Elgar, Chopin and Strauss - T1993534160International Chopin Piano Competition-winner Seong-Jin Cho is one of the world's most exciting young pianists, praised for his ‘remarkable technique' and the elegance of his interpretations. Who better to perform Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 - a heady combination of brilliance and poetry, its slow movement a vision of ‘a beloved landscape on a moonlit spring night'. Could that landscape perhaps be Italian? Italy's warmth and summer sunshine suffuse both Elgar's bucolic In the South overture and Strauss's tone-poem Aus Italien, each inspired by a visit to the country.Performer Seong-Jin Cho (piano). Company Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali. | |
| 16 Aug 23 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1651854955 |
Sibelius, Beethoven and Nielsen - T863979653'Music is like life and, like life, inextinguishable,' wrote Carl Nielsen. It's this broad philosophy that underpins his ambitious Symphony No. 4 - a work that hurls us from conflict to magnificent resolution. In the second of their two concerts together, Thomas Dausgaard and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra continue to explore Denmark's great symphonist, here set alongside his Finnish contemporary Sibelius, whose remarkable Symphony No. 7 unfolds in a single movement - a unified, and ultimately triumphant, musical vision. Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Francesco Piemontesi is the soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 - acting as Orpheus taming the orchestral Furies in the evocative central movement.Performer Francesco Piemontesi (piano). Company BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Thomas Dausgaard. | |
| 18 Aug 22 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1178050836 |
Youthful Beginnings - T1492867201Director Rafael Payare present the Proms premiere of Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto, performed here by BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Mariam Batsashvili. Begun when the then Clara Wieck was just 13 years old, it's a work whose mellow mood and lyrical melodies conceal no little technical intricacy and formal innovation. Sunny good humour also runs through both Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 Performer Mariam Batsashvili (piano). Company Ulster Orchestra. Conductor Rafael Payare. | |
| 18 Aug 19 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0893089152 |
Grieg's Piano Concerto - T805408263A concert with a Nordic flavour from Paavo Jarvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra (making its Proms debut) pairs music by Grieg and Sibelius with Estonia's own national composer, Arvo Part. Celebrated Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili - a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist - performs one of the great Romantic piano concertos. Beloved for its generous melodies and dramatic gestures, Grieg's concerto is matched for sonic drama by Sibelius's stirring Fifth Symphony. Arvo Part's eclectic Third Symphony, with its echoes of Renaissance polyphony and Orthodox chant, opens the concert.Performer Khatia Buniatishvili (piano). Company Estonian Festival Orchestra. Conductor Paavo Jarvi. | |
| 13 Aug 18 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0665542690 |
Les Siecles and Francois-Xavier Roth - T1170283431Fran?ois Xavier-Roth and Les Siecles present a programme inspired by the East, from the fragrant Indian gardens of Delibes's Lakme to the sensual charge of a Bacchanal. C?dric Tiberghien is the soloist for Saint-Saens's 'Egyptian' Piano Concerto.Performer Cedric Tiberghien (piano). Company Les Siecles. Conductor Francois-Xavier Roth. | |
| 16 Aug 17 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0909670402 |
The Sixteen sing Bach and Part - T0888818336In this Late Night Prom Harry Christophers and his vocal group The Sixteen present a selection of J. S. Bach's rigorous yet deeply spiritual motets written in Leipzig in the 1720s, placing them against the resounding purity of sacred choral works by contemporary Estonian composer Arvo P?rt, including his Nunc dimittis, a cautious but luminous vision of eternity. An enlightening juxtaposition from one of the world's leading ensembles.Company The Sixteen. Conductor Harry Christophers. | |
| 16 Aug 16 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L310242619 |
Sibelius - Symphonies Nos. 3&4 - T1416507837The Proms' Sibelius symphony cycle continues with the concise, intricately wrought Third and the darker Fourth - once described by conductor Herbert Blomstedt as 'an essay in trying to be happy which fails - on purpose'. These are paired with the composer's popular Violin Concerto with Lithuanian soloist Julian Rachlin. Conductor Ilan Volkov is a passionate champion of contemporary music and here premieres a new Sibelius-inspired work by Michael Finnissy - a composer whose music, though fascinatingly complex, finds real connection with politics, society and culture. Finish time approx. 22:15Performer Julian Rachlin (violin). Company BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Ilan Volkov. | |
