Proms At Christmas 2024 [BBC Proms]

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Prom 54: Beethoven For Three

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Live at the BBC Proms: Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma perform Brahms' Piano Trio in C major, Op. 87 and Beethoven's ‘Archduke' trio, Op. 97.

Presented by Hannah French, from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Brahms: Piano Trio in C major, Op. 87

Beethoven: Piano Trio in B flat major ‘Archduke', Op. 97

Emanuel Ax (piano)

Leonidas Kavakos (violin)

Yo‐Yo Ma (cello)

Three stellar soloists come together to form a classical supergroup. Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma have enjoyed a partnership stretching back a decade and now they lavish their vast gifts and experience on an programme of chamber music. Together they perform Brahms's Piano Trio No. 2 in C major alongside some of Beethoven's best-loved chamber music repertoire: his Op. 97 piano trio, nicknamed ‘Archduke'.

BBC Proms 2024: Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma play Brahms and Beethoven.

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

BBC Proms 2024: Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma perform Brahms's Piano Trio in C major, Op. 87 and Beethoven's ‘Archduke' Trio, Op. 97.

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Prom 60: Late Night With Eric Whitacre

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BBC Proms 2024: Eric Whitacre conducts the world premiere of Eternity in an Hour with the BBC Singers, Christopher Glynn, Nick Lisher and 12 Ensemble.

Presented by Martin Handley, from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Eric Whitacre: Eternity in an Hour, BBC co-commission: world premiere

Christopher Glynn, piano

Lesjamusic, electronics

Eric Whitacre, conductor/electronics

William Blake's great poem pitting childlike wonder and naivety against adult maturity and experience, Auguries of Innocence, contains the resonant line ‘eternity in an hour'. Eric Whitacre, whose apparently weightless music is often said to stop time, takes that line as the title for his Proms commission, receiving its world premiere at this Late Night Prom. Expect shimmering beauty and heavenly harmonies as Whitacre himself conducts the BBC Singers and an ensemble of strings, piano and electronics.

BBC Proms 2024: BBC Singers and conductor Eric Whitacre perform Eternity in an Hour.

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

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Prom 62: Rattle Conducts Mahler's Sixth

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BBC Proms 2024: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Simon Rattle perform Mahler's Symphony No. 6.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor

Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

‘None of his works came as directly from his inmost heart as this.' So said Mahler's wife Alma of her husband's Symphony No. 6, a score of such terrifying and ominous power that it came to spook even the composer himself. Across the symphony's four movements we hear Mahler grappling with his own demise – clinging hopelessly to love, light and the beauty of life. For their second consecutive night at the Proms, Sir Simon Rattle and his Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra take on Mahler's gargantuan and grippingly intense work.

BBC Proms 2024: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Simon Rattle perform Mahler 6.

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

[LISTEN NOW]

Prom 70: Prokofiev's Romeo And Juliet

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BBC Proms 2024: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Jaime Martín perform Bacewicz and Prokofiev. Nemanja Radulović is soloist in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Bacewicz: Overture

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35

Prokofiev: A Selection of Movements from Romeo and Juliet

Nemanja Radulović (violin)

Jaime Martín (conductor)

Sergey Prokofiev hoped his musical retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet would have ‘immediate appeal yet sound like nothing written before'. Even now, his score delivers on both fronts, showing the composer's gift for melody and his ability to reconcile his music's hard edge with a soft, romantic core. Jaime Martín conducts dramatic highlights from Prokofiev's ballet score after charismatic Franco-Serbian soloist Nemanja Radulović sets off fireworks in the ultimate Romantic violin concerto. And, to begin, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales unleashes the strident energies of Grażyna Bacewicz's thrilling Overture, which quotes the famous ‘V for Victory' motif from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

BBC Proms 2024: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Jaime Mart\u00edn.

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

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Prom 72: Mozart, Farrenc And Beethoven's 'eroica' Symphony

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BBC Proms 2024: the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with Antonello Manacorda conducting in symphonies by Mozart, Louise Farrenc and Beethoven - his 'Eroica'.

Presented by Ian Skelly, from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Mozart: Symphony No. 1 in E flat major, K16

Louise Farrenc: Symphony No. 3 in G minor

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica

Conductor Antonello Manacorda

Longer, louder and more arresting than any music that had gone before it, Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony left audiences dumbfounded at its first performance in 1805. Over two centuries later, its ideals of liberty, endurance and fortitude remain undimmed. Played on the period instruments of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Beethoven's pivotal symphony will appear fresh-minted under Antonello Manacorda. He begins with a perky little number by the 8-year-old Mozart and continues with the intensity, power and momentum of the Symphony No. 3 by 19th-century France's compositional trailblazer, Louise Farrenc.

