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Sun 2 Sep 2012

• 13:00

  Proms Plus Sing

  Royal College of Music

  A rare opportunity to sing extracts from Adams’s Nixon in China, with Mary King, before Wednesday’s performance of the opera. Suitable for enthusiastic amateurs aged 16-plus.

  Also part of

  For singers Choral music and opera Proms Plus Classical for Starters 2018-19

  
• 16:00

  Prom 68: Cameron Carpenter plays Bach

  Royal Albert Hall

  Flamboyant organist Cameron Carpenter’s second concert this weekend playing J. S. Bach, both unalloyed and as the basis for improvisation.

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  Flamboyant organist Cameron Carpenter’s second concert this weekend playing J. S. Bach, both unalloyed and as the basis for improvisation.

  Programme

  • • • Cameron Carpenter
      • Improvisation on the Bourée from Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009(8 mins)
    • • Johann Sebastian Bach
      • Fantasia in G minor, BWV 542(8 mins)
      • The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I – Prelude and Fugue No. 15 in G major, BWV 860(5 mins)
    • • Gustav Mahler
      • Syncretic Prelude and Fugue in D major (arr. C. Carpenter)(30 mins)

  Performers

  • Cameron Carpenter

    organ
    organ

  Composers

  • Cameron Carpenter
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Gustav Mahler

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  Also part of

  Piano and organ Proms Chamber Music & Saturday Matinees Baroque and Early Music
• 17:45

  Proms Plus Intro

  Royal College of Music

  A musical introduction to Mahler’s Sixth Symphony with members of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra and Stephen Johnson.

  Also part of

  Proms Plus

  
• 19:30

  Prom 69: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra – Messiaen & Mahler

  Royal Albert Hall

  Mahler's Sixth Symphony - music of exceptional range and power, whose fateful hammer-blows seem to portend the crises in Mahler’s own life and the wider world.

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  Mahler's Sixth Symphony - music of exceptional range and power, whose fateful hammer-blows seem to portend the crises in Mahler’s own life and the wider world.

  Programme

  • • • Olivier Messiaen
      • Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum(31 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Gustav Mahler
      • Symphony No. 6 in A minor(85 mins)

  Performers

  • Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
  • Riccardo Chailly

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Olivier Messiaen
  • Gustav Mahler

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