The Halle Performs Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony - T01214351881Rachmaninov's The Bells opens this all-Russian programme from Sir Mark Elder and the Halle. Based on an Edgar Allan Poe poem, this magnificent choral symphony blends gothic drama with mystical intensity, haunted by the tolling of the Dies irae chant. Fear of death also lurks beneath the triumphant fanfares and jollity of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 - the composer's attempt to satisfy Stalin and the Soviet regime after his career-riskingly provocative opera The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.Performer Mane Galoyan (soprano). Performer Dmytro Popov (tenor). Performer Rodion Pogossov (baritone). Company BBC Symphony Chorus. Company Halle Choir. Company Halle. Conductor Mark Elder (Sir). | |
| 26 Jul 23 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1698205070 |
Sea Sketches with Andrew Manze and BBC Now - T01831507062'Behold, the sea itself...' Home to Sirens and storms, crashing waves and calming swells, the sea is at the centre of this atmospheric programme from Andrew Manze, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and joint BBC choruses. Vaughan Williams' expansive A Sea Symphony, with its arresting choral opening, is prefaced by sea pictures from two neglected 20th-century women composers now enjoying a revival. There's a filmic energy and vividness to Doreen Carwithen's Bishop Rock overture, while Grace Williams' Sea Sketches, inspired by her family home on the Welsh coast, captures the sea's vivacity and mercurial mood swings.Performer Elizabeth Llewellyn (soprano). Performer Andrew Foster-Williams (bass-baritone). Company BBC Symphony Chorus. Company BBC National Chorus of Wales. Company BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor Andrew Manze. | |
| 27 Jul 22 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0195104691 |
Angelique Kidjo - T01929787909Described as ?the undisputed queen of African music', three-time Grammy Award-winner Ang?lique Kidjo makes her Proms debut with her nine-piece band in a late-night tribute to the celebrated salsa songstress Celia Cruz. Kidjo grew up in Benin, West Africa, listening to salsa and found Celia Cruz a huge inspiration. She later discovered that much of Cruz's music was inspired by Yoruba traditional songs that migrated from Benin to the Americas with the slave workers. Kidjo here reinvents these songs in the Afrobeat and juju styles of West Africa, reflecting their true origins. | |
| 30 Jul 19 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01378057182 |
Stravinsky, Debussy & Wagner - T126406906Sabine Devieilhe and Anna Stephany are the soloists in centenary composer Claude Debussy's Wagner-infused, mythical-fantasy cantata La damoiselle elue. Wagner's relationship with Paris soured over his opera Tannhauser but Stravinsky was practically adopted by the city. Tonight's second half features two of the latter's most colourful scores, whose striking resemblances result from the fact that Stravinsky broke off work on The Nightingale (the opera on which tonight's symphonic poem is based) in order to write his first ballet, The Firebird.Performer Sabine Devieilhe (soprano). Performer Anna Stephany (mezzo soprano). Company Halle Choir (female voices). Company Halle Youth Choir (female voices). Company Halle. Conductor Mark Elder. | |
| 26 Jul 18 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1734558077 |
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition - T1127633842Drama is at the heart of a Prom that moves from the psychological drama of Liszt's Hamlet to the vivid portraits of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Plus Steven Osborne joins Ilan Volkov and the BBC SSO for a Julian Anderson world premiere.Performer Steven Osborne (piano). Company BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Ilan Volkoov. | |
| 26 Jul 17 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L012944875 |
Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet - T1652745232Paul Dukas's brief, intoxicating ballet La P?ri opens tonight's Prom, before Chlo? Hanslip gives the world premiere of a new Violin Concerto by Michael Berkeley. Jac van Steen conducts excerpts from one of the most dramatic and colourfully scored of all ballets, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, a highlight of our series marking 400 years since the death of Shakespeare.Performer Chloe Hanslip (violin). Company BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor Jac van Steen. | |
| 27 Jul 16 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1711813803 |
