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Encores played during the 2008 Proms

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Thursday 11 September, 7.30pm - Prom 74
'Dance of the Comedians' from The Bartered Bride by Smetana

Sunday 31 August, 4.00pm - Prom 60
Etude, Opus 10, No. 3 by Chopin
Trad Chinese piece 'Two Horses' played by Lang Lang, with his father playing the ehru.

Saturday 30 August, 7.30pm - Prom 59
Velkommen med æra from '100 Hardanger tunes' by Geirr Tveitt
Peer Gynt Act 1 Prelude - I Bryllupsgården (At the Wedding) by Grieg

Friday 29 August, 7.30pm - Prom 58
Slavonic Dance in B major, Op.72, No.1 by Dvorak
Hungarian Dance No.1 in G minor by Brahms
Farandole from L'Arlésienne, Suite No.2 by Bizet

Thursday 28 August, 7.30pm - Prom 57
Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin by Wagner
Hungarian Dance No.5 in G minor by Brahms

Friday 22 August, 7.00pm - Prom 48
Verwandlungsmusik (Transformation Music) from Parsifal by Wagner

Thursday 14 August, 7.00pm - Prom 38
Die Meistersinger - Overture by Wagner

Wednesday 13 August, 7.30pm - Prom 37
Be Happy Trad klezmer melody arranged by Göran Fröst
Mellanspel ur Kantaten Sangen by Wilhelm Stenhammar
Tico Tico by Zequinha Abreu and Aloysio Oliveira, arranged and orchestrated by Cliff Colnot

Tuesday 12 August, 10.15pm - Prom 36
Otche Nash by Nikolai Kadanoff

Tuesday 12 August, 7.00pm - Prom 35
First piano Prélude, 'La Colombe' by Messiaen

Friday 8 August, 10.00pm - Prom 30
Harlem (conclusion) by Duke Ellington

Thursday 7 August, 7.30pm - Prom 28
'The Rambling Suiler', No. 4 of Four Diversions on Ulster Airs by Howard Ferguson

Tuesday 5 August, 10.15pm - Prom 26
The Long Day Closes by Sullivan

Friday 1 August, 8.00pm - Prom 19
Gopak from 'Sorochintsy Fair' by Musorgsky

Tuesday 22 July, 7.00pm - Prom 7
March No 1 from 'Matinées Musicales' by Benjamin Britten

Monday 21 July, 7.30pm - Prom 6
Prelude & Aragoniase (Carmen: Suite No.1) by Bizet

Sunday 20 July, 7.30pm - Prom 5
Come Down Jehovah by Chris Wood (Martin Simpson)
Prickle Eye Bush Trad. arr J. Spiers & J. Boden (Bellowhead)

Saturday 19 July, 6.30pm - Prom 3
Third Stone from the Sun by Jimi Hendrix

Saturday 19 July, 6.30pm - Prom 2
Partita No.3 in E major: Toccata by J.S. Bach

Programme Notes

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Programme notes for the 2008 Proms are no longer available for copyright reasons.