Rattle Conducts Mahler's Ninth - T01463614028In Mahler's Ninth Symphony, the composer - who would not live to hear its premiere - bid ‘farewell to all whom he loved'. The words ‘'Leb' wohl!' ('farewell') are written onto the score itself, transformed into a theme that becomes the heartbeat of the whole work. It's a poignant choice for Sir Simon Rattle's final UK performance as Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra. Death and life collide in a symphony haunted by loss but urgently clinging to dance and song. The finale, however, looks beyond, closing with a vision of distant hills where the sun is shining. Opening the Prom is Poulenc's choral masterpiece Figure humaine, a hymn to freedom from occupied France, performed by the BBC Singers.Company BBC Singers. Company London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Simon Rattle (Sir). | |
| 27 Aug 23 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0876091553 |
The South African Jazz Songbook - T0524063790Celebrated South African trumpeter, conductor and SAMA Award-winner Marcus Wyatt leads the Metropole Orkest in a showcase of the best of South African jazz - a cross-section of a vibrant and strikingly diverse scene. There will be music by artists including 'father of South African jazz' Hugh Masekela, Cry Freedom's Jonas Gwangwa, genre-crossing composer Abdullah Ibrahim, the Blue Notes' Dudu Pukwana and Johnny Dyani, and saxophonist Winston Mankunku. Vocalist Siyabonga Mthembu - lead singer of Shabaka and the Ancestors and performance art band The Brother Moves On - makes a special appearance, together with Mercury Prize-nominated singer ESKA and Sons of Kemet tuba player Theon Cross.Performer Siyabonga Mthembu (vocals). Performer ESKA (vocals). Performer Soweto Kinch (saxophone). Performer Theon Cross (tuba). Company Metropole Orkest. Conductor Marcus Wyatt. | |
| 28 Aug 22 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01739708747 |
Henry Wood Tribute - T1152581629A 150th-anniversary tribute to Henry Wood, founder-conductor of the Proms, featuring works he premiered and arranged, and reflecting his wide musical tastes, from Wagner to John Ireland, Ravel to Percy Grainger.Performer Nathaniel Anderson-Frank (violin). Performer Leon McCawley (piano). Company BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor Bramwell Tovey. | |
| 31 Aug 19 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0597321364 |
Mozart & Bruckner - T241918769Former BBC Young Musician winner Benjamin Grosvenor may only be 26 but this exceptional pianist is an artist of startling emotional and technical maturity. Here he joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo as the soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 (sometimes known by the nickname ?Elvira Madigan'), with its trickling slow movement and good-humoured buffo levity. Bruckner's Fifth Symphony, with its astonishing fugal finale, offers a more serious counterpoint in the second half.Performer Benjamin Grosvenor (piano). Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Sakari Oramo. | |
| 24 Aug 18 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L575839728 |
The Bohemian Reformation - T0940758032Rising star conductor Jakub Hru?a presents an all-Czech concert with the BBC SO and the BBC Singers. Smetana's evocative tone-poem Ma vlast sits alongside Martinu's Field Mass and Suk's Prague. This is music of protest, anger and national pride.Performer Svatopluk Sem (baritone). Company BBC Singers (mens voices). Company BBC Symphony. Conductor Jakub Hrusa. | |
| 26 Aug 17 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0154834933 |
CBeebies Prom - T01827555047Join the BBC Concert Orchestra and some of CBeebies' best-loved presenters and characters in a special musical journey. Aimed at 0- to 5-year-olds and their families, this Prom takes the audience on a journey through time and space, from dinosaur adventures with Andy to swashbuckling treasure-hunts with Gemma and stargazing with Chris. The magical world of CBeebies is brought to life by orchestral classics.Performer Ben Faulks (Mr Bloom). Performer Gemma Hunt (from Swashbuckle). Performer Chris Jarvis (from 'Show Me Show Me and Stargazing). Performer Steven Kynman (Robert the Robot). Company BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor Jessica Cottis. | |
| 28 Aug 16 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0443177864 |
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Andrew Litton - T01890723398Is there a better-known or better-loved violin concerto than Mendelssohn's? Following her two solo Late Night Proms, and Proms Saturday Matinee appearance with Apollo's Fire, violinist Alina Ibragimova returns to perform this inventive and charming work, with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. They bring with them music by the young Norwegian Orjan Matre and a new work by Russian-British composer Alissa Firsova inspired by Norse mythology. This season's series of three Stravinsky ballets written for the Ballets Russes reaches its conclusion with The Rite of Spring, as ferocious and exhilarating a musical assualt now as it was at its notorious Paris premiere over a century ago. Finish time approx. 21:30Performer Alina Ibragimova (violin). Company Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Andrew Litton. | |