BBC Proms 2024: the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with Antonello Manacorda.

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

[LISTEN NOW]

Prom 73: Last Night Of The Proms 2024

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BBC Proms 2024: the season closes with Angel Blue and Sir Stephen Hough joining the BBC BBC Singers, Symphony Chorus and Symphony Orchestra with conductor Sakari Oramo.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny and Georgia Mann, from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

William Walton: Overture ‘Portsmouth Point

Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi – ‘O mio babbino caro'; Madam Butterfly – Humming Chorus; Tosca – ‘Vissi d'arte

Carlos Simon: Hellfighters' Blues (BBC co-commission: world premiere)

Gabriel Fauré: Pavane

Charles Ives: The Yale–Princeton Football Game

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Summer Is Gone

Grace Williams: Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes

Camille Saint‐Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, ‘Egyptian', 2nd movement Andante

Iain Farrington: Extra Time (BBC commission: world premiere)

Henry Mancini arr Gavin Sutherland: The Pink Panther

Sir Stephen Hough: In His Hands: Two Spirituals

Ruperto Chapí: Las hijas del Zebedeo – ‘Al pensar en el dueño de mis amores' (Carceleras)

Trad. arr. Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs

Thomas Arne arr. Sargent: Rule, Britannia!

Edward Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and Glory

Hubert Parry orch. Elgar: Jerusalem

Anon arr. Britten: The National Anthem

Trad. arr. P. Campbell: Auld Lang Syne

Angel Blue (soprano)

Sir Stephen Hough (piano)

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

The stars gather for an end-of-season party like no other. Joining the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC Singers are Grammy Award-winning American soprano Angel Blue and one of Britain's best-loved pianists, Sir Stephen Hough. Sakari Oramo returns to the podium for the world's biggest classical music party.

BBC Proms 2024: the season closes with star soloists Angel Blue and Sir Stephen Hough.

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

[LISTEN NOW]

