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Mozart's 'Requiem' - T1063921451Raphael Pichon and his exciting ensemble Pygmalion present an alternative vision of Mozart's Requiem, famously left incomplete at the composer's death. Tonight's reimagining swells the popular completion by Mozart's pupil Süssmayr with additional pieces to create a compelling alternative sequence.Performer Erin Morley (soprano). Performer Beth Taylor (mezzo-soprano). Performer Laurence Kilsby (tenor). Performer Alex Rosen (bass). Conductor Raphael Pichon. | |
| 7 Sep 23 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1203034130 |
Beethoven's Missa Solemnis - T192694670Finding terror alongside spiritual awe, raising questions and doubts as well as proclaiming faith, Beethoven's Missa solemnis is a work of visceral power - a public statement of intensely private belief.'From the heart - may it return to the heart!; the composer wrote at the top of a score that stretched the proportions and ambitions of the orchestral Mass to new limits. Sir John Eliot Gardiner - whose two benchmark recordings trace an ever-evolving relationship with the piece over many decades - conducts his period-instrument Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and the Monteverdi Choir.Performer Lucy Crowe (soprano). Performer Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano). Performer Giovanni Sala (tenor). Performer William Thomas (bass). Company Monteverdi Choir. Company Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor John Eliot Gardiner (Sir). | |
| 7 Sep 22 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01525453599 |
Smetana, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky - T1914463304The dancing rhythms and swirling colours of Smetana's opera The Bartered Bride launch a concert of big musical gestures and even bigger emotions. First love blazes hot in the Letter Scene from Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin, as Tatyana (sung here by soprano Elena Stikhina) pours out her heart in music as romantic as anything the composer ever wrote. War, not love, drives the pulsing heartbeat of Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony - the most personal and direct of the composer's many attempts 'to express the terrible tragedy of war'.Performer Elena Stikhina (soprano). Company Czech Philharmonic. Conductor Semyon Bychkov. | |
| 10 Sep 19 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0451194685 |
Boston Symphony Orchestra Bernstein and Shostakovich - T0634961415This second concert by Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra sets Bernstein's intensely lyrical Serenade (after Plato's ?Symposium') for solo violin and orchestra - a work composed for Isaac Stern and performed here by the prize-winning Latvian violinist Baiba Skride - alongside Shostakovich's uncompromising Fourth Symphony. This dazzling musical manifesto of the composer's modernist beliefs was withdrawn under duress before its scheduled 1936 premiere and wasn't heard publicly until 25 years later.Performer Baiba Skride (violin). Company Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Andris Nelsons. | |
| 3 Sep 18 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1900854488 |
Anne-Sophie Mutter plays Dvorak's Violin Concerto - T0873526783The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck perform Mahler's First Symphony, a work charged with all the narrative energy of a tone-poem, and John Adams's joyous Lollapalooza. Anne-Sophie Mutter is the soloist in Dvorajk's Violin Concerto.Performer Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin). Company Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Manfred Honeck. | |
| 4 Sep 17 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L2005627392 |
Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim - Mozart and Bruckner - T01704532552Daniel Barenboim and his Staatskapelle Berlin open three consecutive evenings in which a Mozart piano concerto is paired with a Bruckner symphony. ?We shall never be able to do anything like that,' proclaimed Beethoven when he heard Mozart's dramatic, minor-key Piano Concerto No. 24. As with Mozart in his concertos, with each of Bruckner's symphonies came a keener focus of vision and honing of craft. With the Fourth, Bruckner really came of age, bringing a newfound confidence in the glowing first movement, while its statuesque Andante is a moving premonition of loss.Conductor Daniel Barenboim (piano / director). | |
| 5 Sep 16 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1765846515 |
