2019 Repeats [BBC Proms]

Presented from the Royal Albert Hall by Ian Skelly

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No 2 in D major

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Interval: Musicologists Marina Frolova-Walker and Pauline Fairclough discuss Shostakovich and his Fifth Symphony with presenter Flora Willson.

c. 4.55

Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No 5

Yannick N退zet-S退guin, conductor

One of Europe's greatest orchestras, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, returns to the Proms under Yannick N退zet-S退guin.

In the first of two concerts (see also Prom 17) they pair two contrasting symphonies in a programme that moves from sunshine to bitterness. ‘This symphony is smiling throughout,' wrote Berlioz of Beethoven's Second Symphony - a work in which seemingly sunny moods conceal personal tragedy and loss.

Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony was written under the cloud of intense scrutiny and artistic repression following the public criticism of the composer at the hands of Stalin.

Another chance to hear the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms.

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Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London by Lopa Kothari

Described as ‘the undisputed queen of African music', three-time Grammy Award-winner Ang退lique Kidjo makes her Proms debut with her nine-piece band in a late-night tribute to the celebrated salsa songstress Celia Cruz.

Another chance to hear Angelique Kidjo's performance at the 2019 BBC Proms.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Sarah Walker

Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead

Outi Tarkiainen: Midnight Sun Variations (world premiere, BBC co-commission)

Interval

The myths and landscapes of the Nordic lands are discussed by Nicole Schmidt, creator of the podcast Mythos, which explores world folk lore and fairy tales, and New Generation Thinkers Leah Broad and Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough. Producer Jacqueline Smith

Shostakovich: Symphony No.11 'The Year 1905

John Storgards (conductor)

Death and darkness encounter light and new life in this Prom given by the BBC Philharmonic with its Chief Guest Conductor John Storgards. Two Russian classics brood on death and loss; Rachmaninov's atmospheric 'The Isle of the Dead' conjures an dark scene - a ghostly ferryman transport the souls of the dead to rest - while Shostakovich's bitterly passionate Eleventh Symphony takes inspiration from the 'Bloody Sunday' massacre of 1905. But light and hope appear in the world premiere of Outi Tarkiainen's Midnight Sun Variations, a celebration of rebirth in the perpetual day of an Arctic summer.

The BBC Philharmonic with John Storgards in Rachmaninov, Outi Tarkiainen and Shostakovich.

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Presented by Petroc Trelawny from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Erich Wolfgang Korngold: The Sea Hawk - overture

Harry Warren: Gold Diggers of 1933 - We're in the money

Sigmund Romberg: The Desert song - title song

Max Steiner: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - suite

Dimitri Tiomkin: The Old Man and the Sea - suite, 1st mvt

Meredith Willson: The Music Man - Seventy-Six Trombones

Harold Arlen: Blues in the Night - title song

Bronislav Kaper: Auntie Mame - main title

Harold Arlen: A Star is Born - Gotta Have Me Go With You

Harold Arlen: A Star is Born - The Man That Got Away

Frederick Loewe: My Fair Lady - Get Me to the Church on Time

c. 20.25 INTERVAL: Proms Plus Talk: a discussion of some of the great film scores being played tonight, with Matthew Sweet, David Benedict and Pamela Hutchinson

c. 20:50 Jule Styne: Gypsy - overture

Max Steiner: Now, Voyager - suite

Sammy Fain: Calamity Jane - The Deadwood Stage (Doris Day tribute)

Jule Styne: Romance in the High Seas - It's Magic

Alex North: A Streetcar Named Desire- main title

Frederick Loewe: Camelot - if Ever I Would Leave You

Henry Mancini: The Days of Wine and Roses

Erich Wolfgang Korngold: The Constant Nymph - Tomorrow

Mikaela Bennett (singer) Louise Dearman (singer) Kate Lindsey (singer) Matt Ford (singer) Maida Vale Singers John Wilson Orchestra John Wilson (conductor)

Ten years since their first Proms appearance together, John Wilson and the John Wilson Orchestra present an evening of sumptuous technicoloured scores from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. With music from films including The Sea Hawk, The Constant Nymph, Calamity Jane, A Streetcar Named Desire and Harry Potter.

