NYO Jazz (USA) with Dee Dee Bridgewater - T689676374Carnegie Hall's National Youth Jazz Orchestra are joined by Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Dee Dee Bridgewater to perform a collection of jazz standards. Featuring the best teenage performers from across the USA, NYO Jazz also presents contemporary works exploring jazz's influence on hip-hop, R&B and pop music in this unmissable late-night performance.Performer Dee Dee Bridgewater. Company NYO Jazz (Carnegie Hall's National Youth Jazz Orchestra). Performer Sean Jones (trumpet / director). | |
| 1 Aug 23 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0530455607 |
Relaxed Prom: Beethoven's Fifth - T0627222585You've never heard Beethoven's Fifth Symphony quite like this! The Aurora Orchestra, conductor Nicholas Collon and presenter Tom Service are your guides as they take apart this revolutionary symphony - with its famous four-note opening - revealing the many questions it raises, as well as a few answers, before performing the entire work from memory. BBC Proms relaxed performances are designed to suit individuals or groups who feel more comfortable attending concerts in a relaxed environment. There is a relaxed attitude to noise and audience-members are free to leave and re-enter the auditorium at any point. There will be chill-out areas, where spaces are made for anyone needing a bit of quiet time before or during the performance.Performer Tom Service (presenter). Company Aurora Orchestra. Conductor Nicholas Collon (presenter). | |
| 3 Aug 22 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L73492638 |
Swan Lake - T0610225111The BBC Philharmonic and Principal Guest Conductor Ben Gernon open with Malcolm Arnold's dramatic Peterloo Overture in the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre at St Peter's Fields in the orchestra's hometown of Manchester. Excerpts from Swan Lake, the first of Tchaikovsky's great ballet scores, include the colourful sequence of national dances and the heartbreaking final scene in which Odette and her beloved Siegfried are united for ever in death, breaking the spell of the sorcerer Rothbart. Russian virtuoso Alexander Gavrylyuk returns, following his Proms debut in 2017, as soloist in Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, with its famous lyrical 18th Variation.Company BBC Philharmonic. Conductor Ben Gernon. | |
| 5 Aug 19 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L02132408888 |
Havana Meets Kingston - T0602085477Australia's leading reggae and dancehall producer Mista Savona (aka Jake Savona) has gathered together some of Cuba's and Jamaica's most influential musicians to create a fresh, unifying take on the music of both cultures. Drawing from the styles of roots reggae, dub and dancehall on the one hand and son, salsa, rumba and Afro-Cuban on the other, Havana Meets Kingston sees a top-flight group of musicians come together in an effortless meeting of genres. Energetic and passionate vocals in Spanish, English and Jamaican patois twist and turn over distinctly Cuban rhythms and melodies, while the typically deep bass lines of Jamaica pulse beneath. There will be no intervalPerformer Mista Savona (keyboards / samples). Performer Randy Valentine (vocals). Performer Solis (vocals). Performer Julito Padron (trumpet / vocals). Performer Stepper (saxophone). Performer Bopee (guitar). Performer Rolando Luna (piano). Performer Mafia and Fluxy (drums / electric bass). Performer Yaroldy Abreu Robles (percussion). Performer Brenda Navarrete (percussion / vocals). | |
| 31 Jul 18 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L317837378 |
Handel - Israel in Egypt - T0404540506Filled with frogs, locusts, hailstones and rivers of blood, Israel in Egypt is one of Handel's most dramatic oratorios, demanding greater virtuosity than ever before. William Christie conducts the Orchestra and Choir of the Age of Enlightenment.Performer Anna Devin (soprano). Performer Rowan Pierce (soprano). Performer Christopher Lowrey (counter-tenor). Performer Ashley Riches (bass). Performer Jeremy Budd (tenor). Performer Dingle Yandell (bass-baritone). Performer Callum Thorpe (bass). Company Choir of the Age of Enlightenment. Company Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor William Christie. | |
| 1 Aug 17 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01969576359 |
Jorg Widmann, Schumann, Sibelius and Nielsen - T1030815110John Storgards was the first Finnish violinist to record Schumann's unusual Violin Concerto, but he now steps to the podium, making way for Austrian violinist Thomas Zehetmair. Surrounding Schumann's gem of a concerto are the first UK performance of Jorg Widmann's ethereal Armonica, the storm-tossed Prelude from Sibelius's eerie depiction of Shakespeare's island realm and Carl Nielsen's landmark symphonic vision of good's triumph over evil.Performer Christa Schonfeldinger (glass harmonica). Performer Teodoro Anzellotti (accordian). Performer Thomas Zehetmair (violin). Company BBC Philharmonic. Conductor John Storgards. | |
| 1 Aug 16 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L913089465 |