| 16 Aug 15 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1356360236 |
Lest We Forget - T01884391103Butterworth's A Shropshire Lad reflects a world on the brink of collapse while Vaughan Williams's Pastoral Symphony is a vision of war-ravaged France. Like Butterworth, both Rudi Stephan and Frederick Kelly were killed in the First World War; the latter's exquisite Elegy for strings was performed at his own memorial concert. Stephan's Music for Orchestra (1912) finds a desperate intensity in its Expressionist colours.Performer Allan Clayton (tenor). Performer Roderick Williams (baritone). Company BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Andrew Manze. | |
| 17 Aug 14 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L823879232 |
Janacek, Beethoven & Tchaikovsky - T1366833948This summer's Tchaikovsky symphony cycle continues as Kirill Karabits conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in the dance-infused Third Symphony, written in the summer of 1875 and dubbed the 'Polish' following its 1899 London premiere in the Crystal Palace. Leeds International Piano Competition-winner Sunwook Kim makes his Proms debut in Beethoven's dramatic Piano Concerto No. 3 in a concert that begins with the dazzling brass fanfares and bustling street-life of Brno as translated into music in Janacek's 1926 Sinfonietta. Finish time: 21:25Performer Sunwook Kim (piano). Company Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Kirill Karabits. | |
| 14 Aug 13 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L2035579751 |
Prokofiev, Neuwirth & Bartok - T0784322600Susanna Malkki returns to the Proms with two genre-defining 20th-century favourites. Revisiting the doomed love of Verona's most romantic couple, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet effectively revivified the evening-length ballet, just as Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra cemented the potential of an apparently contradictory title. Between these classics, Lawrence Power joins the Philharmonia Orchestra to tackle the fiendishly difficult solo part in Olga Neuwirth's recent work for viola and orchestra, comprising five breathtaking, seething, allusion-rich movements. Finish time approx. 21:35Performer Lawrence Power (viola). Company Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor Susanna Malkki. | |
| 13 Aug 12 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0372075373 |
Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake - T01838550213Valery Gergiev has often come to the Proms with music from his native land and in 2008 it was the turn of The Sleeping Beauty. This year the maestro brings his Russian-based ensemble with another of Tchaikovsky's three great ballet scores: Swan Lake, whose lyricism and full-blown drama featured in the recent Oscar-winning Black Swan. The plot concerns a Prince who is expected to choose a bride from among the guests at a forthcoming ball. Instead he falls in love with Odette, the Swan Queen, whose swan subjects revert to human form between midnight and dawn. Early spectators were puzzled by the symphonic proportions and sheer depth of feeling Tchaikovsky brings to the tale, qualities brought into fuller focus when all of this glorious score is heard. There will be one interval. Finish time: approx. 22:05Company Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre. Performer Valery Gergiev. | |
| 15 Aug 11 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01268453790 |
BBC Symphony Orchestra - T01025677875Having conducted Britten's Peter Grimes last year as Music Director of English National Opera, Edward Gardner joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra for the four evocative Sea Interludes from the opera. The heartrending strings and tolling bell of the Cantus by Arvo Pärt (75 this year) forms a hypnotic tribute to Britten; and the programme ends with the Fifth Symphony by one of Britten's great friends - a work which brought Shostakovich back into favour with Soviet authorities. Former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Alina Ibragimova performs the new concerto by Huw Watkins, who, as a pianist, often appears with her in recital. Finish time: approx. 21:15Conductor Edward Gardner. Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Performer Alina Ibragimova (violin). | |
| 17 Aug 10 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1467910268 |
Indian Voices Day - Bollywood - T1719995256Following the afternoon of free music-making and dance at Indian Voices in the Park, Kensington Gardens, our Proms Indian Voices celebration culminates in an all-singing, all-dancing Bollywood extravaganza fronted by the popular Indian TV talent show host and award-winning singer Shaan and his band, plus the Bollywood moves of Honey's Dance Academy. There will be one interval. Approx finish time: 22:00. Live on BBC Radio 3.Performer Shaan (vocalist). Performer The Groove. Company Honey's Dance Academy. | |
