2021 [BBC Proms]

Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Presented by Martin Handley.

Malcolm Arnold's rumbustious score for Hobson's Choice matches perfectly the wonderful, blustery performance of Charles Laughton in the title role; and he illuminates the mischievous antics of the naughty schoolgirls in his sparking score for St Trinian's. Doreen Carwithen and husband William Alwyn are featured alongside highly regarded classic Walton and Vaughan Williams scores. We'll also hear excerpts from The Skull, written by the queen of horror film music Elisabeth Lutyens, the first British woman composer to write for a full length feature film; and, 50 years after his death, Alan Rawsthorne's brooding and dark Cruel Sea Prelude.

Carwithen, arr Philip Lane Overture - Men of Sherwood Forest

Arnold, arr Christopher Palmer Hobson's Choice - Concert Suite

Rawsthorne, arr Philip Lane The Cruel Sea - Prelude and Nocturne

Walton Escape Me Never Suite

8.15pm

Live Interval: Matthew Sweet, the presenter of Radio 3's Sound of Cinema, shares his knowledge of film music focusing particularly on the career of Malcolm Arnold, born 100 years ago this October.

Lutyens The Skull

Alwyn, arr Christopher Palmer Odd Man Out Suite (Police Chase; Nemesis (finale))

Vaughan Williams, arr Muir Mathieson The England of Elizabeth: Three Portraits

Arnold, arr Philip Lane The Belles of St Trinians - Comedy Suite

Bramwell Tovey (conductor)

English composers of the 20th century could rival their counterparts across the Atlantic when it came to creating some of the most memorable cinematic moments of the century. Spend a night at the movies with a sequence of classic British film scores by composers including Malcolm Arnold, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Doreen Carwithen, brought to life by the BBC Concert Orchestra and Principal Conductor Bramwell Tovey.

Live BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra and Bramwell Tovey in classic British film music.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Jess Gillam

Abel Selaocoe arr. Ian Gardiner: Qhawe

Abel Selaocoe arr. Ian Gardiner: Hlokomela

Rameau: Les Bor退ades: Entr退e d'Abaris

Giovanni Sollima: L.B. Files

Sidiki Demb退l退 arr Ian Gardiner: Shaka

Abel Selaocoe arr. Benjamin Woodgates: As you are

Abel Selaocoe arr. Benjamin Woodgates: Lerato

Rameau: Les Indes Galantes: Scene VIII La Fꀀte des fleurs - Orage

Abel Selaocoe: Ka Bohaleng

Abel Selaocoe (voice and Cello)

Simo Lagnawi (guembri)

Chesaba

Gnawa London

Clark Rundell (conductor)

With ‘knock-out charm' to match his virtuoso skill, South African cellist Abel Selaocoe is redefining the instrument and having a blast doing it. Blending traditional playing styles with improvisation, singing and body percussion, his energised performances bring together classical and world music in a unique fusion. He is joined by Simo Lagnawi on guembri (three-stringed Moroccan lute) and by other members of his own trio, Chesaba, as well as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales for a concert covering typically broad musical ground.

Live BBC Proms: BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Clark Rundell with Abel Selaocoe

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Kate Molleson.

Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E flat major

Symphony No. 40 in G minor

9pm: Interval - Prof. Timothy Jones on the background and history of Mozart's 3 last symphonies.

9.25pm: Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C major, 'Jupiter'(31 mins)

Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor

Composed over a period of just two months in the summer of 1788, Mozart's three final symphonies together form a musical sequence that explores all sides of humanity. No. 39 offers a grand introduction, its fanfares and dances setting the scene, before we're plunged into the dark drama of the Symphony No. 40, and finally emerge into the sunlight of the ‘Jupiter' Symphony, with its dazzling fugal finale. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra is conducted by its dynamic Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev.

Live at the BBC Proms: the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Bach: St Matthew Passion, Part I

c. 20:10

Live Interval: Andrew is joined by Lucy Winkett, the Rector of St James's Church, Piccadilly.

c. 20:35

Bach: St Matthew Passion, Part II

Louise Alder (soprano)

Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor)

Stuart Jackson (Evangelist)

Hugo Hymas (tenor)

Roderick Williams (baritone)

Matthew Rose (Christ)

Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral Choir

Arcangelo Chorus

Jonathan Cohen (harpsichord/director)

Bach's crowning masterpiece, the St Matthew Passion combines moments of extraordinary fragility and tenderness with raw choral power and explosive jubilation, bitter grief with passages of consolation. With double chorus and orchestra, its scope and ambition is vast - a piece made for the Royal Albert Hall. Following on from their gripping account of Handel's Theodora in 2018, period-instrument ensemble Arcangelo and Director Jonathan Cohen return to the Proms, joined by a glittering line-up of soloists including Roderick Williams and rising star Stuart Jackson.

Live at the BBC Proms: Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen perform Bach's sacred masterpiece.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Kate Molleson

Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 2

c. 8.15pm

Live Interval: Simon Broughton, co-editor of the Rough Guide to World Music, shares his knowledge of Hungarian music traditions.

c. 8.40pm

Bartok: Suite No. 2

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin

Ilan Volkov, conductor

In a memorable Prom in 2019, violinist Pekka Kuusisto took Sibelius's Violin Concerto back to its roots in Finnish folk music. Now the dazzling, fearless Patricia Kopatchinskaja takes up the challenge, tracing the same evolution from traditional Hungarian songs and dances to Bart　k's Violin Concerto No. 2. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ilan Volkov explore the rough-hewn rhythms and the lyrical melodies that unite Bart　k's Violin Concerto with the Magyar music that so fascinated the composer.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC SSO and Ilan Volkov perform Bart\u00f3k.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Georgia Mann

Rautavaara's expansive Cantus Arcticus pairs field recordings of bird song with live orchestra; exciting and inventive organ virtuoso James McVinnie plays Philip Glass's hypnotic Mad Rush for solo organ, and joins the BBC CO for Canadian composer Samy Moussa's 2014 piece A Globe Itself Infolding. The chill-out vibe runs through two short pieces by Johann Johannsson; and envelop yourself in the warm atmosphere of Judith Weir's Still, Glowing.

Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus Op.61 for orchestra & taped bird song

Judith Weir: Still, Glowing

Philip Glass: Mad Rush

Arvo P䀀rt: Festina Lente for string orchestra and harp

Johann Johannsson: Good Night Day

Messiaen: La Joie de la gr ce from Livre du Saint Sacrement

Johann Johannsson: A Sparrow Alighted on Our Shoulder

Samy Moussa: A Globe Itself Infolding

Anna-Maria Helsing (conductor)

James McVinnie is a chameleon among organists who has held titles at Westminster Abbey and St Paul's Cathedral, yet also worked with Philip Glass and The National's Bryce Dessner. In a Prom that explores the organ in a contemporary light, he navigates the time-warping oscillations of Philip Glass's Minimalist Mad Rush, before giving the UK premiere of Samy Moussa's A Globe Itself Infolding with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor Anna-Maria Helsing.

Live BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra and Anna-Maria Helsing with organist James McVinnie

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Live at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Presented by Martin Handley.

