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FRIDAY 12 SEPTEMBER
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5.45pm - 6.30pm: Proms Intro Proms Director Roger Wright and Royal Albert Hall Chief Executive David Elliott reflect on this year's Proms season.
Prom 75: Beethoven's 'Choral' Symphony
- Date Friday 12 September 2008
- Time 7.30pm - c9.50pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £7-£44 price band B or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
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The traditional annual performance of Beethoven's 'Choral' Symphony falls to the BBC Philharmonic and Gianandrea Noseda, whose Beethoven cycle in 2005 won glowing plaudits.
The spiritually shimmering Prelude to Act 1 of Wagner's opera Parsifal leads to Penderecki's moving memorial to the victims of Hiroshima, before Beethoven's rarely heard Elegiac Song, written in 1814 for a friend whose wife had died in childbirth.
So in tonight's Prom it is from the emotional fallout of spiritual searching, then of man's inhumanity to man, and finally of a poignant, personal farewell that Beethoven's life-affirming Ninth Symphony rises, with the universal human message of its 'Ode to Joy'.
- Wagner Parsifal - Prelude, Act 1 (13 mins)
- Penderecki Threnody 'For the Victims of Hiroshima' (9 mins)
- Segue
- Beethoven Elegischer Gesang, Op.118 (6 mins)
- Interval
- Beethoven Symphony No.9, 'Choral' (63 mins)
Emma Bell soprano
Jane Irwin mezzo-soprano
Timothy Robinson tenor
Iain Paterson bass
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda conductor
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