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Relaxed Prom - T1802302145Highlights from last night's Prom with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - plus pieces by Walton and Ukrainian composer Myroslav Skoryk - in a short, relaxed performance with British Sign Language interpretation and onstage presentation. BBC Proms relaxed performances (Proms 11 & 25) are designed to suit individuals or groups who feel more comfortable attending concerts in a relaxed environment. There is a relaxed attitude to noise and audience members are free to leave and re-enter the auditorium at any point. There will be chill-out areas, where spaces are made for anyone needing a bit of quiet time before or during the performance.Performer Felix Klieser (horn). Company Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Kirill Karabits. Performer Naomi Wilkinson (presenter). | |
| 3 Aug 23 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1478309312 |
Shostakovich's Last Symphony and a Concerto for Theremin - T1110205993John Storgards and the BBC Philharmonic conjure up shifting colours and evocative soundscapes in a programme rooted in geography and identity. Finnish composer Kalevi Aho's theremin concerto channels the instrument's mysterious, almost shamanistic quality in musical sketches of the eight annual seasons observed by Lapland's Sámi people, while Kaija Saariaho reflects broad Californian views in the bold sonic gestures of Vista. Surveying not a place but an entire life, Shostakovich's final symphony offers a dark, enigmatic conclusion to a career shaped by conflict, political oppression and loss.Performer Carolina Eyck (theremin). Company BBC Philharmonic. Conductor John Storgards. | |
| 4 Aug 22 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0976109624 |
Tchaikovsky, Sibelius & Weinberg - T0532931779Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Dalia Stasevska. | |
| 6 Aug 19 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1874684332 |
Tchaikovsky, Glinka & Joby Talbot - T0952037027Guitarist Milos Karadaglic is the soloist in a new concerto written especially for him by Joby Talbot. Taking inspiration from Karadaglic's Montenegrin heritage, Talbot's typically rhythmic piece incorporates Balkan dances into its propulsive flow. Dance also runs through both Glinka's heat-soaked Summer Night in Madrid, accompanied by pulsing castanets, and the expansive waltzes of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker, whose complete Act 1 is here performed for the first time at the Proms.Performer Milos Karadaglic (guitar). Company Finchley Childrens Music Group. Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Alexander Vedernikov. | |
| 2 Aug 18 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1396780108 |
Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir - T02025286000Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. Bach's austere and beautiful Lutheran cantatas stand in contrast to the lively rhythms and rich textures of Schutz's music.Company Monteverdi Choir. Company English Baroque Soloists. Conductor John Eliot Gardiner (Sir). | |
| 2 Aug 17 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L797098283 |
Dvorak's Cello Concerto and Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle - T0763526800The gothic horror story of Duke Bluebeard prompted some of the most imaginative, descriptive and shocking music Bartok would write. With its huge orchestra, underpinned in this concert performance by the mighty Royal Albert Hall organ, Bartok's score speaks of the darkness of Bluebeard's vast castle and the cold-blooded murder of his six wives. Under Principal Conductor Charles Dutoit, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conjures up Bartok's unsettling realm after Dvorak's Cello Concerto, which the composer believed 'outstrips the other two concertos of mine'.Performer Alban Gerhardt (cello). Performer Ildiko Komlosi (Judith). Performer John Relyea (Duke Bluebeard). Company Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Charles Dutoit. | |
| 3 Aug 16 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L02004483189 |
Orfeo - T0752004679Monteverdi's Orfeo is the first great opera - the moment when psychological truth and musical virtuosity came together to tell a story of love, loss and the power of art. Sir John Eliot Gardiner - making the first of two appearances this year, tonight with the English Baroque Soloists - transforms the Royal Albert Hall into the 17th-century Mantuan court of the Gonzagas with some of Monteverdi's loveliest melodies and most colourful instrumental writing, bringing the tale of Orpheus and his beloved Eurydice to fresh musical life. Finish time approx 22:00Performer Krystian Adam (tenor). Performer Francesca Aspromonte (soprano). Performer Francesca Boncompagni (soprano). Performer Gianluca Buratto (bass). Performer Mariana Flores (soprano). Performer Silvia Frigato (soprano). Performer Nicholas Mulroy (tenor). Performer David Shipley (bass). Performer Andrew Tortise (tenor). Performer Gareth Treseder (tenor). Company Monteverdi Choir. Company English Baroque Soloists. Conductor John Eliot Gardiner. | |
