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Proms Chamber Music 2: I Fagiolini
- Date Monday 28 July 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.
All that has survived of Monteverdi's great second opera, Arianna - whose 400th anniversary falls in 2008 - is Arianna's Lament, which became so famous that, 40 years later, it was said to be on the shelves of every serious musician. Its arrangement for five voices stands as a pinnacle of Italian madrigal-writing.
The opening and closing works this lunchtime are the dance-inspired pieces that end the two parts of Monteverdi's Eighth Book of Madrigals: the first, Volgendo il ciel, representing War, the second, Il ballo delle ingrate, reflecting Love.
- Monteverdi Volgendo il ciel (11 mins)
- Monteverdi Arianna - Lamento d'Arianna (12 mins)
- Monteverdi Il ballo delle ingrate (25 mins)
There will be no interval
I Fagiolini
Barokksolistene
Robert Hollingworth director
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Prom 15: BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Date Monday 28 July 2008
- Time 7.30pm - c9.15pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £6-£35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Four and Live on BBC Radio 3. Beethoven Symphony No.5 also recorded for broadcast on BBC Two on 6 September. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
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As well as marking Elliott Carter's centenary, tonight's Prom celebrates the 200th anniversary of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, premiered in 1808. Carter's single-movement Oboe Concerto from 1986-7 finds, in the composer's words, 'the soloist accompanied in its widely varying, mercurial moods by a percussionist and four violas'.
Apart from opening with the most famous motif in the whole of Western music, Beethoven's Fifith is a study in coiled tension and release that never fails to thrill. And to open the evening, the full-string version of Beethoven's muscular Grosse Fuge, originally written as the composer's first thoughts for one of his late, great string quartets.
- Beethoven Grosse Fuge (17 mins)
- Elliott Carter Oboe Concerto (21 mins)
- Interval
- Beethoven Symphony No.5 in C minor (32 mins)
Nicholas Daniel oboe
BBC Symphony Orchestra
David Robertson conductor
BBC Radio 3
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