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BBC Proms: 2010: Prom 60

BBC Proms: 2010: Prom 60: Part 1: Walton, Arnold, Bernstein, Gershwin - Part 1

Prom 60

Part 1 Part 1: Walton, Arnold, Bernstein, Gershwin - Part 1

2010

Walton, Arnold, Bernstein, Gershwin - Part 1

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2010, Prom 60, Walton, Arnold, Bernstein, Gershwin - Part 1

Keith Lockhart conducts the BBC CO in Walton, Butterworth, Arnold and Fitkin.

Keith Lockhart conducts the BBC CO. Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue. Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow. Arnold: Four Cornish Dances. Graham Fitkin: PK (world premiere).

BBC PROMS 2010

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Katie Derham

Making his Proms debut, the BBC Concert Orchestra's new Principal Conductor Keith Lockhart brings some American dazzle to the Royal Albert Hall, along with some classic pieces associated with his other orchestra, the Boston Pops. The programme includes a BBC commission from Graham Fitkin, who has composed PK for combined forces of the BBC Concert Orchestra and a family community group of musicians from Cornwall where he lives.

Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow
Arnold: Four Cornish Dances
Graham Fitkin: PK (BBC commission: world premiere)

BBC Proms Family Orchestra & Chorus
Graham Fitkin, conductor
Lincoln Abbotts, conductor
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor.

BBC Proms: 2010

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.

All broadcasts from the 116th season of the BBC Proms

Keith Lockhart conducts the BBC CO in English pieces, plus works from theatre and cinema

Making his Proms debut, BBC Concert Orchestra principal conductor Keith Lockhart directs classic English pieces, plus a selection of American works from the theatre and cinema

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