Â鶹Éç Proms 2007
Broadcasting the Proms
The Â鶹Éç brings the Â鶹Éç Proms, the world's greatest classical music festival, to the widest
possible audience via Â鶹Éç radio, television and online. Â鶹Éç Radio 3 broadcasts each
concert live and all are available on-demand via Listen Again for seven days after broadcast.
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- Proms broadcast live on Â鶹Éç Radio 3
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- Proms available online with on-demand listening over seven
days
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- First regular weekly broadcasts on Â鶹Éç Four in addition
to extensive television coverage of the season across Â鶹Éç
One and Â鶹Éç Two
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- Â鶹Éç One broadcasts three themed concert programmes
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- Digital services provide in-depth information about each
broadcast on-air and online
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This is the first year that Â鶹Éç Four has had a regular weekly
presence at the Â鶹Éç Proms which is at the heart of the
extensive television coverage this season. Â鶹Éç One
broadcasts highlights from six concerts in a series of three
special programmes and Â鶹Éç Two brings viewers some of
this season's highlights.
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A wide range of multimedia platforms
bring the full range of programming, supported by news about
the season, information about the music and artists and
related broadcasts inviting audiences outside the Royal Albert
Hall to join in and enjoy the complete Â鶹Éç Proms experience.
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Â鶹Éç Proms are broadcast live on Â鶹Éç Radio 3. Listeners can
hear repeat broadcasts of most concerts each weekday in
Afternoon on 3 (2.00pm) at bbc.co.uk/radio3. Â鶹Éç Proms
Chamber Music concerts are broadcast live from Cadogan
Hall and repeated the following Saturday (2.00pm) and Â鶹Éç
Proms Composer Portraits are broadcast on the day of
recording, after the evening's Prom.
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Regular programmes
across the station will also feature Â鶹Éç Proms-related content
with detailed information about the wider musical and cultural
context of the season's key events.This includes two special
Sunday Features, which focus upon Sibelius (in the year of the
50th anniversary of his death) and Shakespeare, building upon
the Â鶹Éç Proms theme which celebrates repertoire inspired by
his works.
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Artists and composers will join presenters to offer insights
into the works being performed and their own unique
interpretations. Listeners to Â鶹Éç Radio 3 via DAB digital radio
and Freeview will be able to view ‘now playing' details and
programme notes.
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The season is also available to listeners
throughout Europe, North America and across the world via
the European Broadcasting Union, as well as online via the
Â鶹Éç Proms website. Selected concerts will again be broadcast on Â鶹Éç Radio 3 over the Christmas period.
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Â鶹Éç Four offers viewers the chance to enjoy a raft of
concerts broadcast live weekly throughout the season and
Â鶹Éç Two features some of this year's most eagerly awaited
performances, including those directed by Sir Colin Davis,
Michael Tilson Thomas and Bernard Haitink. Highlights from six
Â鶹Éç Proms concerts are brought to Â鶹Éç One viewers in a
series of three themed programmes.
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The first of these reflects
the 150th anniversary of Edward Elgar's birth, featuring the
composer's Enigma Variations performed by Daniele Gatti and
the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra coupled with Paul Watkins
performing the legendary Cello Concerto, recorded on the
opening night of the season.
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Subsequent programmes
celebrate young, international orchestral music-making with
highlights from concerts by the National Youth Orchestras of
both Venezuela and Great Britain and the European Union
Youth Orchestra and a special broadcast showcasing Baroque
favourites.
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For all televised Proms on Â鶹Éç One, Â鶹Éç Two and Â鶹Éç
Fou, digital TV viewers (digital satellite, Freeview,Virgin TV
and Sky viewers) can press the red button on their remote
control to access programme notes tailored to each channel.
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These programme notes provide viewers with a guide to the
music including biographical information about the composer,
background information and contextual references about the
work, deeper analytical details and a commentary about specific interesting features of the music. On the Last Night of
the Proms, this will also include live coverage from Proms in
the Park concerts around the UK.
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Every Â鶹Éç Prom can be heard live online and concerts are
available for up to seven days after the original broadcast. Last
year there was a 200 per cent increase in the numbers of people
using the ‘Listen Again' service at bbc.co.uk/radio3 and more
than a million requests by users were received throughout the
season.
