Yuja Wang Plays Rachmaninov - T968441427After an 'extraordinary' Proms debut last season, rising-star conductor Klaus Makela is reunited with sensational pianist Yuja Wang for Rachmaninov's glittering Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - its mercurial moods and technical demands a tour de force for any soloist. American baritone Thomas Hampson joins forces with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for Walton's biblical blockbuster Belshazzar's Feast - a choral symphony with an epic impact. Orchestral colour is also on display in Jimmy Lopez Bellido's Peru negro - a vibrant homage to the songs, dances and traditions of Afro-Peruvian music.Performer Yuja Wang (piano). Performer Thomas Hampson (baritone). Company BBC Symphony Chorus. Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Klaus Makela. | |
| 4 Aug 23 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0378819366 |
Nyogb Plays Elfman, Gershwin and Ravel - T1831545467Praised for its ‘exuberant', 'exhilarating' and 'thrilling' appearances at the Proms, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain returns for a concert that straddles stage and screen, as well as the concert hall and Hollywood. The sensuous radiance of Ravel's ballet score Daphnis and Chloe - a 'vast musical fresco' inspired by the ancient Greek story of two foundlings who fall in love - meets the electrifying, jazz-inspired energy of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. The concert opens with the London premiere of Wunderkammer, a kaleidoscopic new work from a film-music legend: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands composer Danny Elfman.Performer Simone Dinnerstein (piano). Company National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Conductor Andrew Gourlay. | |
| 6 Aug 22 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1352845986 |
The Sound of Space: Sci-Fi Film Music - T80977077A Late Night Prom with a futuristic spin brings together some of the best sci-fi film music. Excerpts from cult soundtracks come together with recent works by Hans Zimmer and Mica Levi. The award-winning London Contemporary Orchestra - whose collaborators include Radiohead, Goldfrapp and Steve Reich - perform music from Under the Skin, Interstellar and the recent Netflix series The Innocents, among other titles, as well as from Alien: Covenant, whose soundtrack the LCO recorded.Company London Contemporary Orchestra. Conductor Robert Ames. | |
| 7 Aug 19 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01569287164 |
Folk Music Around Britain and Ireland - T01750730168In a Prom that celebrates the history and evolution of the folk music scene in Britain and Ireland, the BBC Concert Orchestra collaborates with some of the folk world's leading musicians who are pushing the boundaries of traditional music, and bringing with them a new breed of folk fan. With performers from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, this Prom reflects the diversity of a genre of music that, while steeped in tradition, is constantly evolving and reinventing itself through the generations. There will be one interval.Performer Julie Fowlis (singer). Performer Jarlath Henderson (singer). Performer Sam Lee (singer). Company Alaw (Welsh Folk Group). Company The Unthanks (English Folk Group). Company BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor Stephen Bell. | |
| 3 Aug 18 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01074856253 |
Ella and Dizzy: A Centenary Tribute - T64157142Described by The New York Times as 'the most admired jazz diva since the heyday of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday', Dianne Reeves is joined by virtuoso trumpeter James Morrison to pay a double tribute to Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie in the centenary year of their births. Conducted by Broadway musical and Hollywood movie-score legend John Mauceri, the celebrations contrast the Great American Songbook, which played a key role in Fitzgerald's live and recording career, with the bebop and Afro-Latin sounds in which Gillespie excelled.Performer Dianne Reeves (singer). Performer James Morrison (trumpet). Company BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor John Mauceri. | |
| 4 Aug 17 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L709197641 |
T2144168509Tonight's Prom marks the first instalment of all three of Stravinsky's landmark ballets for the Ballet Russes company, all performed this weekend by Scottish orchestras. In the vivid folk tale of a puppet springing to life, Stravinsky had the starting point for his stylistic breakthrough, Petrushka, a ballet that would depict Russia with 'quick tempos, smells of Russian food, sweat and glistening leather boots'. The first part of a new work from major talent Helen Grime (see also Prom 30) prefaces this concert's arrival in Russia via all the despair, passion and determination of Tchaikovsky's heart-rending Violin Concerto.Performer Pekka Kuusisto (violin). Company BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Thomas Dausgaard. | |
