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WEDNESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2009
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5.45pm Proms Composer Portrait Augusta Read Thomas, in conversation with Andrew McGregor, discusses her new violin concerto, and introduces performances of some of her chamber works. Edited version broadcast on Radio 3 following this evening's Prom.
Prom 72: BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Date Wednesday 9 September 2009
- Time 7.30pm - c9.45pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £7 - £35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
- This programme is no longer available.
We end our bicentenary salute to Mendelssohn with the magical A Midsummer Night's Dream overture that he wrote at the age of only 17, coupled with extracts from his later incidental music to Shakespeare's play.
In Augusta Read Thomas's new Violin Concerto, the soloist takes the role of the 'juggler', rhapsodising a path through a pointillistic 'paradise' of bell sounds. And, to conclude, the BBC SO's Chief Conductor, Jiří Bělohlávek, takes the orchestra on a Beethovenian tour of the Austrian countryside.
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Programme notes will be available shortly before the concert
- Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream – Overture and incidental music (28 mins)
- Augusta Read Thomas Violin Concerto No.3, 'Juggler in Paradise' (21 mins) BBC co-commission with Radio France, Mr & Mrs Bill Brown and National Symphony Orchestra, Washington DC: UK premiere
- interval
- Beethoven Symphony No.6 in F major, 'Pastoral' (43 mins)
- Jennifer Koh violin
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Jiří Bělohlávek conductor
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