What’s On in August '14

- Prom 20: Walton, Gurney & Sally Beamish
  
  Friday 1 August 2014, 7:30PM
  
  Continuing our commemoration of the centenary since the outbreak of the First World War, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins explore English responses to war across three generations.
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- Live music in Verdi - Alex Hutton
  
  Friday 1 August 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 - Eric Ranzoni
  
  Saturday 2 August 2014 - 12:00 PM
  
  Verdi - Italian Kitchen
  
  Chicago Blues including music by Muddy Waters, Memphis Slim, BB King, Otis Spann and John Lee Hooker
  
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- Proms Saturday Matinee 1: Gluck, Handel & Lully
  
  Saturday 2 August 2014 - 3:00 PM
  
  Cadogan Hall
  
  The first Greek orchestra ever to appear at the Proms, Armonia Atenea and Artistic Director George Petrou present a programme with an appropriately classical flavour.
  
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- Prom 21: The John Wilson Orchestra - Kiss Me, Kate
  
  Saturday 2 August 2014, 7:30PM
  
  Following the enormous success of their staged performance of My Fair Lady in 2012, John Wilson and his orchestra return to perform Kiss Me, Kate - Cole Porter's Tony Award-winning reworking of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.
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- Proms Plus Late
  
  Saturday 2 August 2014, 10:45PM
  
  Elgar Room
  
  Informal post-Prom music and poetry event featuring Maya Youssef and Emily Berry.
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- Prom 22: War Horse Prom
  
  Sunday 3 August 2014, 4:30PM
  
  The Proms continues to commemorate the anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, collaborating for the first time with the National Theatre for a concert inspired by award-winning play War Horse.
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- Prom 23: Mozart - Requiem
  
  Sunday 3 August 2014, 8:00PM
  
  Donald Runnicles and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra are joined by the National Youth Choir of Scotland for a performance of Mozart's ever-popular Requiem – the composer's powerful and prescient anticipation of his own death.
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- World War One Centenary Talk - Royal Albert Hall Memories
  
  Monday 4 August 2014 - 1:00 PM
  
  Elgar Room
  
  Join the Royal Albert Hall's archivists for an inspiring talk about the Hall's important role in the First World War and the impact it had on the Grade I listed building and its people.
  
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- Proms Chamber Music 3: R. Strauss & Mozart
  
  Monday 4 August 2014, 1:00PM
  
  Cadogan Hall
  
  Clarinettist Michael Collins and his ensemble London Winds pair Richard Strauss's youthful work with Mozart's Serenade in C minor.
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- Prom 24: Vaughan Williams & Mahler
  
  Monday 4 August 2014, 6:30PM
  
  Donald Runnicles conducts a programme that looks to the past – a musical meditation on history, death and loss that still speaks powerfully today, 100 years after the start of the First World War.
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- Prom 25: The Tallis Scholars sings Tavener
  
  Monday 4 August 2014, 9:15PM
  
  The other-worldly atmosphere of a Late Night Prom frames a musical tribute to John Tavener by the Tallis Scholars, leading the audience into the exact anniversary of Britain's declaration of entering the First World War, at 11pm, in contemplative calm.
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- Discover the Architecture of the Royal Albert Hall
  
  Tuesday 5 August - Wednesday 6 August 2014
  
  Education Room
  
  Creative workshops for children aged 5-11. Come and exmplore the architecture of one of London's most iconic buildings.
  
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- Prom 26: Shostakovich & Berio
  
  Tuesday 5 August 2014, 7:30PM
  
  This concert from the European Union Youth Orchestra opens with Berio's 20th-century classic, Sinfonia – a witty, whistle-stop tour through centuries of Western culture, from Bach to The Beatles.
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- Prom 27: Wagner, Elgar & Mathias
  
  Wednesday 6 August 2014, 7:00PM
  
  The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Mark Wigglesworth perform the exuberantly rhythmic overture to Wagner's early comedy Das Liebesverbot and Elgar's richly orchestrated First Symphony – a work itself steeped in the Germanic tradition.
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- Prom 28: Stravinsky – Oedipus rex
  
