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BBC Proms - 18 July-13 Sept 2008 - The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival

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Prom 13: Doctor Who Prom

  • Date Sunday 27 July 2008
  • Time 11.00am - c1.00pm
  • Venue Royal Albert Hall
  • Tickets £5 & £10 price band G or Prom for £5
  • Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3 and available as audio on demand for the following week.

    Recorded for broadcast on BBC One at 1.50pm, 1 January 2009.
Freema Agyeman

A family concert featuring music from the BBC's Doctor Who series, and including a specially filmed scene, written by Russell T Davies and starring David Tennant.

There's also a selection of classical favourites with a strong flavour of time and space. Join Freema Agyeman (aka Martha Jones), and others from the Doctor Who cast, for an intergalactic musical adventure - with a little help from Daleks, Cybermen and other aliens from the series!

Doctor Who Prom

Find out more on the Doctor Who website

    Programme includes:

  • Murray Gold Concert Prologue* (3 mins)
  • Copland Fanfare for the Common Man (3 mins)
  • Murray Gold All The Strange Strange Creatures* (4 mins)
  • Mark-Anthony Turnage The Torino Scale (UK premiere) (4 mins)
  • Holst The Planets - Jupiter (8 mins)
  • Murray Gold The Doctor Forever* (4.30 mins)
  • Murray Gold Rose* (1.30 mins)
  • Murray Gold Martha v The Master* (4.30 mins)
  • Murray Gold Music of the Spheres (including theme original)* (7.30 mins)
  • Wagner Die Walküre - The Ride of the Valkyries (5 mins)
  • Murray Gold The Daleks & Davros* (8 mins)
  • Murray Gold Donna, Girl in Fireplace, Astrid* (4 mins)
  • Prokofiev 'Montagues and Capulets' from Romeo and Juliet (5 mins)
  • Murray Gold This is Gallifrey* (3.30 mins)
  • Murray Gold Doctor's Theme / Song for Freedom * (5.30 mins)
  • Murray Gold Doomsday* (5 mins)
  • Murray Gold Song for Ten* (4 mins)
  • Murray Gold Doctor Who Theme* (1.30 mins)

There will be one interval

Freema Agyeman presenter
with Daleks and Cybermen

London Philharmonic Choir
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Foster* conductor
Stephen Bell conductor

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2.00pm - 4.00pm: Proms Family Orchestra An afternoon session inspired by music from the Doctor Who Prom.

5.15pm - 6.00pm: Proms Intro Dr Christopher Dingle discusses Messiaen's La Transfiguration with musicians from the Royal College of Music.

Prom 14: La Transfiguration

  • Date Sunday 27 July 2008
  • Time 7.00pm - c8.50pm
  • Venue Royal Albert Hall
  • Tickets £6-£35 price band A or Prom for £5
  • Broadcast Broadcast at 7.30pm on BBC Four. Live on BBC Radio 3, and available as audio on demand for the following week.
Thierry Fischer (credit: Chris Christodoulou)

Composed in the mid-1960s, La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ marked Olivier Messiaen's return to writing for voices after a break of 17 years.

The work is inspired by Christ's transfiguration as reported in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke: the moment when he is suffused with light, speaks with Moses and Elijah, and is named the Son of God.

This huge score, with seven instrumental soloists, a choir of 200 and a vast orchestra, is one of Messiaen's most imposing and powerful creations, a fervent expression of his passionately held Roman Catholic faith - and highlight of this year's Proms Messiaen centenary celebrations.

  • Messiaen La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ (98 mins)

There will be no interval

Gerard Bouwhuis piano
Adam Walker flute
Julian Bliss clarinet
Sonia Wieder-Atherton cello
Colin Currie xylophone
Adrian Spillett marimba
Richard Benjafield vibraphone

Philharmonia Voices
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer conductor

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