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TUESDAY 29 JULY
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- 5.45pm PROMS LITERARY FESTIVAL (RCM): A. E. HOUSMAN
- 7.30pm PROM 16: HALLÉ
5.45pm - 6.00pm: Proms Literary Festival A look at the poetry, life and times of A. E. Housman.
Prom 16: Hallé
- Date Tuesday 29 July 2008
- Time 7.30pm - c9.40pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £6-£35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Part of this Prom broadcast on BBC Two on 2 August. Live on BBC Radio 3, and available as audio on demand for the following week.
A British half and a German half - performed by an orchestra founded by a German but with a distinguished reputation in British music. Now in its 150th-anniversary season the Hallé, under Mark Elder, performs Vaughan Williams's 'little' Eighth Symphony - which this orchestra premiered in 1956.
The poignant rhapsody by VW's friend George Butterworth gains extra resonance in the light of the latter's death in the First World War; it is introduced in tonight's performance with a reading from the Housman poems that inspired it.
Following her stirring performance of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No.2 at the Proms last year, Janine Jansen joins the Hallé for the popular First Violin Concerto by Bruch (with whom Vaughan Williams studied). And, to close, Richard Strauss's colourful portrait of the scallywag Till Eulenspiegel.
- Butterworth A Shropshire Lad (orchestral rhapsody) (12 mins)
- Vaughan Williams Symphony No.8 in D minor (30 mins)
- Interval
- Bruch Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor (25 mins)
- R. Strauss Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (15 mins)
Janine Jansen violin
Hallé
Mark Elder conductor
BBC Radio 3
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