What's On / Proms by Day
SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2009
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2.00pm Film Stravinsky: Once, at a Border... (166', exempt from classification). Tony Palmer's profile of the composer, featuring contributions from family, colleagues and friends. Introduced by the director.
5.45pm Proms Literary Festival
Philip Pullman, author of the award-winning trilogy His Dark Materials, talks to Susan Hitch about the powerful myth of Orpheus.
Edited version broadcast on Radio 3 during tonight's interval.
Prom 40: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- Date Saturday 15 August 2009
- Time 7.30pm - c9.40pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £7 - £35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast at 7.30pm, Friday 11 September on BBC Four and live on BBC Radio 3. Available on demand for the following week.
In his last Proms appearance as the BBC Scottish SO's Chief Conductor, Ilan Volkov conducts the annual Proms performance of Beethoven's ever-inspiring hymn to universal brotherhood.
We continue our survey of the complete Stravinsky ballets with his austerely beautiful, almost abstract, ritualisation of the music-driven Orpheus myth that has obsessed European composers from before Monteverdi to Birtwistle (Prom 39) and beyond.
- Stravinsky Orpheus (32 mins)
- interval
- Beethoven Symphony No.9 in D minor, 'Choral' (65 mins)
- Rebecca Evans soprano
- Caitlin Hulcup mezzo-soprano
- Anthony Dean Griffey tenor
- James Rutherford bass-baritone
- City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
- BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- Ilan Volkov conductor
- James Rutherford is a member of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme.
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