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BBC Proms: 2011: Prom 24

BBC Proms: 2011: Prom 24: Part 2: Grainger, Strauss

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Prom 24

Part 2 Part 2: Grainger, Strauss

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Grainger, Strauss

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Andrew Davis leads the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra in Grainger and Strauss.

Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra. Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry; Suite (In a Nutshell). Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche.

BBC PROMS 2011

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Louise Fryer

Tasmin Little performs Elgar's great Violin Concerto with Sir Andrew Davis and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. And to mark the 50th anniversary of Grainger's death, his In a Nutshell Suite receives a first outing at the Proms.

The Violin Concerto is preceded by the BBC Singers performing one of Elgar's most radical part-songs, notated in two keys simultaneously in a manner which parallels the incorrigible experiments of the Australian composer Percy Grainger. Grainger's orchestral suite reaches its grand finale - called the Gum Suckers' March - by way of some unpredictable and darkly complex invention. And to round off the Prom there's music by Richard Strauss: once considered dangerously radical itself, his perky symphonic poem documents the adventures of a purely mythical rascal.

Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry
Grainger:Suite 'In a Nutshell'
R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

Tasmin Little (violin)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Friday 5th August at 2pm.

BBC Proms: 2011

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.

Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in works by Elgar, Grainger and Strauss

Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in experimental works by Elgar and Grainger, plus a piece by Strauss that was once considered radical in its day

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