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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms 2007



New music: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ commissions


Sam Hayden: Substratum


Sam Hayden (born 1968) completes his first commission for the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ with Substratum, a 15-minute piece with a "massive sound" using lots of bass instruments.

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In naming a piece Hayden says, "I try and find a metaphor that says something meaningful about the structure of the piece itself … In Substratum there's a sense of there being an underlying layer of material, on top of which everything else is generated, and is related to, in some fundamental sense".

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The world premiere is given by the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra under David Robertson.

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17 July (Prom 5).

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Brett Dean:Vexations and devotions


Brett Dean (born 1961) sets out to strike a blow at reality television, the dehumanisation of modern society and the warped language of corporate jargon. Lasting 35 minutes and scored for large orchestra, adult choir and children's chorus, Dean has dubbed this work a "sociological cantata."

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After movements about all these "vexations," the children sing a setting of a Michael Leunig poem about things that really matter: relationships between people, respect for animals ... "these are the things that lead to the path to your door to find out who you really are."

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The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ co-commissioned the work with the Perth Festival and it gets its European premiere from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus and Orchestra under David Robertson, who are joined by the young voices of Australia's national youth choir, Gondwana Voices.

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22 July (Prom 13)

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Aaron Jay Kernis: New work for violin and piano


Aaron Jay Kernis (born 1960), one of America's leading composers, has not only won composition's highest prize (the Grawemeyer Award), but also a Pulitzer prize and is much recorded and performed.

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This, his first Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ commission and the first time his music has been heard at the Proms, is for the Proms Chamber Music series and will be performed by James Ehnes (violin) and Eduard Laurel (piano).

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It is one of two premieres for the composer this year: his New Era Dance gets its UK premiere from the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain under Mark Elder on 4 August.

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23 July (PCM 2)

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Judith Bingham: Fanfare – 'Ziggurat'


Judith Bingham (born 1952) has written a fanfare commissioned especially for Brass Day. It will be played by various forces at different points during the day and will get its actual world premiere on the South Steps of the Royal Albert Hall (a first!), before being played twice more (in changing guises) on the stage.

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28 July (Proms 20 & 21 – Brass Day)

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Peter Wiegold: He is armoured without


Peter Wiegold (born 1949) is a pioneer of the creative workshop, inspiring people of all ages and backgrounds in practical music-making. This commission builds on previous ambitious Proms creative projects, Violins!! (2005) and The Voice (2006), when hundreds of amateur and professional musicians came together to create new music and perform it as part of a main evening Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms concert.

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He is armoured without is part composed, part improvised and will bring together huge brass forces, including members of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic, traditional musicians from Uzbekistan, military fanfare trumpets and 200 amateur and student brass players from Manchester and London, as part of a day-long celebration of all things brass.

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28 July (Prom 21 – Brass Day)

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Esa-Pekka Salonen: Piano concerto


Salonen (born 1958) received widespread acclaim for his Piano Concerto following its world premiere in New York earlier this year.

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The work's dedicatee, pianist Yefim Bronfman (who played it then and who gives the European premiere here), describes it as "one of the most difficult pieces I've ever come across," while the New York Times talked of the half-hour work as "arresting" and "excitingly original."

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The composer conducts the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra in one of the biggest new works of the season.

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30 July (Prom 23)

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Sir Harrison Birtwistle: Neruda madrigales


Conductor Susanna MΓ¤lkki makes her Proms debut with this 32-minute Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ co-commission first performed at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2005 by the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Singers and London Sinfonietta.

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31 July (Prom 25)

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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett: Four poems of Thomas Campion


Stephen Jackson conducts the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus in a 13- minute work written especially for them by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (born 1936).

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5 August (Prom 30)

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Guto Puw:' ... Onyt agoraf y drws ... '(' ... Unless I open the door ... ')


Guto Puw (born 1971) has made a huge impact on Welsh music in recent years and takes a story from the Welsh epic Mabinogion as a starting point for his first Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms commission.

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A group of warriors back from Ireland feast "for seven years in Harlech" with the severed head of their former leader at the table. It's only when they go 'feasting for a further eight years in a hall with three doors in Penfro' that they remember the terrible things that happened in Ireland.

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The work lasts 15 minutes and will have music played from three Royal Albert Hall boxes to symbolise the three doors.The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales, with which Guto Puw is Resident Composer, perform under David Atherton.

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9 August (Prom 36)

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John Adams: Doctor Atomic Symphony


Derived from his recent opera Doctor Atomic, about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the making of the first atomic bomb, this new Symphony is given its world premiere by the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra and the composer himself.

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"To me," Adams says, "the Los Alamos story and the bomb in particular is the ultimate American myth. It constellates so many of the defining themes of our American consciousness. Industry and invention leading to 'triumph' of science over nature; the presumption of military dominance on behalf of what we perceive as the 'right' values... "

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Among the music incorporated and reworked into this 35-minute symphony are passages from the overture, Oppenheimer's Baudelaire soliloquy, the electrical storm music, "Batter my heart," and the culminating "Countdown" music.

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21 August (Prom 50)

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Rachel Portman: H2hOpe: The water diviner's tale


Oscar-winning composer Rachel Portman and poet/novelist Owen Sheers tackle global warming in a specially composed 50-minute "dramatic musical piece for people of all ages." The story, says Portman "focuses on water because water tells the story of climate change."

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With echoes of the tragedy of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, it tells of children lost in a terrible storm which has swept away their homes, though, the composer promises, "it ends hopefully."

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Alongside five professional singers and a narrator (the Water Diviner), the work calls for a 40-strong group of children, including four young soloists, and a large youth choir.

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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ New Talent undertakes a nationwide search to cast the children's roles. Denni Sayers directs the staging and David Charles Abell conducts the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra in a Bank Holiday special which promises to be one of the highlights of the season.

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27 August (Prom 57)

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Thea Musgrave: Two's company


Scottish composer Thea Musgrave, 79 this year, has written a double concerto especially for percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and oboist Nicholas Daniel.

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Thinking of the two players' great differences she has created a dramatic piece in which, she says, she thinks of the oboe and percussion as "two people and the piece charts a kind of relationship between them."

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It's a competitive relationship which comes good at the end with a vibrant duet with excellent partners in the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra and JiΕ™Γ­ BΔ•lohlΓ΅vek.

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31 August (Prom 63)

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