Episodes

Title	First Broadcast	Comments
Prom 54: Beethoven For Three	20241225	Live at the BBC Proms: Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma perform Brahms' Piano Trio in C major, Op. 87 and Beethoven's ‘Archduke' trio, Op. 97. Presented by Hannah French, from the Royal Albert Hall, London Brahms: Piano Trio in C major, Op. 87 Beethoven: Piano Trio in B flat major ‘Archduke', Op. 97 Emanuel Ax (piano) Leonidas Kavakos (violin) Yo‐Yo Ma (cello) Three stellar soloists come together to form a classical supergroup. Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma have enjoyed a partnership stretching back a decade and now they lavish their vast gifts and experience on an programme of chamber music. Together they perform Brahms's Piano Trio No. 2 in C major alongside some of Beethoven's best-loved chamber music repertoire: his Op. 97 piano trio, nicknamed ‘Archduke'. BBC Proms 2024: Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma play Brahms and Beethoven. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. BBC Proms 2024: Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma perform Brahms's Piano Trio in C major, Op. 87 and Beethoven's ‘Archduke' Trio, Op. 97. [LISTEN NOW]
Prom 60: Late Night With Eric Whitacre	20241225	BBC Proms 2024: Eric Whitacre conducts the world premiere of Eternity in an Hour with the BBC Singers, Christopher Glynn, Nick Lisher and 12 Ensemble. Presented by Martin Handley, from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Eric Whitacre: Eternity in an Hour, BBC co-commission: world premiere Christopher Glynn, piano Lesjamusic, electronics Eric Whitacre, conductor/electronics William Blake's great poem pitting childlike wonder and naivety against adult maturity and experience, Auguries of Innocence, contains the resonant line ‘eternity in an hour'. Eric Whitacre, whose apparently weightless music is often said to stop time, takes that line as the title for his Proms commission, receiving its world premiere at this Late Night Prom. Expect shimmering beauty and heavenly harmonies as Whitacre himself conducts the BBC Singers and an ensemble of strings, piano and electronics. BBC Proms 2024: BBC Singers and conductor Eric Whitacre perform Eternity in an Hour. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. [LISTEN NOW]
Prom 62: Rattle Conducts Mahler's Sixth	20241230	BBC Proms 2024: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Simon Rattle perform Mahler's Symphony No. 6. Presented by Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor Sir Simon Rattle (conductor) ‘None of his works came as directly from his inmost heart as this.' So said Mahler's wife Alma of her husband's Symphony No. 6, a score of such terrifying and ominous power that it came to spook even the composer himself. Across the symphony's four movements we hear Mahler grappling with his own demise – clinging hopelessly to love, light and the beauty of life. For their second consecutive night at the Proms, Sir Simon Rattle and his Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra take on Mahler's gargantuan and grippingly intense work. BBC Proms 2024: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Simon Rattle perform Mahler 6. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. [LISTEN NOW]
Prom 70: Prokofiev's Romeo And Juliet	20241225	BBC Proms 2024: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Jaime Martín perform Bacewicz and Prokofiev. Nemanja Radulović is soloist in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Bacewicz: Overture Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35 Prokofiev: A Selection of Movements from Romeo and Juliet Nemanja Radulović (violin) Jaime Martín (conductor) Sergey Prokofiev hoped his musical retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet would have ‘immediate appeal yet sound like nothing written before'. Even now, his score delivers on both fronts, showing the composer's gift for melody and his ability to reconcile his music's hard edge with a soft, romantic core. Jaime Martín conducts dramatic highlights from Prokofiev's ballet score after charismatic Franco-Serbian soloist Nemanja Radulović sets off fireworks in the ultimate Romantic violin concerto. And, to begin, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales unleashes the strident energies of Grażyna Bacewicz's thrilling Overture, which quotes the famous ‘V for Victory' motif from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. BBC Proms 2024: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Jaime Mart\u00edn. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. [LISTEN NOW]
Prom 72: Mozart, Farrenc And Beethoven's 'eroica' Symphony	20241226	BBC Proms 2024: the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with Antonello Manacorda conducting in symphonies by Mozart, Louise Farrenc and Beethoven - his 'Eroica'. Presented by Ian Skelly, from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Mozart: Symphony No. 1 in E flat major, K16 Louise Farrenc: Symphony No. 3 in G minor Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica Conductor Antonello Manacorda Longer, louder and more arresting than any music that had gone before it, Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony left audiences dumbfounded at its first performance in 1805. Over two centuries later, its ideals of liberty, endurance and fortitude remain undimmed. Played on the period instruments of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Beethoven's pivotal symphony will appear fresh-minted under Antonello Manacorda. He begins with a perky little number by the 8-year-old Mozart and continues with the intensity, power and momentum of the Symphony No. 3 by 19th-century France's compositional trailblazer, Louise Farrenc. BBC Proms 2024: the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with Antonello Manacorda. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. [LISTEN NOW]
Prom 73: Last Night Of The Proms 2024	20241231	BBC Proms 2024: the season closes with Angel Blue and Sir Stephen Hough joining the BBC BBC Singers, Symphony Chorus and Symphony Orchestra with conductor Sakari Oramo. Presented by Petroc Trelawny and Georgia Mann, from the Royal Albert Hall, London. William Walton: Overture ‘Portsmouth Point Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi – ‘O mio babbino caro'; Madam Butterfly – Humming Chorus; Tosca – ‘Vissi d'arte Carlos Simon: Hellfighters' Blues (BBC co-commission: world premiere) Gabriel Fauré: Pavane Charles Ives: The Yale–Princeton Football Game Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Summer Is Gone Grace Williams: Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes Camille Saint‐Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, ‘Egyptian', 2nd movement Andante Iain Farrington: Extra Time (BBC commission: world premiere) Henry Mancini arr Gavin Sutherland: The Pink Panther Sir Stephen Hough: In His Hands: Two Spirituals Ruperto Chapí: Las hijas del Zebedeo – ‘Al pensar en el dueño de mis amores' (Carceleras) Trad. arr. Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs Thomas Arne arr. Sargent: Rule, Britannia! Edward Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and Glory Hubert Parry orch. Elgar: Jerusalem Anon arr. Britten: The National Anthem Trad. arr. P. Campbell: Auld Lang Syne Angel Blue (soprano) Sir Stephen Hough (piano) BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Sakari Oramo (conductor) The stars gather for an end-of-season party like no other. Joining the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC Singers are Grammy Award-winning American soprano Angel Blue and one of Britain's best-loved pianists, Sir Stephen Hough. Sakari Oramo returns to the podium for the world's biggest classical music party. BBC Proms 2024: the season closes with star soloists Angel Blue and Sir Stephen Hough. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. [LISTEN NOW]