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Tom Service plays highlights from this year's Proms, live from the Royal Albert Hall.

Live from the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Tom Service plays highlights from this year's Proms, and looks ahead to the new autumn season of live music on Radio 3, which includes broadcasts from the Edinburgh International Festival and Leeds International Piano Competition. His live guests include the Last Night of the Proms' conductor Sakari Oramo, Sam Jackson - Controller BBC Radio 3 and BBC Proms, Neil Ferris, Chorus Director of the BBC Symphony Chorus, and singers Mike Abrams & Francesca Mosely. Saxophonist Jess Gillam also drops into the Elgar room to perform live accompanied by Sam Becker on the Double Bass and talks to Tom about performing at The Last Night of the Proms in 2018.

Highlights from the Proms include performances from the first two weeks of the season, including Voces8 and The Sound of Disco from the opening weekend, Mahler's 5th Symphony with Mark Elder and the Halle Orchestra, late night song from countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński, Ryan Wigglesworth conducting Elgar's 2nd Symphony with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and music from Proms at The Glasshouse.

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Sat 14 Sep 2024 09:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 5 - 1st mvt (extract)

    Conductor: Elim Chan. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.

  • Walter Murphy

    A Fifth of Beethoven (extract)

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser.

  • George Gershwin

    Rhapsody in Blue

    Conductor: Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra.

  • Edward Elgar

    Symphony No 2 - final movement

    Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ryan Wigglesworth.

  • Kate Rusby

    Underneath the Stars

    Choir: The King’s Singers. Choir: VOCES8.

  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    Symphony No. 4: III. Scherzo. Vivace

    • Bacewicz: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1.
    • Chandos.
    • 7.

  • Giovanni Antonio Boretti

    Chi scherza con Amor, from 'Eliogabalo'

    Singer: Jakub Józef Orliński. Ensemble: Il Pomo d’Oro.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyrical Pieces, Op. 65 (Excerpts): No. 6, Wedding Day at Troldhaugen

    Performer: Denis Kozhukhin.
    • Grieg: Piano Works.
    • PENTATONE.
    • 701.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Carnival Overture, Op.92

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • Tring.

  • Nick Drake

    River Man

    Performer: Marika Hackman. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jules Buckley.

  • Eric Coates

    London Suite: III. Knightsbridge (March)

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • PHILIPS.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Dopo Notte (Ariodante)

    Performer: The English Concert. Singer: Alice Coote. Director: Harry Bicket.
    • Hyperion.

  • Carlos Simon

    An Elegy (A Cry from the Grave)

    Performer: Teagan Faran. Performer: Victor Huls. Performer: Zoe. Performer: Reuben.
    • Navona Records.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No 8 in A minor, K 310 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Mozart: Piano Sonatas K.310, 331 & 533/494: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 2.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Requiem: 2nd mvt; Dies irae

    Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Choir: BBC National Chorus of Wales. Choir: Crouch End Festival Chorus. Conductor: Ryan Bancroft.

  • Nicola Matteis

    Fantasia in A minor

    Performer: Daniel Pioro.

  • Frankie Archer

    Peacock Followed Hen

  • Knats

    Tortuga

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 5 - conclusion

    Conductor: Mark Elder. Orchestra: Hallé.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Piano Trio in D minor (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Tom Poster. Performer: Elena Urioste. Performer: Laura van der Heijden.
    • Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Darius Milhaud

    Scaramouche - 1st mvt

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.

  • Meredith Monk

    Early Morning Melody

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Sam Becker.

  • Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen

    Shine You No More

    Performer: Jess Gillam. Performer: Sam Becker.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    Turangalîla Symphony

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Cynthia Millar. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No. 4 in C minor - 2nd mvt

    Conductor: John Storgårds. Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    'Aeolian Harp' (Études, Op 25 No 1)

    Performer: Yunchan Lim.
    • Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25: No. 1 in A-Flat Major "Aeolian Harp".
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 1.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.59 in A major 'Fire' (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • Signum.

Broadcast

  • Sat 14 Sep 2024 09:00
    BBC Radio 3