Episodes
| Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Brahms, Beethoven | 20120904 | Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Presented by Katie Derham The St Louis Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut, under Music Director David Robertson. Brahms's dramatic overture opens the programme, followed by Beethoven's challenging and energetic Violin concerto, with Christian Tetzlaff, a soloist who has made regular appearances at the Proms. These two composers are at the pinnacle of Western music, and the next composer, Schoenberg, venerated both of them. He argued that his own new way of composing followed logically on from these greats. Gershwin may seem an unlikely pairing with Schoenberg, but both became firm friends when living in Hollywood, sharing an interest painting and tennis. Brahms: Tragic Overture Beethoven: Violin Concerto Christian Tetzlaff (violin) David Robertson (conductor). St Louis Symphony Orchestra in Brahms: Tragic Overture and Beethoven: Violin Concerto. |
| 01 | Debussy, Stravinsky - Part 1 | 20100907 | BBC PROMS 2010 Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Presented by Suzy Klein The Orchestre National de France and Music Director Daniele Gatti present three vibrant masterpieces with Parisian connections. Debussy's subtly shifting impression of the sea, completed in Eastborne and first performed in Paris, is now one of his best-loved works. His earlier Prelude, inspired by a Mallarm退 poem, alludes to the desires and dreams of the faun. Nijinsky danced his erotic choreography to Debussy's score for the Ballets russes in 1912, and this connection is followed through with Stravinsky's primeval Rite of Spring, which was performed by the Ballets russes in Paris the following year and provoked an even more sensational scandal for Diaghilev's company. Debussy: Pr退lude |
| 01 | Prom 71 (part 1): Americana | 20140909 | Live from the Royal Albert Hall Presented by Ian Skelly BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Keith Lockhart live at the BBC Proms present a concert of American music by Copland, alongside Chris Brubeck's jazz infused triple concerto. Copland: Rodeo - Four Dance Episodes; Quiet City; Appalachian Spring 8.25pm Interval 8:45pm Dave Brubeck, arr Chris Brubeck: Blue Rondo a la Turk (UK Premiere) Chris Brubeck: Travels in Time for Three (UK Premiere) Keith Lockhart (conductor) The BBC Concert Orchestra and their Principal Conductor Keith Lockhart present a concert of American music which combines folk song evocative of the Appalachian mountains filtered and distilled through the pen of Aaron Copland, alongside Chris Brubeck's jazz infused triple concerto, written for virtuoso string trio Time for Three. BBC CO/Keith Lockhart in Copland: 4 Dance Episodes (Rodeo); Quiet City; Appalachian Spring |
| 01 | Prom 71 (part 1): Gorecki, Vaughan Williams And Tchaikovsky | 20130904 | Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Presented by Suzy Klein The BBC Symphony Orchestra & Osmo V䀀nsk䀀 live at the BBC Proms. Gorecki's famous 3rd Symphony, Vaughan Williams' Four Last Songs, & Tchaikovsky's great and final 6th Symphony. A series of farewells as Osmo V䀀nsk䀀 conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a programme concluding the season's focus on Polish music and premiering Anthony Payne's orchestration of Vaughan Williams's Four Last Songs. BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Ruby Hughes and Jennifer Johnston are the soloists, Hughes singing the three Polish texts of Henryk G recki's 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs', Johnston singing Procris, Menelaus, Tired and Hands, Eyes and Heart in the Vaughan Williams. Tchaikovsky's 'Path退tique' is the penultimate instalment of this summer's cycle of his symphonies. G recki: Symphony No. 3, 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs 8.30pm Interval 8.50pm Vaughan Williams Orch. A. Payne: Four Last Songs (BBC commission: world premiere) Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, 'Path退tique Ruby Hughes (soprano) Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano) Osmo V䀀nsk䀀 (conductor). Soprano Ruby Hughes, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Osmo Vanska in Gorecki's Symphony No 3. |
| 01 | Prom 71 (part 1): St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra | 20150908 | Live at the BBC Proms: St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra with soloist, Julia Fischer (violin) and conductor, Yuri Temirkanov. Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Presented by Andrew McGregor Rimsky-Korsakov: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh - 3 symphonic pictures Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto 8.20 INTERVAL 8.40 Elgar: 'Enigma' Variations Yuri Temirkanov (conductor) German violinist Julia Fischer joins the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra for its second concert, as soloist in Tchaikovsky's much-loved Violin Concerto - a work in which concert-hall sophistication balances rustic folk-simplicity, overflowing with tunes and climaxing in a dazzling rondo finale. Big tunes - or, at least, one big tune - also dominate Elgar's 'Enigma' Variations, his affectionate musical portrait of friends and acquaintances. The concert opens with one of Rimsky-Korsakov's finest scores, the 'three symphonic pictures' adapted from his 1907 opera The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh - a work sometimes nicknamed 'the Russian Parsifal'. The St Petersburg Philharmonic under Yuri Temirkanov plays Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky |
| 02 | Debussy, Stravinsky - Part 2 | 20100907 | BBC PROMS 2010 Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Presented by Suzy Klein The Orchestre National de France and Music Director Daniele Gatti present three vibrant masterpieces with Parisian connections. Debussy's subtly shifting impression of the sea, completed in Eastborne and first performed in Paris, is now one of his best-loved works. His earlier Prelude, inspired by a Mallarm退 poem, alludes to the desires and dreams of the faun. Nijinsky danced his erotic choreography to Debussy's score for the Ballets russes in 1912, and this connection is followed through with Stravinsky's primeval Rite of Spring, which was performed by the Ballets russes in Paris the following year and provoked an even more sensational scandal for Diaghilev's company. Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring Daniele Gatti (conductor). Orchestra Nationale de France under Daniele Gattie in Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. |
| 02 | Prom 71 (part 2): Americana | 20140909 | Live from the Royal Albert Hall Presented by Ian Skelly BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Keith Lockhart live at the BBC Proms present a concert of American music by Copland, alongside Chris Brubeck's jazz infused triple concerto. Copland: Rodeo - Four Dance Episodes; Quiet City; Appalachian Spring 8.25pm Interval 8:45pm Dave Brubeck, arr Chris Brubeck: Blue Rondo a la Turk (UK Premiere) Chris Brubeck: Travels in Time for Three (UK Premiere) Keith Lockhart (conductor) The BBC Concert Orchestra and their Principal Conductor Keith Lockhart present a concert of American music which combines folk song evocative of the Appalachian mountains filtered and distilled through the pen of Aaron Copland, alongside Chris Brubeck's jazz infused triple concerto, written for virtuoso string trio Time for Three. The BBC Concert Orchestra and Time for Three feature in music by Dave and Chris Brubeck. |
| 02 | Prom 71 (part 2): Gorecki, Vaughan Williams And Tchaikovsky | 20130904 | Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Presented by Suzy Klein The BBC Symphony Orchestra & Osmo V䀀nsk䀀 live at the BBC Proms. Gorecki's famous 3rd Symphony, Vaughan Williams' Four Last Songs, & Tchaikovsky's great and final 6th Symphony. A series of farewells as Osmo V䀀nsk䀀 conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a programme concluding the season's focus on Polish music and premiering Anthony Payne's orchestration of Vaughan Williams's Four Last Songs. BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Ruby Hughes and Jennifer Johnston are the soloists, Hughes singing the three Polish texts of Henryk G recki's 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs', Johnston singing Procris, Menelaus, Tired and Hands, Eyes and Heart in the Vaughan Williams. Tchaikovsky's 'Path退tique' is the penultimate instalment of this summer's cycle of his symphonies. G recki: Symphony No. 3, 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs 8.30pm Interval 8.50pm Vaughan Williams Orch. A. Payne: Four Last Songs (BBC commission: world premiere) Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, 'Path退tique Ruby Hughes (soprano) Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano) Osmo V䀀nsk䀀 (conductor). Osmo Vanska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Vaughan Williams and Tchaikovsky. |
| 02 | Prom 71 (part 2): St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra | 20150908 | Live at the BBC Proms: St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra with soloist, Julia Fischer (violin) and conductor, Yuri Temirkanov. Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Presented by Andrew McGregor Rimsky-Korsakov: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh - 3 symphonic pictures Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto 8.20 INTERVAL 8.40 Elgar: 'Enigma' Variations Yuri Temirkanov (conductor) German violinist Julia Fischer joins the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra for its second concert, as soloist in Tchaikovsky's much-loved Violin Concerto - a work in which concert-hall sophistication balances rustic folk-simplicity, overflowing with tunes and climaxing in a dazzling rondo finale. Big tunes - or, at least, one big tune - also dominate Elgar's 'Enigma' Variations, his affectionate musical portrait of friends and acquaintances. The concert opens with one of Rimsky-Korsakov's finest scores, the 'three symphonic pictures' adapted from his 1907 opera The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh - a work sometimes nicknamed 'the Russian Parsifal'. St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra under Yuri Temirkanov in Elgar's Enigma Variations. |
| 02 | Schoenberg, Gershwin | 20120904 | Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Presented by Katie Derham The St Louis Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut, under Music Director David Robertson. Brahms's dramatic overture opens the programme, followed by Beethoven's challenging and energetic Violin concerto, with Christian Tetzlaff, a soloist who has made regular appearances at the Proms. These two composers are at the pinnacle of Western music, and the next composer, Schoenberg, venerated both of them. He argued that his own new way of composing followed logically on from these greats. Gershwin may seem an unlikely pairing with Schoenberg, but both became firm friends when living in Hollywood, sharing an interest painting and tennis. Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra Gershwin: An American in Paris Christian Tetzlaff (violin) David Robertson (conductor). David Robertson conducts the St Louis Symphony Orchestra in Schoenberg and Gershwin. |