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BBC Proms 2003: The First Night of the Proms

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Live from the Royal Albert Hall London.
The 109th Prom season is launched on a grand scale with the oratorio version of Prokofiev's film score for Eisenstein's expressionist masterpiece Ivan the Terrible. Presented by Stephanie Hughes.

Simon Russell Beale (narrator), Irina Tchistyakova (mezzo), James Rutherford (baritone), Lang Lang (piano), BBC National Chorus of Wales, BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin

Shostakovich Festive Overture
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor
8.20 Twenty Minutes: Proms Talk
Stephanie Hughes talks to tonight's soloist Lang Lang, conductor Leonard Slatkin and the Proms director, Nicholas Kenyon.
8.40 Prokofiev, arr Stassevich Oratorio: Ivan the Terrible

(Also broadcast on BBC2 Repeated on Monday at 2pm)

(Unbuttoned musicfest: page 109)

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes
Narrator:
Simon Russell Beale
Mezzo:
Irina Tchistyakova
Baritone:
James Rutherford
Pianist/Interviewee:
Lang Lang
Conductor/Interviewee:
Leonard Slatkin
Proms Director/Interviewee:
Nicholas Kenyon
Source: Radio Times

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