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THURSDAY 7 AUGUST
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5.45pm - 6.30pm: Family Music Intro A sneak preview of what's going to be played in tonight's Prom. Not available online.
Prom 28: Ulster Orchestra
- Date Thursday 7 August 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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The Ulster Orchestra marks the centenary of Belfast-born Howard Ferguson with his lively Overture for an Occasion, a BBC commission from 1953. Young Irish pianist Finghin Collins makes his Proms debut in the richly Romantic Second Piano Concerto by the Dublin-born Charles Villiers Stanford, with whom Vaughan Williams studied.
And to close, a second half from Central Europe, Smetana's popular portrait of the River Vltava and Dvořák's lively Eighth Symphony.
- Ferguson Overture for an Occasion (8 mins)
- Stanford Piano Concerto No.2 (38 mins)
- Interval
- Smetana Má vlast - Vltava (12 mins)
- Dvořák Symphony No.8 in G major (38 mins)
Finghin Collins piano
Ulster Orchestra
Kenneth Montgomery conductor
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