Episodes
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BBC Proms At Dewsbury | 20230806 | Former BBC Young Musician of the Year Laura van der Heijden and pianist J ms Coleman present a programme of 20th- and 21st-century music for cello and piano. Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata is a work suffused with the mystical spirit of Russian Orthodoxy. That spiritual journey in sound becomes a spatial one in Lara Weaver's A Thing That Holds - an exploration of the cello as a vessel that contains and releases. This season's spotlight on Croatian composer Dora Peja?evi? continues with the composer's Cello Sonata, with echoes of Brahms and Mendelssohn running through its melody-filled movements. The concert opens with Rachmaninov's lyrical Vocalise. Rachmaninov, arr. Raphael Wallfisch: Vocalise Peja?evi?: Cello Sonata INTERVAL: Ian McMillan talks to fellow poet Helen Mort Lara Weaver: A Thing That Holds Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata Laura van der Heijden, cello J ms Coleman, piano Presented by Tom McKinney. Cellist Laura van der Heijden and pianist J\u00e2ms Coleman perform live at Dewsbury Town Hall. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Best Proms Encores 2023 | 20230909 | Keelan Carew presents a sequence of some of the best encores from the 2023 BBC Proms season, from Yuja Wang to Pekka Kuusisto. Augustin Hadelich: Wild Fiddler's Rag by Howdy Forrester (Prom 59) Felix Klieser: 3rd movement of Mozart's Horn Concerto No 2 (Prom 24) Stile Antico: Thomas Weelkes's Hosanna to the son of David (Proms at Londonderry) Annelien Van Wauwe: Stravinsky's Pieces for clarinet solo, No.3 (Prom 21) Elena Urioste: Somewhere over the Rainbow by Harold Arlen, arr. Poster (Prom 7) James Ehnes: Allegro assai from JS BAch's Sonata No 3 in C major (Prom 26) Yuja Wang: Tea for Two by Vincent Youmans, arr. Art Tatum (Prom 27) John Wilson and Sinfonia of London: George Gershwin's Three Preludes, No. 2 arr. Nelson Riddle (Prom 30) Benjamin Grosvenor: The Swan from Saint Saens'Carnival of the Animals (Prom 3) Pekka Kuusisto + Proms audience: the traditional song, Piupali Paupali arr. Nico Muhly (Prom 4) The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 1: First Night Of The Proms | 20230714 | Live at the BBC Proms: Paul Lewis joins the the BBC Singers, Symphony Chorus and Orchestra with conductor Dalia Stasevska in music by Grieg, Sibelius, Bohdana Frolyak and Britten. Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Sibelius: Finlandia Bohdana Frolyak: Let There Be Light - BBC commission: world premiere Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor c.7.45pm INTERVAL Lesley Manville joins Petroc and Georgia live in the Radio 3 box c.8.05pm Sibelius: Sn怀frid Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Paul Lewis, piano Lesley Manville, narrator BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Dalia Stasevska, conductor The 2023 BBC Proms season gets off to a whirlwind start with a series of Nordic delights - from Grieg's passionate Piano Concerto to Sibelius's rousing statement of national identity, Finlandia. Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra introduces each section of the orchestra from strings to timpani and is packed with earworms for all ages. Plus, a world premiere from Ukrainian composer, Bohdana Frolyak, about light which has to defeat darkness. Live at the BBC Proms: Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC Singers and Symphony Orchestra. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 10: Horrible Histories: 'orrible Opera | 20230722 | Live at the BBC Proms: The English National Opera and conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson dive into the Horrible History of Opera, including music by Mozart, Puccini and Rossini. Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Mozart: The Magic Flute - Queen of the Night's aria (The Wrath of Hell') Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyries Verdi: Macbeth - Witches' chorus (Welcome Sisters') attrib. Rossini: Cats' Duet Puccini: Turandot - Nessun dorma Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld - The Can-Can (Infernal Galop) c. 2.40 Interval: Georgia Mann talks to some of the creatives behind Horrible Histories, including composer Richie Webb who writes the madcap songs for the TV series. c. 3pm Bizet: Carmen - Toreador's Song Rossini: The Barber of Seville - Here at your Service Gershwin: Porgy and Bess - Summertime Ethel Smyth: The March of the Women Philip Glass: Akhnaten - Funeral of Amenhotep III Handel: Giulio Cesare - Stormy Winds Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance - Major-General's Song (I am the very model') Richard David Caine, actor Alison Fitzjohn, actor Neal Foster, actor James McNicholas, actor Morgan Philpott, actor Jessica Ransom, actor Inel Tomlinson, actor Deborah Tracey, actor Lucie Pankhurst Movement Director Rainelle Krause, soprano Isabelle Peters, soprano Gweneth Ann Rand, soprano David Butt-Philip,Tenor Charles Rice, Baritone John Molloy, Bass The English National Opera Chorus The English National Opera Orchestra Keri-Lynn Wilson, conductor From dying divas and spellbinding sorceresses to ghosts and generals, join us for a high-decibel dive into the Horrible History of Opera. Experience the very best of music's biggest, bloodiest and most dramatic genre, and discover the stories behind some of opera's best-loved tunes in the company of your favourite Horrible Histories characters, in the 30th-anniversary year of the books by Terry Deary, illustrated by Martin Brown. Join the English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra for this specially devised concert experience, featuring music from operas including Mozart's The Magic Flute, Puccini's Turandot, Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance and Rossini's The Barber of Seville. Live at the BBC Proms: Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts the ENO in Mozart, Puccini and Rossini. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 12: Beethoven's 'choral' Symphony | 20230723 | Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus and Ryan Wigglesworth with Eleanor Dennis, Karen Cargill, Nicky Spence and Michael Mofidian. Presented by Kate Molleson, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Helen Grime: Meditations on Joy c. 7.50 Interval Kate Molleson talks about changing ideas of joy with Bidisha Mamata, writer and presenter of a podcast series about happiness for the Wellcome Collection. c. 8.10 Part Two Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'Choral Eleanor Dennis (soprano) Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano) Nicky Spence (tenor) Michael Mofidian (bass-baritone) Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor) Beethoven's mighty Choral' Symphony, with its famous Ode to Joy' finale, is performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and new Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth in the first of their two Proms together this season. The symphony's monumental, revolutionary musical statement - seizing hope and happiness from doubt and struggle - is picked up in Helen Grime's Proms commission Meditations on Joy, whose three movements are each inspired by a different poem and facet of joy. Live at the BBC Proms: Ryan Wigglesworth conducts Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, 'Choral'. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 13: Tchaikovsky's 'pathetique' Symphony | 20230724 | Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ilan Volkov perform a new piece by Catherine Lamb alongside Tchaikovsky's Path退tique' Symphony. Presented by Kate Molleson, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Catherine Lamb: Portions Transparent/Opaque c. 8.10 Interval: Nigel Simeone visits the Radio 3 Presenter's box, to talk to Kate Molleson about his pick of the Proms coming up in the next few days. c. 8.30 Part Two Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Path退tique Ilan Volkov (conductor) Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra pair a classic 19th-century symphony with the world premiere of a newly completed orchestral triptych. Premiered just days before the composer's sudden death, Tchaikovsky's Path退tique' Symphony, with its evocative subtitle, is entangled with its author's own struggles and emotions. Its passionate outpourings meet the intricate play of proportion, density and energy in American composer Catherine Lamb's mesmerising Portions Transparent/Opaque - a trio of movements inspired by colour theory that move gradually from sonic expansion to collapse. Live at the BBC Proms: Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC SSO in Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 14: Elgar's 'enigma' Variations | 20230725 | Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra & conductor Elim Chan perform Elgar, Noriko Koide, and, with pianist Jan Lisiecki, Beethoven's sparkling Piano Concerto No.3. Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Noriko Koide: Swaddling Silk and Gossamer Rain (BBC commission: European premiere) Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor Edward Elgar: Enigma' Variations Jan Lisiecki (piano) Elim Chan (conductor) The Enigma I will not explain - its `dark saying` must be left unguessed - ' So wrote Edward Elgar of his career-making Enigma' Variations. What's not in question, however, is the tender playfulness of orchestral variations inspired by the composer's friends and family, including the noble, much-loved Nimrod'. Pianist Jan Lisiecki joins Elim Chan and the BBC SO for Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 - a Romantic tussle between conflict and lyricism. The concert opens with the European premiere of Noriko Koide's silkworm-inspired Swaddling Silk and Gossamer Rain, commissioned for last year's BBC Proms Japan. Live at the BBC Proms: BBC SO & conductor Elim Chan with pianist Jan Lisiecki The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 15: Late Night: Moon And Stars | 20230725 | Live at the BBC Proms: music by Kristina Arakelyan, Claude Debussy & Hans Zimmer performed by celebrated organist Anna Lapwood. Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Kristina Arakelyan: Star Fantasy Ghislaine Reece-Trapp: In Paradisum Olivia Belli: Limina Luminis (BBC commission: world premiere) Hans Zimmer trans. Anna Lapwood: Interstellar Suite, Part 1 Stay Florence Price: Retrospection (An Elf on a Moonbeam) Philip Glass: Mad Rush Hans Zimmer trans. Anna Lapwood: Interstellar Suite, Part 2 Cornfield Chase Debussy arr. Guilmant: Andantino doucement expressif (3rd movement of String Quartet in G minor) Debussy arr. Anna Lapwood: Clair de Lune (from Suite bergamasque) Hans Zimmer trans. Anna Lapwood: Interstellar Suite, Part 3 No Time for Caution Anna Lapwood, organ A chance to hear the 9,999 pipes of the Royal Albert Hall's organ put through their paces by organist and TikTok star Anna Lapwood in her solo Proms debut. Stars shine and moonlight gleams in a late-night programme that gazes on the heavens through the eyes of Philip Glass, Claude Debussy, Kristina Arakelyan and Ghislaine Reece-Trapp. We'll travel on out into the universe with Anna's own organ version of music by film composer Hans Zimmer, all in cinematic close-up. Live at the BBC Proms: Anna Lapwood performs on the historic Royal Albert Hall organ The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 16: The Halle Perform Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony | 20230726 | Live at the BBC Proms: The Halle and conductor Sir Mark Elder in Rachmaninov's The Bells and Shostakovich's mighty Fifth Symphony. Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Rachmaninov: The Bells c.8.05 Interval: Martin Handley is joined in the Radio 3 box by Rachmaninov expert, Philip Bullock, to discuss The Bells, its origins and influences. c.8.25 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor Man退 Galoyan, soprano Dmytro Popov, tenor Andrei Kymach, baritone BBC Symphony Chorus Hall退 Choir Sir Mark Elder, conductor Rachmaninov's The Bells opens this all-Russian programme from Sir Mark Elder and the Hall退. Based on an Edgar Allan Poe poem, this magnificent choral symphony blends gothic drama with mystical intensity, haunted by the tolling of the Dies irae chant. Fear of death also lurks beneath the triumphant fanfares and jollity of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 - the composer's attempt to satisfy Stalin and the Soviet regime after his career-risking, provocative opera The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. Live at the BBC Proms: Sir Mark Elder conducts the Halle in Rachmaninov and Shostakovich. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 17: Orff's Carmina Burana | 20230727 | Live at the BBC Proms: the City of Birmingham Symphony and Choruses are conducted by Kazuki Yamada in Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms and Orff's Carmina burana. Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms interval at c.8 pm For the first part of his professional life Munich-born Carl Orff, early music pioneer and music educator, was not a terribly successful composer. But between 1932 and 1944 his income increased nearly tenfold and his greatest hit, the 1937 Carmina burana, came at a time when many of Germany's most celebrated composers and musicians had fled the Nazi regime. Erik Levi, author of the definitive 'Music in the Third Reich', explores Orff's sometimes controversial career in conversation with Martin Handley. Plus, Keelan Carew shares his first clutch of Proms highlights, all available to hear on BBC Sounds. c.8.25 pm Carl Orff: Carmina burana - cantiones profanae for soloists, chorus and orchestra Maki Mori - Soprano Matthias Rexroth - Countertenor Germကn Olvera - Baritone City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Youth Chorus and Children's Choir University of Birmingham Voices City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Kazuki Yamada - Conductor Experience the awe-inspiring power of a full orchestra with massed choir and operatic soloists. Sacred and secular collide in a Prom that unites two choral classics: Symphony of Psalms by Igor Stravinsky and Carl Orff's Carmina burana. The former offers music steeped in classical tradition yet interpreted with a fresh perspective, while the latter - with its famous O Fortuna!' opening - is an extravagant musical celebration of springtime, youth, wine and sex. Live at the BBC Proms: the City of Birmingham Symphony and Choruses perform Orff. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 18: Lata Mangeshkar: Bollywood Legend | 20230728 | Live at the BBC Proms: a tribute to Bollywood's late, great Queen of Melody,' Lata Mangeshkar, whose legendary voice was the soundtrack for an entire generation of cinema-goers. Presented by Sarah Walker and the Asian Network's Haroon Rashid with Noreen Khan on stage, live at the Royal Albert Hall, London Programme to include: Khemchand Prakash arr Nathen Durasamy: Aayega Aane Walal Aayega Madan Mohan arr Saurabh Shivakumar: Aapki Nazro Ne Samjha Jatin Pandit and Lalit Pandit arr Tim Pottier: Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna Naushad Ali arr Tim Pottier: Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya Jatin Pandit and Lalit Pandit arr Michael Seal: Kabhi Kushi Kabhie Gham (title song) RD Burman arr Tim Pottier: Bahon Mein Chale Aao Gulam Mohamed & Naushad Ali arr Tim Pottier: Chalte Chalte Yun Hi Koi Shivkumar Sharma & Hariprasad Chaurasia arr Tim Pottier: Mere Hathon Mein Nau-Nau Chudiyan Madan Mohan Kholi arr Tim Pottier: Lag Ja Gale Palak Muchhal - singer Palash Muchhal - singer Gubzy Singh Lackhanpal - percussion Parvinder Bharat - percussion City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Michael Seal - conductor Don't miss this Proms tribute to the Nightingale of India: Queen of Melody' Lata Mangeshkar, whose voice was the soundtrack for generations of cinema-goers. The legendary Bollywood playback singer died last year, aged 92. Tonight, her legacy is celebrated by Palak Muchhal, Palash Muchhal and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Together, they mark the immense career and catalogue of an extraordinary, era-defining artist. Interval: Sarah Walker and Haroon Rashid discuss Lata Mangeshkar's legacy and enduring influence, from the Radio 3 box. Live at the BBC Proms: a tribute to Lata Mangeshkar, Bollywood's 'Queen of Melody. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 19: Mendelssohn's Elijah | 20230729 | Live at the BBC Proms: Mendelssohn's dramatic oratorio performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra alongside soloists including Roderick Williams and Carolyn Sampson. Presented by Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Felix Mendelssohn: Elijah, Part 1 c. 7.30: Interval: Dr Deborah Rooke, Lecturer in Old Testament Hermeneutics at Oxford, joins Petroc Trelawny in the Radio 3 box to discuss the theological significance of the story of Elijah. c. 7.50: Elijah, Part 2 Carolyn Sampson, soprano Rowan Pierce, soprano Helen Charlston, mezzo-soprano Andrew Staples, tenor Roderick Williams, baritone Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor The Scottish Chamber Orchestra presents one of the most popular works in the British choral repertoire: Mendelssohn's Elijah. Full of earthquakes and hurricanes, fiery chariots, wicked queens and holy visions, this intensely dramatic oratorio is brought to life by the SCO's exciting young music director Maxim Emelyanychev. Live at the BBC Proms: Maxim Emelyanychev conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 2: Northern Soul | 20230715 | Stuart Maconie is on stage at the Royal Albert Hall in a celebration of British club culture, bringing a symphonic edge to the beats that took English towns across the industrial North and Midlands by storm in the 1960s and 1970s. Music arranged by Joe Duddell and Fiona Brice. Live from the Royal Albert Hall. Presented by Georgia Mann. Turnin' My Heartbeat Up - The M.V.P.'s Out on the floor - Dobie Gray I need you - Shane Martin Night Owl - Bobby Paris Gone With The Wind Is My Love - Rita & the Tiaras I Surrender - Eddie Holman Landslide - Tony Clarke Hold Back The Night - The Trammps The Drifter - Ray Pollard Sliced Tomatoes - The Just Brothers You don't know where your interest lies - Dana Valery I Never Loved her anyway - Jimmy Beaumont No One Could Love You More - Gladys Knight You're Gonna Love My Baby - Barbara McNair You're Gonna Make Me Love You - Sandi Sheldon During the interval, Stuart Maconie and Joe Duddell talk to Georgia Mann about the music in tonight's concert and about the heady days of the 60s and 70s. Exus Trek - Luther Ingram If that's What You Wanted - Frankie Beverly & The Butlers Temptation Is Calling My Name - Lee David What - Judy Street I Got To Find Me Somebody - The Velvets Better Use Your Head - Little Anthony & The Imps You didn't say a word - Yvonne Baker It Really Hurts Me Girl - The Carstairs Time - Edwin Star The Night - Frankie Valli There's a Ghost in my House - R. Dean Taylor I'm on my way - Dean Parrish Long after tonight is all over - Jimmy Radcliffe Time Will Pass You By - Tobi Legend Tainted Love - Gloria Jones Do I Love you? - Frank Wilson Singers: Vula Malinga Frida Touray Natalie Palmer Brendan Reilly Nick Shirm Darrell Smith BBC Concert Orchestra Edwin Outwater, conductor A celebration of British club culture curated by writer and broadcaster Stuart Maconie. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 20: Korngold's Violin Concerto | 20230730 | Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gustavo Gimeno, perform Prokofiev's Third Symphony and, with violinist Vadim Gluzman, Korngold's Violin Concerto. Presented by Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Bernard Herrmann: Vertigo - suite Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major c. 20.10 Interval: in conversation with Petroc Trelawny, Gillian Moore looks ahead to an exciting week of Proms coming up, highlighting her unmissable concerts. c. 20.30 Sergey Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3 in C minor Vadim Gluzman (violin) Gustavo Gimeno (conductor) Cinematic drama stalks through a concert that opens with Bernard Herrmann's suite from his score for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and continues with the luscious Romanticism of Korngold's richly melodic Violin Concerto, for which the composer - a former child prodigy - borrowed themes from his own Golden Era Hollywood scores. No stranger to the stage, if not the screen, Prokofiev in his Third Symphony drew on music from his hypnotic Symbolist opera The Fiery Angel to create a work heavy with bells, cymbals, sinister dances and flashes of musical moonlight. Spanish conductor Gustavo Gimeno makes his Proms debut, leading the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC SO, conductor Gustavo Gimeno, and violinist Vadim Gluzman. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 21: Adams, Copland And Skye (part 1) | 20230731 | Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales and conductor Ryan Bancroft perform an all-American programme, featuring clarinet soloist Annelien Van Wauwe. Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Derrick Skye: Nova Plexus Copland: Clarinet Concerto c. 8.15pm Interval: Tasmin Little meets soloist Annelien Van Wauwe, and in a candid conversation share experiences about their respective music careers. c. 8.35pm Part 2 John Adams: Harmonium Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet) Crouch End Festival Chorus Ryan Bancroft (conductor) In the first of two consecutive concerts this week, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft present an all-American Prom. Two poems by Emily Dickinson provide the starting point for Harmonium, one of John Adams's most powerful works for chorus and orchestra. Propulsive, motoric urgency gives way briefly to blissful waves of sound, before a blazing conclusion. Jazz runs through the veins of Copland's Clarinet Concerto, commissioned by King of Swing' Benny Goodman and performed here with soloist Annelien Van Wauwe. The concert opens with a world premiere from Los Angeles-based composer Derrick Skye, whose music has been described as deliciously head-spinning'. Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales and Ryan Bancroft. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 21: Adams, Copland And Skye (part 2) | 20230731 | Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales and conductor Ryan Bancroft perform John Adams's Harmonium in the second half of their all-American programme. Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London John Adams: Harmonium Crouch End Festival Chorus Ryan Bancroft (conductor) In the first of two consecutive concerts this week, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft present an all-American Prom. Two poems by Emily Dickinson provide the starting point for Harmonium, one of John Adams's most powerful works for chorus and orchestra. Propulsive, motoric urgency gives way briefly to blissful waves of sound, before a blazing conclusion. Jazz runs through the veins of Copland's Clarinet Concerto, commissioned by King of Swing' Benny Goodman and performed here with soloist Annelien Van Wauwe. The concert opens with a world premiere from Los Angeles-based composer Derrick Skye, whose music has been described as deliciously head-spinning'. Live BBC Proms: Ryan Bancroft conducts the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 22: Isata Kanneh-mason Plays Prokofiev | 20230801 | Live at the BBC Proms: Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto with Isata Kanneh-Mason and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London c.7.00pm Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3 in C major, Op 26 c.7.30pm Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 in E minor, Op 64 Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano) Ryan Bancroft (conductor) Star pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason makes her solo debut at the Proms in Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3, in which rhapsodic melody meets restless rhythmic exuberance. Meanwhile Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 wrestles with its ominous fate' motif, overpowering it first with a rapturous love theme, before finally turning darkness to light in the powerful closing movement. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft return for the second of their consecutive Proms. Live at the BBC Proms: Ryan Bancroft conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 23: Nyo Jazz (usa) With Dee Dee Bridgewater | 20230801 | Live at the BBC Proms: Carnegie Hall's National Youth Jazz Orchestra performs a collection of jazz standards, featuring the best teenage performers from across the USA. Presented by Katie Derham live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Duke Ellington trans. David Berger: Braggin' In Brass Sean Jones: The 29ers Roy Hargrove arr. David Gibson: Strasbourg/St. Denis Wycliffe Gordon: We're Still Here Mongo Santamar퀀a arr. John Clayton: Afro Blue Spencer Williams arr. John Clayton: Basin Street Blues Billie Holiday arr. Cecil Bridgewater: Fine and Mellow Duke Ellington arr. Slide Hampton: Cotton Tail Herbie Nichols arr. Edsel Gomez & Cecil Bridgewater: Lady Sings the Blues Leonard Lee arr. Frank Foster: Let the Good Times Roll Dee Dee Bridgewater, vocals NYO Jazz Sean Jones, trumpet/director NYO Jazz presents a collection of jazz standards & contemporary works exploring jazz's influence on hip-hop, R&B and pop music in this unmissable late-night performance. The group is joined by Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Dee Dee Bridgewater. Live at the BBC Proms: Dee Dee Bridgewater sings jazz standards with the USA's NYO Jazz. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 24: Felix Klieser Plays Mozart | 20230802 | Live at the BBC Proms: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and conductor Kirill Karabits in Rachmaninov's Second Symphony, and Felix Klieser plays Mozart's 4th Horn concerto. Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Ivan Karabits: Concerto for Orchestra No. 1, A Musical Gift to Kyiv' (UK premiere) Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat major c.8.15pm INTERVAL Marina Frolova-Walker, in conversation with Martin Handley, explores Rachmaninov's life and music leading up to the premiere of the second symphony. c.8.40 Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E minor Felix Klieser, horn Kirill Karabits, conductor Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 2 - a passionate, unashamedly emotional score from a man who once declared himself completely under the spell of Tchaikovsky' - is paired here with a kaleidoscopic tour of the orchestra by the Ukrainian composer Ivan Karabits, father of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's long-standing Chief Conductor, Kirill Karabits. Premiered in 1981, his Concerto for Orchestra No. 1 was written to celebrate the 1,500th anniversary of the founding of Kyiv in chiming bells, fanfares and marches: a sonic snapshot of a city in happier days. Horn virtuoso Felix Klieser makes his Proms debut with Mozart's sunny Concerto No. 4. Live at the BBC Proms: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits and Felix Klieser. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 26: Sibelius's First Symphony | 20230803 | Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC Philharmonic and their Chief Conductor John Storg倀rds in Sibelius's First Symphony. They are joined by James Ehnes for Walton's Violin Concerto. Presented by Tom McKinney, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Gerald Barry: Kafka's Earplugs (world premiere) Walton: Violin Concerto c.8.15 Interval: New Generation Thinker Noreen Masud joins Tom McKinney to discuss literary examples of nonsense and absurdity. Gerald Barry's piece is inspired by Kafka and a future Proms concert features Gy怀rgy Kurtကg's Endgame c.8.35 Sibelius: Symphony No.1 James Ehnes (violin) John Storg倀rds (conductor) The BBC Philharmonic and Chief Conductor John Storg倀rds present Sibelius's Symphony No. 1 - a thrilling glimpse of a composer emerging from the shadow of Tchaikovsky and his fellow Romantics. Canadian violinist James Ehnes is the soloist in Walton's fiercely direct Violin Concerto - a work full of song, dance and drama. The concert opens with a world premiere from heartily irreverent Irish composer Gerald Barry, focusing on Franz Kafka's obsession with wearing earplugs to silence the noise around him. In the music,' Barry says, you are Kafka, hearing the world's sounds as he heard them. You are inside his head. Live at the BBC Proms: John Storgards and the BBC Philharmonic play Sibelius and Walton. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 27: Yuja Wang Plays Rachmaninov | 20230804 | Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Klaus M䀀kel䀀 in Walton's Belshazzar's Feast. Pianist Yuja Wang joins for Rachmaninov's Paganini Rhapsody. Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Jimmy L pez Bellido: Perú negro (UK premiere) Sergey Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini c.20.25 INTERVAL: Katharine Dell, Professor of Old Testament Literature and Theology at Cambridge, joins Martin Handley in the Radio 3 box to discuss the theological significance of Belshazzar's great doom-laden feast. c.20.45 William Walton: Belshazzar's Feast Yuja Wang (piano) Thomas Hampson (baritone) BBC Symphony Chorus Klaus M䀀kel䀀 (conductor) After an extraordinary' Proms debut last season, rising-star conductor Klaus M䀀kel䀀 is reunited with sensational pianist Yuja Wang for Rachmaninov's glittering Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - its mercurial moods and technical demands a tour de force for any soloist. American baritone Thomas Hampson joins forces with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for Walton's biblical blockbuster Belshazzar's Feast - a choral symphony with an epic impact. Orchestral colour is also on display in Jimmy L pez Bellido's Perú negro - a vibrant homage to the songs, dances and traditions of Afro-Peruvian music. Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC SO, conducted by Klaus M\u00e4kel\u00e4, with pianist Yuja Wang. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 28: National Youth Orchestra Of Great Britain | 20230805 | Live at the BBC Proms: The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto play Hindemith and Copland. Soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha joins them in Strauss songs. Presented by Linton Stephens Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs c.8.15: INTERVAL Copland: Symphony No. 3 Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, soprano Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor After a stunning' debut at last year's First Night of the Proms, South African soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, winner of the Song Prize at the 2021 Cardiff Singer of the World, returns to perform in Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs - luminous musical farewells to life, love and a changing world. Drawn from the UK's finest teenage musicians, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain also performs Hindemith's jovial reworking of themes by Weber, before crossing the Atlantic for Copland's lyrical Symphony No. 3 - very symphonic and very jazzy', according to Leonard Bernstein - which incorporates his much-loved Fanfare for the Common Man as a springboard for its final movement. Live at the BBC Proms: Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts the National Youth Orchestra. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 29: Mozart's Mass In C Minor | 20230806 | Live at the BBC Proms: John Butt directs the Dunedin Consort in Mozart's magnificent Mass in C minor and before it motets by father and son, JS and CPE Bach - with soloists including Lucy Crowe, Nardus Williams and Jess Dandy. Presented by Hannah French, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. JS Bach: Sinfonia in D major, BWV 1045 JS Bach: Singet dem Herrn, BWV 225 CPE Bach: Heilig ist Gott INTERVAL c. 11.35am Conceived on a colossal scale and harking back to Baroque models, Mozart's Mass in C minor features some of the most wonderful music he ever wrote, including grand choruses and voluptuous arias (Stravinsky famously characterised Mozart's masses as rococo-operatic sweets-of-sin'). Laura Tunbridge talks to Hannah French about the circumstances behind the Mass in C minor, Mozart's often ambivalent attitude towards liturgical music and what motivated him to embark on - and then abandon - the hugely ambitious project. c.11.55am Mozart (compl. Kemme): Mass in C minor, K427 Lucy Crowe (soprano) Nardus Williams (soprano) Jess Dandy (alto) Benjamin Hulett (tenor) Robert Davies (baritone) John Butt (harpsichord/conductor) Begun to celebrate his marriage to Constanze, but left unfinished at the composer's death, Mozart's magnificent Mass in C minor can clearly be traced back to the choral writing of JS Bach and his son. Period-performance specialist John Butt and the award-winning Dunedin Consort unpack the Mass's musical genealogy, with soloists including Lucy Crowe, Jess Dandy and Nardus Williams. Live at the BBC Proms: John Butt directs the Dunedin Consort in Mozart's Mass in C minor The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 3: Benjamin Grosvenor Piano Recital | 20230716 | Live at the BBC Proms: celebrated British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor performs Debussy's Pr退lude |
Prom 30: Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto | 20230806 | Live at the BBC Proms: John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London perform Rachmaninov's famous Second Piano Concerto with soloist and new Radio 3 New Generation Artist pianist Alim Beisembayev, and Walton's First Symphony. Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Lili Boulanger: D'un matin de printemps Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor c.8.10pm INTERVAL Iain Farrington joins Georgia to look ahead to Proms highlights in the coming week. c.8.30pm Walton: Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor Alim Beisembayev, piano John Wilson, conductor John Wilson and his orchestral supergroup the Sinfonia of London return to the Proms to perform Rachmaninov's famous Second Piano Concerto with pianist and new Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Alim Beisembayev. The concert opens with Lili Boulanger's mercurial tone-poem D'un matin de printemps, composed shortly before her tragically early death at the age of only 24. Walton's First Symphony provides the arresting conclusion: a young man's musical manifesto, composed between the two World Wars, it's a white-hot outpouring of personal conflict that resolves (or does it?) into a glowing ceremonial finale. Live at the BBC Proms: John Wilson and Sinfonia of London perform Rachmaninov and Walton. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 31: Poulenc's Dialogues Of The Carmelites | 20230807 | Live at the BBC Proms: Robin Ticciati conducts Francis Poulenc's devastatingly powerful opera Dialogues of the Carmelites in a concert staging fresh from the Glyndebourne Festival. Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Poulenc: Dialogues des Carm退lites Blanche de la Force.... Sally Matthews (soprano) Madame de Croissy (Old Prioress).... Katarina Dalayman (soprnao) Madame Lidoine New Prioress.... Golda Schultz (soprano) Mother Marie of the Incarnation.... Karen Cargill (soprano) Sister Constance of Saint-Denis.... Florie Valiquette (soprano) Mother Jeanne of the Holy Child Jesus.... Fiona Kimm (mezzo-soprano) Marquis de la Force.... Paul Gay (bass-baritone) Chevalier de la Force.... Valentin Thill (tenor) Father Confessor.... Vincent Ordonneau (tenor) Jailer.... Theodore Platt (baritone) Glyndebourne Festival Opera Chorus London Philharmonic Orchestra Robin Ticciati (conductor) Act I - Act II (Sc.III) c. 8.40pm Interval: Andrew McGregor discusses Poulenc's Dialogues des Carm退lites with opera expert Sarah Lenton. c. 9.05pm Act II (Sc.IV) - Act III At the murderous height of the French Revolution, Blanche de la Force flees the violence on Paris's streets and enters the convent. But horror pursues her, and she is forced to confront her fears. Can she find the courage to live - or die? A 20th-century masterpiece, Francis Poulenc's opera Dialogues of the Carmelites is a devastatingly powerful portrait of human courage, faith and community. Robin Ticciati conducts an all-star cast including Sally Matthews and Golda Schultz in this concert-staging fresh from the Glyndebourne Festival. Live at the BBC Proms: Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites from Glyndebourne Festival The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 32: Part One, Pejacevic And Williams | 20230808 | Live at the BBC Proms: Jaime Mart퀀n conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in an overture by Pejacevic and Geneva Lewis joins as soloist in Grace Williams's Violin Concerto. Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London c. 7.00pm Peja?evi?: Overture, Op 49 G Williams: Violin Concerto c. 7.35pm Interval: Backstage Pass Tasmin Little in conversation with Radio 3 New Generation Artist violinist Geneva Lewis during her Proms debut. c. 7.55pm Holst: The Planets, Op 32 Geneva Lewis (violin) London Symphony Chorus Jaime Mart퀀n (conductor) The Planets: Holst's colourful character portraits of our Solar System's seven planets (excluding Earth) is by turns powerfully visceral and captivatingly luminous, opening with the war-like Mars' and concluding with Neptune', whose alluring sounds float off into the ether. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Jaime Mart퀀n present the suite alongside Welsh composer Grace Williams's Violin Concerto. Suppressed by Williams for many years, it is an intensely lyrical work whose bittersweet opening gives way to an ecstatic slow movement - based on a Welsh hymn tune - and a joyful finale. The concert opens with Dora Peja?evi?'s surging single gesture of an Overture, sumptuous textures married to bold, thrusting energy. 02:25 Dora Peja?evi?: Overture, Op 49 13:50 Grace Williams: Violin Concerto Live at the BBC Proms: Jaime Mart\u00edn and the BBC NOW in music by Pejacevic and Williams. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 33: Rachmaninov, Mahler-werfel And Pejacevi\u0107 | 20230809 | Live at the BBC Proms: John Storg倀rds and the BBC Philharmonic in Rachmaninov's First Symphony. Sarah Connolly joins them in songs by Alma Mahler-Werfel and Dora Peja?evi?. Presented by Tom McKinney, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Weber: Overture to Oberon (10') Peja?evi?: Zwei Schmetterlingslieder Op.52, Verwandlung Op.37, Liebeslied Op.39 (16') Alma Mahler-Werfel (orch C and D Matthews) Die stille Stadt, Licht in der Nacht, Bei dir ist es traut (9') Rachmaninov: Symphony No.1 (42') Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) John Storg倀rds (conductor) If the first-night audience was hostile to the 23-year-old Rachmaninov's First Symphony, history has been far kinder, embracing its ability to reimagine Russian musical tradition. John Storg倀rds and the BBC Philharmonic are joined by mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly for turn-of-the-century songs by Alma Mahler-Werfel and Croatia's Dora Peja?evi?, and the curtain rises with the overture to Weber's Grand Romantic and Fairy Opera', written for London's Covent Garden. 02:50 Carl Maria von Weber - Oberon: Overture 15:15 Dora Peja?evi? - Zwei Schmetterlingslieder Op.52 18:16 Dora Peja?evi? - Verwandlung Op.37 22:40 Dora Peja?evi? - Liebeslied Op.39 27:51 Alma Mahler-Werfel (orch C and D Matthews) - Die stille Stadt 30:45 Alma Mahler-Werfel (orch C and D Matthews) - Licht in der Nacht 34:35 Alma Mahler-Werfel (orch C and D Matthews) - Bei dir ist es traut 41:48 Sergey Rachmaninov - Symphony No.1 Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Philharmonic and John Storg\u00e5rds in Rachmaninov. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 34: Mindful Mix Prom | 20230809 | Live from the BBC Proms: Relax into a late-night musical meditation with Grammy-nominated vocal group VOCES8 and a playlist that drifts from the Renaissance to Radiohead. Presented by Elizabeth Alker, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Jake Runestad: Let My Love Be Heard Ola Gjeilo: Still Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 3, Mishima' - Mishima/Closing Eric Whitacre: All Seems Beautiful to Me The Rose Caroline Shaw: and the swallow (with violin solo written by Christopher Moore) Radiohead: Pyramid Song arr. G. Lawson Peter Gregson: The Day Before Ken Burton: A Prayer Arvo P䀀rt: The Deer's Cry Ubi caritas Serenity Roxanna Panufnik: Floral Tribute (BBC co-commission: world premiere) William Byrd: Diliges Dominum Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei Ola Gjeilo, piano Carducci String Quartet (Matthew Denton, Michelle Fleming, violins; Eoin Schmidt-Martin, viola, Emma Denton, cello) Ruby Aspinall, harp Relax into a late-night musical meditation with Grammy-nominated vocal group VOCES8 and a playlist that drifts from the Renaissance to Radiohead. This Prom explores the universal, timeless themes of night, stillness and prayer through the lens of composers old and new, from William Byrd to Ola Gjeilo, Eric Whitacre and Caroline Shaw. Leave your troubles at the door and join us for a stress-busting, soul-nourishing treat. There will be no interval Live from the BBC Proms: VOCES8 and music that drifts from the Renaissance to Radiohead. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 35: Mahler's Seventh Symphony | 20230810 | Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo in Mahler's Symphony No. 7, 'Song of the Night', and Berg's heartbreaking Violin Concerto with soloist Leila Josefowicz. Presented by Martin Handley live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Alban Berg: Violin Concerto c. 7.50 INTERVAL Martin Handley is joined by Dr Robert Samuels, Senior Lecturer in Music at The Open University, to talk about Mahler's 7th Symphony. c. 8.10 Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E minor Leila Josefowicz (violin) Sakari Oramo (conductor) An emotionally charged programme from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo. Berg's Violin Concerto weaves quotations from Bach into music contrasting expressive Romanticism with cooler serial techniques. American-Canadian violinist Leila Josefowicz is the soloist. Every Mahler symphony is an emotional journey: his Seventh in E minor sweeps from an overcast Alpine lake through love songs, nightmares and nocturnal marches to an ear-splitting finish along with jangling cowbells and laced with pitch-black humour. Mahler called the 2nd and 4th movements 'Nachtmusik ' - often translated as 'night song'. Yet, as Leonard Bernstein commented, there is something darker afoot: 'The minute we understand that the word Nachtmusik does not mean nocturne in the usual lyrical sense, but rather nightmare that is, night music of emotion recollected in anxiety instead of tranquillitythen we have the key to all this mixture of rhetoric, camp, and shadows. * Unfortunately, Sir Andrew Davis has had to withdraw from this Prom. We are very grateful to Sakari Oramo who will replace him at short notice. Mahler Symphony No. 10 will be replaced by Mahler Symphony No. 7. Berg's Violin Concerto will still be performed as advertised.* 03:57 Alban Berg - Violin Concerto 35:00 Johann Sebastian Bach - Violin Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005 (3rd mvt) 39:19 Interval - Martin Handley is joined by Dr Robert Samuels 1:03:12 Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 7 in E minor Live at the BBC Proms: Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC SO in Mahler and Berg. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 36: A Space Odyssey | 20230811 | Live at the BBC Proms: Edward Gardner conducts the London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, RNCM Chamber Choir and Edvard Grieg Kor in music by Gy怀rgy Ligeti and Richard Strauss. Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Gy怀rgy Ligeti: Requiem c. 8.05 pm Interval: Matthew Sweet, presenter of Radio 3's programme Sound of Cinema, joins Georgia Mann to discuss the use of music in film by Stanley Kubrick. c. 8.25 pm Gy怀rgy Ligeti: Lux aeterna Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra Jennifer France (soprano) Clare Presland (mezzo-soprano) Royal Northern College of Music Chamber Choir London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra Edward Gardner (conductor) Gy怀rgy Ligeti was one of the boldest voices of the 20th century - a composer whose radical vision brought wit as well as invention to the world of contemporary classical music. Tonight, we hear two of his most famous works - the dramatic Requiem paired with the shimmering Lux aeterna, both of which featured in Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Also featured in the film was Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra, with the iconic brass opening that calls to mind the image of the sun rising over the Earth and Moon. 03:05 Gy怀rgy Ligeti - Requiem 32:58 Interval - Matthew Sweet joins Georgia Mann to discuss the use of music in film by Stanley Kubrick. 56:52 Gy怀rgy Ligeti - Lux aeterna 1:10:50 Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra Live at the BBC Proms: Edward Gardner conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 37: Budapest Festival Orchestra | 20230812 | Live at the BBC Proms: the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Ivကn Fischer are joined by Sir Andrကs Schiff in Schumann's Piano Concerto. Weber's overture to Der Freischütz and Mendelssohn's Scottish' Symphony complete the programme. Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Weber: Der Freischütz - overture Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor INTERVAL Professor John Mullan joins Ian Skelly to discuss artistic visitors to Scotland, with a focus on the 83-day journey around the western islands made in 1773 by James Boswell and Samuel Johnson. Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Scottish Sir Andrကs Schiff, piano Ivကn Fischer, conductor In the first of its three Proms this weekend, the Budapest Festival Orchestra and founder-conductor Ivကn Fischer are joined by celebrated fellow Hungarian Sir Andrကs Schiff for one of the great Romantic piano concertos - Schumann's generous, poetic bravura piece that renegotiates the relationship between soloist and orchestra. Weber's overture to Der Freischütz sees Romanticism take a supernatural turn when a huntsman makes a deal with the Devil. Darkness and light also meet in Mendelssohn's atmospheric Scottish' Symphony, inspired by a twilight visit to the Palace of Holyrood, haunted by memories of Mary, Queen of Scots. 02:16 Carl Maria von Weber - Der Freischütz: Overture 19:23 Robert Schumann - Piano Concerto in A minor 53:00 Johannes Brahms - Liebe Schwalbe, kleine Schwalbe (Zigeunerlieder, Op 112: No 4) 55:40 Robert Schumann - The Happy Farmer 57:36 Interval - Professor John Mullan joins Ian Skelly to discuss artistic visitors to Scotland 1:21:45 Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No 3 in A minor, Scottish Live at the BBC Proms: the Budapest Festival Orchestra with Andr\u00e1s Schiff and Iv\u00e1n Fischer The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 38: Audience Choice | 20230813 | Live at the BBC Proms: The Budapest Festival Orchestra and conductor Ivကn Fischer perform music chosen by the audience. Presented by Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Tearing up the rulebook at this year's Proms are the Budapest Festival Orchestra and conductor Ivကn Fischer, who - for one day only - hand over the reins to the Proms audience. We can't tell you what you'll hear at this concert, because we don't know yet. Be there on the day to have your say over which of more than 200 classical pieces the ensemble will play at a moment's notice. It's a spectacle unlike any other - all woven together by members of the orchestra, bringing a bit of extra Hungarian flair to proceedings. Ivကn Fischer, conductor Live at the BBC Proms: The Budapest Festival Orchestra with conductor Iv\u00e1n Fischer. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 39: Ligeti, Bart\u00f3k And Beethoven | 20230813 | Live at the BBC Proms: the Budapest Festival Orchestra, with pianist Andrကs Schiff and conductor Ivကn Fischer, play Ligeti, Bart k and Beethoven. Presented by Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Gy怀rgy Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre B退la Bart k: Piano Concerto No. 3 c. 8.10: INTERVAL Petroc Trelawny is joined by musicologist Professor Nigel Simeone for a look ahead to Proms highlights in the coming week. c. 8.30: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Eroica Anna-Lena Elbert, soprano Sir Andrကs Schiff, piano Ivကn Fischer, conductor Ivကn Fischer, his Budapest Festival Orchestra and soprano Anna-Lena Elbert mark the 100th anniversary of one of the 20th century's great originals with Mysteries of the Macabre - three arias from Ligeti's opera Le Grand Macabre that explode in a cartoonish riot of irony and remarkable technique. Meanwhile Sir Andrကs Schiff is the soloist in Bart k's Third Piano Concerto, an exquisite, elegiac musical farewell. Beethoven's Eroica' Symphony ends the programme: a passionate, provocative statement of musical and human possibility. 03:00 Gy怀rgy Ligeti - Mysteries of the Macabre 22:48 B退la Bart k - Piano Concerto No 3 49:22 B退la Bart k - Rondo No 1 (Three Rondos on Slovak Folk Tunes) 53:15 Interval - Petroc Trelawny is joined by musicologist Professor Nigel Simeone 1:17:35 Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No 3 in E flat major, Eroica Live at the BBC Proms: the Budapest Festival Orchestra, conducted by Iv\u00e1n Fischer. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 4: Vivaldi's The Four Seasons | 20230716 | Live at the BBC Proms: Finnish violinist and conductor Pekka Kuusisto leads The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in a concert of works by Beethoven, Vivaldi and Andrea Tarrodi. Presented by Hannah French, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Andrea Tarrodi: Birds of Paradise Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C major Interval Violinist Rachel Podger talks to Hannah French about Vivaldi, and her experience performing Vivaldi's music on period instruments with her ensemble Brecon Baroque. Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (interspersed with folk music improvisations) Ale Carr, cittern Pekka Kuusisto, violin/conductor Finnish violinist and conductor Pekka Kuusisto leads one of Europe's top chamber orchestras, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, in a Prom part-inspired by the natural world. A BBC documentary was the starting point for Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi's Birds of Paradise, whose iridescent colours and sharp textural contrasts capture the exotic birds. Closer to home, a cuckoo calls out in Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, whose pastoral scenes are heard as never before here - interspersed with folk music improvisations by Kuusisto and citternist Ale Carr. Beethoven's youthful First Symphony forms the beating heart of the programme. Live at the BBC Proms: Pekka Kuusisto leads the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 40: Martin Helmchen Plays Brahms | 20230814 | Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo perform Dora Peja?evi?'s Symphony and, with pianist Martin Helmchen, Brahms's Piano Concerto No 2. Presented by Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major c. 20.15 INTERVAL Leah Broad talks to Petroc Trelawny about the life and work of Dora Peja?evi?, born into Hungarian-Croatian aristocracy at the end of the 19th century and who blazed a trail for Croatian music. 20.40 Dora Peja?evi?: Symphony in F sharp minor Martin Helmchen (piano) Sakari Oramo (conductor) Award-winning German pianist Martin Helmchen makes his Proms debut as soloist in Brahms's Second Piano Concerto, a vast work full of mercurial mood swings and technical demands. The concerto's late-Romantic spirit and generous scope find an echo in Dora Peja?evi?'s Symphony in F sharp minor, richly scored and resplendent with brass. Composed during the First World War, when Peja?evi? worked as a nurse, the work receives its Proms premiere by Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra following their critically acclaimed recording. 02:37 Johannes Brahms - Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major 53:30 Johannes Brahms - Intermezzo In A Major, Op 118 No 2 1:00:23 Interval - Leah Broad talks to Petroc Trelawny about the life and work of Dora Peja?evi? 1:24:34 Dora Peja?evi? - Symphony in F sharp minor Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC SO conducted by Sakari Oramo with pianist Martin Helmchen. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 41: Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto | 20230815 | Live at the BBC Proms: pianist Alexandre Kantorow joins the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Vasily Petrenko in music by Beethoven, Gy怀rgy Ligeti and Shostakovich. Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Gy怀rgy Ligeti: Lontano Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major Interval Martin Handley is joined by cultural historian Rosamund Bartlett to talk about Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor Alexandre Kantorow (piano) Vasily Petrenko (conductor) Tchaikovsky Competition-winner Alexandre Kantorow has been hailed as Liszt reincarnated' and a fire-breathing virtuoso'. Still in his twenties, the young pianist makes a much-anticipated Proms debut, joining Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as soloist in Beethoven's poetic Piano Concerto No. 4. Music of terror and despair, frenzied horror and - eventually - a flicker of triumph supply a musical portrait of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in Shostakovich's impassioned Symphony No. 10, while more abstract orchestral soundscapes come courtesy of anniversary composer Ligeti's Lontano. 02:50 Gy怀rgy Ligeti - Lontano 20:53 Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 4 in G major 56:15 Igor Stravinsky - The Firebird: Finale (transc for piano by Guido Agosti) 1:00:29 Interval - Martin Handley is joined by cultural historian Rosamund Bartlett 1:24:25 Shostakovich - Symphony No 10 in E minor Live at the BBC Proms: Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 42: Elgar, Chopin And Strauss | 20230816 | Live at the BBC Proms: the Philharmonia Orchestra and Principal Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali perform Elgar, Strauss and Chopin's First Piano Concerto with Seong-Jin Cho. Presented by Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Elgar: In the South (Alassio) Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor c.8.25pm INTERVAL: James Cahill is an art historian and author of the novel Tiepolo Blue. He joins Petroc Trelawney to discuss travels to Italy including the Grand Tour which eighteenth century travellers took in search of Roman sites and mountain views. c.8.45pm Richard Strauss: Aus Italien Seong-Jin Cho, piano Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor International Chopin Piano Competition-winner Seong-Jin Cho is one of the world's most exciting young pianists, praised for his remarkable technique' and the elegance of his interpretations. Who better to perform Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 - a heady combination of brilliance and poetry, its slow movement a vision of a beloved landscape on a moonlit spring night'. Could that landscape perhaps be Italian? Italy's warmth and summer sunshine suffuse both Elgar's bucolic In the South overture and Strauss's tone-poem Aus Italien, each inspired by a visit to the country. The Philharmonia Orchestra is led by its Finnish-born Principal Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali. 02:16 Edward Elgar- In the South (Alassio) 32:10 Fr退d退ric Chopin - Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor 13:47 Fr退d退ric Chopin - Nocturne in E flat major, Op 9 No 2 1:18:59 Interval - Art historian and author James Cahill joins Petroc Trelawney 1:43:21 Richard Strauss - Aus Italien Live at the BBC Proms: the Philharmonia, Santtu-Matias Rouvali and pianist Seong-Jin Cho. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 43: Gy\u00f6rgy Kurt\u00e1g's Endgame | 20230817 | Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth with a cast of soloists: Frode Olsen, Morgan Moody, Hilary Summers and Leonardo Cortellazzi. Presented by Tom Service, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Gy怀rgy Kurtကg: Endgame (There is no interval) Frode Olsen - Hamm Morgan Moody - Clov Hilary Summers - Nell Leonardo Cortellazzi - Nagg Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor) Beckett has been waiting for Kurtကg all this time,' wrote The New Yorker after the triumphant La Scala premiere of Gy怀rgy Kurtကg's Endgame (Fin de partie) in 2018. Subsequently named one of the greatest operas of the century by The Guardian, Kurtကg's unforgettable' adaption of Samuel Beckett's absurdist play has its highly anticipated UK premiere. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is led by its Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth. Live at the BBC Proms: Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC SSO in Kurt\u00e1g's opera Endgame. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 44: Stravinsky's The Firebird | 20230818 | Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Gemma New and Pavel Kolesnikov perform Shostakovich, Stravinsky and a new piece by Samy Moussa. Presented by Tom Service, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Samy Moussa: Symphony No. 2 Dmitry Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major 8.15 Interval: Backstage Pass Tasmin Little meets soloist Pavel Kolesnikov, and in a candid conversation they share experiences about their respective music careers. 8.35 Part Two Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird Pavel Kolesnikov (piano) Gemma New (conductor) New Zealand-born conductor Gemma New makes her Proms debut with a colourful programme of 20th- and 21st-century orchestral masterworks. The graceful charm of Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2 - a birthday gift for the composer's talented teenage son - meets the dazzling dances and acerbic brilliance of Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird. We move into the present with the European premiere of Canadian composer Samy Moussa's Symphony No. 2. Prize-winning pianist Pavel Kolesnikov joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. 03:20 Moussa: Symphony No. 2 29:49 Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major 58:50 Interval: Tasmin Little meets soloist Pavel Kolesnikov 01:22:40 Stravinsky: The Firebird Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Gemma New and Pavel Kolesnikov The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 45: Mahler's Third Symphony | 20230819 | Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Chorus, conducted by Sakari Oramo, perform Mahler's Third Symphony with mezzo-soprano Jenny Carlstedt. Presented by Petroc Trelawny live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minor Jenny Carlstedt (mezzo-soprano) Trinity Boys Choir Sakari Oramo (conductor) [There will be no interval] The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.' Nowhere is Mahler's philosophy more magnificently fulfilled than in his Symphony No. 3. The vast work might start with menacing brass fanfares, but the sense of threat soon clears to reveal one of the composer's most radiant and expansive works - a vision of man and nature, earth and heaven that wrestles with death and transcendence before coming to a concluding movement of solemn and transformative grace. Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, joined by Trinity Boys Choir and Finnish-Swedish mezzo-soprano Jenny Carlstedt. Live at the BBC Proms: Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC SO and Chorus in Mahler. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 46: Manchester Collective: Neon | 20230819 | Live at the BBC Proms: Manchester Collective directed by Rakhi Singh in music by Hannah Peel, Ben Nobuto, Oliver Leith and David Lang, and ending with Steve Reich's Double Sextet. Presented by Elizabeth Alker, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Hannah Peel: Neon Ben Nobuto: SERENITY 2.0 Oliver Leith: A different Fantasie from Suite No. 5 in G minor David Lang: Mystery Sonata No. 7, Glory Steve Reich: Double Sextet Rakhi Singh (violin/director) The Manchester Collective presents an urban musical world: bright with neon light, tense with uncertainty. Steve Reich's Pulitzer Prize-winning Double Sextet with its motoric rhythms and thick web of counterpoint sits alongside Hannah Peel's Neon - a fusion of electronic and acoustic elements with the sounds of Tokyo's Shinjuku Station - and Ben Nobuto's euphoric sound-collage SERENITY 2.0. The musical prayer of David Lang's Mystery Sonata No. 7 and Oliver Leith's slippy arrangement' of a 17th-century original help slow the pulse again. 