Proms 2012 Proms Saturday Matinee 4: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group - BBC Proms

18 Aug 2012, Cadogan Hall

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Proms Saturday Matinee 4: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

15:00 Sat 18 Aug 2012 Cadogan Hall

Having led the Wallace & Gromit Prom, Nicholas Collon returns for works by anniversary composers Bainbridge, Goehr and Knussen.

Programme

- - Alexander Goehr
  - … a musical offering (J.S.B. 1985) …(15 mins)
- - Oliver Knussen
  - Ophelia Dances, Book 1(7 mins)
  - Ophelia's Last Dance(10 mins)
- - Simon Bainbridge
  - The Garden of Earthly Delights(35 mins)BBC commission: world premiere

Performers

Huw Watkins
piano
piano
Lucy Schaufer
mezzo-soprano
mezzo-soprano
Andrew Watts
counter-tenor
counter-tenor
Samuel West
narrator
narrator
London Sinfonietta Voices
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Nicholas Collon
conductor
conductor

Composers

About this event

Linked Ophelia pieces by Oliver Knussen, 60 this year, follow Alexander Goehr’s reflection on Bach’s compositional procedures, which Knussen himself premiered, wearing his conductor’s hat.

Also born in 1952, Simon Bainbridge has developed a darker, less mercurial kind of idiom. Inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s extraordinary triptych, his eagerly awaited new work is a labyrinthine journey featuring mezzo-soprano and counter-tenor.

There will be no interval

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