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A new Doctor Who story will be screened at a special Prom dedicated to the TV show.

The exclusive scene starring David Tennant will be shown at a Doctor Who concert for families, which will include music from Holst's suite The Planets and a premiere about asteroids by Mark-Anthony Turnage.

It is being written by Russell T Davies and will be presented by Freema Agyeman, who plays the Timelord's assistant Martha Jones.

The Prom is a highlight of the 114th season of the BBC concerts, unveiled today.

Others include the return of pianist Murray Perahia and violin-ist Nigel Kennedy, neither of whom has played at the Proms for 20 years.

Kennedy will play the Elgar violin concerto for which he recently received rave reviews. He will be conducted by Vernon Handley, with whom he recorded the piece at the beginning of his career. The maverick musician is also doing a late-night performance with his Polish jazz group.

Other highlights include the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev, playing Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty ballet score.

There will also be the first Proms literary festival, including composer and author talks, and the first free Prom — a programme of folk-inspired music from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Béla Bartók — on a day dedicated to folk on the opening weekend.

This year's festival is the first to be programmed by Roger Wright, who has run BBC Radio 3 for the past decade but took control of the Proms as well after Nicholas Kenyon left to run the Barbican.

He said: “It's a real responsibility to be keeper of the great heritage of the Proms but it is hugely exciting.

“For all the fact I'm indebted to Nick and the rest of the team for what I've inherited, I feel a real sense of ownership.”

In a break from recent years, there are no themes in the programme but there are ideas that link some concerts to others.

The 50th anniversary of the death of Vaughan Williams will be marked with performances, including four of his symphonies. An entire day is dedicated to the works of Karlheinz Stockhausen, the uncompromising but influential German composer who died in December, aged 79.

Another day will be devoted to Bach, concluding with three of his cello suites performed by China's Jian Wang, in honour of the Olympic handover between Beijing and London that day.

Mr Wright said he wanted to create a genuine sense of festival — even down to including a ceilidh at the end of the folk music event.

He promised the Last Night would contain all the most popular elements, including Elgar's Pomp And Circumstance, Jerusalem and Rule, Britannia!

But it will also have a commission from young Scottish composer Anna Meredith, which will have elements performed by different musicians in each of the regional Proms in the Park.

All the concerts will be broadcast on Radio 3 and 26 will be shown on TV — slightly fewer than last year but BBC2 will be making regular prime time saturday night transmissions.

The Proms run from 18 July to 13 September. Advance booking by post or online will be from 21 April to 20 May before general booking by telephone opens on 27 May.

The day standing — promenading — tickets are £5 but the price falls to as little as £2.23 for those who buy a season ticket.

HIGHLIGHTS AT THE ALBERT HALL

19 July: Nigel Kennedy, playing Elgar's violin concerto in his first Proms appearance for 21 years.

27 July: Doctor Who Prom presented by Freema Agyeman.

30 July: World Music Celebration - winners of the BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards.

2 August: Karlheinz Stockhausen day, including key works such as Gruppen and Stimmung.

4 & 4 August: Violinist Julia Fischer, in her Proms debut, playing Grieg's Sonata No 3, then Brahms's Concerto in D major.

14 August: Two concerts in which Daniel Barenboim will conduct his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra of Arab and Israeli musicians.

22 August: Recreation of the programme played when Mahler's Symphony No 5 was premiered in 1904.

24 August: Bach Day, including St John Passion.

2 & 3 September: The Berlin Philharmonic with Sir Simon Rattle. Programme includes Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony.

8 & 9 September: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Bernard Haitink. Programme includes Mahler's Symphony No 6 and Murray Perahia's first Prom for 20 years.

13 September: Bryn Terfel and pianist Hélène Grimaud at the Last Night.

 

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