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Friday 17th July 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:00 to 22:00 (3 hours long)
First Night of the BBC Proms 2020.
The launch of six weeks' of highlights from the past 20-or-so years of the Proms, featuring memorable performances from an array of the world's greatest soloists, orchestras and conductors. Proceedings begin with a mash-up of Beethoven's nine symphonies - a First Night commission by Iain Farrington, recorded in lockdown by a Grand Virtual Orchestra formed of around 350 players from across the BBC Performing Groups. The Beethoven celebrations continue with the dramatic Piano Concerto No 3 performed at the 2017 First Night by Igor Levit, who has more recently reached a new audience through his live Twitter concerts streamed direct from his Berlin apartment during the coronavirus lockdown. Harrison Birtwistle's riotous, hard-hitting Panic - for saxophone, drums and orchestra - won instant notoriety following its premiere at the Last Night of the 100th-anniversary Proms season in 1995. Tonight's selection concludes with Claudio Abbado's final Proms appearance, in 2007, conducting the 127 players of his Lucerne Festival Orchestra in a rapturous performance of Mahler's epic hymn to nature, his Third Symphony. Presented by Petroc Trelawny and Georgia Mann. Ian Farrington: Beethoveniana (BBC commission: world premiere). Grand Virtual Orchestra (BBC Performing Groups). 7.40 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor. Igor Levit, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Edward Gardner (From 2017). 8.15 Harrison Birtwistle: Panic. BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis (From 1995). 8.35 Mahler: Symphony No 3. Anna Larsson (mezzo), Trinity Boys Choir, London Symphony Chorus, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado (From 2007).
Time: 19:00 to 22:00 (3 hours long)
First Night of the BBC Proms 2020.
The launch of six weeks' of highlights from the past 20-or-so years of the Proms, featuring memorable performances from an array of the world's greatest soloists, orchestras and conductors. Proceedings begin with a mash-up of Beethoven's nine symphonies - a First Night commission by Iain Farrington, recorded in lockdown by a Grand Virtual Orchestra formed of around 350 players from across the BBC Performing Groups. The Beethoven celebrations continue with the dramatic Piano Concerto No 3 performed at the 2017 First Night by Igor Levit, who has more recently reached a new audience through his live Twitter concerts streamed direct from his Berlin apartment during the coronavirus lockdown. Harrison Birtwistle's riotous, hard-hitting Panic - for saxophone, drums and orchestra - won instant notoriety following its premiere at the Last Night of the 100th-anniversary Proms season in 1995. Tonight's selection concludes with Claudio Abbado's final Proms appearance, in 2007, conducting the 127 players of his Lucerne Festival Orchestra in a rapturous performance of Mahler's epic hymn to nature, his Third Symphony. Presented by Petroc Trelawny and Georgia Mann. Ian Farrington: Beethoveniana (BBC commission: world premiere). Grand Virtual Orchestra (BBC Performing Groups). 7.40 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor. Igor Levit, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Edward Gardner (From 2017). 8.15 Harrison Birtwistle: Panic. BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Davis (From 1995). 8.35 Mahler: Symphony No 3. Anna Larsson (mezzo), Trinity Boys Choir, London Symphony Chorus, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado (From 2007).
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Saturday 18th July 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 15:00 to 17:00 (2 hours long)
Proms Preview, Christian Thielemann Conducts the Staatskapelle Dresden.
Kate Molleson presents this September 2016 Prom from the Royal Albert Hall, London, when the Staatskapelle Dresden, chief conductor Christian Thielemann and violinist Nikolaj Znaider performed pieces by Beethoven and Reger as well as a Strauss tone poem. The orchestra opened their second Prom with Beethoven's most radiant, smiling work, his sublime Violin Concerto, in the sure hands of Nikolaj Znaider, before digging into Max Reger's affectionate and beautifully orchestrated Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart and finally Richard Strauss's witty and abrasive depiction of an impish figure from German folklore, his outlandish tone-poem telling of Till Eulenspiegel's merry pranks. Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D. Reger: Variations and Fugue on a theme by Mozart. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks. Nikolaj Znaider (violin), Staatskapelle Dresden, conductor Christian Thielemann.
Time: 15:00 to 17:00 (2 hours long)
Proms Preview, Christian Thielemann Conducts the Staatskapelle Dresden.
Kate Molleson presents this September 2016 Prom from the Royal Albert Hall, London, when the Staatskapelle Dresden, chief conductor Christian Thielemann and violinist Nikolaj Znaider performed pieces by Beethoven and Reger as well as a Strauss tone poem. The orchestra opened their second Prom with Beethoven's most radiant, smiling work, his sublime Violin Concerto, in the sure hands of Nikolaj Znaider, before digging into Max Reger's affectionate and beautifully orchestrated Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart and finally Richard Strauss's witty and abrasive depiction of an impish figure from German folklore, his outlandish tone-poem telling of Till Eulenspiegel's merry pranks. Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D. Reger: Variations and Fugue on a theme by Mozart. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks. Nikolaj Znaider (violin), Staatskapelle Dresden, conductor Christian Thielemann.
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Saturday 18th July 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Proms Preview, Beethoven's Leonore - A Landmark Performance.