| 4 Aug 15 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01909546088 |
The Tallis Scholars sing Tavener - T979586626Spiritual in a secular age, combining silence and sound, simplicity and radiance, John Tavener captured the public imagination like few other composers. The other-worldly atmosphere of a Late Night Prom frames a musical meditation by the English composer, who would have celebrated his 70th birthday this year, as we approach the exact anniversary of Britain's declaration of the First World War 100 years ago, at 11.00pm. The Tallis Scholars and conductor Peter Phillips are joined by the Heath Quartet to perform two works written especially for them, including the heartbreakingly prescient Requiem Fragments, composed shortly before Tavener's death. Finish time approx. 22:30Performer Carolyn Sampson (soprano). Company Heath Quartet. Company Tallis Scholars. Conductor Peter Phillips. | |
| 4 Aug 14 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1429473509 |
Zappa - The Adventures of Greggery Peccary - T981791778Trend-mongers, philosophers and hunchmen. A car-chase, a love-in and a replica mahogany desk. A coughing mountain, a choir of stenographers and an exceptional swine-pig called Greggery. Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra give the first Proms performance of Frank Zappa's high-energy counter-culture satire The Adventures of Greggery Peccary. An arrangement of a zany Nancarrow study and the UK premiere of Philip Glass's 10th Symphony complete a far-out late-night happening from one of Britain's most vivacious young orchestras. There will be no interval. Finish time: approx. 23:30Company Aurora Orchestra. Conductor Nicholas Collon. | |
| 31 Jul 13 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01580281275 |
Ives, Barber, Zimmermann & Tippett - T0574454414BBC SO Principal Guest Conductor David Robertson begins with two iconic American pieces before turning to works in which the emotive force of the African American spiritual is harnessed by composers of the old world. In A Child of Our Time Tippett drew in five spirituals to reaffirm the indispensable human values of compassion and brotherhood. Star trumpeter H?kan Hardenberger returns and an impressive array of international singing talent features alongside tonight's newly formed youthful chorus. Finish time approx. 22:00Performer Sally Matthews (soprano). Performer Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet). Performer Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano). Performer Paul Groves (tenor). Performer Julilant Sykes (bass-baritone). Company BBC Proms Youth Choir. Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor David Robertson. | |
| 1 Aug 12 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01788720427 |
Grainger - T1757252868Grainger is celebrated in a special Late Night sequence as star Northumbrian smallpiper Kathryn Tickell and friends take a fresh look at the prodigious activities of this wild colonial boy. A pioneering collector of folk music from around the globe and arguably the world's first crossover artist, Grainger explored new worlds and invented new sounds, by turns touching, funny and provocative. Special guests, including the distinguished English folk singer June Tabor, place his achievement in its folk-music context. There will be no interval. Finish time: approx. 23.30Performer June Tabor (singer). Group/Band Wilson Family. Company BBC Singers (men's voices). Company Kathryn Tickell Band. Company Northern Sinfonia. Conductor John Harle. | |
| 2 Aug 11 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L179039727 |
London Sinfonietta - T1848655941The London Sinfonietta's Late Night Prom reunites the orchestra with its founder-conductor David Atherton. The two Stravinsky works were premiered in Venice during the 1950s and share the haunting, distilled musical language that the ever-evolving composer adopted in later years. Threni, receiving its first Proms performance, sets the Lamentations of Jeremiah in a quirky and intensely spiritual style, while Stravinsky's recasting of Bach's variations on the Christmas hymn 'Vom Himmel hoch' embellishes them in ever-changing instrumental colours. The original variations for organ open the programme. Finish time: approx. 23:10Conductor David Atherton. Company BBC Singers. Company London Sinfonietta. Performer Alizabeth Atherton (soprnao). Performer Hilary Summers (mezzo-soprano). Performer Alan Oke (tenor). Performer Andrew Kennedy (tenor). Performer David Wilson-Johnson (baritone). Performer John Tomlinson (Sir - bass). Performer Daniel Hyde (organ). | |
| 4 Aug 10 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L775017142 |
