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Summer Festivals: The Proms

Penny Gore presents great recent 91热爆 Prom concerts by 91热爆 orchestras and choirs. Today, the 91热爆 Scottish Symphony Orchestra with music by Debussy, Dutilleux, Ravel and MacMillan.

Penny Gore presents great 91热爆 Prom concerts from recent years by 91热爆 orchestras and choirs - today the 91热爆 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)
91热爆 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Donald Runnicles

3.45pm
James MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (world premiere)
91热爆 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk

This week of Afternoon Concert features 91热爆 Proms by six different 91热爆 performing groups, starting with the 91热爆 Scottish Symphony Orchestra today. Tomorrow you can hear two concerts: the 91热爆 Singers in A Patchwork Passion - a retelling of Passion story with music from five centuries of Biblical settings, including works by Sch眉tz, J.S. Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn, Arvo P盲rt and James MacMillan; and then G眉nter Wand conducts the 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner's Eighth Symphony - the last of his legendary Proms with the orchestra, from 1995. On Wednesday Gianandrea Noseda conducts the 91热爆 Philharmonic (and 91热爆 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 91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Thomas Sondergard, the 91热爆 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: 91热爆 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Donald Runnicles.
  • Henri Dutilleux

    Concerto (Tout un monde lointain ...) for cello

    Performer: Lynn Harrell. Orchestra: 91热爆 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Donald Runnicles.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite no. 3 in C major BWV.1009 for cello solo i Bourr茅e

    Performer: Lynn Harrell.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Bolero

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Donald Runnicles.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Daphnis et Chloe

    Choir: Edinburgh Festival Chorus. Orchestra: 91热爆 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Donald Runnicles.
  • Sir James MacMillan

    The Confession of Isobel Gowdie

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jerzy Maksymiuk.
  • William Walton

    'Spitfire' prelude and fugue for orchestra

    Orchestra: 91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Tadaaki Otaka.

Broadcast

  • Mon 17 Aug 2020 14:00