It’s the last week of the Proms here on RNZ Concert and as well as the bawdy often raucous fun of the Last Night of the Proms in Music Alive on Wednesday, you can look forward to some tango on Tuesday night.
Tango Prom at Royal Albert Hall Photo: BBC
The Britten Sinfonia join forces with a tango band to celebrate the raw sensuality of the dance from its dusty beginning in the streets of Buenos Aires right up to the present day and hear tangos from Latin America to Finland.
Last Night of the Proms Photo: BBC
Showcasing Grammy Award-winning pianist Pablo Ziegler along with leading singers, dancers and instrumentalists from Europe, the USA and Argentina, the raw and earthy vitality of the tango is explored, from the sultry intimacy of the bandoneon to the big-band orchestral forces of the Britten Sinfonia.
On Wednesday night, Canadian baritone Gerald Finley takes the stage with rising star saxophonist Jess Gillam at the centre of the iconic Last Night of the Proms
Jess Gillam brings the house down with her performance of Scaramouche by Darius Milhaud.
Also on stage are the BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra and its all conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.
Listeners won’t be disappointed with the programme which features all the classics you’d expect from The Last Night of the Proms.
In the second half they'll do Sir Henry Wood’s Fantasia on British Sea Songs, Edward Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March No 1, Parry's Jeruasalem and, of course, Thomas Arne’s Rule Brittania!
The Proms Schedule this week:
Sunday 23 September 2018
6.00 Opera on Sunday
BBC Proms 2018: Handel's Theodora
Theodora............... Louise Alder
Didymus................ Iestyn Davies
Septimus................ Benjamin Hulett
Irene....................... Ann Hallenberg
Valens.................... Tareq Nazmi
Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen
HANDEL: Theodora
Recorded Royal Albert Hall (BBC)
Monday 24 September 2018
7.30 Music Alive
BBC Proms 2018: Boston Symphony Orchestra - Bernstein and Shostakovich
Baiba Skride (violin), Boston Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons
BERNSTEIN: Serenade after Plato's Symposium;
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 4 in C minor Op 43
Recorded Royal Albert Hall (BBC)
Tuesday 25 September 2018
12.00 Upbeat
Including: 1.00 BBC Proms 2018:
Berlin Philharmonic players perform Debussy and Ravel
Maja Avramovic, Daishin Kashimoto (violins), Amihai Grosz (viola), Bruno Delepelaire (cello), Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet), Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp), Alasdair Beatson (piano)
L BOULANGER: Nocturne;
DEBUSSY: Sonata for flute, viola & harp;
Nina ŠENK: Baca;
RAVEL: Introduction & Allegro
Recorded Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC)
7.30 Music Alive
BBC Proms 2018: Tango Prom
Pablo Ziegler (piano), Hector Del Curto (bandoneón), Claudio Ragazzi (guitar), Pedro Giraudo (double bass), Franco Pinna (drums), Britten Sinfonia/Clark Rundell
Aníbal TROILO: Sur; José RAZZANO: Mano a mano;
Juan Carlos COBIÁN: El motive; Aníbal TROILO: Barrio de tango; Héctor STAMPONI: Un momento; Astor PIAZZOLLA: La mufa; Jean SIBELIUS: Valse Triste Tango; Toivo KÄRKI: Hiljainen kylatie; Erik LINDSTRÖM: Kylma Rakkaus; Unto MONONEN: Satumaa; Pekka POHJOLA: Imppu's Tango; Kullervo; LINNA: Iltarusko; Astor PIAZZOLLA: Libertango; Fuga y misterio; Pablo ZIEGLER: Murga del amanecer; Places; Blues Porteno; Buenos Aires Report
Recorded Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC)
Wednesday 26 September 2018
7.30 Music Alive
BBC Proms 2018: Last Night of the Proms
Jess Gillam (saxophone), Gerald Finley (baritone), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra/Sir Andrew Davis
PANUFNIK: Songs of Darkness, Dreams of Light;
STANFORD: Songs of the Sea Op 91;
PARRY: Blest Pair of Sirens;
MILHAUD: Scaramouche Op 165b;
RODGERS: Carousel;
WOOD: Fantasia on British Sea-Songs;
ARNE: Rule, Britannia!;
ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance March No 1;
PARRY: Jerusalem;
TRAD arr Benjamin Britten: God Save the Queen;
TRAD arr Judith Weir: Auld Lang Syne
Recorded Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC)