BBC National Orchestra of Wales - T0372651078The hero of the 'Eroica' was at first Napoleon but ultimately became Beethoven himself, triumphing over the adversity of his deafness. Berlioz's extraordinary Symphonie also contains a funeral march and an apotheosis but, unlike the 'Eroica', it was designed to accompany a real funeral cortège for the heroes of the 1830 July Revolution; the 'funeral oration' itself was delivered as a sonorous trombone solo salvaged from Berlioz's abandoned opera Les francs-juges. The title of Michael Jarrell's new piece refers to a wake of a different kind - the trace a ship leaves in the water; it was written with tonight's three soloists in mind, and is conducted by the Swiss composer's compatriot: Thierry Fischer. Approx. finish time: 22:05Performer Emmanual Pahud (flute). Performer Francois Leleux (oboe). Performer paul Meyer (clarinet). Conductor Thierry Fischer. | |
| 3 Aug 09 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L051273923 |
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra - T0273700895Approx. finish time 21:15Music Wagenaar (Overture - Cyrano de Bergerac). Music Dvorak (Symphony No 6 in D major). Music Brahms (Violin Concerto in D major). Performer Julia Fischer (violin). Company Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Yakov Kreizberg. | |
| 5 Aug 08 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L232002400 |
T1696528405Finish time approx. 23:20Conductor Susanna Malkki. Company BBC Singers. Company London Sinfonietta. Music Pierre Boulez (Derive 2 - UK Premiere of Revised Version). Music Harrison Birtwistle (Sir - Neruda Madrigales - BBC co-commission: London Premiere). | |
| 31 Jul 07 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1057806564 |
T01775357477Conductor Oliver Knussen. Company London Sinfonietta. Performer Mary King (mezzo-soprano). Performer Christopher Gillett (tenor). Music Hans Werner Henze (Voices). | |
| 1 Aug 06 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0832115838 |
T1392527860Company Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Conductor Nicholas McGegan. Performer John Mark Ainsley (tenor). Music Rameau (Les Paladins - suite). Music Handel (Semele - 'Where'er you walk' ; Jephtha - 'Waft her angels'; 'His mighty arm'). Music Rameau (Dardanus - Chaconne; Prelude and Air 'Lieux funestres'; Recitative and Ariette 'Ou' Suis-je?... Hatons-nous; courons a la gloire). Music Handel (Water Music - Suite in F major). | |
| 2 Aug 05 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01451285345 |
T02046784718Finsih time approx. 21:15Music Szymanowski (Concert Overture in E major Op 12). Music Britten (Violin Concerto). Music Ravel (Tzigane). Music Dvorak (Symphony No 6 in D major). Performer Maxim Vengerov (violin). Company BBC Philharmonic. Conductor Vassily Sinaisky. | |
| 3 Aug 04 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L702267285 |
T598046231Music Coles (Overture - A Comedy of Errors). Music Sally Beamish (Trumpet Concerto - London premiere). Music Elgar (Symphony No 2 in E flat major). Performer Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet). Company National Youth Orchestra of Scotland. Conductor Martyn Brabbins. | |
| 6 Aug 03 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01534672338 |
T080229993Company BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Ion Marin. Performer Lars Anders Tomter (viola). Music Strauss (Don Juan). Music Walton (Viola Concerto). Music Shostakovich (Symphony No 5 in D minor). | |
| 7 Aug 02 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L232657838 |
T0603438106Music Dukas (The Sorcerer's Apprentice). Music Tchaikovsky (Violin Concerto in D major). Music Lyadov (The Enchanted Lake). Music Musorgsky (orch Ravel - Pictures at an Exhibition). Performer Vadim Repin (violin). Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Evgeny Svetlanov. | |
| 7 Aug 01 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L144990105 |
T034481010417:30 Pre-Prom Talk [James Dillon]Music Elgar (Falstaff). Music James Dillon (Violin Concerto - BBC commission: world premiere). Music Brahms (Symphony No 2 in D major). Performer Thomas Zehetmair (violin). Company BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Martyn Brabbins. | |
| 3 Aug 00 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L02129299709 |
T0236429607Music Mahler (Symphony No 10 - Adagio). Music Berg (Violin Concerto). Music Beethoven (Symphony No 7 in A major). Performer Kyung-Wha Chung (violin). Company Halle Orchestra. Conductor Kent Nagano. | |
| 5 Aug 99 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L443453058 |
T1209555380Music Walton (Henry V - suite). Music Robert Simpson (Piano Concerto). Music Foulds (Three Mantras). Music Elgar (Enigma Variations). Performer Piers Lane (piano). Conductor Barry Wordsworth. Company BBC Concert Orchestra. | |
| 6 Aug 98 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0802664397 |
| 6 Aug 98 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0788364701 |
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