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The Â鶹Éç Proms website continues to be the primary source
for the most up-to-date information about the programme of
concerts and events, artists and repertoire, also inviting
audiences to participate in debate by submitting their own
reviews and joining the lively discussions on the message
board. Online users are offered a wealth of background
material with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and a look
at the more historical perspective, celebrating the rich and
unique history of the world's greatest music festival.
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Listeners
can access detailed notes about the music featured in each
evening's concert, available one hour before each concert,
complementing the Â鶹Éç Proms broadcast experience.The
Â鶹Éç Proms will once again create a special WAP site for the
season enabling users to access information via their mobile
phones, including listings, updates, booking and broadcast
information.
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Broadcast listings
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Â鶹Éç Proms are broadcast live on Â鶹Éç Radio 3 and ancillary
events as follows:
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- Â鶹Éç Proms Saturday Matinee concerts are broadcast live
on Â鶹Éç Radio 3 at 3.00pm
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- Â鶹Éç Proms Chamber Music concerts are broadcast live on
Â鶹Éç Radio 3 on Mondays at 1.00pm and repeated the
following Saturday at 2.00pm
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- Â鶹Éç Proms Composer Portraits will be recorded for
broadcast on Â鶹Éç Radio 3 immediately after that evening's
Prom. Andrew McGregor will be talking to David Matthews
and Thomas Adés, and the portraits will include chamber
music by the composers.
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Throughout the season on Â鶹Éç Radio 3, programmes will
feature Proms-related material.
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- Proms Preview Evening (Thursday 12 July, 7.00pm–8.45pm)
Petroc Trelawny previews the season's programme and
features interviews with selected artists who will be
taking part
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- A special programme will be devoted to this year's
Â鶹Éç Proms/Guardian Young Composers Competition and
will be broadcast on Â鶹Éç Radio 3 between the two Proms on Friday 24 August
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- In Breakfast (weekdays, 7.00am–10.00am; weekends,
7.00am–9.00am), Rob Cowan, Martin Handley and Sara
Mohr-Pietsch present music and updates on the season
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- Summer CD Review (Saturdays, 9.00am–12.00 noon) will
feature new releases and reissues from artists and
orchestras appearing at the Proms
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- Classical Collection (weekdays, 10.00am–12.00 noon)
Sarah Walker and James Jolly present their favourite
recordings of works featured throughout this year's Proms
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- Afternoon on 3 (weekdays, 2.00pm–5.00pm) will include
repeat broadcast of Â鶹Éç Proms concerts
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- In Tune (weekdays, 5.00pm–start of Prom) features
interviews, performances and news surrounding the Proms
season, presented by Sean Rafferty
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- Twenty Minutes Talks and features broadcast in the intervals
of evening Proms, reflecting Proms themes and anniversaries
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- The Adverb Broadcast weekly during Proms intervals on
Thursday evenings throughout the season. Actors and
writers join Ian McMillan and guest presenters for readings
and discussion, including specially commissioned new writing
on Shakespearean themes.The programme is recorded
before live audiences at Cadogan Hall each Monday
immediately after the Proms Chamber Music concert
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- Artist Focus (weekdays, 10.30pm–11.00pm) will explore
music by selected artists featured across the season
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- Sunday Feature This year's Â鶹Éç Proms Sunday Features
focus upon Shakespeare and Sibelius. In 'Courting the East:
Shakespeare and the Ottomans' (22 July, 9.30pm–10.15pm),
dynamic historian Jerry Brotton uncovers the complex
relationship between the court of
Elizabeth I and
the Islamic world, vividly
illustrated by Shakespeare.