From the Royal Albert Hall with the John Wilson Orchestra and Maida Vale Singers.

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Presented by Andrew McGregor from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Benjamin Beckman

Occidentalis

Hector Berlioz

Les nuits d'退t退, Op 7

interval: Andrew McGregor looks at the work of the NYO USA and meets some of its players.

Richard Strauss

An Alpine Symphony

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)

Brass of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

The National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America

Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor)

Celebrated American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato is reunited with regular collaborator Sir Antonio Pappano to mark the 150th anniversary of Berlioz's death with a performance of the composer's sumptuous orchestral song-cycle Les nuits d'退t退 - a musical journey from springtime love to cruellest loss.

The National Youth Orchestra of the USA undertakes a journey of quite a different kind in Strauss's monumental An Alpine Symphony, whose vast orchestral forces and massive soundscapes conjure up the craggy drama of the Bavarian Alps.

The concert opens with 'Occidentalis' a new work, by Benjamin Beckman, one of the NYO-USA's two Apprentice Composers.

Another chance to hear the National Youth Orchestra of the USA with Sir Antonio Pappano.

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Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London by Andrew McGregor

Eriks Esenvalds: Stars

Max Richter: Vladimir's Blues

Arvo P䀀rt: Fratres

Peteris Vasks: The Fruits of Silence

Johann Sebastian Bach: Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056 (2nd movement)

Ola Gjeilo: The Spheres

Franz Schubert: String Quartet No 14 in D minor, 'Death and the Maiden' (1st movement)

Soumik Datta: Morning Song

Alonso Lobo: Versa est in luctum cithara mea

Fr退d退ric Chopin: Nocturne in D flat major, Op 27 No 2

Soumik Datta: Clouds (arr. Iain Farrington) (world premiere)

Max Richter: On the Nature of Daylight

John Tavener: The Lamb

Tenebrae (director, Nigel Short)

Martin James Bartlett (piano)

Soumik Datta (sarod)

Cormac Byrne (bodhrကn)

In the spirit of Radio 3's popular In Tune Mixtape - joining together an eclectic range of classical and contemporary sounds - we present a live, late-night wind-down, exploring the fringes of Minimalism and meditative listening.

With radiant choral sounds and heavenly strings plus guest soloists, the Royal Albert Hall transforms into a vast ambient resonator.

Pieces by the godfathers of ‘Holy Minimalism', Arvo P䀀rt and P?teris Vasks, emerge out of the sublime classicism of JS Bach and Schubert, in a Prom to calm the mind and nourish the soul.

Super-chilled heavenly radiance to calm the mind and nourish the soul.

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Presented from the Royal Albert Hall by Nicola Heywood-Thomas

Mendelssohn: Overture 'The Hebrides' (Fingal's Cave)

Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op. 37

Interval: Proms Plus Talk: Composer Errolyn Warren talks to Hannah Conway about her inspiration and ideas.

Errollyn Wallen: This Frame Is Part of the Painting

Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

Cartiona Morison (mezzo)

BBC National Chorus of Wales

Winner of Cardiff Singer of the World 2017, Scottish mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison makes her Proms debut in Elgar's sumptuous Sea Pictures, a vivid musical portrait of the sea in its many moods.

Also hanging in this musical gallery are Mussorgsky's colourful Pictures at an Exhibition, Mendelssohn's much-loved overture The Hebrides and the world premiere of Errollyn Wallen's homage to artist Howard Hodgkin, This Frame Is Part of the Painting.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Elim Chan and mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison.

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Presented from the Royal Albert Hall by Petroc Trelawny

Koechlin: Les bandar-log

Varese: Am退riques (original version, 1921)

Interval Proms Plus

Since its publication in 1894, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book has remained loved by children, but its attitudes have been questioned by some parents and critics, who see it as a relic of colonial English literature. Koechlin's Les Bandar-Log is part of his nearly life long effort to set The Jungle Book to music. Costa Book Prize winning novelist Frances Hardinge and Sue Walsh from Reading University explore the book's popularity and controversies with New Generation Thinker Anindya Raychaudhuri.

