Fri 10 Aug 2018

• 17:45

  Proms Plus Talk

  Imperial College Union

  Chaos and doom as featured in the Old Testament are examined by Joe Moshenska and novelist Salley Vickers. They look at the “weeping prophet” Jeremiah ahead of tonight's Bernstein Symphony, which sets texts from the Book of Lamentations.

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• 19:30

  Prom 37: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia & Sir Antonio Pappano

  Royal Albert Hall

  Bernstein’s emotive First Symphony is the work that put the young composer on the map. Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia here pair it with another symphonic debut – Mahler’s arresting, visionary First Symphony.

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  Bernstein’s emotive First Symphony is the work that put the young composer on the map. Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia here pair it with another symphonic debut – Mahler’s arresting, visionary First Symphony.

  Programme

  • • • Joseph Haydn
      • The Creation – Chaos(6 mins)
    • • Leonard Bernstein
      • Symphony No. 1 'Jeremiah'(25 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Gustav Mahler
      • Symphony No. 1 in D major(56 mins)

  Performers

  • Elizabeth DeShong

    mezzo-soprano
    mezzo-soprano
  • Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome
  • Sir Antonio Pappano

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Joseph Haydn
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • Gustav Mahler

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