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Linn artists at the Proms

22 April 2009

The BBC Proms are one of the highlights of the classical music season and the 2009 programme is full of concerts that promise memorable performances from some of the top names in classical music. Linn Records artists are well represented with performances from Sir Charles Mackerras, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Ailish Tynan, James Gilchrist, The Sixteen and the Scottish Ensemble.

Sir Charles Mackerras - conductor
Saturday 25 July 2009 (7.30pm)
Royal Albert Hall - Prom 12

Sir Charles Mackerras contrasts Elgar's 'stout and steaky' salute to the indomitable Cockney spirit of old London Town with Delius's poetical evocation of 'the joy and exhilaration one feels in the mountains ... and the grandeur of the wide, far distances', before venturing into the solar system for Holst's mystical planetary survey which, like Delius's hilltop song, memorably deploys a wordless chorus to ethereal effect.

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Sir Charles Mackerras - conductor
Tuesday 11 August 2009 (7.30pm)
Royal Albert Hall - Prom 35

Sir Charles Mackerras returns as one of our greatest living exponents of G&S and, in the wake of conducting HMS Pinafore in 2005, he now presides over a specially created semi-staging of the 1881 operetta in which Gilbert took a swipe at the then fashionable Aesthetic movement and its artistic figurehead, Oscar Wilde.

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Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Tuesday 21 July 2009 (6.30pm)
Royal Albert Hall - Prom 7

Baroque master William Christie presides over a semi-staging of this summer's new production of Purcell's most lavish theatre score A Midsummer Night's Dream by Glyndebourne Festival Opera, celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.

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Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Tuesday 25 August 2009 (7.00pm)
Royal Albert Hall - Prom 53

The host of last year's Last Night, Sir Roger Norrington returns to conduct music by all four of this year's major anniversary composers: Purcell, Handel, Haydn and Purcell.

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Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Friday 31 July 2009 (7.30pm)
Royal Albert Hall - Prom 20

Part of the Proms Stravinsky ballet series, plus a continuation of the bicentenary celebration of Mendelssohn's symphonies with the one that quotes Luther's great Reformation hymn 'Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott'.

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Scottish Ensemble
Monday 10 August 2009 (1.00pm)
Royal Albert Hall - Proms Chamber Music 4

A rich variety of string music spanning three centuries. At this programme's heart is a new piece by John Woolrich, framed by classic works by Mozart and by Purcell, whose imaginative use of form in his Chacony was such an inspiration for Britten's String Quartet No.2. Stravinsky's mercurial Concerto of 1946 casts an ironic eye back to the musical past as it extracts every ounce of colour and contrast from the strings.

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The Sixteen
Wednesday 12 August 2009 (9.20pm)
Royal Albert Hall - Prom 36

To celebrate Handel's 250th anniversary, Harry Christophers and The Sixteen intersperse the four glorious anthems that Handel wrote for George II's coronation with other Handelian hits, including extracts from his satirical semi-opera Semele, and the well-known Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon.

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Ailish Tynan
Friday 17 July 2009 (7.30pm)
Royal Albert Hall - Prom 1

An exciting mix to open the 2009 Proms. We launch our celebrations of Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Multiple Pianos and more. Elgar In the South (Alassio) (22 mins) Brahms Alto Rhapsody (13 mins) Bruckner Psalm 150 (9 mins) Ailish Tynan soprano Alice Coote mezzo-soprano

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Ailish Tynan
Monday 31 August 2009 (1.00pm)
Cadogan Hall - Proms Chamber Music 16

Programme includes J S Bach Sonata in E flat major for flute and keyboard, J S Bach Suite No.2 in B minor, John McCabe Study No.12, J S Bach, arr. Villa-Lobos Preludes and Fugues - selection and Villa-Lobos Bachiana Brasileira No.5.

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