What's On / Proms by Day
THURSDAY 23 JULY 2009
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- 5.45pm Proms Intro (RCM): British Music
- 7.30pm Prom 9: BBC Philharmonic
5.45pm Proms Intro Rob Cowan discusses British music with broadcasters Stephen Johnson and Piers Burton-Page.
Prom 9: BBC Philharmonic
- Date Thursday 23 July 2009
- Time 7.30pm - c10.05pm
- 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.
- These programmes are no longer available.
Vassily Sinaisky, the BBC Philharmonic's Chief Guest Conductor, enjoys exploring the less-frequented byways of the English repertoire.
E. J. Moeran's Symphony, introduced to the Proms in 1938 by founder-conductor Henry Wood, was written partly in Norfolk, partly in County Kerry, and seems to evoke the landscapes, seashores and folk idioms of both (though train buffs also claim to be able to hear echoes of the Great Eastern expresses).
Finzi's neo-Classical Grand Fantasia caps an unaccompanied and clearly Bach-inspired piano solo with a jaunty, fingertapping Toccata. And we mark Elgar's 75th anniversary with his Second Symphony, a nobly expansive exploration of past sorrows recalled and exorcised.
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Programme notes available:
- Moeran Symphony in G minor (45 mins)
- Finzi Grand Fantasia and toccata, for piano and orchestra (15 mins)
- interval
- Elgar Symphony No.2 in E flat major (55 mins)
- Leon McCawley piano
- BBC Philharmonic
- Vassily Sinaisky conductor
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