Berlioz's 'The Trojans' - Concert Performance - T02114897058Few musical spectacles are bigger or more overwhelming than Berlioz's The Trojans - the five-act grand opera, retelling the story of the fall of Troy and the doomed love of Dido and Aeneas, that the composer saw as the pinnacle of his career. By turns monumental and heartbreakingly intimate - a cinematic epic before its time - the vast score reshapes Virgil's Aeneid with unprecedented dramatic scope and intensity. Sir John Eliot Gardiner brings a lifetime's love of Berlioz to the music, with the help of an outstanding cast that includes British soprano Alice Coote and American tenor Michael Spyres. Sung in French with English surtitlesPerformer Alice Coote (Cassandra). Performer Michael Spyres (Aeneas). Performer Paula Murrihy (Dido). Performer Lionel Lhote (Coroebus). Performer Adele Charvet (Ascanius). Performer William Thomas (Narbal). Performer Ashley Riches (Panthus). Performer Beth Taylor (Anna). Company Monteverdi Choir. Company Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor John Eliot Gardiner (Sir). | |
3 Sep 23 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L085682191 |
Sir Andras Schiff Performs Beethoven Piano Sonatas - T01303703861Continuing his sequence of Proms solo recitals, legendary pianist Sir András Schiff returns with Beethoven's final three sonatas. Written in 1820-22 alongside the Missa solemnis (see Prom 69) and the first sketches of the Ninth Symphony (see Prom 61), this trilogy of late works represents the composer's last and most profound thoughts in a medium often seen as his most intimate and revealing: a ‘vivid, detailed self-portrait', as Joseph Horowitz once described them. The lyrical, contained No. 30 contrasts with its more expansive successor - a hymn to hope in the face of despair - while No. 32 presents an Olympian conclusion to a monumental sequence of sonatas spanning a lifetime.Performer Andras Schiff (piano). | |
4 Sep 22 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L602980914 |
The Breaks: Soul Mavericks featuring Terra & Eddie, Sunni and Lagaet - T0656689972A non-stop exploration into 'the breaks' - the beat-driven music that has influenced the world of scratch DJs and b-boying/b-girling (i.e. breakdancing) since the 1970s. One of the four pillars of hip-hop culture - along with MC-ing, DJ-ing and graffiti art - breaking has developed from its original roots tobecome a global phenomenon with a virtuosity all of its own.Performer Mr Switch. Performer Alice Russell (vocals). Performer Vula Malinga (vocals). Performer Brendan Reilly (vocals). Company Heritage Orchestra. Conductor Jules Buckley. | |
6 Sep 19 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1717574103 |
Verdi Requiem - T57860331Rising conductor Andres Orozco-Estrada continues this season's sequence of Requiems with Verdi's mighty concert-hall setting - an 'opera in church vestments'. Embracing the full gamut of human emotion, from the most tender and fragile of hopes to the visceral terror of the Day of Judgement, it's a work that transforms private grief into an astonishing public statement. An international team of soloists includes the exciting young Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen and renowned Scottish mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill. There will be no intervalPerformer Lise Davidsen (soprano). Performer Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano). Performer Dmytro Popov (tenor). Performer Tomasz Konieczny (bass). Company London Philharmonic Choir. Company London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Andres Orozco-Estrada. | |
30 Aug 18 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0697806638 |
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Daniele Gatti - T415617284Amsterdam's mighty Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra returns to the Proms for the first time in almost a decade, under Chief Conductor Daniele Gatti. They pair Bruckner Ninth Symphony with Wolfgang Rihm's In-Schrift.Company Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor Daniele Gatti. | |
1 Sep 17 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0677133841 |
Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle Boulez and Mahler - T1978064140Sir Simon Rattle brings his Berlin Philharmonic to the Proms for two concerts, the first falling on the day the festival commemorates the towering genius that was the late Pierre Boulez. Here Boulez's kaleidoscopic Eclat forms a prelude to perhaps Gustav Mahler's most radical symphony, a work in which his musical imagination stormed new territories in its fierce harmonies and wild scoring. In the symphony's celebrated 'Night Music' serenades - eerie yet strangely calming nocturnes for orchestra, one hinging on a gently strumming guitar and mandolin - Mahler appears to look to a realm far beyond his own. There will be no intervalCompany Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor Simon Rattle (Sir). | |
2 Sep 16 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01894823145 |
