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ѿý Proms Essential Classics Mix with Jeremy Vine

An hour of Essential Classics from this year’s ѿý Proms hand-picked by Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine.

ѿý Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine chooses some of his personal highlights from this year’s ѿý Proms season. He’ll be looking forward to “Mars” from Holst’s “The Planets”, the Ulster Orchestra playing Dvořák, Stravinsky’s glorious “Firebird Suite” and Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”.

Plus more highlights from the heart of the Proms season, with recordings and live performances from some of the soloists and orchestras appearing at the Royal Albert Hall this year, with jazzy works by Mary Lou Williams and Duke Ellington, serene Bach, a portrait of Salome by Mélanie Bonis and a very famous wedding march! MM

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1 hour, 1 minute

Music Played

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Promenade 1 (Pictures from an Exhibition)

    Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Mussorgsky / Borodin: Berliner Philharmoniker / Rattle.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A Major - slow movement

    Performer: Anthony McGill. Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gemma New.
    • ѿý Proms 2024.
  • Mary Lou Williams

    Zodiac Suite (excerpt)

    Performer: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • ѿý Proms 2024.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets Suite, Op. 32: I. Mars

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Holst: The Planets.
    • London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • 101.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet Auf

    Performer: Francesco Piemontesi. Music Arranger: Wilhelm Kempff.
    • ѿý Proms 2024.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 "Jupiter": III. Menuetto Allegretto. Trio

    Ensemble: Ensemble Resonanz. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.
    • Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39, 40 & 41 "Jupiter".
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 203.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream. Wedding March

    Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gemma New.
    • ѿý Proms 2024.
  • Duke Ellington

    Things Ain't What They Used to Be

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No.7 - last movement (extract)

    Performer: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Daniele Rustioni.
    • ѿý Proms 2024.
  • Mel Bonis

    Salome

    Orchestra: ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gemma New.
    • ѿý Proms 2024.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Ma Mere L'Oye: Laideronette

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • WARNER.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ich folge dir gleichfalls (St John Passion, BWV245, No 9)

    Singer: Hana Blažíková. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J.S. Bach: St. John Passion, BWV 245.
    • BIS.
    • 109.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Firebird - Suite. Finale

    Orchestra: ѿý Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Tianyi Lu.
    • ѿý Proms 2024.

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