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Cadogan Hall: Oliver Knussen Tribute - T0252793488The final concert in this year's Proms at... Cadogan Hall series, tracing over 800 years of music history, brings us from the late 20th century right up to the present day. A giant of British contemporary music, composer Oliver Knussen is celebrated a year on from his death in a special performance by the newly formed Knussen Chamber Orchestra. Made up of orchestral principals and rising young musicians from across the UK, the ensemble is conducted by Knussen's protege Ryan Wigglesworth. Knussen's own Purcell-inspired ...upon one note, lyrical Songs without Voices and Study for Company Knussen Chamber Orchestra. Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth (piano). | |
| 9 Sep 19 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L667115403 |
Cadogan Hall: Silesian Quartet - T1288147115Celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Mieczyslaw Weinberg - the composer Shostakovich famously hailed as his musical successor - continue with an all-Polish programme from the first half of the 20thcentury that sets Weinberg's own music alongside that of his great contemporary Grazyna Bacewicz. Folk themes take on a new sophistication, cleverly manipulated and moulded in Bacewicz's mature masterpiece the Piano Quintet No. 1. Poland's award-winning Silesian String Quartet are joined here by pianist Wojciech Switala.Performer Wojciech Switala (piano). Company Silesian String Quartet. | |
| 2 Sep 19 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L0879274094 |
Cadogan Hall: Amatis Trio - T075526676The prize-winning Amatis Piano Trio, current BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, make their Proms debut with chamber works by husband-and-wife composers Robert and Clara Schumann. The climax is Clara Schumann's Piano Trio: one of her finest works, it combines lyrical themes with new contrapuntal invention and scope. The programme also includes Clara's Three Romances for violin and piano, composed for virtuoso Joseph Joachim, as well as Robert's attractive Adagio and Allegro for cello and piano, its wistful slow movement giving way to an energetic Allegro.Group/Band Amatis Piano Trio. | |
| 26 Aug 19 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L01372116105 |
Cadogan Hall: Louise Alder - T1106909853As we reach the 19th century in our Monday lunchime survey of music spanning over 800 years, soprano Louis Alder returns, with pianist Gary Matthewman, for a solo recital of songs from across Europe, including Lieder by Schubert, and by both Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny (published under her married name of Hensel), whose final song, Bergeslust - completed just a day before her death at the age of only 41 - tempers joy with a poignant ending. The many facets of love are exposed in Felix Mendelssohns Der Mond and Neue Liebe, as well as in Chopin's Sliczny chlopiec (Handsome Lad) and songs by Liszt and Rossini.Performer Louise Alder (soprano). Performer Gary Matthewman (piano). | |
| 19 Aug 19 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L01908710772 |
Holy Sepulchre - T1566973299The BBC Singers and Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin take the Proms to the 'Musicians' Church', Holy Sepulchre London (aka St Sepulchure-without-Newgate), where Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood first learnt the organ and was later laid to rest. This varied conspectus of 20th-century English choral music opens with the setting of lines by the then Poet Laureate, John Masefield, that Walton composed for the unveiling of the church's Henry Wood memorial window in 1946, and is brought up to date with a new commission by Joanna Lee, At this man's hand, setting the verse by Masefield that is inscribed on the window itself.Company BBC Singers. Conductor Sofi Jeannin. | |
| 17 Aug 19 | General, Inner London :: V1231 listing details L0215376774 |
Cadogan Hall: Aris Quartet - T0521364008Praised for their suppleness of sound, BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Aris Quartet make their Proms debut with Haydn's ebullient 'Sunrise Quartet nicknamed for the beautiful climbing phrase with which it opens.This late, great work is paired with two youthful pieces: Schubert's quietly innovative String Quartet No. 1, and the String Quartet No. 5 by Maddalena Laura Sirmen (born Lombardini) the 18th-century violin virtuoso and pupil of Tartini, whose career was a defiant exception in a maledominated profession.Group/Band Aris Quartet. | |
| 12 Aug 19 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L439581331 |
Cadogan Hall: The English Concert - T01400328883Celebrated keyboard player Kristian Bezuidenhout and period-instrument ensemble The English Concert present a Baroque journey around Europe. England's lively restoration theatre scene is represented by Purcell dances, while harpsichord music by ?lisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and Louis Marchand conjures up the splendour of the French court of Louis XIV. Chamber music by Telemann and Handel completes the programme.Performer Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord). Company The English Concert. | |
| 5 Aug 19 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L801054204 |
Cadogan Hall: A Celebration of Barbara Strozzi - T1529531207Few composers paint human emotion as vividly or with greater insight, wit and poignancy than Barbara Strozzi - the pioneering Venetian composer, born 400 years ago, whose songs and madrigals stand alongside Monteverdi's as some of the greatest of the age. Argentine soprano Mariana Flores and period-instrument ensemble Cappella Mediterranea celebrate Strozzi's anniversary with a selection of love songs by the composer and her contemporaries, including the arresting 'Lagrime mie' and the touching 'Che si puo fare'.Performer Mariana Flores (soprano). Company Cappella Mediterranea. Performer Leonardo Garcia Alarcon (harpsichord / organ / director). | |
| 29 Jul 19 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L1706318366 |
Cadogan Hall: Voces8 - T01238671476This year's Monday-lunchtime Proms at... Cadogan Hall series takes listeners through over 800 years of musical history over the course of just eight concerts. Proms debut artists VOCES8 launch the series in a programme ranging from the supple chant melodies of Hildegard of Bingen to the sophisticated choral polyphony of Palestrina, Lassus and William Byrd. | |
| 22 Jul 19 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L02020218985 |
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