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We're off to the Proms!

Editor’s note: Audio for this program is no longer available due to rights restrictions.

This week, Extra Eclectic begins its weekly visits to the biggest classical music celebration in the world, the BBC Proms — with highlights from the British summertime festival's rich offerings of contemporary music performances. Host Steve Seel shares Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi's Birds of Paradise from the July 16 concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Also on the program, John Adams' immensely powerful meditation on the tragedy of the 9/11 attacks, On the Transmigration of Souls.

Episode Playlist

Aliens with Extraordinary Abilities: Take Anything You Want
David Skidmore
Perpetulum
Third Coast Percussion
4:39

Symphony No. 2 (Ad Astra): Revelation
Jimmy Lopez Bellido
Aurora/Symphony No. 2 "Ad Astra"
Houston Symphony Orchestra
Andres Orozco-Estrada, conductor
14:23

Birds of Eden
Algirdas Martinaitis
Algirdas Martinaitis: Seasons and Serenades - Works for String Orchestra
St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra
Modestas Barkauskas, conductor
8:42

Birds of Paradise
Andrea Tarrodi
Concert Recording
German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen
Pekka Kuusisto, conductor
8:11

Tous des oiseaux: The Dark Secret
Eleni Karaindrou
Eleni Karaindrou: Tous des oiseaux
String Orchestra
Argyro Seira, conductor
3:56

Four on the Floor
Judd Greenstein
Unbound
Jasper String Quartet
10:41

Images from the Floating World: Ritmico; Energetico
Britta Bystrom
Letter in April
Anne Soe, violin
4:37

Shorthand
Anna Clyne
The Kreutzer Project
The Knights
11:05

A Paper, A Pen, A Note to a Friend
Shara Nova
Beautiful Mechanical
yMusic
2:09

Perforations
Alex Burtzos
Permutations
Anne H. Goldberg-Baldwin, piano
6:08

On the Transmigration of Souls
John Adams
Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls
New York Philharmonic
Lorin Maazel, conductor
25:03

saman
Olafur Arnalds
Sunrise Session
Olafur Arnalds, piano
2:34

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