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MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2009
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Proms Chamber Music 3: Belcea Quartet
- Date Monday 3 August 2009
- Time 1.00pm – c2.00pm
- Venue Cadogan Hall
- Tickets £5 - £12
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
- This programme is no longer available.
One of the UK's leading string quartets – and former Radio 3 New Generation Artists – pairs two strikingly original works in homage to two anniversary composers. Haydn's quartet comes from a period in the 1780s when he declared he was writing 'in a new and special way', and the second-movement set of variations is characteristically unexpected and quirky in its shifting contrasts of mood.
Britten's atmospheric and evocative Second Quartet was composed in 1945 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the death of Henry Purcell, and the finale is a 'Chacony' – an extended set of variations – which offers an extraordinary glimpse of Purcell's sound-world refracted through the imagination of a composer who loved his music.
- There will be no interval
- Haydn String Quartet in F sharp minor, Op.50 No.4 (19 mins)
- Britten String Quartet No.2 (31 mins)
- Belcea Quartet
- The Belcea Quartet is a member of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme.
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Edited version broadcast on Radio 3 following this evening's Prom.
Prom 25: BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Date Monday 3 August 2009
- Time 7.00pm - c10.05pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £7 - £35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
- This programme is no longer available.
The hero of the 'Eroica' was at first Napoleon but ultimately became Beethoven himself, triumphing over the adversity of his deafness.
Berlioz's extraordinary Symphonie also contains a funeral march and an apotheosis but, unlike the 'Eroica', it was designed to accompany a real funeral cortège for the heroes of the 1830 July Revolution; the 'funeral oration' itself was delivered as a sonorous trombone solo salvaged from Berlioz's abandoned opera Les francs-juges.
The title of Michael Jarrell's new piece refers to a wake of a different kind – the trace a ship leaves in the water; it was written with tonight's three soloists in mind, and is conducted by the Swiss composer's compatriot: Thierry Fischer.
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Programme notes available:
- Berlioz Overture - Les francs-juges(12 mins)
- Michael Jarrell Sillages Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/BBC commission: world premiere of expanded version (c25 mins)
- interval
- Berlioz Symphonie funèbre et triomphale (34 mins)
- interval
- Beethoven Symphony No.3 in E-flat major, 'Eroica' (50 mins)
- Emmanual Pahud flute
- François Leleux oboe
- Paul Meyer clarinet
- BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Thierry Fischer conductor
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