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BBC Proms: 2011: Proms Plus

BBC Proms: 2011: Proms Plus: Proms Literary - The Literary Life of the Cello

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Proms Literary - The Literary Life of the Cello

20/07/2011

2011

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Peggy Reynolds explores the cello in literature.

Rana Mitter talks to Peggy Reynolds about the cello in literature, with illustrations played by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Instruments in Literature: the Cello.
How well do the great works of fiction portray instruments in their pages? Music critic and Professor of English, Peggy Reynolds is joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations. 

Night Waves presenter Rana Mitter hosts this discussion recorded in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music. 

The programme is part of Radio 3's Proms Plus Literary exploring some of the literary and cultural dimensions of this year's Proms concerts, in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music, right next door to the Albert Hall and just in advance of the concerts themselves.

BBC Proms: 2011

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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 117th season of the BBC Proms.

Series of events providing a context to the 2011 Proms season's music and artists

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