05/08/2012

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The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Presented by Harriett Gilbert. It’s a BBC Proms Special this weekend. Celebrating one of the world's biggest and best loved classical-music festivals. This year, the Proms musicians come from even further afield than usual -- everywhere from Australia to South Africa, Israel to Colombia, the USA to Egypt -- and the focus is very much on youth; we'll be talking with performers and composers -- and the Aldeburgh World Orchestra play Benjamin Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem. Image: Sir Mark Elder conducts the Aldeburgh World Orchestra in Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem at the BBC Proms 2012. © BBC/Chris Christodoulou