  Thursday 7 August 2014, 7:30PM
  
  Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC Singers in one of the great 20th-century dramatic showpieces – Stravinsky's vivid and visceral 'opera-oratorio' Oedipus rex.
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- Prom 29: Chopin, Franck, Saint-Saens & Casella
  
  Friday 8 August 2014, 6:30PM
  
  A concert of big melodies and even bigger sounds, culminating in Saint-Saëns mighty 'Organ' Symphony, sees 22 year old British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor return as soloist in works by Franck and Chopin.
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- Live music in Verdi - John Crawford
  
  Friday 8 August 2014 - 8:00 PM
  
  Verdi - Italian Kitchen
  
  John Crawford brings his positive and upbeat jazz piano to Verdi
  
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- Prom 30: Battle of the Bands
  
  Friday 8 August 2014, 10:15PM
  
  Singer and broadcaster Clare Teal transports us back to the 1930s, as two of the greatest swing bands of the day – one led by Count Basie, the other by Duke Ellington – faced off in a memorable Battle of the Bands.
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- Live music in Verdi - Old Hat Jazz Band
  
  Saturday 9 August 2014 - 12:00 PM
  
  Verdi - Italian Kitchen
  
  Swinging favourites and rarities from the 1920s and 1930s
  
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- Proms Saturday Matinee 2: Sibelius, Honegger, C. P. E. Bach, Sir Harrison Birtwistle & Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
  
  Saturday 9 August 2014, 3:00PM
  
  Cadogan Hall
  
  The Lapland Chamber Orchestra celebrates the 80th birthdays of two major British composers and continue the anniversary celebrations of C. P. E. Bach with the brooding textures of his Symphony in B minor.
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- Prom 31: Elgar, Beethoven, Berlioz & Helen Grime
  
  Saturday 9 August 2014, 7:30PM
  
  The sea lies at the centre of this concert from Mark Elder and the Hallé. The sunshine glitters on the waves in Berlioz's overture Le corsaire, while the ocean ebbs and flows in Elgar's Sea Pictures.
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- Proms Plus Late
  
  Saturday 9 August 2014, 10:00PM
  
  Elgar Room
  
  Free informal post-Prom music and poetry event featuring Street-Nelms and Keith Jarrett.
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- Prom 32: Beethoven, Bruch & Walton
  
  Sunday 10 August 2014, 4:00PM
  
  Sir Neville Marriner is joined by Joshua Bell, his successor as Artistic Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, to lead the orchestra in three masterworks from three different centuries.
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- Prom 33: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
  
  Sunday 10 August 2014, 7:45PM
  
  The NYOGB present a fiery and virtuosic programme of 20th-century orchestral masterpieces, conducted by Proms favourite Edward Gardner.
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- Proms Chamber Music 4: Prokofiev & Schubert
  
  Monday 11 August 2014, 1:00PM
  
  Cadogan Hall
  
  Before her solo appearance at the Last Night of the Proms, Dutch violinist Janine Jansen joins with pianist Itamar Golan and with conductor Sakari Oramo to perform a programme of 20th-century chamber music.
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- Prom 34: R. Strauss, Mozart & Nielsen
  
  Monday 11 August 2014, 7:30PM
  
  In the first of two concerts with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Principal Conductor Thomas Søndergård directs the first of two great Scandinavian symphonies.
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- Prom 35: Sibelius, Walton & Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
  
  Tuesday 12 August 2014, 7:00PM
  
  Canadian violinist James Ehnes returns as soloist in Walton's virtuosic yet intimate Violin Concerto and Søndergård and the BBC NOW continue their Scandinavian musical tour.
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- Prom 36: Vaughan Williams & Alwyn
  
  Wednesday 13 August 2014, 6:30PM
  
  The dreamy pastoralism of Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending contrasts with the jaunty vigour of the composer's overture The Wasps in this all-English Prom. Job continues this season's thread of great 20th-century ballet scores, while William Alwyn's First Symphony adds to the evening’s nostalgia with the endless melody of its slow movement.
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- Prom 37: Steve Reich
  
  Wednesday 13 August 2014, 10:15PM
  
  Surrender to the pulsing rhythms and repetitions of Minimalism's founding father Steve Reich, performed by the BBC Singers and contemporary specialists the Endymion Ensemble.
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- Prom 38: Sibelius, Bridge & Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
  
