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Friday 19th July 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 20:45 (2 hours and 15 minutes long)
Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall, featuring BBC Singers, Symphony Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Elim Chan, with Sophie Bevan singing Bruckner and Isata Kanneh-Mason playing Clara Schumann. Handel arr. Mackerras: Music for the Royal Fireworks - overture. Bruckner: Psalm 150. Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor. 7.25pm Interval. 7.50pm Ben Nobuto: Hallelujah Sim. (BBC commission: world premiere). Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor. Sophie Bevan (soprano), Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Elim Chan (conductor). Beethoven railed against fate in his Symphony No. 5, capturing ideals of fortitude, defiance and bravery in an instant. In her First Night debut, conductor Elim Chan places Beethoven's compelling score at the heart of a celebration that includes fireworks, jubilation and romance. The last comes with Clara Schumann's tender and virtuosic Piano Concerto - performed by a pianist who has championed it tirelessly: Isata Kanneh-Mason, the eldest of the remarkable musical Kanneh-Mason siblings.
(New, Live)
Time: 18:30 to 20:45 (2 hours and 15 minutes long)
Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall, featuring BBC Singers, Symphony Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Elim Chan, with Sophie Bevan singing Bruckner and Isata Kanneh-Mason playing Clara Schumann. Handel arr. Mackerras: Music for the Royal Fireworks - overture. Bruckner: Psalm 150. Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor. 7.25pm Interval. 7.50pm Ben Nobuto: Hallelujah Sim. (BBC commission: world premiere). Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor. Sophie Bevan (soprano), Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Elim Chan (conductor). Beethoven railed against fate in his Symphony No. 5, capturing ideals of fortitude, defiance and bravery in an instant. In her First Night debut, conductor Elim Chan places Beethoven's compelling score at the heart of a celebration that includes fireworks, jubilation and romance. The last comes with Clara Schumann's tender and virtuosic Piano Concerto - performed by a pianist who has championed it tirelessly: Isata Kanneh-Mason, the eldest of the remarkable musical Kanneh-Mason siblings.
(New, Live)
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Friday 19th July 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:45 to 21:45 (1 hour long)
Linton Stephens.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall following the First Night of the 2024 Prom, Linton Stephens looks forward to the great music and artists coming up across the festival. Highlights include Sibelius's violin concerto performed by Luxembourgish violinist Alena Baeva with Royal Northern Sinfonia, conducted by Dinis Sousa at the Glasshouse, Gateshead as part of the Proms at the Glasshouse weekend. He is joined by BBC Open music trainees, Soosan Lolavar and Sarah Victoria Moffatt as they reflect on their own experience of attending the first night and how they have soaked up the atmosphere at the Royal Albert Hall.
(Live)
Time: 20:45 to 21:45 (1 hour long)
Linton Stephens.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall following the First Night of the 2024 Prom, Linton Stephens looks forward to the great music and artists coming up across the festival. Highlights include Sibelius's violin concerto performed by Luxembourgish violinist Alena Baeva with Royal Northern Sinfonia, conducted by Dinis Sousa at the Glasshouse, Gateshead as part of the Proms at the Glasshouse weekend. He is joined by BBC Open music trainees, Soosan Lolavar and Sarah Victoria Moffatt as they reflect on their own experience of attending the first night and how they have soaked up the atmosphere at the Royal Albert Hall.
(Live)
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Sunday 21st July 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 4: Sir Mark Elder Conducts Mahler's Fifth.
Martin Handley presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with Mark Elder conducting the Hallé in music by James MacMillan and Mahler's Symphony No 5. The entire Hallé family visits from Manchester to make history at the Proms as Elder comes to the end of his last season as music director after a quarter of a century in the role. First heard in Cincinnati last year, James MacMillan's Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia is a celebration of music's ability to move the soul, and unites choirs of children and adults with a huge orchestra as it moves from jubilation to serenity. The evening concludes with the symphony that changed Gustav Mahler's creative direction - the great outpouring of defiance, exasperation and all-embracing love that is his Symphony No 5. James MacMillan: Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia. c 7.50 Interval. Composer and broadcaster Yshani Perinpanayagam joins Martin to take a look at the coming week on the Proms and share their highlights. We also hear from conductor Mark Elder on his time with the Hallé. c 8.10 Mahler: Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor. Hallé Children's Choir, Hallé Youth Choir, Hallé Choir, Hallé, Mark Elder (conductor).