Martin Handley presents Beethoven's opera Leonore from the 1996 Proms, a landmark performance of the first version (it was later revised as Fidelio) which only its second at the Proms and the first using period instruments. John Eliot Gardiner leads Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique at the Royal Albert Hall. Beethoven: Leonore. Hillevi Martinpelto (soprano: Leonore), Kim Begley (tenor: Florestan), Franz Hawlata (bass: Rocco), Christiane Oelze (soprano: Marzelline), Michael Schade (tenor: Jaquino), Matthew Best (bass: Don Pizarro), Geert Smits (baritone: Don Fernando), Robert Burt (tenor: First Prisoner), Colin Campbell (baritone: Second Prisoner), Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, conductor John Eliot Gardiner.
Time: 18:30 to 22:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes long)
Proms Preview, Beethoven's Leonore - A Landmark Performance.
Martin Handley presents Beethoven's opera Leonore from the 1996 Proms, a landmark performance of the first version (it was later revised as Fidelio) which only its second at the Proms and the first using period instruments. John Eliot Gardiner leads Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique at the Royal Albert Hall. Beethoven: Leonore. Hillevi Martinpelto (soprano: Leonore), Kim Begley (tenor: Florestan), Franz Hawlata (bass: Rocco), Christiane Oelze (soprano: Marzelline), Michael Schade (tenor: Jaquino), Matthew Best (bass: Don Pizarro), Geert Smits (baritone: Don Fernando), Robert Burt (tenor: First Prisoner), Colin Campbell (baritone: Second Prisoner), Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, conductor John Eliot Gardiner.
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Sunday 19th July 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)
Proms Chamber Music 6: Jeremy Denk.
American pianist Jeremy Denk plays sonatas by Bartók, Scriabin and Beethoven at London's Cadogan Hall. . Originally broadcast in 2015. Petroc Trelwaney presents. Denk is one of the US's foremost pianists - a musician the New York Times hails as someone `you want to hear no matter what he performs". He makes his BBC Proms debut in a recital that puts Beethoven's final piano sonata at its core, a work that blends extrovert passion with a depth that characterises all of the composer's late works. The programme opens with Bartók's Piano Sonata, a piece strongly coloured by Hungarian folk melodies and rhythmic attack; and marks the centenary of Scriabin's death with his most famous piano sonata, the Black Mass - a disconcerting, phantasmagorical musical journey. Bartók: Piano Sonata, Sz80. Scriabin: Piano Sonata No 9 (Black Mass). Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor, Op 111. Jeremy Denk (piano).
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)
Proms Chamber Music 6: Jeremy Denk.
American pianist Jeremy Denk plays sonatas by Bartók, Scriabin and Beethoven at London's Cadogan Hall. . Originally broadcast in 2015. Petroc Trelwaney presents. Denk is one of the US's foremost pianists - a musician the New York Times hails as someone `you want to hear no matter what he performs". He makes his BBC Proms debut in a recital that puts Beethoven's final piano sonata at its core, a work that blends extrovert passion with a depth that characterises all of the composer's late works. The programme opens with Bartók's Piano Sonata, a piece strongly coloured by Hungarian folk melodies and rhythmic attack; and marks the centenary of Scriabin's death with his most famous piano sonata, the Black Mass - a disconcerting, phantasmagorical musical journey. Bartók: Piano Sonata, Sz80. Scriabin: Piano Sonata No 9 (Black Mass). Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor, Op 111. Jeremy Denk (piano).
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Sunday 19th July 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:00 to 23:00 (2 hours long)
Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.
Presented by Tom Service, originally performed at the 1998 Proms. Finding the terror alongside the spiritual awe, the questioning doubt as well as the faith, Beethoven's mighty Missa solemnis is a work of visceral power - a public statement of intensely private belief. `From the heart - may it return to the heart!" the composer wrote at the top of a score that stretched the proportions and ambitions of the orchestral Mass to new limits. A work close to Harnoncourt's heart, the Missa solemnis was also the work he conducted in his final public performance before retiring in December 2015. Experience the raw intensity of his account here with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Arnold Schoenberg Choir at the 1998 BBC Proms. Beethoven: Missa solemnis - Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Ruth Ziesak (soprano), Bernarda Fink (alto), Herbert Lippert (tenor), Neal Davies (bass), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor).
Time: 21:00 to 23:00 (2 hours long)
Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.
Presented by Tom Service, originally performed at the 1998 Proms. Finding the terror alongside the spiritual awe, the questioning doubt as well as the faith, Beethoven's mighty Missa solemnis is a work of visceral power - a public statement of intensely private belief. `From the heart - may it return to the heart!" the composer wrote at the top of a score that stretched the proportions and ambitions of the orchestral Mass to new limits. A work close to Harnoncourt's heart, the Missa solemnis was also the work he conducted in his final public performance before retiring in December 2015. Experience the raw intensity of his account here with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Arnold Schoenberg Choir at the 1998 BBC Proms. Beethoven: Missa solemnis - Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Ruth Ziesak (soprano), Bernarda Fink (alto), Herbert Lippert (tenor), Neal Davies (bass), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor).
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Monday 20th July 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)
Proms Chamber Music 3: Webern, Colin Matthews & Beethoven.
