Proms 2014
Proms 2014 Calendar
By Date
Sat 30 Aug 2014
- 10:30Royal College of Music
Join composer Judith Weir to explore techniques for writing for solo instruments. Open to young composers aged 12 to 18 years old.
- 14:30Royal College of Music
Join composer Judith Weir to learn new techniques for writing for solo instruments. Open to young composers aged 12 to 18 years old.
- 15:00Cadogan Hall
Celebrating his 80th birthday this year, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is one of the greats of contemporary British music. A programme chosen by Davies himself ranges from the sleek chamber textures of A Mirror of Whitening Light to the music-drama of Revelation and Fall. London Sinfonietta Principal Cellist Timothy Gill is the soloist in Linguae ignis’s writhing plainchant melodies.
Celebrating his 80th birthday this year, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is one of the greats of contemporary British music. A programme chosen by Davies himself ranges from the sleek chamber textures of A Mirror of Whitening Light to the music-drama of Revelation and Fall. London Sinfonietta Principal Cellist Timothy Gill is the soloist in Linguae ignis’s writhing plainchant melodies.
Programme
- Linguae ignis(12 mins)
- Revelation and Fall(26 mins)
- A Mirror of Whitening Light(21 mins)
Performers
- Tim Gillcello
- Rebecca Bottonesoprano
- Sian Edwardsconductor
Composers
Also part ofProms Chamber Music & Saturday Matinees - 19:30Royal Albert Hall
In Richard Strauss’s 150th-anniversary year the Proms presents a double bill of his two great tragedies. On consecutive nights his heroines Salome and Elektra meet their bloody ends in the Royal Albert Hall. Donald Runnicles brings his Deutsche Oper forces to the Proms for Salome. Star soprano Nina Stemme leads the cast as the troubled princess.
In Richard Strauss’s 150th-anniversary year the Proms presents a double bill of his two great tragedies. On consecutive nights his heroines Salome and Elektra meet their bloody ends in the Royal Albert Hall. Donald Runnicles brings his Deutsche Oper forces to the Proms for Salome. Star soprano Nina Stemme leads the cast as the troubled princess.
Programme
- Salome(109 mins)sung in German
Performers
- Burkhard Ulrichtenor (Herod), Proms debut artist
- Doris Soffelmezzo-soprano (Herodias)
- Nina Stemmesoprano (Salome)
- Samuel Younbaritone (Jokanaan), Proms debut artist
- Thomas Blondelletenor (Narraboth)
- Ronnita Millermezzo-soprano (Herodias's Page), Proms debut artist
- Paul Kaufmanntenor (1st Jew), Proms debut artist
- Gideon Poppetenor (2nd Jew), Proms debut artist
- Jörg Schörnertenor (3rd Jew), Proms debut artist
- Clemens Biebertenor (4th Jew), Proms debut artist
- Andrew Harrisbass (5th Jew), Proms debut artist
- Noel Bouleybass-baritone (1st Narazene), Proms debut artist
- Carlton Fordbaritone (2nd Nazarene), Proms debut artist
- Marko Mimicabass-baritone (1st Soldier), Proms debut artist
- Tobias Kehrerbass (2nd Soldier), Proms debut artist
- Seth Caricobass-baritone (Cappadocian), Proms debut artist
- Donald Runniclesconductor
- Justin Waystage director
Composers
Also part ofChoral music and opera
