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BBC Proms: 2013 Season: Proms Chamber Music

BBC Proms: 2013: Proms Chamber Music: Part 3: PCM 03: Britten Up-Close

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PCM 03: Britten Up-Close

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2013

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Ruby Hughes, James Gilchrist, Christoph Denoth and Imogen Cooper perform music by Britten.

Ruby Hughes, James Gilchrist, Christoph Denoth and Imogen Cooper live at the BBC Proms with a programme of bittersweet works by Benjamin Britten.

Britten 100

Ruby Hughes, James Gilchrist, Christoph Denoth and Imogen Cooper live at the BBC Proms with a programme of bittersweet works by Benjamin Britten.

Live from Cadogan Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Britten: Canticle I 'My beloved is mine'
Britten: A Charm of Lullabies
Britten: Night Piece (Notturno)Britten: Songs from the Chinese
Britten: Canticle II 'Abraham and Isaac'
Britten: Master Kilby (Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 6, England - No. 3)

Ruby Hughes (soprano)
James Gilchrist (tenor)
Christoph Denoth (guitar)Imogen Cooper (piano)

A sequence of bittersweet works by Benjamin Britten for the third Proms Chamber Music concert, performed by a starry line-up of musicians including pianist Imogen Cooper and tenor James Gilchrist. The programme includes Britten's unnerving story of absolute faith, Abraham and Isaac, and two song-cycles - A Charm of Lullabies and Songs from the Chinese - alongside the exquisite Night Piece (Notturno) for piano.

BBC Proms: 2013

BBC Proms: 2013: Proms Chamber Music

Proms Chamber Music

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 119th season of the BBC Proms.

Series of concerts by small classical musical ensembles, broadcast from Cadogan Hall

Series of concerts by small classical musical ensembles, broadcast from Cadogan Hall in London

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