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BBC Proms

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Peter Maxwell Davies
Barry Douglas (piano).
The first of two Proms tonight.
Mendelssohn Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 in G
7.50 Michael Hall presents a listener's guide to Peter Maxwell Davies's Symphony No 2 - its debt to the past and to Beethoven's mighty Hammerklavier Sonata, as well as its inspiration derived from the seascape around the Orkney Islands.
8.10 Maxwell Davies Symphony No 2

Contributors

Musicians:
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor:
Peter Maxwell Davies
Pianist:
Barry Douglas
Presenter (Interval):
Michael Hall
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

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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