Late Night With... BBC Radio 1 - T01278663898Radio 1's first ever Prom is less concert and more dance-party - a musical homage to Ibiza and its infectious, energetic brand of club music. 2015 marks the 20th anniversary of Radio 1 in Ibiza and this will be a celebration to remember. Celebrated British DJ Pete Tong presents a line-up of live artists, who perform with Jules Buckley and his Heritage Orchestra. There will be no interval Finish time approx 23:30Performer Jess Glynne (vocalist). Performer John Newman (vocalist). Performer Pete Tong (presenter). Company Heritage Orchestra. Conductor Jules Buckley. | |
| 29 Jul 15 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1192330201 |
Oriental Promise - T960376461Violinist Daniel Hope joins the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, which makes its Proms debut with a classical celebration of the Orient. Sneak into Mozart's harem, witness the magnificent Queen of Sheba in portraits by both Handel and Respighi, and enjoy the insistent rhythms and swaying hips of Balakirev's oriental fantasy Islamey. The concert also features a new violin concerto from Gabriel Prokofiev, commemorating the First World War centenary. Finish time approx. 20:55Performer Daniel Hope (violin). Company Borusan Instanbul Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Sascha Goetazel. | |
| 29 Jul 14 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0668292036 |
Elgar, Bantock, Walton & Tchaikovsky - T1388999562Jac van Steen and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales launch the Proms cycle of Tchaikovsky symphonies with the baleful fanfare of the Fourth. Celebrating his 60th birthday this year, Raphael Wallfisch is the soloist in the BBC Proms premiere of Granville Bantock's Sapphic Poem, launching our focus on the composer this summer. Rich, lyrical and lushly orchestrated, it is framed by two very different portraits of Sir John Falstaff, by Edward Elgar and William Walton. Finish time: approx. 21:50Performer Raphael Wallfisch (cello). Company BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor Jac van Steen. | |
| 24 Jul 13 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0854255539 |
Elgar, Wood, Ravel & Debussy - T259635503British first half pairs Elgar's concert overture, inspired by a winter holiday on the Italian Riviera, with the Piano Concerto by Hugh Wood (80 this year), which sees him tapping into the live-wire personality of tonight's soloist, for whom it was written. The all-French second half reflects new light on Debussy's masterly orchestral seascape with two pinnacles of water-inspired piano music, transformed for the symphony orchestra. Finish time approx. 21:15 | |
| 26 Jul 12 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1299798182 |
Berlioz/Faure/Dusapin and Stravinsky - T262451621Thierry Fischer and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform contrasting French favourites, joined by the Arditti Quartet for the UK premiere of a recent work by Pascal Dusapin. Following this, the main event of the evening Stravinsky’s much-loved, The Firebird.Company Arditti Quartet. Company BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor Thierry Fischer. | |
| 27 Jul 11 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L161514164 |
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra - T805900874The vigorous overture from Wagner's early, rarely staged epic set in medieval Rome opened the very first Prom 115 years ago. Here it raises the curtain on the second instalment of Paul Lewis's Beethoven piano concerto cycle – an infectiously lively adventure beyond the boundaries of Mozart into a style that was Beethoven's own. This visit by Birmingham's orchestra and its dynamic Latvian Music Director ends with Dvorak's musical response to the period he spent in America, during which he helped establish an American musical indentity, much as he had developed a nationalist school in his Czech homeland.Conductor Andris Nelsons. Company City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Performer Paul Lewis (piano). | |
| 29 Jul 10 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L237120013 |
Tchaikovsky/Stravinsky - T1905132129We celebrate both the International Year of Astronomy and John Casken's 60th birthday with his evocation of Orion the hunter. Stephen Hough continues his traversal of the complete Tchaikovsky piano concertos with the unfairly neglected Concerto No. 2. And we continue our survey of the complete Stravinsky ballets with The Firebird, his first commission from Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Approx. end time: 21:35Music John Casken (Orion over Farne - 21 mins). Music Tchaikovsky (Piano Concerto No 2 in G major - 40 mins). Music Stravinsky (The Firebird - 46 mins). Performer Stephen Hough (piano). Company City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Andris Nelsons. | |
| 28 Jul 09 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L446359520 |
