
Summer Festivals: The Proms
Penny Gore presents great recent ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Prom concerts by ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ orchestras and choirs. Today, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra with music by Debussy, Dutilleux, Ravel and MacMillan.
Penny Gore presents great ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Prom concerts from recent years by ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ orchestras and choirs - today the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra with music by Debussy, Dutilleux, Ravel and James MacMillan - the famous 1990 world premiere of his The Confession of Isobel Gowdie.
2.00pm
Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain, with Lynn Harrell (cello)
Ravel: Bolero
Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe (complete)
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Donald Runnicles
3.45pm
James MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (world premiere)
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk
This week of Afternoon Concert features ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms by six different ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ performing groups, starting with the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra today. Tomorrow you can hear two concerts: the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers in A Patchwork Passion - a retelling of Passion story with music from five centuries of Biblical settings, including works by Schütz, J.S. Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn, Arvo Pärt and James MacMillan; and then Günter Wand conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner's Eighth Symphony - the last of his legendary Proms with the orchestra, from 1995. On Wednesday Gianandrea Noseda conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Philharmonic (and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers again) in Haydn and Schubert, in a Prom from 2006. In Thursday Opera Matinee, Jane Glover conducts a 2012 Prom semi-staging of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard. And on Friday, following a 2013 concert by the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Thomas Sondergard, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra return to end the week on Friday with a 2003 Prom performance of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf narrated by David Attenborough .
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Claude Debussy
Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Donald Runnicles. -
Henri Dutilleux
Concerto (Tout un monde lointain ...) for cello
Performer: Lynn Harrell. Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Donald Runnicles. -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite no. 3 in C major BWV.1009 for cello solo i Bourrée
Performer: Lynn Harrell. -
Maurice Ravel
Bolero
Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Donald Runnicles. -
Maurice Ravel
Daphnis et Chloe
Choir: Edinburgh Festival Chorus. Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Donald Runnicles. -
Sir James MacMillan
The Confession of Isobel Gowdie
Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk. -
William Walton
'Spitfire' prelude and fugue for orchestra
Orchestra: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Tadaaki Otaka.
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- Mon 17 Aug 2020 14:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3