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BBC Proms: 2009: Prom 72: Mendelssohn, Read Thomas, Beethoven

BBC Proms: 2009: Prom 72: Mendelssohn, Read Thomas, Beethoven: Part 1

Prom 72: Mendelssohn, Read Thomas, Beethoven

Part 1 2009

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BBC SO/Belohlavek in Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Thomas: Violin Concerto No 3.

From the Royal Albert Hall. The BBC SO performs Mendelssohn's overture and incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream and Augusta Read Thomas's Violin Concerto No 3.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Andrew McGregor.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs Mendelssohn's magical overture that he wrote at the age of only 17, coupled with extracts from his later incidental music to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Augusta Read Thomas's new Violin Concerto No 3, subtitled Juggler in Paradise, is intended to suggest or invoke the image of the violin's role. The soloist plays a rhapsodic cadenza throughout, making a path through rich orchestral textures dominated by a pointillistic paradise of bell sounds.

Jennifer Koh (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Overture and incidental music
Augusta Read Thomas: Violin Concerto No 3 - Juggler in Paradise (BBC co-commission).

BBC Proms: 2009

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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Selected coverage from the classical concerts of the Proms' 115th season.

BBC SO/Jiri Belohlavek performs works by Mendelssohn, Augusta Read Thomas and Beethoven

BBC SO/Jiri Belohlavek in Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Overture and incidental music. Read Thomas: Violin Concerto No 3, Jennifer Koh (violin). Beethoven: Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral)

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