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Tue 16 Aug 2016

• 17:15

  Proms Extra

  Imperial College Union

  Composers in Conversation: Colin Matthews, 70 this year, discusses his *Berceuse for Dresden* and talks about his influences and inspirations.

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• 19:00

  Prom 41

  Royal Albert Hall

  Sir Mark Elder conducts Mahler’s masterpiece for orchestra and voice – with soloists Alice Coote and Gregory Kunde. In the first half there’s a rare opportunity to hear Berlioz’s King Lear Overture and Colin Matthews’s Berceuse for Dresden.

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  Sir Mark Elder conducts Mahler’s masterpiece for orchestra and voice – with soloists Alice Coote and Gregory Kunde. In the first half there’s a rare opportunity to hear Berlioz’s King Lear Overture and Colin Matthews’s Berceuse for Dresden.

  Programme

  • • • Hector Berlioz
      • Overture 'King Lear'(16 mins)
    • • Colin Matthews
      • Berceuse for Dresden(15 mins)London premiere
    • • interval
    • • Gustav Mahler
      • Das Lied von der Erde(64 mins)

  Performers

  • Leonard Elschenbroich

    cello
    cello
  • Alice Coote

    mezzo-soprano
    mezzo-soprano
  • Gregory Kunde

    tenor
    tenor
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  • Sir Mark Elder

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Hector Berlioz
  • Colin Matthews
  • Gustav Mahler

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• 22:15

  Prom 42

  Royal Albert Hall

  This Late Night Prom intersperses the work of J. S. Bach – including the motet ‘Komm, Jesu, komm’ – with that of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, including his ‘Nunc dimittis’. Harry Christophers conducts.

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  This Late Night Prom intersperses the work of J. S. Bach – including the motet ‘Komm, Jesu, komm’ – with that of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, including his ‘Nunc dimittis’. Harry Christophers conducts.

  Programme

  • • • Johann Sebastian Bach
      • Komm, Jesu, komm!, BWV 229(9 mins)
    • • Arvo Pärt
      • Nunc dimittis(7 mins)
    • • Johann Sebastian Bach
      • Singet dem Herrn, BWV 225(14 mins)
    • • Arvo Pärt
      • Triodion(14 mins)
    • • Johann Sebastian Bach
      • Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227(20 mins)

  Performers

  • The Sixteen
  • Harry Christophers

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Arvo Pärt

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  Late Night Proms