Unsuk Chin: Subito con forza

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 in G major (cadenzas: Saint-Sa뀀ns)

8.15 pm

Interval: From Beethoven to Saint-Saens - Martin Handley in conversation with 19th-century music expert Katy Hamilton.

8.40pm

Camille Saint-Sa뀀ns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, 'Organ

Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)

Anna Lapwood (organ)

Sir Mark Elder (conductor)

‘What I have here accomplished, I will never achieve again.' So wrote Camille Saint-Sa뀀ns of his last - and greatest - symphony, a work full of melody, invention and sonic drama (not to mention a piano duet effect he liked so much he recycled it in The Carnival of the Animals). Just as the mighty ‘Organ' Symphony rewrote the 19th-century musical rules, so Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto scandalised audiences some 80 years earlier, with its revolutionary opening and tender, slow-movement battle between soloist and orchestra - famously compared to Orpheus taming the Furies. Beethoven is also the inspiration for Unsuk Chin's volatile Subito con forza, given its UK premiere here by Sir Mark Elder and the Hall退.

Live at the BBC Proms: Sir Mark Elder conducts the Halle.

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Live frrom the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Tom Service

Catrin Finch, harp

Seckou Keita, kora

She plays the harp, he plays the West African kora (harp-lute) and together they present a unique meeting of cultures and a musical partnership of rare empathy.

Whether influenced by Bach or by nature and migration, Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita draw on their connections as well as their distinctive roots, the two instruments sharing ancient associations of storytelling and courtly entertainment.

The pair have garnered awards from fRoots and Songlines as well as no fewer than three accolades at the 2019 Radio 2 Folk Awards. Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita take over the Royal Albert Hall in an atmospheric exploration that embraces the worlds of folk, non-western and contemporary music in their Proms debut as a duo.

Live from the BBC Proms: Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

John Foulds: Le cabaret (Overture to a French Comedy)

William Walton: Viola Concerto

8.00 pm

Interval

Paul Harris, co-author of 'Malcolm Arnold: Rogue Genius' talks to Martin Handley about the music and turbulent life of this most misunderstood of British composers, whose reputation took a dive after the 1950s.

8.20 pm

Charlotte Bray: Where Icebergs Dance Away (UK premiere)

Malcolm Arnold: Symphony No. 5

Timothy Ridout (viola)

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

A world away from centenary composer Malcolm Arnold's reputation for light music and film scores, the Fifth Symphony is a richly layered work full of irony, pain and loss. An opening musical ‘garden of memories' pays affectionate homage to departed friends, while the scherzo flirts with jazz and the finale offers a tantalising glimpse of heaven before snatching it cruelly away. BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Timothy Ridout is the soloist in Walton's poetic Viola Concerto, which was given its world premiere at the Proms in 1929. Global warming is the stimulus behind Charlotte Bray's Where Icebergs Dance Away, which draws on the work of American artist Zaria Forman.

Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo

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Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha's Wedding Feast - overture

Fela Sowande: African Suite

Florence Price: Piano Concerto in One Movement

at approx 8.30pm

INTERVAL Catherine Carr joins Petroc to talk about the range of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's musical output, from chamber music to opera.

c. 8.55pm

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Symphony in A minor

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (piano)

Chineke! Orchestra, Kalena Bovell (conductor)

The Chineke! Orchestra returns for its fourth visit to the Proms, celebrating diversity in composers as well as performers. Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's overture to his popular cantata based on the tale of a Native American leader quotes the spiritual ‘Nobody knows the trouble I've seen'. There are further meetings of African and European musical styles in Nigerian composer Fela Sowande's African Suite and the piano concerto by Florence Price, the first female African-American composer to win renown in America. By contrast, Coleridge-Taylor's Symphony, written as a 20-year old student of Stanford at London's Royal College of Music, reveals the influence of his hero, Dvo?ကk.

Live at the BBC Proms: Chineke! Orchestra and pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas

Augusta Read Thomas: Dance Foldings (BBC commission: world premiere)

c. 7.45

Ives: Three places in New England (Orchestral Set No. 1)

c. 8.05

Interval: Nicola is joined by the American author and broadcaster Michael Goldfarb to look back at the myths associated with the founding of the USA and more modern depictions of the 'new world' in American culture.

c. 8.30

Dvo?ကk: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95; 'From the New World

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

There's an American accent to this concert by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and its US-born Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft. Started just months after the composer first docked in America, Dvo?ak's much-loved ‘New World' Symphony was composed ‘in the spirit' of the nation's own songs and spirituals. Only around 20 years after that, in 1914, came Charles Ives's Three Places in New England, his vivid musical recollections of the sights and sounds of his native Connecticut. A topical new work from American composer Augusta Read Thomas opens both the concert and our series of Proms commissions celebrating the Royal Albert Hall's 150th anniversary and its role in promoting the arts and sciences. Dance Foldings takes inspiration from the biological ‘ballet' of proteins that a vaccine activates within the human body.

Live BBC Proms: Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform Dvorak.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

Astor Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (arr. Leonid Desyatnikov)

Joshua Bell (director/violin)

From an icy Italian winter to the heady, sensual warmth of a South American summer: violinist Joshua Bell leads the Academy of St Martin in the Fields on a musical journey through the sights and sounds of two continents and four very different seasons. Inspired by Vivaldi's best-known work, Piazzolla - Argentina's 20th-century tango king, whose 100th anniversary we celebrate this year - created his own response, complete with musical quotations. While Vivaldi's virtuosic concertos celebrate contrast - the freshness of spring, with its sudden thunderstorms, versus the languid heat of summer - Piazzolla's musical landscape remains more constant, always swaying to the pervasive rhythm of the tango.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Presented by Martin Handley.

Mason Bates: Auditorium

Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor

8.15: Interval

Nigel Simeone talks to Martin Handley about tonight's programme and looks forward to highlights of the week ahead.

Janက?ek: Taras Bulba

Johannes Moser, cello

Kirill Karabits, conductor

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra returns under Chief Conductor Kirill Karabits to recall memories of music past. In Mason Bates's evocative Auditorium, the orchestra is ‘possessed' by a ghostly Baroque ancestor. Janက?ek's rhapsodic suite Taras Bulba looks back to Czech folk music in three battle-charged episodes from Gogol's novella. The bittersweet, poignant beauty of Elgar's Cello Concerto draws on another conflict: the cataclysmic loss and suffering of the First World War.

Live at the BBC Proms: The Bournemouth Symphony orchestra play Elgar, Bates and Jan\u00e1\u010dek.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Georgia Mann.

Daniel Kidane: New work (BBC commission: world premiere)

Camille Saint?Sa뀀ns: The Carnival of the Animals with new narration by Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo (narrator)

Aminata Kanneh-Mason, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Ayla Sahin (violins)

Timothy Ridout (viola)

Mariatu Kanneh-Mason and Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cellos)

Toby Hughes (double bass)

Adam Walker (flute)

Mark Simpson (clarinet)

Isata Kanneh-Mason, Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, Konya Kanneh-Mason (pianos)

Alasdair Malloy (glass harmonica)

Adrian Spillet (percussion)

Author Michael Morpurgo joins the seven talented Kanneh-Mason siblings and starry musical friends for this special Family Prom. Saint-Sa뀀ns's much-loved suite The Carnival of the Animals - a musical menagerie packed with braying donkeys, energetic kangaroos, a serene swan and an aquarium of glinting fish - gets a fresh update in witty new poems by Morpurgo.

