Proms 2014
Proms 2014 Calendar
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Mon 4 Aug 2014
- 13:00Cadogan Hall
Richard Strauss was just 20 when he composed his Suite for 13 wind instruments – and steeped in the musical tastes of his horn-player father, who revered Haydn, Beethoven and Mozart above all. Clarinettist Michael Collins and his ensemble London Winds pair Strauss’s youthful work with Mozart’s Serenade in C minor.
Richard Strauss was just 20 when he composed his Suite for 13 wind instruments – and steeped in the musical tastes of his horn-player father, who revered Haydn, Beethoven and Mozart above all. Clarinettist Michael Collins and his ensemble London Winds pair Strauss’s youthful work with Mozart’s Serenade in C minor.
Programme
- Serenade in C minor, K388(25 mins)
- Suite in B flat major for 13 wind instruments(23 mins)
Performers
- Michael Collinsconductor
Composers
Also part ofProms Chamber Music & Saturday Matinees
- 16:45Royal College of Music
On the centenary of Britain's entry into the First World War, Baroness Shirley Williams and Colonel Tim Collins introduce an anthology of poetry and prose from 1914.
Also part ofProms Plus - 18:30Royal Albert Hall
Donald Runnicles conducts a programme that looks to the past – a musical meditation on history, death and loss that still speaks powerfully today, 100 years after the start of the First World War. The concert sets Mahler’s bitterly elegiac Ninth Symphony against the ecstatic string writing of Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, a work reimagining an English identity that would so soon find itself under threat.
Donald Runnicles conducts a programme that looks to the past – a musical meditation on history, death and loss that still speaks powerfully today, 100 years after the start of the First World War. The concert sets Mahler’s bitterly elegiac Ninth Symphony against the ecstatic string writing of Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, a work reimagining an English identity that would so soon find itself under threat.
Programme
- Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis(15 mins)
- Symphony No. 9(85 mins)
Performers
- Donald Runniclesconductor
Composers
- 21:15Royal Albert Hall
Spiritual in a secular age, combining musical simplicity and generous radiance, John Tavener captured the public imagination like few others. The other-worldly atmosphere of a Late Night Prom frames a musical tribute to the English composer by the Tallis Scholars, leading the audience into the exact anniversary of Britain’s declaration of entering the First World War, at 11.00pm, in contemplative calm.
Spiritual in a secular age, combining musical simplicity and generous radiance, John Tavener captured the public imagination like few others. The other-worldly atmosphere of a Late Night Prom frames a musical tribute to the English composer by the Tallis Scholars, leading the audience into the exact anniversary of Britain’s declaration of entering the First World War, at 11.00pm, in contemplative calm.
Programme
- Ikon of Light(41 mins)
- Requiem Fragments(25 mins)ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ commission: world premiere
- The Lamb
Performers
- Peter Phillipsconductor
- Carolyn Sampsonsoprano
Composers
