Rachmaninov, Mahler-Werfel and Pejacevic - T1278875426If the first-night audience was hostile to the 23-year-old Rachmaninov's First Symphony, history has been far kinder, embracing its ability to reimagine Russian musical tradition. John Storgards and the BBC Philharmonic are joined by mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly for turn-of-the-century songs by Alma Mahler-Werfel and Croatia's Dora Pejacevic, and the curtain rises with the overture to Weber's Grand Romantic and Fairy Opera, written for London's Covent Garden.Performer Sarah Connolly (Dame - mezzo-soprano). Company BBC Philharmonic. Conductor John Storgards. | |
| 9 Aug 23 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1052336453 |
Holst's The Planets - T1580663973From broad visions of the universe to the intimacy of human relationships, the wonder of creation to the fragile moment of death, Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus take us through it all. Human loss is at the heart both of Strauss's tender, rapturous tone-poem Death and Transfiguration - an orchestral portrait of ‘the dying hours of a man' - and of Matthew Kaner's Pearl, a lament whose medieval text sees a grieving father glimpsing his daughter in the afterlife. Holst's The Planets leaves Earth far behind in its vivid, myth-inspired journey through our solar system in all its mysterious beauty.Performer Roderick Williams (baritone). Company BBC Symphony Chorus. Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth. | |
| 10 Aug 22 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1724580276 |
Mahler, Schubert & Glanert - T622241036Semyon Bychkov traces the evolution and genealogy of Austro-German music in a fascinating Prom featuring three works from three different centuries. Schubert's influence on Mahler is clear from the weary loveliness and fretful anxiety of Einsamkeit ('Loneliness'), heard here in an elegant orchestration by contemporary composer Detlev Glanert. Mahler's Fourth Symphony, bright with sleigh bells and innocent wonder, glances back to classical models from the vantage point of fin-de-si?cle Vienna, while Glanert takes Brahms's Fourth Symphony into the 21st century in his lyrical Weites Land ('Open Land').Performer Christina Gansch (soprano). Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Semyon Bychkov. | |
| 11 Aug 19 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L02057096425 |
Brahms's A German Requiem - T1121136935Inspired by the death of his mother, Brahms's tender, consoling A German Requiem couldn't be further from Verdi's and Berlioz's settings of the standard Latin Mass text. It's the first of three Requiems this season marking 100 years since the end of the First World War. Richard Farnes makes his Proms debut directing the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, along with soloists Golda Schultz and Johan Reuter. Thea Musgrave's Phoenix Rising (marking the composer's 90th birthday this year) also traces a journey from darkness to light, enacting the conflict both spatially and musically in some of the composer's most dramatic writing.Performer Golda Schultz (soprano). Performer Johan Reuter (baritone). Company BBC Symphony Chorus. Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Richard Farnes. | |
| 7 Aug 18 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01648946031 |
Sibelius, Grieg, Schumann and Hindemith - T1791807499Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen makes her Proms debut, while cellist Alban Gerhardt steps into the spotlight for Schumann's thoughtful Cello Concerto. The concert climaxes in the sprawling beauty of Hindemith's Mathis der Maler.Performer Lise Davidsen (soprano). Performer Alban Gerhardt (cello). Company BBC Philharmonic. Conductor John Storgards. | |
| 10 Aug 17 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01992191886 |
Mark Simpson, Dutilleux and Elgar - T196311647In his First Symphony, unveiled in Manchester in 1911, Edward Elgar saw beyond the recession in which Britain was languishing to express a ?massive hope for the future'. The symphony's noble main tune appears fragile at first. But when it returns at the end, it's carried home by an ecstatic orchestra filled with a spirit of uplifting optimism. The BBC Philharmonic and its Chief Conductor also present the London premiere of a work by its Composer in Association Mark Simpson and the marriage of modernity and beauty that is Dutilleux's cello concerto ?Tout un monde lointain...'.Performer Johannes Moser (cello). Company BBC Philharmonic. Conductor Juanjo Mena. | |
| 9 Aug 16 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01199797098 |
Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique - T788537235Sir John Eliot Gardiner's second appearance of the season showcases the work of the conductor's other period-instrument ensemble - the Orchestre R?volutionnaire et Romantique, specialists in 19th- and 20th-century repertoire. Gardiner's brisk and brilliant take on Beethoven's Fifth Symphony promises to find fresh energy within a familiar work - a Classical curtain-raiser to Berlioz's extravagant Symphonie fantastique, the height of Romantic excess, with its quasi-cinematic storytelling and vivid, ghoulish soundscapes. Finish time approx. 22:00Conductor John Eliot Gardiner. | |