Petroc Trelawny presents a programme recored at London's Cadogan Hall in August 2015 , with the Apollon Musagète Quartet performing the European premiere of the Fifth Quartet by Colin Matthews, a work commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the Tanglewood Festival. It is paired with Webern's youthful Langsamer Satz, an ecstatic piece that showcases the composer's formal skill within a lyrical idiom, and Beethoven's Op 18 No 3, the scherzo of which is fleeting, and even the framing movements have an unusual delicacy and wistfulness about them. Webern: Langsamer Satz. Colin Matthews: String Quartet No. 5. Beethoven: String Quartet in D, Op 18 No 3. Apollon Musagète Quartet.
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)
Proms Chamber Music 3: Webern, Colin Matthews & Beethoven.
Petroc Trelawny presents a programme recored at London's Cadogan Hall in August 2015 , with the Apollon Musagète Quartet performing the European premiere of the Fifth Quartet by Colin Matthews, a work commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the Tanglewood Festival. It is paired with Webern's youthful Langsamer Satz, an ecstatic piece that showcases the composer's formal skill within a lyrical idiom, and Beethoven's Op 18 No 3, the scherzo of which is fleeting, and even the framing movements have an unusual delicacy and wistfulness about them. Webern: Langsamer Satz. Colin Matthews: String Quartet No. 5. Beethoven: String Quartet in D, Op 18 No 3. Apollon Musagète Quartet.
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Monday 20th July 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Leif Ove Andsnes Plays Beethoven.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert recorded at he Royal Albert Hall in 2015, with pianist and chamber musician Leif Ove Andsnes joining the Mahler Chamber Orchestra for performances of Beethoven's second and fifth piano concertos, and Stravinsky's Octett. Stravinsky: Octet. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor, Op 73). Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Leif Ove Andsnes (piano/conductor).
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Leif Ove Andsnes Plays Beethoven.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert recorded at he Royal Albert Hall in 2015, with pianist and chamber musician Leif Ove Andsnes joining the Mahler Chamber Orchestra for performances of Beethoven's second and fifth piano concertos, and Stravinsky's Octett. Stravinsky: Octet. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat (Emperor, Op 73). Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Leif Ove Andsnes (piano/conductor).
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Wednesday 22nd July 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at the Proms.
Georgia Mann and a panel of experts explore the coming week's Proms archive concerts. The sparkling overture from Rossini's opera Semiramide opens this 1990 Prom given by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, led by Italian maestro Riccardo Chailly. Presented by Ian Skelly. Flexing his Beethoven muscles, Chailly gives his unique reading of the composer's First Symphony - a work later captured as part of a complete cycle, recorded with the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester from 2007 to 2009. Rounding off the programme is Prokofiev's striking Third Symphony. Written in 1928, it was a direct and spirited reaction to the disappointment Prokofiev experienced with his opera The Fiery Angel, whose first performance, accepted by Bruno Walter for Berlin, had been summarily and indefinitely postponed. Though the second act was given in a concert in Paris conducted by Kousevitzky in June 1928, the opera as a whole was not seen until 1954. Prokofiev rescued some of the material by developing it symphonically; the result is a work of great drama and intensity. Rossini: Semiramide - overture. Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C. Prokofiev: Symphony No 3 in C minor. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly.
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at the Proms.
Georgia Mann and a panel of experts explore the coming week's Proms archive concerts. The sparkling overture from Rossini's opera Semiramide opens this 1990 Prom given by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, led by Italian maestro Riccardo Chailly. Presented by Ian Skelly. Flexing his Beethoven muscles, Chailly gives his unique reading of the composer's First Symphony - a work later captured as part of a complete cycle, recorded with the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester from 2007 to 2009. Rounding off the programme is Prokofiev's striking Third Symphony. Written in 1928, it was a direct and spirited reaction to the disappointment Prokofiev experienced with his opera The Fiery Angel, whose first performance, accepted by Bruno Walter for Berlin, had been summarily and indefinitely postponed. Though the second act was given in a concert in Paris conducted by Kousevitzky in June 1928, the opera as a whole was not seen until 1954. Prokofiev rescued some of the material by developing it symphonically; the result is a work of great drama and intensity. Rossini: Semiramide - overture. Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C. Prokofiev: Symphony No 3 in C minor. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly.
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Saturday 25th July 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 22:30 (4 hours long)
Wagner's Die Walküre from the 2013 BBC Proms.
Kate Molleson presents this July 2013 Prom in which conductor Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin performed the second part of Wagner's Ring cycle, Die Walküre, from the Royal Albert Hall in London. The opera opens with a turbulent prologue depicting the terrible storm and devastating events including incest and adultery that are about to shake the characters. Siegmund has been asked by Wotan to help him acquire the ring, but blots his copybook by falling for his long-lost twin sister Sieglinde. This angers Fricka, Wotan's consort, so much that she demands Siegmund's death. Brünnhilde, Wotan's rebel daughter, tries to defend him, but in punishment she is put to sleep on a rock surrounded by fire. Wagner: Die Walküre (sung in German). Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone: Wotan), Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo: Fricka), Simon O'Neill (tenor: Siegmund), Anja Kampe (soprano: Sieglinde), Eric Halfvarson (bass: Hunding), Nina Stemme (soprano: Brünnhilde), Sonja Mühleck (soprano: Gerhilde), Carola Höhn (soprano: Ortlinde), Ivonne Fuchs (mezzo: Waltraute), Anaïk Morel (contralto: Schwertleite), Susan Foster (soprano: Helmwige), Leann Sandel-Pantaleo (mezzo: Siegrune), Anna Lapkovskaja (mezzo: Grimgerde), Simone Schröder (mezzo: Rossweisse), Staatskapelle Berlin, conductor Daniel Barenboim.
