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Summer Festivals: The Proms

Penny Gore presents great Prom concerts by BBC orchestras and choirs. Today, the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers with Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard.

Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts by BBC Orchestras and Choirs: Jane Glover conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra and Singers in The Yeomen of the Guard by Gilbert and Sullivan - perhaps the most touching operetta they ever wrote - in this Prom from 2012.

Gilbert and Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard
Elsie Maynard ….. Lisa Milne, soprano
Jack Point ….. Mark Stone, baritone
Colonel Fairfax ….. Andrew Kennedy, tenor
Phoebe Meryll ….. Victoria Simmonds, mezzo-soprano
Wilfred Shadbolt ….. Toby Stafford-Allen, baritone
Leonard Meryll ….. Tom Randle, tenor
Lt Sir Richard Cholmondeley ….. Leigh Melrose, baritone
Dame Carruthers ….. Dame Felicity Palmer, mezzo-soprano
Kate, her niece ..... Mary Bevan, soprano
Sergeant Meryll ..... Mark Richardson, bass-baritone
BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor Jane Glover

3 hours

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Thu 20 Aug 202014:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Yeoman of the Guard part 1

    Composer: W. S. Gilbert. Singer: Lisa Milne. Singer: Andrew Kennedy. Singer: Mark Stone. Singer: Felicity Palmer. Singer: Mark Richardson. Singer: Toby Stafford-Allen. Singer: Leigh Melrose. Singer: Heather Shipp. Choir: BBC Singers. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Jane Glover. Conductor: Jane Glover. Director: Martin Duncan. Director: Martin Duncan.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Yeoman of the Guard part 2

    Librettist: W. S. Gilbert. Singer: Lisa Milne. Singer: Andrew Kennedy. Singer: Mark Stone. Singer: Felicity Palmer. Singer: Mark Richardson. Singer: Toby Stafford-Allen. Singer: Leigh Melrose. Singer: Heather Shipp. Choir: BBC Singers. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Jane Glover.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Spartacus Suite No 2

    Conductor: Barry Wordsworth. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.

  • John Williams

    Star Wars (main theme)

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart.

Broadcast

  • Thu 20 Aug 202014:00
    BBC Radio 3