Prom 34 [BBC Proms]

Live from the Royal Albert Hall

Presented by Andrew McGregor

French and English music combine in this Proms Entente-Cordiale. Saint-Sa뀀ns' ever-popular Organ Symphony dominates the programme, joined by a new double concerto, half man, half beast, from Simon Holt. Plus Proms featured composer Frank Bridge's orchestral picture of the wild and windy Sussex Downs, overlooking the Channel.

French organ virtuoso Marcel Dupr退 was a regular visitor to the Royal Albert Hall throughout his life. He became a great friend of Sir Henry Wood and played the Organ Symphony at the Proms in 1935. Cort耀ge et litanie is a dazzling crescendo, using the mighty Royal Albert Hall organ together with full symphony orchestra.

The inspirational Parisian conductor Francois-Xavier Roth made a great impact at the Proms last year at the helm of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, with whom he's Associate Guest Conductor. He gave the premiere of Simon Holt's Centauromachy in Cardiff last November. Written for solo clarinet and flugelhorn, it explores the dual nature of the mythical centaur and it's played by the two orchestral Principals for whom it was written.

Radio 3 New Generation Artist Ben Johnson joins the orchestra for Bridge's noble and poignant setting of Rupert Brooke's most famous poem from the Great War.

Bridge: Enter Spring

Bridge: Blow out you bugles

Simon Holt: Centauromachy (BBC Commission, London Premiere)

Ben Johnson (tenor)

Robert Plane (clarinet)

Philippe Schartz (flugelhorn)

Thomas Trotter (organ)

Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Sunday 14th August at 2pm.

Francois-Xavier Roth conducts the BBC NOW in music by Frank Bridge and Simon Holt.

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

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

Britten: Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes

Korngold: Violin Concerto

8.25 pm INTERVAL

8.45 pm

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major

Nicola Benedetti (violin)

Kirill Karabits (conductor)

A musical snapshot of 1945 - a world emerging from the haze of war into the neon glow of Hollywood and new-found hope. Three contrasting works sum up the spirit of this charged year: Britten's Peter Grimes, reinventing English opera; Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony, striving after the 'grandeur of the human spirit'; and Korngold's Violin Concerto. Hailed in his youth as a 'genius' and a 'miracle' by no lesser figures than Mahler and Puccini respectively, Korngold's reputation still rests mainly on his luscious film music. The Violin Concerto combines his instinct for melody (themes are borrowed from four of his finest film scores) with classical virtuosity and structural elegance. The soloist here is Proms regular Nicola Benedetti, a passionate champion of this unaccountably neglected work.

[This Prom will be repeated on Friday 21st August at 2pm].

Kirill Karabits conducts the Bournemouth Symphony in music by Britten and Korngold.

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

Presented by Christopher Cook

BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Principal Conductor Thomas Sønderg倀rd live at the BBC Proms with music by Richard Strauss, including his Burleske with pianist Francesco Piemontesi, and Nielsen's Fifth Symphony.

Richard Strauss: Tod und Verkl䀀rung, Op 24

Richard Strauss: Burleske

8.25pm Interval

8.50pm

Mozart: Rondo in A major for piano and orchestra, K386

Nielsen: Symphony No. 5

Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

Thomas Sønderg倀rd (conductor)

In the first of his two concerts with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Principal Conductor Thomas Sønderg倀rd directs Nielsen's Fifth Symphony, shaped by the conflicts and oppositions of the First World War and touching on a bleak nostalgia that is also at the core of Strauss's tone poem Death and Transfiguration - a musical dramatisation of the roaming thoughts of a dying artist. Profundity is balanced by virtuosity in the 'complicated nonsense' of Strauss's youthful Burleske and Mozart's sunny Rondo in A major, both featuring former New Generation Artist Francesco Piemontesi.

Prom 34 repeat Tuesday 19th August 1400-1630.

BBC NOW conducted by Thomas Sondergard in Strauss: Tod und Verklarung, Op 24; Burleske.

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

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Presented by Suzy Klein.

The conductor Ingo Metzmacher and his Berlin orchestra evoke the spirit of turn-of the century Vienna with an orchestral dream sequence, a romantic concerto and an epic symphony.

