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Prom 40: Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Sep 11, 2009

Charles Hazlewood introduces the annual Proms performance of Beethoven's 9th, his life-affirming choral symphony, recorded earlier in the season with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, soloists Rebecca Evans, Caitlin Hulcup, Anthony Dean Griffey and James Rutherford, with the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus conducted by Ilan Volkov. Stravinsky's ballet music Orpheus opens the programme.

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Prom 40: Beethoven's 9th Symphony

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First Night at the Proms

Prom 9: Elgar Anniversary

Prom 10: Orchestre National de Lyon

Prom 12: 1934

Prom 19 - Berlioz and Mendelssohn

Prom 20 - Stravinsky and Schumann

Prom 22: A Celebration of Classic MGM Film Musicals

Prom 29: Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony

Prom 30 - Knussen Conducts Knussen

Prom 31: National Youth Orchestra

Prom 38: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

Prom 39: Birtwistle's Mask of Orpheus

Prom 36: Handel Anniversary Highlights

Prom 47: Handel's Samson

Prom 48: Barenboim and West-Eastern Divan

Prom 50: Beethoven's Fidelio

Prom 56: Lang Lang Plays Chopin

Prom 57: Tchaikovsky Night

Prom 59: Tonhalle Orchestra

Prom 64: Jurowski & London Philharmonic

Prom 65: Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchester

Prom 53: Composers of the Year

Prom 73: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

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