Proms 2019
Proms 2019 Calendar
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Sun 8 Sep 2019
- 11:00Royal Albert Hall
Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer John Luther Adams is the master of large-scale musical spectacle. In the Name of the Earth is a musical meditation on nature, which will immerse the audience in the sound of more than 600 singers.
Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer John Luther Adams is the master of large-scale musical spectacle. In the Name of the Earth is a musical meditation on nature, which will immerse the audience in the sound of more than 600 singers.
Programme
- In the Name of the Earth(50 mins)European premiere
Performers
- Hackney Empire Community Choir
- London International Gospel Choir
- LSO Community Choir
- Victoria Park Singers
Composers
- 17:45Imperial College Union
Witchcraft, witch-trials and the image of the witch are explored by historian Professor Suzannah Lipscomb.
Also part ofFree Events - 19:30Royal Albert Hall
Sakari Oramo conducts a wide-ranging concert inspired by the natural world with Sibelius’s stirring Fifth Symphony at its heart. Boundary-breaking singer Nora Fischer is the soloist in the UK premiere of Louis Andriessen’s The Only One.
Sakari Oramo conducts a wide-ranging concert inspired by the natural world with Sibelius’s stirring Fifth Symphony at its heart. Boundary-breaking singer Nora Fischer is the soloist in the UK premiere of Louis Andriessen’s The Only One.
Programme
- A Night on the Bare Mountain (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov)(11 mins)Henry Wood Novelties: UK premiere, 1898
- The Only OneBBC co-commission with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and NTR ZaterdagMatinee: UK premiere
- interval
- Forest(13 mins)
- Symphony No. 5 in E flat major(32 mins)(final version, 1919)
Performers
- Nora Fischersinger
- Sakari Oramoconductor
