Prom 51


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Wagner/Liszt/Kevin Volans & Brahms - T14862571

First the familiar strains of Wagner's rousing overture. Next a real rarity: Liszt's La notte is an extended version of a piano piece from the Années de pèlerinage to which the composer added a middle section recalling his Hungarian roots. A late work that he wanted played at his own funeral, it is new to the Proms. So too is Kevin Volans's concerto, hot off the press and written for tonight's soloist. Expect the unexpected from a creative figure born in South Africa but now resident in Ireland whose output resists compartmentalisation. The long shadow of Ludwig van Beethoven inhibited Brahms's early attempts at symphonic writing but he surpassed all expectations with the magnificence of his First Symphony.Performer Barry Douglas (piano). Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Jiri Belohlavek.
22 Aug 11The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L1194383570

Swedish Chamber Orchestra Orebro - T1098239494

Eight years before he began his First Symphony in 1841, Schumann began an earlier one. Thomas Dausgaard - who has recorded a complete Schumann cycle with his agile Swedish Chamber Orchestra - opens with its sprightly first movement and ends our Schumann bicentenary symphony cycle with the biggest and most stirring of the set. Swedish soprano Nina Stemme sings Berlioz's tender songs of love sought, found and lost, and her compatriot Albert Schnelzer pays tribute both to Haydn's playful character and to film director Tim Burton, born in the Californian city of Burbank. Finish time: approx. 21:40 with intervalConductor Thomas Dausgaard. Performer Nina Stemme (soprano). Company Swedish Chamber Orchestra Orebro.
23 Aug 10The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L01727822279

BBC Symphony Orchestra - T1277359507

Osmo Vänskä makes a welcome return to the Proms to conduct the first Haydn symphony in this season's bicentenary celebration of the 'father' of the form: with its tick-tocking slow movement, the 'Clock' was one of the 12 'London' Symphonies that the Austrian composer wrote for his two extended visits to the capital in the early 1790s. Szymanowski's tenderly devotional Stabat mater was partly inspired by the tragic death of a teenage niece. Co-star of the 2007 Last Night, Joshua Bell returns to play Brahms's Hungarian-accented Violin Concerto (returning again to make chamber music in Monday's PCM 6). Approx finish time: 20:45. Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3.Performer Helena Juntunen (soprano). Performer Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano). Performer Scott Hendricks (baritone). Performer Joshua Bell (violin). Company BBC Symphony Chorus. Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Osmo Vanska.
23 Aug 09The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L0104593126

Bach Day - St John Passion - T01041521528

Finish time approx. 21:10Performer Mark Padmore (Evangelist). Performer Peter Harvey (Christus). Performer Katharine Fuge (soprano). Performer Robin Blaze (counter-tenor). Performer Nicholas Mulroy (tenor). Performer Jeremy Budd (tenor). Performer Matthew Brook (bass). Company Monteverdi Choir. Company English Baroque Soloists. Conductor John Eliot Gardiner (Sir).
24 Aug 08The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L1116076547

T0101737944 (PROM07)

Finish time approx. 21:15Conductor Claudio Abbado. Performer Anna Larsson (mezzo-soprano). Company Trinity Boys' Choir. Company London Symphony Chorus - women's voices). Music Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
22 Aug 07The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L1110960675

T1282763305 (PROM06)

Finish time approx. 20:50Conductor Philippe Jordan. Company Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester. Performer Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano). Music R.Strauss (Don Juan). Music Chausson (Poeme de l'amour et de la mer). Music Shostakovich (Symphony No 6 in B minor).
22 Aug 06The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L01052421176

T2078648817 (PROM05)

Company London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Bernard Haitink. Performer Helene Grimaud (piano). Music Ravel (Alborada del gracioso; Piano Concerto in G major). Music Shostakovich (Symphony No 8 in C minor).
22 Aug 05The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L0952436816

T1287206769 (PROM04)

Finish time approx. 23:30Music Kraus (Symphony in C major VB 138). Music Folke Rabe (Sardine Sarcophagus). Music HK Gruber (Three MOB Pieces). Music Beethoven (Symphony No 4 in B flat major). Performer Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet). Company Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor Thomas Dausgaard.
23 Aug 04The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L281455408

T431680583 (PROM03)

Music Britten (Young Apollo). Music Thea Musgrave (Helios - Concerto for oboe and orchestra). Music John Woolrich (Double Mercury - BBC/Britten Sinfonia co-commission: world premiere). Music Stravinsky (Orpheus). Performer Paul Lewis (piano). Performer Nicholas Daniel (oboe). Company Britten Sinfonia. Conductor Nicholas Cleobury.
27 Aug 03The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L01844273378

T1676411176 (PROM02)

Company Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Conductor Alexander Briger. Performer Jean Rigby (mezzo soprano). Performer Yvette Bonner (soprano). Performer Timothy Robinson (tenor). Performer Jonathan Lemalu (bass baritone). Music Osvaldo Golijov (Last Round). Music Simon Holt (Canciones). Music Falla (Master Peter's Puppet Show - sung in Spanish).
27 Aug 02The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L62213411

T01295906200 (PROM01)

Music Schoenberg (Accompaniment to a Film Scene). Music Pierre Boulez (Le visage nupital). Music Bartok (Duke Bluebeard's Castle). Performer Francoise Pollet (soprano). Performer Katharina Kammerloher (mezzo soprano). Performer Michelle DeYoung (mezzo soprano). Performer Laszlo Polgar (bass). Company BBC Singers (women's voices). Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Pierre Boulez.
29 Aug 01The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L174097251

T0881294738 (PROM00)

Music Bach (St John Passion - sung in German). Performer Paul Agnew (Evangelist). Performer Sanford Sylvan (Christus). Performer Ruth Ziesak (soprano). Performer Michael Chance (counter-tenor). Performer Toby Spence (tenor). Performer Gerald Finley (bass-baritone). Company Choir of Clare College Cambridge. Company St James's Baroque Players. Conductor Ivor Bolton.
23 Aug 00The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L0257297087

T619619886 (PROM99)

Music Brumel (Missa Et ecce terra moyus). Music Louise Andressen (Trilogy of the Last Day - UK premiere). Company BBC Singers. Company His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Conductor Bo Holten. Company London Sinfonietta Voices. Company New London Children's Choir. Company London Sinfonietta. Conductor Oliver Knussen.
26 Aug 99The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L79478785

T0431150330 (98)

Music Mozart (Concerto in C major for flute and harp - K299). Music Bruckner (Symphony No 5 in B flat major). Performer Emmanuel Pahud (flute). Performer Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp). Conductor Claudio Abbado. Company Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
27 Aug 98The Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221
listing details L933894328

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