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MONDAY 20 JULY 2009
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Proms Chamber Music 1: The Cardinall's Musick
- Date Monday 20 July 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.
Andrew Carwood and his vocal ensemble launch the Proms Chamber Music series by marking the 500th anniversary of the coronation of Henry VIII. Richly sonorous and grand in design, the music of the time combines massive choral writing with a complex layering of solo lines.
The programme's mix of sacred and secular includes songs by King Henry himself, and settings of texts in his honour by leading composers of the day.
- There will be no interval
- Henry VIII Pastyme with good companye (2 mins)
- Fayrfax Missa 'Regali ex progenie' – Gloria (9 mins)
- W. Cornysh Ah, Robin, gentle Robin (4 mins)
- Henry VIII Hélas, madame (2 mins)
- Fayrfax Benedicte! What dreamed I? (3 mins)
- Sampson Psallite felices (10 mins)
- Taverner Christe Jesu, pastor bone (3 mins)
- Tallis Sancte Deus, sancte fortis (6 mins)
- Ludford Domine Jesu Christe (10 mins)
- The Cardinall's Musick
- Andrew Carwood director
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5.15pm Proms Intro Stephen Johnson talks to author and lecturer Jeremy Barham and composer David Matthews about Mahler's Symphony No.9.
Prom 5: London Symphony Orchestra
- Date Monday 20 July 2009
- Time 7.00pm - c8.30pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £8 - £44 price band B 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.
Begun in the summer of 1909, Mahler's last completed symphony was written at a time of crisis, following the loss of a daughter, his forced resignation from the Vienna Court Opera, the diagnosis of his own fatal heart disease and the breakdown of his marriage. Yet, while the first movement is permeated by premonitions of death and the last fades away into nothingness, the enduring impression is one of resigned, even joyful acceptance of man's fate. One of the world's great Mahlerians, Bernard Haitink this year celebrates both his 80th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his UK debut.
There will be no interval
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Programme notes available:
- Mahler Symphony No.9 (85 mins)
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Bernard Haitink conductor
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Prom 6: Manchester Camerata
- Date Monday 20 July 2009
- Time 9.30pm - 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.
Haydn's Seven Last Words – 'seven sonatas with an introduction and a concluding earthquake' – were commissioned by Cadiz Cathedral for performance on Good Friday 1786. Haydn regarded these orchestral meditations upon Christ's Crucifixion as among his most successful works; he quickly arranged the music for piano and string quartet, and later adapted it as a cantata just before starting work on The Creation (Prom 2).
Two centuries later, James MacMillan's Seven Last Words was commissioned by BBC Television and shown in nightly instalments during Holy Week 1994. Revived to mark the composer's 50th birthday, this powerfully dramatic cantata is underscored by echoes of plainsong, Bach chorales and traditional Scottish laments.
- There will be no interval
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Programme notes available:
- Haydn The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross (62 mins)
- James Macmillan Seven Last Words from the Cross (44 mins)
- Elizabeth Watts soprano
- Renata Pokupić mezzo-soprano
- Andrew Kennedy tenor
- Darren Jeffery bass-baritone
- BBC Singers
- Manchester Camerata
- Douglas Boyd conductor
- Elizabeth Watts is a member of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme.
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