Gustav Mahler had a profound influence on the younger generation of Austrian composers, and Franz Schreker was no exception. In his operas he experimented with sounds and colours in a highly expressive way, and this orchestral interlude could almost be a counterpart to Mahler's nocturnal movements in his Seventh Symphony. In his youth, Erich Korngold was mentored by Mahler, who pronounced the younger composer to be a genius when only 9 years old. After leaving Vienna for Hollywood he focussed on the movies, but his Violin Concerto marked a return to the concert platform and is suffused with lush harmonies recalling his early days in Austria, as well as cleverly incorporating themes from his film scores. It remains one of his most popular works.

Mahler's symphonies are at once highly personal and universal, running the full gamut of human emotions. The Seventh includes bittersweet questions on the meaning of existence, a night-walk, a nightmarish scherzo, a magical serenade and an exuberant celebratory finale.

Schreker: Der ferne Klang - Nachtstück

Korngold: Violin Concerto

Leonidas Kavakos (violin)

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Ingo Metzmacher (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Friday 17th September at 2pm.

Deutches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/Ingo Metzmacher in works by Schreker and Korngold.

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

Presented by Penny Gore

Schubert's Unfinished 8th Symphony and Strauss's thrilling Ein Heldenleben frame the witty Piano Concerto by Richard Dubugnon. The Labeque sisters are the soloists and Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Making a welcome return to the Proms following their three appearances in 2009, Katia and Marielle Labeque perform a dramatic piece designed to bring out their contrasting personalities. The Battlefield Concerto was specially written for them by French-Swiss composer and double bassist Richard Dubugnon - who was inspired by the painting The Battle of San Romano by the Florentine artist Paolo Uccello (1397-1475).

Semyon Bychkov also conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in two great classics - the most famous of all unfinished symphonies, and the glorious autobiography (with battle scene) of a composer who lived long in difficult times - A Hero's Life.

Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, 'Unfinished

Richard Dubugnon: Battlefield Concerto (UK Premiere)

Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos)

Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Monday 20th August at 2pm.

BBC Symphony Orchestra under Semyon Bychkov in music by Schubert and Richard Dubugnon.

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

Live from the Royal Albert Hall

Presented by Andrew McGregor

French and English music combine in this Proms Entente-Cordiale. Saint-Sa뀀ns' ever-popular Organ Symphony dominates the programme, joined by a new double concerto, half man, half beast, from Simon Holt. Plus Proms featured composer Frank Bridge's orchestral picture of the wild and windy Sussex Downs, overlooking the Channel.

French organ virtuoso Marcel Dupr退 was a regular visitor to the Royal Albert Hall throughout his life. He became a great friend of Sir Henry Wood and played the Organ Symphony at the Proms in 1935. Cort耀ge et litanie is a dazzling crescendo, using the mighty Royal Albert Hall organ together with full symphony orchestra.

The inspirational Parisian conductor Francois-Xavier Roth made a great impact at the Proms last year at the helm of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, with whom he's Associate Guest Conductor. He gave the premiere of Simon Holt's Centauromachy in Cardiff last November. Written for solo clarinet and flugelhorn, it explores the dual nature of the mythical centaur and it's played by the two orchestral Principals for whom it was written.

Radio 3 New Generation Artist Ben Johnson joins the orchestra for Bridge's noble and poignant setting of Rupert Brooke's most famous poem from the Great War.

Dupr退: Cort耀ge et litanie

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

Ben Johnson (tenor)

Robert Plane (clarinet)

Philippe Schartz (flugelhorn)

Thomas Trotter (organ)

Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Sunday 14th August at 2pm.

Francois-Xavier Roth conducts the BBC NOW in music by Dupre and Saint-Saens.

