Mon 7 Aug 2017

• 13:00

  Proms at ... Cadogan Hall, PCM 4

  Cadogan Hall

  The 23-year-old cellist Edgar Moreau is a rising star of Baroque music. Here he joins Il Pomo d鈥橭ro for a programme that ranges from the fretful melancholy of a Vivaldi Cello Concerto to the poise of Boccherini and the irrepressible joy of Platti.

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  The 23-year-old cellist Edgar Moreau is a rising star of Baroque music. Here he joins Il Pomo d鈥橭ro for a programme that ranges from the fretful melancholy of a Vivaldi Cello Concerto to the poise of Boccherini and the irrepressible joy of Platti.

  Programme

  • • • Johann Adolf Hasse
      • Adagio and Fugue in G minor(7 mins)
    • • Giovanni Benedetto Platti
      • Cello Concerto in D major(12 mins)
    • • Antonio Vivaldi
      • Cello Concerto in A minor, RV 419(9 mins)
    • • Georg Philipp Telemann
      • Divertimento in B flat major(10 mins)
    • • Luigi Boccherini
      • Cello Concerto in D major, G479(15 mins)

  Performers

  • Edgar Moreau

    cello
    cello
  • Il Pomo d鈥橭ro
  • Maxim Emelyanychev

    director
    director

  Composers

  • Johann Adolf Hasse
  • Giovanni Benedetto Platti
  • Antonio Vivaldi
  • Georg Philipp Telemann
  • Luigi Boccherini

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  Also part of

  Proms Across the UK Matinees

  
• 17:45

  Proms Extra: Talk

  Imperial College Union

  Irving Finkel of the British Museum talks about the Babylonian history behind Belshazzar鈥檚 Feast and the stories he has deciphered from cuneiform tablets.

  Also part of

  Proms Extra

  
• 19:30

  Prom 30: Walton 鈥� Belshazzar鈥檚 Feast

  Royal Albert Hall

  Gods, demons and mortals do battle in a concert full of musical legends and fairy tales. Hear Prokofiev鈥檚 revolution-inspired cantata Seven, They Are Seven for the first time at the Proms, alongside Walton鈥檚 choral spectacular Belshazzar鈥檚 Feast.

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  Gods, demons and mortals do battle in a concert full of musical legends and fairy tales. Hear Prokofiev鈥檚 revolution-inspired cantata Seven, They Are Seven for the first time at the Proms, alongside Walton鈥檚 choral spectacular Belshazzar鈥檚 Feast.

  Programme

  • • • Ludwig van Beethoven
      • Symphony No. 1 in C major(26 mins)
    • • Richard Strauss
      • Die Frau ohne Schatten 鈥� Symphonic Fantasy(21 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Sergey Prokofiev
      • Seven, They Are Seven(8 mins)
    • • William Walton
      • Belshazzar鈥檚 Feast(36 mins)

  Performers

  • David Butt Philip

    tenor
    tenor
  • James Rutherford

    baritone
    baritone
  • National Youth Choir
  • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
  • Kirill Karabits

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Richard Strauss
  • Sergey Prokofiev
  • William Walton

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  Also part of

  Revolutionary Music