There will be no interval.

Live at the BBC Proms: the Kanneh-Mason siblings and friends celebrate animal magic.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presenter by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny.

Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music

Poulenc: Organ Concerto

c.8.10pm

INTERVAL: Georgia and Petroc look ahead to six weeks of exciting live music-making at the Proms. They are joined by a much-loved and familiar face to the Proms, Tasmin Little, who hung up her violin last year. She chats to Georgia and Petroc about her highlights of the up-coming season.

c.8.35pm

MacMillan: When Soft Voices Die

(BBC co-commission with Help Musicians: world premiere)

Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D major

Elizabeth Llewellyn, soprano

Jess Dandy, contralto

Allan Clayton, tenor

Michael Mofidian, bass-baritone

Daniel Hyde, organ

BBC Singers

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Dalia Stasevska, conductor

Dalia Stasevska leads a First Night featuring Vaughan Williams's ravishing Serenade to Music - written to celebrate Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood's 50 years on the podium and premiered by him at his jubilee concert in the Royal Albert Hall in 1938. Sir James MacMillan offers a new companion piece to the Serenade and Poulenc's Organ Concerto is a piquant foil, showcasing the instrument in a vivid play of light and shade.

Live at the BBC Proms, BBC SO and conductor Dalia Stasevska

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Presented by Kate Molleson

George Lewis: Minds in Flux

c. 8.00pm

Kate Molleson talks to George Lewis about the forces that have influenced him as a composer and artist.

c. 8.25pm

Beethoven: Concert aria ‘Ah! perfido

Beethoven: Symphony No 2

Lucy Crowe, soprano

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov, conductor

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov pair Beethoven's dramatic concert aria ‘Ah! perfido' with the Second Symphony - a work whose vitality and ‘smiling' mood belie the private struggles and despair of a composer wrestling with hearing loss - with a new commission from celebrated American composer George Lewis. This world premiere blends a conventional orchestra with spatialised electronics, exploiting the unique space of the Royal Albert Hall to create, in Lewis's words, ‘a medium for meditation on what processes of decolonisation might sound like'.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC SSO, Ilan Volkov and soprano Lucy Crowe.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Presented by Georgia Mann.

Ruth Gipps: Symphony No. 2 in B major

Thomas Ad耀s: The Exterminating Angel Symphony

8.15 pm

Interval - Georgia Mann is joined live by Helen Wallace to discuss tonight's repertoire and also to reflect on the impact conductor Mirga Gražinyt?-Tyla has had on the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

8.40 pm

Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major

Mirga Gražinyt?-Tyla (conductor)

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Mirga Gražinyt?-Tyla champion the music of a too-long neglected composer. A pupil of Vaughan Williams, Ruth Gipps started her career as an oboist with what was then the City of Birmingham Orchestra in 1944, before becoming established as a composer. Her Symphony No. 2 takes a wide-screen, cinematic view of the Second World War, embracing exhilaration, anxiety and, finally, ecstatic rejoicing. Conflict of a very different kind runs through The Exterminating Angel Symphony by Thomas Ad耀s (50 this year), inspired by Louis Buကuel's Surrealist film.

Brahms's Third Symphony strikes a more autumnal tone, inspired by a visit to the River Rhine in 1883. The critic Eduard Hanslick pronounced it ‘artistically the most nearly perfect' of the composer's symphonies to date.

Live at the BBC Proms: Mirga Gra\u017einyt\u0117-Tyla conducts the CBSO in Gipps, Ad\u00e8s and Brahms.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Tom McKinney

Haydn: Symphony No 103 (Drumroll)

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23 in A (K 488)

8.30

Interval: Laura Tunbridge, author of 'Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces', looks forward to Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 with Tom McKinney in a discussion about aspects of Beethoven revealed by his writings and by exploring a fundamental but often neglected facet of his music: its wit and playfulness.

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4

Elisabeth Brauss (piano)

Ben Gernon (conductor)

Drum roll please! The BBC Philharmonic returns to the Royal Albert Hall for the first time since August 2019 opening their concert of Classical masterpieces with Haydn's exuberant and life-affirming Symphony No 103, a work alert to the taste of Londoners in the 1790s and the 2020s. BBC New Generation Artist Elisabeth Brauss joins them for Mozart's intimate Piano Concerto No 23 (K 488) with its sunny outer movements enclosing a heartbreaking, melancholy adagio. Their concert ends with Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, a work that immediately opens a new chapter in symphonic writing with its dark, searching introduction giving way to an effervescent volcano of energy. Ben Gernon conducts.

Live BBC Proms: BBC Philharmonic and Ben Gernon perform Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

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Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus - overture

Alban Berg: Seven Early Songs

Maurice Ravel: La valse

c. 8.15pm INTERVAL: Petroc Trelawny talks to Gavin Plumley about Korngold and his world.

c. 8.30pm

Erich Korngold: Symphony in F sharp

Francesca Chiejina, (soprano)

Sinfonia of London, John Wilson (conductor)

The Sinfonia of London makes its much-anticipated official concert debut under John Wilson, who re-established the ensemble in 2018. Following on from their award-winning recording, this orchestral ‘army of generals' brings with it Korngold's stirring, filmic Symphony in F sharp. It's part of a musical bird's-eye view of 19th- and 20th-century Vienna that also includes the overture to Die Fledermaus and Ravel's dizzying La valse.

Live at the BBC Proms: John Wilson conducts the Sinfonia of London.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny

Gity Razaz: Mother (BBC commission: world premiere)

Malcolm Arnold: Variations for orchestra on a Theme of Ruth Gipps

Barber: Adagio

Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin - Rigaudon

Franck Angelis: Fantasie on a theme of Piazzolla - Chiquilin de Bachin

Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder - Im Treibhaus

The Mastersingers of Nuremberg - Prize Song (‘Morgenlich leuchtend in rosigem Schein')

c.8.25

Live Interval: Georgia and Petroc are joined by Rob Rinder and together they look back at some of the highlights of the last six weeks of thrilling music making at the BBC Proms 2021.

Florence Price: Symphony No.1 - ‘Juba Dance' (3rd movt)

Piazzolla: Libertango

Anibal Troilo: Sur

Peter Allen: I still call Australia home

Henry Wood: Fantasia on British Sea-Songs

Thomas Arne: Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent)

Edward Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, 'Land of Hope and Glory

Hubert Parry: Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)

The National Anthem (arr. Britten)

Auld lang syne

Stuart Skelton, tenor

Ksenija Sidorova, accordion

BBC Singers

Sakari Oramo, conductor

With his ‘thrilling vocal heroics' and ‘magnetic stage presence', Stuart Skelton is one of the great tenors of his generation, a regular in all the major international opera houses. The Australian singer is joined by charismatic Latvian accordionist Ksenija Sidorova for the climax of the 2021 festival - a musical celebration like no other.

