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SUNDAY 17 AUGUST
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1.00pm: Film Messiaen - La liturgie de cristal (88'). A film by Olivier Mille introducing Messiaen's musical universe through a series of archive clips. Not available online
Prom 42: Jennifer Bate
- Date Sunday 17 August 2008
- Time 4.00pm - c5.15pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £10-£15 price band D or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
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Organist Jennifer Bate has been one of Messiaen's staunchest British champions, and this year sees her performing his music all over the world.
In the 1980s she recorded his complete organ works to considerable acclaim ('Bate's scholarly approach and fastidious playing are reason enough ... to collect the complete set,' wrote the BBC Music Magazine) and her world-premiere recording of his last organ work, Livre du Saint Sacrement, won a Grand Prix du Disque.
This afternoon she juxtaposes the Apparition de l'église éternelle with La Nativité du Seigneur - both works written in the 1930s.
- Messiaen Apparition de l'église éternelle (10 mins)
- Messiaen La Nativité du Seigneur (57 mins)
There will be no interval
Jennifer Bate organ
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Prom 43: City of London Sinfonia
- Date Sunday 17 August 2008
- Time 7.30pm - c9.55pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £6-£35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Four. Live on BBC Radio 3, and available as audio on demand for the following week.
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A programme that plays to Richard Hickox's varied strengths and passions. He continues his advocacy of English music in two works written 55 years apart.
Vaughan Williams's Flos campi, for solo viola and orchestra, displays VW's characteristically rich, sensuous orchestration. The Flute Concerto by Nigel Osborne (60 this year) is a work of vibrant imagination, and was premiered by Hickox with tonight's ensemble. Two Classical-period works complete the evening: Mozart's Symphony No.34 and Beethoven's Mass in C, written for the Esterházy Court.
- Mozart Symphony No.34 in C, K338 (22 mins)
- Vaughan Williams Flos campi (19 mins)
- Nigel Osborne Flute Concerto (16 mins)
- Interval
- Beethoven Mass in C (45 mins)
Sharon Bezaly flute
Lawrence Power viola
Rebecca Evans soprano
Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano
Thomas Walker tenor
Matthew Rose bass
BBC Singers
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox conductor
BBC Radio 3
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