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Week 1: 18 - 24 July 2008
Fri 18	Sat 19	Sun 20	Mon 21	Tue 22	Wed 23	Thu 24
20.00 - 22.25 Prom 1 R. Strauss Festliches Präludium Mozart Oboe Concerto in C major, K314 R. Strauss Four Last Songs Messiaen Dieu parmi nous, from 'La Nativité du Seigneur' Beethoven Rondo in B-flat, for piano and orchestra E. Carter Catenaires (solo piano) - UK premiere Scriabin The Poem of Ecstasy Christine Brewer soprano Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano Nicholas Daniel oboe Wayne Marshall organ Royal College of Music Brass BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiří Bělohlávek conductor	18.30 - 21.00 Prom 2 Bax: The Garden of Fand Finzi: Intimations of Immortality Elgar: Violin Concerto Andrew Kennedy tenor Nigel Kennedy violin BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Concert Orchestra Paul Daniel conductor 22.00 - 23.30 Prom 3 Nigel Kennedy Quintet Nigel Kennedy violin Tomasz Grzegorski saxophone Piotr Wylezol piano Adam Kowalewski double bass Pawel Dobrowolski percussion With Xantone Blacq singer	15.30 - 18.00 Prom 4 Folk Day (1) Traditional Folk songs Grainger & Vaughan Williams Folk song-inspired works Berio Folk songs Trad. arr. Folkestra Folk music from the British Isles Bartok Romanian Dances Tickell New arrangement (BBC commission: world premiere) Bella Hardy singer London Young Musicians Folkestra Muzsikas London Sinfonietta Martyn Brabbins conductor 19.30 - 21.30 Prom 5 Folk Day (2) To include sets by: Bella Hardy Singer Martin Simpson singer/guitar Bellowhead	13:00 - 14:00 PCM 1 Schumann 5 Gesänge der Frühe, Op.133 E. Carter Night Fantasies Messiaen L'Alouette Lulu, from Catalogue d'oiseaux Bartok Suite: Out of Doors Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano 19:30 - 21:45 Prom 6 Messiaen L'Ascension, for solo organ Messiaen Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3 ('Organ') Olivier Latry organ Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France Myung-Whun Chung conductor	19:00 - 21:05 Prom 7 Rossini William Tell - Overture Haydn Cello Concerto No.1 Elgar Symphony No.1 Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR) Sir Roger Norrington conductor 22.00 - 23.30 Prom 8 Obrecht Missa 'Malheur me bat' Josquin Des Prez Missa 'Malheur me bat' Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips conductor	19.00 - 22.05 Prom 9 Mendelssohn Overture - Ruy Blas Mendelssohn Symphony No.4 Brahms Piano Concerto No.2 Brahms Symphony No.2 Lars Vogt piano BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiří Bělohlávek conductor	19:30 - 21:25 Prom 10 Bax In memoriam Patrick Pearse (1st public performance) Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.1 Vaughan Williams Symphony No.4 Yevgeny Sudbin piano BBC Philharmonic Yan Pascal Tortelier conductor

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