| 9 Aug 15 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01041622246 |
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain - T1597245055The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain makes its annual visit to the Proms with a fiery and virtuosic programme of 20th-century orchestral showpieces, conducted by Proms regular Edward Gardner. A Russian first half sees BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Louis Schwizgebel take the lead in Prokofiev's youthful First Piano Concerto. Written while the composer was still a student, it brims with the same audacious energy that pulses through Stravinsky's great ballet Petrushka. Lutoslawski's vivacious Concerto for Orchestra closes the evening with still more primary-coloured, folkloric brilliance and drama. Finish time approx. 22:00Performer Louis Schwizgebel (piano). Company National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Conductor Edward Gardner. | |
| 10 Aug 14 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1389231414 |
Beethoven, Berlioz - T833901150Mitsuko Uchida returns to the Proms after an absence of almost 20 years as the soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, which overturned formal traditions by opening with a simple statement for solo piano. Musical ideas are tested to their limits in a conversation between keyboard and orchestra. The opium-fuelled obsessions, flower-like dancers, rural idyll, rolling tumbrel and danse macabre of Berlioz's 1830 gothic masterpiece Symphonie fantastique conclude the first of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra's two Proms (see also Prom 35) with Mariss Jansons, who celebrates his 70th birthday this year. Finish time: approx. 21:10Performer Mitsuko Uchida (piano). Company Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Mariss Jansons. | |
| 8 Aug 13 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1755409137 |
Wagner, Bruckner & MacMillan - T1362496281Juanjo Mena presents a major world premiere before offering his acclaimed reading of a sonorous yet dangerously eruptive Bruckner symphony. First though, there's the emblematic love of Tristan and Isolde, expressed through music dark in sound and revolutionary in harmony. James MacMillan's works have enjoyed regular success at the Proms since the first performance of The Confession of Isobel Gowdie was given here in 1990. As with Bruckner, MacMillan's communicative power is often associated with expressions of faith, and the unveiling of Credo, has been keenly awaited. Finish time approx. 21:40Company Manchester Chamber Choir. Company Northern Sinfonia Chorus. Company Rushley Singers. Company BBC Philharmonic. Conductor Juanjo Mena. | |
| 7 Aug 12 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1870691960 |
Sibelius/Grieg & Nielsen - T971898380Absent from the Proms since 2004, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is back with a new Chief Conductor, no stranger to these shores (as a former Music Director of the CBSO), and a suitably Nordic programme. Sibelius claimed to be offering the public 'pure cold water' with music like his magical Sixth Symphony - other composers were, he said, 'engaged in the manufacture of cocktails'. Nielsen's Fourth is a more extrovert piece, a celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit from the dark days of the First World War, complete with battling sets of timpani and earth-shattering climaxes. Between the two symphonies, critically acclaimed young German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott makes her Proms debut in one of the most popular of all piano concertos. Finish time: approx. 21:45Performer Alice Sara Ott (piano). Company Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Sakari Oramo. | |
| 8 Aug 11 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01608478697 |
BBC Radio 3 World Routes Academy - T1628503715Pioneering Iraqi guitarist, singer and composer Ilham Al Madfai was the first in his country to internationalise Iraqi music and blend it with contemporary world styles. He brings a group of musicians to present his own songs as well as arrangements of Iraqi standards, and he introduces young oud player Khyam Allami, whom he has been mentoring as part of BBC Radio 3's new World Routes Academy. The young Iraqi Oud player, London-resident Allami came to the oud - the Middle Eastern lute - via the violin, drums and bass guitar. He is the first recipient of this exciting scholarship, founded to foster artistic collaborations and support young artists working in world music. Finish time: approx. 23:20 no intervalPerformer Ilham Al Madfai (guitar / vocalist). Performer Khyam Allami (oud). Performer Saro Kevorkian (drum kit). Performer Anwar Abo Daoud (joza). Performer Faisal Ghazi (percussion). Performer Omar Ahmed Majeed (percussion). Performer Suhad Najm Abdullah (qanun). Performer Nicola Barakat (electric bass). Performer Robert Michel (guitar). | |
| 9 Aug 10 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1043755114 |
