Fri 3 Aug 2012

• 18:00

  Proms Plus Literary

  Royal College of Music

  Poet Jackie Kay and novelist Ali Smith discuss one of the great Scottish novels, Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the first part of his Scots Quair trilogy, set in a Scottish farming community.

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• 19:45

  Prom 27: Wagner & Bruckner

  Royal Albert Hall

  Feted interpreter of the late Romantic repertoire, Donald Runnicles conducts Wagner and Bruckner, with his BBC Scottish Symphony.Feted interpreter of the late Romantic repertoire, Donald Runnicles conducts Wagner and Bruckner, with his BBC Scottish Symphony.

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  Feted interpreter of the late Romantic repertoire, Donald Runnicles conducts Wagner and Bruckner, with his BBC Scottish Symphony.Feted interpreter of the late Romantic repertoire, Donald Runnicles conducts Wagner and Bruckner, with his BBC Scottish Symphony.

  Programme

  • • • Richard Wagner
      • Siegfried Idyll(18 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Anton Bruckner
      • Symphony No. 8 in C minor (1890 version, ed. Nowak)(80 mins)ed. Nowak, 1955

  Performers

  • BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
  • Donald Runnicles

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Richard Wagner
  • Anton Bruckner

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