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

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Week 9 : 12 - 13 September 2008

Fri 12

Sat 13

Sun 14

Mon 15

Tue 16

Wed 17

Thu 18

19.30 - 21.50

Wagner Parsifal - Prelude (Act 1)
Krzysztof Penderecki Threnody 'For the Victims of Hiroshima'
Beethoven Elegischer Gesang

Beethoven Symphony No.9 in D minor 'Choral'

Emma Bell soprano
Jane Irwin mezzo-soprano
Timothy Robinson tenor
Iain Paterson bass

City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda conductor


20.00 - 22.35

The Last Night of the Proms
Beethoven The Creatures of Prometheus - Overture
Wagner Tannhäuser - 'Wie Todesahnung Dämmrung ... O du, mein holder Abendstern' (Act 3)
Puccini Tosca - 'Tre sbirri, una carrozza' (Act 1, Te Deum)
Verdi Falstaff - 'Ehi! paggio! ... L'onore! Ladri!' (Act 1)
Beethoven Choral Fantasy

Denza arr. Rimsky-Korsakov Funiculì, funiculà
Trad. arr. Chris Hazell: Folk-Song Medley The Turtle Dove (England) - Loch Lomond (Scotland) - Cariad cyntaf (Wales) - Molly Malone (Ireland) (BBC commission: world premiere)
Anna Meredith froms (BBC commission; world premiere)
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No.1
Vaughan Williams Sea Songs
Arne arr. Sargent Rule, Britannia!
Parry orch. Elgar Jerusalem
The National Anthem

Bryn Terfel bass-baritone
Hélène Grimaud piano


BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Roger Norrington conductor


         

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