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Summer Highlights of the BBC Proms

Jul. 08, 2009

The BBC Proms returns this summer with another enormous musical offering for its 115th summer season. The Schott catalog is well represented this year featuring works by six composers, including a world premiere performance, over six evenings at the Royal Albert Hall. The 2009 Festival runs nine weeks beginning Friday, July 17 and ending the evening of Saturday, September 12.

PROM 8: Royal Albert Hall, London; July 22
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis, conductor
One of the newest editions to the Schott family, composer Ryan Wigglesworth sees the world premiere of his orchestral work, The Genesis of Secrecy under the direction of Sir Andrew Davis with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, who commissioned the work. The Genesis of Secrecy is joined on the first half of the concert with Faber composer Ralph Vaughan Williams' The Wasps-Overture, and his Five Mystical Songs. The second half features the work of another Faber composer, Jonathan Harvey's Come, Holy Ghost, in honor of Harvey's 70th birthday.

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Ryan Wigglesworth
The Genesis of Secrecy (2008-09)
3(3pic).2.ca.3(3.bcl).2.cbsn-4.Eb tp.2.3.1-4perc-cel.hp-str
ca. 10'

Jonathan Harvey
Come, Holy Ghost (1984)
for SSAATTBB choir, a cappella
ca. 8'

Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Wasps-Overture (1909)
for orchestra
2(2.pic).2.2.2-4.2.0.0-timp-2perc-hp-str
reduced orchestration: 2(2.pic).1.2.1-2.1.0.0-timp-2perc-hp-str
9'

PROM 10: Royal Albert Hall, London; July 24
L'Orchestre National de Lyon, Jun Märkl, conductor
L'Orchestre National de Lyon embarks on an epic program of Japanese music inspired by and paired with the music of Ravel and Debussy on July 24. Toru Takemitsu's Ceremonial: An Autumn Ode and Green reflect the composer's deep connection to the music of Debussy. Ceremonial integrates the Japanese shō, a beautifully resonant mouth organ rarely used in combination with instruments of the western orchestra. Similarly, Toshio Hosokawa's Cloud and Light, receives its UK premiere under the baton of Jun Märkl. Also included on this concert are Debussy's Estampes-Pagodes, La Mer and Ravel's Tzigane and Rapsodie Espagnole.

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Toru Takemitsu
Ceremonial: An Autumn Ode (1992)
3(pic).3.3.bcl.3-4.3.3.0-3perc-hp.cel-str
ca. 8'

Green (1967)
for orchestra
ca. 7'

Toshio Hosokawa
Cloud & Light (2008)
0.0.0.0-4.1.1.0-2perc-str
ca. 17'

PROM 16: Royal Albert Hall, London; July 28
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Nelsons, conductor
Making his Proms debut, Andrew Nelsons conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the UK premiere of John Casken's Orion over Farne, commemorating the composer's 60th birthday, and celebrating the International Year of Astronomy.

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John Casken
Orion over Farne (1984)
3(3.pic).2.ca.3(3.bcl).2.cbn-4.2.2.btbn.1-timp.3perc-cel/pno-str
ca. 20'

PROM 26: Royal Albert Hall, London; August 4
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer, conductor
Heinz Holliger celebrated his 70th birthday this past May, and the Schott composer is celebrated at the Proms this summer with the UK premiere performance of (S)irató with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, under the direction of Holliger's longtime collaborator, Swiss-born conductor, Thierry Fischer.

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Heinz Holliger
(S)irató (1992-1993)
for orchestra
3(pic).3(ca).2.2 bcl.cbcl.3(cbsn)-4.3.4.1-timp.5perc-cemb.hp.pno.cel-str
ca. 15'

PROM 39: Royal Albert Hall, London; August 14
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, Ryan Wigglesworth, conductors
Jonny Greenwood's seminal string orchestral work Popcorn Superhet Receiver opens the 39th concert of the Proms. The work is the recipient of 2006 Radio 3 Listeners' Award and is featured in the award winning film, There will be Blood,(2007). Following Greenwood's composition is a stage performance of the central act to Sir Harrison Birtwistle's complex musical retelling of the descent into the underworld, The Mask of Orpheus - The Arches.

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Jonny Greenwood
Popcorn Superhet Receiver (2005)
for string orchestra
18vn.6va.6vc.4db
18'

Sir Harrison Birtwistle
The Mask of Orpheus (1973-1984)
opera in three acts
libretto (En) by Peter Zinovieff
for voices, chorus and orchestra
4.4.4.3sax.4-4.4.6.2-7perc-3hp-elec gtr.bgtr.elec mand-tape
210'

PROM 64: Royal Albert Hall, London; September 3
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, conductor
Lastly but surely not least, Bernd Alois Zimmermann's double piano work, Dialoge is performed by Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich on September 3. This work by one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century is an appropriate end to this evening of music as it quotes both Mozart's C Major Piano Concerto (K.467) and Debussy's Jeux "Games", both on the evening's program.

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Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Dialoge (1965)
Concerto for Two Pianos and Large Orchestra
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ca.18'

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