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Sat 3 Aug 2013

• 15:00

  Proms Saturday Matinee 2: Britten, Tippett, Holst & L. Berkeley

  Cadogan Hall

  Music for strings by Tippett, Holst and Britten, plus two dramatic works for the female voice: Britten’s Phaedra and Lennox Berkeley’s Four Poems of St Teresa of Avila. Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly joins conductor Sian Edwards and the Britten Sinfonia.

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  Music for strings by Tippett, Holst and Britten, plus two dramatic works for the female voice: Britten’s Phaedra and Lennox Berkeley’s Four Poems of St Teresa of Avila. Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly joins conductor Sian Edwards and the Britten Sinfonia.

  Programme

  • • • Benjamin Britten
      • Prelude and Fugue(10 mins)
    • • Gustav Holst
      • St Paul's Suite(13 mins)
    • • Lennox Berkeley
      • Four Poems of St Teresa of Avila(14 mins)
    • • Michael Tippett
      • Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli(19 mins)
    • • Benjamin Britten
      • Phaedra(15 mins)

  Performers

  • Dame Sarah Connolly

    mezzo-soprano
    mezzo-soprano
  • Britten Sinfonia
  • Sian Edwards

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Benjamin Britten
  • Gustav Holst
  • Lennox Berkeley
  • Michael Tippett

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  Proms Chamber Music & Saturday Matinees

  
• 17:45

  Proms Plus Literary

  Royal College of Music

  Robert Crawford and Fiona Stafford discuss how the Romantic movement linked Beethoven with the poetry of Scottish writers such as Burns, James Macpherson and Walter Scott.

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  For poets Proms Plus

  
• 19:30

  Prom 28: J. Strauss II, James MacMillan & Beethoven

  Royal Albert Hall

  Vadim Repin plays James MacMillan’s Violin Concerto with Donald Runnicles and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Threaded with reels and old laments, MacMillan’s work complements the concentrated dramas of Beethoven’s ‘Coriolan’ Overture and Fifth Symphony.

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  Vadim Repin plays James MacMillan’s Violin Concerto with Donald Runnicles and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Threaded with reels and old laments, MacMillan’s work complements the concentrated dramas of Beethoven’s ‘Coriolan’ Overture and Fifth Symphony.

  Programme

  • • • Johann Strauss II
      • The Blue Danube(10 mins)
    • • Sir James MacMillan
      • Violin Concerto(25 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Ludwig van Beethoven
      • Overture ‘Coriolan’(8 mins)
      • Symphony No. 5 in C minor(33 mins)

  Performers

  • Vadim Repin

    violin
    violin
  • ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
  • Donald Runnicles

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Johann Strauss II
  • Sir James MacMillan
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

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