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BBC Proms 2009

The 2009 season of BBC Proms is now over but you can still enjoy the following highlights from World Service Proms broadcasts:

The First Night of the Proms: 18 - 19 July

Prom 8: 800th Anniversary of Cambridge University: 25-26 July

Prom 10: Akiko Suwanai: Virtuoso Violin Works: 01-02 August

Prom 28: Karen Geoghegan: Bassoon Concerto: 08-09 August

Prom 32: Multiple Pianos: 15-16 August

Prom 44: Budapest Festival Orchestra: 22-23 August

Prom 53: Joyce DiDonato: Baroque Arias: 29-30 August

Prom 61: Magdalena Kožená : French Songs: 12 September

Last Night of the Proms: 12-13 September

Programmes:
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Previous programmes:
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    The Last Night Of The Proms

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    Available since Sun, 20 Sep 2009.

    Highlights from Last Night of the Proms with soloists Sarah Connolly and Alison Balsom.

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    1. 12/09/2009

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      Prom 61: Duparc's songs with Magdalena Kožená and Ravel's Daphnis with Mariss Jansons

    2. 29/08/2009

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      Available since Mon, 31 Aug 2009.

      Prom 53: Joyce DiDonato sings music by anniversary composers Haydn and Handel.

    3. 22/08/2009

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      Available since Tue, 25 Aug 2009.

      Prom 44: Dvorak's Symphony No. 7 with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer.

    4. 15/08/2009

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      Available since Tue, 18 Aug 2009.

      Prom 32: A Celebration of Multiple Pianos.

4 more programmes available now.

Featured

Proms Presenters: Louise Fryer

Louise’s first public musical performance was a rendition of “Feed the Birds” from Mary Poppins on a coach journey to Spain when she was 5.

After University she sang for her supper with a group called The Swingin’ Chickens. When that left her peckish, she took a job in radio working as a Newsreader for BBC World Service, and her first experience of presenting concerts came with World Service relays of the Proms. Since then she’s become a regular presenter for the BBC’s Classical Music station Radio 3 – combining days in the studio with trips all round the country and abroad introducing concerts – in particular with the BBC Orchestras.

In addition to the Proms, she returns to World Service from time to time to present music features and documentaries, including the award-winning series The Noisy Ape.

Louise was briefly an actress and keeps one toe in the theatre world, adding commentaries to plays to enable blind and partially sighted people to enjoy the productions. She’s also spent a year at the BBC running a pilot project for the audio description of television and she writes audio guides for museums and galleries.

When not in a windowless studio, dark theatre or gallery Louise likes to be out in her allotment – she’s an obsessive vegetable grower and keeps bees.

Andrew McGregor

Andrew was installed at a piano from a tender age, picking out popular TV theme tunes with one finger. Over time his technique improved, and he added violin, voice and organ to the options. After spending school holidays trying to pick up a girlfriend on orchestra and chamber music courses, Andrew bluffed his way into the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain as a violinist, playing Stravinsky under Chailly at the Proms, his first experience of live broadcasting on the BBC.

Time to earn a living: after working for a small independent classical record label, Andrew trained at the BBC as a sound engineer, and then had his first experience of talking on air, for the BBC World Service. These days he presents CD Review on Saturday mornings on BBC Radio 3, where he gets to listen to the latest CDs before anyone else, as well as meeting some of the most fascinating musicians in the business.

Andrew also loves the live concert presentations that come his way, from the WOMAD Festival, the Awards for World Music, Proms and operas on BBC Radio 3, to the Last Night of the Proms and concerts in China for BBC World Service. He talks about world music every week on BBC radio Five Live, and was shocked to win a silver Sony Award as Music Broadcaster of the Year in 2006.

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