What's On / Proms by Day
FRIDAY 31 JULY 2009
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5.45pm Proms Literary Festival
Victorian Season: Matthew Sweet introduces dramatic readings celebrating the infamous villains from Victorian fiction, and is joined by award-winning biographer Michael Holroyd and writer Elaine Showalter. Actor Bill Patterson provides the readings.
Edited version broadcast on Radio 3 during tonight's interval.
Prom 20: Scottish Chamber Orchestra
- Date Friday 31 July 2009
- Time 7.30pm - c9.45pm
- 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 7 days.
- These programmes are no longer available.
We continue our Stravinsky ballet series with the zany Neapolitan comedy in which the composer's reworkings of rediscovered 18th-century scores (reputedly by Pergolesi) resulted in the creation of a whole new – and wholly modern – neo-Classical style.
And we continue our bicentenary survey of Mendelssohn's symphonies with the one that quotes Luther's great Reformation hymn 'Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott'.
The young French-Canadian maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Gergiev's successor at the Rotterdam Philharmonic and now Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra) makes his Proms debut, as does the prize-winning American pianist Nicholas Angelich in Schumann's popular concerto.
- Stravinsky Pulcinella (40 mins)
- interval
- Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor (30 mins)
- Mendelssohn Symphony No.5 in D major 'Reformation' (28 mins)
- Nicholas Angelich piano
- Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano
- Andrew Staples tenor
- Brindley Sherratt bass
- Scottish Chamber Orchestra
- Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor
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