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Linton Stephens introduces highlights from this year's Â鶹Éç Proms, including Strauss’ tone-poem Death and Transfiguration and music by John Adams from the Â鶹Éç National Orchestra of Wales and Ryan Bancroft. Also, song inspired by The Swan of Avon and other bards, from Nicky Spence and Julius Drake at the Aldeburgh Festival. And in today's programme a rare chance to catch a short choral work from French prodigy Lili Boulanger, a setting of a Buddhist 'prayer for the whole universe'.

Â鶹Éç Proms:
Richard Strauss
Death and Transfiguration
Â鶹Éç National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Â鶹Éç Proms:
Shruthi Rajasekar
Sat on the shore
Â鶹Éç Singers
Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Aldeburgh Festival:
Sergei Prokofiev
3 Pensées for piano, Op. 62
Julius Asal (piano)

Aldeburgh Festival:
‘The Bards’
Franz Schubert
An Silvia, D. 891
Maurice Ravel
Chants populaire – No. 5 Chanson écossaise
Robert Schumann
Myrthen Op. 25 No. 13 - Hochländers Abschied
Benjamin Britten
O can ye sew cushions?
Fancy
Francis Poulenc
Fancie
John Dankworth
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Dunsinane blues
Nicky Spence (tenor)
Julius Drake (piano)

Â鶹Éç Proms:
John Adams
Harmonium
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Kazuki Yamada (conductor)

Â鶹Éç Proms:
Lili Boulanger
Vieille prière bouddhique
James Way (tenor)
Â鶹Éç National Chorus of Wales
London Philharmonic Choir
Â鶹Éç National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

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