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The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

BBC Proms: 2013 Season: Prom 71

BBC Proms: 2013: Prom 71: Part 1: Prom 71 (part 1): Gorecki, Vaughan Williams & Tchaikovsky

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Prom 71 (part 1): Gorecki, Vaughan Williams & Tchaikovsky

Part 1 Part 1: Prom 71 (part 1): Gorecki, Vaughan Williams & Tchaikovsky

2013

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2013, Prom 71, Prom 71 (part 1): Gorecki, Vaughan Williams & Tchaikovsky

Soprano Ruby Hughes, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Osmo Vanska in Gorecki's Symphony No 3.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, Osmo Vanska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Gorecki's Symphony No 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), featuring soprano Ruby Hughes.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Suzy Klein

The BBC Symphony Orchestra & Osmo Vänskä live at the BBC Proms. Gorecki's famous 3rd Symphony, Vaughan Williams' Four Last Songs, & Tchaikovsky's great and final 6th Symphony.

A series of farewells as Osmo Vänskä conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a programme concluding the season's focus on Polish music and premiering Anthony Payne's orchestration of Vaughan Williams's Four Last Songs. BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Ruby Hughes and Jennifer Johnston are the soloists, Hughes singing the three Polish texts of Henryk Górecki's 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs', Johnston singing Procris, Menelaus, Tired and Hands, Eyes and Heart in the Vaughan Williams. Tchaikovsky's 'Pathétique' is the penultimate instalment of this summer's cycle of his symphonies.




Górecki: Symphony No. 3, 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'


8.30pm Interval

8.50pm Vaughan Williams Orch. A. Payne: Four Last Songs (BBC commission: world premiere)


Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, 'Pathétique'


Ruby Hughes (soprano)
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä (conductor).

BBC Proms: 2013

BBC Proms: 2013: Prom 71

Prom 71

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.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra under Osmo Vanska in Gorecki, Vaughan Williams and Tchaikovsky.

Suzy Klein presents a Prom in which the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Osmo Vanska perform music by Gorecki, Vaughan Williams and Tchaikovsky

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