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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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2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 17 Aug 2020 14:00

Music Played

  • 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.

Broadcast

  • Mon 17 Aug 2020 14:00