Proms on TV
Proms on TV Calendar
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Sun 1 Sep 2013
- 19:30Royal Albert Hall
Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten opens Paavo Järvi’s performance with the Orchestre de Paris. Janine Jansen is the soloist in Britten’s Violin Concerto. Berlioz’s Le corsaire overture and Saint-Saëns’s ‘Organ’ Symphony complete a programme of vivid contrasts.
Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten opens Paavo Järvi’s performance with the Orchestre de Paris. Janine Jansen is the soloist in Britten’s Violin Concerto. Berlioz’s Le corsaire overture and Saint-Saëns’s ‘Organ’ Symphony complete a programme of vivid contrasts.
Programme
- Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten(6 mins)
- Violin Concerto(36 mins)
- interval
- Overture ‘Le corsaire’(10 mins)
- Symphony No. 3 in C minor, ‘Organ’(36 mins)
Performers
- Janine Jansenviolin
- Thierry Escaichorgan
- Paavo Järviconductor
Also part ofProms 2013
Thu 5 Sep 2013
- 19:00Royal Albert Hall
Xian Zhang directs the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi in Tchaikovsky’s symphonic drama Manfred and the overtures to La forza del destino and La traviata. Celebrated Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja sings arias from Rigoletto, Luisa Miller and I vespri siciliani.
Xian Zhang directs the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi in Tchaikovsky’s symphonic drama Manfred and the overtures to La forza del destino and La traviata. Celebrated Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja sings arias from Rigoletto, Luisa Miller and I vespri siciliani.
Programme
- The Force of Destiny – overture(8 mins)
- Attila – 'O dolore! Ed io vivea'(3 mins)
- I vespri siciliani(4 mins)
- La traviata - Prelude to Act 1(4 mins)
- Simon Boccanegra(5 mins)- 'O inferno! ... Sento avvampar nell'anima'
- Aida(6 mins)
- Luisa Miller – 'O fede negar potessi ... Quando le sere al placido'(6 mins)
- Rigoletto(3 mins)- 'La donna è mobile'
- interval
- Manfred(55 mins)
Performers
- Joseph Callejatenor
- Xian Zhangconductor
Composers
Sat 7 Sep 2013
- 19:30Royal Albert Hall
Marin Alsop becomes the first female conductor of the Last Night of the Proms. Joyce DiDonato and Nigel Kennedy join the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a concert that runs from Rossini and Handel arias to a mass singalong, and from Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and rarities by Britten and Bantock to a new opener by Anna Clyne.
Marin Alsop becomes the first female conductor of the Last Night of the Proms. Joyce DiDonato and Nigel Kennedy join the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a concert that runs from Rossini and Handel arias to a mass singalong, and from Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and rarities by Britten and Bantock to a new opener by Anna Clyne.
Programme
- Masquerade(5 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- The Mastersingers of Nuremberg – Prelude to Act 1(10 mins)
- Chichester Psalms(19 mins)
- The Lark Ascending(12 mins)
- The Building of the House(5 mins)
- Chérubin – 'Je suis gris! je suis ivre!'(2 mins)
- Xerxes – 'Frondi tenere e belle ... Ombra mai fù'(4 mins)
- La donna del lago – 'Tanti affetti in tal momento!'(4 mins)
- interval
- Candide – overture(5 mins)
- Candide – Make our Garden Grow(5 mins)
- Nabucco(4 mins)
- Over the Rainbow(5 mins)
- Csárdás(6 mins)
- Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)(4 mins)
- Carousel – 'You'll never walk alone'(6 mins)
- The Sea Reivers(4 mins)
- HMS Trinidad March(4 mins)UK premiere
- Rule, Britannia!(7 mins)
- Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major (‘Land of Hope and Glory’)(6 mins)
- Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)(4 mins)
- The National Anthem (arr. Britten)(2 mins)
Performers
- Joyce DiDonatomezzo-soprano
- Nigel Kennedyviolin
- Iestyn Daviescounter-tenor
- Marin Alsopconductor
