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BBC Proms: 2011: Prom 23

BBC Proms: 2011: Prom 23: Part 1: Beethoven, Saint-Saens

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Beethoven, Saint-Saens

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2011

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Gianandrea Noseda conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Beethoven and Saint-Saëns.

Gianandrea Noseda conducts Stephen Hough (piano) and the BBC Philharmonic. Beethoven: Symphony No 4 in B flat. Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No 5 in F (Egyptian).

BBC PROMS 2011

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

Energy and Romantic drive characterise the music of tonight's Prom with the BBC Philharmonic, conductor Gianandrea Noseda and pianist Stephen Hough . Beethoven's exhilarating Fourth Symphony is the perfect curtain-raiser to Saint-Saëns's sparkling Fifth Piano Concerto, with its colourful reminiscences of his foreign travels. The second half continues this season's anniversary exploration of Liszt's major works with his turbulent Dante Symphony, bringing to vivid musical life the dark world of the Inferno and Purgatorio sections of the Italian Renaissance poet's Divine Comedy.

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major ('Egyptian')

Stephen Hough (piano)
Julia Doyle (soprano)

CBSO Chorus (women's voices)
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 4th August at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2011

Prom 23

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All broadcasts from the 117th season of the BBC Proms.

Gianandrea Noseda conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Beethoven, Saint-Saens and Liszt

A Prom with energy and Romantic drive, with pianist Stephen Hough and the BBC Philharmonic under Gianandrea Noseda in music by Beethoven, Saint-Saens and Liszt

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