02: 31 Hannah Peel: Neon 19:50 Ben Nobuto: SERENITY 2.0 35:40 Oliver Leith: A different Fantasie from Suite No. 5 in G minor 41:03 David Lang: Mystery Sonata No. 7, Glory 51:39 Steve Reich: Double Sextet Live at the BBC Proms: Manchester Collective, directed by Rakhi Singh. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 47: Les Si\u00e8cles Play Ligeti And Mozart | 20230820 | Live at the BBC Proms: Fran瀀ois?Xavier Roth conducts Les Si耀cles with soloists Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov in music by Ligeti and Mozart. Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Ligeti: Concert Rom nesc Ligeti: Violin Concerto c. 8:15pm INTERVAL Andrew McGregor is joined by writer and historian Dr Flora Willson, to look ahead to Proms highlights in the coming week. c. 8:35pm Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23 in A major Mozart: Symphony No 41 in C major, Jupiter Isabelle Faust (violin) Alexander Melnikov (piano) Fran瀀ois?Xavier Roth (conductor) Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth's award-winning orchestra Les Si耀cles presents music from sonic pioneer Gy怀rgy Ligeti alongside two late works by Mozart - pieces separated by two centuries, but united by the spirit of revolution. Unperformed until 1971, Ligeti's vibrant Concert Rom nesc (Romanian Concerto') is a light-footed celebration of Romanian folk music - real and invented. His Violin Concerto - performed here with German soloist Isabelle Faust - is one of the most original of any age, while Mozart's final symphony, the Jupiter', with its astonishing finale, is the last word on the genre from a master innovator. Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov is the soloist in the composer's Piano Concerto No. 23. 02:28 Ligeti: Concert Rom nesc 27:31 Ligeti: Violin Concerto 01:04:13 Interval: Andrew McGregor and historian Dr Flora Willson look ahead 01:26:59 Mozart: Piano Concerto No 23 in A major 02:01:10 Mozart: Symphony No 41 in C major, Jupiter Live at the BBC Proms: Fran\u00e7ois\u2010Xavier Roth conducts Les Si\u00e8cles in Mozart. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 48: Stevie Wonder's Innervisions With Jules Buckley Orchestra And Cory Henry | 20230821 | Live from the BBC Proms: Jules Buckley and his Orchestra are joined by singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist Cory Henry to celebrate some of Stevie Wonder's most iconic work. Presented by Elizabeth Alker, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Stevie Wonder: Too High (arr. Rob Taggart) Visions (arr. Callum Au) Living for the City (arr. Jochen Neuffer) Golden Lady (arr. Jochen Neuffer) Higher Ground (arr. Jochen Neuffer) Jesus Children of America (arr. Tim Davies) All in Love Is Fair (arr. Tommy Laurence) Don't You Worry Bout a Thing (arr. Tom Richards) Superwoman (arr. Jochen Neuffer) Creepin' (arr. Rob Taggart) They Won't Go When I Go (arr. Tim Davies) Something Out of the Blue (arr. Tim Davies) If It's Magic I Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer (arr. Tim Davies) Jules Buckley Orchestra Jules Buckley, conductor The BBC Proms celebrates some of Stevie Wonder's most iconic work this year as conductor Jules Buckley and his Orchestra are joined by Cory Henry: singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and keyboardist, for performances including Higher Ground, Living for the City and Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing. The impact of Stevie Wonder's 1973 hit album Innervisions is still felt by musicians and listeners to this day. Part of a triumvirate of consecutive Grammy winning albums, Innervisions highlighted Wonder's genius work both as performer and studio producer. Live from the BBC Proms: Jules Buckley and his Orchestra celebrate Stevie Wonder's work. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 49: Schumann's Das Paradies Und Die Peri | 20230822 | Live at the BBC Proms: Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Schumann's 'Paradise and the Peri', with soloists including Lucy Crowe and Magdalena Koenက. Presented by Tom Service, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Robert Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri Lucy Crowe (soprano) Jeanine De Bique (soprano) Magdalena Koenက (mezzo-soprano) Andrew Staples (tenor) Linard Vrielink (tenor) Florian Boesch (baritone) London Symphony Chorus Conductor Sir Simon Rattle c. 2020 Interval Tom Service is joined by musicologist and Oxford University Professor Laura Tunbridge, to talk about Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri. Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus present the first ever complete performance at the Proms of Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri (Paradise and the Peri'). Part oratorio and part opera, a choral and orchestral cycle that seems to unfold in continuous song, the work tells the story of a Peri - child of a fallen angel and a mortal - who makes a sequence of offerings to the guardians of Paradise in an attempt to gain entry. Lucy Crowe leads an exciting international cast. 02:52 Robert Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, Part I 27:19 Robert Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, Part II 54:34 Interval: Tom Service is joined by musicologist Laura Tunbridge 01:20:31 Robert Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, Part III Live at the BBC Proms: Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 5: Bruch's First Violin Concerto | 20230717 | Live at the BBC Proms, the BBC Philharmonic and conductor Anja Bihlmaier in music by Brahms, Bartok and Coleridge-Taylor. They are joined by Bomsori for Bruch's First Violin Concerto Presented by Tom McKinney, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 Interval: Emily MacGregor joins Tom McKinney in the Radio 3 Presenter's box, to discuss her pick of the Proms coming up in the next few days. Brahms: Hungarian Dances Nos.1, 3 and 10 Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra Bomsori (violin) Anja Bihlmaier (conductor) South Korean star violinist Bomsori makes her Proms debut with Bruch's much-loved First Violin Concerto - the richest' and most seductive' of all the concertos for the instrument, according to 19th-century virtuoso Joseph Joachim. The folk music that runs through Bruch's concerto also pulses through Brahms's lively Hungarian Dances and Bart k's Concerto for Orchestra - a musical tour de force that takes listeners from sternness' to life-assertion'. This season's focus on the music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor begins with the composer's lyrical, Elgar-inspired Ballade. Anja Bihlmaier conducts the BBC Philharmonic in her Proms debut. Live at the BBC Proms: Anja Bihlmaier conducts the BBC Philharmonic and Bomsori in Bruch. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 50: Handel's Samson | 20230823 | Live at the BBC Proms: Laurence Cummings directs the Academy of Ancient Music in Handel's dramatic oratorio with Allan Clayton in the title role. Presented by Hannah French, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Handel: Samson Allan Clayton, Samson Jacquelyn Stucker, Dalila Jo退lle Harvey, Israelite Woman Jess Dandy, Micah Brindley Sherratt, Harapha Jonathan Lemalu, Manoa Philharmonia Chorus Laurence Cummings, harpsichord/director Our ongoing cycle of Handel oratorios continues with Samson, featuring tenor Allan Clayton and soprano Jacquelyn Stucker. Inspired by Milton's Samson Agonistes, Handel created a deeply moving version of the story of the mighty Israelite warrior, imprisoned and blinded by his enemies, but still determined to destroy them. The Israelites' laments are brilliantly contrasted with the jangling joy of the Philistines, Samson's lofty struggles with Dalila's brittle affections. One of today's leading Handelians, Laurence Cummings directs the Academy of Ancient Music from the harpsichord. During the interval, Suzanne Aspden, professor of music at Oxford, talks to Hannah French about the background to Handel's oratorio. 03:31 Handel: Samson, Act I 48:01 Interval: Suzanne Aspden, professor of music at Oxford, talks to Hannah French 01:09:04 Handel Samson, Act II/III Live at the BBC Proms: Handel's dramatic oratorio performed by a cast of star soloists. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 51: Weir, Schumann And Elgar With The BBC Symphony Orchestra | 20230824 | Live at the BBC Proms: Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Elgar's Violin Concerto with soloist Christian Tetzlaff, plus a Judith Weir world premiere, and Schumann. Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Judith Weir: Begin Afresh (BBC commission: world premiere) Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Spring c.8.10pm INTERVAL: Martin Handley is joined in the Radio 3 box by David Owen Norris to discuss the origins and enduring influence of Elgar's Violin Concerto. c.8.30pm Edward Elgar: Violin Concerto in B minor Christian Tetzlaff (violin) Sakari Oramo (conductor) Elgar's boldly virtuosic Violin Concerto was one of the few works he admitted to being proud of: Awfully emotional! Too emotional,' he said, but I love it.' A deeply personal work, its title-page carries the enigmatic inscription Herein is enshrined the soul of .....'. Distinguished German violinist Christian Tetzlaff is the soloist, following in the line of Fritz Kreisler, for whom the concerto was written. Schumann's Spring' Symphony reflects the freshness and drive that seized the composer around the time of his marriage. Begin Afresh, a new commission from Master of the King's Music Judith Weir, also celebrates new beginnings, inspired by Philip Larkin's poem The Trees'. 02:38 Judith Weir: Begin Afresh 22:30 Robert Schumann: Symphony No 1 56:25 Interval: David Owen Norris on Elgar's Violin Concerto 01:20:25 Edward Elgar: Violin Concerto in B minor Live at the BBC Proms: Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC SO with violinist Christian Tetzlaff. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 52: The Boston Symphony Orchestra Play Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony | 20230825 | Live at the BBC Proms: Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in music by Julia Adolphe, Richard Strauss and Prokofiev. Presented by Tom Service, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Julia Adolphe: Makeshift Castle (European premiere) Richard Strauss: Death and Transfiguration c.7.10 pm Interval Tom Service is joined by Russian-born British musicologist and Cambridge University Professor Marina Frolova-Walker to talk about Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony. c.7.30 pm Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major Andris Nelsons (conductor) The mighty Boston Symphony Orchestra returns to the Proms under Music Director Andris Nelsons for the first of two concerts - human resilience the theme. I conceived of it as glorifying the grandeur of the human spirit,' Prokofiev wrote of his Fifth Symphony, premiered in January 1945 at the start of the USSR's successful final offensive against Nazi Germany. The defiant optimism of the finale is mirrored in Richard Strauss's tone-poem Death and Transfiguration, in which a dying man gains a musical glimpse of eternity. Jointly commissioned by the BSO and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, of which Nelsons is also Music Director, Julia Adolphe's Makeshift Castle offers a contemporary meditation on fragility and endurance. 02:10 Julia Adolphe: Makeshift Castle 22:17 Richard Strauss: Death and Transfiguration 51:08 Interval: Marina Frolova-Walker on Prokofiev's 5th Symphony 01:14:07 Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major Live at the BBC Proms: Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 53: Late-night Bach | 20230825 | Live at the BBC Proms: The English Concert with countertenor Iestyn Davies and director Kristian Bezuidenhout celebrate the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Presented by Hannah French, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 170, Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust'; Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major; Cantata No. 35, Geist und Seele wird verwirret Iestyn Davies (countertenor) Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord/director) Countertenor Iestyn Davies - whose utterly sublime' singing and gorgeous tone' captivated audiences last season - returns with an all-Bach late-night concert. He joins period-instrument group The English Concert (currently celebrating its 50th anniversary) for two of Bach's solo cantatas, both composed in 1726 during his early years as music director at Leipzig's St Thomas Church. While the lovely Vergnügte Ruh gazes towards heaven, Geist und Seele marvels at a miracle of creation and God's goodness. The bustling joy of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 for strings completes the programme. 02:06 JS Bach: Cantata No 170 26:06 JS Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 3 40:10 JS Bach: Cantata No 35 Live at the BBC Proms: The English Concert with countertenor Iestyn Davies. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 54: Organ Recital With Isabelle Demers | 20230826 | Live at the BBC Proms: Canadian organist Isabelle Demers makes her Proms debut with a recital of works by Bach, Reger, Coleridge-Taylor and William Grant Still - plus a world premiere from Canadian composer Rachel Laurin. Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg - Prelude to Act 1 (transcr. Demers) Rachel Laurin: Prelude and Fugue in G major (world premiere) Bach: Cantata No. 146, Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal' - Sinfonia (arr. Dupr退) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Three Impromptus Max Reger: Chorale Fantasia on Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott William Grant Still: Elegy Sergey Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (excerpts, transcr. Demers) Isabelle Demers, organ Canadian organist Isabelle Demers makes her Proms debut, putting the Royal Albert Hall's mighty 9,999-pipe organ through its paces. The rigour of Bach and Reger (born 150 years ago) contrasts with lighter pieces by Coleridge-Taylor and William Grant Still and a world premiere from Canadian composer Rachel Laurin. This is all framed with the drama of excerpts from stage-works by Wagner and Prokofiev. 02:50 Wagner: Prelude to Act 1 of The Mastersingers of Nuremberg 14:30 Rachel Laurin: Prelude and Fugue in G major 23:20 JS Bach: Sinfonia from Cantata No 146 32:34 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Three Impromptus 47:15 Max Reger: Chorale Fantasia on Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott 29:10 William Grant Still: Elegy 01:19:02 Sergey Prokofiev: Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet Live at the BBC Proms: Organist Isabelle Demers plays Bach and Wagner. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 55: Gershwin's Piano Concerto | 20230826 | Live at the BBC Proms: Jean?Yves Thibaudet joins the Boston Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andris Nelsons for Gershwin's Piano Concerto. Plus Carlos Simon, Stravinsky and Ravel. Presented by Kate Molleson, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Carlos Simon: Four Black American Dances (European premiere) Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 version) c.8.20 pm Interval: Kate Molleson is joined by pianist and music director Allyson Devenish to look ahead to Proms highlights in the coming week. c.8.45 pm Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F major Ravel: La valse Jean?Yves Thibaudet (piano) Andris Nelsons (conductor) Dance pulses through this second concert from Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (see Prom 52). Jean-Yves Thibaudet is the soloist in Gershwin's Piano Concerto, with its bluesy slow movement and hot, frenzied finale. Ravel's La valse dances to the edge of the abyss, while Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka projects the earthy rhythms and bold colours of Russian folk music. The concert opens with the European premiere of US composer Carlos Simon's Four Black American Dances, drawing on dances that chart the Black American experience from slavery through to today. 02:17 Carlos Simon: Four Black American Dances 22:45 Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 version) 01:04:39 Interval: Proms highlights coming up 01:28:30 Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F major 02:11:45 Ravel: La valse Live at the BBC Proms: Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 56: Rattle Conducts Mahler's Ninth Symphony | 20230827 | Live from the BBC Proms: Sir Simon Rattle's final UK performance as Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra: Mahler's Ninth Symphony and Poulenc's Figure humaine. Presented by Kate Molleson, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Poulenc: Figure humaine c.7.50pm: Interval In conversation with Kate Molleson, William Mival explores the background and genesis of Mahler's Symphony No. 9. Mahler: Symphony No. 9 BBC Singers Sir Simon Rattle, conductor In Mahler's Ninth Symphony, the composer - who would not live to hear its premiere - bid farewell to all whom he loved'. The words Leb' wohl!' (farewell') are written onto the score itself, transformed into a theme that becomes the heartbeat of the whole work. It's a poignant choice for Sir Simon Rattle's final UK performance as music director of the London Symphony Orchestra. Death and life collide in a symphony haunted by loss but urgently clinging to dance and song. The finale, however, looks beyond, closing with a vision of distant hills where the sun is shining. Opening the Prom is Poulenc's choral masterpiece Figure humaine, a hymn to freedom from occupied France, performed by the BBC Singers. 03:06 Poulenc: Figure humaine 23:30 Interval: Kate Molleson and William Mival on Mahler 9 47:13 Mahler: Symphony No 9 Live at the BBC Proms: Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO perform Mahler's Ninth Symphony. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 57: Fantasy, Myths And Legends | 20230828 | Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Anna-Maria Helsing are joined by the Huddersfield Choral Society in an evening of orchestral fantasy and adventure featuring classic soundtracks from film, television and gaming's greatest myths and legends. We hear music from Harry Potter and, marking the 50th anniversary of JRR Tolkien's death, The Lord of the Rings. Also featured are TV themes from Game of Thrones and His Dark Materials, and Studio Ghibli's popular animations. Presented live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, by Katie Derham - with guest host Ali Plumb, BBC Radio's 1's film critic and self-professed 'resident nerd'. PART ONE Howard Shore: Lord of the Rings Symphonic Suite - Fellowship of The Ring Ramin Djawadi: Game of Thrones Suite Manuel de Falla: El Amor Brujo (excerpts) David Arnold: Good Omens John Williams: Hedwig's Theme from Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone Stravinsky: Berceuse and Finale from Firebird (1919) INTERVAL Katie Derham is joined by cultural historian, writer and broadcaster Matthew Sweet, to discuss tonight's music. PART TWO Mussorgsky orch: A Night on the Bare Mountain Lorne Balfe: His Dark Materials - Suite (BBC commission - world premiere) Joe Hisaishi & Youmi Kimura: My Neighbour Totoro E퀀mear Noone: Malach, Angel Messenger from World of Warcraft Edvard Grieg: Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt John Williams: Duel of the Fates from Star Wars Felicity Buckland (mezzo-soprano) 01:57 Part one: The Lord of the Rings to Stravinsky 58:11 Interval: Ian Skelly and Matthew Sweet on music's fascination with fantasy 01:18:52 Part two: Mussorgsky to Star Wars Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Anna-Maria Helsing. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 58: Jon Hopkins With The BBC Symphony Orchestra And Jules Buckley | 20230829 | Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Chorus in an epic collaboration masterminded by composer/pianist Jon Hopkins and conductor Jules Buckley. Presented by Elizabeth Alker. Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Jon Hopkins (arr. Jules Buckley): ATHOS (BBC commission: world premiere) Jon Hopkins (piano) Jon Hopkins (arr. Peter Riley & Leo Abrahams): Feel First Life Jon Hopkins (arr. Sam Gale): The Wider Sun Jon Hopkins (arr. Simon Dobson): Singularity Jon Hopkins (arr. Peter Riley): Music for Psychedelic Therapy (excerpt) Jon Hopkins (arr. Peter Riley): Form by Firelight BBC Singers - Soloists: Alice Gribbin (soprano), Nancy Cole (mezzo), Peter Davoren (tenor) Jamie W Hall (baritone) Jon Hopkins (arr. Sam Gale): Luna Moth BBC Singers - Soloist: Emma Tring (soprano) Jon Hopkins (arr. Simon Dobson): Collider Jon Hopkins (arr. Tom Trapp): Abandon Window Leo Abraham (guitar) Jules Buckley (conductor) ENCORE: Jon Hopkins: Recovery Jon Hopkins (piano), Leo Abrahams (guitar) There will be no interval in this concert. British composer Jon Hopkins - whose work has been nominated for Grammy, Mercury and Ivor Novello awards - makes his BBC Proms debut as composer and pianist with a world premiere of a 15-minute psychedelic drone epic for orchestra, choir and piano. Alongside this are reinterpretations of pieces from three of his critically acclaimed albums - Immunity, Singularity and Music for Psychedelic Therapy - re-imagined to form what Hopkins calls a group sonic meditation for 5,000 people'. A collaboration with the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Creative Artist-in-Association Jules Buckley and top arrangers, this atmospheric Prom focuses on the meditative and emotional side of Hopkins's musical output, leading you on a powerfully immersive journey. Live at the Proms: Jon Hopkins, BBC Singers, Symphony Chorus/Orchestra and Jules Buckley. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 59: Dvo\u0159\u00e1k's 'new World' Symphony | 20230830 | Live at the BBC Proms: the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich perform Tchaikovsky's passionate Violin Concerto, with soloist Augustin Hadelich, and Dvo?ကk's nostalgic New World' Symphony. Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. The Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich performs two Romantic classics: Tchaikovsky's passionate Violin Concerto and Dvo?ကk's nostalgic New World' Symphony. Beethoven: Overture The Consecration of the House Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major c.8.15: INTERVAL In conversation with Ian Skelly, Nigel Simeone explores the combination of New and Old World influences behind Dvo?ကk's evergreen symphony. Dvo?ကk: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, From the New World Augustin Hadelich, violin Paavo J䀀rvi, conductor Switzerland's longest-established orchestra, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, makes a welcome return to the Proms with Tchaikovsky's passionate Violin Concerto (featuring soloist August Hadelich) and Dvo?ကk's nostalgic New World' Symphony, drawing on the African American and Native American melodies he heard during his three years as director of New York's National Conservatory for Music. The evening opens with Beethoven's The Consecration of the House, a heartfelt homage to the composer's musical forefathers, Handel and Bach. 02:34 Beethoven: Overture to The Consecration of the House 15:48 Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major 55:33 Interval: Dvo?ကk's evergreen New World symphony 01:17:06 Dvo?ကk: Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World Live at the BBC Proms: Paavo J\u00e4rvi conducts the Tonhalle-Orchester Z\u00fcrich. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 6: Sir Stephen Hough Plays Rachmaninov | 20230718 | Live at the BBC Proms: Mark Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Mahler's First Symphony. Stephen Hough joins the orchestra for Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto. Presented by Tom McKinney, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Grace-Evangeline Mason: ABLAZE THE MOON - BBC commission: world premiere Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.1 c. 8.10 Interval Hot-foot from the piano stool, pianist Stephen Hough pops into the Radio 3 box at the Royal Albert Hall to talk to Tom McKinney about his recent memoir, Enough. c. 8.30 Mahler: Symphony No.1 in D major Sir Stephen Hough (piano) Mark Wigglesworth (conductor) In the 50th-anniversary year of the Royal Northern College of Music, the BBC Philharmonic, alongside musicians from the college, under Mark Wigglesworth, perform a concert of early-career works. Former RNCM student Sir Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto - a work full of Romantic passion and youthful freshness', written while the composer was still a teenage student. Mahler's First Symphony began life as a tone-poem, and vivid echoes still remain in the birdsong, fanfares, storms and funeral march of the spirited final work. The concert opens with a new commission from rising-star composer and RNCM graduate Grace-Evangeline Mason. RNCM graduate Tom McKinney presents for BBC Radio 3. Live at the BBC Proms: Mark Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Mahler. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 60: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | 20230831 | Live at the BBC Proms: pianist Kirill Gerstein joins the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Vladimir Jurowski in music by Thomas Ad耀s. Plus Kurt Weill and Rachmaninov. Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Kurt Weill: Little Threepenny Music Thomas Ad耀s: Piano Concerto c.8.20 pm Interval Martin Handley talks to tonight's pianist Kirill Gerstein about Rachmaninov. Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 in A minor Kirill Gerstein (piano) Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) Rachmaninov's 150th-anniversary celebrations continue with the composer's final symphony, a work tinged with yearning. Only one place is closed to me,' Rachmaninov wrote after his exile in the USA, and that is my own country, Russia.' Following in the virtuoso tradition of Rachmaninov is Thomas Ad耀s's Piano Concerto, performed here by Kirill Gerstein, who gave the 2019 premiere. The work's sardonic brilliance finds an echo in the suite from Kurt Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera'), with its famous Ballad of Mack the Knife'. Coming after last week's visitors from Boston (where Ad耀s's concerto was premiered), tonight we welcome the esteemed Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra - 100 this year - making its Proms debut under Chief Conductor Vladimir Jurowski. 02:00 Kurt Weill: Little Threepenny Music 32:09 Thomas Ad耀s: Piano Concerto 58:45 Interval: Kirill Gerstein on Rachmaninov 01:24:08 Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3 in A minor Live at the BBC Proms: Vladimir Jurowski conducts the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 61: Chineke! Perform Beethoven's Fourth Symphony | 20230901 | Live at the BBC Proms: Chineke! Orchestra conducted by Anthony Parnther in music by Valerie Coleman, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Haydn and Beethoven. Presented by Linton Stephens, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Valerie Coleman: Seven O'Clock Shout Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Four Noveletten for String Orchestra, Op. 52 Joseph Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E flat major c. 8.20pm Interval: Poet Yomi Sode, author of a collection called Manorism, has collaborated with Chineke! Orchestra in the past. He joins Linton Stephens to discuss his writing and his interest in music. c. 8.40pm Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Sinfonietta No. 1 - Rondo Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major Aaron Azunda Akugbo (trumpet) Conductor Anthony Parnther Europe's first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra returns to the Proms with Beethoven's joyful Fourth Symphony and Haydn's exuberant Trumpet Concerto. On a mission to champion change and celebrate diversity in classical music, Chineke! also showcases music by pioneering Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his American namesake, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. Plus there's an opportunity to hear Valerie Coleman's pandemic anthem, Seven O'Clock Shout. 02.33 Valerie Coleman Seven O'Clock Shout 11.36 Coleridge-Taylor Four Noveletten 37.03 Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E flat major 59.45 Interval: Poet, Yomi Sode and Linton Stephens 1.23.52 Perkinson Sinfonietta No. 1 - Rondo (3rd mvt) 1.33.44 Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B flat major Live at the BBC Proms: Anthony Parnther conducts Chineke! Orchestra. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 63: The Rite, By Heart | 20230902 | Live at the BBC Proms: Nicholas Collon conducts Aurora Orchestra in Stravinsky's groundbreaking ballet, The Rite of Spring, performed from memory. Presented by Katie Derham, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Various Artists: A dramatic and musical exploration of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring c. 8:15pm Interval music Concerto for 2 Pianos Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Andrei Gavrilov (piano) DECCA 4338292 c. 8:35pm Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring Charlotte Ritchie (actor) Karl Queensborough (actor) Nicholas Collon (conductor) I dreamed of a pagan ritual in which a sacrificial virgin danced herself to death.' A vision was the inspiration for Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, a ballet that caused a riot at its premiere in 1913. This Prom is an unprecedented opportunity to get under the skin of the work that shook the worlds of music and ballet with its stamping, jagged rhythms and modern harmony. Nicholas Collon and the pioneering Aurora Orchestra dramatise the Rite's origins, reliving the scene of its notorious concert premiere and finally performing the whole thing from memory. Live at the BBC Proms: Aurora Orchestra perform The Rite of Spring from memory. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 64: Berlioz's The Trojans | 20230903 | Live at the BBC Proms: Dinis Sousa conducts Berlioz's The Trojans with his Orchestre R退volutionnaire et Romantique, the Monteverdi Choir and a starry line-up of soloists. Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Hector Berlioz: The Trojans Acts 1 and 2 c. 5.30pm Interval 1 Jeremy Sams talks to Martin Handley about how Berlioz came to write The Trojans and tells the story of its tortuous and frustrated journey to the stage. Plus, a sequence of music by composers Berlioz admired. c. 6.10pm Acts 3 and 4 c. 7.55pm Interval 2 Classicist Natalie Haynes joins Martin Handley to discuss what we know about the history of Troy and the myths it has produced. c. 8.25pm Act 5 Iopas & Hylas....Laurence Kilsby (tenor) H耀cube....Rebecca Evans (soprano) Hector/Sentinelle II/ Mercure/Narbal.... Alex Rosen (bass) Cassandra....Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano) Aeneas....Michael Spyres (tenor) Dido....Paula Murrihy (mezzo-soprano) Coroebus....Lionel Lhote (baritone) Ascanius....Ad耀le Charvet (soprano) Priam.... Tristan Hambleton (bass-baritone) Panthus....Ashley Riches (bass-baritone) Anna....Beth Taylor (contralto) Dinis Sousa (conductor) Few 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. The Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre R退volutionnaire et Romantique bring love of Berlioz to the music, with the help of an outstanding cast that includes British mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and American tenor Michael Spyres. 02.40 Act 1&2 1.27.57 Interval: Jeremy Sams joins Martin Handley 2.13.29 Act 3&4 3.55.45 Interval: Natalie Haynes joins Martin Handley 4.22.05 Act 5 Live at the BBC Proms: Dinis Sousa conducts Berlioz's epic opera The Trojans. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 65: Bruckner's Eighth Symphony | 20230904 | Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor (1890 version, ed. Nowak) (84 mins) [There will be no interval] BBC Symphony Orchestra Semyon Bychkov (conductor) Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner's Eighth Symphony. The composer described the finale of his symphony - the last he would ever complete - as the most significant movement of my life'. It's the culmination of a career, perhaps even of an era: music of blazing calm' and impossible grandeur in which the shattering terror of the opening finally finds not just resolution but transcendence. Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Semyon Bychkov. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 66: Rufus Wainwright , Want Symphonic: Want One | 20230905 | Live at the BBC Proms: Rufus Wainwright joins the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Sarah Hicks in a twenty year anniversary symphonic version of his album Want One. Presented by Andrew McGregor, live at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Wainwright, arr John Hickin Want Symphonic Overture Wainwright, arr Chris Elliott Oh What a World Wainwright, arr Max Mostin I Don't Know What It Is Wainwright, arr Sally Herbert Vicious World Wainwright, arr Sally Herbert Movies of Myself Wainwright, arr Wainwright Pretty Things Wainwright, arr Sally Herbert Go or Go Ahead Wainwright, arr Max Mostin 14th Street Wainwright, arr Max Mostin Natasha Wainwright, arr Michael P Atkinson Harvester of Hearts Wainwright, arr Sally Herbert Beautiful Child Wainwright, arr Max Mostin Want Wainwright, arr Sally Herbert 11:11 Wainwright, arr Chris Elliott Dinner at Eight with added orchestrations by Ron Goldstein Rufus Wainwright brings his signature brand of Baroque pop' back to the Proms in the first of two concerts with the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Sarah Hicks. The Canadian-American singer, songwriter and composer's 2003 album Want One draws on everything from opera to cabaret, chanson and jazz. Here, it is presented in brand new symphonic arrangements created specially for the Proms. The concert contains language some listeners may find offensive. Live at the BBC Proms: Sarah Hicks, the BBC Concert Orchestra and Rufus Wainwright. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 67: Rufus Wainwright , Want Symphonic: Want Two | 20230905 | Live at the BBC Proms: Rufus Wainwright joins the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Sarah Hicks in a twentieth anniversary, symphonic version of his album Want Two. With special guest Jake Shears. Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Wainwright arr Michael P Atkinson Agnus Dei Wainwright, arr Sally Herbert The One You Love Wainwright, arr Sally Herbert Peach Trees Wainwright, arr Van Dyke Parks Little Sister Wainwright, arr Wainwright The Art Teacher Wainwright arr Michael P Atkinson Hometown Waltz Wainwright arr Max Mostin This Love Affair Wainwright arr Morris Kliphuis Gay Messiah Wainwright arr Max Mostin Memphis Skyline Wainwright arr Max Mostin Waiting for a Dream Wainwright, arr Sally Herbert Crumb by Crumb Wainwright arr Michael P Atkinson Old Whore's Diet Rufus Wainwright returns to the stage of the Royal Albert Hall for the second of two Proms featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra. Tonight he brings a reimagining of his 2004 album Want Two, which blends alt-rock and French song, glossy pop music and even an Agnus Dei into a kaleidoscopic musical trip that gleams and grooves in the world premiere of new symphonic arrangements. The concert contains language some listeners may find offensive. Live at the BBC Proms: Sarah Hicks, the BBC Concert Orchestra and Rufus Wainwright. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 68: Max Richter: Recomposed | 20230906 | Live at the BBC Proms: violinist Thomas Gould directs the Britten Sinfonia in music by Lera Auerbach, Corelli, Tippett and Max Richter. Presented by Hannah French, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Lera Auerbach: Sogno di Stabat Mater Corelli: Concerto grosso in F major Tippett: Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli INTERVAL Max Richter: Recomposed: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons Thomas Gould (violin/director) Max Richter's Recomposed is the composer's celebrated 21st-century reimagining of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. Here, violinist Thomas Gould and the Britten Sinfonia give the Proms debut performance of Richter's heady blend of acoustic and electronic sounds. Lera Auerbach's reworking of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater looks back to the 18th century, in the same way that Michael Tippett drew inspiration from Corelli in his Fantasia concertante. 02:44 Lera Auerbach: Sogno di Stabat Mater 19:22 Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto grosso in F major (leading into Tippett) 49:03 Interval 01:14:01 Max Richter: Recomposed: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons Live at the BBC Proms: violinist Thomas Gould directs the Britten Sinfonia. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 69: Mozart's Requiem | 20230907 | Live at the BBC Proms: Rapha뀀l Pichon conducts Pygmalion and soloists Sandrine Piau, Beth Taylor, Laurence Kilsby and Alex Rosen in Mozart's last masterpiece, his incomplete Requiem. Presented by Hannah French, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Trad.: Plainsong In paradisum Mozart: Requiem in D minor (compl. Süssmayr), interspersed with: Ach, zu kurz ist unsers Lebenslauf Masonic Funeral Music Kyrie in D minor, K 90 Thamos, King of Egypt - Ne pulvis et cinis Five Solfeggios - No 2 Quis te comprehendat Two Church Songs - No 2: O Gottes Lamm Sandrine Piau (soprano) Beth Taylor (mezzo-soprano) Laurence Kilsby (tenor) Alex Rosen (bass) Rapha뀀l Pichon (conductor) There will be no interval Rapha뀀l Pichon and his exciting ensemble Pygmalion present an alternative vision of Mozart's Requiem, famously left incomplete at the composer's death. Tonight's reimagining swells the popular completion by Mozart's pupil Süssmayr with additional pieces to create a compelling alternative sequence. Live at the BBC Proms: Rapha\u00ebl Pichon conducts Pygmalion in Mozart's final masterpiece. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 69a: Late Night: BBC Singers And Sofi Jeannin | 20230907 | Live at the BBC Proms: music by Joanna Marsh, Soumik Datta and Daniel-Lesur from the BBC Singers and conductor Sofi Jeannin. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Joanna Marsh: SEEN Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur: Cantique des cantiques Soumik Datta: Awaaz Soumik Datta (sarod) Prathap Ramachandra (mridangam) Aref Durvesh (tabla) Camilo Tirado (sound and effects) Glen Scott (electronics producer) Sofi Jeannin (conductor) Two musical explorations of identity frame this special late-night performance, both of them premiered last year by the BBC Singers. With the added layering of live electronics, Joanna Marsh's SEEN highlights marginalised voices, especially those of women in ancient Greek theatre, whose stories were mostly told by men. Soumik Datta's Awaaz (voice' in Urdu and Hindi) was written to mark the 75th anniversary of Indian independence and partition and draws together Western and South Asian music in its celebration of the voice as the root of belonging. In between comes one of the highlights of the 20th-century French choral repertoire, the Cantique des cantiques by Daniel-Lesur - a long-time friend of Olivier Messiaen - settings from the biblical Songs of Songs that richly reflect the texts' atmosphere of allusion and moods of love, desire and rapture. Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Singers and Sofi Jeannin perform at the Royal Albert Hall. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 7: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony | 20230719 | Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Tadaaki Otaka perform Beethoven and Rachmaninov, and Elena Urioste is soloist in Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto. Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London c. 7.00pm Rachmaninov, orch. Respighi: Five ɀtudes-tableaux Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto in G minor, Op 80 c. 8.15pm Interval: Penny Gore talks to pianist and musicologist Dr Samantha Ege about the composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, who attended the first Pan-African conference held in London in 1900, made three tours of the United States where he was received by President Theodore Roosevelt. c. 8.35pm Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor, Op 67 Elena Urioste (violin) Tadaaki Otaka (conductor) Beethoven's Fifth Symphony has one of classical music's most famous openings. This iconic four-note motif returns again and again. Is it a thunderclap - or fate, knocking at the door? Make up your own mind at a Prom that also features lush orchestrations of music by the Romantic composer Sergey Rachmaninov, plus a rhapsodic work for solo violin by pioneering Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - originally premiered in 1912, just weeks before the composer's tragic death at the age of just 37. Live at the BBC Proms: Tadaaki Otaka conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 70: Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto | 20230908 | Live at the BBC Proms: Domingo Hindoyan conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto with soloist Nobuyuki Tsujii. Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Honegger: Rugby Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor c. 8.25pm Interval c. 8.45pm Gabriela Ortiz: Clara (UK premiere) Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano) Conductor Domingo Hindoyan Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii returns as soloist in Rachmaninov's demanding Piano Concerto No. 3 alongside the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and its Venezuelan-born Chief Conductor Domingo Hindoyan. The lush sprawl of Rachmaninov is framed by the rhythmic energy of the Symphonic Dances from Bernstein's West Side Story and the musical contact sport of Honegger's tone-poem Rugby. The UK premiere of Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz's Clara Schumann-inspired Clara completes the programme. Ian Skelly presents Part 2 of the concert recorded earlier this evening from the Hippodrome Circus, Great Yarmouth. Andrea Tarrodi Festive Overture Jimmy Lopez Fiesta! for symphony orchestra Khachaturian Masquerade Suite BBC Concert Orchestra Conductor Anna-Maria Helsing 02:43 Arthur Honegger - Rugby 13:45 Sergey Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor 01:00:40 Nikolai Kapustin - Concert Etude No 1 Op 40, Prelude 01:04:11 Interval - Martin Handley is joined by Edward Seckerson to talk about Bernstein 01:28:35 Gabriela Ortiz - Clara (UK premiere) 01:54:16 Leonard Bernstein - Symphonic Dances from West Side Story 02:20:46 Roberto Sierra - Alegr퀀a 02:26:44 Proms from Great Yarmouth - Part 2 Live at the BBC Proms: Domingo Hindoyan conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 71: Last Night Of The Proms 2023 | 20230909 | Live at the BBC Proms: soprano Lise Davidsen and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason join the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and conductor Marin Alsop for the Last Night. Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Richard Strauss: Don Juan Bruch: Kol nidrei, Op. 47 Roxanna Panufnik: Coronation Sanctus James B. Wilson: 1922 (world premiere) Walton: Coronation Te Deum Wagner: Tannh䀀user - Dich, teure Halle Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana - Easter Hymn; Intermezzo Verdi: Macbeth - Vieni! t'affretta! c.8.40 pm Interval Grayson Perry, celebrated artist and shrewd observer of British society joins Georgia and Petroc with his impressions of this most idiosyncratically British of events. Plus: interviews and comments from tonight's soloists, and the intrepid Keelan Carewe ventures into the Arena to get the Prommers' perspective. c.9.00 pm Laura Karpman: Higher. Further. Faster. Together. Main Theme from The Marvels Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (arr. S. Parkin): Deep River Emmerich Kကlmကn: The Gypsy Princess - Heia, heia, in den Bergen ist mein Heimatland Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras - Cantilena Trad. (arr. Wood): Fantasia on British Sea Songs Arne (arr. Sargent): Rule, Britannia! Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, Land of Hope and Glory Parry (orch. Elgar): Jerusalem Anon. (arr. Britten): The National Anthem Trad. (arr. Paul Campbell): Auld Lang Syne Lise Davidsen (soprano) Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello) BBC Symphony Chorus Marin Alsop (conductor) Two great names in classical music come together to host the biggest musical party of the year. Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and soprano Lise Davidsen join conductor Marin Alsop and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for an evening of opera arias, songs, spirituals, choral anthems and world premieres, as well as all the traditional favourites by Arne, Elgar and Parry. 00:01 Part 1 01:30:35 Interval: Grayson Perry 01:54:51 Part 2 Live at the BBC Proms: Marin Alsop conducts the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 8: Impressions Of Spain (part 1) | 20230720 | Live at the BBC Proms: Josep Pons conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Debussy, Ravel, and Falla, and are joined by violinist Mar퀀a Dueကas in Lalo's Symphonie espagnole. Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Manuel de Falla: La vida breve - Interlude and Dance ɀdouard Lalo: Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21 c. 8.25 INTERVAL: Tasmin Little meets soloist Maria Dueကas, and in a candid conversation they share experiences about their respective music careers. c. 8.45 Part 2 Claude Debussy: Images - Ib退ria Maurice Ravel: Bol退ro Mar퀀a Dueကas (violin) Josep Pons (conductor) Josep Pons and the BBC Symphony Orchestra present a Spanish-themed Prom with a French accent. Debussy and Ravel paint Spain in their own distinctive colours: Ravel with the raw heat and insistent thrum of his Bol退ro and Debussy in the vivid musical vignettes of Ib退ria. Meanwhile Spanish violinist Mar퀀a Dueကas - a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist and winner of the 2021 Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition - is the soloist in ɀdouard Lalo's most famous work, the Symphonie espagnole, which marks the French Romantic composer's 200th anniversary. The concert opens in Andalusia, with music from Falla's tragic opera La vida breve, set in sun-soaked Granada. Live at the BBC Proms: Josep Pons conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 8: Impressions Of Spain (part 2) | 20230720 | Live at the BBC Proms: Josep Pons conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Debussy and Ravel. Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Claude Debussy: Images - Ib退ria Maurice Ravel: Bol退ro Josep Pons (conductor) Josep Pons and the BBC Symphony Orchestra present a Spanish-themed Prom with a French accent. Debussy and Ravel paint Spain in their own distinctive colours: Ravel with the raw heat and insistent thrum of his Bol退ro and Debussy in the vivid musical vignettes of Ib退ria. Meanwhile Spanish violinist Mar퀀a Dueကas - a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist and winner of the 2021 Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition - is the soloist in ɀdouard Lalo's most famous work, the Symphonie espagnole, which marks the French Romantic composer's 200th anniversary. The concert opens in Andalusia, with music from Falla's tragic opera La vida breve, set in sun-soaked Granada. Live at the BBC Proms: Josep Pons conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Prom 9: Mariza Sings Fado | 20230721 | Live at the BBC Proms: Mariza sings fado - the Portuguese legend makes her Proms debut as she reveals the musical soul of Portugal. Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert hall, London Mariza - singer Lu퀀s Guerreiro -Portuguese guitar Phelipe Ferreira - guitar Jo o Frade - accordion Dinga - bass guitar Jo o Freitas - percussion London Contemporary Orchestra Make a date with destiny at this Proms celebration of fado, the musical soul of Portugal. Fado literally means fate' and the genre's keening melodies are charged with passion, longing and despair. Tonight we'll hear Mariza, one of the tradition's greatest living exponents, together with her band. Their Proms debut features favourite songs from her 20-year career as well as a glimpse of her forthcoming album. Live at the BBC Proms: Mariza sings fado. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Proms At Aberystwyth | 20230730 | Live at the BBC Proms: Owain Park directs The Gesualdo Six exploring five centuries of madrigals, including works by Weelkes and Palestrina, to Ligeti and Weir. Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Aberystwyth Arts Centre. Luca Marenzio: Potr viver io più se senza luce Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Io son ferito, ahi lasso Maddalena Casulana: Morir non pu il mio cuore Carlo Gesualdo: Asciugate i begli occhi Claudio Monteverdi: S쀀, ch' io vorrei morire Jacques Arcadelt: Il bianco e dolce cigno Orlando Gibbons: The silver swan William Byrd: This sweet and merry month of May Thomas Weelkes: As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending c. 14:50 Interval: Joan Passey talks to poet Zoe Skoulding and writer Tom Bullough c.15:10 Thomas Weelkes: Thule the period of cosmographie Gy怀rgy Ligeti: Nonsense Madrigals - No. 1: Two Dreams and Little Bat Gy怀rgy Ligeti: Nonsense Madrigals - No. 2: Cuckoo in the Pear Tree Gy怀rgy Ligeti: Nonsense Madrigals - No. 3: The Alphabet Thomas Weelkes: The nightingale, the organ of delight Thomas Weelkes: The ape, the monkey and baboon Gy怀rgy Ligeti Nonsense Madrigals - No. 4: Flying Robert Gy怀rgy Ligeti: Nonsense Madrigals - No. 5: The Lobster Quadrille Gy怀rgy Ligeti: Nonsense Madrigals - No. 6: A Long, Sad Tale Judith Weir: Madrigal Sarah Rimkus: My heart is like a singing bird Owain Park, director Live at the BBC Proms: Owain Park directs The Gesualdo Six performing Weelkes and others. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Proms At Great Yarmouth | 20230908 | From the Hippodrome Circus, the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Anna-Maria Helsing play popular music by Walton, Coates and Vaughan Williams, including his perennial favourite Lark Ascending featuring violinist Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, and a new commission written specially for this concert from local composer Sarah Rodgers. Part 1 is broadcast live. Part 2 will follow the evening Prom from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Ian Skelly. Vaughan Williams Overture: The Wasps Coates Dancing Nights: Concert Valse Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending Sarah Rodgers Seascapes (BBC commission, world premiere) Walton Crown Imperial Stravinsky Circus Polka Rodgers Carousel Waltz Nathaniel Anderson-Frank (violin) The BBC Concert Orchestra presents a programme of orchestral favourites at Great Yarmouth's Hippodrome. Whirligig waltzes from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel and from Khachaturian's ballet Masquerade set things spinning. Written for a dance spectacle featuring 50 elephants, Stravinsky's Circus Polka brings all the colour and wit of the big top, reflecting the Hippodrome's original purpose as a circus venue. As well as a new commission from British composer Sarah Rodgers, the programme features pieces by two earlier towering figures of English music: Walton's stirring coronation march Crown Imperial and Vaughan Williams's ever-popular soaring piece for solo violin and orchestra, The Lark Ascending. BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Anna-Maria Helsing, live from the Hippodrome Circus. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Proms At Londonderry: William Byrd: England's Nightingale | 20230715 | Early music vocal ensemble Stile Antico explores the many facets of William Byrd - England's greatest Renaissance composer and a musical chameleon - in his 400th-anniversary year. The interval this afternoon will be the first of a series of conversations about writing and Place for this year's Proms at concerts - critic, academic and broadcaster Shahidha Bari has been talking to a pair of writers born in Northern Ireland - Michelle Gallen and Colin Bateman Presented by Al Ryan Byrd Emendemus in melius A good egg - Byrd, the loyal subject: Byrd O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth Byrd Sing joyfully Byrd Nunc dimittis from Great Service The caged Bird - Byrd, the Catholic at court: Byrd Vide, Domine, afflictionem Byrd Haec dies Byrd Ne irascaris, Domine INTERVAL (approx. 1440) A country nest - Byrd, the Essex gentleman: Byrd Retire my soul Byrd Ave verum corpus Byrd Laudate Dominum, omnes gentes Byrd Optimam partem elegit Byrd Factus est repente Byrd Agnus Dei from 4 part mass Under his wing - Byrd, the much reverenced master': Thomas Morley Domine Dominus noster Peter Philips Ecce vicit Leo Thomas Tomkins Too much I once lamented Byrd Laudibus in sanctis Stile Antico explores the many facets of William Byrd in his 400th-anniversary year. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Proms At Perth | 20230903 | Pianist Steven Osborne joins the Heath Quartet at Perth Concert Hall for a chamber concert of classical traditions and reinventions in music by Haydn, Tippett and Shostakovich. Haydn's first mature set of quartets was written for the brilliant young leader of the Esterhကzy orchestra, Luigi Tomasini and showcases his virtuosic panache in these concerto-style first violin parts. Steven Osborne, a leading champion of the music of Michael Tippett, performs his short second piano sonata which quotes from his opera King Priam and whose abrupt contrasts and biting harmonies reflect on the harsh realities of war. Steven Osborne and the Heath Quartet come together in Shostakovich's Piano Quintet in G minor, premiered in 1940 by the composer himself and the Beethoven Quartet. It harks back to classical forms and heralds the dark clouds of war which loomed large at the time. Presented by Petroc Trelawny Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major, Op 9 No 1 Tippett: Piano Sonata No 2 INTERVAL. Writing and Place: Scotland Merryn Glover is the first Writer in Residence for the Cairngorms National Park. Amanda Thomson is an artist and writer who teaches at Glasgow School of Art. They discuss writing about Scottish nature with Kate Molleson. Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor Steven Osborne, piano Pianist Steven Osborne joins the Heath Quartet for a concert at Perth Concert Hall. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Proms At Sage Gateshead | 20230722 | The Royal Northern Sinfonia under its principal conductor Dinis Sousa perform Brahms, Mozart and Mazzoli as part of the BBC Proms weekend from Sage, Gateshead, introduced by Tom McKinney. Pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout is the soloist for one of Mozart's most dramatic piano concertos. Brahms's pastoral 2nd Symphony gives evidence of the composer in one of his most cheerful musical moods and Missy Mazzoli offers music 'in the shape of the solar system'. Part 1. Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) Mozart: Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor K466 (Kristian Bezuidenhout, piano) c. 8.15 Interval: Writing and Place Ian McMillan has been talking to a pair of authors from the North East about how that landscape has shaped their writing. Jessica Andrews grew up in Sunderland and her books include Saltwater and Milk Teeth. Jake Morris-Campbell was born in South Shields and his poetry includes the collection Corrigenda for Costafine Town and various Radio 3 commissioned pieces. c. 8.35 Part 2. Brahms: Symphony No 2 in D major op73 Dinis Sousa (conductor) The Royal Northern Sinfonia live from the BBC Proms weekend at Sage Gateshead. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Proms At Sage Gateshead | 20230723 | American countertenor Reginald Mobley perform a selection of traditional American spirituals with pianist Baptiste Trotignon as part of the BBC Proms Sage Gateshead weekend. Their programme includes: My Lord What a Morning Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen Great Campmeetin Steal Away Save me Lord By and by / There is a balm in Gilead Deep River I Got a Robe Were You There Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child Bright Sparkles in the Churchyard alongside items by Florence Price and H.T.Burleigh. During the interval, Tom McKinney talks to Reginald Mobley about the music in this concert programme and his own singing career. Reginald Mobley and Baptiste Trotignon at the BBC Proms, Sage Gateshead. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Proms At Sage Gateshead: Self Esteem And The Royal Northern Sinfonia | 20230723 | An exciting collaboration between Self Esteem, Royal Northern Sinfonia and conductor Robert Ames, featuring new arrangements of songs from Self Esteem's hit albums 'Prioritise Pleasure' and 'Compliments Please'. * THIS PROGRAMME CONTAINS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE * Recorded at the weekend-long Proms festival at Sage Gateshead. Presented by Elizabeth Alker. Song list: I'm Fine Favourite Problem In Time Just Kids The 345 Still Reigning Wizardry You Forever John Elton The Best Praying for Time I do this all the time An exciting collaboration between Self Esteem and Royal Northern Sinfonia. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Proms At Sage Gateshead: Voices Of The River's Edge | 20230722 | Formed for Sage Gateshead's 2022 Prom, the young people's choir Voices of the River's Edge has continued to welcome new members and to make music deep-rooted in North-East communities. This Prom brings them together with the Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia and additional massed voices from across the North-East, in a celebration of vocal music that includes a new BBC commission, Whin Lands, by award-winning composer Kristina Arakelyan. Presented by Elizabeth Alker Massed voices from across the North-East come together in a celebration of vocal music. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Proms At Sage Gateshead: Yazz Ahmed And Arun Ghosh | 20230721 | Trumpeter Yazz Ahmed and her quartet present a set of intoxicating, psychedelic jazz alongside clarinettist, composer and bandleader Arun Ghosh and his band as part of the Proms weekend from Sage Gateshead. Introduced by Elizabeth Alker. Part 1: Arun Ghosh Quintet: Arun Ghosh - clarinet Faye MacCalman - tenor sax Jamil Sheriff - piano John Pope - electric bass Dave Walsh - drums Hope Springs Sister Green Sufi Stomp (Soul of Sindh) Ragtime Surrender to the Sea Aurora During the interval a selection of music from disc. Part 2: Yazz Ahmed Quartet: Yazz Ahmed - trumpet Ralph Wyld - vibraphone David Manington - bass Martin France - drums Lahan Al Mansour La Saboteuse Jamil Jamal A Shoal of Souls The Lost Pearl Yazz Ahmed and her quartet in concert with Arun Ghosh and his band at Sage Gateshead. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
Proms At Truro | 20230827 | Live at the BBC Proms: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective pair Schubert's sparkling Trout Quintet with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's sunny and melodious Nonet. Presented by Al Ryan live from Hall for Cornwall, Truro. c.14.00 Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D667, 'Trout c.14.45 Interval: Writing and Place Joan Passey talks to writers Wyl Menmuir and Natasha Carthew about the Cornish landscape and seascape's impact on their work. c.15.05 Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet in F minor, Op. 2 Gershwin. arr. Poster: Love Walked In The Man I Love A Foggy Day They Can't Take That Away From Me Armand Dijkoloum, oboe Cristina Mateo Sကez, clarinet Guylaine Eckersley, bassoon Ben Goldscheider, horn Elena Urioste, violin Rosalind Ventris, viola Tony Rymer, cello Joseph Conyers, double bass Tom Poster, piano 02:55 Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D667, 'Trout 44:05 Interval: How Cornwall's landscape inspires its authors 01:08:40 Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet in F minor, Op. 2 01:38:00 A selection of Gershwin songs Christina Kenny Digital producer, Radio 3 Production BBC Audio Live at the BBC Proms: Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective play Schubert and Coleridge-Taylor. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |