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A Week at the Proms - Programme 3

Georgia Mann explores the coming week's Proms with a panel including Nick Kenyon, Roderick Williams and Gillian Moore. They react to archive performances and make recommendations.

In the third programme of this series Georgia Mann explores the coming week's Proms concerts with guests Nicholas Kenyon, Gillian Moore and Roderick Williams as they react to archive performances, hear fresh interviews and select recommendations. Among the topics in discussion are Simon Rattle's 2014 visit to the Proms with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in Stravinsky's The Firebird suite and Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances; Neville Marriner and the Academy of St-Martin-in-the-Fields performing symphonies by Haydn and Beethoven, among other things, from a Prom dating back to 1994; Richard Hickox and the 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales, the London Symphony Chorus and London Brass in an all-English Prom dating from 2006 including music by Elgar, Bliss and Walton's mighty cantata Belshazzar's Feast with Bryn Terfel; and the London Contemporary Orchestra with music by Suzanne Ciani, Shiva Feshareki and James Bulley from a 2018 Prom.

44 minutes

Last on

Sun 2 Aug 2020 18:15

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  • Sun 2 Aug 2020 18:15