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

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Week 3 : 1 - 7 August 2008

Fri 1

Sat 2

Sun 3

Mon 4

Tue 5

Wed 6

Thu 7

19:00 - 22:30

Kenneth Hesketh Graven Image (BBC/RLPO co-commission; world premiere)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4

Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances

Paul Lewis piano

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko conductor


18.00 - 21.10

 Prom 20
Stockhausen Day

Stockhausen Gruppen;
Klang, 13th hour - Cosmic Pulses (UK premiere);
Klang, 5th hour - Harmonien for solo trumpet (BBC commission; world premiere);
Kontakte;
Gruppen (repeat)

Marco Blaauw trumpet
Nicolas Hodges piano
Colin Currie percussion

BBC Symphony Orchestra
David Robertson, Pascal Rophé, Martyn Brabbins conductors


22:15 - 23:35

Stockhausen Stimmung

Theatre of Voices
Paul Hillier director


16.00 - 17.00

Demessieux Te Deum
Messiaen Verset pour la Fête de la Dédicace
Dupré Symphony for organ No.2
Naji Hakim Pange Lingua
Messiaen Prelude

Improvisation

Wayne Marshall organ


19:30 - 21:40

Beethoven Symphony No.1
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde

Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano
Johan Botha tenor

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles conductor


13:00 - 14:00

Debussy Sonata for violin and piano
Messiaen Theme and variations
Prokofiev Sonata No.2 in D major, Op.94a

Alina Ibragimova violin
Huw Watkins piano


19:30 - 21:55

Bach orch. H Wood Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565
Smyth Concerto for Horn and Violin

Rachmaninov orch. H Wood Prelude in C sharp minor
Rachmaninov Symphony No.2

Richard Watkins horn
Tasmin Little violin

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Solyom conductor


19:00 - 21:15

Wagenaar Overture - Cyrano de Bergerac
Dvorak Symphony No. 6

Brahms Violin Concerto

Julia Fischer violin

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
Yakov Kreizberg conductor


22:15 - 23:30

Poulenc Chansons françaises, Op. 130 - selection
John McCabe Scenes in America Deserta

French Renaissance madrigals
Lassus Dessus le marche d'Arras
Passereau Il est bel et bon
Lassus Toutes les nuits
Janequin La guerre

Victorian Part-Songs
Rogers Hears not my Phyllis
Hobbs Phillis is my only joy
Trad. arr. SE Lovatt The Little Green Lane
Bridge The Goslings

English Folk songs
Trad. arr. Bob Chilcott Greensleeves
Trad. arr. Langford Blow away the morning dew
Trad. arr Lawson The Turtle Dove
Trad. arr. Langford Widdicombe Fair

The King's Singers


19:30 - 21:45

Messiaen L'Ascension (for orchestra)
Stravinsky Violin Concerto

George Benjamin Ringed by the Flat Horizon
Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte
Ravel Boléro

Carolin Widmann violin

BBC Symphony Orchestra
George Benjamin conductor


19:30 - 21:45

Ferguson Overture for an Occasion
Stanford Piano Concerto No.2

Smetana Má Vlast - Vltava
Dvorak Symphony No.8

Finghin Collins piano

Ulster Orchestra
Kenneth Montgomery conductor


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