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Fri 2 Sep 2022
- 19:30Royal Albert Hall
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony meets George Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Lilacs in this Prom from Chineke! – Europe’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra.
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony meets George Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Lilacs in this Prom from Chineke! – Europe’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra.
Programme
- Lilacs(15 mins)
- interval
- Symphony No. 9 in D minor, ‘Choral’(70 mins)
Performers
- Nicole Cabellsoprano
- Raehann Bryce-Davismezzo-soprano
- Zwakele Tshabalalatenor
- Ryan Speedo Greenbass-baritone
- Kevin John Eduseiconductor
Composers
Thu 8 Sep 2022
- 19:30Royal Albert Hall
The Philadelphia Orchestra visits the Proms under its Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. In the first of two concerts they perform Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony and two modern American classics, sung by soprano Angel Blue.
The Philadelphia Orchestra visits the Proms under its Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. In the first of two concerts they perform Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony and two modern American classics, sung by soprano Angel Blue.
Also part ofProms 2022
Sat 10 Sep 2022
- 19:15Royal Albert Hall
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Lise Davidsen and Dalia Stasevska all star as the world’s biggest classical music festival comes to a close – with all the tradition and fun of the Last Night of the Proms!
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Lise Davidsen and Dalia Stasevska all star as the world’s biggest classical music festival comes to a close – with all the tradition and fun of the Last Night of the Proms!
Programme
- Overture for Orchestra(6 mins)
- Deep River(5 mins)arr. Simon Parkin
- The Carnival of the Animals (XIII, The Swan)(4 mins)orch. Paul Vidal
- 1922(6 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- Tannhäuser – ‘Dich, teure Halle’(3 mins)
- 12 Songs, Op. 33 – ‘Våren’(5 mins)
- Snöfrid(14 mins)
- Cavalleria rusticana – Easter Hymn(6 mins)
- Cavalleria rusticana – Intermezzo(4 mins)
- Macbeth – ‘Vieni! t’affretta!’(6 mins)
- interval
- A Party with Auntie(5 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- Overture ‘ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another)’(9 mins)
- The Gypsy Princess – ‘Heia, heia, in den Bergen ist mein Heimatland’(3 mins)
- Bachianas brasileiras No. 5 – Ária (Cantilena)(5 mins)
- Prayer for Ukraine(5 mins)
- Fantasia on British Sea-Songs(17 mins)arr. Wood
- Rule, Britannia!(4 mins)
- Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major (‘Land of Hope and Glory’)(8 mins)
- Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)(2 mins)
- The National Anthem (arr. Britten)(3 mins)
- Auld Lang Syne(2 mins)
Performers
- Lise Davidsensoprano
- Sheku Kanneh‐Masoncello
- Harriet Walteractor
- Dalia Stasevskaconductor
