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FRIDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2009
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5.15pm Proms Literary Festival
Philosophers A C Grayling and Roger Scruton discuss how
fin-de-siècle Viennese musicians such as Mahler were influenced by their philosopher contemporaries – and what we today owe to these Viennese thinkers. Susan Hitch hosts.
Edited version broadcast on Radio 3 during tonight's interval.
Prom 65: Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
- Date Friday 4 September 2009
- Time 7.00pm - c9.10pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £7 - £35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast at 7.30pm on BBC Four and live on BBC Radio 3.
Available on demand for the following week. - This programme is no longer available.
Following his appearance with the Bamberg SO (Prom 18), Jonathan Nott returns with the GMJO, with a pair of astronomically related works – Ligeti's nebular Atmosphères and Strauss's visionary Also sprach Zarathustra – famously used on the soundtrack of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. (The astronomical theme continues in tonight's Late Night Prom.)
Leading German baritone Matthias Goerne sings Mahler's harrowing set of meditations on infant mortality. Composed exactly a century ago and premiered at the 1912 Proms by Henry Wood, Schoenberg's Five Orchestral Pieces contain his first painterly experiments in shaping melodies from colours, not pitches.
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Programme notes will be available shortly before the concert
- Ligeti Atmosphères (9 mins)
- Mahler Kindertotenlieder (27 mins)
- Schoenberg Five Orchestral Pieces, Op.16 (19 mins)
- interval
- R Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra (34 mins)
- Matthias Goerne baritone
- Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
- Jonathan Nott conductor
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Prom 66: George Crumb
- Date Friday 4 September 2009
- Time10.15pm - 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.
- This programme is no longer available.
We celebrate the 80th birthday of George Crumb, a great American original whose hauntingly beautiful scores draw on many disparate traditions, often exploring novel performance techniques and involving symbolic or theatrical elements.
Marking the 40th anniversary of the first manned mission to the Moon, Night of the Four Moons was actually composed during the Apollo 11 flight and ends – in a homage to Haydn's 'Farewell' Symphony – with the performers representing the 'Music of Mankind' leaving the stage to a lone cellist, portraying the 'Music of the Spheres'.
Like Ancient Voices of Children, it sets verses by Federico García Lorca. In Vox balaenae, a flautist singing into the instrument imitates the cry of a humpback whale, while all three performers wear masks to efface their human presence.
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Programme notes will be available shortly before the concert
- George Crumb
- Night of the Four Moons (16 mins)
- Vox balaenae (Voice of the Whale) (18 mins)
- Ancient Voices of Children (25 mins)
- Claire Booth soprano
- Amy Haworth soprano
- Hilary Summers mezzo-soprano
- Nash Ensemble
- Diego Masson conductor
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