What’s On in July '14

- Late Night Jazz - Fresh Dixie Project
  
  Thursday 10 July 2014 - 9:45 PM
  
  Elgar Room
  
  With their intense grooves, raucous sax lines and acrobatic vocals, the Fresh Dixie Project have exploded onto the UK music scene with their unique blend of indie-swing
  
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- Live music in Verdi - John Crawford
  
  Friday 11 July 2014 - 8:00 PM
  
  Verdi - Italian Kitchen
  
  John Crawford brings his positive and upbeat jazz piano to Verdi
  
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- DJ Yoda & the Trans-Siberian March Band with Live AV
  
  Friday 11 July 2014 - 8:30 PM
  
  Elgar Room
  
  DJ Yoda brings his audio visual extravaganza to the Royal Albert Hall's Elgar Room.
  
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- Live music in Verdi - Oriana and the Charmers
  
  Saturday 12 July 2014 - 12:00 PM
  
  Verdi - Italian Kitchen
  
  Oriana & The Charmers deliver a mix of classic American jazz, French, and Latin music.
  
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- An Evening with Kristin Chenoweth
  
  Saturday 12 July 2014 - 7:30 PM
  
  Emmy and Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth comes to the Hall for a rare one-off UK stop to perform hits from across her extensive career.
  
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- An Evening with Kristin Chenoweth - Fine Dining package
  
  Saturday 12 July 2014 - 7:30 PM
  
  Enhance your evening with pre-show hospitality in the Royal Albert Hall's Coda restaurant before enjoying the concert from premium Stalls seats.
  
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- Classical Coffee Mornings: Luce Zurita and Valeria Kurbatova
  
  Sunday 13 July 2014 - 11:00 AM
  
  Elgar Room
  
  This flute and harp duo perform music by Bach, Debussy and more
  
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- Sunday brunch - Tango Volcano
  
  Sunday 13 July 2014 - 12:00 PM
  
  Verdi - Italian Kitchen
  
  Traditional music mixed with a selection of dynamic contemporary tangos.
  
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- Fauré's Requiem
  
  Sunday 13 July 2014 - 7:00 PM
  
  1,000-plus singers from The Really Big Chorus perform Fauré's Requiem - a perennial favourite of the choral repertoir.
  
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- Prom 1: First Night of the Proms
  
  Friday 18 July 2014, 7:30PM
  
  The festival opens with Elgar's biblical oratorio The Kingdom – the beautiful 'slow movement' of a planned musical triptych.
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- Live music in Verdi - Alex Hutton
  
  Friday 18 July 2014 - 8:00 PM
  
  Verdi - Italian Kitchen
  
  Jazz pianist Alex Hutton joins us on selected Friday evenings June - August
  
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- Live music in Verdi - Lapazoos
  
  Saturday 19 July 2014 - 12:00 PM
  
  Verdi - Italian Kitchen
  
  Swing, jive and blues straight out of New Orleans
  
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- Prom 2: Elgar, Liszt & Mussorgsky
  
  Saturday 19 July 2014, 7:30PM
  
  East meets West as the China Philharmonic Orchestra launches our series of global orchestras making their debuts at the 2014 Proms.
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- Prom 3: BBC Sport Prom
  
  Sunday 20 July 2014, 10:30AM
  
  Sandwiched between the World Cup, Commonwealth Games and Wimbledon is the first ever BBC Sport Prom. Combining classical favourites, TV themes and sports personalities.
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- Classical Coffee Mornings: Junior - Martin James Bartlett, Freya Goldmark and Sarah Hughes
  
  Sunday 20 July 2014 - 11:00 AM
  
  Elgar Room
  
  Martin James Bartlett, winner of the 2014 BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, Freya Goldmark and Sarah Hughes perform Beethoven and Shostakovich.
  
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- Prom 4: World Orchestra for Peace, Valery Gergiev
  
  Sunday 20 July 2014, 7:30PM
  
  The World Orchestra for Peace return with Valery Gergiev in a programme that moves from the fairy-tale magic evoked in Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten to the human tragedy of Mahler's Sixth Symphony. Roxanna Panufnik's Three Paths to Peace completes the concert.
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- Proms Chamber Music 1: Les Arts Florissants
  
  Monday 21 July 2014, 1:00PM
  
  Cadogan Hall
  
  French Baroque giant Les Arts Florissants launches this season's Proms Chamber Music concerts at Cadogan Hall with music by Rameau who died 250 years ago. His Pièces de clavecin en concerts sees the composer at his most dramatically vivid and virtuosic, showcasing this ensemble in the first of its two concerts this season.
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- Prom 5: Beethoven, Dvorak & R. Strauss
  
  Monday 21 July 2014, 7:30PM
  
  Proms favourite Julia Fischer returns as soloist in Dvořák's earthy, folk-infused violin concerto, joining Zurich's Tonhalle Orchestra for David Zinman's final concert as its Chief Conductor. Strauss's playful depiction of the prankster Till Eulenspiegel continues the musical journey across Central Europe, and the evening closes among the breathtaking landscapes of Beethoven’s 'Pastoral' Symphony.
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- Prom 6: Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier
  
