Matinees Events
Mon 4 Sep 2017
- 13:00Cadogan Hall
Former Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Elias String Quartet are joined by cellist Alice Neary for Schubert’s String Quintet in C major, a work of sublime loveliness, composed just months before his tragically early death.
Former Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Elias String Quartet are joined by cellist Alice Neary for Schubert’s String Quintet in C major, a work of sublime loveliness, composed just months before his tragically early death.
Sat 2 Sep 2017
- 15:00Wilton's Music Hall
The world’s oldest surviving music hall provides an atmospheric backdrop for a staged performance of Peter Maxwell Davies’s Eight Songs for A Mad King. Sian Edwards conducts the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, with Marcus Farnsworth as soloist.
The world’s oldest surviving music hall provides an atmospheric backdrop for a staged performance of Peter Maxwell Davies’s Eight Songs for A Mad King. Sian Edwards conducts the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, with Marcus Farnsworth as soloist.
Programme
- songbirdsongs(14 mins)excerpts
- Le merle noir(6 mins)
- Mad Maudlin's Search for Her Tom O'Bedlam(5 mins)
- Molly's Song 3(11 mins)
- Rinaldo – 'Augelletti, che cantate'(5 mins)
- Eight Songs for a Mad King
Performers
- Marcus Farnsworthbaritone
- Jennifer Francesoprano
- Tom McKinneyguitar
- Sian Edwardsconductor
- Olivia Fuchsstage director
Mon 28 Aug 2017
- 13:00Cadogan Hall
Award-winning pianist and Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3 New Generation Artist Pavel Kolesnikov performs an all-Chopin recital including the brooding Fantasy in F minor, the mercurial Scherzo in E major and the much-loved Waltz Op. 69 No 1 in A flat major.
Award-winning pianist and Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3 New Generation Artist Pavel Kolesnikov performs an all-Chopin recital including the brooding Fantasy in F minor, the mercurial Scherzo in E major and the much-loved Waltz Op. 69 No 1 in A flat major.
Programme
- Waltz in A flat major, Op. 69 No. 1(3 mins)
- Impromptu in A flat major, Op. 29(4 mins)
- Waltz in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2(3 mins)
- Fantasy-Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op 66(5 mins)
- Fantasy in F minor/A flat major, Op. 49(14 mins)
- Mazurka in A flat major, Op. 50 No. 2(3 mins)
- Mazurka in F minor, Op. 68 No. 4(4 mins)
- Mazurka in B flat major. KK IIa/3(2 mins)
- Mazurka in G sharp minor, Op. 33 No. 1
- Mazurka in C major, Op. 56 No. 2(2 mins)
- Scherzo in E major, Op. 54(10 mins)
Performers
- Pavel Kolesnikovpiano
Composers
Sun 27 Aug 2017
- 15:00Royal Albert Hall
Singer and broadcaster Clare Teal and bandleaders Guy Barker and Winston Rollins take the audience on a journey through the irrepressible big band music of Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Count Basie and others.
Sat 26 Aug 2017
- 15:00Bold Tendencies Multi-Storey Car Park, Peckham
The Proms returns to a Peckham car park to join Christopher Stark and The Multi-Story Orchestra for a concert rooted in the sounds and communities of the city. The music includes John Adams’s glittering Harmonielehre and Kate Whitley's I am I say.
The Proms returns to a Peckham car park to join Christopher Stark and The Multi-Story Orchestra for a concert rooted in the sounds and communities of the city. The music includes John Adams’s glittering Harmonielehre and Kate Whitley's I am I say.
Programme
- Chorale Prelude 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme', BWV 645 (orch. Granville Bantock)(5 mins)
- I am I say(13 mins)
- Harmonielehre(40 mins)
Performers
- Ruby Hughessoprano
- Michael Sumuelbass-baritone
- The Multi-Story Youth Choir
- Christopher Starkconductor