Later in the season a
special programme marks
the 50th anniversary of
Sibelius's death
(5 August, 9.30pm–
10.15pm)
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Â鶹Éç One
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Elgar at the Â鶹Éç Proms |
(Transmission date tbc) |
Enigma Variations |
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Daniele Gatti |
Cello Concerto |
Paul Watkins/Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra/Jiřà BÄ•lohlávek |
Four Choral Songs, Op. 53 (excerpts) |
Â鶹Éç Symphony Chorus/Stephen Jackson |
Youth orchestras of the world |
(Transmission date tbc) |
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Latin American works |
Simón BolÃvar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela/Gustavo Dudamel |
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 |
Alexander Kobrin/National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain/Mark Elder |
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 |
European Union Youth Orchestra/Sir Colin Davis |
Baroque composers |
(Transmission date tbc) |
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
Purcell (arr. Catherine Mackintosh): Sett of Favourite Airs, Fantasies and Dances
Handel: Arias and Duets
Handel: Concerto a due cori in F major
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Kate Royal/Ian Bostridge;
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Rachel Podger;
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/Gottfried von der Goltz
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Last Night of the Proms |
Broadcast live |
Last Night of the Proms, Part 2 |
Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra/ Jiřà BÄ•lohlávek |
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Â鶹Éç Two
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13 Jul |
First Night of the Proms (Â鶹Éç SO/Jiřà BÄ•lohlávek) |
Broadcast live |
14 Jul |
Music from Great British Films (Â鶹Éç Concert Orchestra) |
Broadcast 28 July |
04 Aug |
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain/Mark Elder |
Live/deferred |
11 Aug |
European Union Youth Orchestra/Sir Colin Davis |
Live/deferred |
25 Aug |
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Bernard Haitink |
Live/deferred |
01 Sep |
San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas |
Live/deferred |
08 Sep |
Last Night of the Proms, Part 1 (Â鶹Éç SO/Jiřà BÄ•lohlávek) |
Broadcast live |
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Â鶹Éç Four
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15 Jul |
Campra/Rameau |
Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/Buskaid/Gardiner |
16 Jul |
Berio/Rossini |
Swingle Singers/Chorus and Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome/Antonio Pappano |
17 Jul |
Hayden/Bernstein/ Ives |
O. Shaham/Â鶹Éç SO/David Robertson |
22 Jul |
Dean/Beethoven |
Gondwana Voices/Â鶹Éç Symphony Chorus/Â鶹Éç SO/David Robertson |
23 Jul |
Haydn |
Handel and Haydn Society of Boston/Sir Roger Norrington |
29 Jul |
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Von Otter/Les Musiciens du Louvre,Grenoble/Marc Minkowski |
30 Jul |
Ravel/Salonen/ Berlioz |
Bronfman/Â鶹Éç SO/Esa-Pekka Salonen |
31 Jul |
Sibelius/Britten/ ³Õ²¹°ùè²õ±ð/¶Ù±ð²ú³Ü²õ²õ²â |
Â鶹Éç Scottish SO/Ilan Volkov |
05 Aug |
Brahms/Elgar/ R. Strauss |
Ogrintchouk/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Daniele Gatti |
06 Aug |
Beethoven/Berg/ Korngold/Schumann |
Fleming/Â鶹Éç Philharmonic/Gianandrea Noseda |
07 Aug |
Britten/Mahler |
Â鶹Éç Philharmonic/Gianandrea Noseda |
13 Aug |
Weber/Mahler/ Brahms |
Frankfurt Radio Symphony/Paavo Järvi |
14 Aug |
Stravinsky/ Bernstein/ Gershwin |
Marcus Roberts Trio/Â鶹Éç Scottish SO/Robert Spano |
19 Aug |
Shostakovich/ Bernstein/ Ginastera etc |
Simón BolÃvar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela/Gustavo Dudamel |
20 Aug |
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Philharmonia Orchestra/Christoph von Dohnányi |
26 Aug |
µþ°ù¾±³Ù³Ù±ð²Ô/²Ñ²¹°ù³Ù¾±²Ôů/ Prokofiev |
Kahanek/Â鶹Éç SO/Jiřà BÄ•lohlávek |
27 Aug |
Michael Ball (repertoire tbc) |
Â鶹Éç Concert Orchestra/Callum McLeod |
28 Aug |
Tchaikovsky/ Prokofiev |
LSO/Valery Gergiev |
02 Sep |
Ives/R. Strauss/ Shostakovich |
Voigt/San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas |