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FRIDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2009
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4.45pm Proms Literary Festival Ian McMillan talks to critic John Mullan about the influential legacy of the novel Don Quixote, while actor Andrew Sachs brings to life the words of Cervantes's hero. Edited version broadcast on Radio 3 during tonight's interval.
Prom 74: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
- Date Friday 11 September 2009
- Time 6.30pm - c8.45pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £12 - £54 price band C 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.
In the second of its two Proms, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by its distinguished long-term associate and Honorary Member, Zubin Mehta, one of the rare recipients of the orchestra's coveted badge of honour, the Nikisch Ring.
Together they reinvigorate Strauss's quintessentially quixotic set of 'fantastic variations on a theme of knightly character'.
Brahms's final symphony also ends in a vast set of variations, his gloriously late-Romantic take on a Baroque-style passacaglia, using a theme borrowed from a Bach cantata.
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Programme notes will be available shortly before the concert
- Webern Passacaglia, Op.1 (11 mins)
- R Strauss Don Quixote (42 mins)
- interval
- Brahms Symphony No.4 in E minor (45 mins)
- Christian Frohn viola
- Tamás Varga cello
- Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
- Zubin Mehta conductor
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Prom 75: Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma
- Date Friday 11 September 2009
- Time 10.15pm - c11.45pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £8 - £17.50 price band E 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.
Following its Proms debut in 2004, cellist Yo-Yo Ma's innovative and cross-cultural Silk Road Ensemble returns for a cornucopian Late Night Prom as part of its 10th-anniversary celebrations.
The boundary-crossing offering explores yet more of the historical and contemporary musical links between East and West, inspired by the ancient trading route between China and Europe.
- There will be no interval
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Programme notes will be available shortly before the concert
- Various Silk Road Suite (30 mins)
- Giovanni Sollima The Taranta Project (20 mins)
- Angel Lam Empty Mountain, Spirit Rain (15 mins)
- Trad. arr. Li Cang Sang & Wu Tong Ambush from Ten Sides (12 mins)
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