2023 [BBC Proms]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 tranquillity—then 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Koženက (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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

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.

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.

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.