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Wed 23 Jul 2014

• 16:45

  Proms Plus Literary

  Royal College of Music

  The award-winning poet and librettist Michael Symmons Roberts and musician, priest and broadcaster Richard Coles  discuss the literary works which inspired the composer John Tavener from George Herbert and John Donne to William Blake.

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• 18:30

  Prom 7: Shostakovich, Bartók & Tavener

  Royal Albert Hall

  Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony – a violent portrait of the horrors of Stalin’s Russia – is the centrepiece of this concert from Jiří BÄ›lohlávek and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. They are joined by German violinist Isabelle Faust for the passionate nationalism of Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto, and the concert opens with the first of two posthumous premieres this season by John Tavener.

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  Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony – a violent portrait of the horrors of Stalin’s Russia – is the centrepiece of this concert from Jiří BÄ›lohlávek and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra. They are joined by German violinist Isabelle Faust for the passionate nationalism of Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto, and the concert opens with the first of two posthumous premieres this season by John Tavener.

  Programme

  • • • John Tavener
      • Gnosis(12 mins)ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ commission: world premiere
    • • Béla Bartók
      • Violin Concerto No. 2(38 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Dmitry Shostakovich
      • Symphony No. 10 in E minor(53 mins)

  Performers

  • Michael Cox

    alto-flute
    alto-flute
  • Dame Sarah Connolly

    mezzo-soprano
    mezzo-soprano
  • Isabelle Faust

    violin
    violin
  • ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
  • Jiří BÄ›lohlávek

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • John Tavener
  • Béla Bartók
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

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• 22:15

  Prom 8: Pet Shop Boys

  Royal Albert Hall

  Better known as the electro-pop duo the Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe make their Proms debut here as composers. The world premiere of their large-scale work A Man from the Future, inspired by code-breaker Alan Turing, sits alongside new orchestral arrangements of favourite Pet Shop Boys songs.

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  Better known as the electro-pop duo the Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe make their Proms debut here as composers. The world premiere of their large-scale work A Man from the Future, inspired by code-breaker Alan Turing, sits alongside new orchestral arrangements of favourite Pet Shop Boys songs.

  Programme

  • • • Pet Shop Boys
      • Overture to 'Performance' (arr. R. Niles)(8 mins)
      • Four Songs in A minor (orch. A. Badalamenti)(20 mins)('Vocal', 'Love is a Catastrophe', 'Later Tonight', 'Rent')
      • A Man from the Future (orch. S. Helbig)(45 mins)world premiere

  Performers

  • Pet Shop Boys
  • Chrissie Hynde

    vocalist
    vocalist
  • Juliet Stevenson

    narrator
    narrator
  • ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers
  • ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra
  • Dominic Wheeler

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Pet Shop Boys

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