| 27 Aug 15 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L2011997501 |
Holst - The Planets - T58769827020th-century music takes three contrasting paths here in masterpieces by Holst, Schoenberg and Scriabin. Tuneful good humour and vivid characterisation see the century at its most approachable in Holst's well-loved The Planets. Scriabin's Prometheus is more eccentric - scored for piano, 'colour organ' and orchestra. This performance of it includes the optional part for choir and responds to the composer's imaginative ideas on colour. Premiered at the Proms in 1912, Schoenberg's Five Orchestral Pieces take tonality to the limit, anticipating the composer's later development of serialism. Finish time approx. 21:35Performer Alexander Toradze. Company London Philharmonic Choir. Company London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Vladimir Jurowski. | |
| 28 Aug 14 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1742102769 |
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester - T1813770803Founded by Claudio Abbado in 1986, the pan-European Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester remains one of the most musically exciting and technically polished youth orchestras in the world. Tonight, Philippe Jordan directs the GMJO in the overture to Wagner's Rienzi and Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, written in an atmosphere of intense scrutiny and artistic repression, after the public denouncement of his opera The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. Ravel's jazz-inflected Piano Concerto in G major completes the programme, with the flamboyant French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet as the soloist. Finish time: approx. 21:40Performer Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano). Conductor Philippe Jordan. | |
| 24 Aug 13 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L466779194 |
Goehr, Knussen, Grime & Debussy - T1414010487After an 80th-birthday revival of Goehr's imaginary ballet, Knussen's Third Symphony prefaces Helen Grime's 60th-birthday tribute to him. Debussy's incidental music for a mystery play appears complete for the first time in Proms history. Finish time approx. 21:50Performer Claire Booth (soprano). Performer Polly May (mezzo-soprano). Performer Clare McCaldin (mezzo-soprano). Company New London Chamber Choir. Company BBC National Chours of Wales. Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Oliver Knussen. | |
| 25 Aug 12 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0698777586 |
Strauss & Mahler - T42520066For his second Prom this season, Semyon Bychkov conducts one of Mahler's most perfectly realised works, 'the only sixth, despite the "Pastoral" ', in the words of Alban Berg. This is music of exceptional range and power, whose fateful hammer-blows seem to portend the crises in Mahler's own life and the wider world. The curtain-raiser is a mini-concerto with echoes of Brahms and Liszt, especially in its treatment of the piano. Kirill Gerstein, an exceptional artist with roots in jazz as well as the classics, makes his first Proms appearance in the main hall. Finish time: appox. 21:50Performer Kirill Gerstein (piano). Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Semyon Bychkov. | |
| 26 Aug 11 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L011984987 |
Minnesota Orchestra - T0662137047Osmo Vänskä, whose enthusiastic following in the UK dates from his tenure as Chief Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (1996-2002), returns for two Proms with the Minnesota Orchestra, which has seen a revival under his music directorship since 2003. Tonight the cinematic incidental music imagined by anniversary composer Samuel Barber for a scene from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound contrasts with the expansive splendour of Bruckner's 'Romantic' Symphony. Young American cellist Alisa Weilerstein makes her Proms debut in the first of Shostakovich's two concertos honed around the skill and and stamina of the great Mstislav Rostropovich. Finish time: approx. 21:50Conductor Osmo Vanska. Performer Alisa Weilerstein (cello). Company Minnesota Orchestra. | |
| 27 Aug 10 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0632924984 |
