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BBC Proms 2005

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall , London. In their second Prom of the season, the BBC Concert Orchestra acknowledge this year's sea theme with highlights from Constant Lambert's wartime film score and Stanford's celebration of Britain's naval past. Presented by Warwick Thompson.
Mark Stone (baritone), Philippe Graffin (violin), the London Chorus (men's voices), BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth Lambert Suite: Merchant Seamen
Coleridge-Taylor Violin Concerto in G minor
8.15 Twenty Minutes: Now Wakes the Sea Waves are rolling across the garden. In JG Ballard's short story a man lives far from the coast yet dreams that a mass of water is approaching. Who will believe him? Read by David Rintoul.
8.35 Stanford Songs of the Sea
Elgar Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma) Repeated on Friday 19 August at 2.45pm

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Unknown:
Royal Albert Hall
Presented By:
Warwick Thompson.
Baritone:
Mark Stone
Baritone:
Philippe Graffin
Conductor:
Barry Wordsworth
Read By:
David Rintoul.
Source: Radio Times

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