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Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Proms
Sunday 31 August at 12pm
The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra plays the Vaughan Williams Piano Concerto and Scheherezade by Rimsky-Korsakov. Then John Tolansky completes his 2 part special on Vaughan Williams. > more

A taste of China in Sunday Live
Sunday 31 August at 3pm
Jingjing Lu performs traditional Chinese guzheng music in a live concert at the Ferry Rd Music Centre in West End, Brisbane. This is a free concert > more

The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra live in concert
Saturday 30 August at 8pm
Grammy Award winning violinist James Ehnes is soloist in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. The all-Russian program also includes works by Glinka and Kalinnikov > more

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Saturday 30 August

• IN PERFORMANCE: Live broadcast: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra – 8.00pm
  Broadcast live from the Federation Concert Hall in Hobart, tonight’s features the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Verbitsky and violinist James Ehnes performing: Glinka - Ruslan and Ludmila: Overture; Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D, Op 35; and Kalinnikov - Symphony No 1 in G minor.
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Sunday 31 August

• SUNDAY LIVE: Live broadcast from Brisbane – 3.00pm
  Broadcast live from the Ferry Road Music Centre in West End, Brisbane, this afternoon’s concert features guzheng (Chinese harp) player Jingjing Lu performing a selection of traditional Chinese compositions: Trad Chinese - High Mountain, Flowing Water; New Song of Dongting; Meditation in Autumn; Chang Yuan Wang - Battle against the Typhoon; Trad Chinese - Moonlight over the Chun River; Deng shan Zhao - Song of Armoured Horses; Hsu Hsieh-Lin - Chien-Chang City in the Moonlight; and Trad Chinese - Dance of the Yao People.
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Monday 1 September

• IN PERFORMANCE: BBC Proms 2008 – 8.00pm
  Recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London, tonight’s program features the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Susanna Andersson (soprano) and Edward Gardner (conductor) performing: Sibelius - Night Ride and Sunrise, Op 55; M Berkeley - Slow Dawn (World premiere of new version); S MacRae - Gaudete (World premiere); and Elgar - Enigma Variations, Op 36.
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Find out which school won the grand piano.

Young Performers Awards
Listen again to the Stage III Finals concerts. Grand Final live broadcast Friday 19 September at 8pm.

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