BBC Proms - Season 42 Episode 4 : Omnibus at the Proms

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BBC Proms - Season 42 Episode 4 : Omnibus at the Proms
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Title:BBC Proms - Season 42 Episode 4 : Omnibus at the Proms
Genre: Documentary
Air Date: 1988-08-05
Season Number: 42
Episodes Number: 4
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From Art Nouveau to Australia A triptych of exotically coloured music. The heavily perfumed and sensuous music of Debussy and Scriabin frames the world premiere of a new orchestral work reflecting the harsher colours and history of Australia. Debussy: La Damoiselle elue (to words by Dante Gabriel Rossetti) with Ann Murray, Elizabeth Laurence, BBC Singers (women's voices). Michael Finnissy: Red Earth. Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy. BBC Symphony Orchestra led by Bela Dekany, conducted by Lothar Zagrosek Sue Cook makes her debut as a Proms presenter and talks to Michael Finnissy about his new orchestral work, Red Earth: There is a red-ochre soil the Aboriginals use as a body paint in ritual ceremonies. In homage to them, 'Red Earth' could be described as a ritual chant.
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