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Sun 12 Aug 2012

• 11:00

  Proms Plus Family Orchestra & Chorus

  Royal College of Music

  Join the first Proms Family Wind Band, creating and performing a new piece!

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  Proms Plus For Families

  
• 15:30

  Prom 40: National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain & National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain

  Royal Albert Hall

  Two national youth orchestras – the Wind Orchestra and Brass Band – in an all-English programme including Holst and Walton.

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  Two national youth orchestras – the Wind Orchestra and Brass Band – in an all-English programme including Holst and Walton.

  Programme

  • • • Ralph Vaughan Williams
      • Flourish(3 mins)
    • • Gustav Holst
      • Suite No. 2 in F(11 mins)
    • • Gavin Higgins
      • Der Aufstand(10 mins)´óÏó´«Ã½ commission: world premiere
    • • Martin Ellerby
      • Paris Sketches(14 mins)
    • • William Walton
      • Coronation March ‘Crown Imperial’(8 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Leighton Lucas
      • Chorale and Variations(7 mins)
    • • John Pickard
      • Wildfire(12 mins)
    • • Gavin Bryars
      • After the Underworlds(6 mins)´óÏó´«Ã½ commission: world premiere
    • • Sir George Benjamin
      • Altitude(8 mins)
    • • Derek Bourgeois
      • Blitz(12 mins)

  Performers

  • National Youth Wind Orchestra
  • James Gourlay

    conductor
    conductor
  • National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain
  • Bramwell Tovey

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Gustav Holst
  • Gavin Higgins
  • Martin Ellerby
  • William Walton
  • Leighton Lucas
  • John Pickard
  • Gavin Bryars
  • Sir George Benjamin
  • Derek Bourgeois

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• 18:15

  Proms Plus Intro

  Royal College of Music

  A musical introduction to Schoenberg’s epic cantata with Andrew McGregor and musicians from the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra and ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers.

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  Choral music and opera Proms Plus

  
• 20:00

  Prom 41: Schoenberg – Gurrelieder

  Royal Albert Hall

  Schoenberg’s epic Gurrelieder – a medieval love-tragedy couched in rich post-Romanticism – is conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek.

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  Schoenberg’s epic Gurrelieder – a medieval love-tragedy couched in rich post-Romanticism – is conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek.

  Programme

  • • • Arnold Schoenberg
      • Gurrelieder(99 mins)

  Performers

  • Angela Denoke

    soprano
    soprano
  • Simon O'Neill

    tenor (Waldemar)
    tenor (Waldemar)
  • Katarina Karnéus

    mezzo-soprano (Wood-Dove)
    mezzo-soprano (Wood-Dove)
  • Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts

    tenor (Klaus the Fool)
    tenor (Klaus the Fool)
  • Neal Davies

    bass-baritone (Peasant)
    bass-baritone (Peasant)
  • Wolfgang Schöne

    speaker
    speaker
  • ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers
  • ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Chorus
  • Crouch End Festival Chorus
  • New London Chamber Choir
  • ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
  • Jukka-Pekka Saraste

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Arnold Schoenberg

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  Choral music and opera