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Mon 5 Aug 2019

• 13:00

  Proms at … Cadogan Hall 3: The English Concert

  Kristian Bezuidenhout joins period ensemble The English Concert for a Baroque journey around Europe, featuring lively English dances by Purcell, virtuosic harpsichord music by Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and chamber music by Handel and Telemann.

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  Kristian Bezuidenhout joins period ensemble The English Concert for a Baroque journey around Europe, featuring lively English dances by Purcell, virtuosic harpsichord music by Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and chamber music by Handel and Telemann.

  Programme

  • • • Henry Purcell
      • The Virtuous Wife – overture(3 mins)
      • The Fairy Queen – Hornpipe(2 mins)
      • The Virtuous Wife(4 mins)Second Music: First Act Tune
      • The Indian Queen - Rondeau(2 mins)
      • Chacony(4 mins)
    • • Louis Marchand
      • Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 – Allemande(3 mins)
    • • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
      • Violin Sonata in D minor(10 mins)
    • • Georg Philipp Telemann
      • Sonata à 4 in A minor, TWV 43:a5(10 mins)
    • • George Frideric Handel
      • Trio Sonata in G major, Op. 5 No. 4(13 mins)

  Performers

  • The English Concert
  • Kristian Bezuidenhout

    harpsichord
    harpsichord

  Composers

  • Henry Purcell
  • Louis Marchand
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
  • Georg Philipp Telemann
  • George Frideric Handel

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  Also part of

  Proms Around the UK

  
• 17:45

  Proms Plus Talk

  Imperial College Union

  A look beneath the surface of swans - in nature and culture - with ‘Human Swan’ Sacha Dench.

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• 19:30

  Prom 23: Swan Lake

  Royal Albert Hall

  Excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s first great ballet score include the colourful sequence of national dances and the heartbreaking final scene. Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini features pianist Juan Pérez Floristán.

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  Excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s first great ballet score include the colourful sequence of national dances and the heartbreaking final scene. Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini features pianist Juan Pérez Floristán.

  Programme

  • • • Malcolm Arnold
      • Overture 'Peterloo'(10 mins)
    • • Sergey Rachmaninov
      • Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini(23 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
      • Swan Lake(50 mins)– excerpts Henry Wood Novelties: UK premiere (suite), 1901

  Performers

  • Juan Pérez Floristán

    piano
    piano
  • 91Èȱ¬ Philharmonic
  • Ben Gernon

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Malcolm Arnold
  • Sergey Rachmaninov
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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  Classical for Starters 2018-19