Live from the BBC Proms: a stellar line-up to bring the BBC Proms 2021 to a close.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Elizabeth Alker

G　recki: Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 40

Edmund Finnis: The Centre is Everywhere

Julius Eastman: The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc

8.15: Interval: Elizabeth Alker is joined by the Lancashire born music journalist and radio presenter Stuart Maconie to discuss genre crossing, music and silence.

Dobrinka Tabakova: Suite in Old Style, ‘The Court Jester Amareu

Joseph Horovitz: Jazz Harpsichord Concerto

Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord

Rakhi Singh, violin/director

Fresh from the release of its debut recording, the dynamic Manchester Collective makes its first appearance at the Proms with a programme that draws on the musical past to help imagine a bold musical future. Award-winning harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani explodes stereotypes around his instrument in concertos by Joseph Horovitz and G　recki - the former a witty fusion of jazz colours and textures with Classical forms, the latter a musical ‘prank', motoric and defiantly playful. Also looking back to the 18th century is Dobrinka Tabakova's Suite in Old Style - a musical homage to Rameau (alias Amareu) that blends folk and Baroque details in its five contrasting movements. The concert also includes music by the black American avant-garde post- Minimalist and gay activist Julius Eastman and Novello Award-nominated composer Edmund Finnis.

Live at the BBC Proms: the Manchester Collective presents works by G\u00f3recki and Horovitz.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Anthony Payne: Spring's Shining Wake (18 mins)

Hector Berlioz: Les nuits d'退t退( 31 mins)

20.15 Interval - Anthony Payne discussing his life and career, in an archive interview with Radio 3. Then, fresh from performing in the first half, Dame Sarah Connolly joins Andrew McGregor live in the Radio 3 box to talk about her favourite Proms' artist, life under the pandemic and future plans.

20.35

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, 'Pastoral'(39 mins)

Sarah Connolly (mezzo)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

The BBC Symphony Orchestra is joined by conductor Martyn Brabbins for its second concert of the season. Anthony Payne's Spring's Shining Wake, which takes its inspiration from Frederick Delius's In a Summer Garden, is followed by Berlioz's dazzling song-cycle Les nuits d'退t退, featuring mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly. Beethoven's ‘Pastoral' Symphony No. 6 rounds off the evening.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

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Presented by Ian Skelly

Blending soul, jazz, art-pop and spoken word, singer-songwriter Moses Sumney defies traditional categories. His ever-evolving voice has channelled political rage and emotional optimism into everything from sprawling orchestral tracks to electronica. Here he performs songs from his albums Aromanticism and gr怀 in new orchestral arrangements, masterminded by Jules Buckley.

Moses Sumney (vocals)

Matt Calvert (Guitar/Synths)

Tom Mason (Bass/Bass Synth)

Rob Gentry (Keyboards)

Adam Betts (Drums/Samples)

Iain Farrington (Grand Organ)

Jules Buckley (conductor)

Moses Sumney, Ayesha K. Faines, Taiye Selasi, arranged Jules Buckley: Insula (Grae)

Moses Sumney, Noah Kardos-Fein:, arranged Jules Buckley: Virile (Grae)

Moses Sumney, Yvette, arranged Jules Buckley: Conveyor (Grae)

Moses Sumney/Paris Strother/Cameron Osteen, arranged Jochen Neuffer: Quarrel (Aromanticism)

Moses Sumney, arranged Jochen Neuffer: In Bloom (Grae)

Moses Sumney, FKJ, arranged Tim Davies: Colouour (Grae)

Moses Sumney, Adult Jazz, Daniel Lopatin, arranged Tom Trapp: Cut Me (Grae)

Moses Sumney, arranged Moses Sumney: Rank and File (Black in Deep Red, 2014)

Moses Sumney arranged Tim Davies: Bless Me (Grae)

Moses Sumney, Daniel Lopatin, Matthew Otto, arranged Jules Buckley: Bystanders (Grae)

Moses Sumney, Matthew Otto, arranged Jules Buckley: Me in 20 Years (Grae)

Moses Sumney, Dan Berglund, Esbjorn Svensson, Magnus Ostrom, arranged Tom Trapp: Gagarin (Grae)

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Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie - Bruit de tonnerre and Ritornello

Dardanus - Tambourins I & II

Castor et Pollux - ‘Tristes apprꀀts

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Symphony No. 2 in D major

Rameau: Dardanus - ‘Lieux funestes

Plat退e - Orage

Les Indes galantes - Suites d'orchestre: Entr退e les Sauvages: III. Chaconne (

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Laura Jurd: CHANT (London premiere)

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor

8.05: Interval

Andrew McGregor is joined by former NYO member and presenter Lloyd Coleman, talks to some current members of the National Youth Orchestra and hears from their digital artist in residence and composer Jessie Montgomery.

8.30: Jessie Montgomery: Banner (London premiere of chamber-orchestra version)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica

Nicola Benedetti, violin

Jonathon Heyward, conductor

Rising star Jonathon Heyward conducts the talented teenagers of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in one of the all-time symphonic greats. Propelling the symphony into the Romantic age, Beethoven's ‘Eroica' is a celebration of scope and drama, a musical depiction of heroism that surges with pioneering spirit. Nicola Benedetti is the soloist in Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 with its song-like slow movement - a work whose sardonic wit is balanced by a new lyricism that would come to dominate the composer's later works. The Prom also includes a new NYOGB commission by British composer, jazz trumpeter and former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Laura Jurd.

Live BBC Proms: The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain play classics old and new.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

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Presented by Hannah French

British saxophonist, composer, DJ and bandleader Nubya Garcia is one of the brightest of a new generation of jazz talent, drawing comparison with greats such as Sonny Rollins and Dexter Gordon. Named a ‘major voice' by The New York Times, she has devised a brand of ‘eclectic, danceable, political jazz' that draws on influences from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Tonight marks her Proms debut.

There will be no interval

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Kate Molleson

Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, BWV 552 ‘St Anne

Martin Baker: Improvisation on Bach's Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, BWV 552 ‘St Anne

Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in G major, BWV 572 (Pi耀ce d'orgue)

Martin Baker: Improvisation on Bach's Fantasia in G major, BWV 572 (Pi耀ce d'orgue)

Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582

Martin Baker: Improvisation on English Melodies

Martin Baker (organ)

When the Royal Albert Hall was officially opened in 1871, it welcomed its first audience to the sound of the mighty ‘Father' Willis organ - then powered by two steam engines. In the first of this season's two organ recitals marking the Hall's 150th anniversary, Martin Baker performs key organ works by J. S. Bach before taking them as a starting point for his own improvisations. The recital showcases the power and range of an instrument whose 9,999 pipes would stretch nine miles if laid end to end, an organ that has been played by celebrated recitalists and rock legends alike.

There will be no interval.

