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FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2009
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- 5.15pm Proms Intro: Agon
- 7.00pm Prom 57: BBC Symphony Orchestra
- 10.15pm Prom 58: Netherlands Wind Ensemble
5.15pm Proms Intro
In the last of three talks celebrating Stravinsky's ballets, Louise Fryer is joined by composer Julian Anderson and Stravinsky biographer Stephen Walsh to discuss Stravinsky's final ballet, Agon.
Edited version broadcast on Radio 3 during tonight's interval.
Prom 57: BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Date Friday 28 August 2009
- Time 7.00pm - c9.20pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £7 - £35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast at 7.30pm on BBC Four and live on BBC Radio 3. Available on demand for the following week. Digital viewers can press the red button to view Maestro Cam.
- This programme is no longer available.
Watch this Prom in MaestroCam - with commentary by Maestro's Jason Lai
Our survey of Stravinsky's ballets ends with the dazzling set of 12 dances for 12 dancers that the septuagenarian composer based on material taken from a 17th-century dance manual but re-energised through his own unique 20th-century viewpoint.
To conclude our series of Tchaikovsky's concertante works, Stephen Hough signs off his one-man piano marathon with the curiously neglected Concert Fantasia, while cellist Steven Isserlis returns (after making chamber music in Monday's PCM 6) to relish the 18th-century charms of the 'Rococo' Variations.
And the BBC SO's Principal Guest Conductor, David Robertson, ends the concert with Tchaikovsky's Dantesque tale of forbidden love and eternal punishment.
- Stravinsky Agon (24 mins)
- Tchaikovsky Concerto Fantasia in G major, Op.56 (29 mins)
- interval
- Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme (18 mins)
- Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini (24 mins)
- Stephen Hough piano
- Steven Isserlis cello
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- David Robertson conductor
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Prom 58: Netherlands Wind Ensemble
- Date Friday 28 August 2009
- Time 10.15pm - c11.40pm
- 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 Netherlands Wind Ensemble, 50 this year, marks the 70th birthday of radical Dutch Minimalist Louis Andriessen and the 50th of his leading British pupil Steve Martland with performances of Andriessen's classic polemic De staat and Martland's jazz-rock 'dance fantasia' Beat the Retreat, commissioned by the BBC for its 1995 Purcell tercentenary celebrations.
Another former pupil of Andriessen, Cornelis de Bondt creates an idiosyncratic death ritual in Doors Closed out of a fusion between the funeral march from Beethoven's 'Eroica' and Dido's Lament from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
Two of tonight's works call for two or more pianos, in a nod to our Multiple Pianos celebration.
- There will be no interval
- Louis Andriessen De staat (35 mins)
- Steve Martland Beat the Retreat (13 mins)
- Cornelis de Bondt Doors Closed* (London premiere) (23 mins)
- Netherlands Wind Ensemble
- Lucas Vis conductor
- Bart Schneemann 2nd conductor*
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