Afternoon Concert

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Afternoon Concert: BBC Proms 2023: Wednesday - BBC Proms - Audience Choice

Ian Skelly - Afternoon Concert

Wednesday - BBC Proms - Audience Choice

BBC Proms 2023

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Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer with the Audience Choice Prom.

Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer hand the programming to the BBC Proms audience in the Audience Choice Prom.

Introduced by Ian Skelly, with another chance to hear Budapest Festival Orchestra and its Music Director, Ivàn Fischer, as they hand the programming to the BBC Proms Audience for the 2023 'Audience Choice' Prom. Drawing on a reserve of more than 200 pieces of music, the orchestra, with the help of the audience, decides the concert programme on the day.

BBC Proms (first broadcast live on Sunday 13th August)
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Audience Choice Prom
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer, conductor

c. 3.30pm
Artist Choice: Victor Aviat, Principal Oboe, Budapest Festival Orchestra

Schubert: Allegretto in E flat major, D 946 No 2 (3 pieces for piano)
András Schiff, piano

c. 4.30pm
J S Bach: The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 (Contrapunctus 9 & 10)
Les Inattendus

Buxtehude: Alles was ihr tut mit Worten oder mit Werken, BuxWV 4
Latvian Radio Choir
Marco Ambrosini, nyckelharp
Ieva Saliete, organ
Kaspars Putniņš, conductor

Afternoon Concert: BBC Proms 2023

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Every day during the summer, Afternoon Concert includes performances from a recent Prom.

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