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TUESDAY 28 JULY 2009
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5.15pm Proms Intro
Christopher Cook presents the first of three
talks celebrating Stravinsky ballets, discussing The Firebird and Petrushka with musicologist David Nice, and Stephanie Jordan, Research Professor at Roehampton University.
Edited version broadcast on Radio 3 during tonight's interval.
Prom 16: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Date Tuesday 28 July 2009
- Time 7.00pm - c9.25pm
- 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.
Andris Nelsons, the CBSO's new Music Director, makes his Proms debut. We celebrate both the International Year of Astronomy and John Casken's 60th birthday with the Barnsley-born composer's Basil Bunting-inspired evocation of Orion the hunter ever journeying towards the unknown across the Northumbrian night sky.
Stephen Hough continues his traversal of the complete Tchaikovsky piano concertos with the unfairly neglected Concerto No.2, whose middle movement unexpectedly flowers into a mini triple concerto for piano, violin and cello.
We continue our survey of the complete Stravinsky ballets with the magical fairy-tale score he wrote for his first commission from Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
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Programme notes available:
- John Casken Orion over Farne (21 mins)
- Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.2 in G major (40 mins)
- interval
- Stravinsky The Firebird (46 mins)
- Stephen Hough piano
- City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Andris Nelsons conductor
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Prom 17: Monteverdi Choir
- Date Tuesday 28 July 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.
Even while Bach's great Passions languished unheard for almost a century after his death (until revived by Mendelssohn), his motets continued to be sung by the Leipzig choirs for which they were written. Few modern performers know Bach's music as intimately as Sir John Eliot Gardiner and his hand-picked choir and ensemble.
They famously surveyed all 200-plus church cantatas during their millennial Bach Cantata Pilgrimage and now return to the Proms, following their acclaimed St John Passion at last year's Proms Bach Day, for a late-night selection of motets, including Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied ('Sing to the Lord a new song'), a work which had even Mozart exclaiming, 'Now, there's a piece one can learn from.'
There will be no interval
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Programme notes available:
- J S Bach
- Komm, Jesu, Komm!, BWV 229 (10mins)
- Fürchte dich nicht, BWV 228 (10 mins)
- Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227 (22 mins)
- Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225 (18 mins)
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor
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