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Proms Launch 2018

Tom Service presents a special programme featuring live music from guests who'll be performing in this year's Proms season, which is announced today.

Tom Service presents a special programme featuring live music from guests who'll be performing in this year's Proms season, which is announced today. Canadian mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta sings live for us in the studio ahead of her performance at Cadogan Hall as part of the BBC Proms' Bernstein series. Violinist Jennifer Pike plays for us before the BBC Young Musician 40th Anniversary at the Royal Albert Hall. Tom has a chat with composer Anna Meredith ahead of her new work 'Five Telegrams' premiering at First Night of the Proms and oud player Joseph Tawadros plays for us before taking the Cadogan Hall stage.

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Thu 19 Apr 201817:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide - Overture

    Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra. Conductor: Eije Oue.
    • Reference Recordings.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    I Can Cook, Too (On The Town)

    Performer: Wallis Giunta. Performer: Simon Lepper.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No 3) 3rd mvt

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.

  • Lili Boulanger

    Psalm 24

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • DG.

  • Anna Meredith

    Blackfriars

    Performer: Anna Meredith.
    • Moshi Moshi Records.

  • Anna Meredith

    Smatter Hauler

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No.5 in D major

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Marriage of Figaro (Overture)

    Orchestra: Musica Aeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
    • Sony.

  • Karol Szymanowski

    Violin and piano sonata in D minor, Op 9 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Jennifer Pike (violin). Performer: Petr Limonov (piano).

  • Henryk Wieniawski

    Legende Op 17

    Performer: Jennifer Pike (violin). Performer: Petr Liminov (piano).

  • Claude Debussy

    3 Nocturnes: Fetes

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • Joseph Tawadros

    Permission to Evaporate

    Performer: Joseph Tawadros (oud).

  • Joseph Tawadros

    Give or Take

    Performer: Joseph Tawadros.

  • Arthur Bliss

    The Beatitudes - I Got me Flowers to Strew Thy Way

    Singer: Emily Birsan. Singer: Ben Johnson. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Choir: BBC Symphony Chorus. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Chandos.

  • William Walton

    Then sing aloud to God (Belshazzar's Feast)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Choir: BBC Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Warner Apex.

Broadcast

  • Thu 19 Apr 201817:00
    BBC Radio 3

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