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FRIDAY 14 AUGUST 2009
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- 5.45pm Proms Inspire Day
- 7.30pm Prom 39: BBC Symphony Orchestra
5.45pm Proms Inspire Day
The Aurora Orchestra performs the winning entries of this year's BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers' Competition. (Limited capacity)
Edited highlights broadcast by Radio 3 following Prom 46 on 19 August.
Prom 39: BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Date Friday 14 August 2009
- Time 7.30pm - c9.55pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £7 - £35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Four and BBC Radio 3.
Available on demand for the following week. - This programme is no longer available.
A decade in the making, Birtwistle's 'lyric tragedy' was the culmination of a long-standing obsession with the Orpheus myth.
To mark the composer's 75th birthday, the BBC SO presents its central act – in which Orpheus journeys to the Underworld through a series of 17 arches – contrasting its dazzling complexity with the classical poise of Stravinsky's ballet Apollo.
The opener by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood won the Radio 3 Listeners' Award at the 2006 British Composer Awards.
- Jonny Greenwood Popcorn Superhet Receiver (18 mins)
- Stravinsky Apollo (30 mins)
- interval
- Sir Harrison Birtwistle The Mask of Orpheus - The Arches* (58 mins)
- Cast:
- Alan Oke Orpheus (the man)
- Thomas Walker Orpheus (myth/puppet)
- Christine Rice Euridice (the woman)
- Anna Stéphany Euridice (the myth)/Persephone
- Claron McFadden Hecate
- Andrew Slater Charon/Caller/Hades
- Rachel Nicolls Fury 1/Woman 1
- Anna Dennis Fury 2/Woman 2
- Louise Poole Fury 3/Woman 3
- Christopher Gillett Judge 1
- Håkan Vramsmo Judge 2
- Tim Mirfin Judge 3
- BBC Singers
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Martyn Brabbins conductor
- Ryan Wigglesworth 2nd conductor*
- Ian Dearden sound projection
- *Director Tim Hopkins
*This is concert performance with a few elements of "concert staging".
- Christine Rice is a member of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme.
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