Produced by Luke Mulhall.

Walton: Belshazzar's Feast

Gerald Finley baritone

Orfeo Catala

Orfeo Catala Youth Choir

London Symphony Chorus

Sir Simon Rattle conductor

Sir Simon Rattle conducts a concert of sonic spectacle, bringing one of the great English oratorios together with an American orchestral classic.

Walton's choral masterpiece Belshazzar's Feast gets the Proms treatment with a 300-strong choir and Canadian baritone Gerald Finley as soloist.

More than 10 percussionists are needed to bring Varese's Am退riques - a celebration of the modern city in sound - to life, while Charles Koechlin's Jungle Book inspired Les bandar-log transports listeners to the primeval forest, where all the noise comes from the monkeys.

The London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with Sir Simon Rattle and Gerald Finley.

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Presented by Andrew McGregor from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Nina Simone/Trad. arr. Jochen Neuffer: African Mailman/Sinnerman

Jack Hammer arr. Rob Taggart: Plain Gold Ring

Richard Rodgers arr. Evan Jolly: Little Girl Blue

Walter Donaldson arr. Jochen Neuffer: My Baby Just Cares

Jalacy Hawkins arr. Jeremy Levy: I Put A Spell On You

Bennie Benjamin/Horace Ott/Sol Marcus arr. Jeremy Levy: Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

Jacques Brel arr. Sebastian Koolhoven: Ne Me Quitte Pas

George Gershwin arr. Chris Walden: I Loves You Porgy

Henry Purcell arr. Chris Walden: Dido's Lament

Rudy Stevenson arr. Tim Davies: I'm Going Back Home

c. 22:50 Interval Proms Plus

The life, work and legacy of great African-American singer-songwriter Nina Simone discussed by poet Zena Edwards and singer-musician Ayanna Witter-Johnson. Hosted by Kevin LeGendre. Produced by Zahid Warley

c. 23:10

Nat Adderly arr. Willem Friede: Work Song

Trad. arr. Damiano Pascarelli: See-Line Woman

Andy Stroud arr. Jules Buckley: Be my Husband

Randy Newman arr. Vladimir Nikolov: Baltimore

Exuma arr. Jules Buckley: Dambala

Nina Simone arr. Vladimir Nikolov: Mississippi Goddam

Nina Simone, arr. Tim Davies: Four Women

Trad./Billy Taylor/Dick Dallas. arr. Ilja Reijngoud: Take My Hand, Precious Lord / I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free

Ledisi (singer)

Lisa Fischer (singer)

Jules Buckley (conductor)

Singer, songwriter, arranger and political activist - Nina Simone is a giant of jazz history. She's celebrated here in all her guises in a concert led by Jules Buckley and the Metropole Orkest, featuring titles including ‘Feeling Good' and ‘I Put a Spell on You'.

From the BBC Proms, Jules Buckley and the Metropole Orkest with Ledisi and Lisa Fischer.

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Presented from the Royal Albert Hall by Martin Handley

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Hugh Wood: Scenes from Comus, Op.6 +

Interval - Proms Plus Talk: Musicologist Kate Kennedy discusses aspects of Elgar's The Music Makers

Elgar: The Music Makers, Op.69*

Stacey Tappan (soprano) +

Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)*

Anthony Gregory (tenor) +

BBC Symphony Chorus*

Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)

Sir Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly in Elgar's last great choral work.

The Music Makers is the musical culmination of a career, drawing together quotations from many of the composer's best-loved pieces, including the ‘Enigma' Variations and Sea Pictures, and weaving them into a musical manifesto for the power of art.

The concert also includes Vaughan Williams's luminous Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis for double string orchestra and Hugh Wood's lyrical setting of scenes from Milton's pastoral masque Comus.

Sir Andrew Davis with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at the BBC Proms.

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Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London by Georgia Mann.

