Proms 2014
Proms 2014 Calendar
By Date
Sat 6 Sep 2014
- 13:30Royal College of Music
Join Adey Grummet and all of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers to sing excerpts from Bach's St Matthew Passion. Open to ages 16-plus.
- 15:00Cadogan Hall
Sir Harrison Birtwistle turns 80 this summer. The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group celebrates with a performance of three of the composer’s classic early works. Verses for Ensembles, Dinah and Nick’s Love Song and Meridian all explore intriguing and unfamiliar textures, but never neglect the ever-unfolding melody that is the core of all Birtwistle’s music.
Sir Harrison Birtwistle turns 80 this summer. The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group celebrates with a performance of three of the composer’s classic early works. Verses for Ensembles, Dinah and Nick’s Love Song and Meridian all explore intriguing and unfamiliar textures, but never neglect the ever-unfolding melody that is the core of all Birtwistle’s music.
Programme
- Verses for Ensembles(26 mins)
- Dinah and Nick's Love Song(6 mins)
- Meridian(27 mins)
Performers
- Hilary Summersalto
- Oliver Knussenconductor
Composers
Also part ofProms Chamber Music & Saturday Matinees - 19:00Royal Albert Hall
Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker present Peter Sellars’s staging of Bach’s St Matthew Passion for the first time in the UK. It’s a work that confronts suffering and torture as well as salvation and redemption in some of Bach’s most moving music. Mark Padmore’s Evangelist leads a starry cast that also includes celebrated German baritone Christian Gerhaher.
Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker present Peter Sellars’s staging of Bach’s St Matthew Passion for the first time in the UK. It’s a work that confronts suffering and torture as well as salvation and redemption in some of Bach’s most moving music. Mark Padmore’s Evangelist leads a starry cast that also includes celebrated German baritone Christian Gerhaher.
Programme
- St Matthew Passion(187 mins)staging by Peter Sellars; sung in German
Performers
- Mark Padmoretenor (Evangelist)
- Christian Gerhaherbaritone (Christus)
- Camilla Tillingsoprano
- Magdalena Koženámezzo-soprano
- Topi Lehtipuutenor
- Eric Owensbass-baritone
- Sir Simon Rattleconductor
- Jörg Schneiderbass (Judas)
- Sören von Billerbeckbass (Peter)
- Axel Scheidigbass (Pilate)
- Christine Lichtenbergalto (First Witness)
- Holger Markstenor (Second Witness)
- David Stinglbass (First Chief Priest)
- Thomas Pfütznerbass (Second Chief Priest)
- Isabelle Vosskühlersoprano (First Maid)
- Christina Bischoffsoprano (Second Maid)
- Bianca Reimsoprano (Pilate's Wife)
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