Time: 18:30 to 22:30 (4 hours long)
Wagner's Die Walküre from the 2013 BBC Proms.
Kate Molleson presents this July 2013 Prom in which conductor Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin performed the second part of Wagner's Ring cycle, Die Walküre, from the Royal Albert Hall in London. The opera opens with a turbulent prologue depicting the terrible storm and devastating events including incest and adultery that are about to shake the characters. Siegmund has been asked by Wotan to help him acquire the ring, but blots his copybook by falling for his long-lost twin sister Sieglinde. This angers Fricka, Wotan's consort, so much that she demands Siegmund's death. Brünnhilde, Wotan's rebel daughter, tries to defend him, but in punishment she is put to sleep on a rock surrounded by fire. Wagner: Die Walküre (sung in German). Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone: Wotan), Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo: Fricka), Simon O'Neill (tenor: Siegmund), Anja Kampe (soprano: Sieglinde), Eric Halfvarson (bass: Hunding), Nina Stemme (soprano: Brünnhilde), Sonja Mühleck (soprano: Gerhilde), Carola Höhn (soprano: Ortlinde), Ivonne Fuchs (mezzo: Waltraute), Anaïk Morel (contralto: Schwertleite), Susan Foster (soprano: Helmwige), Leann Sandel-Pantaleo (mezzo: Siegrune), Anna Lapkovskaja (mezzo: Grimgerde), Simone Schröder (mezzo: Rossweisse), Staatskapelle Berlin, conductor Daniel Barenboim.
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Sunday 26th July 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:15 to 19:00 (45 minutes long)
Proms Preview.
In the second programme of this series, Georgia Mann explores the coming week's Proms concerts with guests Nigel Simeone, Fiona Maddocks and Edward Seckerson as they react to archive performances, hear fresh interviews and select recommendations. Among the topics in discussion are Roger Norrington performing Beethoven Symphony No 2 with the London Classical Players, Steven Sondheim's 80th birthday celebration Prom, Murray Perahia playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No 24 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Bernard Haitink, and Janacek's The Makropulos Affair with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jiri Belohlavek, starring Karita Mattila. We hear an interview with her, recorded for the programme, on portraying the diva Emilia Marty and about performing at the Proms in this critically acclaimed performance.
Time: 18:15 to 19:00 (45 minutes long)
Proms Preview.
In the second programme of this series, Georgia Mann explores the coming week's Proms concerts with guests Nigel Simeone, Fiona Maddocks and Edward Seckerson as they react to archive performances, hear fresh interviews and select recommendations. Among the topics in discussion are Roger Norrington performing Beethoven Symphony No 2 with the London Classical Players, Steven Sondheim's 80th birthday celebration Prom, Murray Perahia playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No 24 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Bernard Haitink, and Janacek's The Makropulos Affair with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jiri Belohlavek, starring Karita Mattila. We hear an interview with her, recorded for the programme, on portraying the diva Emilia Marty and about performing at the Proms in this critically acclaimed performance.
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Sunday 26th July 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:00 to 23:00 (2 hours long)
Monteverdi's Vespers.
In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. French period-instrument collective Pygmalion make their 2017 Proms debut in Monteverdi's iconic Vespers of 1610. Presented by Kate Molleson. Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610. Giuseppina Bridelli (soprano), Eva Zaïcik (mezzo-soprano), Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro (tenor), Magnus Staveland (tenor), Virgile Ancely (bass), Renaud Bres (bass), Geoffroy Buffière (bass). Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon (director). Before there was Bach's Mass in B minor or Beethoven's Missa solemnis there was Monteverdi's Vespers, a choral masterpiece of unprecedented musical scope and audacious beauty. The work's textural extremes, multiple choirs and sonic effects are brought richly to life in this 2017 Proms performance marking the 450th anniversary of the composer's birth. This concert was the Proms debut of award-winning French Baroque ensemble Pygmalion under its director Raphaël Pichon, together with an exciting line-up of young soloists.
Time: 21:00 to 23:00 (2 hours long)
Monteverdi's Vespers.
In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. French period-instrument collective Pygmalion make their 2017 Proms debut in Monteverdi's iconic Vespers of 1610. Presented by Kate Molleson. Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610. Giuseppina Bridelli (soprano), Eva Zaïcik (mezzo-soprano), Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro (tenor), Magnus Staveland (tenor), Virgile Ancely (bass), Renaud Bres (bass), Geoffroy Buffière (bass). Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon (director). Before there was Bach's Mass in B minor or Beethoven's Missa solemnis there was Monteverdi's Vespers, a choral masterpiece of unprecedented musical scope and audacious beauty. The work's textural extremes, multiple choirs and sonic effects are brought richly to life in this 2017 Proms performance marking the 450th anniversary of the composer's birth. This concert was the Proms debut of award-winning French Baroque ensemble Pygmalion under its director Raphaël Pichon, together with an exciting line-up of young soloists.