| 5 Aug 16 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01361292116 |
Late Night With... BBC Radio 6 Music - T0698334837Mary Anne Hobbs of BBC Radio 6 Music presents an evening exploring the borderlands of classical music, with the pioneers of a new generation of musicians who draw on contemporary electronic influences. Piano and keyboard virtuoso Nils Frahm makes his Proms debut, as does atmospheric duo A Winged Victory for the Sullen, and together they create an exclusive centrepiece collaboration. There will be no interval. Finish time approx 23:30Performer Mary Anne Hobbs (presenter). Performer Nils Frahm (piano / keyboards). Company Members of Random Dance. Company A Winged Victory for the Sullen. Company London Brass. | |
| 5 Aug 15 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L2126460914 |
Wagner, Elgar & Mathias - T1869462092Exciting young British violinist Matthew Trusler continues this season's selection of more rarely heard violin concertos with William Mathias's neglected 1991 work - a virtuosic celebration of song and dance. He is joined by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and its former Music Director Mark Wigglesworth (soon to take the helm at English National Opera), who together also perform the exuberantly rhythmic overture to Wagner's early comedy Das Liebesverbot and Elgar's richly orchestrated First Symphony ? itself a work steeped in the Germanic tradition of Wagner, Brahms and Beethoven. Finish time approx. 21:20Performer Matthew Trusler (violin). Company BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor Mark Wigglesworth. | |
| 6 Aug 14 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1801921879 |
Naresh Sohal, Rachmaninov & Tchaikovsky - T01642749652The Proms Tchaikovsky symphony cycle continues with the musky melancholy of the Fifth as conductor Peter Oundjian makes his Proms debut. Nikolai Lugansky is the soloist in Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto, notorious for its technical demands yet based around melodic ideas of great simplicity. Punjabi-born British composer Naresh Sohal's second Proms commission, The Cosmic Dance, examines the idea of creation as interpreted in two very different disciplines: mathematical theory and the ancient texts of the Upanishads and the Rig Veda. Finish time: approx. 22:45Performer Nikolai Lugansky (piano). Company Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor Peter Oundjian. | |
| 2 Aug 13 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1596117943 |
Wagner & Bruckner - T0829550596n their first appearance this season, Donald Runnicles and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra present two works by composers for whom he has a particular affinity. Wagner's gift to his wife, Cosima, is presented in its pared down original orchestration, much as she would have heard it that Christmas morning in 1870. The Royal Albert Hall is an ideal venue for Bruckner's symphonic revelations. The Eighth Symphony, arguably the greatest of them all, remains a huge and glorious challenge. Finish time approx. 22:00Company BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Donald Runnicles. | |
| 3 Aug 12 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1437110215 |
Robin Holloway/Strauss & Brahms - T1043127294Donald Runnicles and his orchestra open their second Prom this season with a major world premiere, the latest in Robin Holloway's unique series of allusive and extravagantly inventive showpieces for orchestra. In his willingness to make a big Romantic splash, Holloway is sometimes likened to Richard Strauss, although that composer is at his most reflective in the Four Last Songs. Brahms's Second Symphony has its melancholic, contemplative aspect but ends on a note of unalloyed triumph.Performer Hillevi Martinpelto (soprano). Company BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Donald Runnicles. | |
| 4 Aug 11 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01226129647 |
Halle - T01661480521Sir Mark Elder returns with the Hallé (of which he has been Music Director since 2000) for one of the great late-Romantic orchestral showpieces. In Ein Heldenleben ('A Hero's Life') Strauss cast himself as the central composer-hero - castigated by critics, reassured by his wife and rising above adversity to become exalted after death. Paul Lewis reaches the intense No. 3 in his Beethoven concerto voyage, and a second John Foulds piece (see Prom 23) shows this Mancunian - the son of a Hallé orchestra bassoonist - celebrating the English springtime. Finish time: approx. 21:10Conductor Mark Elder. Company Halle. Performer Paul Lewis (piano). | |
| 6 Aug 10 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L825651278 |
