and Giambattista de Curtis

Torna a Surriento, sung by Alfie Boe

Stephen Schwartz

Godspell - Prepare Ye The Way Of The Lord

Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice

Jesus Christ Superstar - Gethsemane

Interval

Andrew Lloyd Webber/Don Black/Christopher Hampton, arr. & orch. Martin Yates

Sunset Boulevard - Suite; As If We Never Said Goodbye; Sunset Boulevard

Benny Andersson/Björn Ulvaeus/Tim Rice

Chess - Anthem

Andrew Lloyd Webber/Charles Hart/Richard Stilgoe

The Phantom of the Opera - All I Ask Of You

Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine

Passion - Loving You

Leonard Bernstein/Arthur Laurents

West Side Story - Something's Coming

Claude-Michel Schönberg/Alain Boublil/Herbert Kretzmer

Les Misérables - Empty Chairs

Queen

The Show Must Go On

Carole Bayer Sager/David Foster, orch. Richard Balcombe

The Prayer (from 'The Quest for Camelot') duet with Laura Michelle Kelly

Carly Simon

Let the Rivers Run (from 'Working Girl')

John Miles, orch. Richard Balcombe

Music, with violinist Izzy Johnston

Michael Ball singer
Alfie Boe singer
Laura Michelle Kelly singer
Izzy Johnston violin
BBC Concert Orchestra
Callum McLeod conductor

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