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SATURDAY 18 JULY 2009
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2.00pm: Film Stan Tracey: The Godfather of British Jazz (70 mins, awaiting classification). A portrait of the jazz legend, introduced by Geoffrey Smith.
5.15pm Proms Intro Louise Fryer is joined by David Wyn Jones (Cardiff University) and conductor/musicologist Denis McCaldin to introduce Haydn's The Creation.
Prom 2: Haydn: The Creation
- Date Saturday 18 July 2009
- Time 7.00pm - c9.00pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £8 - £44 price band B or Prom for £5
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- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
- This programme is no longer available.
What more natural selection with which to launch our 'Creation'- themed first Saturday, and to mark the joint anniversaries of Haydn and Darwin (the latter born in 1809, the year of the former's death). Haydn's Handel-inspired hymn to God’s 'glorious work' burst into life 60 years before Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, but its masterly depiction of each new-created phenomenon – from blinding first light through primordial chaos to the arrival of mankind – has proved no mere seven-days'-wonder.
Paul McCreesh conducts massed Gabrieli forces in a recreation of the giant versions that Haydn himself directed in the last decade of his life. Celebrating 40 years as a music school, Chetham's sends its chamber choir to swell the vocal ranks. Mark Padmore and Neal Davies return later in the season for Handel's Samson (Prom 47).
There will be no interval
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Programme notes available:
- Haydn The Creation (sung in English - ed. Paul McCreesh/Timothy Roberts) (109 mins)
- Rosemary Joshua soprano - Gabriel
- Sophie Bevan soprano - Eve
- Mark Padmore tenor - Uriel
- Neal Davies bass - Raphael
- Peter Harvey bass - Adam
- Chetham's Chamber Choir
- Members of the Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir
- Gabrieli Consort & Players
- Paul McCreesh conductor
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Prom 3: Stan Tracey and his Orchestra
- Date Saturday 18th July 2009
- Time 10.15pm - c11.15pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £10 - £15 price band D or Prom for £5
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- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
- This programme is no longer available.
Almost two centuries after Haydn celebrated God's 'glorious work' in The Creation (Prom 2), living legend Stan Tracey – known to his fans as the 'Godfather of British jazz' – also went back to the very beginning, brilliantly recreating the biblical version of the Big Bang as a Big Band suite.
Now the former Ted Heath Orchestra member and longtime resident pianist at Ronnie Scott's brings his 1987 ode to creation to the Proms for the first time.
There will be no interval
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Programme notes available:
- Genesis (50 mins)
- Stan Tracey and his Orchestra
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