London Sinfonietta - T2134845444To celebrate Sir Harrison Birtwistle's 75th birthday the London Sinfonietta is rejoined by its founder-conductor David Atherton to perform three of the composer's major early works - all of which the ensemble premiered during its first decade. A virtuosic showpiece for brass, wind and percussion, the 1969 Verses for Ensembles was Birtwistle's earliest Sinfonietta score, and echoes the violent lyricism of his opera Punch and Judy. The other two works were both composed after Birtwistle had completed the first two acts of his massive 'lyric tragedy' The Mask of Orpheus (Prom 39). Silbury Air, named after the mysterious man-made mound in Wiltshire, uses a 'pulse labyrinth' to direct explorations of its 'imaginary landscapes', while in Carmen arcadiae mechanicae perpetuum, written for the Sinfonietta's 10th anniversary in 1978, six musical mechanisms are set in perpetual motion and then put on a collision course. Approx. finish time: 23:15Conductor David Atherton. | |
| 4 Aug 09 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0451422993 |
BBC Symphony Orchestra - T0288073101Approx. finish time 21:45Music Messiaen (25 mins)). Music Stravinsky (22 mins)). Music George Benjamin (20 mins)). Music Ravel (7 mins)). Music Ravel (15 mins)). Performer Carolin Widmann (violin). Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor George Benjamin. | |
| 6 Aug 08 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L141290874 |
T263287559Finish time approx. 21:10Conductor Jac van Steen. Performer Janine Jansen (violin). Music Debussy (Printemps). Music Prokofiev (Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor). Music David Matthews (Symphony No 6 - world premiere). Music Ravel (La Valse). | |
| 2 Aug 07 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0514836258 |
T0988534371Finish time approx. 21:00Conductor Kazushi Ono. Company BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Performer Christopher Maltman (baritone). Music Toshio Hosokawa (Circulating Ocean - UK premiere). Music Mahler (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen). Music Shostakovich (Symphony No 15 in A major). | |
| 3 Aug 06 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L2134773132 |
T1139829102Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Jurjen Hampel. Performer Ravi Shankar (sitar). Performer Anoushka Shankar (sitar). Performer Tanmoy Bose (tabla). Music Param Vir (Horse Tooth White Rock). Music Ravi Shankar (Sitar Concerto No 1). Music Sandhya (evening - ragas). | |
| 3 Aug 05 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0146745279 |
T787990460Finish time approx. 21:35Music Peter Maxwell Davies (Sir - Antarctic Symphony - Symphony No 8). Music Berlioz (Symphonie fantastique). Company BBC Philharmonic. Conductor Peter Maxwell Davies (Sir). Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier. | |
| 4 Aug 04 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1798160007 |
T0445810183Music Gyorgy Ligeti (San Francisco Polyphony). Music Beethoven (Piano Concerto No 1 in C major). Music Brahms (Symphony No 4 in E minor). Performer Stephen Kovacevich (piano). Company BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Ilan Volkov. | |
| 8 Aug 03 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01358506792 |
T01307535548Company Huddersfield Choral Society. Company BBC Symphony Chorus. Company BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Martyn Brabbins. Performer Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano). Performer Irina Mataeva (soprano). Performer Daniil Shtoda (tenor). Performer William Dazeley (baritone). Music Rimsky-Korsakov (Capriccio espagnol). Music Falla (Nights in the Gardens of Spain). Music Rakhmaninov (The Bells). | |
| 9 Aug 02 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L2000800047 |
T1088177360Music Grieg (Peer Gynt - complete incidental music sung / spoken in Norwegian). Performer Paul Scofield (English narration). Performer Barbara Bonney (Solveig). Performer Randi Stene (Anitra). Performer Bo Skovhus (Peet Gynt). Performer Wenche Foss (Ase). Performer Sverre Anker Ousdal (The Narrator / Great Boyg / Button Moulder). Performer Joar Skorpen (Hardanger fiddle). Company BBC Singers. Company Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Neeme Jarvi. | |
| 9 Aug 01 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L650530923 |
T67171860Music Walton (Crown Imperial). Music Handel (Music for the Royal Fireworks). Music Elgar (Cockaigne). Music Berlioz (Symphonie fantastique). Company National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Conductor Roger Norrington. | |
| 4 Aug 00 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0763022017 |
T723449461Music Brahms (Tragic Overture). Music Friedrich Cerha (Cello Concerto - UK premiere). Music Brahms (Symphony No 4 in E minor). Performer Heinrich Schiff (cello). Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Jiri Belohlavek. | |
| 6 Aug 99 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0851016863 |
T01158664960Music Rodion Shchedrin (Four Russian Songs for Symphony Orchestra. BBC commission: World premiere). Music Berlioz (Les Nuits d'ete). Music Tchaikovsky (Symphony No 4 in F minor). Performer Barbara Hendricks (soprano). Conductor Dmitry Sitkovetsky. Company Ulster Orchestra. | |
| 7 Aug 98 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01782314404 |
| 7 Aug 98 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L940198733 |
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