THE BBC PROMS RETURN TO WCLV'S AIRWAVES



The BBC Proms is the world's largest and best known classical music festival, and invitations to perform at it are once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, although The Cleveland Orchestra has been there many times. The 2009 BBC PRoms began on July 17th and will conclude on Saturday, September 12 with the famous "Last Night of the Proms", which WCLV will broadcast live beginning at 2:00 PM. This is an exciting event, and when the audience joins in on "Rule Britannia" and "Land of Hope and Glory," you just might wish the Revolution hadn't been so successful. .

LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS 2009
David Robertson, conductor; Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano; Alison Balsom trumpet; BBC Singers; BBC Symphony Chorus; BBC Symphony Orchestra
OLIVER KNUSSEN: Flourish with Fireworks
PURCELL, arr. Henry Wood: New Suite
PURCELL: Dido and Aeneas 'Thy hand, Belinda ... When I am laid in earth' (Dido's Lament) 'With drooping wings ye cupids come'
HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in E flat major
MAHLER: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
VILLA-LOBOS: Chôros No.10, 'Rasga o Coração'
ARNOLD: A Grand, Grand Overture
KETÈLBEY: In a Monastery Garden
PIAZZOLLA: Libertango
GERSHWIN, arr. Barry Forgie: Shall We Dance – 'They can't take that away from me' BBC commission: world premiere
BBC PROMS INSPIRE COMPOSERS: Fireworks Fanfares world premiere
HANDEL: Music for the Royal Fireworks – excerpts
ARNE, arr. Sargent: Rule, Britannia!
PARRY: Jerusalem
ELGAR: Pomp and Circumstance March No.1
WOOD: The National Anthem

A good sampling of the other BBC Proms performances will be heard on WCLV's broadcasts of SymphonyCast from Amercian Public Media. These will occur on Thursday nights at 9:00 PM, beginnin September 3rd.

9/3/09
London Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink, conductor
MAHLER: Symphony No. 9

9/10/09
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fischer, conductor
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
PROKOFIEV: Overture on Hebrew Themes
BARTÓK: Violin Concerto No. 2
DVORAK: Symphony No. 7

9/17/09
Dresden State Orchestra
Fabio Luisi, conductor
Lang Lang, piano
CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 2
STRAUSS: An Alpine Symphony

9/24/09
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
David Zinman, conductor
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
SCHUBERT: Rosamunde, Overture
SCHUBERT/OSVALDO GOLIJOV: She Was Here
MAHLER: Symphony No. 4