Wed 28 Aug 2013

• 17:15

  Proms Plus Portrait

  Royal College of Music

  Charlotte Seither discusses her commisssion with Andrew McGregor and introduces performances of her chamber works given by musicians from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

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  Proms Plus

  
• 19:00

  Prom 61: Stravinsky, Brahms & Charlotte Seither

  Royal Albert Hall

  Josep Pons conducts the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of Charlotte Seither’s Language of Leaving. Frank Peter Zimmermann plays Brahms’s Violin Concerto in a concert that contrasts Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka with a cappella motets.

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  Josep Pons conducts the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of Charlotte Seither’s Language of Leaving. Frank Peter Zimmermann plays Brahms’s Violin Concerto in a concert that contrasts Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka with a cappella motets.

  Programme

  • • • Igor Stravinsky
      • Scherzo à la russe(4 mins)
      • Ave Maria(2 mins)
      • Pater Noster(2 mins)
    • • Johannes Brahms
      • Violin Concerto in D major(40 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Charlotte Seither
      • Language of Leaving(18 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
    • • Igor Stravinsky
      • Petrushka (1947 version)(30 mins)

  Performers

  • BBC Symphony Orchestra
  • Josep Pons

    conductor
    conductor
  • BBC Singers
  • Frank Peter Zimmermann

    violin
    violin

  Composers

  • Igor Stravinsky
  • Johannes Brahms
  • Charlotte Seither

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  Also part of

  Choral music and opera

  
• 22:15

  Prom 62: A Celebration of Charlie Parker

  Royal Albert Hall

  British jazz luminary Django Bates appears with his piano trio, Belovèd, and Swedish visitors the Norrbotten Big Band in a late-night tribute to bebop legend Charlie Parker.

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  British jazz luminary Django Bates appears with his piano trio, Belovèd, and Swedish visitors the Norrbotten Big Band in a late-night tribute to bebop legend Charlie Parker.

  Programme

  • • • Django Bates
      • The Study of Touch(10 mins)UK premiere

  Performers

  • Django Bates

    piano
    piano
  • Peter Bruun

    drums, Proms debut artist
    drums, Proms debut artist
  • Petter Eldh

    double bass, Proms debut artist
    double bass, Proms debut artist
  • Norrbotten Big Band

    Proms debut artist
    Proms debut artist
  • Ashley Slater

    vocalist, Proms debut artist
    vocalist, Proms debut artist

  Composers

  • Django Bates

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  Jazz and Popular Late Night Proms