BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus
Series of events providing a fascinating context to the 2010 BBC Proms season's music and artists
BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Childe Harold
Historian Tom Holland and novelist Ben Markovits join presenter Matthew Sweet to explore Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - the poem which overnight thrust Lord Byron into stardom.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Intro: Bach
Sara Mohr-Pietsch discusses treatments of Bach's music by other writers of music with conductor Andrew Litton and composers Tarik O'Regan and Alissa Firsova.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Intro: Beethoven
Petroc Trelawny talks to author and broadcaster John Suchet, a passionate devotee of Beethoven, who has written five books about the great composer.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Intro - Minnesota
Martin Handley is joined by Brian Newhouse, host of the Minnesota Orchestra's broadcasts, and viola player Sam Bergman as they discuss orchestral life in their home state.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Intro: Schumann
Pianist Lucy Parham talks with Sara Mohr-Pietsch about Schumann's life and works.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Intro: Simon Boccanegra
Louise Fryer talks to opera specialists Alexandra Wilson and Roger Parker about the position of Simon Boccanegra in Verdi's career, placing the opera in its contemporary context.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Intro: Stephen Sondheim
In a Proms Plus event at the Royal College of Music, Petroc Trelawny talks to composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim about his work and to conductor David Charles Abell.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Intro: The Mastersingers
Louise Fryer discusses The Mastersingers of Nuremberg with Patrick Carnegy, author of Wagner and the Art of the Theatre, and Anthony Negus of WNO's music staff.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Intro - The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
With Fiona Talkington. Norwegian Chamber Orchestra artistic directors Isabelle van Keulen and Terje Tonnesen discuss their work; composer Bent Sorensen discusses his new piano work.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Literary Festival: Beethoven
Rana Mitter discusses whether Beethoven embodies the romantic artist with a tortured soul with historian Tim Blanning and director of In Search of Beethoven Phil Grabsky.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Literary Festival - Berlin Writing
Anne McElvoy is joined by Philip Kerr, author of the Berlin Noir trilogy, to discuss writing inspired by the city of Berlin.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Literary Festival: Byron
Kevin Jackson and Nick Dear discuss romantic poet and political hero George Gordon Byron in the opening event of 2010's BBC Proms Literary Festival. Matthew Sweet hosts the debate.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Literary Festival: Chekhov
Russian specialist Rosamund Bartlett and nature writer William Fiennes discuss the life and work of Anton Chekhov, 150 years after his birth. Susan Hitch presents.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Literary Festival: Divine Poetry
In an audience discussion, Susan Hitch is joined by composer James MacMillan and religious poet Michael Symmons Roberts to explore the relationship between poetry and the divine.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Literary Festival: From Howards End to Henry Wood
Matthew Sweet explores the Edwardian cultural landscape in 1910, the backdrop to the last night of the Proms 100 years ago.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Literary Festival - Hansel and Gretel
Ian McMillan is joined by former children's laureate Anne Fine and child psychotherapist Margaret Rustin to discuss interpretations of the Grimm brothers' Hansel and Gretel.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Literary Festival - Pasternak
In an audience discussion, Susan Hitch is joined by playwright Jonathan Myerson and Russian specialist Donald Rayfield to explore the life and work of author Boris Pasternak.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Literary Festival: Pepys
To mark 350 years since its inception, Max Hastings and Jenny Uglow join Ian McMillan for performed excerpts and discussion about Samuel Pepys' diary. What is its lasting appeal?
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Literary Festival - Poetry about Music
In a programme recorded in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music, Ian McMillan explores poetry about music. He is joined by poets David Harsent and Jo Shapcott.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Literary Festival: Romanticism
Matthew Sweet is joined by critic Jonathan Bate and playwright Gabriel Gbadamosi to discuss the shared themes of the Romantic movement which connect its poetry, music and art.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Literary Festival - Schiller
Rana Mitter discusses Friedrich Schiller's great work Ode to Joy, famously set to music by Beethoven in his Ninth Symphony, with Billy Bragg, Peter Oswald and David Constantine.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Literary Festival - Surrealists
Rana Mitter examines Czech genius, from Kafka and Capek to Hrabal and beyond. Rana is joined by guests Rajendra Chitnis and James Hawes to explode the stereotypes.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Literary Festival: The History of Love
Novelist Howard Jacobson and classics scholar Mary Beard join presenter Rana Mitter to discuss the inspirational influence of famous love affairs.
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BBC Proms - 2010 - Proms Plus - Proms Literary Festival - Tolstoy
Susan Hitch joins an audience at the Royal College of Music to mark 100 years since the death of Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
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