5 Sep 2016

Week Six of the Proms

From Music Alive, 12:30 pm on 5 September 2016

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Mark your diary with your personal stand-outs:

Monday 5 September, 7pm

Gabriela Montero (piano), São Paulo Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop

NOBRE: Kabbalah
GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 16
VILLA‐LOBOS: Bachianas Brasileiras No 4, Prelude
RACHMANINOV: Symphonic Dances Op 45
(recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

Tuesday 6 September, 7pm

Barbara Hannigan (sop), City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

MOZART: The Magic Flute, Overture
ABRAHAMSEN: let me tell you
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 4 in F minor Op 36
(recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

Wednesday 7 September, 7pm

András Schiff (piano), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Herbert Blomstedt

BEETHOVEN: Overture, Leonora No 2; Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat Op 73, Emperor; Symphony No 7 in A Op 92
(recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

Thursday 8 September, 10am

Paul Watkins (cello), BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Thomas Søndergård

WALTON: Partita for Orchestra
WATKINS: Cello Concerto (BBC commission & world première)
WEBERN: Passacaglia Op 1
BRAHMS: Symphony No 4 in E minor Op 98
(recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

Friday 9 September, 7pm

São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, São Paulo Jazz Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop

Few countries can boast such an ingrained and individual popular music tradition as Brazil, and this feel-good Prom will take you from the African-influenced rhythms and Chopinesque chromaticism of Brazilian street music to the outlandish constructions of the so-called São Paulo avant-garde - all from the best Brazilian players in the business.
(recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

Sunday 11 September, 10am

Berlin Philharmonic/Simon Rattle

ANDERSON: Incantesimi
DVORAK: Slavonic Dances, Op 46
BRAHMS: Symphony No 2 in D
(recorded in Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

Monday 12 September 2016, 7pm

Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra/Gustavo Dudamel

DESENNE: Hipnosis mariposa
VILLA‐LOBOS: Bachianas Brasileiras No 2
RAVEL: Daphnis and Chloe Suite No 2; La Valse
(recorded in Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

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