Proms 2014
Proms 2014 Calendar
By Date
Mon 25 Aug 2014
- 11:30Royal College of Music
Whether you play an instrument or sing, whether you’re a complete novice or an aspiring virtuoso, you're all invited to join our fantastic team of professional musicians to create music inspired by this afternoon's Free Prom. Open to ages 7-plus.
- 13:00Cadogan Hall
Pianist Louis Schwizgebel and the dynamic Royal String Quartet are the key players in a concert that culminates in Richard Strauss's richly nostalgic Metamorphosen, heard in an intimate arrangement for string septet. Alongside it are Mahler's contemplative Piano Quartet movement and Mozart's elegantly poised Piano Sonata in D major, K311.
Pianist Louis Schwizgebel and the dynamic Royal String Quartet are the key players in a concert that culminates in Richard Strauss's richly nostalgic Metamorphosen, heard in an intimate arrangement for string septet. Alongside it are Mahler's contemplative Piano Quartet movement and Mozart's elegantly poised Piano Sonata in D major, K311.
Programme
- Piano Sonata No 11 in A major, K 331(15 mins)
- Piano Quartet in A minor(11 mins)
- Metamorphosen (version for septet) (arr. R. Leopold)(26 mins)
Performers
- Louis Schwizgebelpiano
- Marcin Zdunikcello
- Tomasz Januchtadouble bass
- 15:00Royal Albert Hall
This year’s Free Prom is a Bank Holiday matinee from the Ulster Orchestra, bursting with dance rhythms and colour. A selection of Dvořák’s rustic Slavonic Dances opens the concert, and Grieg’s piano concerto with its jaunty dance-themed finale continues the mood. The evening ends in the orchestra’s musical heartland with Bax’s tone-poem Roscatha and Bill Whelan’s new Riverdance suite – adapted from his music for the ever-popular stage show.
This year’s Free Prom is a Bank Holiday matinee from the Ulster Orchestra, bursting with dance rhythms and colour. A selection of Dvořák’s rustic Slavonic Dances opens the concert, and Grieg’s piano concerto with its jaunty dance-themed finale continues the mood. The evening ends in the orchestra’s musical heartland with Bax’s tone-poem Roscatha and Bill Whelan’s new Riverdance suite – adapted from his music for the ever-popular stage show.
Programme
- Slavonic Dance in C major, Op 46, No 1(5 mins)
- 8 Slavonic Dances, Op 72 - No 2 in E minor(6 mins)
- Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op. 46 No. 8(5 mins)
- Piano Concerto in A minor(28 mins)
- Lyric PiecesTo the Spring, Op. 43 No. 6 (encore)
- interval
- Roscatha(11 mins)
- Riverdance: A Symphonic Suite(25 mins)UK premiere
Performers
- Jac van Steenconductor
- Zhang Zuopiano
- 19:30Royal Albert Hall
The Bank Holiday weekend celebrations continue with Proms favourites the Budapest Festival Orchestra and a programme of orchestral showpieces from the Habsburg Empire. Viennese-style Strauss dances are matched by Brahms’s colourful Hungarian Dances and Kodály’s sweeping Dances of Galánta, balanced by the crisp Classical textures of a Mozart March. At the centre is Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’ Symphony.
The Bank Holiday weekend celebrations continue with Proms favourites the Budapest Festival Orchestra and a programme of orchestral showpieces from the Habsburg Empire. Viennese-style Strauss dances are matched by Brahms’s colourful Hungarian Dances and Kodály’s sweeping Dances of Galánta, balanced by the crisp Classical textures of a Mozart March. At the centre is Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’ Symphony.
Programme
- Hungarian Dance No. 14 in D minor (orch. I. Fischer)(3 mins)
- Hungarian Dance No. 7 in A major (orch. I. Fischer)(2 mins)
- Hungarian Dance No. 6 in D major (orch. I. Fischer)(3 mins)
- March in D major, K335/1(4 mins)
- Symphony No. 8 in B minor, 'Unfinished'(30 mins)
- interval
- Sphären-Klänge – waltz(8 mins)
- Vergnügungszug - quick polka, Op 281(3 mins)
- Legend in B flat minor, Op. 59 No. 10(4 mins)
- By the Beautiful Blue Danube – waltz(9 mins)
- Bandits' Galop(3 mins)
- Dances of Galánta(16 mins)
Performers
- Iván Fischerconductor
