Proms 2019
Proms 2019 Calendar
By Date
Mon 9 Sep 2019
- 13:00Cadogan Hall
A giant of British contemporary music, composer Oliver Knussen is remembered and celebrated in a special performance by the newly formed Knussen Chamber Orchestra. Music by Knussen himself is framed by works from Abrahamsen, Birtwistle and Waley-Cohen.
A giant of British contemporary music, composer Oliver Knussen is remembered and celebrated in a special performance by the newly formed Knussen Chamber Orchestra. Music by Knussen himself is framed by works from Abrahamsen, Birtwistle and Waley-Cohen.
Programme
- … upon one note – Fantasia after Purcell(3 mins)
- Fantasia upon all the notes(9 mins)
- Naiad(5 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- Study for 'Metamorphosis'(5 mins)
- Herbstlied(6 mins)
- Halazuni(8 mins)
- Songs without Voices(8 mins)
Performers
- Ryan Wigglesworthpiano/conductor
Also part ofProms Across the UK
- 17:45Imperial College Union
In the third of our series on Henry Wood, Hannah French and Gulliver Ralston explore the Proms founder-conductor’s relationship with Wagner’s music.
Also part ofFree Events - 19:30Royal Albert Hall
An evening dedicated to the music of Wagner. Dramatic soprano Christine Goerke and tenor Stephen Gould join the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for a concert of sweeping operatic drama, including music from the culmination of the Ring cycle, Götterdämmerung.
An evening dedicated to the music of Wagner. Dramatic soprano Christine Goerke and tenor Stephen Gould join the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for a concert of sweeping operatic drama, including music from the culmination of the Ring cycle, Götterdämmerung.
Programme
- Der Freischütz – overture(10 mins)
- Siegfried – Forest Murmurs(9 mins)
- Le chasseur maudit(14 mins)
- interval
- Götterdämmerung – Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey
- Götterdämmerung – Duet 'Zu neuen Taten, teurer Helde'
- Götterdämmerung – Siegfried's Death and Funeral March
- Götterdämmerung – Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene
Performers
- Christine Goerkesoprano
- Stephen Gouldtenor
- Marc Albrechtconductor
