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MONDAY 24 AUGUST 2009
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Proms Chamber Music 6
Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis & Dénes Várjon
- Date Tuesday 24 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.
Two distinguished concerto soloists (see Prom 51 & Prom 57) join forces with a brilliant young Hungarian pianist for music of poetry and drama. Schumann's four delightful character pieces were his first works for piano trio, composed in 1842 when he was experiencing what his wife Clara called 'the joy of discovering a passion for trios'.
Schumann himself dubbed Mendelssohn's Opus 49 'the master trio of our age'; it carries this anniversary composer's hallmarks of an expressive 'song without words' and a fleeting 'scherzo', encircled by the Romantic sweep and grandeur of its outer movements.
- There will be no interval
- Schumann Phantasiestücke, Op.88 (19 mins)
- Mendelssohn Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, Op.49 (28 mins)
- Joshua Bell violin
- Steven Isserlis cello
- Dénes Várjon piano
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5.45pm Proms Intro
Suzy Klein discusses Schnittke and Shostakovich with composer, writer and broadcaster Gerard McBurney and Russian music expert Dr Marina Frolova-Walker.
Edited version broadcast on Radio 3 during tonight's interval.
Prom 52: London Symphony Orchestra
- Date Monday 24 August 2009
- Time 7.30pm - c9.45pm
- 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.
Valery Gergiev returns at the helm of the LSO to conduct the most devastatingly bleak of Shostakovich's three 'war symphonies'.
Composed at the time of the Battle of Stalingrad, the Eighth is paired with the belated UK premiere of Schnittke's early, Orff-influenced oratorio, an agonised expression of solidarity with the victims of the second atomic bomb, dropped on the city of Nagasaki the day before Japan's surrender.
Heavily criticised by the Soviet Composers' Union, it only received its 1959 broadcast premiere (on Moscow World Service Radio) after Shostakovich's recommendation, and was not publicly performed until 2006.
- Schnittke Nagasaki (UK premiere) (36 mins)
- interval
- Shostakovich Symphony No.8 in C minor (60 mins)
- Elena Zhidkova mezzo-soprano
- London Symphony Chorus
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Valery Gergiev conductor
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