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BBC Proms 2002

on BBC Four

Charles Hazlewood introduces the first of 14 Promenade concerts to be broadcast by BBC4 from London's Royal Albert Hall. This evening Charles Mackerras, a revered interpreter of 18th-century music, conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in a performance of The Creation by Joseph Haydn, sung in German. Soloists are soprano Christiane Oelze, tenor Paul Groves and bass John Relyea. Among the guests joining Charles Hazlewood in the interval is Nicholas Kenyon, Director of the BBC Proms.

(Also broadcast on Radio 3 and BBCi. Our full guide to the Proms: centre pages)

Contributors

Presenter:
Charles Hazlewood
Musicians:
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Conductor:
Charles Mackerras
Soprano:
Christiane Oelze
Tenor:
Paul Groves
Bass:
John Relyea
Guest:
Nicholas Kenyon

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