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Sat 18 Aug 2012

• 15:00

  Proms Saturday Matinee 4: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

  Cadogan Hall

  Having led the Wallace & Gromit Prom, Nicholas Collon returns for works by anniversary composers Bainbridge, Goehr and Knussen.

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  Having led the Wallace & Gromit Prom, Nicholas Collon returns for works by anniversary composers Bainbridge, Goehr and Knussen.

  Programme

  • • • Alexander Goehr
      • … a musical offering (J.S.B. 1985) …(15 mins)
    • • Oliver Knussen
      • Ophelia Dances, Book 1(7 mins)
      • Ophelia's Last Dance(10 mins)
    • • Simon Bainbridge
      • The Garden of Earthly Delights(35 mins)´óÏó´«Ã½ commission: world premiere

  Performers

  • Huw Watkins

    piano
    piano
  • Lucy Schaufer

    mezzo-soprano
    mezzo-soprano
  • Andrew Watts

    counter-tenor
    counter-tenor
  • Samuel West

    narrator
    narrator
  • London Sinfonietta Voices
  • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
  • Nicholas Collon

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Alexander Goehr
  • Oliver Knussen
  • Simon Bainbridge

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  Also part of

  Cadogan Hall concerts
• 17:45

  Proms Plus Literary

  Royal College of Music

  Christine Rice concludes the series of events in which musicians from this year’s Proms season introduce readings from their favourite works of fiction and poetry.

  Also part of

  For poets Piano and organ Proms Plus

  
• 19:30

  Prom 48: Weber, Mahler & Tchaikovsky

  Royal Albert Hall

  Russian Vladimir Jurowski conducts Tchaikovsky’s Byron-inspired Manfred; Alice Coote is the soloist in Mahler’s wayfaring songs.

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  Russian Vladimir Jurowski conducts Tchaikovsky’s Byron-inspired Manfred; Alice Coote is the soloist in Mahler’s wayfaring songs.

  Programme

  • • • Carl Maria von Weber
      • Der Freischütz – overture(10 mins)
    • • Gustav Mahler
      • Songs of a Wayfarer(17 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
      • Manfred(57 mins)

  Performers

  • Alice Coote

    mezzo-soprano
    mezzo-soprano
  • London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Vladimir Jurowski

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Carl Maria von Weber
  • Gustav Mahler
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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  Also part of

  For poets For singers Proms on TV Choral music and opera
• 22:00

  Proms Plus Late

  Royal Albert Hall

  Informal post-Prom music and poetry from emerging young talent.

  Also part of

  For poets Late Night Proms Proms Plus