Prom 20: The Wallace & Gromit Prom: Musical Marvels! (original) (raw)
Proms 2012 Prom 20: The Wallace & Gromit Prom: Musical Marvels!
Prom 20: The Wallace & Gromit Prom: Musical Marvels!
15:30 Sun 29 Jul 2012 Royal Albert Hall
Wallace & Gromit appear in a new Proms adventure, before a screening of A Matter of Loaf and Death – plus classical favourites.
Wallace & Gromit appear in a new Proms adventure, before a screening of A Matter of Loaf and Death – plus classical favourites.
Programme
- Aaron Copland
- Fanfare for the Common Man(4 mins)
- Aaron Copland
- John Adams
- Short Ride in a Fast Machine(5 mins)
- John Adams
- Claude Debussy
- Clair de Lune (arr. Caplet)(5 mins)
- Claude Debussy
- Dmitry Shostakovich
- Symphony No. 4 in C minor(5 mins)Fugue from first movement
- Dmitry Shostakovich
- Unknown
- My Concerto in Ee, Lad(5 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- Unknown
- interval
- Julian Nott
- A Matter of Loaf and Death(30 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- Julian Nott
Performers
Composers
About this event
The world premiere of a new show, with classical favourites for all the family – including music by John Adams, Debussy and Shostakovich – plus specially filmed new Wallace & Gromit animations, featuring the dynamic duo’s backstage exploits as they prepare for the first performance of Wallace’s brand-new Proms commission, My Concerto in Ee, Lad. And A Matter of Loaf and Death, screened for the first time with a live orchestral soundtrack.
There will be one interval
Programme includes:
Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man
John Adams
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Debussy (arr. A. Caplet)
Clair de lune
Shostakovich
Symphony No. 4 in C minor – 1st movement (excerpt)
Wallace
My Concerto in Ee, Lad
Tasmin Little violin
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon conductor