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Sat 21 Jul 2018

• 15:00

  Proms at … The Roundhouse

  Roundhouse, Camden

  The London Sinfonietta celebrate their 50th anniversary with a concert of 20th-century classics, including Charles Ives’ The Unanswered Question and Stravinsky’s elegant Symphonies of Wind Instruments, and WWI-themed world premieres.

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  The London Sinfonietta celebrate their 50th anniversary with a concert of 20th-century classics, including Charles Ives’ The Unanswered Question and Stravinsky’s elegant Symphonies of Wind Instruments, and WWI-themed world premieres.

  Programme

  • • • Charles Ives
      • The Unanswered Question(6 mins)
    • • Georg Friedrich Haas
      • the last minutes of inhumanity(5 mins)world premiere
    • • Hannah Kendall
      • Verdala(5 mins)world premiere
    • • Isabel Mundry
      • Gefallen(5 mins)world premiere
    • • Luca Francesconi
      • We Wept(5 mins)world premiere
    • • Igor Stravinsky
      • Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947 version)(9 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Olivier Messiaen
      • Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum(35 mins)

  Performers

  • Susan Bickley

    mezzo-soprano
    mezzo-soprano
  • London Sinfonietta
  • Sir George Benjamin

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Charles Ives
  • Georg Friedrich Haas
  • Hannah Kendall
  • Isabel Mundry
  • Luca Francesconi
  • Igor Stravinsky
  • Olivier Messiaen

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  Also part of

  Proms Around the UK

  
• 17:45

  Proms Reading

  Imperial College Union

  An exploration of the narrative voice with Sarah Dillon and Richard Beard.

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  Free Events

  
• 19:30

  Prom 9: War & Peace

  Royal Albert Hall

  In this WWI centenary year, Georg Solti’s World Orchestra for Peace returns under Donald Runnicles with Beethoven’s Ninth – an iconic statement of brotherhood and fellowship – Britten’s haunting Sinfonia da Requiem, and a new work by Ēriks Ešenvalds.

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  In this WWI centenary year, Georg Solti’s World Orchestra for Peace returns under Donald Runnicles with Beethoven’s Ninth – an iconic statement of brotherhood and fellowship – Britten’s haunting Sinfonia da Requiem, and a new work by Ēriks Ešenvalds.

  Programme

  • • • EÌ„riks EsÌŒenvalds
      • Shadow(8 mins)
    • • Benjamin Britten
      • Sinfonia da Requiem(21 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Ludwig van Beethoven
      • Symphony No. 9 in D minor, ‘Choral’(65 mins)

  Performers

  • Erin Wall

    soprano
    soprano
  • Judit Kutasi

    mezzo-soprano
    mezzo-soprano
  • Russell Thomas

    tenor
    tenor
  • Franz-Josef Selig

    baritone
    baritone
  • ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms Youth Choir
  • World Orchestra for Peace
  • Simon Halsey

    conductor
    conductor
  • Donald Runnicles

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • EÌ„riks EsÌŒenvalds
  • Benjamin Britten
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

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  Also part of

  Classical for Starters 2018-19