  Thursday 14 August 2014, 7:30PM
  
  Sibelius's slowly shifting structures and emotive musical language, showcased here in his Second Symphony, are echoed and evolved in Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s Fifth Symphony.
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- Prom 39: R. Strauss, Rameau, Mozart and Bernard Rands
  
  Friday 15 August 2014, 7:30PM
  
  The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra take us from 18th-century France to fin de siècle Germany in a concert that also includes the UK premiere of Bernard Rands's Piano Concerto.
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- Live music in Verdi - Alex Hutton
  
  Friday 15 August 2014 - 8:00 PM
  
  Verdi - Italian Kitchen
  
  Jazz pianist Alex Hutton joins us on selected Friday evenings June - August
  
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- Proms Plus Late
  
  Friday 15 August 2014, 10:15PM
  
  Elgar Room
  
  Free informal post-Prom music and poetry event featuring the Misha Mullov-Abbado Quintet and Ben Norris.
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- Live music in Verdi - Dom Pipkin
  
  Saturday 16 August 2014 - 12:00 PM
  
  Verdi - Italian Kitchen
  
  Jazz and blues greats from New Orleans
  
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- Prom 40: Bernard Haitink and the London Symphony Orchestra
  
  Saturday 16 August 2014, 6:30PM
  
  Coloured by sleigh-bells and charming melodies, Mahler's Fourth Symphony is the centrepiece of this Prom by Bernard Haitink and the London Symphony Orchestra.
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- Prom 41: Aurora Orchestra
  
  Saturday 16 August 2014, 10:15PM
  
  The Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon contrast Mozart's graceful Symphony with two much newer pieces: Dobrinka Tabakova's hurdy-gurdy-inflected Spinning a Yarn and Benedict Mason's audacious BBC commission, Meld.
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- Sunday brunch - Top Shelf Jazz Bistrotet
  
  Sunday 17 August 2014 - 12:00 PM
  
  Verdi - Italian Kitchen
  
  A delicious corruption of the Swing Manouche style, with original songs and a satirical edge.
  
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- Prom 42: Lest We Forget
  
  Sunday 17 August 2014, 7:30PM
  
  Baritone Roderick Williams joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in music inspired by the First World War.
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- Proms Chamber Music 5: R. Strauss and Wolf
  
  Monday 18 August 2014, 1:00PM
  
  Cadogan Hall
  
  This recital by Alice Coote and Julius Drake explores the Lieder of Strauss and Wolf.
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- Prom 43: Rachmaninov, Stravinsky & Tchaikovsky
  
  Monday 18 August 2014, 7:30PM
  
  An all-Russian programme from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Edward Garner opens with the buzzing energy of Stravinsly's Scherzo fantastique and ends in the cannon-fire of Tchaikovsky’s '1812' Overture.
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- Discover Music from Around the World
  
  Tuesday 19 August - Wednesday 20 August 2014
  
  Education Room
  
  Creative workshops for children aged 5-11. Come and celebrate music and culture from around the world.
  
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- Prom 44: Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique
  
  Tuesday 19 August 2014, 6:30PM
  
  The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut under its Chief Conductor Sir Andrew Davis.
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- Prom 45: Late Night with... Laura Mvula
  
  Tuesday 19 August 2014, 10:15PM
  
  Brit Award and Mercury-nominated singer-songwriter Laura Mvula returns to the BBC Proms for an intimate Late Night Prom – a cabaret-style evening of music that couches Mvula's talents in rich orchestral textures.
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- Prom 46: Daniel Barenboim and the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra
  
  Wednesday 20 August 2014, 7:30PM
  
  The West–Eastern Divan Orchestra returns with Daniel Barenboim for a Spanish-themed evening.
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- Prom 47: Britten – War Requiem
  
  Thursday 21 August 2014, 7:30PM
  
  Wilfred Owen's shattering, verse sits at the heart of Britten's War Requiem – that great Pacifist outpouring of horror and sorrow.
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- Prom 48: Classical Tectonics
  
  Friday 22 August 2014, 7:30PM
  
  The Iceland Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut with works by two homegrown composers, both inspired by Iceland's geology.
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- Live music in Verdi - Alex Hutton
  