Halle - T0245134360Approx. end time 21:40Music Butterworth (12 mins)). Music Vaughan Williams (30 mins)). Music Bruch (25 mins)). Music R. Strauss (15 mins)). Performer Janine Jansen (violin). Company Halle. Conductor Mark Elder. | |
| 29 Jul 08 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0880903453 |
T927412625Finish time approx. 21:00Conductor Marin Alsop. Performer James Ehnes (violin). Company Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Music Beethoven (Overture 'Leonore' No 3). Music Barber (Violin Concerto - Proms Firsts UK Premeire 1944). Music Copland (Symphony No 3 - Proms Firsts UK Premiere 1956). | |
| 25 Jul 07 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0704773680 |
T01994620082Finish time approx. 21:05Conductor Sakari Oramo. Company City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Performer Leila Josefowicz (violin). Music Webern (Passacaglia Op 1). Music Shostakovich (Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor). Music Brahms (Symphony No 4 in E minor). | |
| 26 Jul 06 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L2112644513 |
T2126407265Company City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Sakari Oramo. Performer Barbara Hannigan (soprano). Music Ravel (Mother Goose - suite). Music Henri Dutilleux (Correspondances - London premiere). Music Stravinsky (Scherzo fantastique). Music Musorgsky (orch. Ravel - Pictures at an Exhibition). | |
| 27 Jul 05 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01517331488 |
T01286528601This concert will be broadcast on BBC4. Finish time approx. 21:00Music Schubert (Symphony No 8 in B minor - Unfinished). Music Janacek (Hukvaldy Songs). Music Janacek (Glagolitic Mass). Performer Zdena Kloubova (soprano). Performer Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano). Performer Pavol Breslik (tenor). Performer Gustav Belacek (bass). Performer David Goode (organ). Company Czech Philharmonic Chorus of Brno). Company London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Kurt Masur. Conductor Petr Fiala. | |
| 28 Jul 04 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1840342526 |
T01152927053Music Bach (Cantata No 191 - Gloria in excelsis Deo). Music Mendelssohn (Motet Jauchzet dem Herrn all Welt; Psalm 43 - Richte mich Gott; Motet 'Herr nun lassest du deinem Diener in Frieden fahren). Music Zum Abendsegen (Herr sei gnadig unserm Flehn). Music Libby Larsen (I It Am - BBC / Bach Choir co-commission: world premiere). Music Bach (Cantata No 34 'O ewiges Feuer). Performer Tamara Matthews (soprano). Performer Rosa Lamoreaux (soprano). Performer Daniel Taylor (counter-tenor). Performer Benjamin Butterfield (tenor). Performer Daniel Lichti (bass-baritone). Company Bach Choir of Bethlehem. Company Bach Festival Orchestra. Conductor Greg Funfgeld. | |
| 29 Jul 03 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01967180102 |
T209938680Company BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor Tadaaki Otaka. Music Ravel (Rapsodie espagnole). Music Szymanowski (Violin Concerto No 1). Music Debussy (Premiere rapsodie). Music Lutoslawski (Concerto for Orchestra). | |
| 31 Jul 02 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01195211213 |
T01988390517Music Dvorak (Overture 'Carnival'). Music Brahms (Variations on the St Anthony Chorale). Music Mozart (Exsultate jubilate). Music Strauss (Don Juan; Four Last Songs). Performer Renee Fleming (soprano). Company Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Christoph Eschenbach. | |
| 1 Aug 01 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0836122638 |
T1467805466Music Beethoven (Piano Concerto No 1 in C major). Music Mahler (Symphony No 6 in A minor). Performer Lars Vogt (piano). Company BBC Philharmonic. Conductor Paavo Jarvi. | |
| 26 Jul 00 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01040987107 |
T01799918602Music Berlioz (Overture Roman Carnival). Music Chopin (Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor). Music Alun Hoddinott (The Sun the great luminary of the universe). Music Franck (Symphony in D minor). Performer Louis Lortie (piano). Company BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor Tadaaki Otaka. | |
| 28 Jul 99 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0289838034 |
T81971899Music Messiaen (Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum). Music Mahler (Symphony No 2 in C minor 'Resurrection'). Performer Barbara Bonney (soprano). Performer Jard van Nes (mezzo-soprano). Conductor Mark Wigglesworth. Company City of Brmingham Symphony Chorus. Company BBC National Chorus of Wales. Company BBC National Orchestra of Wales. | |
| 29 Jul 98 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L988849134 |
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