Proms 2014
Proms 2014 Calendar
By Date
Mon 8 Sep 2014
- 13:00Cadogan Hall
This year’s focus on William Walton wouldn’t be complete without his witty, genre-bending ‘entertainment’ ¹ó²¹Ã§²¹»å±ð. Shostakovich is also seen here at his most whimsical. Arranged from the composer’s earlier film scores, the Four Waltzes range from the good-humoured ‘Spring Waltz’, to the faux naïf ‘Waltz-Scherzo’ and the charmingly kitsch ‘Barrel Organ Waltz’.
This year’s focus on William Walton wouldn’t be complete without his witty, genre-bending ‘entertainment’ ¹ó²¹Ã§²¹»å±ð. Shostakovich is also seen here at his most whimsical. Arranged from the composer’s earlier film scores, the Four Waltzes range from the good-humoured ‘Spring Waltz’, to the faux naïf ‘Waltz-Scherzo’ and the charmingly kitsch ‘Barrel Organ Waltz’.
Programme
- Four Waltzes (arr. L. Atovmyan)(10 mins)
- ¹ó²¹Ã§²¹»å±ð(40 mins)
Performers
- John Wilsonconductor
Composers
Also part ofProms Chamber Music & Saturday Matinees
- 19:00Royal Albert Hall
Completing this year’s cycle of Brahms symphonies, the Cleveland Orchestra returns with the composer’s Symphony No. 2 – an open-hearted score of great warmth and appeal. By contrast, Brahms’s Tragic Overture lives up to its name with turbulent intensity. The concert is completed by Jörg Widmann’s Teufel Amor, a musical account of the contradictions, tensions and resolutions of love.
Completing this year’s cycle of Brahms symphonies, the Cleveland Orchestra returns with the composer’s Symphony No. 2 – an open-hearted score of great warmth and appeal. By contrast, Brahms’s Tragic Overture lives up to its name with turbulent intensity. The concert is completed by Jörg Widmann’s Teufel Amor, a musical account of the contradictions, tensions and resolutions of love.
Programme
- Tragic Overture(14 mins)
- Teufel Amor(30 mins)UK premiere
- interval
- Symphony No. 2 in D major(40 mins)
Performers
- Franz Welser-Möstconductor
Composers
- 22:15Royal Albert Hall
On Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s 80th birthday, the Proms pays tribute in a concert of works selected by the composer himself. The concert overture Ebb of Winter captures the rugged beauty of Davies’s Orkney home. We see a different side of island life in the joyous ebullience of his Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise; the virtuosic fourth Strathclyde Concerto, for clarinet and orchestra, completes the concert.
On Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s 80th birthday, the Proms pays tribute in a concert of works selected by the composer himself. The concert overture Ebb of Winter captures the rugged beauty of Davies’s Orkney home. We see a different side of island life in the joyous ebullience of his Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise; the virtuosic fourth Strathclyde Concerto, for clarinet and orchestra, completes the concert.
Programme
- Concert Overture 'Ebb of Winter'(18 mins)London premiere
- Strathclyde Concerto No. 4(27 mins)
- An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise(14 mins)
Performers
- Dimitri Ashkenazyclarinet
- Ben Gernonconductor
Composers
