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BBC Proms: 2010: Prom 05

BBC Proms: 2010: Prom 05: Part 1: Wagner, Mendelssohn, Strauss - Part 1

Prom 05

Part 1 Part 1: Wagner, Mendelssohn, Strauss - Part 1

2010

Wagner, Mendelssohn, Strauss - Part 1

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Semyon Bychkov conducts the West German Radio Orchestra - music by Wagner and Strauss.

Semyon Bychkov brings his West German Radio Orchestra to the Proms with a programme of music by Wagner, Mendelssohn, Gunther Schuller and Strauss - his colourful Alpine Symphony.

BBC PROMS 2010

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Presented by Martin Handley.

The Russian-born conductor Semyon Bychkov has been in charge of the West German Radio Orchestra, based in Cologne, for more than ten years now and their performances and recordings have been widely acclaimed.

For tonight's Prom they are joined by the violinist Viviane Hagner for Mendelssohn's evergreen Violin Concerto. The programme begins with one of Wagner's most atmospheric operatic preludes and also includes a work by the veteran American composer Gunther Schuller. Finally, the orchestra performs one of Richard Strauss's most spectacularly colourful scores - his Alpine Symphony. Augmented by organ and an offstage band including twelve horns, Strauss's portrait of the mountain-climber's exhilarating day's adventure provides conductor and orchestra with a fearsome challenge of their own.

Wagner: Lohengrin - Prelude (Act 1)
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
Gunther Schuller: Where the Word Ends (UK premiere)

Viviane Hagner (violin)
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne 
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 22nd July at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2010

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All broadcasts from the 116th season of the BBC Proms

WDR Symphony Orchestra under Semyon Bychkov in Wagner, Mendelssohn, Schuller and Strauss

Semyon Bychkov conducts the WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologe in Wagner's Prelude to Lohengrin, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, Op 64 and the premiere of Gunther Schuller's Where the Word Ends

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