Orff - Carmina burana - T1561593532This year's free Prom is an ideal opportunity to introduce family and friends to classical music. Carmina burana is as musically inventive as it is irreverent - a choral cantata based on a medieval text charting the joys, fickleness and excesses of human life. The BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer-in-Association Guy Barker provides a new concerto for trumpet virtuoso Alison Balsom and the orchestra's own Charles Mutter is the soloist in Saint-Sa?ns's devilish Danse macabre. Finish time approx. 22:00Performer Charles Mutter (violin). Performer Alison Balsom (trumpet). Performer Olena Tokar (soprano). Performer Thomas Walker (tenor). Performer Benjamin Appl (baritone). Company Southend Boys' Choir. Company Southend Girls' Choir. Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Company BBC Symphony Chorus. Company London Philharmonic Choir. Conductor Keith Lockhart. | |
| 6 Sep 15 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0146187897 |
Cleveland Orchestra - T0105631690Completing this year's cycle of Brahms symphonies, the Cleveland Orchestra returns to perform the sunny Second. The composer was in unusually high spirits while composing it, joking with his publisher, 'I have never written anything so sad'. The result, in fact, sets aside Brahms's habitual seriousness and dramatic tensions in an open-hearted score of great warmth and appeal. By contrast, Brahms's Tragic Overture lives up to its name with turbulent intensity, and the concert is completed by Jorg Widmann's Teufel Amor - a musical account of the contradictions, tensions and resolutions of love, inspired by Schiller's lost poem. Finish time approx. 21:10Conductor Franz Welser-Most. Company Cleveland Orchestra. | |
| 8 Sep 14 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L217808681 |
Beethoven & Bruckner - T1021074629In their second Proms appearance this summer Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic explore the Romantic landscape and Schubertian echoes of Bruckner's Fourth Symphony. Repeatedly revised by the composer during his lifetime, the symphony opens with a radiant sunrise. Last heard playing Brahms with the Signum Quartet (PCM 7), Christian Ihle Hadland joins Petrenko and the orchestra for Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto, built on the Mozartian model but already pointing to the bold gestures of the composer's maturity. Finish time: approx. 21:20Performer Christian Ihle Hadland (piano). Company Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Vasily Petrenko. | |
| 3 Sep 13 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0490738092 |
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra - Messiaen & Mahler - T507450069Under its current chief, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra has been recovering its lost Mahler tradition. Their second collaboration this year includes 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. Our curtainraiser is an imposing and vibrant memorial to the dead of two world wars, a compositional trailblazer in its own right. Finish time approx. 22:00Company Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor Riccado Chailly. | |
| 2 Sep 12 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01534404956 |
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & Anne-Sophie Mutter - T688400602For the second of their two concerts, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra preface Mahler's turbulent and heart-wrenching Fifth Symphony with lyrical music by one of the most distinguished and prolific of contemporary German composers. It has been 35 years since Anne-Sophie Mutter's breakthrough debut at the age of 13. Her willingness to champion the music of our own time has been one of the defining qualities of a violinist renowned for her flawless technique and impassioned playing style. Finish time: approx. 21:50Performer Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin). Company Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Manfred Honeck. | |
| 6 Sep 11 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1682162909 |
Royal Scottish National Orchestra - T1341830897The Royal Scottish National Orchestra and its French-born Music Director, Stéphane Denève, join Paul Lewis as he rounds off his cycle of the five Beethoven piano concertos with the last and most proudly majestic of them all. Taking up this afternoon's Italian theme, they play spectacular orchestral showpieces by Berlioz and Respighi, inspired respectively by Rome's lively street life and its imperial past; while, cementing Celtic connections, they introduce a recent symphonic suite drawn from the Scottish composer James MacMillan's opera The Sacrifice, inspired by the medieval folk tales of The Mabinogion and premiered to great acclaim by Welsh National Opera in 2007. Finish time: approx. 21:10 with intervalConductor Stephane Deneve. Performer Paul Lewis (piano). Company Royal Scottish National Orchestra. | |
| 6 Sep 10 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L810637488 |