(Live)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 4: Sir Mark Elder Conducts Mahler's Fifth.
Martin Handley presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with Mark Elder conducting the Hallé in music by James MacMillan and Mahler's Symphony No 5. The entire Hallé family visits from Manchester to make history at the Proms as Elder comes to the end of his last season as music director after a quarter of a century in the role. First heard in Cincinnati last year, James MacMillan's Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia is a celebration of music's ability to move the soul, and unites choirs of children and adults with a huge orchestra as it moves from jubilation to serenity. The evening concludes with the symphony that changed Gustav Mahler's creative direction - the great outpouring of defiance, exasperation and all-embracing love that is his Symphony No 5. James MacMillan: Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia. c 7.50 Interval. Composer and broadcaster Yshani Perinpanayagam joins Martin to take a look at the coming week on the Proms and share their highlights. We also hear from conductor Mark Elder on his time with the Hallé. c 8.10 Mahler: Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor. Hallé Children's Choir, Hallé Youth Choir, Hallé Choir, Hallé, Mark Elder (conductor).
(Live)
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Monday 22nd July 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 5: Zemlinsky's The Mermaid.
Penny Gore presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with Ryan Bancroft conducting the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Zemlinsky's The Mermaid and Schoenberg's Pelleas and Melisande. At a concert in Vienna on January 25, 1905, two new contrastingly impactful orchestral works were heard for the first time. In his response to Maurice Maeterlinck's drama on the doomed love between Pelleas and Melisande, Arnold Schoenberg (born 150 years ago) pushed a colossal symphony orchestra to its limits, while Alexander Zemlinsky wasn't going to let his brother-in-law Schoenberg steal the show, and wore his broken heart on his sleeve in his orchestral response to the well-known Hans Christian Andersen story The Little Mermaid. Schoenberg: Pelleas and Mellisande, Op 5. c 8.20 Interval: Penny is joined in the Radio 3 box by University of Liverpool professor Sarah Peverley, an expert on the Middle Ages and mythical creatures who is writing The Mermaid's Tale: A Cultural History of Mermaids. Sarah is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and having been chosen as a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, she has contributed to Free Thinking and Radio 3's The Essay. c 8.40 Zemlinsky: The Mermaid. BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ryan Bancroft (conductor).
(Live)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 5: Zemlinsky's The Mermaid.
Penny Gore presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with Ryan Bancroft conducting the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Zemlinsky's The Mermaid and Schoenberg's Pelleas and Melisande. At a concert in Vienna on January 25, 1905, two new contrastingly impactful orchestral works were heard for the first time. In his response to Maurice Maeterlinck's drama on the doomed love between Pelleas and Melisande, Arnold Schoenberg (born 150 years ago) pushed a colossal symphony orchestra to its limits, while Alexander Zemlinsky wasn't going to let his brother-in-law Schoenberg steal the show, and wore his broken heart on his sleeve in his orchestral response to the well-known Hans Christian Andersen story The Little Mermaid. Schoenberg: Pelleas and Mellisande, Op 5. c 8.20 Interval: Penny is joined in the Radio 3 box by University of Liverpool professor Sarah Peverley, an expert on the Middle Ages and mythical creatures who is writing The Mermaid's Tale: A Cultural History of Mermaids. Sarah is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and having been chosen as a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, she has contributed to Free Thinking and Radio 3's The Essay. c 8.40 Zemlinsky: The Mermaid. BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ryan Bancroft (conductor).
(Live)
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Tuesday 23rd July 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:00 to 20:45 (1 hour and 45 minutes long)
Prom 6: Verdi's Requiem.
