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Prom 69: Orff – Carmina burana

Part of the Proms 2015 Series

Add to my Calendar 06-09-2015 19:30 06-09-2015 21:30 36 Prom 69: Orff – Carmina burana This year’s free Prom is an ideal opportunity to introduce family and friends to classical music. Carmina burana is as musically inventive as it is irreverent - a choral cantata based on a medieval text charting the joys, fickleness and excesses of human life. The BBC Concert Orchestra’s Composer-in-Association Guy Barker provides a new concerto for trumpet virtuoso Alison Balsom and the orchestra’s own Charles Mutter is the soloist in Saint-Saëns’s devilish Danse macabre. Royal Albert Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England

Programme

Camille Saint-Saens – Danse Macabre, song (1872)
Guy Barker – The Lanterne of Light: BBC commission: world premiere
~ Interval ~
Carl Orff – Carmina Burana

Performers

Charles Mutter – violin
 Keith Lockhart – Conductor
 Alison Balsom – trumpet
 Olena Tokar – soprano
 Thomas Walker – tenor
 Benjamin Appl – baritone

BBC Symphony Orchestra
 Southend Boys' Choir
 Southend Girls' Choir
 BBC Symphony Chorus
 London Philharmonic Choir

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Programme Note

This year’s free Prom is an ideal opportunity to introduce family and friends to classical music. Carmina burana is as musically inventive as it is irreverent - a choral cantata based on a medieval text charting the joys, fickleness and excesses of human life. The BBC Concert Orchestra’s Composer-in-Association Guy Barker provides a new concerto for trumpet virtuoso Alison Balsom and the orchestra’s own Charles Mutter is the soloist in Saint-Saëns’s devilish Danse macabre.

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