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TUESDAY 18 AUGUST 2009
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5.15pm Proms Intro Join Iván Fischer and members of the Budapest Festival Orchestra for a special family concert designed to introduce classical music to 5 to 12 year-olds in an entertaining and interactive environment.
Prom 44: Budapest Festival Orchestra
- Date Tuesday 18 August 2009
- Time 7.00pm - c9.10pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £8 - £44 price band B 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.
Hungary's leading orchestra returns to the Proms, this time with Leonidas Kavakos, the soloist in Bartók's Second Violin Concerto, which combines breathtaking virtuosity with passionate lyricism.
Prokofiev wrote his klezmer-tinged overture in New York in 1919 for a group of Jewish refugees who had all been fellow-students of his in St Petersburg; his 1934 arrangement, for a Haydn-sized band, was made two years before his return to the USSR.
Dvořák's most darkly dramatic and passionate symphony, commissioned by the Philharmonic Society of London and premiered under its auspices in 1885, has remained especially popular with UK audiences ever since.
- Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes (8 mins)
- Bartók Violin Concerto No.2 (36 mins)
- interval
- Dvořák Symphony No.7 in D minor (40 mins)
- Leonidas Kavakos violin
- Budapest Festival Orchestra
- Iván Fischer conductor
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Prom 45: Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
- Date Tuesday 18 August 2009
- Time 10.00pm - c11.10pm
- 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.
The all-singing, all-strumming players of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain have devised a special programme for their first Proms appearance, to include a rendition of that Last Night favourite, Parry's Jerusalem, as you've never heard it before. All music is fair game in this unique ensemble's book of 'depraved musicology', typically resulting in a collision of punk, rock 'n' roll and toe-tapping oldies.
Other classics receiving the UOGB treatment in tonight's Prom are Wagner's The Ride of the Valkyries, Eric Coates's march The Dambusters, an excerpt from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (yes, really!) – and unorthodox arrangements of songs by The Who and the Sex Pistols. You may never hear music in quite the same way again!
There will be no interval
Read programme notes about this Prom- Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
- See a high resolution image of the audience at this Prom.
- Watch video tutorials and download the music for Ode to Joy
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