5.15pm - 6pm: Proms Intro Conductor Sir Roger Norrington talks about the challenge of working with different orchestras.
Rossini's William Tell Overture opens the programme, and its long cello solo sets the scene for Haydn's C major Cello Concerto, which features French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras in his Proms debut.
Sir Roger Norrington and his German orchestra also perform the work with which Elgar began to win acclaim as a symphonist in Germany as well as in England.
Jean-Guihen Queyras cello
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR)
Sir Roger Norrington conductor
The Tallis Scholars and conductor Peter Phillips have established themselves as one of the UK's finest interpreters of Renaissance polyphonic music.
In this Late Night Prom they explore two 15th-century Masses based on the chanson 'Malheur me bat' (Misfortune has struck me), attributed to Jean de Ockeghem. The Flemish Jacob Obrecht - the 550th anniversary of whose birth we celebrate this year - was highly regarded in his day, eclipsed only by Josquin des Prez.
Josquin's 'Malheur me bat' setting captures something of the sorrow of Josquin's patron Cardinal Ascanio Sforza, who had been exiled from Milan, taking Josquin with him. The programme also includes a performance of the original, three-part 'Malheur me bat' song, with specially commissioned words.
There will be no interval
Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips conductor
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