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WEDNESDAY 12 AUGUST 2009
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5.15pm Proms Literary Festival Journalist Matthew Parris and Professor Lynda Mugglestone join Ian McMillan to celebrate the life and literary legacy of Handel's great contemporary Samuel Johnson, 300 years after his birth. Edited version broadcast on Radio 3 during tonight's interval.
Prom 36: The Sixteen
- Date Wednesday 12 August 2009
- Time 7.00pm - c9.20pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £8 - £44 price band B or Prom for £5
- Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and on Saturday 15 August 2009 at 8.45pm, on BBC Two and BBC HD. Available on demand for the following week.
- This programme is no longer available.
To celebrate Handel's 250th anniversary, Harry Christophers and The Sixteen intersperse the four glorious anthems that Handel wrote for George II's coronation with other Handelian hits, including extracts from his satirical semi-opera Semele, and the well-known Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon.
- Handel
- Solomon - The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (3 mins)
- Coronation anthem - 'Let thy hand be strengthened' (9 mins)
- Semele - excerpts (22 mins)
- Coronation anthem - 'My heart is inditing' (12 mins)
- interval
- Coronation anthem - 'The King shall rejoice' (9 mins)
- Motet - Salve Regina (12 mins)
- Organ Concerto in F major Op.4 No.4 (original version) (16 mins)
- Coronation anthem - 'Zadok the Priest' (6 mins)
- Carolyn Sampson soprano
- Alastair Ross organ
- The Sixteen
- Harry Christophers conductor
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Prom 37: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- Date Wednesday 12 August 2009
- Time 10.15pm - c11.20pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £10 - £15 price band D 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.
One of the most prolific, influential and instantly identifiable composers of our age, Philip Glass made an impact on the course of 20th-century music with his pioneering 'Minimalist' scores, going on to write major film scores – from Koyaanisqatsi and Kundun to The Truman Show and The Hours – and innumerable dance, theatre and operatic works.
In the first Prom ever devoted exclusively to Philip Glass's music, his first major orchestral score, the 1987 Violin Concerto, is played by Gidon Kremer, who made the premiere recording, and conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, a long-term champion of Glass's music.
Premiered in 2004, the 'Toltec Symphony' takes its title from the ancient pre-Columbian culture that reigned in Mesoamerica long before the coming of the Europeans, though vestiges of it still survive among the indigenous peoples of Mexico today.
- There will be no interval
- Philip Glass
- Violin Concerto (23 mins)
- Symphony No.7 'A Toltec Symphony' (UK premiere) (36 mins)
- Gidon Kremer violin
- BBC Symphony Chorus
- BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- Dennis Russell Davies conductor
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