BBC Proms on the World ServiceBBC Proms 2017Episodes Episode guide

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1. Renée Fleming sings Barber and Strauss

   7/7Barber's nostalgic Knoxville and Richard Strauss's Transformation scene from Daphne.
2. America's Heroes

   6/7Bernstein's score for the film On the Waterfront and Copland's stirring Lincoln Portrait
3. Two Great Romantics: Grieg and Schumann

   5/7Excerpts from Grieg's incidental music to Peer Gynt and Schumann’s Cello Concerto.
4. A Feast of English Music

   4/7Elgar's popular 'Enigma' Variations and Purcell's choral 'Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes'
5. Ella and Dizzy: A Centenary Tribute

   3/7An exuberant celebration of jazz legends Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie
6. Beethoven's revolutionary Third Piano Concerto

   2/7Igor Levit's much-anticipated performance of a piano classic.
7. Three Hundred Years of Water Music

   1/7One of Handel’s best-loved works and other music inspired by all things aquatic