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MONDAY 27 JULY 2009
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Proms Chamber Music 2
Susan Graham and Malcolm Martineau
- Date Monday 27 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.
The sinuous and seductive world of French song is a speciality of the superlative American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham (see also Prom 19) and her duo partner Malcolm Martineau, who likens the delights on offer to a menu gourmand. And indeed there is a wide variety of musical dishes here, scanning a century of mélodies françaises and taking in the themes of night and nature, love and childhood, and culminating in Poulenc's bittersweet melodrama of defiance and regret.
There will be no interval
- Bizet Chanson d'avril (3 mins)
- Franck Nocturne (4 mins)
- Chabrier Les cigales (4 mins)
- Bachelet Chère nuit (5 mins)
- Duparc Au pays où se fait la guerre (5 mins)
- Ravel Histoires naturelles – Le paon (5 mins)
- Caplet Le corbeau et le renard (4 mins)
- Roussel Réponse d'une épouse sage (3 mins)
- Debussy Fêtes galantes – Colloque sentimental (4 mins)
- Honegger Trois chansons de la petite sirène (3 mins)
- Rosenthal Chansons du monsieur Bleu – La souris d'Angleterre (3 mins)
- Poulenc La dame de Monte-Carlo (7 mins)
- Susan Graham mezzo-soprano
- Malcolm Martineau piano
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5.45pm Family Music Intro Explore Stravinsky's ballet music and the fairy tale of the puppet Petrushka, with members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Bring your instrument or your dancing shoes and join in.
Prom 15: BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Date Monday 27 July 2009
- Time 7.30pm - c9.35pm
- 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.
We open our survey of Stravinsky's ballets with the colourful tale of the puppet Petrushka, whose tragedy is played out at St Petersburg's Shrovetide fair (Stravinsky's earlier ballet for Diaghilev, The Firebird, can be heard tomorrow in Prom 16).
Smetana's rustic Bohemian comedy The Bartered Bride – whose high-spirited overture makes a perfect curtain-raiser – is also set at a Slavic fair, while Bartók's Dance Suite draws in folk dances from Hungary, Romania and as far afield as Africa.
Martinů's Concerto for two pianos, composed just after his First Symphony in 1943, betrays some of the tensions of two years earlier - when Martinů, like Bartók, was forced to flee to the USA - but ultimately finds release in an outpouring of the composer's characteristically effervescent vitality.
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Programme notes available:
- Smetana The Bartered Bride - Overture (6 mins)
- Bartók Dance Suite (17 mins)
- Martinů Concerto for 2 pianos (24 mins)
- interval
- Stravinsky Petrushka (1947 version)(34 mins)
- Jaroslava Pěchočová, Václav Mácha pianos
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiří Bělohlávek conductor
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