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BBC Proms - 17 July - 12 September 2009 - The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival

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Week 1: 17 - 23 July 2009

In Tune

17.00

Live from RCM

19.30 - 22.20

Stravinsky Fireworks
Chabrier Ode à la musique
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.3 in E flat major
Poulenc Concerto for two pianos
Elgar In the South (Alassio)
Brahms Alto Rhapsody
Bruckner Psalm 150

Ailish Tynan soprano
Alice Coote mezzo-soprano
Stephen Hough piano
Katia and Marielle Labèque pianos
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiří Bělohlávek conductor


Proms Films

14.00

Stan Tracey

Proms Intros

17.15

The Creation

19.00 - 21.00

Haydn The Creation (sung in English, with revised text by Paul McCreesh)

Rosemary Joshua Gabriel
Mark Padmore Uriel
Neal Davies Raphael
Peter Harvey Adam
Chetham's Chamber Choir
Gabrieli Consort & Players Paul McCreesh conductor


22.15 - 23.15

Stan Tracey Genesis

Stan Tracey and his Orchestra


Proms Intros

16.15

Partenope

18.00 - 22.05

Handel Partenope

Inger Dam-Jensen Partenope
Tuva Semmingsen Rosmira
Andreas Scholl Arsace
Christophe Dumaux Armindo
Bo Kristian Jensen Emilio
Palle Knudsen Ormonte

Concerto Copenhagen Lars Ulrik Mortensen conductor


13:00 - 14:00

Henry VIII Pastyme with good companye
Fayrfax Missa 'Regali ex progenie' - Gloria
W. Cornysh Ah Robin, gentle Robin
Henry VIII Hélas, madame
Fayrfax Benedicite! What dreamed I?
Sampson Psallite felices
Taverner Christe Jesu, pastor bone
Tallis Sancte Deus, sancte fortis
Ludford Domine Jesu Christe

The Cardinall's Musick Andrew Carwood conductor


Proms Intros

17.15

Mahler No.9

19.00 - 20.30

Mahler Symphony No.9

London Symphony Orchestra Bernard Haitink conductor


21.30 - 23.30

Haydn The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross
James MacMillan Seven Last Words from the Cross

Elizabeth Watts soprano
Renata Pokupić mezzo-soprano
Andrew Kennedy tenor
Darren Jeffery bass-baritone
BBC Singers
Manchester Camerata Douglas Boyd conductor


Literary Festival

16.45

Elizabeth I

18.30 - 22.30

Purcell The Fairy Queen (semi-staged)

Cast to include: Carolyn Sampson soprano Lucy Crowe soprano Claire Debono soprano Anna Devin soprano Sean Clayton tenor Ed Lyon tenor Adrian Ward tenor Andrew Foster-Williams bass-baritone Lukas Kargl baritone Desmond Barrit Drunken Poet/Bottom Jotham Annan Puck Joseph Millson Oberon Sally Dexter Tatiana Terrence Hardiman Egeus William Gaunt Theseus Paul McCleary Quince Brian Pettifer Snug Robert Burt Mopsa / Flute Jack Chissick Snout Roger Sloman Starveling Oliver Kieran-Jones Lysander Helen Bradbury Helena Susannah Wise Hermina Oliver Le Sueur Demetrius Francesca Gilpin Director

Glyndebourne Chorus Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment William Christie conductor


Proms Intros

18.15

Music at King's

20.00 - 22.30

Vaughan Williams The Wasps - Overture
Ryan Wigglesworth The Genesis of Secrecy (BBC commission: world premiere)
Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs
Stanford Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A major
Jonathan Harvey Come, Holy Ghost
Judith Weir Ascending into Heaven
Saint-Saëns Symphony No.3 ('Organ')

Simon Keenlyside baritone
Thomas Trotter organ
Choirs of King's and St John's colleges
Choirs of Clare, Gonville and Caius and Trinity colleges
Choirs from combined Cambridge colleges
BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis conductor Stephen Cleobury conductor Andrew Nethsingha conductor


Proms Intros

17.45

British music

19:30 - 22.05

Moeran Symphony in G minor
Finzi Grand Fantasia and Toccata
Elgar Symphony No.2 in E flat major

Leon McCawley piano

BBC Philharmonic Vassily Sinaisky conductor


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