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MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER
Print this pageProms Chamber Music 8: Aronowitz Ensemble
- Date Monday 8 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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Richard Strauss's intimate and delicate string sextet from his last opera opens this final concert of the season's Proms Chamber Music series, given by some of the brightest of the current Radio 3 New Generation Artists.
Elizabeth Watts (who returns in Prom 73) then sings Fauré's exquisitely beautiful song-cycle La bonne chanson. In this version with piano and string quintet, these settings of Verlaine take on an incandescent array of colours.
Finally, a new work specially commissioned from Welsh composer Huw Watkins, with an evocative title suggested by a Philip Larkin poem.
- R Strauss Capriccio - Sextet (12 mins)
- Fauré La bonne chanson (24 mins)
- Huw Watkins Sad Steps (BBC commission: world premiere) (15 mins)
There will be no interval
Elizabeth Watts soprano
Aronowitz Ensemble
Elizabeth Watts and the Aronowitz Ensemble are members of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme.
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5.45pm - 6.30pm: Composer Portrait Mark-Anthony Turnage, in conversation with Andrew McGregor, discusses his Chicago Remains and introduces performances of some of his chamber works.
Broadcast on Radio 3: Monday 8 September, 9.45pm
Prom 71: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Date Monday 8 September 2008
- Time 7.30pm - c9.45pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £10-£54 price band C or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Four and Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
- Radio 3 Christmas repeats: Broadcast on 1 January at 7.00pm
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A welcome return to the Proms of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, this time under its new Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink.
Chicago Remains - by one of the CSO's Composers-in-Residence, Mark-Anthony Turnage - was inspired by the striking architecture of Chicago and the poetry of Carl Sandburg, but Turnage says he was also influenced by memories of the 1970s Bruckner recordings by Haitink (who gave the work's premiere last October). The title-page is inscribed to the memory of Sir John Drummond, a former Director of the BBC Proms and an early and loyal champion of Turnage's music.
In the second half, Haitink conducts one of Mahler's greatest symphonies: a work of staggering power that seems to challenge Fate, but ultimately yields in the face of its overpowering force.
- Mark-Anthony Turnage Chicago Remains (European premiere) (c14 mins)
- Interval
- Mahler Symphony No.6 (85 mins)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink conductor
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