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Thread #139059   Message #3200172
Posted By: GUEST,henryp
02-Aug-11 - 11:23 AM
Thread Name: BBC Proms
Subject: RE: BBC Proms
Reminder - tonight on BBC Radio 3!

Prom 24 Elgar, Grainger and Strauss
Listen live on BBC Radio 3 and in HD Sound on the website. Listen online for 7 days after broadcast. Repeated on Radio 3 2pm 5 August 2011
Television & Red Button; Watch on BBC Four on 4 August. Watch online for 7 days after broadcast.

7.00pm Elgar
8.05pm Proms Plus Literary; Rudyard Kipling
8.25pm Grainger and Strauss; To mark the 50th anniversary of Grainger's death, his In a Nutshell suite receives a first outing at the Proms.
9.30pm Coleridge in Gottingen

10.15pm Prom 25 Grainger
Radio; Listen live on BBC Radio 3 and in HD Sound on the website. Listen online for 7 days after broadcast.
Television & Red Button; Watch on BBC Four on 14 August. Watch online for 7 days after broadcast.

Grainger is celebrated in a special Late Night sequence as star Northumbrian smallpiper Kathryn Tickell and friends take a fresh look at the prodigious activities of one of music's great originals.
Grainger; Green Bushes (9 mins)
Grainger; Molly on the Shore (5 mins)
Grainger; Shepherd's Hey - medley (12 mins)
Grainger; Early One Morning (5 mins)
Grainger; Shallow Brown (8 mins)
Grainger; Scotch Strathspey and Reel (9 mins)
Interspersed with traditional and contemporary folk music, including material which formed the basis for Grainger's arrangements.
June Tabor (folk singer) Wilson Family (shanty singers) Kathryn Tickell Band
BBC Singers (men's voices) Northern Sinfonia John Harle conductor
11.45pm Late Junction

And tomorrow, Wednesday 3 August on BBC Radio 2 7.00-10.00pm
Cambridge Folk Festival Highlights including Richard Thompson, Kate Rusby, Chris Wood, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Bellowhead