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BBC Proms: 2014 Season: Proms Chamber Music

BBC Proms: 2014: Proms Chamber Music: Part 8: PCM 08: Walton - Facade

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Part 8 Part 8: PCM 08: Walton - Facade

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PCM 08: Walton - Facade

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Nash Ensemble under John Wilson. Shostakovich arr L Atovmyan: 4 Waltzes. Walton: Facade.

Live from Cadogan Hall, London, Nash Ensemble conducted by John Wilson with Felicity Palmer and Ian Bostridge (reciters). Shostakovich arr L Atovmyan: Four Waltzes. Walton: Facade.

Live from Cadogan Hall, London
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Nash Ensemble live at the BBC Proms in waltzes by Shostakovich, and Walton's witty Facade, conducted by John Wilson.

Shostakovich (arr. L. Atovmyan): Four Waltzes
Walton: Façade

Felicity Palmer (reciter)
Ian Bostridge (reciter)
Nash Ensemble
John Wilson (conductor)

This year's focus on William Walton wouldn't be complete without his witty, genre-bending 'entertainment' Façade. Walton's first big success, the work sets poems by his friend and patron Edith Sitwell to create a sequence of colourful, whimsical and piquant numbers for chamber ensemble and reciters.

The whimsical side of Shostakovich is also represented, in his Four Waltzes. Arranged from the composer's earlier film scores, they range from the good-humoured 'Spring Waltz', the faux naïf 'Waltz-Scherzo' and the charmingly kitsch 'Barrel Organ Waltz'.

BBC Proms: 2014

BBC Proms: 2014: 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.

Music: Classical: Chamber & Recital

All broadcasts from the 120th 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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