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra - T01058139827Continuing our bicentenary focus on Mendelssohn, Riccardo Chailly conducts the orchestra of which the composer himself was music director for the last 12 years of his life, in the concerto that he had completed in just three days, at the age of 22, in 1831. As soloist, we welcome back Saleem Abboud Ashkar, who made his Proms debut in 2003, playing Mozart's Concerto for three pianos with Shai Wosner (Prom 55), alongside Daniel Barenboim (Proms 48, 49 and 50). Begun in the shadows of a failing marriage and failing health, Mahler's Tenth Symphony was left unfinished at his death but triumphantly premiered at the 1964 Proms in a 'performing version' prepared by the English musicologist Deryck Cooke in collaboration with the late Berthold Goldschmidt, and later revised with the help of the composer-brothers Colin and David Matthews. Approx finish time: 21:45. Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3. There will be an intervalPerformer Saleem Abboud Ashkar (piano). Company Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor Riccardo Chailly. | |
| 7 Sep 09 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0857959940 |
Royal Scottish National Orchestra - T0286415951Finish time approx. 21:45Music Roussel (20 mins)). Music Rachmaninov (35 mins)). Music Thea Musgrave (12 mins)). Music Debussy (24 mins)). Performer Stephen Hough (piano). Company Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor Stephane Deneve. | |
| 6 Sep 08 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1571991664 |
T967109841Finish time approx.21:45Conductor Riccardo Chailly. Performer Sergey Khachatryan (violin). Company Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Music Beethoven (Overture 'Coriolan' / Violin Concerto in D major). Music Brahms (Symphony No 4 in E minor). | |
| 5 Sep 07 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1543565840 |
T2033384139Finish time approx. 21:00. Broadcast on BBC FourConductor Tadaaki Otaka. Company BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Performer Han-Na Chang (cello). Music Shostakovich (Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat major). Music Rakhmaninov (Symphony No 2 in E minor). | |
| 5 Sep 06 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L544726578 |
T0567076404Company Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor Thomas Ades. Performer Anthony Marwood (violin). Music Beethoven (Overture - Namensfeier). Music Stravinsky (Pulcinella - suite). Music Thomas Ades (Violin Concerto - UK premiere). Music Beethoven (Symphony No 4 in B flat major). | |
| 6 Sep 05 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0271502633 |
T01895368749This concert will be broadcast on BBC4. Finish time approx. 21:35Music Kaija Saariaho (Orion - UK premiere). Music Bartok (Duke Bluebeard's Castle). Performer Ildiko Komlosi (mezzo-soprano). Performer Laszlo Polgar (bass). Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste. | |
| 7 Sep 04 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01224623014 |
T0124284551Music Prokofiev (The Stone Flower - excerpts). Music Beethoven (Piano Concerto No 4 in G major). Music Mahler (Symphony No 4 in G major). Performer Christian Blackshaw (piano). Performer Rebecca Evans (soprano). Company BBC Philharmonic. Conductor Gianandrea Noseda. | |
| 10 Sep 03 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01135379880 |
T407402768Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Leonard Slatkin. Performer Andre Watts (piano). Music Rakhmaninov (Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor). Music Shostakovich (Symphony No 8). | |
| 10 Sep 02 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01792131669 |
Percussion Old and New - T1498097618Music by [Xenakis] and traditional African drumming.Music Gyorgy Ligeti (Sippal Dobbal Nadihegeduvel). Performer Katalin Karolyi (mezzo soprano). Company 4-mality. | |
| 11 Sep 01 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L2511541 |
T109289402Music Stravinsky (Symphony of Psalms). Music Beethoven (Symphony No 9 in D minor - Choral). Performer Marina Mescheriakova (soprano). Performer Birgitta Svenden (mezzo-soprano). Performer Kim Begley (tenor). Performer John Tomlinson (bass). Company BBC Symphony Chorus. Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Bernard Haitink. | |
| 6 Sep 00 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1936409405 |
T0444905252Music Giles Swayne (Havoc - BBC commission World Premiere). Performer Robin Blaze (counter-tenor). Performer Philippa Davies (flute). Performer Frances Kelly (baroque harp). Performer David Miller (theorbo). Company BBC Singers. Company Endymion Ensemble. Conductor Stephen Cleobury. | |
| 8 Sep 99 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1938605694 |
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