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| With Rob Cowan.Featuring Les Arts Florissants playing from their namesake work and Barbara Hendricks singing Schubert. | |
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| With James Jolly.Including: | |
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| Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)2/5. Donald Macleod traces the young Gluck's journeys across Europe before he settled in Vienna to write his landmark opera Orfeo ed Euridice. Though the Bohemian composer's first language was Czech, he learnt his operatic trade in Milan and once even wowed Londoners with his party trick of performing on tuned wine glasses. | |
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| Presented by Jonathan Swain. A series of concerts given earlier this month at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Bantry. With the Royal String Quartet and festival hosts the RTE Vanburgh Quartet, who are joined by talented young Finnish pianist Antti Siirala to perform Dohnanyi's Piano Quintet No 2. | |
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| Presented by Jonathan Swain.2.00pm BBC Proms 2008 | |
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| Petroc Trelawny presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. | |
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| Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. | |
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| As part of this year's Proms Literary Festival, Ian McMillan and Professor Christopher Ricks discuss the life and poetry of AE Housman. Best known now for A Shropshire Lad, Housman was one of the most widely read poets of his time and was praised by TS Eliot for his 'masterful, witty, controversial talent'. | |
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| Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, Penny Gore presents the second half of this evening's Prom, which features Janine Janson as soloist in Bruch's ever-popular concerto followed by Richard Strauss's orchestral portrait of impudent trickster Till Eulenspiegel. | |
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| This drama-documentary by biographer Richard Holmes tells the story of the first decades of ballooning 200 years ago. | |
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| The featured artists are the vocal ensemble I Fagiolini, who are heard in music by William Byrd. | |
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| Four commentators reflect on aspects of Elgar in the context of his time and after, exploring the contradictions and enigmas in his complex and paradoxical personality. | |
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| Max Reinhardt's selection includes the vocal duo of Bjork and Tanya Tagaq, keyboard music by William Byrd and Gyorgy Ligeti, and early Bulgarian folk from Bistrishkata Chetvorka. | |
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| With Jonathan Swain.1.00am | |
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| With Jonathan Swain.4.31am | |
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