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Monday 27th July 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Beethoven and Schubert from Roger Norrington.
Hannah French presents a concert from August 1989 in which Roger Norrington conducts his period-instrument London Classical Players in symphonies by Beethoven and Schubert. Norrington's `Experiences" were one of the defining features of the UK's musical life in the 1980s, with the hugely popular events offering music, talk and provocative discussion and bringing new insights into works from the Classical and Romantic periods, seen then as the preserve of the traditional symphony orchestras. It is no exaggeration to say that performance style of Beethoven and Schubert has not been the same since. Beethoven: Symphony No 2 in D; Schubert: Symphony No 9 in C - Great. London Classical Players, Roger Norrington (conductor).
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Beethoven and Schubert from Roger Norrington.
Hannah French presents a concert from August 1989 in which Roger Norrington conducts his period-instrument London Classical Players in symphonies by Beethoven and Schubert. Norrington's `Experiences" were one of the defining features of the UK's musical life in the 1980s, with the hugely popular events offering music, talk and provocative discussion and bringing new insights into works from the Classical and Romantic periods, seen then as the preserve of the traditional symphony orchestras. It is no exaggeration to say that performance style of Beethoven and Schubert has not been the same since. Beethoven: Symphony No 2 in D; Schubert: Symphony No 9 in C - Great. London Classical Players, Roger Norrington (conductor).
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Tuesday 28th July 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Haitink and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. Murray Perahia and Bernard Haitink have a musical rapport that has given us countless magnificent performances. This performance from the BBC Proms in 2008 saw Perahia return to the Proms, following a gap of 20 years, to perform one of Mozart's greatest piano concertos. It was while writing his Fourth Symphony that Shostakovich was denounced in a newspaper article entitled 'Muddle Instead of Music'. He continued composing the work in private, but it had to wait 25 years - beyond the death of Stalin - before it was first heard in public, in 1961. Presented by Ian Skelly. 7.30 Mozart: Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K491. c.8.10 Shostakovich: Symphony No 4 in C minor. Murray Perahia (piano). Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor).
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Haitink and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. Murray Perahia and Bernard Haitink have a musical rapport that has given us countless magnificent performances. This performance from the BBC Proms in 2008 saw Perahia return to the Proms, following a gap of 20 years, to perform one of Mozart's greatest piano concertos. It was while writing his Fourth Symphony that Shostakovich was denounced in a newspaper article entitled 'Muddle Instead of Music'. He continued composing the work in private, but it had to wait 25 years - beyond the death of Stalin - before it was first heard in public, in 1961. Presented by Ian Skelly. 7.30 Mozart: Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K491. c.8.10 Shostakovich: Symphony No 4 in C minor. Murray Perahia (piano). Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor).
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Wednesday 29th July 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Mahler: Symphony No 6.
Hannah French presents a concert from Proms 2015, as Håkan Hardenberger, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons perform at the Royal Albert Hall. Two contrasting heroes share the limelight in this evening of musical drama from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its new Chief Conductor, Andris Nelsons. Brett Dean's trumpet concerto Dramatis personae, composed for tonight's Swedish virtuoso Håkan Hardenberger, assigns all roles to the trumpet, casting him by turns as fallen superhero and accidental revolutionary. Mahler's Sixth Symphony sees the composer himself as cursed hero - one, he explained, 'on whom fall three blows of fate, the last of which fells him as a tree is felled'. The conclusion may be a tragic one but there are also scenes of beauty and joy in a work that includes a glowing theme associated with Mahler's wife Alma. Brett Dean: Dramatis Personae. 8.05 Interval. 8.20 Mahler: Symphony No 6 in A minor. Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet), Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andris Nelsons.
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Mahler: Symphony No 6.
Hannah French presents a concert from Proms 2015, as Håkan Hardenberger, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons perform at the Royal Albert Hall. Two contrasting heroes share the limelight in this evening of musical drama from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its new Chief Conductor, Andris Nelsons. Brett Dean's trumpet concerto Dramatis personae, composed for tonight's Swedish virtuoso Håkan Hardenberger, assigns all roles to the trumpet, casting him by turns as fallen superhero and accidental revolutionary. Mahler's Sixth Symphony sees the composer himself as cursed hero - one, he explained, 'on whom fall three blows of fate, the last of which fells him as a tree is felled'. The conclusion may be a tragic one but there are also scenes of beauty and joy in a work that includes a glowing theme associated with Mahler's wife Alma. Brett Dean: Dramatis Personae. 8.05 Interval. 8.20 Mahler: Symphony No 6 in A minor. Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet), Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andris Nelsons.
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Thursday 30th July 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Mark Elder and the Hallé.
The sea lies at the centre of this August 2014 Prom from Mark Elder and the Hallé at the Royal Albert Hall. The sunshine glitters on the waves of Berlioz's swashbuckling overture Le corsaire, written while the composer was holidaying in Nice. Elder is joined by mezzo Alice Coote for Sea Pictures, Elgar's only orchestral song-cycle, which ebbs and flows evocatively as it explores the fascination and fear inspired by the sea. While Helen Grime's Near Midnight has a nocturnal theme, Beethoven created a storm of human drama in his `Eroica" Symphony - a musical meditation on heroism and valour. Presented by Hannah French. Alice Coote (mezzo), Hallé, conductor Mark Elder. Berlioz: Overture: Le corsaire. Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op 37. Helen Grime: Near Midnight. Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica).