Sacred Music by Duke Ellington

Monty Alexander - piano

Annette Walker - tap dancer

Carleen Anderson and the UK Vocal Assembly

Peter Edwards - conductor

Jazz, showbiz swagger and spirituality come together as never before in Duke Ellington's spectacular Sacred Concerts.

Described by Ellington himself as ‘the most important thing I have ever done', these sacred revues, blending big-band jazz, gospel and Broadway-style melodies, bring all the legendary musician's originality and energy to Christian subjects, and generated three critically acclaimed, boundary-crossing albums.

Drawing on these, the Proms premieres a brand-new Sacred Concert - an exhilarating evening of dance, song and spectacle.

From the 2019 BBC Proms, the BBC Singers and Nu Civilisation Orchestra with Peter Edwards.

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From the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (Act I)

c. 20:35 Interval Proms Plus

The concept of sacrifice in the Old Testament is discussed by the Reverend Richard Coles and Dr Deborah Rooke hosted by New Generation Thinker John Gallagher. Produced by Torquil MacLeod.

c. 20:55

George Frideric Handel: Jephtha (Acts II & III)

Allan Clayton (Jephtha)

Jeanine De Bique (Iphis)

Hilary Summers (Storg耀)

Tim Mead (Hamor)

Cody Quattlebaum (Zebul)

Rowan Pierce (Angel)

Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus

Richard Egarr (conductor)

Following on from the success of last year's Theodora, the multi-year Proms Handel cycle continues with the composer's last, and perhaps greatest, oratorio - Jephtha.

Period-performance specialist Richard Egarr conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and SCO Chorus in the devastating story of the warrior Jephtha commanded by God to sacrifice his daughter Iphis.

Tenor Allan Clayton is the conflicted Jephtha, with Trinidadian soprano Jeanine De Bique as Iphis.

Richard Egarr conducts the SCO in Handel's Jephtha at the 2019 BBC Proms.

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From the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Presented by Tom Service.

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini

Benvenuto Cellini - Michael Spyres

Teresa - Sophia Burgos

Balducci - Maurizio Muraro

Pope Clement VII - Tareq Nazmi

Francesco - Krystian Adam

Fieramosca - Lionel Lhote

Ascanio - Ad耀le Charvet

Bernardino - Ashley Riches

Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

Interval at approx 8.55pm: Andrew McgGegor talks to historian and broadcaster Sarah Lenton and music historian Flora Willson about Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini.

Sir John Eliot Gardiner brings his five-year series of Berlioz performances to a triumphant close, and this year's 150th-anniversary celebrations to a spectacular climax, with the composer's rarely performed opera Benvenuto Cellini, based on the life and loves of the Renaissance sculptor - culminating in the forging of a vast masterwork. With its sprawling storytelling and vastly demanding score, this is a piece built for the scope of the Royal Albert Hall. American tenor Michael Spyres sings the title-role.

John Eliot Gardiner conducts Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini at the 2019 BBC Proms.

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Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London by Martin Handley

Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major

8.05pm

- interval - Martin Handley talks to tonight's conductor Bernard Haitink about his life and career.

Symphony No. 7 in E major (ed. Nowak)

Emanuel Ax piano

Bernard Haitink conductor

In a year that marks both his 90th birthday and the 65th anniversary of his conducting debut, Bernard Haitink conducts the first of the Vienna Philharmonic's two concerts this season.

Emanuel Ax is the soloist in Beethoven's revolutionary Piano Concerto No. 4 - written by the composer as his own farewell to the performing stage.

A farewell of a different kind runs through Bruckner's Symphony No. 7. Completed shortly after Wagner's death, the work's heartfelt slow movement, with its poignant closing elegy, pays homage to the man and mentor Bruckner described as his ‘dearly beloved Master'.

The Vienna Philharmonic with Bernard Haitink and Emanuel Ax at the 2019 BBC Proms.

