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Proms at ... Stage@TheDock, Hull

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms 2017

Tom Redmond introduces a special ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Prom from Hull with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Nicholas McGegan performing music with a maritime flavour.

Live at ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: Tom Redmond introduces a special ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Prom from Hull with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Nicholas McGegan performing music with a maritime flavour.
Live from TheDock, Hull
Presented by Tom Redmond

Telemann: Water Music - overture
Delius: Summer Night on the River
Handel: Water Music - Suite No. 3 in G major
Grace Evangeline Mason: RIVER (ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ commission: first concert performance)
Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Rameau: NaΓ―s - overture
Grace Williams: Sea Sketches - High Wind; Calm Sea in Summer
Handel: Water Music - Suite No. 2 in D major

Royal Northern Sinfonia
Nicholas McGegan (conductor)

The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms travels out of London, to Hull - UK City of Culture 2017 - for a site-specific performance of music inspired by water, centering on Handel's Water Music suites, first performed 300 years ago at a river party for George I on the Thames.
Pioneering early music expert Nicholas McGegan directs the Royal Northern Sinfonia at Stage@TheDock - Hull's outdoor amphitheatre - in a programme featuring everything from storms and shipwrecks to calm seas and seductive sirens.

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Sat 22 Jul 2017 15:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Water Music - overture

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.

  • Frederick Delius

    Summer Night on the River

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music - Suite No 3 in G major

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.

  • Grace-Evangeline Mason

    RIVER

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    NaΓ―s - overture

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.

  • Grace Williams

    Sea Sketches - High Wind

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.

  • Grace Williams

    Sea Sketches - Calm Sea in Summer

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water Music - Suite No 2 in D Major

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.

  • Iain Farrington

    A ship shape shin-dig

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.

  • Post-concert

    • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

      Scherzo No 4 in E major, Op 54

      Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Fantasia in C minor K.475

      Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.

      Recorded 28 November 2014 at ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Maida Vale Studio 1

    • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Sonata in A minor Wq.57`2 for keyboard

      Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.

Broadcast

  • Sat 22 Jul 2017 15:00
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