Cadogan Hall: Oliver Knussen Tribute - T0252793488The final concert in this year's Proms at... Cadogan Hall series, tracing over 800 years of music history, brings us from the late 20th century right up to the present day. A giant of British contemporary music, composer Oliver Knussen is celebrated a year on from his death in a special performance by the newly formed Knussen Chamber Orchestra. Made up of orchestral principals and rising young musicians from across the UK, the ensemble is conducted by Knussen's protege Ryan Wigglesworth. Knussen's own Purcell-inspired ...upon one note, lyrical Songs without Voices and Study for Company Knussen Chamber Orchestra. Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth (piano). | |
| 9 Sep 19 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L667115403 |
Cadogan Hall: Silesian Quartet - T1288147115Celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Mieczyslaw Weinberg - the composer Shostakovich famously hailed as his musical successor - continue with an all-Polish programme from the first half of the 20thcentury that sets Weinberg's own music alongside that of his great contemporary Grazyna Bacewicz. Folk themes take on a new sophistication, cleverly manipulated and moulded in Bacewicz's mature masterpiece the Piano Quintet No. 1. Poland's award-winning Silesian String Quartet are joined here by pianist Wojciech Switala.Performer Wojciech Switala (piano). Company Silesian String Quartet. | |
| 2 Sep 19 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L0879274094 |
Cadogan Hall: Amatis Trio - T075526676The prize-winning Amatis Piano Trio, current BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, make their Proms debut with chamber works by husband-and-wife composers Robert and Clara Schumann. The climax is Clara Schumann's Piano Trio: one of her finest works, it combines lyrical themes with new contrapuntal invention and scope. The programme also includes Clara's Three Romances for violin and piano, composed for virtuoso Joseph Joachim, as well as Robert's attractive Adagio and Allegro for cello and piano, its wistful slow movement giving way to an energetic Allegro.Group/Band Amatis Piano Trio. | |
| 26 Aug 19 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L01372116105 |
Cadogan Hall: Louise Alder - T1106909853As we reach the 19th century in our Monday lunchime survey of music spanning over 800 years, soprano Louis Alder returns, with pianist Gary Matthewman, for a solo recital of songs from across Europe, including Lieder by Schubert, and by both Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny (published under her married name of Hensel), whose final song, Bergeslust - completed just a day before her death at the age of only 41 - tempers joy with a poignant ending. The many facets of love are exposed in Felix Mendelssohns Der Mond and Neue Liebe, as well as in Chopin's Sliczny chlopiec (Handsome Lad) and songs by Liszt and Rossini.Performer Louise Alder (soprano). Performer Gary Matthewman (piano). | |
| 19 Aug 19 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L01908710772 |
Holy Sepulchre - T1566973299The BBC Singers and Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin take the Proms to the 'Musicians' Church', Holy Sepulchre London (aka St Sepulchure-without-Newgate), where Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood first learnt the organ and was later laid to rest. This varied conspectus of 20th-century English choral music opens with the setting of lines by the then Poet Laureate, John Masefield, that Walton composed for the unveiling of the church's Henry Wood memorial window in 1946, and is brought up to date with a new commission by Joanna Lee, At this man's hand, setting the verse by Masefield that is inscribed on the window itself.Company BBC Singers. Conductor Sofi Jeannin. | |
| 17 Aug 19 | General, Inner London :: V1231 listing details L0215376774 |
Cadogan Hall: Aris Quartet - T0521364008Praised for their suppleness of sound, BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Aris Quartet make their Proms debut with Haydn's ebullient 'Sunrise Quartet nicknamed for the beautiful climbing phrase with which it opens.This late, great work is paired with two youthful pieces: Schubert's quietly innovative String Quartet No. 1, and the String Quartet No. 5 by Maddalena Laura Sirmen (born Lombardini) the 18th-century violin virtuoso and pupil of Tartini, whose career was a defiant exception in a maledominated profession.Group/Band Aris Quartet. | |
| 12 Aug 19 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L439581331 |
Cadogan Hall: The English Concert - T01400328883Celebrated keyboard player Kristian Bezuidenhout and period-instrument ensemble The English Concert present a Baroque journey around Europe. England's lively restoration theatre scene is represented by Purcell dances, while harpsichord music by ?lisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and Louis Marchand conjures up the splendour of the French court of Louis XIV. Chamber music by Telemann and Handel completes the programme.Performer Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord). Company The English Concert. | |