The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, Crouch End Festival Chorus and Ryan Bancroft perform Verdi's Requiem with a stunning line-up of soloists. Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Verdi: Requiem. Latonia Moore (soprano); Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano); SeokJong Baek (tenor); Soloman Howard (bass); BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales; Crouch End Festival Chorus; Ryan Bancroft (conductor).
(Live)
Time: 19:00 to 20:45 (1 hour and 45 minutes long)
Prom 6: Verdi's Requiem.
The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, Crouch End Festival Chorus and Ryan Bancroft perform Verdi's Requiem with a stunning line-up of soloists. Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Verdi: Requiem. Latonia Moore (soprano); Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano); SeokJong Baek (tenor); Soloman Howard (bass); BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales; Crouch End Festival Chorus; Ryan Bancroft (conductor).
(Live)
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Tuesday 23rd July 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:15 to 23:45 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Prom 7: Late Night Italian with Jakub Jozef Orlinski.
Counter-tenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski joins the ensemble Il Pomo d'Oro for a programme of early Baroque music, including Monteverdi, Cavalli and Strozzi. Presented by Hannah French, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea - 'E pur io torno qui'. Voglio di vita uscir. Marini: Per ogni sorte di strumenti musicale, Op 22 - Passacaglia. Caccini: Le nuove musiche - 'Amarilli, mia bella'. Frescobaldi: Arie musicali, Book I - 'Cosi? mi disprezzate'. Kerll: Sonata for two violins and continuo in F. Strozzi: Cantate, ariette e duetti, Op 2 - 'L'amante consolato'. Cavalli: Pompeo Magno - 'Incomprensibil nume'. Pallavicino: Demetrio - Sinfonia. Netti: La Filli - 'Misero core'. La Filli - 'Si, si, si, scioglia si'. La Filli - 'Dolcissime catene'. Sartorio: Antonino e Pompeiano - 'La certezza di sua fede'. Netti: L'Adamiro - 'Quanto più la donna invecchia'. L'Adamiro - 'Son vecchia, pazienza'. Jarzebski: Canzoni e concerti - Tamburetta. Moratelli: La faretra smarrita - 'Lungi dai nostri cor'. Jakub Jozef Orlinski (counter-tenor); Il Pomo d'Oro.
(Live)
Time: 22:15 to 23:45 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Prom 7: Late Night Italian with Jakub Jozef Orlinski.
Counter-tenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski joins the ensemble Il Pomo d'Oro for a programme of early Baroque music, including Monteverdi, Cavalli and Strozzi. Presented by Hannah French, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea - 'E pur io torno qui'. Voglio di vita uscir. Marini: Per ogni sorte di strumenti musicale, Op 22 - Passacaglia. Caccini: Le nuove musiche - 'Amarilli, mia bella'. Frescobaldi: Arie musicali, Book I - 'Cosi? mi disprezzate'. Kerll: Sonata for two violins and continuo in F. Strozzi: Cantate, ariette e duetti, Op 2 - 'L'amante consolato'. Cavalli: Pompeo Magno - 'Incomprensibil nume'. Pallavicino: Demetrio - Sinfonia. Netti: La Filli - 'Misero core'. La Filli - 'Si, si, si, scioglia si'. La Filli - 'Dolcissime catene'. Sartorio: Antonino e Pompeiano - 'La certezza di sua fede'. Netti: L'Adamiro - 'Quanto più la donna invecchia'. L'Adamiro - 'Son vecchia, pazienza'. Jarzebski: Canzoni e concerti - Tamburetta. Moratelli: La faretra smarrita - 'Lungi dai nostri cor'. Jakub Jozef Orlinski (counter-tenor); Il Pomo d'Oro.
(Live)
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Thursday 25th July 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 9: Mahler, Brahms and Schoenberg.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ryan Wigglesworth plus mezzo Alice Coote in music by Mahler, Brahms and Schoenberg, presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Brahms: Symphony No. 3. 8.15pm Interval. In conversation with Andrew McGregor, Gillian Moore explores how Arnold Schoenberg's roots in the Austro-German musical tradition fed directly into his later revolutionary compositional technique. 8.25pm Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder. Alice Coote (mezzo), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor).
