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

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Week 2: 25 - 31 July 2008

Fri 25

Sat 26

Sun 27

Mon 28

Tue 29

Wed 30

Thu 31

19:30 - 21:25

Debussy Nocturnes
Simon Holt Troubled Light (BBC Commission; world premiere)

Musorgsky orch. Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition

Cantamus Girls' Choir

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer conductor

19:00 - 21:40

Musorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain (Sorochintsky Fair version)
Musorgsky Boris Godunov - Coronation Scene, Boris's Monologue & Death Scene

Thomas Adès Tevot

Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.1
Borodin Polovtsian Dances

Sir John Tomlinson bass
Louis Lortie piano

City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Adès conductor


11:00 - 13.00

 Prom 13
Doctor Who Prom

Murray Gold Music from Doctor Who
Copland Fanfare for the Common Man
Holst The Planets - Jupiter
Mark-Anthony Turnage The Torino Scale (UK premiere)
Wagner The Ride of the Valkyries

Freema Agyeman presenter
with Daleks and Cybermen

London Philharmonic Choir
BBC Philharmonic
Stephen Bell conductor
Benjamin Foster conductor


19.00 - 20.50

Messiaen La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ

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

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


13:00 - 14:00

Monteverdi Volgendo il ciel
Monteverdi Lamento d'Arianna
Monteverdi Il ballo delle ingrate

I Fagiolini
Barokksolistene
Robert Hollingworth director


19.30 - 21.15

Beethoven Grosse Fuge
Elliott Carter Oboe Concerto

Beethoven Symphony No.5

Nicholas Daniel oboe

BBC Symphony Orchestra
David Robertson conductor


19:30 - 21:40

Butterworth A Shropshire Lad
Vaughan Williams Symphony No.8 in D minor

Bruch Violin Concerto No.1
R Strauss Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

Janine Jansen violin

Hallé
Mark Elder conductor


19:00 - 22:45

World Music Celebration - Winners of the Radio 3 Awards for World Music.

In collaboration with Serious

Mayra Andrade Cape Verde
Juldeh Camara Gambia & Justin Adams UK
Sa Ding Ding China
Son de la Frontera Spain
Bassekou Kouyate Mali


19:00 - 22:30

Monteverdi The Coronation of Poppaea (semi-staged; sung in Italian)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Sonya Yoncheva Fortune soprano
Simona Mihai Virtue soprano
Amy Freston Cupid soprano
Iestyn Davies Otho counter-tenor
Alice Coote Nero mezzo-soprano
Danielle De Niese Poppaea soprano
Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke Amalta tenor
Tamara Mumford Octavia mezzo-soprano
Marie Arnet Drusilla soprano
Paolo Battaglia Seneca bass
Trevor Scheunemann Mercury/Consul bass
Patrick Schramm Lictor/Consul bass
Dominique Visse Nurse/Friend counter-tenor
Claire Ormshaw Lady-in-Waiting soprano
Lucia Cirillo Page mezzo-soprano
Andrew Tortise Lucan/Soldier 1/Tribune/Friend tenor
Peter Gijsbertsen Liberto/Soldier 2/Tribune tenor

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Emmanuelle Haïm conductor


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