Live at BBC Proms: Martin Baker plays works by Bach, as well as his own improvisations.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Georgia Mann

Meyerbeer, transcr. W. T. Best Le proph耀te - Coronation March

Bach Fantasia & Fugue in C minor, BWV 537

Widor Symphony No. 5 - Allegro vivace (1st movt)

Saint-Saens Fantaisie No. 1 in E flat major

Liszt Fantasy & Fugue on ‘Ad nos, ad salutarem undam

Peter Holder, organ

Peter Holder pays tribute to centenary composer Saint-Sa뀀ns in a programme that recreates elements of the composer's legendary performances on the Royal Albert Hall organ in the opening season of 1871 and in 1880. His wide-ranging programme includes Liszt's largest organ work, written for the ‘piano melodium' (an organ-piano hybrid), and the opening movement from the most celebrated of French master Widor's 10 symphonies for organ.

There will be no interval

Live from BBC Proms: Peter Holder pays tribute to centenary composer Saint-Sa\u00ebns.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

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

Meyerbeer, transcr. W. T. Best Le proph耀te - Coronation March

Bach Fantasia & Fugue in C minor, BWV 537

Widor Symphony No. 5 - Allegro vivace (1st movt)

Saint-Saens Fantaisie No. 1 in E flat major

Liszt Fantasy & Fugue on ‘Ad nos, ad salutarem undam

Peter Holder, organ

Peter Holder pays tribute to centenary composer Saint-Sa뀀ns in a programme that recreates elements of the composer's legendary performances on the Royal Albert Hall organ in the opening season of 1871 and in 1880. His wide-ranging programme includes Liszt's largest organ work, written for the ‘piano melodium' (an organ-piano hybrid), and the opening movement from the most celebrated of French master Widor's ten symphonies for organ.

Peter Holder pays tribute to centenary composer Saint-Sa\u00ebns at the 2021 BBC Proms.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Britta Bystr怀m: Parallel Universes (BBC commission: world premiere)

Sibelius: Violin Concerto

8.30pm

Interval: Looking forward to the 'Rhenish' Symphony, Katy Hamilton talks to Petroc Trelawny about Robert Schumann's music in the context of his unstable mental health.

Robert Schumann: Symphony No.3 in E flat major 'Rhenish

Liza Ferschtman (violin)

John Storg倀rds (conductor)

Liza Ferschtman makes her BBC Proms debut with the BBC Philharmonic and their Chief Guest Conductor John Storg倀rds in Sibelius's Violin Concerto, which seemingly opens with the breath of a mystical legend and ends with what one commentator described as ‘a Polonaise for polar bears'.

The programme opens with a new BBC commission from Swedish composer Britta Bystr怀m inspired by Cosmologist Max Tegmark's notion of a ‘hierarchical multiverse', and closes with Schumann's uplifting third Symphony, the 'Rhenish'.

Live BBC Proms: BBC Philharmonic with John Storg\u00e5rds in Schumann and Britta Bystr\u00f6m.

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Presented by Petroc Trelawny from Cadogan Hall, London.

BBC New Generation Artist Ema Nikolovska and pianist Malcolm Martineau invite you to step into Pauline Viardot's salon for a lunchtime recital of music by the 19th-century composer and her dazzling friends and contemporaries.

Pauline Viardot: Canzonetta de concert

Brahms: Fünf Lieder, Op. 94 - No.4: Sapphische Ode

Sieben Lieder, Op. 48 - No. 1: Der Gang zum Liebchen

Clara Schumann: Volkslied

Lorelei

Liszt: Vergiftet sind meine Lieder

Comment, disaient-ils

Pauline Viardot: Six chansons du XVe si耀cle - No. 1: ‘Aimez-moi

Mar퀀a Malibrကn: La voix qui dit: je t'aime

Manuel Garc퀀a: Es corredor

Meyerbeer: Le proph耀te - ‘Donnez pour une pauvre  me

Pauline Viardot: Le dernier sorcier - ‘Coulez, gouttes fines' (Chanson de la pluie)

Faur退: La chanson du pꀀcheur (Lamento)

Pauline Viardot: The Tit

Tchaikovsky: My genius, my angel, my friend

Pauline Viardot: On Georgian hills

chaikovsky: 12 Romances, Op. 60 - No. 10: ‘At the window, in the shadow ‘

Pauline Viardot: Zalotna (La coquette)

Ema Nikolovska, mezzo-soprano

Malcolm Martineau, piano

A household name across Europe during the late 19th century, Pauline Viardot was an international opera star by 18, studied the piano with Liszt, played duets with Chopin, charmed Saint-Sa뀀ns, Berlioz, Gounod and the writer Turgenev, and hosted the greatest musical salon of her day. She was also a fine composer, though one still heard too rarely today. BBC New Generation Artist Ema Nikolovska and pianist Malcolm Martineau invite you to step into Viardot's drawing room for a lunchtime recital of music by Viardot, her friends and her contemporaries - including Gounod, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Chopin.

Live from the BBC Proms: a song recital by Ema Nikolovska with pianist Malcolm Martineau.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall

Presented by Georgia Mann

JS Bach: Goldberg Variations

Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

‘Is it a coded message, an exercise in numerology? Is it a glorious attempt to marry old and new, or is it a nocturnal, private, fanciful tale?' Russian-born Pavel Kolesnikov asked these questions and more when he took up the challenge of deciphering one of the undeniable peaks of the piano repertoire, Bach's ‘Goldberg' Variations. And, going by the judgement of The Guardian, which declared that Kolesnikov's recent recording of the work ‘stands alone' - the Russian-born pianist has found some answers. Bach's beguiling sequence of a gentle Aria followed by 30 miniature variations was designed ‘for the refreshment of the spirits', a mindful mix from the 18th century.

There will be no interval.

Live at the BBC Proms: Pavel Kolesnikov plays Bach's Goldberg Variations.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

First broadcast on Monday from Cadogan Hall, London.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Alexander von Zemlinsky: Clarinet Trio in D minor, Op. 3

Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114

Michael Collins (clarinet)

Adrian Brendel (cello)

Michael McHale (piano)

Celebrated British clarinettist Michael Collins is joined by cellist Adrian Brendel and pianist Michael McHale to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Austrian composer Alexander von Zemlinsky. Charged with fin-de-si耀cle intensity and taut musical drama, the young Zemlinsky's Clarinet Trio was much influenced by Brahms, at whose recommendation it was published. A contemporary said of Brahms's own Trio in A minor that ‘it is as though the instruments are in love with each other'. With its graceful waltz of an intermezzo and dashing finale with hints of Gypsy swagger, it's a musical love affair played out in glorious technicolour.

Live BBC Proms: Michael Collins, Adrian Brendel and Michael McHale celebrate Zemlinsky.

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Presented by Petroc Trelawny from Cadogan Hall, London.