(Live)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 9: Mahler, Brahms and Schoenberg.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ryan Wigglesworth plus mezzo Alice Coote in music by Mahler, Brahms and Schoenberg, presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Brahms: Symphony No. 3. 8.15pm Interval. In conversation with Andrew McGregor, Gillian Moore explores how Arnold Schoenberg's roots in the Austro-German musical tradition fed directly into his later revolutionary compositional technique. 8.25pm Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder. Alice Coote (mezzo), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor).
(Live)
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Friday 26th July 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:15 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Prom 10: Elgar's Second Symphony.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth with cellist Laura van der Heijden. Music by Benjamin Britten, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Edward Elgar. Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Britten: Gloriana, Symphonic Suite. Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Cello Concerto, 'Earth, Sea, Air'. 8.15pm Interval. The score for Elgar's Second Symphony is headed by a quotation from a poem by Shelley 'Rarely, rarely comest thou spirit of delight'. To talk more about Percy Bysshe Shelley, Andrew McGregor is joined by Professor John Mullan, Lord Northcliffe Chair of Modern English Literature at University College London. 8.35pm Elgar: Symphony No. 2 in E flat major. Laura van der Heijden (cello), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor). Ryan Wigglesworth's feast of English music opens with Britten's suite of 'best bits' from his 1953 Coronation opera Gloriana, all about the fraught relationship between Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex. Cheryl Frances-Hoad's new climate change-themed Cello Concerto - premiered last year in Glasgow by tonight's forces - takes inspiration from three disparate aspects of the natural world. Elgar's Symphony No. 2 is considered by many to be the best ever written in England. 'I have put my soul into it,' said the composer of this captivating journey, whose thrusting outward energy conceals deep inner poignancy.
(Live)
Time: 19:30 to 22:15 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Prom 10: Elgar's Second Symphony.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth with cellist Laura van der Heijden. Music by Benjamin Britten, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Edward Elgar. Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Britten: Gloriana, Symphonic Suite. Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Cello Concerto, 'Earth, Sea, Air'. 8.15pm Interval. The score for Elgar's Second Symphony is headed by a quotation from a poem by Shelley 'Rarely, rarely comest thou spirit of delight'. To talk more about Percy Bysshe Shelley, Andrew McGregor is joined by Professor John Mullan, Lord Northcliffe Chair of Modern English Literature at University College London. 8.35pm Elgar: Symphony No. 2 in E flat major. Laura van der Heijden (cello), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor). Ryan Wigglesworth's feast of English music opens with Britten's suite of 'best bits' from his 1953 Coronation opera Gloriana, all about the fraught relationship between Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex. Cheryl Frances-Hoad's new climate change-themed Cello Concerto - premiered last year in Glasgow by tonight's forces - takes inspiration from three disparate aspects of the natural world. Elgar's Symphony No. 2 is considered by many to be the best ever written in England. 'I have put my soul into it,' said the composer of this captivating journey, whose thrusting outward energy conceals deep inner poignancy.
(Live)
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Saturday 27th July 2024 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 16:15 to 18:30 (2 hours and 15 minutes long)
The Glasshouse, Gateshead.
Elizabeth Alker presents last night's concert from Gateshead's Glasshouse International Centre for Music, with Dinis Sousa conducting the Royal Northern Sinfonia and violinist Alena Baeva in works by Tailleferre, Sibelius and Dvorak. Orchestras all over the world commissioned symphonies from pre-eminent Czech composer Antonin Dvorak, but there was no such commission for Symphony No 8, one of his most popular, which he wrote for nobody but himself. It is the climax of a programme also featuring the song of fire and ice that is Sibelius's captivating Violin Concerto, with the concert opening with the charming and typically French Little Suite by Germaine Tailleferre, the only female member of the group of composers known as Les Six that emerged in 1920s Paris. Tailleferre: Little Suite. Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor. Interval. Dvorak: Symphony No 8 in G. Alena Baeva (violin), Royal Northern Sinfonia, Dinis Sousa (conductor).
