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TUESDAY 25 AUGUST 2009
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5.15pm Proms Intro
Sir Roger Norrington is joined by musicians from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Anthony Robson (principal oboe) and Nicholas Logie (viola) to discuss the influences of anniversary composers Purcell, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn on British musical life. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
Edited version broadcast on Radio 3 during tonight's interval.
Prom 53: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
- Date Tuesday 25 August 2009
- Time 7.00pm - c9.15pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £7 - £35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3 and recorded for broadcast on BBC Two and BBC HD at 5.40pm on 5 September. Available on demand for the following week.
- This programme is no longer available.
The host of last year's Last Night, Sir Roger Norrington returns to conduct music by all four of this year's major anniversary composers.
Purcell's music to Abdelazer gave Britten the theme he used, 250 years later, in his Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Prom 13), and American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato performs two Handel arias as well as Haydn's 'mad scene' for the distraught Berenice, who begs the gods to let her join her lover in death.
Mendelssohn's evocative 'Scottish' symphony was conceived on the same 1829 holiday as his Hebrides overture (Prom 70).
- Purcell Abdelazer - suite: No. 1 Overture; No. 5 Minuett ; No. 3 Aire (in D major); No. 8 Hornpipe; No. 4 Aire (in G major); No. 2 Rondeau (12 mins)
- Handel
- Xerxes - 'Ombra mai fù' (4 mins)
- Alcina - 'Ah, mio cor!' (10 mins)
- Water Music - Suite No.2 in D major - 1) Allegro - no repeats; 2) Hornpipe; 3) Minuet; 4) Lentement; 5) Bourree. (12 mins)
- Haydn Scena di Berenice (13 mins)
- interval
- Mendelssohn Symphony No.3 in A minor, 'Scottish' (38 mins)
- Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
- Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
- Sir Roger Norrington conductor
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Prom 54: Michael Nyman Band
- Date Tuesday 25 August 2009
- Time 10.15pm - 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.
Now best known for his soundtracks to such movies as The Piano, Gattaca and Wonderland, Michael Nyman started out as a musicologist, editing scores by Handel and Purcell; as a critic he coined the term 'Minimalism'; and, as a composer he first made his name by putting the music of classical masters through the Minimalist mill to generate raunchy, rhythmically propulsive, raucously energetic new works, such as his score for Peter Greenaway's 1982 film The Draughtsman's Contract and the grief-frozen Memorial (which featured in Greenaway's later The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover) – both of which are Purcell-based.
Now, to celebrate the year's two big Baroque anniversaries the Michael Nyman Band makes its Proms debut with a new work echoing the Purcell and Handel pieces heard in Prom 53.
- There will be no interval
- Michael Nyman
- The Draughtsman's contract - Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds; Queen of the Night; The Disposition of the Linen; An Eye For Optical Theory; (c23 mins)
- The Musicologist Scores (BBC commission: world premiere) (c20 mins)
- Six Celan Songs - Blume; Psalm (c10 mins)
- The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover - Memorial (c12 mins)
- Encore - 'Franklin' from the film 'Wonderland'
- Anu Komsi soprano
- Michael Nyman Band
- Michael Nyman director/piano
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