London Sinfonietta - T01245244670A 20th-century view of multiple pianos, featuring up to eight hands in a programme including George Antheil's notorious Ballet mécanique, the 'wild party' of John Adams's Grand Pianola Music and a continuation of our Stravinsky ballets series. Approx. finish time: 22:00Performer Tatiana Monogarova (soprano). Performer Elena Manistina (mezzo soprano). Performer Vsevolod Grivnov (tenor). Performer Kostas Smoriginas (bass). Performer John Constable (piano). Performer Rolf Hind (piano). Performer Tom Poster (piano). Performer Ashley Wass (piano). Performer Llyr Williams (piano). Performer Philip Moore (piano). Performer Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano). Performer Colin Currie (percussion). Performer Sam Walton (percussion). Company BBC Singers. Company Synergy Vocals. Conductor Edward Gardner. | |
| 9 Aug 09 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L577280165 |
BBC Symphony Orchestra - T468493951Finish time approx. 21:30Music Sibelius (15 mins)). Music Michael Berkeley (6 mins)). Music Stuart MacRae (28 mins)). Music Elgar (30 mins)). Performer Susanna Andersson (soprano). Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Edward Gardner. | |
| 10 Aug 08 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0445833930 |
T0503936387Finish time approx. 21:10Conductor Gianandrea Noseda. Company BBC Philharmonic. Music Britten (Sinfonia da Requiem - Proms Firsts UK Premiere 1942). Music Mahler (compl. D.Cooke Symphony No 10 - Proms Firsts World Premiere 1964). | |
| 7 Aug 07 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1595170284 |
T0136349432Finish time approx. 21:45Conductor Robert King. Company Choir of the King's Consort. Company The King's Consort. Performer Carolyn Sampson (soprano). Performer Hilary Summers (mezzo-soprano). Performer James Gilchrist (tenor). Performer Peter Harvey (bass). Music M. Haydn (Requiem). Music Mozart (Symphony No 31 in D major K297 - Paris; Mass in C major K317 - Coronation). | |
| 7 Aug 06 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0460427133 |
T01975951233Company Boys of King's College Cambridge. Company BBC Symphony Chorus. Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Donald Runnicles. Performer Gweneth-Ann Jeffers (soprano). Performer Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano). Performer Johan Botha (tenor). Performer Mark Delavan (baritone). Music Berg (Three Pieces for Orchestra Op 6). Music Mahler (Das klagende Lied - original version). | |
| 7 Aug 05 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L898301750 |
T01567242374Finish time approx. 20:55Music Ravel (ouverture de feerie). Music Messiaen (Poemes pour Mi). Music Beethoven (Symphony No 7 in A major). Performer Susan Bullock (soprano). Company BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Ilan Volkov. | |
| 9 Aug 04 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01418681859 |
T0986128577This concert will be broadcast on BBC1Music Rameau (Hippolyte et Aricie - suite). Music Sibelius (Violin Concerto in D minor). Music Beethoven (Symphony No 7 in A major). Performer Viktoria Mullova (violin). Company Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen). Conductor Daniel Harding. | |
| 12 Aug 03 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L835219702 |
T9497710Company BBC Singers. Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Pierre Boulez. Music Varese (Integrales). Music Pierre Boulez (Le visage nuptial). Music Pierre Boulez (Le soleil des eaux). Music Stravinsky (Petrushka 1911 version). | |
| 14 Aug 02 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0767539391 |
An Evening of Klezmer and Gypsy Music - T01424785490Music Lakatos (David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness!). | |
| 14 Aug 01 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0686133375 |
T215282744Music Copland (Music for the Theater; Clarinet Concerto). Music Luke Foss (Time Cycle). Music Copland (Short Symphony). Performer Rosemary Hardy (soprano). Performer Michael Collins (clarinet). Company London Sinfonietta. Conductor Oliver Knussen. | |
| 8 Aug 00 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L272270963 |
T01396684061Music Strauss (Metamorphosen). Music Mozart (Flute Concerto in D major K314). Music Lowell Liebermann (Flute Concerto). Music Mozart (Symphony No 40 in G minor). Performer James Galway (flute). Company London Mozart Players. Conductor Matthias Bamert. | |
| 12 Aug 99 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L2028351089 |
T1347068772Music Haydn (Symphony No 70 in D major). Music Gluck (Overture 'Alceste'. 'Dieu qui me poursuive' from 'Iphigenie en Tauride'. 'Tu decide son sort' from 'Iphigenie en Aulide'). Music Beethoven (Symphony No 3 in E flat major 'Eroica'). Performer Thomas Allen (baritone). Conductor Heinrich Schiff. Company Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. | |
| 12 Aug 98 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01348252111 |
| 12 Aug 98 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L448679847 |
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