Verdi - Requiem - T349543451After a powerfully disquieting performance of Strauss's Salome last year, Donald Runnicles returns for the first of two appearances this summer, bringing the chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the BBC SSO together for Verdi's Requiem ? a work conductor Hans von B?low described as ?an opera in ecclesiastical garb', written for the concert hall but distilling all the drama and intensity of the stage. At its core is the extended Dies irae sequence ? a Day of Judgement whose terrors are not easily forgotten. The international cast of soloists includes Scottish mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill. There will be no interval. Finish time approx 21:30Performer Angela Meade (soprano). Performer Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano). Performer Yosep Kang (tenor). Performer Raymond Aceto (bass). Company Concert Association of the Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Company BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Donald Runnicles. | |
| 2 Aug 15 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L801023682 |
Mozart - Requiem - T219664749Donald Runnicles and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra are joined by the National Youth Choir of Scotland for Mozart's ever-popular Requiem - the composer's poignant and prescient anticipation of his own death. Scottish composer John McLeod's The Sun Dances is a glowing, iridescent work inspired by an Easter folk legend from the West of Scotland. At the centre of the programme is Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, its muscular, structural elegance wound around a boisterous scherzo. Finish time approx. 22:15Performer Carolyn Sampson (soprano). Performer Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano). Performer Jeremy Ovenden (tenor). Performer Neal Davies (bass). Company National Youth Choir of Scotland. Company BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Donald Runnicles. | |
| 3 Aug 14 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L391153308 |
Mozart, Schumann & Sibelius - T1208997192Daniel Harding returns to the Proms after 10 years, directing the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with which he has a long association, in a programme exploring the subtly different properties of the keys of C major and C minor. Paul Lewis is the soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto, K503, its urbane elegance and delicate woodwind writing a contrast to the austerity of the 1785 Masonic Funeral Music. Two great symphonies acutely expressive of light and shade, Schumann's Second and Sibelius's Seventh, complete an imaginative and stimulating sequence of works. Finish time: approx. 22:00Performer Paul Lewis (piano). Conductor Daniel Harding. Company Mahler Chamber Orchestra. | |
| 30 Jul 13 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L189539779 |
Vaughan Williams, Ireland, Delius & Walton - T63307032Tadaaki Otaka, a notable enthusiast of British music, opens with Vaughan Williams's much loved classic before revisiting a BBC commission that has fallen into neglect in the half-century since its composer's death: Ireland's These Things Shall Be is a mini-oratorio with a utopian text. The massed choirs and the commanding bass baritone of former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Jonathan Lemalu return after the interval to animate Walton's brazen Old Testament tale, but first we hear from another anniversary composer, here at his most poignant.Performer Jonathan Lemalu (baritone / bass baritone). Company London Brass. Company BBC Symphony Chorus. Company BBC National Chorus of Wales. Company BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor Tadaaki Otaka. | |
| 31 Jul 12 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1139482323 |
Beethoven/Saint-Saens & Liszt - T658977898Saint-Saens’s ‘Egyptian’ concerto, Liszt’s Romantic epic and Beethoven’s dramatic Fourth Symphony. Finish time: approx. 21:50Performer Stephen Hough (piano). Performer Julia Doyle (soprano). Company CBSO Chorus (women's voices). Company BBC Philharmonic. Conductor Gianandrea Noseda. | |
| 1 Aug 11 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0288667475 |
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - T166697852Donald Runnicles makes his first Proms appearance as Chief Conductor of tonight's orchestra in an all-British programme featuring former BBC Young Musician of the Year Nicola Benedetti in her Proms debut. Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood gave the world premiere of Serenade to Music at his Jubilee Concert in 1938; tonight's singers are from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Finsh time: approx. 22:00Conductor Donald Runnicles. Company BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Performer Elin Pritchard (soprano). Performer Marie Claire Breen (soprano). Performer Emily Mitchell (soprano). Performer Natalie Montakhab (soprano). Performer Jemma Brown (mezzo-soprano). Performer Beth Mackay (mezzo-soprano). Performer Rebecca Afonwy-Jones (mezzo-soprano). Performer Lynda-Jane Workman (mezzo-soprano). Performer Stephen Chambers (tenor). Performer Warren Gillespie (tenor). Performer John Pumphrey (tenor). Performer Ronan Busfield (tenor). Performer James Birchall (bass). Performer Owain Browne (bass). Performer Michel de Souza (bass). Performer Ashley Wass (piano). Performer Nicola Beneditte (violin). | |
| 3 Aug 10 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01375274681 |
