Thu 4 Aug 2011

• 17:15

  Proms Plus Intro: Strauss's Four Last Songs

  Royal College of Music

  Also part of

  Introduction to the music Proms Plus Evening concerts and events

  
• 19:00

  Prom 27: Robin Holloway, Strauss & Brahms

  Royal Albert Hall

  Donald Runnicles and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra open their second Prom this season with a major world premiere from Robin Holloway, plus Strauss’s Four Last Songs and after the interval, Brahms’s Second Symphony.

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  Donald Runnicles and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra open their second Prom this season with a major world premiere from Robin Holloway, plus Strauss’s Four Last Songs and after the interval, Brahms’s Second Symphony.

  Programme

  • • • Robin Holloway
      • Fifth Concerto for Orchestra(25 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
    • • Richard Strauss
      • Four Last Songs(22 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Johannes Brahms
      • Symphony No. 2 in D major(40 mins)

  Performers

  • Hillevi Martinpelto

    soprano
    soprano
  • BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
  • Donald Runnicles

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Robin Holloway
  • Richard Strauss
  • Johannes Brahms

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  Orchestral music Living Composers Evening concerts and events Concertos
• 22:00

  Prom 28: The Tallis Scholars

  Royal Albert Hall

  A moving and evocative Late Night experience as the Tallis Scholars return to celebrate an anniversary composer - Tomás Luis de Victoria.

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  A moving and evocative Late Night experience as the Tallis Scholars return to celebrate an anniversary composer - Tomás Luis de Victoria.

  Programme

  • • • Tomás Luis de Victoria
      • Dum complerentur(5 mins)
      • Lamentations for Good Friday(15 mins)
      • Officium defunctorum (Requiem)(42 mins)
    • • Alonso Lobo
      • Versa est in luctum cithara mea(5 mins)(encore)

  Performers

  • The Tallis Scholars
  • Peter Phillips

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Tomás Luis de Victoria
  • Alonso Lobo

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  Also part of

  Late night concerts and events Proms Chamber Music & Saturday Matinees Baroque and Early Music Choral music and singing events