| 5 Aug 19 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L801054204 |
Cadogan Hall: A Celebration of Barbara Strozzi - T1529531207Few composers paint human emotion as vividly or with greater insight, wit and poignancy than Barbara Strozzi - the pioneering Venetian composer, born 400 years ago, whose songs and madrigals stand alongside Monteverdi's as some of the greatest of the age. Argentine soprano Mariana Flores and period-instrument ensemble Cappella Mediterranea celebrate Strozzi's anniversary with a selection of love songs by the composer and her contemporaries, including the arresting 'Lagrime mie' and the touching 'Che si puo fare'.Performer Mariana Flores (soprano). Company Cappella Mediterranea. Performer Leonardo Garcia Alarcon (harpsichord / organ / director). | |
| 29 Jul 19 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L1706318366 |
Cadogan Hall: Voces8 - T01238671476This year's Monday-lunchtime Proms at... Cadogan Hall series takes listeners through over 800 years of musical history over the course of just eight concerts. Proms debut artists VOCES8 launch the series in a programme ranging from the supple chant melodies of Hildegard of Bingen to the sophisticated choral polyphony of Palestrina, Lassus and William Byrd. | |
| 22 Jul 19 | Cadogan Hall, Inner London :: V1516962103 listing details L02020218985 |
Alexndra Palace - Trial By Jury - T524754185The magnificent theatre at Alexandra Palace originally opened in 1875 - the same year that Gilbert and Sullivan's one-act operetta Trial by Jury was premiered. In this special 'Proms at...' event, Jane Glover conducts a concert performance of this Victorian comic masterpiece in the Palace's theatre as its ambitious new refurbishment reaches completion. A first half of music by Sullivan's contemporaries explores that favourite G&S theme of love and marriage.Performer Neal Davies (The Learned Judge). Performer Mary Bevan (The Plaintiff). Company BBC Singers. Company BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor Jane Glover. | |
| 1 Sep 18 | Alexandra Palace, Outer London :: V0521614631 listing details L1943895592 |
The Soldier's Tale - T1921300735Following the success of last year's 'Proms at...' concert in Hull, the BBC Proms once again travels outside London, this time to Lincoln. The city's 19th-century Drill Hall - home to the Fourth Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment, deployed to the Western Front in 1914 - is the evocative setting for a staged performance of Stravinsky's First World War music-theatre piece The Soldier's Tale. William Conway conducts the Hebrides Ensemble in this tale of a young man who sells his soul (and his violin) to the Devil in exchange for untold wealth - or so it seems. There will be no intervalMusic Igor Stravinsky. Company Hebrides Ensemble. Conductor William Conway. | |
| 4 Aug 18 | Drill Hall, Lincoln :: V01422328453 listing details L786401718 |
The Roundhouse: George Benjamin conducts the London Sinfonietta - T0572633735The Proms returns to Camden's Roundhouse - a former railway engine shed reinvented as a spectacular contemporary space - with a programme of 20th- and 21st-century works. Composer-conductor George Benjamin directs new-music specialists, the London Sinfonietta - celebrating its 50th anniversary this year - in a concert that continues our series marking 100 years since the end of the First World War. Alongside a quartet of war-themed premieres (co-commissioned with 14-18 NOW), the programme features Stravinsky's homage to Debussy, the elegant Symphonies of Wind Instruments; Messiaen's monumental tribute to the dead of both world wars, Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum, and Charles Ives's The Unanswered Question, whose haunting solo trumpet famously raises 'the perennial question of existence'. There will be one intervalPerformer Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano). Company London Sinfonietta. Conductor George Benjamin. | |
| 21 Jul 18 | Roundhouse, West End :: V242 listing details L01572428200 |
The Tanks at Tate Modern - T01685467962Join BBC Radio 3 presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch and the London Contemporary Orchestra for a specially curated Prom in the industrial surroundings of The Tanks at Tate Modern.Performer Actress (electronics). Performer Rodrigo Constanzo (drums / electronics / lights). Company Exaudi. Company The London Contemporary Orchestra. Director Robert Ames. Director Hugh Brunt. | |
| 6 Sep 17 | Tate Modern, Inner London :: V0639819942 listing details L01107855367 |
Wilton's Music Hall - T0435879938The world's oldest surviving music hall provides an atmospheric backdrop for a staged performance of Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for A Mad King. Sian Edwards conducts the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, with Marcus Farnsworth as soloist.Performer Jennifer France (soprano). Performer Marcus Farnsworth (baritone). Company Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Conductor Sian Edwards. Director Olivia Fuchs. | |
| 2 Sep 17 | Wilton's Music Hall, Inner London :: V1165 listing details L01044516079 |
