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5.45pm Proms Intro Louise Fryer talks to Professor John Deathridge and Mendelssohn's great-great-great-great-niece, Sheila Hayman, about the composer's music and life.
Prom 19: Hallé
- Date Thursday 30 July 2009
- Time 7.30pm - c9.50pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £7 - £35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Four and BBC Radio 3. Available on demand for 7 days.
- This programme is no longer available.
Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé launch our bicentenary cycle of Mendelssohn's orchestral symphonies with the grand 'symphony-cantata' he wrote for the 400th anniversary of Gutenberg's invention of movable type; Sally Matthews, a star graduate of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme, leads the vocal forces in its extended choral 'Hymn of Praise'.
Francophile Susan Graham returns, following her Proms Chamber Music recital (PCM 2), to sing in Berlioz's dramatic cantata. It is prefaced by the dazzling overture the composer wrote for his opera about the artistic and amorous escapades of the great Renaissance sculptor Benvenuto Cellini.
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Programme notes available:
- Berlioz Benvenuto Cellini - Overture (12 mins)
- Berlioz La mort de Cléopâtre* (22 mins)
- interval
- Mendelssohn Symphony No.2 in B flat major, 'Lobgesang' (62 mins)
- Susan Graham mezzo-soprano*
- Sally Matthews soprano
- Sarah Castle mezzo-soprano
- Steve Davislim tenor
- Hallé Choir
- Hallé Youth Choir
- Hallé
- Sir Mark Elder conductor
- Sally Matthews is a member of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme.
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