Josquin des Prez: Praeter rerum seriem

Sethus Calvisius: Praeter rerum seriem

Josquin des Prez: Benedicta es, caelorum Regina

Adriaan Willaert: Benedicta es, caelorum regina

Josquin des Prez: Inviolata, integra et casta es

Vicente Lusitano: Inviolata, integra et casta es

British vocal ensemble the Marian Consort makes its Proms debut with a concert celebrating Renaissance master Josquin des Prez 500 years after his death. In a season of musical borrowings, three of Josquin's greatest motets, all drawing on pre-existing material, are paired with three musical homages - including the kaleidoscopic Inviolata, integra et casta es by the first published black composer, Vicente Lusitano - that each rework Josquin's own music for a new age.

Live BBC Proms: the Marian Consort perform music by the celebrated Josquin des Prez.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Live from Cadogan Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Haydn: String Quartet in D major, Op. 64 No. 5, ‘The Lark

Robert Simpson: String Quartet No. 1

The prizewinning young Marmen Quartet, formed in 2013 at London's Royal College of Music, makes its BBC Proms debut with Haydn's vivacious ‘Lark' Quartet, which opens with a soaring violin melody that gives the work its nickname. It is also the inspiration for the String Quartet No. 1 by Robert Simpson, performed in this centenary year of his birth. Its opening draws on Haydn's own initial theme and its ingenious coda reflects Haydn's elegant simplicity, with a nod to Beethoven thrown in for good measure.

Live BBC Proms: Marmen Quartet plays Haydn's 'Lark' Quartet and Simpson's First Quartet.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Live from Cadogan Hall

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Piazzolla Histoire du tango

Piazzolla arr. Clarice Assad Maria de Buenos Aires - 'Yo soy Maria

Ramirez (arr Shibe): Antiguos dueကos de las flechas

Gringa chaqueကa

Dorotea, la cautiva

Alfonsina y el mar

Juana Azurduy

Wallis Giunta, mezzo-soprano

Adam Walker, flute

Sean Shibe, guitars

Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Sean Shibe has been breaking down musical boundaries and winning awards since he erupted onto the classical music scene almost a decade ago. Now the young guitarist makes his much-anticipated Proms debut, joining forces with flautist Adam Walker and mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta for a concert celebrating the centenaries of two Argentine composers. Songs by Ariel Ram퀀rez follow Astor Piazzolla's Histoire du tango - tracing the dance's colourful history from its origins in the bordellos of Buenos Aires via caf退s and nightclubs to the contemporary concert hall.

Live at the BBC Proms: Sean Shibe makes his Proms debut in a celebration of Argentina.

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First broadcast on Monday from Cadogan Hall, London.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Camille Saint?Sa뀀ns: Oboe Sonata

Ruth Gipps: Sea-Shore Suite

Henri Dutilleux: Oboe Sonata

Francis Poulenc: Oboe Sonata

Olivier Stankiewicz (oboe)

Huw Watkins (piano)

A triptych of 20th-century sonatas by Saint-Sa뀀ns, Dutilleux and Poulenc forms the heart of this Anglo-French programme. The cool lines of Saint-Sa뀀ns's neo-Classical sonata give way to the edgier, mercurial beauty of Dutilleux's, while the Poulenc pays musical homage to its dedicatee, Sergey Prokofiev, ending with a ravishing lament. Ruth Gipps's vivid Sea-Shore Suite completes the recital.

Live at the BBC Proms: Olivier Stankiewicz and Huw Watkins play 20th-century oboe music.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Ian Skelly

Shostakovich: Festive Overture, Op 96

Mahler: Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor

Mark Wigglesworth, conductor

After a year in which venues fell quiet and orchestras downsized, tonight's Prom is a celebration of all an orchestra can do. A specially assembled Proms Festival Orchestra - made up of leading freelance musicians and conducted by Mark Wigglesworth - performs two colourful showpieces of the repertoire. Shostakovich's Festive Overture bubbles over with a fresh exuberance that reflects the fact that its composer wrote it in two days flat.

Mahler's Fifth Symphony spans an expressive chasm from the Funeral March of the first movement to a precariously unhinged Scherzo via the work's lingering, lyrical soul: the heartrendingly beautiful Adagietto, written as a musical love letter to his wife Alma.

There will be no interval.

Live from the BBC Proms: the Proms Festival Orchestra and Mark Wigglesworth play Mahler.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas

Purcell, arr. Stokowski: When I am laid in earth (Dido's Lament)

c. 7.35pm

Elizabeth Ogonek: Cloudline (BBC co-commission: world premiere)

c. 7.50pm

Saint?Sa뀀ns: Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor, Op 33

c. 8.10pm

Interval: Katy Hamilton talks to Nicola Heywood Thomas about tonight's programme and looks forward to highlights of the week ahead.

c. 8.35pm

Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor, Op 98

Guy Johnston (cello)

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Musical borrowings, reworkings and reinventions run through this season's Proms. The invisible thread linking tonight's concert really begins with Bach. A lilting chaconne from his Cantata No. 150 underpins the finale of Brahms's Symphony No. 4, and the latter's elegant synthesis of heart and head is itself the inspiration for American composer Elizabeth Ogonek's Cloudline, a lyrical homage to ancient musical forms and techniques. The chaconne's repeating patterns are echoed elsewhere in the circling bass line of Purcell's powerful Lament from Dido and Aeneas. Cellist Guy Johnston is the soloist in anniversary-composer Saint-Sa뀀ns's Cello Concerto No 1.

Live BBC Proms: Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Guy Johnston

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Presented by Ian Skelly

Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture ‘Coriolan

Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor

20.05

INTERVAL: Ian Skelly takes an oblique view of the music in tonight's programme.

20.25

Felix Mendelssohn

Symphony No. 3 in A minor, 'Scottish'(40 mins)

Kirill Gerstein (piano)

Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

Russian-American pianist Kirill Gerstein returns to the Proms following his thrilling 2017 performance of Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto, rekindling his partnership with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the holder of the orchestra's Günter Wand Conducting Chair, Semyon Bychkov.

Live from the BBC Proms: BBC SO and Semyon Bychkov perform Schumann and Mendelssohn.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture ‘Coriolan

Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor

INTERVAL: Ian Skelly takes an oblique view of the music in tonight's programme.

Felix Mendelssohn

Symphony No. 3 in A minor, 'Scottish' (40 mins)

Kirill Gerstein (piano)

Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

Russian-American pianist Kirill Gerstein returns to the BBC Proms following his thrilling 2017 performance of Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto, rekindling his partnership with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the holder of the orchestra's Günter Wand Conducting Chair, Semyon Bychkov.

Another chance to hear Mendelssohn's 'Scottish' Symphony and Schumann's Piano Concerto.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Ian Skelly

Grace-Evangeline Mason: The Imagined Forest (BBC co-commission with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra: world premiere)

Dvo?ကk: Cello Concerto in B minor

c. 8.25pm

Interval

Pianist David Owen Norris explores musical re-workings through the centuries.

c. 8.45pm

Richard Strauss: Don Juan

Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)

Conductor Domingo Hindoyan

Former BBC Young Musician winner Sheku Kanneh-Mason returns to the Proms as the soloist in Dvo?ကk's Cello Concerto. A new Proms commission written for the Royal Albert Hall's 150th anniversary by former BBC Young Composer winner Grace-Evangeline Mason contrasts with two scintillating orchestral showpieces - Hindemith's jovial reworking of themes by Weber for what was initially intended as a ballet, and Richard Strauss's colourful take on the Spanish lothario Don Juan. The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra makes its first Proms appearance under its new Chief Conductor, Domingo Hindoyan.