  Tuesday 22 July 2014, 6:30PM
  
  The Glyndebourne Festival’s annual visit to the Proms continues our Strauss 150th-anniversary celebrations with a semi-staging of his sparkling comic opera Der Rosenkavalier. Conductor Robin Ticciati conjures this gilded fantasy of fin-de-siècle Vienna with the help of an international cast, led by British soprano Kate Royal in her role debut as the Marschallin.
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- Prom 7: Shostakovich, Bartok & Tavener
  
  Wednesday 23 July 2014, 6:30PM
  
  Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony – a violent portrait of the horrors of Stalin's Russia – is the centrepiece of this concert from Jiří Bĕlohlávek and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
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- Prom 8: Late Night with... Pet Shop Boys
  
  Wednesday 23 July 2014, 10:15PM
  
  Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe make their Proms debut here as composers. The world premiere of their large-scale work A Man from the Future, inspired by code-breaker Alan Turing, sits alongside new orchestral arrangements of favourite Pet Shop Boys songs.
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- Prom 9: Brahms & Janacek
  
  Thursday 24 July 2014, 7:30PM
  
  One of choral music’s greatest works, Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass is a passionate, secular oratorio celebrating nationhood and peace. By contrast, conflict is to the fore in Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, a work that distils the drama of the composer’s relationship with Schumann and his wife Clara. Valery Gergiev conducts the London Symphony Orchestra, with soloist Barry Douglas.
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- Prom 10: Elgar, Walton, Moeran & David Horne
  
  Friday 25 July 2014, 7:30PM
  
  A concert of 20th-century English music explores musical friendships, which sees Walton's Hindemith Variations pay homage to a beloved colleague, and Elgar's Enigma Variations paint evocative portraits of family and friends.
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- Live music in Verdi - Alex Hutton
  
  Friday 25 July 2014 - 8:00 PM
  
  Verdi - Italian Kitchen
  
  Jazz pianist Alex Hutton joins us on selected Friday evenings June - August
  
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- Prom 11: CBeebies Prom
  
  Saturday 26 July 2014, 11:00AM
  
  Take a journey through the history of classical music with some of your favourite CBeebies characters, in an adventure that combines live music from the BBC Philharmonic and video action on screens around the Hall.
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- Prom 12: Bach - St John Passion
  
  Saturday 26 July 2014, 8:00PM
  
  Few classical works have the urgency and dramatic immediacy, of Bach's St John Passion. Here it is vividly realised by a cast led by tenor James Gilchrist.
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- Prom 13: CBeebies Prom
  
  Sunday 27 July 2014, 11:00AM
  
  Take a journey through the history of classical music with some of your favourite CBeebies characters, in an adventure that combines live music from the BBC Philharmonic and video action on screens around the Hall.
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- Classical Coffee Mornings: Joo Yeon Sir
  
  Sunday 27 July 2014 - 11:00 AM
  
  Elgar Room
  
  Violinist Joo Yeon Sir performs music by Mozart, Schubert and Kreisley
  
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- Prom 14: Durufle, Ravel and Simon Holt
  
  Sunday 27 July 2014, 7:30PM
  
  The lilt of the waltz pulses through Ravel's modernist reimagining in Valses nobles et sentimentales and his witty La valse, before French music takes a sacred turn after the interval with Duruflé's Requiem and a premiere of Simon Holt's concerto Morpheus Wakes.
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- Proms Chamber Music 2: C. P. E. Bach
  
  Monday 28 July 2014, 1:00PM
  
  Cadogan Hall
  
  Baroque violinist Rachel Podger is joined by hand-picked musical friends to explore the contrasts and contradictions of C. P. E. Bach, who celebrates his 300th anniversary this year.
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- Prom 15: Mozart, Ravel and Jonathan Dove
  
  Monday 28 July 2014, 7:30PM
  
  Turbulent mythical love meets poised Classical elegance in a concert from the BBC Symphony Orchestra that sets Mozart's Concerto No. 23 alongside Ravel's sensuous ballet score Daphnis and Chloe.
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- Prom 16: Oriental Promise
  
  Tuesday 29 July 2014, 6:30PM
  
  Violinist Daniel Hope joins the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, which makes its Proms debut with a classical celebration of the Orient.
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- Prom 17: Rameau - Grands Motets
  
  Tuesday 29 July 2014, 10:00PM
  
  Returning for its second concert this season, Les Arts Florissants is joined by founder-conductor William Christie for a Late Night Prom that transforms the Royal Albert Hall into the gilded splendour of the Chapel Royal at Versailles.
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- Prom 18: Mahler, Ravel & Sir Harrison Birtwistle
  
  Wednesday 30 July 2014, 7:30PM
  
  Mahler's Symphony No. 5 – an orchestral showpiece of shifting moods and intense emotions – is the culmination to this concert by the BBC Philharmonic.
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- Prom 19: R. Strauss & Elgar
  
  Thursday 31 July 2014, 7:30PM
  
  Two masterpieces open this anniversary celebration of Richard Strauss Singers, before we move to more familiar musical territory with Strauss's Four Last Songs, whose late-Romantic nostalgia is shared by Elgar's Second Symphony.
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