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Mark Elder and the Hallé.
The sea lies at the centre of this August 2014 Prom from Mark Elder and the Hallé at the Royal Albert Hall. The sunshine glitters on the waves of Berlioz's swashbuckling overture Le corsaire, written while the composer was holidaying in Nice. Elder is joined by mezzo Alice Coote for Sea Pictures, Elgar's only orchestral song-cycle, which ebbs and flows evocatively as it explores the fascination and fear inspired by the sea. While Helen Grime's Near Midnight has a nocturnal theme, Beethoven created a storm of human drama in his `Eroica" Symphony - a musical meditation on heroism and valour. Presented by Hannah French. Alice Coote (mezzo), Hallé, conductor Mark Elder. Berlioz: Overture: Le corsaire. Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op 37. Helen Grime: Near Midnight. Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica).
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Monday 3rd August 2020 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)
Khatia Buniatishvili.
Catherine Bott presents another chance to hear a recital from August 2011 in which pianist Khatia Buniatishvili performs Liszt, Prokofiev and Chopin, with the former New Generation Artist exploring the virtuosity perfected by the three composer-pianists. Liszt's B minor Piano Sonata, dedicated to Schumann, is considered by many to be his finest work, while his Liebesträum No 3 is one of his most popular - the quintessential Romantic piano miniature. Prokofiev's Seventh Sonata, meanwhile, contains some of the most dynamic music ever devised by a composer renowned for his motoric piano style. Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor; Liebesträum No 3 in A flat. Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No 7 in B flat. Chopin: Preludes, Op 28, No 4, in E minor.Khatia Buniatishvili (piano).
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)
Khatia Buniatishvili.
Catherine Bott presents another chance to hear a recital from August 2011 in which pianist Khatia Buniatishvili performs Liszt, Prokofiev and Chopin, with the former New Generation Artist exploring the virtuosity perfected by the three composer-pianists. Liszt's B minor Piano Sonata, dedicated to Schumann, is considered by many to be his finest work, while his Liebesträum No 3 is one of his most popular - the quintessential Romantic piano miniature. Prokofiev's Seventh Sonata, meanwhile, contains some of the most dynamic music ever devised by a composer renowned for his motoric piano style. Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor; Liebesträum No 3 in A flat. Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No 7 in B flat. Chopin: Preludes, Op 28, No 4, in E minor.Khatia Buniatishvili (piano).
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Monday 3rd August 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Daniel Barenboim and His West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
Martha Argerich joins Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in a programme of Liszt, Wagner and Widmann. Daniel Barenboim returns with his orchestra of young Arabs and Israelis, and with another iconic musician, Martha Argerich. Composer Jörg Widmann harnessed the energy of Beethoven's fast movements in the `exercise in fury and rhythmic insistence" that is his Con brio. After Liszt's thunderously virtuosic First Piano Concerto, Daniel Barenboim - who conducted Wagner's Ring cycle at the Proms in 2013 - concludes with powerful excerpts from three of the composer's operas. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Martha Argerich (piano), West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim. Jörg Widmann: Con brio. Liszt: Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat. 8.10 Proms Extra - Wagner's Orchestra. Christopher Cook explores Wagner's writing for the orchestra with musicologist Barbara Eichner. Recorded earlier today at the Concert Hall of Imperial College Union. 8.30 Wagner: Overture: Tannhäuser; Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey; Funeral March (Götterdämmerung); Overture: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg.
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Daniel Barenboim and His West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
Martha Argerich joins Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in a programme of Liszt, Wagner and Widmann. Daniel Barenboim returns with his orchestra of young Arabs and Israelis, and with another iconic musician, Martha Argerich. Composer Jörg Widmann harnessed the energy of Beethoven's fast movements in the `exercise in fury and rhythmic insistence" that is his Con brio. After Liszt's thunderously virtuosic First Piano Concerto, Daniel Barenboim - who conducted Wagner's Ring cycle at the Proms in 2013 - concludes with powerful excerpts from three of the composer's operas. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Martha Argerich (piano), West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim. Jörg Widmann: Con brio. Liszt: Piano Concerto No 1 in E flat. 8.10 Proms Extra - Wagner's Orchestra. Christopher Cook explores Wagner's writing for the orchestra with musicologist Barbara Eichner. Recorded earlier today at the Concert Hall of Imperial College Union. 8.30 Wagner: Overture: Tannhäuser; Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey; Funeral March (Götterdämmerung); Overture: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg.
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Friday 7th August 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Sir Simon Rattle Conducts Rachmaninov and Stravinsky.
Georgia Mann presents a concert from 2014, when conductor Simon Rattle led the Berlin Philharmonic in an all-Russian programme inspired by dance. Opening the concert is Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances - the composer's blazing `final spark" and, for many, his finest orchestral work. Embracing jazz, plainchant and the waltz, it is a mercurial showcase of dramatic skill. In the second-half, the Russian fairy-tale world of Stravinsky's The Firebird, the vivid, folk-infused ballet score for Diaghilev's Ballet Russes that established the young composer as a rising star. Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Simon Rattle. Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances. Stravinsky: The Firebird.
