Classical Concerts
Royal Albert Hall - BBC Proms28/8/2008Steven Stucky Rhapsodies (BBC/NYPO co-commission: world premiere) (c10-12 mins) Gershwin Piano Concerto in F major (33 mins) Interval Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (34 mins) |
Royal Albert Hall - BBC Proms31/8/2008The Coronation of Poppaea - BBC Proms - featuring Danielle de Niese Monteverdi The Coronation of Poppaea (semi-staged; sung in Italian) (165 mins) Glyndebourne Festival Opera Sonya Yoncheva Fortune Simona Mihai Virtue Amy Freston Cupid Iestyn Davies Otho Alice Coote Nero Danielle De Niese Poppaea Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke Amalta Tamara Mumford Octavia Marie Arnet Drusilla Paolo Battaglia Seneca Trevor Scheunemann Mercury/Consul Patrick Schramm Lictor/Consul Dominique Visse Nurse/Friend Claire Ormshaw Lady-in-Waiting Lucia Cirillo Page Andrew Tortise Lucan/Soldier 1/Tribune/Friend Peter Gijsbertsen Liberto/Soldier 2/Tribune |
Royal Albert Hall - BBC Proms31/8/2008Lang Lang - piano Program: Mozart Piano Sonata (to be announced) (20 mins) Rachmaninov Preludes - selection (9 mins) Debussy Préludes - selection (8 mins) Schubert Fantasia in F minor, D940* (18 mins) Chopin Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante, Op. 22 (14 mins) Waltzes - selection (6 mins) Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 (10 mins) |
Royal Albert Hall - BBC Proms2/9/2008Wagner Tristan und Isolde - Prelude and Liebestod (18 mins) - Interval - Messiaen Turangalîla Symphony (78 mins) Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano Tristan Murail ondes martenot Berliner Philharmoniker Sir Simon Rattle conductor |
Royal Albert Hall - The Last Night Of The Proms13/9/2008Bryn Terfel bass-baritone; Hélène Grimaud piano; Beethoven The Creatures of Prometheus - overture (6 mins) Wagner Tannhäuser - 'Wie Todesahnung Dämmrun ... O du, mein holder Abendstern' (Act 3) (5 mins) Puccini Tosca - 'Tre sbirri, Una carrozza' (Act 1, Te Deum) (4 mins) Verdi Falstaff - 'Ehi paggio!... L'onore Ladri!' (Act 1) (5 mins) Beethoven Fantasia in C minor for piano, chorus and orchestra, 'Choral Fantasy' (19 mins) - Interval - Denza, arr. Rimsky-Korsakov Funiculì, funiculà (3 mins) Trad. arr. Chris Hazell Folk Song Medley: The Turtle Dove (England) Loch Lomond (Scotland) Cariad cyntaf (Wales) Molly Malone (Ireland) (12 mins) (BBC commission: world premiere) * Anna Meredith New work (BBC commission: world premiere) (c5 mins) * Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 (8 mins) * Vaughan Williams Sea Songs (4 mins) * Arne arr. Sargent Rule, Britannia! (4 mins) * Parry orch. Elgar Jerusalem (2 mins) * The National Anthem (2 mins) |