| 16 Aug 09 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0934362445 |
Jennifer Bate - T946140681Finish time approx. 17:15Music Messiaen (10 mins)). Music Messiaen (57 mins)). Performer Jennifer Bate (organ). | |
| 17 Aug 08 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0762619096 |
T522893467Finish time approx. 21:50Conductor Osmo Vanska. Performer Helena Juntunen (soprano). Performer Lilli Paasikivi (mezzo soprano). Performer Juha Hostikka (tenor). Performer Petri Lehto (tenor). Performer Ville Rusanen (baritone). Company Dominante. Company Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Music Sibelius (The Tempest - complete incidental music - sung in Finnish). Music Sibelius (Songs with Orchestra / Symphony No 7 in C major). | |
| 15 Aug 07 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0159218366 |
T01959989182Finish time approx. 21:20Conductor Sakari Oramo. Company Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Performer Soile Isokoski (soprano). Music Sibelius (The Oceanides). Music R. Strauss (Four Last Songs). Music Bartok (Concerto for Orchestra). | |
| 14 Aug 06 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1014723301 |
T1843172586Company Orchestra and Chorus of Welsh National Opera. Conductor Vassily Sinaisky. Performer Nuccia Focile (Iolanta). Performer Elizabeth Donovan (Brigitta). Performer Camilla Roberts (Laura). Performer Clare Shearer (Martha). Performer Peter Hoare (Vaudemont). Performer Ilya Bannik (King Rene). Performer Vladimir Moroz (Robert). Performer Pavel Baransky (Ebn-Hakir). Performer David Soar (Bertrand). Performer Ian Yemm (Almeric). Music Tchaikovsky (The Nutcracker - excerpts). Music Tchaikovsky (Iolanta - concert performance sung in Russian). | |
| 15 Aug 05 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1520368429 |
T1421913194Plus mezzo-soprano and tenor soloists of the Kirov Opera. This concert will be broadcast on BBC1. Finish time approx. 21:30Music Mosorgsky (Night on Bare Mountain). Music Rimsky-Korsakov (Mlada - Act 3). Music Stravinsky (The Rite of Spring). Company Apollo Voices. Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Valery Gergiev. | |
| 16 Aug 04 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01999789907 |
T01965450269Music Beethoven (Overture 'The Consecration of the House'). Music Berlioz (La mort de Cleopatre). Music Prokofiev (Symphonic Song; Scythian Suite). Performer Olga Borodina (mezzo soprano). Company Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Valery Gergiev. | |
| 20 Aug 03 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01867576662 |
John Williams and Friends - Impressions of Africa - T1701059269And music by [Francis Bebey]Performer John Williams (guitar). Performer John Etheridge (acoustic steel-strung guitar). Performer Richard harvey (flutes / whistles). Performer Chris Laurence (double bass). Performer Paul Clarvis (hand-drums and percussion). Music Trad. (Mazava - Madagascar). Music John Williams (Musha musiki - Zimbabwe). Music Djessou Mory Kante (Djandjon - Mali). Music John Williams (Malinke guitars - Senegal). Music Trad. (Cuban danzon). | |
| 20 Aug 02 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01219795884 |
T0786784507Music Copland (El salon Mexico). Music Barber (Adagio for Strings). Music Bernstein (Symphony No 1 'Jeremiah'). Music Rakhmaninov (Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini). Music Stravinsky (Symphony in Three Movements). Performer Susan Bickley (mezzo soprano). Performer Stephen Hough (piano). Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Leonard Slatkin. | |
| 21 Aug 01 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0278339180 |
T1362118004Music Mozart (Piano Concerto No 22 in E flat major K482). Music Mahler (Symphony No 9). Performer Emanuel Ax (piano). Company BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Andrew Davis. | |
| 15 Aug 00 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1977335327 |
T131861725Music Wagner (Good Friday Music from Parsifal). Music Mozart (Clarinet Concerto in A major). Music Bruckner (Symphony No 9 in D minor). Performer Charles Neidich (clarinet). Company Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Daniele Gatti. | |
| 19 Aug 99 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L315555070 |
T864747624Music Vaughan Williams (Overture 'The Wasps'). Music Simon Bainbridge (Ad ora incerta). Music Walton (Symphony No 1 in B flat minor). Performer Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano). Performer Kim Walker (bassoon). Conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Company BBC Philharmonic. | |
| 20 Aug 98 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L2093220065 |
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