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MONDAY 11 AUGUST
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Proms Chamber Music 4: Gweneth-Ann Jeffers
- Date Monday 11 August 2008
- Time 1.00pm - c2.00pm
- Venue CADOGAN HALL
- Tickets £8 or £10 or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
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Olivier Messiaen wrote this extended song-cycle as the first in a trilogy of works inspired by the legend of Tristan and Isolde (the others - Cinq rechants and the Turangalîla Symphony - can be heard in Proms 63 and 64 respectively).
Unlike the majority of Messiaen's music, these works explore human, rather than divine, love: there is no mention of God anywhere in them. Harawi alludes to Peruvian love songs, even though the texts to the 12 songs are by Messiaen himself.
Gweneth-Ann Jeffers, a former member of the Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, is developing a formidable reputation, and Simon Lepper has become a sought after partner for a number of rising-star singers.
- Messiaen Harawi (56 mins)
Gweneth-Ann Jeffers soprano
Simon Lepper piano
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5.45pm - 6.30pm: Proms Intro Suzy Klein discusses tonight's opera, Puccini's Il tabarro, with musicologists Roger Parker and Alexandra Wilson.
Broadcast on Radio 3: Monday 11 August, 8.20pm
Prom 34: BBC Philharmonic
- Date Monday 11 August 2008
- Time 7.30pm - c9.50pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £6-£35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
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A concert that combines two of Gianandrea Noseda's enthusiasms - an opera from his native Italy and a symphony from the country where he studied conducting (under Valery Gergiev).
Rachmaninov's rarely heard First Symphony is followed by the first panel of the operatic triptych Il trittico by Puccini (born 150 years ago).
Soprano Barbara Frittoli takes the role of Giorgetta, the barge-owner's wife whose straying fidelity leads to fatal consequences for her lover Luigi.
- Rachmaninov Symphony No.1 (47 mins)
- Interval
- Puccini Il tabarro (concert performance; sung in Italian) (55 mins)
Barbara Frittoli Giorgetta
Miro Dvorsky Luigi
Lado Ataneli Michele
Jane Henschel La Frugola
Barry Banks Il Tinca
Alastair Miles Il Talpa
Allan Clayton A song-vendor
Katherine Broderick Young lover
Edgaras Montvidas Young lover
BBC Singers
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda conductor
Allan Clayton is a member of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme.
BBC Radio 3
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