Prom 64 [BBC Proms]

Presented by Andrew McGregor

The Berliner Philharmoniker and Simon Rattle in their second Proms appearance perform music by Brahms and Lutoslawski.

The orchestra is joined by distinguished pianist Yefim Bronfman who is soloist in Brahms's mighty Second Piano Concerto, known for its technical difficulty, length and for the fact that the pianist has to share some of the limelight with the lead cellist who has a beautiful three-minute solo at the start of the slow movement. Lutoslawski's Third Symphony was completed in the early 1980s during a troubled period in the composer's native Poland, it combines experimental techniques with craftsmanship, conviction and lyricism.

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major

Yefim Bronfman (piano)

Simon Rattle (conductor).

Soloist Yefim Bronfman and the Berlin Philharmonic perform Brahms's Piano Concerto No 2.

Presented by Christopher Cook

London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski live at the BBC Proms in music by Bantock, Prokofiev, Sibelius and Richard Strauss.

Bantock: The Witch of Atlas

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major

8:20pm Interval

8:40pm

Sibelius: Pohjola's Daughter

R Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

Anika Vavic (piano)

Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)

Tonight's Prom traces the development of the tone-poem in music inspired by Nietzsche, Shelley and the Finnish epic, the Kalevala. The concert opens with Granville Bantock's 1902 tone-poem 'The Witch of Atlas', based on Shelley's eponymous poem. The Serbian-born pianist Anika Vavic joins the LPO, making her Proms debut in Prokofiev's virtuosic Piano Concerto No 3. The second half of the concert starts with Sibelius's dark fantasy 'Pohjola's Daughter', and concludes with the great sunrise of Richard Strauss's thrilling 'Also sprach Zarathustra'.

This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 5th September at 2pm.

London Philharmonic in Bantock: The Witch of Atlas. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Nielsen: Aladdin (excerpts)

B Tommy Andersson: Pan (BBC Commission: world premiere)

7.10 pm INTERVAL

7.30 pm

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major

David Goode (organ)

Klara Ek (soprano)

Thomas Sønderg倀rd (Conductor)

Thomas Sønderg倀rd and the BBC NOW return for their fourth concert this season, opening with a suite from Nielsen's music for Oehlenschl䀀ger's play Aladdin. It's one of the composer's best-loved works, one that avoids musical clich退s of the exotic Orient, conjuring scenes altogether more subtle and vivid. A major premiere by the orchestra's Composer-in-Association, B Tommy Andersson, puts organist David Goode in the spotlight and the concert concludes with the sunniest and most intimate of Mahler's symphonies - the concise Fourth, a work filled with birdsong and pastoral landscapes that features a child's-eye view of Heaven in its final movement.

Thomas Sondergard conducts the BBC NOW in music by Nielsen and B Tommy Andersson.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

The Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle dance through a programme of Russian music live at the BBC Proms - Stravinsky's Firebird ballet and Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances.

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

7:10pm Interval

7:30pm

Stravinsky: The Firebird

Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

In the first of their two BBC Proms this year, Sir Simon Rattle and his Berlin Philharmonic don their dancing shoes and whisk us off to Russia. Via America, in the case of Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances: composed on Long Island for the Philadelphia Orchestra, they blend the balletic traditions of the exile Rachmaninov's Russian homeland with jazz influences from his adopted home, the United States. After the interval, there's authentic Russian ballet and fairytale in Stravinsky's breakthrough work about the magical Firebird.

Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Stravinsky's Symphonic Dances.

Presented by Andrew McGregor

The Berliner Philharmoniker and Simon Rattle in their second Proms appearance perform music by Brahms and Lutoslawski.

The orchestra is joined by distinguished pianist Yefim Bronfman who is soloist in Brahms's mighty Second Piano Concerto, known for its technical difficulty, length and for the fact that the pianist has to share some of the limelight with the lead cellist who has a beautiful three-minute solo at the start of the slow movement. Lutoslawski's Third Symphony was completed in the early 1980s during a troubled period in the composer's native Poland, it combines experimental techniques with craftsmanship, conviction and lyricism.

Lutoslawski: Symphony No.3

Yefim Bronfman (piano)

Simon Rattle (conductor).

Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Lutoslawski's Third Symphony.

Presented by Christopher Cook

London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski live at the BBC Proms in music by Bantock, Prokofiev, Sibelius and Richard Strauss.

Bantock: The Witch of Atlas

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major

8:20pm Interval

8:40pm

Sibelius: Pohjola's Daughter

R Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

Anika Vavic (piano)

Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)

Tonight's Prom traces the development of the tone-poem in music inspired by Nietzsche, Shelley and the Finnish epic, the Kalevala. The concert opens with Granville Bantock's 1902 tone-poem 'The Witch of Atlas', based on Shelley's eponymous poem. The Serbian-born pianist Anika Vavic joins the LPO, making her Proms debut in Prokofiev's virtuosic Piano Concerto No 3. The second half of the concert starts with Sibelius's dark fantasy 'Pohjola's Daughter', and concludes with the great sunrise of Richard Strauss's thrilling 'Also sprach Zarathustra'.

This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 5th September at 2pm.

London Philharmonic in Sibelius: Pohjola's Daughter. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Nielsen: Aladdin (excerpts)

B Tommy Andersson: Pan (BBC Commission: world premiere)

7.10 pm INTERVAL

7.30 pm

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major

David Goode (organ)

Klara Ek (soprano)

Thomas Sønderg倀rd (Conductor)

Thomas Sønderg倀rd and the BBC NOW return for their fourth concert this season, opening with a suite from Nielsen's music for Oehlenschl䀀ger's play Aladdin. It's one of the composer's best-loved works, one that avoids musical clich退s of the exotic Orient, conjuring scenes altogether more subtle and vivid. A major premiere by the orchestra's Composer-in-Association, B Tommy Andersson, puts organist David Goode in the spotlight and the concert concludes with the sunniest and most intimate of Mahler's symphonies - the concise Fourth, a work filled with birdsong and pastoral landscapes that features a child's-eye view of Heaven in its final movement.

Thomas Sondergard conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Mahler's Symphony No 4.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

The Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle dance through a programme of Russian music live at the BBC Proms - Stravinsky's Firebird ballet and Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances.

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

7:10pm Interval

7:30pm

Stravinsky: The Firebird

Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

In the first of their two BBC Proms this year, Sir Simon Rattle and his Berlin Philharmonic don their dancing shoes and whisk us off to Russia. Via America, in the case of Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances: composed on Long Island for the Philadelphia Orchestra, they blend the balletic traditions of the exile Rachmaninov's Russian homeland with jazz influences from his adopted home, the United States. After the interval, there's authentic Russian ballet and fairytale in Stravinsky's breakthrough work about the magical Firebird.

Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Stravinsky's The Firebird ballet score.