Afternoon on 3 - 11/09/2008

Presented by Louise Fryer BBC Proms 2008 A Prom in which celebrated French conductor Stephane Deneve conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in a programme dominated by the theme of the sea. The erotic Bacchus et Ariane Suite No 2 by mariner-turned-composer Albert Roussel opens the concert, which ends with Debussy's famous symphonic sketches, La mer. In between, there is a performance of Rainbow by Thea Musgrave, who celebrates her 80th birthday this year. The piece charts a musical journey from an approaching storm, through the appearance of a rainbow to a sunny chorale of thanksgiving. And to complete the Proms cycle of Rachmaninov concertos, award-winning pianist Stephen Hough plays the most popular concerto of them all. Stephen Hough (piano) Royal Scottish National Orchestra Stephane Deneve (conductor) Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane - Suite No 2 Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Thea Musgrave: Rainbow Debussy: La mer Plus Chamber Music Beethoven: String Quartet in F, Op 59 No 1 (Rasumovsky) Psophos Quartet.