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SATURDAY 25 JULY 2009
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2.00pm Film BBC Two's The Birth of British Music, Parts 1 & 2: Purcell & Handel (120', awaiting classification). Introduced by the director, Andy King-Dabbs.
Prom 11: Organ Recital
- Date Saturday 25 July 2009
- Time 5.00pm - c6.05pm
- 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.
Launching a weekend marking 75 years since the deaths of Delius, Elgar and Holst in 1934, David Titterington takes to the Royal Albert Hall's 'Father' Willis organ to perform the grand, quasi-symphonic Sonata that the Worcester born Elgar composed in 1895 for the Cathedral's new organist, Hugh Blair, to play for a group of visiting Americans.
The so-called Second Sonata is in fact a free transcription by Ivor Atkins (Blair's longer-lasting successor) of the Severn Suite which, in 1930, the elderly Elgar nostalgically worked up from youthful sketches, including musical depictions of Worcester's Cathedral and Castle. The transatlantic connection is continued in Peter Dickinson's Blue Rose Variations, in which the British composer and American music expert – born in the year of Elgar's death – takes a famous tune by Edward MacDowell and gives it a blues and ragtime spin.
- There will be no interval
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Programme notes available:
- Elgar, arr. Atkins Organ Sonata No.2 (15 mins)
- Edward MacDowell, arr. Peter Dickinson To a Wild Rose (3 mins)
- Peter Dickinson Blue Rose Variations (15 mins)
- Elgar Organ Sonata No.1 in G major (25 mins)
- David Titterington organ
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5.45pm Family Music Intro Join members of the BBC Philharmonic in a sneak preview of the music in tonight's Prom, and the stories behind it. Bring your instrument for a chance to take part!
Prom 12: BBC Philharmonic
- Date Saturday 25 July 2009
- Time 7.30pm - c9.40pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £7 - £35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and at 8pm on BBC Two and BBC HD.
Available on demand for the following week. Digital viewers can press the red button to view Maestro Cam - These programmes are no longer available.
Watch this Prom in MaestroCam with commentary by Maestro's Matthew Rowe
In the second of this weekend's concerts celebrating the musical legacy of the three great British composers who died 75 years ago, Sir Charles Mackerras contrasts Elgar's 'stout and steaky' salute to the indomitable Cockney spirit of old London Town with Delius's poetical evocation of 'the joy and exhilaration one feels in the mountains ... and the grandeur of the wide, far distances', before venturing into the solar system for Holst's mystical planetary survey – which, like Delius's hilltop song, memorably deploys a wordless chorus to ethereal effect.
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Programme notes available:
- Elgar Overture 'Cockaigne (In London Town)'(13 mins)
- Delius The Song of the High Hills (28 mins)
- interval
- Holst The Planets(50 mins)
- Rebecca Evans soprano
- Toby Spence tenor
- BBC Singers
- BBC Philharmonic
- Sir Charles Mackerras conductor
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