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Sheena McDonald makes her personal choice of music and looks ahead to the forthcoming week of Proms. With choral music by Tavener,
Bach, Mozart and Barber, jazz from the Esbjorn Svensson Trio, Richter playing Prokofiev and Teresa Stratas singing Kurt Weill. And, at approximately:
9.20 Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica) (2nd mvt) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Leonard Bernstein
9.45 Strauss Four Last Songs Renee Fleming (soprano), Houston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Christoph Eschenbach
10.10 Adams The Chairman Dances (Nixon in China) San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conductor Edo de Waart
10.40 Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (Part 1) Kirov Orchestra , conductor ValeryGergiev
11.25 Shostakovich Symphony No 5 (1st mvt) LSO, conductor Andre Previn
11.40 Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 1
Andrei Gavrilov , City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheena McDonald
Unknown:
Teresa Stratas
Unknown:
Kurt Weill.
Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein
Soprano:
Renee Fleming
Conductor:
Christoph Eschenbach
Conductor:
Kirov Orchestra
Conductor:
Andre Previn
Unknown:
Andrei Gavrilov
Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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