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MONDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2009
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- 1.00pm Proms Chamber Music 19: Academy of Ancient Music
- 5.45pm Proms Literary Festival: Victorian Season
- 7.30pm Prom 69: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Proms Chamber Music 19: Academy of Ancient Music
- Date Monday 7 September 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.
The centrepiece of this recital – continuing our 350th-anniversary celebrations of Purcell's birth – is an affecting tribute to Purcell by his teacher and predecessor as organist of Westminster Abbey, John Blow.
It sets Dryden's poem of the same name, which describes how 'the lark and linnet sing' but then fall silent at the appearance of 'the matchless man ... our Orpheus'. A sequence of Purcell's solo songs and keyboard pieces and the deeply moving Evening Hymn complete this mix of mellifluous music.
There will be no interval
- Purcell
- Suite in G major – excerpts (5 mins)
- Hail, Bright Cecilia – ''Tis nature's voice' (5 mins)
- A New Ground (3 mins)
- Music for a while (4 mins)
- Suite in D major – excerpts (4 mins)
- Sweeter than roses (4 mins)
- Blow Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell (23 mins)
- Purcell Evening Hymn (6 mins)
- Iestyn Davies counter-tenor
- Simon Wall tenor
- Members of the Academy of Ancient Music
- Richard Egarr harpsichord/director
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5.45pm Proms Literary Festival Victorian Season: A. N. Wilson, author of The Victorians, and Steven Moffat, co-creator and Executive Producer of the BBC's new modern-day Sherlock, talk to Matthew Sweet about the enduring appeal of Sherlock Holmes and his special love of Mendelssohn. Edited version broadcast on Radio 3 during tonight's interval.
Prom 69: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
- Date Monday 7 September 2009
- Time 7.30pm - c9.45pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £12 - £54 price band C or Prom for £5
- Broadcast (repeat) on 11 January 2010 at 7.00pm on BBC Radio 3.
- All Proms repeats are available here for 7 days after broadcast.
Continuing our bicentenary focus on Mendelssohn, Riccardo Chailly conducts the orchestra of which the composer himself was music director for the last 12 years of his life, in the concerto that he had completed in just three days, at the age of 22, in 1831. As soloist, we welcome back Saleem Abboud Ashkar, who made his Proms debut in 2003, playing Mozart's Concerto for three pianos with Shai Wosner (Prom 55), alongside Daniel Barenboim (Proms 48, 49 and 50).
Begun in the shadows of a failing marriage and failing health, Mahler's Tenth Symphony was left unfinished at his death but triumphantly premiered at the 1964 Proms in a 'performing version' prepared by the English musicologist Deryck Cooke in collaboration with the late Berthold Goldschmidt, and later revised with the help of the composer-brothers Colin and David Matthews.
- Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.25 (20 mins)
- interval
- Mahler, compl. Cooke Symphony No.10 (80 mins)
- Saleem Abboud Ashkar piano
- Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
- Riccardo Chailly conductor
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