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Sat 20 Jul 2013

• 11:00

  Proms Plus Family Orchestra & Chorus

  Royal College of Music

  Explore Rachmaninov’s great music together with your family in the Family Orchestra & Chorus - a retrospective look at Prom 10 on Friday 19 July.

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  Proms Plus For Families

  
• 15:00

  Proms Saturday Matinee 1: Handel in Rome

  Cadogan Hall

  Richard Egarr and the Academy of Ancient Music play works by Handel and the Roman composers who inspired him. Soprano Sophie Bevan sings two Italian cantatas in a programme including concerti grossi by Corelli and Valentini and keyboard miniatures by Bernardo Pasquini.

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  Richard Egarr and the Academy of Ancient Music play works by Handel and the Roman composers who inspired him. Soprano Sophie Bevan sings two Italian cantatas in a programme including concerti grossi by Corelli and Valentini and keyboard miniatures by Bernardo Pasquini.

  Programme

  • • • Arcangelo Corelli
      • Concerto grosso in D major(12 mins)
    • • George Frideric Handel
      • Cantata 'Pensieri notturni di Filli'(7 mins)
    • • Giovanni Valentini
      • Concerto grosso in A minor for four violins(20 mins)
    • • George Frideric Handel
      • Cantata 'Tra le fiamme'(17 mins)
    • • Arcangelo Corelli
      • Concerto grosso in F major(11 mins)
    • • Bernardo Pasquini
      • Improvised links

  Performers

  • Sophie Bevan

    soprano
    soprano
  • Richard Egarr

    harpsichord-director
    harpsichord-director
  • Academy of Ancient Music

  Composers

  • Arcangelo Corelli
  • George Frideric Handel
  • Giovanni Valentini
  • Bernardo Pasquini

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  Choral music and opera Proms Chamber Music & Saturday Matinees

  
• 17:00

  Proms Plus Sing

  Royal College of Music

  Experience some of the vocal writing of Verdi’s Four Sacred Pieces with Mary King.

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  For singers Choral music and opera Proms Plus

  
• 19:30

  Prom 12: Viva Verdi!

  Royal Albert Hall

  Sir Antonio Pappano, the Orchestra and Chorus of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome, and soprano Maria Agresta celebrate Verdi’s bicentenary with the Four Sacred Pieces, the original version of the Requiem’s ‘Libera me’, a touching Ave Maria setting and the orchestral version of the great opera composer’s String Quartet.

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  Sir Antonio Pappano, the Orchestra and Chorus of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome, and soprano Maria Agresta celebrate Verdi’s bicentenary with the Four Sacred Pieces, the original version of the Requiem’s ‘Libera me’, a touching Ave Maria setting and the orchestral version of the great opera composer’s String Quartet.

  Programme

  • • • Giuseppe Verdi
      • String Quartet (version for string orchestra) (arr. C.Hermann)(23 mins)
      • Ave Maria (1880)(5 mins)
      • Requiem – Libera me (original version)(12 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Giuseppe Verdi
      • Four Sacred Pieces(40 mins)

  Performers

  • Maria Agresta

    soprano
    soprano
  • Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
  • Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome
  • Sir Antonio Pappano

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Giuseppe Verdi

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  Proms on TV Choral music and opera