Proms 2014
Proms 2014 Calendar
By Date
Wed 13 Aug 2014
- 18:30Royal Albert Hall
The dreamy pastoralism of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending contrasts with the jaunty vigour of the composer’s overture The Wasps in this all-English Prom. Job continues this season’s thread of great 20th-century ballet scores, while William Alwyn’s First Symphony adds to the evening’s nostalgia with the endless melody of its slow movement. Janine Jansen joins Sakari Oramo and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra as soloist.
The dreamy pastoralism of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending contrasts with the jaunty vigour of the composer’s overture The Wasps in this all-English Prom. Job continues this season’s thread of great 20th-century ballet scores, while William Alwyn’s First Symphony adds to the evening’s nostalgia with the endless melody of its slow movement. Janine Jansen joins Sakari Oramo and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra as soloist.
Programme
- The Wasps – overture(9 mins)– overture
- Symphony No. 1(41 mins)
- The Lark Ascending(15 mins)
- interval
- Job: A Masque for Dancing(43 mins)
Performers
- Janine Jansenviolin
- Sakari Oramoconductor
Composers
- 22:15Royal Albert Hall
Surrender to the pulsing rhythms and repetitions of Minimalism’s founding father, Steve Reich, performed by the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers and contemporary specialists the Endymion Ensemble. Relive the early experimentation of It’s Gonna Rain with its hypnotic layers of spoken sound, while The Desert Music offers a hypnotising meditation on fragments of William Carlos Williams’s poetry.
Surrender to the pulsing rhythms and repetitions of Minimalism’s founding father, Steve Reich, performed by the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers and contemporary specialists the Endymion Ensemble. Relive the early experimentation of It’s Gonna Rain with its hypnotic layers of spoken sound, while The Desert Music offers a hypnotising meditation on fragments of William Carlos Williams’s poetry.
Programme
- It's Gonna Rain(17 mins)
- The Desert Music (chamber version)(48 mins)
Performers
- Endymion (formerly Endymion Ensemble)
- David Hillconductor
Composers