  Friday 22 August 2014 - 8:00 PM
  
  Verdi - Italian Kitchen
  
  Jazz pianist Alex Hutton joins us on selected Friday evenings June - August
  
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- Prom 49: Russian Fairy Tales
  
  Saturday 23 August 2014, 7:30PM
  
  Ice-maidens, pirates and princesses form the cast of this fairy-tale concert.
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- Proms Plus Late
  
  Saturday 23 August 2014, 10:15PM
  
  Elgar Room
  
  Free informal post-Prom music and poetry event featuring the Ashley Henry Trio and Dominic Hale.
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- Sunday brunch - FB Pocket Orchestra
  
  Sunday 24 August 2014 - 12:00 PM
  
  Verdi - Italian Kitchen
  
  Hot jazz, blues, ragtime and popular dances of the 1920 and ‘30s.
  
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- Prom 50: Dvorak, Beethoven & Janacek
  
  Sunday 24 August 2014, 7:30PM
  
  Cellist Alisa Weilerstein returns to the Proms with Dvořák’s Cello Concerto. Jiří Bĕlohlávek leads the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.
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- Proms Chamber Music 6: Schubert, Mahler & R. Strauss
  
  Monday 25 August 2014, 1:00PM
  
  Cadogan Hall
  
  Pianist Louis Schwizgebel and the dynamic Royal String Quartet are the key players in a concert that culminates in Richard Strauss's richly nostalgic Metamorphosen.
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- Prom 51: Free Prom - Dvorak, Grieg, Bax & Bill Whelan
  
  Monday 25 August 2014, 3:00PM
  
  This year's Free Prom is a Bank Holiday matinee from the Ulster Orchestra bursting with dance rhythms and colour.
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- Prom 52: Ivan Fischer & the Budapest Festival Orchestra
  
  Monday 25 August 2014, 7:30PM
  
  The Bank Holiday weekend celebrations continue with Proms favourites the Budapest Festival Orchestra and a programme of orchestral showpieces from the Habsburg Empire.
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- Prom 53: Brahms Night
  
  Tuesday 26 August 2014, 7:00PM
  
  The second of two concerts from Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra reinstates the Proms tradition of composer nights with an evening dedicated to the music of Brahms.
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- Prom 54: Beethoven - Missa solemnis
  
  Tuesday 26 August 2014, 10:15PM
  
  Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the Monteverdi Choir returns to the Proms under Sir John Eliot Gardiner for one of the greatest choral works of the repertoire – Beethoven's mighty Missa solemnis.
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- Prom 55: Tchaikovsky, Debussy & Unsuk Chin
  
  Wednesday 27 August 2014, 7:30PM
  
  Myung-Whun Chung directs the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, making its Proms debut this year.
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- Prom 56: Holst - The Planets
  
  Thursday 28 August 2014, 7:30PM
  
  Masterpieces from Schoenberg, Holst and Scriabin offer three very different portraits of 20th-century music in this concert by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski.
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- Prom 57: Mahler - Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection'
  
  Friday 29 August 2014, 7:30PM
  
  Birth, death and the fragile stages between are the subject of this grand musical exploration, which culminates in a transcendent choral finale.
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- Live music in Verdi - Alex Hutton
  
  Friday 29 August 2014 - 8:00 PM
  
  Verdi - Italian Kitchen
  
  Jazz pianist Alex Hutton joins us on selected Friday evenings June - August
  
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- Proms Saturday Matinee 3: A Portrait of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
  
  Saturday 30 August 2014, 3:00PM
  
  Cadogan Hall
  
  A programme chosen by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies ranges from the sleek chamber textures of A Mirror of Whitening Light to the music-drama of Revelation and Fall.
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- Prom 58: Strauss – Salome
  
  Saturday 30 August 2014, 7:30PM
  
  In Richard Strauss's 150th-anniversary year the Proms presents a double bill of his two great tragedies.
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- Proms Plus Late
  
  Saturday 30 August 2014, 9:45PM
  
  Elgar Room
  
  Free informal post-Prom music and poetry event featuring the Kieran Leonard Quartet.
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- Sunday brunch - TJ Johnson
  
  Sunday 31 August 2014 - 12:00 PM
  
  Verdi - Italian Kitchen
  
  An extraordinary blend of music that transcends the boundaries of jazz, blues, soul, country and gospel.
  
