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First Night of the Proms

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麻豆官网首页入口 Music launches the world's greatest classical music festival from the Royal Albert Hall. Featuring music by William Walton, Mozart, Sibelius and Nielsen.

麻豆官网首页入口 Music launches the world's greatest classical music festival from the Royal Albert Hall. Katie Derham and Tom Service introduce William Walton's choral classic Belshazzar's Feast and Mozart's glorious Piano Concerto No 20 with soloist Lars Vogt.

To mark the 150th anniversaries of two great Nordic composers, the programme also features Sibelius's own exotic retelling of the Belshazzar story and Nielsen's sparkling overture Maskarade. There's also the world premiere of Dadaville by British composer Gary Carpenter. Sakari Oramo conducts the 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, with the 麻豆官网首页入口 National Chorus of Wales, the 麻豆官网首页入口 Singers and bass-baritone soloist Christopher Maltman.

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Fri 17 Jul 2015 20:00
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Music Played

  • Carl Nielsen

    Maskarade

  • Gary Carpenter

    Dadaville

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor

  • Jean Sibelius

    Belshazzar's Feast 鈥� suite

  • William Walton

    Belshazzar's Feast

Credits

Presenter Katie Derham
Presenter Tom Service
Producer Helen Mansfield
Director Jonathan Haswell
Conductor Sakari Oramo
Orchestra 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra
Performer 麻豆官网首页入口 Singers
Performer 麻豆官网首页入口 National Chorus of Wales
Performer 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Chorus
Performer Lars Vogt
Performer Christopher Maltman

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