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BBC Proms

Music: Classical

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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: 2015 Season: Proms Interval

BBC Proms: 2015: Proms Interval: Turquerie

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Turquerie

14/08/2015

2015

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Nandini Das reveals how Turkish culture influenced European fashion in Mozart's lifetime.

Nandini Das and Haydn Williams discuss how a fashion for all things Turkish permeated everyday European life in the late 17th and 18th centuries.

How a craze for all things Turkish permeated everyday European life in the late 17th and 18th centuries.
Presenter Nandini Das and pioneer in the field of Turquerie Haydn Williams take a trip to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and explore how art, culture, dress, food, and social habits were influenced by this forgotten fashion, rooted in fantasy and masquerade, which swept across Europe.

BBC Proms: 2015

BBC Proms: 2015: Proms Interval

Proms Interval

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 121st season of the BBC Proms.

Feature series accompanying concerts in the 2015 Proms season

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