Thu 8 Sep 2016

• 17:15

  Proms Extra

  Imperial College Union

  BBC Radio 3 presenter Ian MacMillan, award-winning poet Jackie Kay and Director of The Poetry Society Judith Palmer introduce the winning entries in this year’s BBC Proms Poetry Competition and welcome some of the winners on stage to read their poems.

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• 19:00

  Prom 72

  Royal Albert Hall

  Beethoven’s Violin Concerto – performed by Nikolaj Znaider – opens the second of the Dresden orchestra’s Proms. In the second half, Reger’s Variations on a Theme by Mozart is paired with Strauss’s tone poem Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche.

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  Beethoven’s Violin Concerto – performed by Nikolaj Znaider – opens the second of the Dresden orchestra’s Proms. In the second half, Reger’s Variations on a Theme by Mozart is paired with Strauss’s tone poem Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche.

  Programme

  • • • Ludwig van Beethoven
      • Violin Concerto in D major(45 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Max Reger
      • Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart(34 mins)
    • • Richard Strauss
      • Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks(15 mins)

  Performers

  • Nikolaj Znaider

    violin
    violin
  • Staatskapelle Dresden
  • Christian Thielemann

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Max Reger
  • Richard Strauss

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  Classical for Starters 2018-19

  
• 22:15

  Prom 73

  Royal Albert Hall

  In this Late Night Prom, Richard Egarr conducts the Academy of Ancient Music in Handel’s glorious Coronation Anthems – the most famous of which is ‘Zadok the Priest’.

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  In this Late Night Prom, Richard Egarr conducts the Academy of Ancient Music in Handel’s glorious Coronation Anthems – the most famous of which is ‘Zadok the Priest’.

  Programme

  • • • George Frideric Handel
      • Coronation Anthem ‘Zadok the Priest’(6 mins)
      • Coronation Anthem 'My heart is inditing'(12 mins)
    • • Georg Muffat
      • Armonico tributo – Sonata No. 5 in G major(22 mins)
    • • George Frideric Handel
      • Coronation Anthem 'Let thy hand be strengthened'(8 mins)
    • • Johann Sebastian Bach
      • Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 – Air (arr. L. Stokowski)(5 mins)
    • • Henry Purcell
      • Dido and Aeneas – ‘When I am laid in earth’ (Dido’s Lament)(5 mins)
    • • George Frideric Handel
      • Coronation Anthem 'The king shall rejoice'(11 mins)

  Performers

  • Academy of Ancient Music
  • Richard Egarr

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • George Frideric Handel
  • Georg Muffat
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Henry Purcell

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  Late Night Proms Classical for Starters 2018-19