BBC Proms · SEASON 64
Bach Day
Episode 13 · 2010-08-14

- Documentary
Episode overview
Prom featuring the music of JS Bach in arrangements for large orchestra, live from the Royal Albert Hall. The concert, given by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andrew Litton, begins with thunderous reinventions by Stokowski and Respighi of Bach's organ works. There are also arrangements of Sheep May Safely Graze, Air on the G String and the popular chorale, Sleepers, Awake! Bach's sonatas for solo violin and for viola da gamba are re-imagined by the young composers Tarik O'Regan and Alissa Firsova. Plus Katie Derham introduces one of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos performed by the English Baroque Soloists directed by John Eliot Gardiner.
Season 64 episodes
1. Mahler's Symphony No 8 - Symphony of a Thousand2010-07-16
2. Bryn Terfel Sings Wagner's Meistersinger2010-07-17
3. Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony2010-07-22
4. Beethoven Night with the BBC Symphony Orchestra2010-07-23
5. Miracle on the Mersey2010-07-24
6. Dvorak's New World Symphony with the CBSO2010-07-29
7. Mark Elder Conducts Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony2010-07-30
8. Sondheim's Eightieth Birthday Celebration2010-07-31
9. Mahler's Third Symphony with the BBC SSO2010-08-05
10. Paul Lewis Plays Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto2010-08-06
11. World Orchestra for Peace2010-08-07
12. Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto2010-08-12
13. Bach Day2010-08-14
14. Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony2010-08-19
15. The Philharmonia Play Ravel and Arvo Part2010-08-20
16. The National Youth Orchestra2010-08-21
17. Sibelius's Second Symphony2010-08-26
18. Jamie Cullum Night2010-08-27
19. Rodgers and Hammerstein2010-08-29
20. Pictures at an Exhibition with the BBC NOW2010-09-02
21. Bruckner's Ninth Symphony2010-09-03
22. Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic2010-09-03
23. Doctor Who at the Proms2010-09-06
24. Last Night of the Proms 1910 Style2010-09-09
25. Doctor Who at the Proms Extended2010-09-10
26. Monteverdi's Vespers2010-09-10
27. Last Night of the Proms2010-09-11
28. Chopin and Ravel2010-10-29
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