Live BBC Proms: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Domingo Hindoyan and Sheku Kanneh-Mason

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Penny Gore.

Oliver Knussen: The Way to Castle Yonder

Henry Purcell: Three Consorts (1680) transcr. Benjamin; world premiere

Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major

George Benjamin: Concerto for Orchestra (World Premiere - BBC co-commission with Mahler Chamber Orchestra)

Pierre?Laurent Aimard (piano)

Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Sir George Benjamin (conductor)

When the 20-year-old George Benjamin's Ringed by the Flat Horizon was performed at the Proms in 1980, it marked an arrival for a precociously talented young composer. Now established as one of the greats of his generation, he returns to conduct regular collaborators, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, in a concert featuring Ravel's jazz-infused Piano Concerto, an operatic ‘pot-pourri' by his friend, the late Oliver Knussen, the world premiere of his own Concerto for Orchestra and his new re-workings of Fantasias by Purcell, the ‘English Orpheus'.

Live at the BBC Proms: the Mahler Chamber Orchestra conducted by Sir George Benjamin.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Ian Skelly

Handel: Cantata 'Donna, che in ciel

J S Bach: Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4

c. 8.25pm

Interval

Guest Suzanne Aspden discusses Handel's time in Italy as a young composer and how it shaped his work.

c. 8.45pm

Handel: Dixit Dominus

Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano)

Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Sir John Eliot Gardiner makes his 60th Proms appearance directing his own Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Handel's vividly theatrical Dixit Dominus - a concerto for choir that blazes with virtuosity and colour. It's paired with Bach's Easter cantata Christ lag in Todes Banden - a fiery, dramatic setting of Luther's popular hymn. Mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg is the soloist in the young Handel's cantata of praise to the Virgin Mary, Donna, che in ciel, containing music the composer later borrowed for his opera Agrippina.

Live at the BBC Proms: Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts music by Bach and Handel

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments

Stravinsky: Symphony in C

Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements

Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

The London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle mark 2021's Stravinsky anniversary with a series of symphonic snapshots. We follow Stravinsky's view of the symphony from the experimental, colour-blocked ‘ritual' of the Symphonies of Wind Instruments, through the transitional Symphony in C - reflecting both the composer's European past and his American future - to arrive at the bold Symphony in Three Movements.

Live BBC Proms: Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra perform Stravinsky.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Tom Service

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

8.25: Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Stravinsky's ‘The Firebird' suite

8.45: The Firebird Suite (1945)

Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

Tom Service, presenter

Nicholas Collon, conductor/presenter

Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra's from-memory performances have become a thrilling recent fixture of the Proms. Now, following symphonies by Beethoven, Brahms, Shostakovich and Berlioz, they tackle their most audacious challenge yet: a complete performance of the colourful 1945 suite from Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird. Russian fairy tales and folk melodies collide with Stravinsky's bold musical modernism to create a memorable score. Radio 3 presenter Tom Service introduces the work from the stage, exploring its textures and themes and dismantling its intricate musical narrative with the help of Collon and his musicians. The concert opens with another Russian classic: Rachmaninov's virtuosic Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, with former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Pavel Kolesnikov as soloist.

Live at the BBC Proms: Stravinsky and Rachmaninov performed by the Aurora Orchestra.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Kate Molleson

Pergolesi: Stabat Mater

c. 8.15pm

Interval: Pianist and musicologist Caroline Rae joins Kate to discuss commedia dell'arte, the Italian comic theatre tradition that inspired Stravinsky as well as his contemporaries Picasso and Diaghilev.

c. 8.40pm

Stravinsky: Pulcinella

Carolyn Sampson, soprano

Tim Mead, countertenor

Benjamin Hulett, tenor

Simon Shibambu, bass-baritone

Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Can a composer reuse the past and at the same time move in a forward direction? It's the question that goes to the heart of Igor Stravinsky's music - works that often take their inspiration from historical models but remain defiantly, distinctively modern. Conductor Martyn Brabbins joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to mark the 50th anniversary of Stravinsky's death with a concert pairing the composer's ballet Pulcinella - a witty, charming take on Baroque dance and commedia dell'arte - with the heart-rending Stabat mater by Pergolesi, whose music inspired it.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC SSO and Martyn Brabbins perform Stravinsky's Pulcinella.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Hannah French

Josquin des Prez: Qui habitat in adiutorio altissimi (a 24)

Thomas Tallis: Loquebantur variis linguis

Ken Burton: Many Are the Wonders

Hildegard von Bingen: O viridissima virga

Cl退ment Janequin: Le chant des oiseaux

Bernard Hughes: Birdchant (BBC commission: world premiere)

Igor Stravinsky: Tres sacrae cantiones - Illumina nos

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Je sens en moy une flamme nouvelle

Nico Muhly: A New Flame (after Sweelinck) (BBC commission: world premiere)

William Byrd: Ave verum corpus

Roderick Williams: Ave verum corpus Re-imagined

Shiva Feshareki: Aetherworld (BBC commission: world premiere)

Shiva Feshareki - turntables/immersive electronics

Liam Byrne - viola da gamba

Stuart King - bass clarinet

Tom Rogerson - synthesizer

Delia Stevens - percussion

Kit Downes - organ

Sofi Jeannin - conductor

Experimental composer and turntablist Shiva Feshareki joins Sofi Jeannin and the BBC Singers for a choral playlist colliding the Renaissance with the present day. Works by Hildegard of Bingen, Byrd and Josquin are woven into a continuous musical sequence with pieces by Stravinsky, Feshareki, Nico Muhly and Roderick Williams. Old and new, acoustic and electronic, sacred and secular come together in this musical kaleidoscope.

Live at BBC Proms: The BBC Singers and Sofi Jeannin perform with Shiva Feshareki.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Rodgers: Overture - South Pacific

Berlin: There's No Business Like Show Business (Annie Get Your Gun)

Gershwin/Porter: The Rhythm's Alright with Me (‘I got rhythm' and ‘It's alright with me')

Porter: You're The Top (Anything Goes)

Rodgers & Hart: My Funny Valentine (Babes in Arms)

Rodgers & Hammerstein: Oh, what a beautiful morning! (Oklahoma!)

Rodgers: (When I Marry) Mister Snow (Carousel)

Rodgers: Some Enchanted Evening (South Pacific)

Rodgers: Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (On Your Toes)

c.8.20pm

Live Interval: Petroc is joined by the musical director Allyson Devenish to discuss what made the Golden Age of Broadway shine.

Loewe: Overture - Gigi

Loewe: Show Me (My Fair Lady)

Loewe: On the Street Where You Live (My Fair Lady)

Loewe: I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face (My Fair Lady)

Gershwin: Someone to Watch Over Me (Oh Kay!)

