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Concert 1 | Concert 2 | Concert 3 | Last Night of the Proms The partnership between Minnesota Public Radio and the BBC Proms will provide audiences across the Untited States the best of the festival—a snapshot of four concerts from among the 70 concerts in the full British series. The times listed below are for Minnesota Public Radio's classical music stations. Check with your local public radio station for other listings. CONCERT
1 Two leading Baroque orchestras and a new crop of period instrumentalists celebrate the 350th anniversary of Corelli with music on a grand scale. Andrew Manze, director/violin The English Concert CONCERT
2 The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and its principal conductor perform a pair of works by anniversary composer Sergei Prokofiev: his rarely-heard Symphonic Song and his blazing dance score, the Scythian Suite. The great Russian mezzo Olga Borodina appears in Berlioz’s dramatic scena, an early work that anticipates the tragic end of The Trojans. Beethoven: Overture The Consecration of
the House Olga Borodina, mezzo-soprano
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3 Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic perform Brahms’s inventive variations on a theme he thought was by Hayden and Strauss’s autobiographical depiction of a hero's life. They also introduce a newer 'autobiographical' work by contemporary German composer Heiner Goebbels. Brahms: Variations on theme Berlin Philharmonic
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4 Join the British traditions of the Last Night. As Fauré bids farewell to a mythical Greece, Borodin's exotic dances and a newly commissioned work usher in the festivities. Berlioz Overture 'Roman Carnival'
Leonard Slatkin conductor
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