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Presented by Ian Skelly from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor

c.7.45pm

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major

Yuja Wang (piano)

Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

Explosively virtuosic and a thrilling live performer, Yuja Wang is the soloist in Rachmaninov's emotionally expansive and technically demanding Third Piano Concerto - one of the most challenging in the repertoire.

She joins conductor Myung-Whun Chung and the Staatskapelle Dresden - the second of this week's visiting European orchestras - for a concert that also includes Brahms's genial Symphony No. 2, whose freshness and spontaneity have drawn comparisons with Beethoven's ‘Pastoral' Symphony.

From the Royal Albert Hall with the Staatskapelle Dresden, Myung-Whun Chung and Yuja Wang.

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Presented at the Royal Albert Hall by Ian Skelly.

Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio - overture; Aria: 'Popoli di Tessaglia! - lo non chiedo, eterni dei'; Cassation No. 1 in G major - Andante; Aria: 'No, no, che non sei capace'; Symphony No. 35 in D major, 'Haffner

c.8.25

Interval: Georgia Mann introduces an exploration of the connections between the music of Strauss and Mozart, with musicologists Barbara Eichner and William Mival.

c.8.45

Richard Strauss: Capriccio - sextet; Ariadne auf Naxos - 'Grossm䀀chtige Prinzessin!

Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A major

Danae Kontora (soprano)

Constantinos Carydis (conductor)

Greek coloratura soprano Danae Kontora makes her Proms debut with a sequence of Mozart and Strauss arias, while Mozart's ‘Haffner' Symphony is filled with operatic ornamentation and dramatic effects.

The vitality of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 led to its being famously described by Wagner as ‘the apotheosis of the dance'.

From the BBC Proms, Constantinos Carydis conducts the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

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Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London by Penny Gore

Modest Mussorgsky (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov): A Night on the Bare Mountain

Louis Andriessen: The Only One (UK premiere)

BBC co-commission with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and NTR ZaterdagMatinee

08.00

Interval Proms Plus

Witchcraft, witch-trials and the image of the witch are explored by historian Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Dr Thomas Waters. Hosted by New Generation Thinker Fern Riddell. Dr Thomas Waters is the author of Cursed Britain: A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times. Suzannah Lipscomb has presented a Channel 5 TV programme on witchcraft and written a Ladybird Expert Book on the topic. Produced by Luke Mulhall

08.20

Judith Weir: Forest

Jean Sibelius: Symphony No 5 in E flat major (final version, 1919)

Nora Fischer (singer)

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

A Prom celebrating Nature in all her moods. A flight of 16 swans was the catalyst for Sibelius's stirring Fifth Symphony, with its ambiguous, mysterious ending. We hear the composer's final 1919 version - after the thrilling UK premiere of the original 1915 version performed at the BBC Proms earlier this season by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. While for Judith Weir it was nature's process - forests sprouting outwards from a single seed, endlessly growing and multiplying - that offered inspiration.

Nature turns menacing in Mussorgsky's vivid tone-poem A Night on the Bare Mountain. Boundary-breaking singer Nora Fischer is the soloist in the UK premiere of The Only One by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, who turned 80 this year, setting texts by the Flemish poet Delphine Lecompte.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform the final version of Sibelius's Symphony No 5.

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From the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Ian Skelly

Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz - Overture

Richard Wagner: Siegfried - Forest Murmurs

C退sar Franck: Le chasseur maudit

c. 20:15 Interval

In the third of our series on Henry Wood, Hannah French explores the Proms founder-conductor's relationship with Wagner's music.

c. 20:40

Richard Wagner: G怀tterd䀀mmerung - Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey; Duet 'Zu neuen Taten, teurer Helde'; Siegfried's Death and Funeral March; Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene

Christine Goerke (soprano)

Stephen Gould (tenor)

Marc Albrecht (conductor)

Composer-themed evenings were a distinctive and popular feature of Henry Wood's early Proms seasons: if it was Monday, it was Wagner Night.

We revive this tradition with a concert whose first half explores the enchanted forest (both beguiling and darkly supernatural) - a key symbol of the German Romantic movement.

