Sat 20 Aug 2016

• 13:00

  Proms Extra: Sing

  Imperial College Union

  Join Mary King and the BBC Singers to sing excerpts from Mozart’s Mass in C minor. Experience in sight-reading or a knowledge of the piece is an advantage but not essential.

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  Proms Extra Get Involved: London

  
• 15:00

  Proms at … Roundhouse, Camden

  Roundhouse, Camden

  Andrew Gourlay conducts the London Sinfonietta in a performance of a new piece by David Sawer.

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  Andrew Gourlay conducts the London Sinfonietta in a performance of a new piece by David Sawer.

  Programme

  • • • Harrison Birtwistle
      • The Message(3 mins)
    • • Georg Friedrich Haas
      • Open Spaces II(16 mins)
    • • Mica Levi
      • Signal Before WarBBC commission: world premiere
    • • David Sawer
      • April \ March(20 mins)BBC co-commission with the Royal Philharmonic Society Drummond Fund with support from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation: world premiere
    • • Jonny Greenwood
      • smear(10 mins)
    • • György Ligeti
      • Ramifications(9 mins)

  Performers

  • Jonathan Morton

    violin
    violin
  • London Sinfonietta
  • Andrew Gourlay

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Harrison Birtwistle
  • Georg Friedrich Haas
  • Mica Levi
  • David Sawer
  • Jonny Greenwood
  • György Ligeti

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  Proms Across the UK

  
• 17:45

  Proms Extra

  Imperial College Union

  Timothy Jones introduces Mozart’s Mass in C minor.

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  Proms Extra

  
• 19:30

  Prom 46

  Royal Albert Hall

  Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder is paired with Mozart’s Mass in C minor – the ‘Great’. Soprano Carolyn Sampson and bass Matthew Rose are among the soloists. They’re joined by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and conducted by Ilan Volkov.

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  Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder is paired with Mozart’s Mass in C minor – the ‘Great’. Soprano Carolyn Sampson and bass Matthew Rose are among the soloists. They’re joined by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and conducted by Ilan Volkov.

  Programme

  • • • Gérard Grisey
      • Dérives(13 mins)UK premiere
    • • Gustav Mahler
      • Rückert-Lieder(20 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
      • Mass in C minor, K427(55 mins)

  Performers

  • Louise Alder

    soprano
    soprano
  • Carolyn Sampson

    soprano
    soprano
  • Tanja Ariane Baumgartner

    mezzo-soprano
    mezzo-soprano
  • Benjamin Hulett

    tenor
    tenor
  • Matthew Rose

    bass
    bass
  • BBC Symphony Chorus
  • BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
  • Ilan Volkov

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Gérard Grisey
  • Gustav Mahler
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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  BBC Symphony Chorus at the Proms