Proms 2019
Proms 2019 Calendar
By Date
Tue 13 Aug 2019
- 10:30Imperial College Union
The Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms Inspire scheme provides a friendly environment to share ideas, participate in workshops, meet other young composers and develop your musical creativity.
- 17:00Maida Vale Studios
The Aurora Orchestra performs the winning pieces of the 2019 Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms Inspire Competition.
- 17:15Imperial College Union
Pianist and broadcaster David Owen Norris explores tonight’s programme with musicologist Kate Kennedy.
Also part ofFree Events - 19:00Royal Albert Hall
Elgar’s ‘Enigma’ Variations provides both model and inspiration for a new set of variations by 14 living composers premiered here to mark conductor Martyn Brabbins’s 60th birthday. The concert also includes Vaughan Williams’s exquisite Serenade to Music.
Elgar’s ‘Enigma’ Variations provides both model and inspiration for a new set of variations by 14 living composers premiered here to mark conductor Martyn Brabbins’s 60th birthday. The concert also includes Vaughan Williams’s exquisite Serenade to Music.
Programme
- Kalevi Aho
- Sally Beamish
- Harrison Birtwistle
- Richard Blackford
- Gavin Bryars
- Brett Dean
- Dai Fujikura
- Wim Henderickx
- Colin Matthews
- Anthony Payne
- John Pickard
- David Sawer
- Iris ter Schiphorst
- Judith Weir
- Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M. C. B.(30 mins)Â鶹ԼÅÄ commission: world premiere
- Serenade to Music(13 mins)Henry Wood Novelties: world premiere, 1938
- interval
- Song of Destiny(18 mins)
- ‘Enigma’ Variations(29 mins)
Performers
- Idunnu Münchmezzo-soprano
- William Morgantenor
- Nadine Benjaminsoprano
- David Irelandbass-baritone
- Martyn Brabbinsconductor
Also part ofProms on TV - 22:15Royal Albert Hall
In the spirit of the ‘mixtape’, first made popular in the 1980s, we present a live, late-night wind-down. It’s time for a digital detox so switch off your phone and let this concert calm the mind and nourish the soul.
In the spirit of the ‘mixtape’, first made popular in the 1980s, we present a live, late-night wind-down. It’s time for a digital detox so switch off your phone and let this concert calm the mind and nourish the soul.
Programme
- Stars(4 mins)
- Vladimir's Blues(2 mins)
- Fratres (version for solo violin, strings and percussion)(11 mins)
- The Fruits of Silence(6 mins)
- Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056 (arr. unknown for violin in G minor)(3 mins)
- The Spheres(5 mins)
- String Quartet No 14 in D minor, 'Death and the Maiden'(11 mins)
- Morning Song(5 mins)
- Versa est in luctum cithara mea(5 mins)
- Nocturne in D flat major, Op 27 No 2(6 mins)
- Clouds(3 mins)arr. Iain Farrington (world premiere)
- On the Nature of Daylight(6 mins)
- The Lamb(5 mins)
Performers
- Soumik Dattasarod
- Cormac Byrneµþ´Ç»å³ó°ùá²Ô
- Nigel Shortdirector
Also part ofLate night concerts and events