Southwark Cathedral - T0373720376The Proms heads to Southwark Cathedral for a concert of sacred music. Palestrina's radiant Mass glows with joy, while Judith Weir's In the Land of Uz takes inspiration from the story of Job. David Hill conducts the BBC Singers and the Nash Ensemble.Performer Adrian Thompson (tenor). Company BBC Singers. Company Nash Ensemble. Conductor David Hill. | |
| 12 Aug 17 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L757944643 |
Bold Tendencies Multi-Storey Car Park - T134057926The Proms steps out of the Royal Albert Hall and into a municipal car park in Peckham to salute the man who reconnected art music to urban culture in all its drive, repetition and asymmetry. South London favourites Christopher Stark and the Multi-Story Orchestra make their Proms debut in an all-Reich performance on their home ground. The programme includes Reich's bright and excitable Music for a Large Ensemble - his first major work for full orchestra - and the shifting patterns of his single-movement ?octet' Eight Lines. There will be no intervalCompany Multi-Story Orchestra. Conductor Christopher Stark. | |
| 3 Sep 16 | General, Outer London :: V1087 listing details L0580966663 |
Bold Tendencies Multi-Storey Cark Park, Peckham - T01414299499The Proms steps out of the Royal Albert Hall and into a municipal car park in Peckham to salute the man who reconnected art music to urban culture in all its drive, repetition and asymmetry. South London favourites Christopher Stark and the Multi-Story Orchestra make their Proms debut in an all-Reich performance on their home ground. The programme includes Reich's bright and excitable Music for a Large Ensemble - his first major work for full orchestra - and the shifting patterns of his single-movement ?octet' Eight Lines. There will be no intervalCompany Multi-Story Orchestra. Conductor Christopher Stark. | |
| 3 Sep 16 | General, Outer London :: V1087 listing details L255677284 |
Roundhouse, Camden - T1497273932The Proms returns to Camden's industrial answer to the Royal Albert Hall for a programme which takes its lead from Ligeti's iconic Ramifications. This embracing score, for two groups of spatially positioned strings, is heard alongside music by one of Ligeti's natural musical heirs, Georg Friedrich Haas, and other new pieces concerned with physical space. The concert culminates in a major work from David Sawer that reflects the energy and physicality of dance.Company London Sinfonietta. Conductor Andrew Gourlay. | |
| 20 Aug 16 | Roundhouse, West End :: V242 listing details L58782039 |
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe - T1110551238From one of London's biggest auditoria to one of its smallest - the Proms moves east for a celebration of Restoration theatre music at the intimate jewel-box that is the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe on London's Bankside. This performance offers a chance to get up close with leading performers and Jonathan Cohen's crack Baroque ensemble, Arcangelo, which makes its Proms debut in works by Purcell, Blow, Locke and Draghi - including music for Shakespeare's The Tempest.Performer Katherine Watson (soprano). Performer Samuel Boden (tenor). Performer Callum Thorpe (bass). Company Arcangelo. Performer Jonathan Cohen (harpsichord / organ / director). | |
| 13 Aug 16 | Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, West End :: V165 listing details L0933786119 |
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe - T01955961680From one of London's biggest auditoria to one of its smallest - the Proms moves east for a celebration of Restoration theatre music at the intimate jewel-box that is the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe on London's Bankside. This performance offers a chance to get up close with leading performers and Jonathan Cohen's crack Baroque ensemble, Arcangelo, which makes its Proms debut in works by Purcell, Blow, Locke and Draghi - including music for Shakespeare's The Tempest.Performer Katherine Watson (soprano). Performer Samuel Boden (tenor). Performer Callum Thorpe (bass). Company Arcangelo. Performer Jonathan Cohen (harpsichord / organ / director). | |
| 13 Aug 16 | Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, West End :: V165 listing details L766884811 |
The Chapel, Greenwich: Gioachino Rossini: Petite messe solennells - T0361111804In his 'Little Solemn Mass' Rossini reflected the contrast of his own witty exterior concealing religious belief. Here, joy is tinged with grief and anxiety, amid vocal writing of purity and pungency. For this first 'Proms at ' matinee, in the stunning Old Chapel of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, the BBC Singers and David Hill present the Proms premiere of what the composer called ?the last mortal sin of my old age'.Performer Elizabeth Watts (soprano). Performer Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano). Performer Peter Auty (tenor). Performer James Platt (bass). Performer Richard Pearce (harmonium). Performer Iain Farrington (piano). Company BBC Singers. Conductor David Hill. | |
| 6 Aug 16 | Old Royal Naval College, Outer London :: V2119796440 listing details L01783850394 |