Nielsen, B Tommy Andersson & Mahler - T076458723Thomas Sondergard and the BBC NOW return for their fourth concert, opening with a suite from Nielsen's music for Oehlenschlager's play Aladdin. It's one of the composer's best-loved works, one that avoids musical cliches of the exotic Orient, conjuring scenes altogether more subtle and vivid. A major premiere by the orchestra's Composer-in- Association, B Tommy Andersson, puts organist David Goode in the spotlight and the concert concludes with the sunniest and most intimate of Mahler's symphonies - the concise No. 4, a work filled with birdsong and pastoral landscapes that features a child's-eye view of Heaven in its final movement. Finish time approx. 20:40 | |
3 Sep 15 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0697657588 |
Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker - T2060978542Heard most recently at the Proms in 2012, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker return ?for the first of their two concerts this summer.. An all-Russian programme inspired by dance ?opens with Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances - the composer's blazing 'final spark' and, for many, his finest orchestral work. Embracing jazz, plainchant and the waltz, this mercurial piece is a showcase of dramatic skill. After the interval we enter the Russian fairy-tale world of Stravinsky's The Firebird, the vivid, folk-infused ballet score for Diaghilev's Ballet Russes that established the young composer as a rising star. Finish time approx. 20:35Company Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor Simon Rattle (Sir). | |
5 Sep 14 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01591019455 |
Bantock, Prokofiev, Sibelius & R. Strauss - T656732078Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra trace the development of the tone-poem in works inspired by Nietzsche, Shelley and the Finnish epic, the Kalevala. Natural and supernatural imagery collide in the great sunrise of Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra, the fire and snow of Granville Bantock's 1902 tone-poem The Witch of Atlas and the rainbows of Sibelius's fantasy Pohjola's Daughter. Serbian-born Anika Vavic makes her Proms debut in Prokofiev's crisp and virtuosic Piano Concerto No. 3, premiered in Chicago in 1921 with the composer at the keyboard. Finish time: approx. 21:45Performer Anika Vavic (piano). Company London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Vladimir Jurowski. | |
30 Aug 13 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L028860543 |
Berliner Philharmoniker - Brahms & Lutoslawski - T01220625342Our second Berliner Philharmoniker concert sees the return of a distinguished pianist in one of the most formidable of piano concertos. Without sounding as challenging as its predecessor, Brahms's Second Piano Concerto is even bigger in scale and bristles with technical difficulties. Lutoslawski wrote his Third Symphony for another great orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra of the Solti era. Completed in the early 1980s in troubled times for the composer's native Poland, it combines experimental techniques with craftsmanship, conviction and lyricism. Finish time approx. 21:05Performer Yefim Bronfman (piano). Company Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor Simon Rattle (Sir). | |
31 Aug 12 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1004531429 |
Audience Choice - T01512617444Among the many achievements of Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra has been the introduction of new types of non-standard concert: one-hour family 'cocoa concerts' for young children, 'one forint concerts' where the conductor can reach out and talk to a larger crowd, and 'surprise' concerts where the programme is not announced. Tonight the audience will be asked to choose what they would like to hear played from the range of possible options in the orchestra's capacious music library. Finish time: approx. 223:00. There will be no interval.Company Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor Ivan Fischer. | |
2 Sep 11 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1221600871 |
Early Opera Company - T0419880810Early Opera Company and its founder-conductor celebrate the anniversaries of three composers, all born in 1710: J. S. Bach's sadly wayward eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann (see Proms Chamber Music 4); the tragically short-lived Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, whose touchingly lyrical meditation on the sufferings of Christ's mother at the foot of the Cross has been winning new audiences; and the London-born Thomas Arne, once the leading British composer of his day, now known mostly as the man who wrote Rule, Britannia! Finish time: approx. 23:15Conductor Christian Curnyn. Performer Elizabeth Watts (soprano). Performer Anna Stephany (mezzo-soprano). | |
2 Sep 10 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01589916407 |
