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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 55: Organ Recital: Nathan Laube
Performance Date28 August 2022
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time11:30
Main PerformersNathan Laube - organ
Set List'Grand March' from Tannhäuser’, R Wagner, trans. W J Westbrook, N Laube,
'Grande Pièce Symphonique’, Franck,
'11 Grands Préludes – No.10: Scherzando’, Alkan,
'Piano Sonata in B Minor’, Liszt, trans. N Laube
Performance NotesExciting young American organist Nathan Laube makes his Proms debut with a programme celebrating the expressive power of the Royal Albert Hall’s mighty ‘Father’ Willis organ – the second-largest instrument of its kind in the UK.

At the climax of the concert is Laube’s own transcription of Liszt’s brooding Sonata in B minor – perhaps the composer’s greatest work for keyboard, its shape-shifting themes transformed with dazzling invention and variety.

The concert also includes Franck’s Grande pièce symphonique – an organ symphony dedicated to the great pianist and composer Charles-Valentin Alkan, whose own Scherzando from the 11 Grands préludes is dedicated in return to Franck. The concert opens in a blaze with the Grand March from Wagner’s opera Tannhäuser.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2022/26),
Programme (RAHE/1/2022/ )
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Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2022/80BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season - Prom 55: Organ Recital: Nathan Laube 28 August 2022
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work12629BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2022 - One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Season69
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/23886Laube; Nathan (1988-); American organist
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