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BBC Proms 1996

BBC Radio 3
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From the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Tonight, a Proms debut for a new Spanish orchestra of young players who revel in the sounds of their own country. Ravel re-creates the obsessive insistence of the dance, and Rodrigo revisits the elegant spring palace of the kings of Spain. Gerhard - whose centenary falls this year - contributes a chilling, impressionistic setting of Camus's story La Peste.
Narrator Michael Pennington.
John Williams (guitar), BBC Singers and Symphony Chorus, Spanish National Youth Orchestra, conductor Edmond Colomer

Gerhard The Plague

Contributors

Narrator:
Michael Pennington
Guitarist:
John Williams
Singers:
BBC Singers
Singers:
BBC Symphony Chorus
Musicians:
Spanish National Youth Orchestra
Conductor:
Edmond Colomer
Source: Radio Times

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