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MONDAY 1 SEPTEMBER
Print this page- 1.00pm PROMS CHAMBER MUSIC 7: NASH ENSEMBLE
- 5.15pm PROMS MUSIC INTRO (RCM)
- 7.00pm PROM 62: GUSTAV MAHLER JUGENDORCHESTER
- 10.00pm PROM 63: NISHAT KHAN
Proms Chamber Concert 7: Nash Ensemble
- Date Monday 1 September 2008
- Time 1.00pm - c2.00pm
- Venue CADOGAN HALL
- Tickets £8 or £10 or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
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Mark Padmore makes his second Proms appearance this year, in Vaughan Williams's moving On Wenlock Edge (see also Prom 51).
The song-cycle's six settings of words by A. E. Housman form a touching exploration of hope and loss.
The Clarinet Quintet by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - a fellow student of Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music - was written following a challenge to the composer by his teacher, Stanford, to write a work that would match up to Brahms's famous Clarinet Quintet. He succeeded admirably, crafting a work of heartfelt lyricism and charm.
- Coleridge-Taylor Clarinet Quintet (35 mins)
- Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge (23 mins)
There will be no interval
Mark Padmore tenor
Nash Ensemble
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Prom 62: Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
- Date Monday 1 September 2008
- Time 7.00pm - c9.10pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £7-£44 price band B or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Broadcast at 7.30pm on BBC Four. Violin Concerto also recorded for broadcast on BBC Two and BBC HD on 6 September. Live on BBC Radio 3 and available as audio on demand for the following week.
- Radio 3 Christmas repeats: Broadcast on 7 January at 7.00pm
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A dynamic young soloist - born in Denmark to Polish-Israeli parents - joins tonight's great pan-European youth orchestra for Beethoven's only violin concerto.
Znaider views this work as the violinist's 'bible', its 'ultimate challenge' - and in his musical partners he can rely on the freshness of youth coupled with Sir Colin's wisdom and experience. Davis ends the concert with a work he understands like few of his colleagues, Sibelius's Second, first heard in 1902.
'The effect of the Andante,' wrote the great Finnish conductor Robert Kajanus,'is that of the most crushing protest against all the injustice which today threatens to take light from the sun.'
- Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major (45 mins)
- Interval
- Sibelius Symphony No.2 in D major (45 mins)
Nikolaj Znaider violin
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Sir Colin Davis conductor
About the music - programme notes
Proms Reviews: Prom 62
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Prom 63: Nishat Khan
- Date Monday 1 September 2008
- Time 10.00pm - c11.30pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £10-£15 price band D or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
- Radio 3 Christmas repeats: Broadcast on Christmas Day at 9.30pm
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The Proms' Messiaen centenary celebrations continue with Cinq rechants (the second instalment of the composer's Tristan trilogy - see PCM 4 and Prom 64), which draws its inspiration from Sanskrit texts, traditional Indian rhythms and Renaissance polyphony.
Tonight's opening sequence likewise weaves together music of the East and West. Nishat Khan (known for his imaginative fusions of European and Asian musical traditions) joins the BBC Singers in a sequence of French Renaissance chansons and motets (exploring the season of spring and the erotic imagery associated with it) woven around improvised classical Indian ragas for similar times, seasons and states of mind, to create a sensual sound-world which echoes that of Messiaen.
Khan concludes with a selection of night ragas, chosen according to the mood of the occasion.
French Renaissance Choral Music and Plainsong,
interspersed with sitar improvisations (c15 mins ):
- Claude Le Jeune: Revecy venir du printemps
- Claudin de Sermisy: Tota pulchra es
- Anonymous (plainsong): Dominus illuminatio mea
- Jean Richafort: Veni, electa mea
- Antoine Brumel: Sicut lilium inter spinas
- Messiaen Cinq rechants (20 mins)
- Night ragas Darbari and Bhairvi (c45 mins)
There will be no interval
Nishat Khan sitar
Rashid Mustafa Thirakwa tabla
Natasha Ahmad tanpura
BBC Singers
David Hill conductor
Natasha Ahmad replaced the advertised tanpura player, Emmanuel Masongsong.
About the music - programme notes
Proms Reviews: Prom 63
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