London Philharmonic Orchestra - T0889326560Ibert's riotous 1956 Bacchanale was commissioned for the 10th anniversary of the BBC's Third Programme, forerunner of today's Radio 3. Tennis is only one of the 'games' played in Debussy's 1913 ballet, premiered by the Ballets Russes just two weeks before Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (Prom 38). Our multiple pianos focus continues with works by Mozart and Zimmermann - the latter of which quotes from both Jeux and Mozart's C major Concerto, K467. And the LPO, under its brilliant Principal Conductor, concludes with Brahms's hard-won First Symphony, composed under the burdensome shadow of Beethoven. Approx finish time: 19:00. Broadcast at 19:30 on BBC Four and live on BBC Radio 3. There will be an interval.Performer Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano). Performer Tamara Stefanovich (piano). Company London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Vladimir Jurowski. | |
3 Sep 09 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L036757765 |
Berliner Philharmoniker - T339150830Finish time approx. 21:40Music Wagner (18 mins)). Music Messiaen (78 mins)). Performer Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano). Performer Tristan Murail (ondes martenot). Company Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor Simon Rattle (Sir). | |
2 Sep 08 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1155498177 |
T01861888672Finish time approx.18:30Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. Performer Deborah Voight (soprano). Music Ives (Symphony No 3 'The Camp Meeting). Music R.Strauss (Salome - final scene). Music Shostakovich (Symphony No 5 in D minor). | |
1 Sep 07 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L2075299131 |
T01658113280Finish time approx. 21:45. Broadcast on BBC FourConductor Simon Rattle (Sir). Company Berliner Philharmoniker. Music Mozart (Symphony No 25 in G minor K183). Music Hanspeter Kyburz (Noesis - London premiere). Music Debussy (Book 2) - Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest; Feuilles mortes; Feux d'artifice). Music Mozart (Symphony No 40 in G minor K550). | |
1 Sep 06 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L34899291 |
T191082472Company The Sixteen. Conductor Harry Christophers. Music Wyklynson (Credo in Deum / Jesus autem). Music Cornysh (Salve regina). Music Tallis (Nine Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter; O nata lux de lumine; Gaude gloriosa Dei mater; Spem in alium). | |
1 Sep 05 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1377414883 |
T973804392Finish time approx. 21:10Music Mozart (Symphony No 41 in C major K551 - 'Jupiter'). Music Bruckner (Symphony No 7 in E major). Company Dresden Staatskapelle. Conductor Bernard Haitink. | |
3 Sep 04 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L244600931 |
T392546838Music Prokofiev (Symphony No 1 in D major - Classical). Music Vivaldi (arr McFerrin - Concerto in G minor for two cellos RV 531). Music Mozart (Symphony No 25 in G minor). Music Dukas (The Sorcerer's Apprentice). Music Ravel (Balero). Performer Tamas Varga (cello). Company Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Bobby McFerrin (vocalist). | |
7 Sep 03 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01959621495 |
T01679765445Company BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Performer Ann Murray (mezzo soprano). Performer Horacio Romo (bandoneon). Music Moncayo (Huapango). Music Galindo Dimas (Sones de Mariachi). Music Falla (arr Luciano Berio - Seven Popular Spanish Songs). Music Piazolla (Bandoneon Concerto). Music Piazzolla (Pieces for tango quartet; Tangazo for orchesta). Music Ginastera (Estancia - Suite). | |
7 Sep 02 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0422158494 |
T1555574395Music Harrison Birtwistle (Sir - Sonance 2000). Music Britten (Hymn to St Cecilia). Music Takemitsu (Garden Rain). Music Harrison Birtwistle (Sir - New work for brass - BBC commission: world premiere; Three Latin Motets from 'The Last Supper' - UK premiere live performance). Music Takemitsu (Signals from Heaven). Music Stravinsky (Mass). Company London Brass and Reeds. Company BBC Singers. Conductor Stephen Cleobury. | |
7 Sep 01 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L01259708766 |
T023637751618:30 Pre-Prom Talk [David Cairns, prize-winning biographer of [Berlioz]Music Berlioz (Royal Hunt and Storm from The Trojans; Sara la Baigneuse; Tristia). Music Berlioz (Te Deum). Performer Paul Groves (tenor). Company Southend Boys' Choir. Company London Philharmonic Choir. Company London Symphony Chorus. Company London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Colin Davis. | |
2 Sep 00 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L0623304065 |
T0433615880Music Giya Kancheli (V & V). Music Arvo Part (Tabula rasa). Music Vivaldi (The Four Seasons). Music Piazzolla (The Four Seasons). Performer Gidon Kremer (violin). Performer Ula Zebriunaite (viola). | |
4 Sep 99 | Royal Albert Hall, Inner London :: V221 listing details L1939868474 |