Wed 31 Jul 2013

• 17:15

  Proms Plus Literary

  Royal College of Music

  The writers Simon Heffer and Andrew O'Hagan discuss the halcyon days of light music at the BBC and beyond with Matthew Sweet. With its jaunty melodies and cascading strings, they restore it to its proper place: the heart of British musical life. Recorded in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music as part of this year's Proms Plus events.

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  For poets Proms Plus

  
• 19:00

  Prom 24: British Light Music

  Royal Albert Hall

  Barry Wordsworth and the BBC Concert Orchestra, with pianists Noriko Ogawa and Kathryn Stott, offer a parade of British light and occasional music, including Arnold’s Concerto for two pianos (three hands), Bantock’s bittersweet Pierrot of the Minute, Elgar’s Nursery Suite and a medley of radio favourites.

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  Barry Wordsworth and the BBC Concert Orchestra, with pianists Noriko Ogawa and Kathryn Stott, offer a parade of British light and occasional music, including Arnold’s Concerto for two pianos (three hands), Bantock’s bittersweet Pierrot of the Minute, Elgar’s Nursery Suite and a medley of radio favourites.

  Programme

  • • • Granville Bantock
      • Comedy Overture 'The Pierrot of the Minute'(12 mins)
    • • Edward Elgar
      • Nursery Suite(22 mins)
    • • Malcolm Arnold
      • Concerto for Two Pianos (three hands)(13 mins)
    • • interval
    • • William Walton
      • Coronation March ‘Crown Imperial’(7 mins)
    • • Eric Coates
      • The Three Elizabeths(20 mins)
    • • Malcolm Arnold
      • English Dances, Set No. 1(13 mins)
    • • Gordon Langford
      • Medley ‘Say it with Music’(7 mins)

  Performers

  • Noriko Ogawa

    piano
    piano
  • Kathryn Stott

    piano
    piano
  • BBC Concert Orchestra
  • Barry Wordsworth

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Granville Bantock
  • Edward Elgar
  • Malcolm Arnold
  • William Walton
  • Eric Coates
  • Gordon Langford

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  Piano and organ

  
• 22:15

  Prom 25: Zappa – The Adventures of Greggery Peccary

  Royal Albert Hall

  Fasten your seat belts as Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra plunge into Frank Zappa’s counter-culture satire The Adventures of Greggery Peccary, with a car-chase, a coughing mountain and a choir of stenographers. A wild Study for player piano by Conlon Nancarrow and the UK premiere of Philip Glass’s Tenth Symphony complete a far-reaching Late Night Prom.

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  Fasten your seat belts as Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra plunge into Frank Zappa’s counter-culture satire The Adventures of Greggery Peccary, with a car-chase, a coughing mountain and a choir of stenographers. A wild Study for player piano by Conlon Nancarrow and the UK premiere of Philip Glass’s Tenth Symphony complete a far-reaching Late Night Prom.

  Programme

  • • • Conlon Nancarrow
      • Study for Player Piano No. 7 (arr. Yvar Mikhashoff)(10 mins)
    • • Frank Zappa
      • G-Spot Tornado(4 mins)
    • • Philip Glass
      • Symphony No. 10(27 mins)UK premiere
    • • Frank Zappa
      • The Adventures of Greggery Peccary(25 mins)

  Performers

  • Christopher Purves

    baritone
    baritone
  • Mitch Benn

    narrator
    narrator
  • Aurora Orchestra
  • Nicholas Collon

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Conlon Nancarrow
  • Frank Zappa
  • Philip Glass

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  Late Night Proms