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SUNDAY 5 AUGUSTProm 30: BBC Symphony ChorusTime: 4.00pm - c5.30pm Venue Tickets £9 & £12.50 
Broadcasts
In this choral Prom the anniversaries of Elgar and Grieg are celebrated, as is this season's Shakespeare theme, with Brahms's setting of 'Come away, come away, death' from Twelfth Night. Stephen Jackson, Director of the Chorus since 1989, also conducts the world premiere of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's Four Poems of Thomas Campion, written especially for this strikingly versatile choir.
There will be no interval
Iain Farrington organ Detailed notes about the music will be available one hour before the concert. Like this Prom? try these:
30/07 Prom 31: Royal Philharmonic OrchestraTime: 7.30pm - c9.40pm Venue Tickets £6-£27.50 
Broadcasts
Broadcast on BBC FOUR.
Elgar's affectionate musical sketches of his 'friends pictured within' placed him firmly on the British musical map. Richard Strauss promoted his music in Germany, where he famously saluted Elgar as 'the first English progressivist'. While Strauss's sparkling, waltz-infused Der Rosenkavalier contributed to his fortune, his Oboe Concerto – one of the last fruits of his Romantically inclined Indian summer – came at the end of the Second World War, by which time he had been stripped of his earnings. Inspired by the suggestion of an oboeplaying US soldier, it is performed tonight by the young Russian virtuoso Alexei Ogrintchouk.
Interval
Alexei Ogrintchouk oboe Alexei Ogrintchouk is a member of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme which is supported by Aviva plc.' Detailed notes about the music will be available one hour before the concert. Like this Prom? try these:
13/07
29/08 
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Listen to Radio 3 Proms 2007   
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