Gershwin: Promenade - Walking the Dog (Shall We Dance)

Loesser: Joey, Joey, Joey (The Most Happy Fella)

Kern: All the Things You Are (Very Warm for May)

Porter: You're Sensational (High Society)

Martin/ Blane: The Trolley Song (Meet Me in St Louis)

Porter: Who wants to be a Millionaire? (High Society)

Louise Dearman (singer)

Katie Hall (singer)

Nadim Naaman (singer)

Jamie Parker (singer)

Richard Balcombe (conductor)

Smell the greasepaint and feel the blaze of those Broadway lights, as the BBC Concert Orchestra whisks you away for a night at the musicals. The toe-tapping favourites include songs from musicals including South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Anything Goes, Annie Get Your Gun and High Society, all performed by the ever-versatile BBC Concert Orchestra - and some special guest soloists.

Live BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra and Richard Balcombe perform classic Broadway songs.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas.

Francesca Caccini: La liberazione di Ruggiero - suite

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

Fidelio - Gott! welch Dunkel hier! - In des Lebens Fru?hlingstagen

Fidelio - ‘O namenlose Freude!

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice - ‘Che far  senza Euridice?

Puccini: La boh耀me - ‘Che gelida manina

La boh耀me - ‘S쀀. Mi chiamano Mim쀀

La boh耀me - ‘O soave fanciulla

8.20: Interval: Flora Willson joins Nicola Heywood Thomas to survey highlights of the Proms week ahead.

Bizet: Carmen - overture

Carmen - ‘La fleur que tu m'avais jet退e

Handel: Rodelinda - ‘Io t'abbraccio

Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel - ‘Der kleine Sandmann bin ich

Hansel and Gretel - ‘Abends, will ich schlafen gehn

Hansel and Gretel - Dream Pantomime

Janက?ek: Jen?fa - closing scene

Sally Matthews (soprano)

Natalya Romaniw (soprano)

Nardus Williams (soprano)

Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano)

Nicky Spence (tenor)

Freddie De Tommaso (tenor)

Ben Glassberg (conductor)

An evening of opera excerpts on the themes of separation and reconciliation.

A host of British opera stars join Ben Glassberg and the BBC Philharmonic for a night rich in emotion and drama. After a year of lockdowns and social distancing, the themes of isolation and loneliness as well as the joy of reunion have particular poignancy in excerpts from much-loved operas including Handel's Rodelinda, Beethoven's Fidelio, Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel and Puccini's La boh耀me.

Live at BBC Proms: an opera gala with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Ben Glassberg.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Ian Skelly

Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 in D major, 'Classical

Bach: Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056

8:00: Interval

Ian Skelly talks to tonight's soloist V퀀kingur Ӏlafsson and is joined live by Tasmin Little to discuss tonight's Prom.

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K 491

Shostakovich: Symphony No 9 in E flat major

V퀀kingur Ӏlafsson, piano

Paavo J䀀rvi, conductor

Award-winning Icelandic pianist V퀀kingur Ӏlafsson makes his much-anticipated Proms debut, as soloist in both Bach's Keyboard Concerto in F minor, whose energised outer movements frame a ravishing central Adagio, and Mozart's pioneering Piano Concerto K491, a rare minor-key work whose stormy, richly orchestrated music climaxes in a relentless dance. The Philharmonia Orchestra and Estonian conductor Paavo J䀀rvi frame the concert with two symphonies: Prokofiev's playful ‘Classical' Symphony, with its clever juxtaposition of traditional forms and contemporary colours, and the more loaded irony of Shostakovich's compact Symphony No. 9.

Live BBC Proms: V\u00edkingur \u00d3lafsson and the Philharmonia Orchestra play Bach and Mozart.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

c.7.45pm

Respighi: Concerto gregoriano

c.8.15pm

Live Interval: Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch discusses the role of music in the Reformation and how the English tradition differs from the Continental.

c.8.40

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D major, 'Reformation

Sayaka Shoji, violin

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor Vasily Petrenko appears for the first time at the Proms in his new role as Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. They are joined by Japanese violinist Sayaka Shoji for Respighi's Concerto gregoriano - a spiritual serenade in which the soloist becomes a wordless cantor, whose plainsong-inspired melodies soar over the orchestra. Two more tributes to the musical past complete the programme: Vaughan Williams's haunting Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis takes inspiration from Tudor polyphony, while Mendelssohn's youthful ‘Reformation' Symphony climaxes in Martin Luther's stirring chorale ‘A mighty fortress is our God'.

Live at the BBC Proms: Vasily Petrenko conducts RPO and violinist Sayaka Shoji.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley.

Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes

c.7.55pm

Walton: Cello Concerto

c.8.25pm

Live Interval: Art historian and New Generation Thinker Christina Faraday talks to Martin Handley about the Isenheim Altarpiece, a masterpiece of the Northern Renaissance by the painter Matthias Grünewald, which inspired Hindemith to write Mathis der Maler

c.8.50pm

JS Bach: 14 Canons (Goldberg Variations) arr F.Goldmann (UK premiere)

c.9.05pm

Hindemith: Symphony 'Mathis der Maler

Steven Isserlis, cello

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Vladimir Jurowski, conductor

Vladimir Jurowski makes his final appearance as the London Philharmonic Orchestra's Principal Conductor after nearly 20 years in a concert of the 20th-century repertoire he has championed so passionately during his time in London. The rise of Nazism is the catalyst for both Stravinsky's ballet Jeu de cartes (‘Card Game'), in which forces of good triumph over the wicked Joker, and Hindemith's symphony Mathis der Maler (‘Mathis the Painter'), in which the demons and angels of the Isenheim Altarpiece are vividly dramatised. Walton's rhapsodic Cello Concerto takes us forwards to the 1950s and the end of the composer's career.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor.

Wagner: Tristan and Isolde

17.00: Act 1

18.25: Interval: Andrew McGregor discusses the legend of Tristan and Isolde with Cornish myths expert Simon Vage. Also, he'll be joined in the Radio 3 box by Nigel Simeone to explain how these myths were shaped by Wagner in this opera and how the piece influenced composers like Debussy and Berg, among others.

18.50: Act 2

20.10: Interval: Andrew McGregor is joined by Natasha Walter to discuss Wagner's women.

20.35: Act 3

Tristan: Simon O'Neill, tenor

Isolde: Miina-Liisa V䀀rel䀀, soprano

Brang䀀ne: Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano

Kurwenal: Shen Yang, baritone

King Mark: John Relyea, bass

Melot: Neal Cooper, tenor

Shepherd/Young Sailor: Stuart Jackson, tenor

Glyndebourne Festival Opera

London Philharmonic Orchestra

conductor

I am still looking for a work with as dangerous a fascination, with as terrible and sweet an infinity as Tristan,' Nietzsche wrote of Wagner's great love tragedy. A story about longing and yearning, about an unresolved and unresolvable love, expressed in music that famously denies us resolution until its very final bars, the opera still exerts the same fascination today. Glyndebourne Music Director Robin Ticciati conducts an international cast in a concert performance marking 60 years of the company's appearances at the Proms.

Live at BBC Proms: the Glyndebourne Opera of Wagner's Tristan, conducted by Robin Ticciati

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