Time: 16:15 to 18:30 (2 hours and 15 minutes long)
The Glasshouse, Gateshead.
Elizabeth Alker presents last night's concert from Gateshead's Glasshouse International Centre for Music, with Dinis Sousa conducting the Royal Northern Sinfonia and violinist Alena Baeva in works by Tailleferre, Sibelius and Dvorak. Orchestras all over the world commissioned symphonies from pre-eminent Czech composer Antonin Dvorak, but there was no such commission for Symphony No 8, one of his most popular, which he wrote for nobody but himself. It is the climax of a programme also featuring the song of fire and ice that is Sibelius's captivating Violin Concerto, with the concert opening with the charming and typically French Little Suite by Germaine Tailleferre, the only female member of the group of composers known as Les Six that emerged in 1920s Paris. Tailleferre: Little Suite. Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor. Interval. Dvorak: Symphony No 8 in G. Alena Baeva (violin), Royal Northern Sinfonia, Dinis Sousa (conductor).
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Sunday 28th July 2024 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 15:00 to 16:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
The Glasshouse 6: Flow, My Tears - Elegies and Atonement.
Tom McKinney presents a live concert from Gateshead's Glasshouse International Centre for Music, with violinist Daniel Pioro, soprano Ruby Hughes, cellist Clare O'Connell and harpsichord player David Gordon performing a progamme that is exploration of Elizabethan music and folklore. Bach: Violin Partita No 2 in D minor - Sarabande. Vaughan Williams: Along the Field - Along the Field as We Came By. Anon: Corpus Christi Carol. Bach: Violin Partita No 1 in B minor for solo violin - Sarabande. Dowland: Sorrow, Stay, Lend True Repentent Tears. Bach: St Matthew Passion - Erbarme dich, mein Gott. Jacquet de La Guerre: Sonata No 5 in A minor for violin and continuo. Hildegard von Bingen: O virtus sapientiae. Edmund Finnis: The Bridal Morn (world premiere). Dowland: Flow, My Tears. Buxtehude: Klag-Lied. Bennet: Venus' Birds. Bach: Cantata No 199, Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, Aria, Tief gebückt und voller Reue. Daniel Pioro (violin), Ruby Hughes (soprano), Clare O'Connell (cello), David Gordon (harpsichord).
(Live)
Time: 15:00 to 16:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
The Glasshouse 6: Flow, My Tears - Elegies and Atonement.
Tom McKinney presents a live concert from Gateshead's Glasshouse International Centre for Music, with violinist Daniel Pioro, soprano Ruby Hughes, cellist Clare O'Connell and harpsichord player David Gordon performing a progamme that is exploration of Elizabethan music and folklore. Bach: Violin Partita No 2 in D minor - Sarabande. Vaughan Williams: Along the Field - Along the Field as We Came By. Anon: Corpus Christi Carol. Bach: Violin Partita No 1 in B minor for solo violin - Sarabande. Dowland: Sorrow, Stay, Lend True Repentent Tears. Bach: St Matthew Passion - Erbarme dich, mein Gott. Jacquet de La Guerre: Sonata No 5 in A minor for violin and continuo. Hildegard von Bingen: O virtus sapientiae. Edmund Finnis: The Bridal Morn (world premiere). Dowland: Flow, My Tears. Buxtehude: Klag-Lied. Bennet: Venus' Birds. Bach: Cantata No 199, Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, Aria, Tief gebückt und voller Reue. Daniel Pioro (violin), Ruby Hughes (soprano), Clare O'Connell (cello), David Gordon (harpsichord).
(Live)
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Monday 29th July 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:15 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Prom 14: Beethoven, Bruckner and Tuur.
