What's On / Proms by Day
SATURDAY 26 JULY
Print this page
5.15pm - 6pm: Proms Intro Young Composers Winners' Day, with winners of the 2007 Proms Inspire Young Composers' Competition.
Prom 12: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Date Saturday 26 July 2008
- Time 7.00pm - c9.40pm
- 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.
Thomas Adès presides over this epic evening of orchestral splendour with a distinct Russian flavour. From the diabolic slumber party of Musorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain, via the rhythmic vitality of Prokofiev's First Piano Concerto to Borodin's ever popular Polovtsian Dances, orchestral virtuosity features large.
At the heart of the programme is Adès's own Tevot, which explores 'the idea of the ship of the world' (one of tevot's meanings is 'ark'). Celebrated bass Sir John Tomlinson reprises his magnficent Boris in scenes from Musorgsky's opera.
- Musorgsky, rev. Shebalin A Night on the Bare Mountain ('Sorochintsy Fair' version, 1880) (12 mins)
- Musorgsky Boris Godunov - Coronation Scene; Boris's Monologue; Death Scene (25 mins)
- Interval
- Thomas Adès Tevot (23 mins)
- Interval
- Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.1 (15 mins)
- Borodin Polovtsian Dances (13 mins)
Anna Dennis mezzo-soprano
Sir John Tomlinson bass
Louis Lortie piano
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Adès conductor
BBC Radio 3
© MMVIII