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SATURDAY 6 SEPTEMBER
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5.45pm - 6.30pm: Proms Literary Festival TV dramatist Stephen Poliakoff talks about his favourite Russian literature and its influence on his work.
Broadcast on Radio 3: Tuesday 9 September, 8pm
Prom 69: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
- Date Saturday 6 September 2008
- Time 7.30pm - c9.45pm
- 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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A nod in the direction of the Auld Alliance as the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and its acclaimed French Music Director return to the Proms.
Roussel's colourful second suite from the ballet Bacchus et Ariane opens the concert. ('The RSNO's performance is fully alive to the music's irrepressible joie de vivre as well as its more lyrical aspects,' wrote Gramophone of the orchestra's first Roussel disc.)
Debussy's symphonic sketches of the sea close the concert. In between come a vivid picture of a storm - first performed 18 years ago by tonight's orchestra - from Thea Musgrave (in her 80th-birthday year); and Rachmaninov's most popular piano concerto, featuring award-winning interpreter Stephen Hough.
- Roussel Bacchus et Ariane - Suite No.2 (20 mins)
- Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor (35 mins)
- Interval
- Thea Musgrave Rainbow (12 mins)
- Debussy La mer (24 mins)
Stephen Hough piano
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Stéphane Denève conductor
BBC Radio 3
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