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- Prom 59: Strauss - Elektra
  
  Sunday 31 August 2014, 7:30PM
  
  Elektra – Strauss's brutal and ferociously powerful re-telling of the Greek revenge myth – continues this weekend's opera double-bill.
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FOOD & DRINK AT THE HALL

The Hall's six dining spaces, fourteen bars and box catering offer a huge choice of culinary delights ranging from three-course meals with fine wines to light bar snacks and cocktails.

Food and drink is supplied by our deliciously different caterer, "rhubarb".

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PROMS IN THE PARK

Saturday 13 September 2014

Join in the Last Night celebrations in Hyde Park, featuring a host of musical stars including Pumeza Matshikiza,
Rufus Wainwright and Earth, Wind
& Fire.

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HISTORY OF THE PROMS TOUR

Friday 18 July - Saturday 13 September

Which pianist played a Prom 27 years after his death? How did an audience member save André Previn's Carmina Burana? The answers to these questions and more are revealed in this unique tour.

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What’s On in August '14

Friday 1 August 2014, 7:30PM

Friday 1 August 2014 - 8:00 PM

Verdi - Italian Kitchen

Saturday 2 August 2014 - 12:00 PM

Verdi - Italian Kitchen

Saturday 2 August 2014 - 3:00 PM

Cadogan Hall

Saturday 2 August 2014, 7:30PM

Saturday 2 August 2014, 10:45PM

Elgar Room

Sunday 3 August 2014, 4:30PM

Sunday 3 August 2014, 8:00PM

Monday 4 August 2014 - 1:00 PM

Elgar Room

Monday 4 August 2014, 1:00PM

Cadogan Hall

Monday 4 August 2014, 6:30PM

Monday 4 August 2014, 9:15PM

Tuesday 5 August - Wednesday 6 August 2014

Education Room

Tuesday 5 August 2014, 7:30PM

Wednesday 6 August 2014, 7:00PM

Thursday 7 August 2014, 7:30PM

Friday 8 August 2014, 6:30PM

Friday 8 August 2014 - 8:00 PM

Verdi - Italian Kitchen

Friday 8 August 2014, 10:15PM

Saturday 9 August 2014 - 12:00 PM

Verdi - Italian Kitchen

Saturday 9 August 2014, 3:00PM

Cadogan Hall

Saturday 9 August 2014, 7:30PM

Saturday 9 August 2014, 10:00PM

Elgar Room

Sunday 10 August 2014, 4:00PM

Sunday 10 August 2014, 7:45PM

Monday 11 August 2014, 1:00PM

Cadogan Hall

Monday 11 August 2014, 7:30PM

Tuesday 12 August 2014, 7:00PM

Wednesday 13 August 2014, 6:30PM

Wednesday 13 August 2014, 10:15PM

Thursday 14 August 2014, 7:30PM

Friday 15 August 2014, 7:30PM

Friday 15 August 2014 - 8:00 PM

Verdi - Italian Kitchen

Friday 15 August 2014, 10:15PM

Elgar Room

Saturday 16 August 2014 - 12:00 PM

Verdi - Italian Kitchen

Saturday 16 August 2014, 6:30PM

Saturday 16 August 2014, 10:15PM

Sunday 17 August 2014 - 12:00 PM

Verdi - Italian Kitchen

Sunday 17 August 2014, 7:30PM

Monday 18 August 2014, 1:00PM

Cadogan Hall

Monday 18 August 2014, 7:30PM

Tuesday 19 August - Wednesday 20 August 2014

Education Room

Tuesday 19 August 2014, 6:30PM

Tuesday 19 August 2014, 10:15PM

Wednesday 20 August 2014, 7:30PM

Thursday 21 August 2014, 7:30PM

Friday 22 August 2014, 7:30PM

Friday 22 August 2014 - 8:00 PM

Verdi - Italian Kitchen

Saturday 23 August 2014, 7:30PM

Saturday 23 August 2014, 10:15PM