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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Obrecht Missa 'Malheur me bat'
Josquin Des Prez Missa 'Malheur me bat'

Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips conductor


19.00 - 22.05

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

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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