Highlights of the Proms: Part 3 Wednesday, July 22, 2009
by KateC | categories Bass Cello Strings Viola Violin | all articles
I’ll be away visiting my parents ‘Up North’ for the next week, but I just about have time before I go to tell you about the Proms highlights featuring viola, double bass and chamber groups ...
I caught Maxim Rysanov playing a transcription of J. S. Bach’s Suite No. 1 for solo cello on his viola yesterday on Radio 3 at lunchtime, and was mesmerized. There will be an opportunity to hear him playing a transcription of the Suite No. 4 on Sunday 30th August in Proms Chamber Music 12.
In the following Proms Chamber Music recital (No. 13), Antoine Tamestit will be playing Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro in A flat major, Op.70 on his 1672 Stradivarius viola. He will also perform in two songs by Brahms for alto, viola and piano.
Christian Frohn will be depicting the comic Sancho Panza in the extensive viola solo of Richard Strauss’ ‘Don Quixote’ in Proms 74 on Friday 11th September.
Louis Cabrera, winner of the Ida Carrol double bass award in 2004, will be joining the viola player, Lawrence Power in a performance of Ludwig Spohr’s F major Nonet for four strings and five wind, composed in 1813. There’s an interesting discussion of the background and musical analysis of this ‘mother and father of all nonets’ in a programme from Radio 3’s Discovering Music series, which is still available to listen to again online.
Perhaps unexpectedly, the 19 Proms Chamber Music recitals of this year include a wide range of music for string ensembles. Among these, there will be an opportunity to hear Haydn’s String Quartet in G major, Op.77 No.1 and Beethoven’s Quartet in C minor, Op.18 No.4 in PCM 7 on Saturday 29th August.
PCM 11 on Sunday 30th August promises an exciting programme performed by Meta4, the Psophos Quartet, the Royal String Quartet and Pavel Haas Quartet. As well as including Haydn’s String Quartet in D major, Op.20 No.4, Debussy’s String Quartet and Szymanowski’s String Quartet No.1 in C major, Op.37, the recital ends with the Allegro for all four quartets by the nineteenth-century Dutch composer, Bernardus van Bree (1801-57).
And that completes my round-up - I hope that you enjoy all that the Proms has to offer for 2009! 
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.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | Fri Jul 24 2009 at 12:01 pm
I also heard the viola concert yesterday lunch time.
It was amazingly well played, but I still prefer the Bach suites played on the cello. I’m not sure if it’s the difference in tone or the fact that I’m just used to hearing it on the cello. I do however really love the sound of the viola and am looking forward to that 30th August concert.
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