SATURDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2010
3.00pm Proms Saturday Matinee 5: BBC Singers
5.45pm Proms Plus: Proms Intro – A discussion on tonight's programme
7.30pm Prom 66: Berliner Philharmoniker
Prom 66: Berliner Philharmoniker
Date Saturday 4 September 2010
Time 7.30pm–c9.40pm
Venue Royal Albert Hall
Tickets £12–£54, price band C or Prom for £5
In the first half of their second Prom, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic pair late works by two of Germany's greatest late-Romantics – 'Richard the First' and 'Richard the Third', as the conductor Hans von Bülow rather wickedly called them (quipping that, after Wagner, there could be no 'Richard the Second').
After the interval come the sensational sonic adventures by the three great musical pioneers of early-20th-century Vienna. Celebrated Finnish soprano Karita Mattila returns to the Proms as soloist in Strauss's opulently nostalgic reflections on life's last days.
Wagner Parsifal – Prelude (Act 1) (13 mins)
R. Strauss Four Last Songs (22 mins)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Last_Songs
interval
Schoenberg Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 - 1909 version (16 mins)
Webern Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6 (12 mins)
Berg Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6 (21 mins)
Karita Mattila soprano
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2010/whatson/0409.shtml#prom66
http://ameblo.jp/akubi-ny-london/entry-10640364765.html
An emotional Karita Mattila is applauded by Simon Rattle after her Proms performance. Photograph: Chris Christodoulou
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/12/simon-rattle-proms-fiona-maddocks
