Afternoon on 3 - 04/08/2008

Presented by Louise Fryer. With BBC Proms 2008: Another chance to hear the Halle Orchestra's Prom with their current music director Mark Elder in Vaughan Williams's 8th Symphony, dedicated to the orchestra's then music director John Barbirolli, who premiered the work with the orchestra in 1956. This is followed by George Butterworth's orchestral rhapsody, which is heard alongside some of AE Housman's poems which inspired it. The concert concludes with Bruch's ever-popular concerto, featuring violinist Janine Janson, and Richard Strauss's orchestral portrait of impudent trickster Till Eulenspiegel. Janine Jansen (violin) Rupert Evans (speaker) Tom McKay (speaker) Halle Orchestra Mark Elder (conductor) Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 8 in D minor Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Plus Chamber Music: Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht Vienna Piano Trio Berio: Folk songs Britten Sinfonia.