Staatskapelle Dresden - T0462749622Following last night's depiction of domestic life in the Strauss household, we continue with his mountain-inspired final tone-poem, performed by the orchestra to which it was dedicated (and which premiered no fewer than nine of his 15 operas) under its current Chief Conductor, Fabio Luisi, here making his Proms debut. Ever a favourite with Proms audiences, Lang Lang returns to perform Chopin's brilliantly virtuosic, Romantically poetic and mazurka-capped F minor Concerto. And the evening opens with a revised, expanded version of a 2006 work by British-born, Berlin-based Rebecca Saunders. Approx finish time: 22:15. Broadcast Live on BBC Four and BBC Radio 3.Performer Lang Lang (piano). Company Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor Fabio Luisi. | |
| 27 Aug 09 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L02130800627 |
London Sinfonietta - T600241190Finish time approx. 23:20Music Einojuhani Rautavaara (18 mins)). Music John Tavener (7 mins)). Music John Tavener (35 mins)). Performer Patricia Rozario (soprano). Performer Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano). Performer David Wilson-Johnson (baritone). Performer Mark van de Wiel (clarinet). Company London Sinfonietta Chorus. Company London Sinfonietta. Conductor David Atherton. | |
| 27 Aug 08 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01856882471 |
T02115118888Finish time approx. 21:25Conductor Jiri Belohlavek. Performer Ivo Kahanek (piano). Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Music Britten (Peter Grimes - Four Sea Interludes - Proms Firsts London Premiere 1945). Music Martinu (Piano Concerto No 4 'Incantation - Proms Firsts UK Premiere 1957). Music Prokofiev (Symphony No 5 in B flat - Proms Firsts UK Premiere 1946). | |
| 26 Aug 07 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1468105107 |
T0372983176Finish time approx. 21:00. Broadcast on BBC TwoConductor Christoph von Dohnanyi. Company NDR Symphony Orchestra. Performer Gil Shaham (violin). Music Ravel (Le tombeau de Couperin). Music Stravinsky (Violin Concerto). Music Tchaikovsky (Symphony No 4 in F minor). | |
| 26 Aug 06 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01506701901 |
T01616574368Company BBC Philharmonic. Conductor Gianandrea Noseda. Performer Nikolaj Znaider (violin). Music Brahms (Violin Concerto in D major). Music Liszt (A Faust Symphony - original version). | |
| 26 Aug 05 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1527344187 |
T1392417760Finish time approx. 21:55Music Hindemith (Concert Music for Brass and Strings). Music Wagner (orch. Mottl - Wesendonck-Lieder). Music Wagner (Tristan und Isolde - Prelude and Liebestod). Music Beethoven (Symphony No 3 in E flat major - 'Eroica'). Performer Deborah Voigt (soprano). Company Royal Philharmonic Orchestra). Conductor Daniele Gatti. | |
| 27 Aug 04 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L822934971 |
T0685322418Music Brahms (Variations on the St Anthony Chorale). Music Heiner Goebbels (Aus einem Tagebuch - UK premiere). Music R. Strauss (Ein Heldenleben). Company Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor Simon Rattle (Sir). | |
| 1 Sep 03 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0956603999 |
Elijah - T107062419Sung in EnglishMusic Mendelssohn. Company London Philharmonic Choir. Company Philharmonia Chorus. Company London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Kurt Masur. Performer Alastair Miles (Elijah). Performer Janice Watson (soprano). Performer Alice Coote (mezzo soprano). Performer Kim Begley (tenor). | |
| 1 Sep 02 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0251538406 |
T01857426733Music Enescu (Suite No 1). Music Dvorak (Violin Concerto). Music Schumann (Symphony No 1 in B flat major 'Spring'). Performer Sarah Chang (violin). Company London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Kurt Masur. | |
| 1 Sep 01 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L212032346 |
T1239483556Music Bach (orch. Webern - Ricercare from The Musical Offering). Music Mozart (Piano Concerto No 25 in C major K503). Music Arvo Part (Como anhela la cierva - UK premiere). Music Dvorak (Symphonic Variations). Performer Patricia Rozario (soprano). Performer Richard Goode (piano). Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Jiri Belohlavek. | |
| 27 Aug 00 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L069294065 |
T489643433Pre-Prom Talk at 18:00 - Leonard Slatkin: An American in LondonMusic Elgar (Introduction and Allegro). Music Walton (Violin Concerto). Music Britten (Phaedra). Music Vaughan Williams (Symphony No 9). Performer Louise Winter (mezzo-soprano). Performer Joshua Bell (violin). Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Leonard Slatkin. | |
| 29 Aug 99 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1204208968 |
T0236331742Music Copland (El salon Mexico). Music Esa-Pekka Salonen (LA Variations; UK premiere). Music Stravinsky (The Firebird). Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. Company Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. | |
| 31 Aug 98 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0306908787 |
