Prom 15: Late Night Proms - 'Moon and Stars', Anna Lapwood

[bluestateprommer]

Tuesday 25 July 2023
22:15
Royal Albert Hall

Kristina Arakelyan: Star Fantasy (first performance at The Proms)

Ghislaine Reece-Trapp: In Paradisum (first performance at The Proms)

Olivia Belli: Limina Luminis (BBC commission: world premiere)

Hans Zimmer (arr. A. Lapwood): Interstellar Suite - i. 'Stay' (first performance of this arrangement at The Proms)

Florence Price: Retrospection ('An Elf on a Moonbeam'; first performance at The Proms)

Philip Glass: Mad Rush (first performance of this arrangement at The Proms)

Hans Zimmer (arr. A. Lapwood): Interstellar Suite - ii. 'Cornfield Chase' (first performance of this arrangement at The Proms)

Debussy:
(a) String Quartet in G minor – 3rd movement (arr. Guilmant; first performance of this arrangement at The Proms)
(b) Suite bergamasque – 'Clair de lune' (arr. Lapwood; first performance of this arrangement at The Proms)

Hans Zimmer (arr. A. Lapwood): Interstellar Suite - iii. 'No Time for Caution' (first performance of this arrangement at The Proms)


Anna Lapwood, organ (Proms debut artist as soloist)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/en8fbp

https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/proms/bbc-proms-2023/prom-15-late-night-moon-and-stars/

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

22:15 Tuesday 25 July 2023
Royal Albert Hall

Hans Zimmer: Interstellar Suite – No. 1: Stay (arr. Lapwood)
Philip Glass: Mad Rush
Kristina Arakelyan: Dreamland
Hans Zimmer: Interstellar Suite – No. 2: Cornfield (arr. Lapwood)
Claude Debussy: String Quartet in G minor – 3rd mvt (arr. Guilmant)
Claude Debussy: Suite bergamasque – Claire de lune (arr. Lapwood)
Hans Zimmer: Interstellar Suite – No. 3: No Time for Caution (arr. Lapwood)
Olivia Belli: new work (BBC commission: world première)
Ghislaine Reece-Trapp: In Paradisium
Kristina Arakelyan: Star Fantasy

Anna Lapwood organ

[FFAdminMKS]

A chance to hear the 9,999 pipes of the Royal Albert Hall’s organ put through their paces by organist and TikTok star Anna Lapwood in her solo Proms debut.

Stars shine and moonlight gleams in a late-night programme that gazes on the heavens through the eyes of Philip Glass, Claude Debussy, Kristina Arakelyan and Ghislaine Reece-Trapp. We’ll travel on out into the universe with Anna’s own organ versions of music by Ludovico Einaudi and film composer Hans Zimmer, all in cinematic close-up.

[Old Grumpy]

Looking forward to this. Heard her as part of the Ryedale Festval. Fantastic stuff...

[gedsmk]

Elf on a moonbeam seemed to my ear more musically interesting than anything else on the programme. There’s something magical about the Zimmer stuff in the context of the movie he’s writing for but separated out like this the impact is far less. Listening at home I didn’t have the visuals that they had at the RAH so that probably helped there a lot. Glad I don’t ever have to play this stuff in church!

[Old Grumpy]

Agreed, not quite the same without the visual effects perhaps. At the Ryedale concert a screen was in place with a suitably positioned camera in the organ loft, which added a visual element to the performance.