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Afternoon Concert: 25/08/2008

25/08/2008

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, 25/08/2008

A Prom featuring music by Vaughan Williams, Nigel Osborne and Beethoven.

Presented by Penny Gore. With BBC Proms 2008: Featuring Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi; and Nigel Osborne: Flute Concerto. Plus Chamber Music: Piano works by Beethoven and Brahms.

Presented by Penny Gore

BBC Proms 2008:

A Prom featuring Vaughan Williams's Flos Campi with a solo viola accompanied by orchestra and wordless chorus, prefaced by highly charged words from the Song of Solomon. It is a score that may have been a concealed declaration of love for Ursula Wood, who was to become the composer's second wife.

Well known for his advocacy of British music, Richard Hickox also directs Nigel Osborne's Flute Concerto in celebration of the composer's sixtieth birthday and with a Radio 3 New Generation Artist as soloist. Completing the programme are a Mozart Symphony and Beethoven's Mass in C. Introduced by Louise Fryer.

Sharon Bezaly (flute)
Lawrence Power (viola)
Rebecca Evans (soprano)
Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano)
Thomas Walker (tenor)
Matthew Rose (bass)
BBC Singers
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox (conductor)

Mozart: Symphony No 34 in C, K338
Vaughan Williams: Flos campi
Nigel Osborne: Flute Concerto
Beethoven: Mass in C 

Plus Chamber Music:

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 21 in C, Op 53 (Waldstein)
Barry Douglas (piano)
 
Brahms: Two Rhapsodies for piano, Op 79
Barry Douglas (piano).

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