Evolution! - T32492643Evolution! A Darwin-inspired extravaganza for kids. CBBC presenters Gemma Hunt and Barney Harwood unleash a natural selection of creatures in this child-friendly Prom inspired by the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth. We journey from prehistoric Earth to outer space in John Williams's soundtracks to Jurassic Park and Star Wars –and uncover the bird kingdom (with Delius's On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring) and insect life (in Arvo Pärt’s If Bach had been a Beekeeper). Britten's 'Storm' interlude from his opera Peter Grimes represents the primal elements before the arrival of animals, while Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man anticipates the collective human spirit. Plus, there’s a new beginning, as DJ and drum-and-bass producer Goldie (runner-up of last year's BBC Two Maestro competition) reveals a specially written, Darwin-inspired work – his first ever for a classical orchestra. There will be one interval. Approx. end time 13:00Performer Barney Harwood (presenter). Performer Gemma Hunt (Gemma Hunt (presenter0). Performer David Attenborough (special guest). Company BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor Charles Hazlewood. | |
| 2 Aug 09 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1742261546 |
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - T01251221112Music Beethoven (27 mins)). Music Mahler (65 mins)). Performer Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano). Performer Johan Botha (tenor). Company BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Donald Runnicles. | |
| 3 Aug 08 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0815641853 |
T0623679981Finish time approx. 21:45Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Music Ravel (Le tombeau de Couperin). Music Esa-Pekka Salonen (Piano Concerto - BBC co-commission: European Premeire). Music Berlioz (excerpts). | |
| 30 Jul 07 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L664341402 |
T1018237065Finish time approx. 21:35Conductor Vassily Sinaisky. Company BBC Philharmonic. Performer Tasmin Little (violin). Music Rimsky-Korsakov (The Maid of Pskov - Ivan the Terrible Overture). Music Glazunov (Violin Concerto in A minor). Music Shostakovich (Symphony No 8 in C minor). | |
| 31 Jul 06 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01748045912 |
T02074042070Company London Symphony Chorus. Company BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Ilan Volkov. Performer Katarina Karneus (soprano). Performer Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor). Performer John Relyea (bass). Music Berlioz (Romeo and Juliet - sung in French). | |
| 31 Jul 05 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L226304109 |
T02031402792Finish time approx. 23:55Music John Tavener (Sir - The Veil of the Temple - world premiere of concert version). Performer Patricia Rozario (soprano). Performer Simon Wall (tenor). Performer Andrew Rupp (baritone). Performer Thomas Guthrie (baritone). Performer Jeremy Birchall (bass). Performer Adrian Peacock (bass). Performer Dirk Campbell (duduk). Performer James Vivian (organ). Company Holst Singers. Company Choir of the Temple Church. Company Brighton Festival Chorus. Company Brass of the English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor Stephen Layton. | |
| 1 Aug 04 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0671250029 |
Die Fledermaus - T0259838043Sung in German; semi-staged. There will be one interval.Performer Pamela Armstrong (Rosalinde). Performer Lyubov Petrova (Adele). Performer Malena Ernman (Prince Orlofsky). Performer Par Lindskog (Alfred). Performer Thomas Allen (Sir - Eisenstein). Performer Kakan Hagegard (Dr Falke). Performer Artur Korn (Frank). Performer Udo Samuel (Frosch). Performer Ragnar Ulfung (Dr Blind). Director Stephen Lawless. Company Glyndebourne Festival Chorus. Company London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Vladimir Jurowski. | |
| 4 Aug 03 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1456847028 |
T1140080421Company Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Gerard Schwarz. Performer Jane Eaglen (soprano). Music Panufnik (Sinfonia sacra). Music Wagner (Tristan und Isolde - Prelude and Liebestod). Music Strauss (Die Frau ohne Schatten - Suite). Music Wagner (Gotterdammerung - excerpts including Immolation Scene). | |
| 6 Aug 02 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01911015884 |
T02013271508Performer Ian Wilson (Man-o-War - BBC commission: world premiere). Music Mozart (Sinfonia concertante in E flat major for violin and viola K364). Music Arvo Part (Fratres for solo violin strings and percussion). Music Shostakovich (Symphony No 1 in F minor). Performer Nobuko Imai (viola). Company Ulster Orchestra. Conductor Dmitri Sitkovetsky (violin). | |
| 6 Aug 01 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L02071666505 |
T01033864772Music Prokofiev (Symphony No 1 in D major - Classical). Music Shostakovich (Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor). Performer Prokofiev (Romeo and Juliet - excerpts). Performer Vadim Repin (violin). Company Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Daniele Gatti. | |
| 1 Aug 00 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1871345799 |
T02010547734Music Rakhmaninov (Symphony No 3 in A minor). Music Piers Hellawell (Inside Story - BBC commission - world premiere). Music Elgar (Enigma Variations). Performer Clio Gould (violin). Performer Philip Duke (viola). Company BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Martyn Brabbins. | |
| 3 Aug 99 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L892890668 |
T01763629272Music Panufnik (Katyn Epitaph). Music Dvorak (Cello Concerto in B minor). Music Elgar (Symphony No 1 in A flat major). Performer Yo-Yo Ma (cello). Conductor Tadaaki Otaka. Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. | |
| 4 Aug 98 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1229987490 |
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