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TUESDAY 5 AUGUST
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5.15pm - 6.00pm: Proms Literary Festival A look at how Victorian entertainment is portrayed in novels, films and on television.
Broadcast on Radio 3: Thursday 7 August, 8.25pm
Prom 25: Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
- Date Tuesday 5 August 2008
- Time 7.00pm - c9.15pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £6-£35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. Available as audio on demand for the following week.
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Rustic dances provide energetic inspiration for the two large works this evening. Brahms's big-boned and technically demanding Violin Concerto ends with a wonderfully infectious peasant dance, while the third movement of Dvořák's Sixth employs the furiant with its thrilling cross-rhythms.
Julia Fischer is certainly among the ranks of today's most lavishly talented young violinists, and in Yakov Kreizberg she has a musical partner with whom she has made some outstanding recordings.
To open the concert, the Netherlands Philharmonic brings the Straussian Cyrano de Bergerac overture by its compatriot Johan Wagenaar.
- Wagenaar Overture - Cyrano de Bergerac (14 mins)
- Dvořák Symphony No.6 in D major (45 mins)
- Interval
- Brahms Violin Concerto in D major (42 mins)
Julia Fischer violin
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
Yakov Kreizberg conductor
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Prom 26: The King's Singers
- Date Tuesday 5 August 2008
- Time 10.15pm - c11.30pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £10-£15 price band D or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Recorded for broadcast on BBC Four on 10 August; highlights also on BBC Two and BBC HD on 9 August, during the interval of Prom 31. Live on BBC Radio 3, and available as audio on demand for the following week.
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The King's Singers return to the Proms, marking their 40th anniversary with a wide-ranging Anglo-French selection.
Picking up on the flavour of the earlier Proms Folk Day (see Proms 4-5), the concert opens with six of Poulenc's set of eight French folk songs and ends with more recent arrangements - of the type The King's Singers have practically made their own - of traditional English songs. In between comes English music from the recent past and French music from further back in time.
- Poulenc Chansons françaises, Op.130 - selection (11 mins)
- John McCabe Scenes in America deserta (9 mins)
- French Renaissance madrigals (17 mins)
- Lassus Dessus le marche d'Arras
- Passereau Il est bel et bon
- Lassus Toutes les nuits
- Janequin La guerre
- Victorian Part-Songs (13 mins)
- Rogers Hears not my Phyllis
- Hobbs Phyllis is my only joy
- Trad. arr. S.E. Lovatt The Little Green Lane
- Bridge The Goslings
- English folk songs (13 mins)
- Trad. arr. B. Chilcott Greensleeves
- Trad. arr. G. Langford Blow away the morning dew
- Trad. arr. P. Lawson The Turtle Dove
- Trad. arr. G. Langford Widdicombe Fair
There will be no interval
The King's Singers
BBC Radio 3
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