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

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

Britten: Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes

Korngold: Violin Concerto

8.25 pm INTERVAL

8.45 pm

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major

Nicola Benedetti (violin)

Kirill Karabits (conductor)

A musical snapshot of 1945 - a world emerging from the haze of war into the neon glow of Hollywood and new-found hope. Three contrasting works sum up the spirit of this charged year: Britten's Peter Grimes, reinventing English opera; Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony, striving after the 'grandeur of the human spirit'; and Korngold's Violin Concerto. Hailed in his youth as a 'genius' and a 'miracle' by no lesser figures than Mahler and Puccini respectively, Korngold's reputation still rests mainly on his luscious film music. The Violin Concerto combines his instinct for melody (themes are borrowed from four of his finest film scores) with classical virtuosity and structural elegance. The soloist here is Proms regular Nicola Benedetti, a passionate champion of this unaccountably neglected work.

[This prom will be repeated on Friday 21st August at 2pm].

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Kirill Karabits in Prokofiev's Symphony No 5.

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

Presented by Christopher Cook

BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Principal Conductor Thomas Sønderg倀rd live at the BBC Proms with music by Richard Strauss, including his Burleske with pianist Francesco Piemontesi, and Nielsen's Fifth Symphony.

Richard Strauss: Tod und Verkl䀀rung, Op 24

Richard Strauss: Burleske

8.25pm Interval

8.50pm

Mozart: Rondo in A major for piano and orchestra, K386

Nielsen: Symphony No. 5

Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

Thomas Sønderg倀rd (conductor)

In the first of his two concerts with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Principal Conductor Thomas Sønderg倀rd directs Nielsen's Fifth Symphony, shaped by the conflicts and oppositions of the First World War and touching on a bleak nostalgia that is also at the core of Strauss's tone poem Death and Transfiguration - a musical dramatisation of the roaming thoughts of a dying artist. Profundity is balanced by virtuosity in the 'complicated nonsense' of Strauss's youthful Burleske and Mozart's sunny Rondo in A major, both featuring former New Generation Artist Francesco Piemontesi.

Prom 34 repeat Tuesday 19th August 1400-1630.

The BBC NOW under Thomas Sondergard. Mozart: Rondo in A, K386. Nielsen: Symphony No 5.

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

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Presented by Suzy Klein.

The conductor Ingo Metzmacher and his Berlin orchestra evoke the spirit of turn-of the century Vienna with an orchestral dream sequence, a romantic concerto and an epic symphony.

Gustav Mahler had a profound influence on the younger generation of Austrian composers, and Franz Schreker was no exception. In his operas he experimented with sounds and colours in a highly expressive way, and this orchestral interlude could almost be a counterpart to Mahler's nocturnal movements in his Seventh Symphony. In his youth, Erich Korngold was mentored by Mahler, who pronounced the younger composer to be a genius when only 9 years old. After leaving Vienna for Hollywood he focussed on the movies, but his Violin Concerto marked a return to the concert platform and is suffused with lush harmonies recalling his early days in Austria, as well as cleverly incorporating themes from his film scores. It remains one of his most popular works.

Mahler's symphonies are at once highly personal and universal, running the full gamut of human emotions. The Seventh includes bittersweet questions on the meaning of existence, a night-walk, a nightmarish scherzo, a magical serenade and an exuberant celebratory finale.

Mahler: Symphony No. 7

Leonidas Kavakos (violin)

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Ingo Metzmacher (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Friday 17th September at 2pm.

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/Ingo Metzmacher in Mahler: Symphony No 7.

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

Presented by Penny Gore

Schubert's Unfinished 8th Symphony and Strauss's thrilling Ein Heldenleben frame the witty Piano Concerto by Richard Dubugnon. The Labeque sisters are the soloists and Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Making a welcome return to the Proms following their three appearances in 2009, Katia and Marielle Labeque perform a dramatic piece designed to bring out their contrasting personalities. The Battlefield Concerto was specially written for them by French-Swiss composer and double bassist Richard Dubugnon - who was inspired by the painting The Battle of San Romano by the Florentine artist Paolo Uccello (1397-1475).

Semyon Bychkov also conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in two great classics - the most famous of all unfinished symphonies, and the glorious autobiography (with battle scene) of a composer who lived long in difficult times - A Hero's Life.

Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos)

Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

This Prom will be repeated on Monday 20th August at 2pm.

Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Strauss's Ein Heldenleben.

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