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Sir Simon Rattle Conducts Rachmaninov and Stravinsky.
Georgia Mann presents a concert from 2014, when conductor Simon Rattle led the Berlin Philharmonic in an all-Russian programme inspired by dance. Opening the concert is Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances - the composer's blazing `final spark" and, for many, his finest orchestral work. Embracing jazz, plainchant and the waltz, it is a mercurial showcase of dramatic skill. In the second-half, the Russian fairy-tale world of Stravinsky's The Firebird, the vivid, folk-infused ballet score for Diaghilev's Ballet Russes that established the young composer as a rising star. Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Simon Rattle. Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances. Stravinsky: The Firebird.
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Monday 10th August 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Renée Fleming's Proms Debut.
Ian Skelly presents a chance to hear soprano Renée Fleming's debut at the Proms in August 2001, performing a florid Mozart motet and Strauss's ravishing final songs. Christoph Eschenbach also conducts Richard Strauss's colourful tone-poem inspired by Don Juan, and Brahms's classically elegant variations on the St Anthony Chorale, a theme thought at the time to have been penned by Haydn. Dvorak: Carnival Overture; Brahms: Variations on the St Anthony Chorale; Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate; R Strauss: Don Juan; Four Last Songs. Renée Fleming (soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach (conductor).
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Renée Fleming's Proms Debut.
Ian Skelly presents a chance to hear soprano Renée Fleming's debut at the Proms in August 2001, performing a florid Mozart motet and Strauss's ravishing final songs. Christoph Eschenbach also conducts Richard Strauss's colourful tone-poem inspired by Don Juan, and Brahms's classically elegant variations on the St Anthony Chorale, a theme thought at the time to have been penned by Haydn. Dvorak: Carnival Overture; Brahms: Variations on the St Anthony Chorale; Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate; R Strauss: Don Juan; Four Last Songs. Renée Fleming (soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach (conductor).
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Tuesday 11th August 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 29: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
A concert from the 2012 Proms, originally broadcast live from London's Royal Albert Hall. The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain scale the heights in Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony, and perform pieces by Varèse, Nico Muhly and Anna Meredith. Presented by Georgia Mann. Varèse: Tuning Up. Nico Muhly: Gait (BBC commission, first London performance). Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony. Anna Meredith: HandsFree. Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot), Joanna MacGregor (piano), National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Vasily Petrenko (conductor).
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 29: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
A concert from the 2012 Proms, originally broadcast live from London's Royal Albert Hall. The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain scale the heights in Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony, and perform pieces by Varèse, Nico Muhly and Anna Meredith. Presented by Georgia Mann. Varèse: Tuning Up. Nico Muhly: Gait (BBC commission, first London performance). Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony. Anna Meredith: HandsFree. Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot), Joanna MacGregor (piano), National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Vasily Petrenko (conductor).
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Wednesday 12th August 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Vaughan Williams Symphonies 4, 5 and 6.
Hannah French introduces a concert from Proms 2012, as Andrew Manze conducts three very different, powerful symphonies by Vaughan Williams, which, whatever their own emotional back-stories, may still be seen as chronicling our national life in troubled times. Williams: Symphony No 4 in F minor; Symphony No 5 in D major. 8.50 Interval. 9.05 Williams: Symphony No 6 in E minor. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Manze.
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Vaughan Williams Symphonies 4, 5 and 6.
Hannah French introduces a concert from Proms 2012, as Andrew Manze conducts three very different, powerful symphonies by Vaughan Williams, which, whatever their own emotional back-stories, may still be seen as chronicling our national life in troubled times. Williams: Symphony No 4 in F minor; Symphony No 5 in D major. 8.50 Interval. 9.05 Williams: Symphony No 6 in E minor. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrew Manze.
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Thursday 13th August 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Mackerras and Brendel play Mozart.
In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra and its then-Conductor Laureate Charles Mackerras collaborated with Alfred Brendel on a series of performances and recordings of the piano concertos by Mozart, and they brought the grandest of them all to the Proms in 2001, along with an Italianate Symphony from the late 1770s. The classical strand continued with Schubert's rarely heard early Fourth Symphony, and Stravinsky's neo-Classical string concerto. Presented by Martin Handley. Mozart: Symphony No 32, K318. Mozart: Piano Concerto No 25, K50. Stravinsky: Concerto in D. Schubert: Symphony No 4, 'Tragic'. Alfred Brendel (piano). Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor).
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Mackerras and Brendel play Mozart.
In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra and its then-Conductor Laureate Charles Mackerras collaborated with Alfred Brendel on a series of performances and recordings of the piano concertos by Mozart, and they brought the grandest of them all to the Proms in 2001, along with an Italianate Symphony from the late 1770s. The classical strand continued with Schubert's rarely heard early Fourth Symphony, and Stravinsky's neo-Classical string concerto. Presented by Martin Handley. Mozart: Symphony No 32, K318. Mozart: Piano Concerto No 25, K50. Stravinsky: Concerto in D. Schubert: Symphony No 4, 'Tragic'. Alfred Brendel (piano). Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor).
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Thursday 13th August 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 23:00 to 00:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Sarah Connolly sings Purcell's Dido.
In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. In a profoundly moving late-night performance from the 2003 season, British mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly led an all-star cast in Purcell's most popular opera. The drama portrays the tragedy of human relationships torn apart by fate and divine intervention, while the music - including one of the most heartfelt laments in all opera - powerfully and poignantly expresses the characters' emotions. 11.00 Purcell: Dido and Aeneas. Christopher Purves (Aeneas), Sarah Connolly (Dido), Carolyn Sampson (Belinda), D'Arcy Bleiker (Sorcerer), Elizabeth Cragg (Second Woman), Matthew Beale (Sailor), Lucy Crowe (Spirit). Choir of the Enlightenment Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Richard Egarr (conductor). From BBC Proms 2003, 2 September.
Time: 23:00 to 00:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Sarah Connolly sings Purcell's Dido.
In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. In a profoundly moving late-night performance from the 2003 season, British mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly led an all-star cast in Purcell's most popular opera. The drama portrays the tragedy of human relationships torn apart by fate and divine intervention, while the music - including one of the most heartfelt laments in all opera - powerfully and poignantly expresses the characters' emotions. 11.00 Purcell: Dido and Aeneas. Christopher Purves (Aeneas), Sarah Connolly (Dido), Carolyn Sampson (Belinda), D'Arcy Bleiker (Sorcerer), Elizabeth Cragg (Second Woman), Matthew Beale (Sailor), Lucy Crowe (Spirit). Choir of the Enlightenment Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Richard Egarr (conductor). From BBC Proms 2003, 2 September.
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Monday 17th August 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Mahler's Seventh Symphony with the BBC Philharmonic.
Petroc Trelawny presents a concert from July 2012 at London's Royal Albert Hall in which Gianandrea Noseda conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Mozart, Oliver Knussen and Mahler. The programme opens with Mozart's famous overture to Don Giovanni - by turns solemn, impetuous and edgy - then Knussen's Second Symphony takes listeners through a landscape of iridescent colour, with a vocal line that soars to stratospheric heights. One of British music's great originals, Knussen found an individual voice while still in his teens. This performance - given on his 60th birthday year - is a celebration of his unique contribution to UK music. Its nocturnal sequence finds a counterpart in the two `Night Music" movements of Mahler's Seventh Symphony - his own all-encompassing journey from darkness to light - which concludes the programme. Mozart: Overture: Don Giovanni. Oliver Knussen: Symphony No 2. Mahler: Symphony No 7. Gillian Keith (soprano), BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Mahler's Seventh Symphony with the BBC Philharmonic.
Petroc Trelawny presents a concert from July 2012 at London's Royal Albert Hall in which Gianandrea Noseda conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Mozart, Oliver Knussen and Mahler. The programme opens with Mozart's famous overture to Don Giovanni - by turns solemn, impetuous and edgy - then Knussen's Second Symphony takes listeners through a landscape of iridescent colour, with a vocal line that soars to stratospheric heights. One of British music's great originals, Knussen found an individual voice while still in his teens. This performance - given on his 60th birthday year - is a celebration of his unique contribution to UK music. Its nocturnal sequence finds a counterpart in the two `Night Music" movements of Mahler's Seventh Symphony - his own all-encompassing journey from darkness to light - which concludes the programme. Mozart: Overture: Don Giovanni. Oliver Knussen: Symphony No 2. Mahler: Symphony No 7. Gillian Keith (soprano), BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).
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Tuesday 18th August 2020 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Carlo Maria Giulini conducts Brahms.
Brahms' development in the time between composing his First and Second symphonies was remarkable. Despite finishing it less than a year after the premiere of his First, the Second Symphony belongs to an entirely different world. It is an expansive, full-bodied work, infused with the idyllic surroundings of the Austrian spa town in which it was written. In this concert from the 1994 Proms, Italian maestro Carlo Maria Giulini and the European Union Youth Orchestra pair the symphony with Brahms' final effort in the medium: his thrilling Fourth. Written at the height of his musical powers (again, within a year of its predecessor), it is the first symphony by any composer to incorporate a strict set of variations into one of its movements: the finale is based on a repeating bass melody from Bach's Cantata 150, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich. Presented by Ian Skelly. Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major; Symphony No. 4 in E minor. European Union Youth Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor).
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Carlo Maria Giulini conducts Brahms.
Brahms' development in the time between composing his First and Second symphonies was remarkable. Despite finishing it less than a year after the premiere of his First, the Second Symphony belongs to an entirely different world. It is an expansive, full-bodied work, infused with the idyllic surroundings of the Austrian spa town in which it was written. In this concert from the 1994 Proms, Italian maestro Carlo Maria Giulini and the European Union Youth Orchestra pair the symphony with Brahms' final effort in the medium: his thrilling Fourth. Written at the height of his musical powers (again, within a year of its predecessor), it is the first symphony by any composer to incorporate a strict set of variations into one of its movements: the finale is based on a repeating bass melody from Bach's Cantata 150, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich. Presented by Ian Skelly. Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major; Symphony No. 4 in E minor. European Union Youth Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor).
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