The second half presents pivotal scenes from G怀tterd䀀mmerung, the climax of Wagner's four-opera magnum opus The Ring of the Nibelung - including Siegfried's Death and Funeral Music and the vocal tour de force of Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene.

Marc Albrecht conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the 2019 BBC Proms.

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Presented at the Royal Albert Hall by Martin Handley.

Smetana: The Bartered Bride - overture; Three Dances

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin - Letter Scene

8.10pm

Interval Proms Plus

A verbal correspondence about the function of letters in literature and life. PS - the speakers are best-selling crime novelist Ruth Ware and Shaun Usher, editor of the popular website Letters Of Note. Hosted by New Generation Thinker Sophie Coulombeau. Produced by Zahid Warley.

Shostakovich: Symphony No 8 in C minor

Elena Stikhina (soprano)

Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

The 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'.

Semyon Bychkov conducts the Czech Philharmonic at the 2019 BBC Proms.

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Presented from the Royal Albert Hall, London by Elizabeth Alker

Biber: Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas No.16 - Passacaglia in G minor

Penderecki: Vivace (Sinfonietta for Strings)

Greenwood: Three Miniatures from Water (No. 3); 88 (No. 1)

Reich: Pulse

Greenwood: Horror vacui

Daniel Pioro (violin)

Katherine Tinker (piano)

Jonny Greenwood (bass guitar/tanpura)

BBC Proms Youth Ensemble

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Hugh Brunt (conductor)

Jonny Greenwood's talents range from being lead guitarist of Radiohead to writing award-winning film scores. Here he curates a Late Night Prom culminating in the world premiere of his Horror vacui, which explores characteristics of electronically created music and transfers them into the acoustic arena.

The programme includes Biber's almost Bachian Passacaglia for solo violin and Minimalist master Steve Reich's radiantly throbbing Pulse.

From the 2019 BBC Proms, the Proms Youth Ensemble, BBC NOW and conductor Hugh Brunt.

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Presented from the Royal Albert Hall by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D major, BWV 1069

Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major, BWV 1066

c. 8.25pm Interval. Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores the pivotal role that Henry Wood played in the revival of J.S. Bach's music at the turn of the 20th century, with guest musicologist Hannah French.

Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067

Bach: Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major, BWV 1068

Bach specialist John Butt and his period-instrument Dunedin Consort continue our series of composer themed nights as a tribute to Proms founder conductor Henry Wood.

They pair Bach's four Orchestral Suites with four newly commissioned works taking inspiration from the suites' dance movements - providing both companions and contrasts.

Bach's suites are interspersed with four new works from Stuart MacRae, Nico Muhly, Ailie Robertson and Stevie Wishart (BBC co-commissions with the Dunedin Consort: world premieres).

From the 2019 BBC Proms, John Butt directs the Dunedin Consort in Bach's Orchestral Suites

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From the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Presented by Martin Handley.

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks

Beethoven: Aria 'Ah! perfido

Bach (orch Elgar): Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537

Beethoven: Fidelio - overture

Beethoven: Fidelio - 'Abscheulicher! - Komm, Hoffnung, lass den letzten Stern

Symphony No 5 in C minor, Op. 67

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)

NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Andrew Manze (conductor)

Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood's tradition of composer-themed nights continues here with Beethoven.

The composer's revolutionary Fifth Symphony provides the climax of a programme that also includes music from his dramatic ‘rescue' opera Fidelio.

Bach's music was a passion shared by Beethoven and Wood, and is represented here by Elgar's orchestration of the Fantasia and Fugue in C minor for organ.

From the 2019 BBC Proms, NDR Radio Philharmonic conducted by Andrew Manze play Beethoven.

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From the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny and Georgia Mann

Daniel Kidane: Woke (BBC Commission: world premiere)

Falla: Three Cornered Hat - Suite No.2

Laura Mvula: Sing to the Moon

Maconchy: Proud Thames

Elgar: Sospiri

Bizet: Carmen - L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Habanera)

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Samson and Delilah - Mon cœur s'ouvre

Presented by Martin Handley from the Royal Albert Hall, London

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