Tom Service presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with Paavo Jarvi conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Erkki-Sven Tuur and Bruckner, with soloist Yunchan Lim joining for Beethoven's great Emperor piano concerto. In 2022, Yunchan Lim became the youngest winner of the Van Cliburn Competition, America's most distinguished contest for outstanding pianists. He makes his Proms debut tonight with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Jaarvi, performing Beethoven's final piano concerto, the Emperor, a work of heroism and virtuosity in which the soloist brings order to a world of sound and fury. The dashing final chapter of Bruckner's Symphony No 1 proved enough to herald a major symphonic career, but the programme opens at an opposite extreme, with Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tuur's Aditus (entrance or approach), a sizzling opener of existential, expressionistic drama. Erkki-Sven Tuur: Aditus. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat, Emperor. c 8.25 Interval: Tom Service is joined by writer and broadcaster Katy Hamilton to look ahead to highlights at the BBC Proms during the coming week. c 8.45 Bruckner: Symphony No 1 in C minor (1877 Linz version, ed. Nowak). Yunchan Lim (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi (conductor).
(Live).
Time: 19:30 to 22:15 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Prom 14: Beethoven, Bruckner and Tuur.
Tom Service presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with Paavo Jarvi conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Erkki-Sven Tuur and Bruckner, with soloist Yunchan Lim joining for Beethoven's great Emperor piano concerto. In 2022, Yunchan Lim became the youngest winner of the Van Cliburn Competition, America's most distinguished contest for outstanding pianists. He makes his Proms debut tonight with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Jaarvi, performing Beethoven's final piano concerto, the Emperor, a work of heroism and virtuosity in which the soloist brings order to a world of sound and fury. The dashing final chapter of Bruckner's Symphony No 1 proved enough to herald a major symphonic career, but the programme opens at an opposite extreme, with Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tuur's Aditus (entrance or approach), a sizzling opener of existential, expressionistic drama. Erkki-Sven Tuur: Aditus. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat, Emperor. c 8.25 Interval: Tom Service is joined by writer and broadcaster Katy Hamilton to look ahead to highlights at the BBC Proms during the coming week. c 8.45 Bruckner: Symphony No 1 in C minor (1877 Linz version, ed. Nowak). Yunchan Lim (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi (conductor).
(Live).
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Tuesday 30th July 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:15 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Prom 15: Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony.
The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Nicholas Collon, are joined by The Swingles for the world premiere of Anna Clyne's The Gorgeous Nothings. Presented by Tom McKinney, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Anna Clyne: The Gorgeous Nothings. 8.00 INTERVAL: The Listening Service. 8.20 Olivier Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony. The Swingles. Steven Osborne (piano); Cynthia Millar (ondes Martinot); BBC Philharmonic; Nicholas Collon (conductor).
Time: 19:30 to 22:15 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Prom 15: Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony.
The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Nicholas Collon, are joined by The Swingles for the world premiere of Anna Clyne's The Gorgeous Nothings. Presented by Tom McKinney, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Anna Clyne: The Gorgeous Nothings. 8.00 INTERVAL: The Listening Service. 8.20 Olivier Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony. The Swingles. Steven Osborne (piano); Cynthia Millar (ondes Martinot); BBC Philharmonic; Nicholas Collon (conductor).
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Thursday 1st August 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:15 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Prom 17: Vasily Petrenko Conducts Tchaikovsky.
Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Tchaikovsky, Ives and Debussy, and Denis Kozhukhin plays Ravel Piano Concerto in G major. Presented by Tom Service, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Ives: Three Places in New England. Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major. 8.20pm Interval. Debussy's Nocturnes is based upon selections from Poèmes anciens et romanesques by the French symbolist poet Henri de Régnier while Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini draws on the Italian noblewoman depicted in Dante's Divine Comedy. To shed light on these literary texts, Tom Service is joined by Dr Julia Hartley, a Lecturer in Comparative Literature in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. 8.50pm Debussy: Nocturnes. Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini. Denis Kozhukhin (piano), Philharmonia Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor).
(Live)
Time: 19:30 to 22:15 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Prom 17: Vasily Petrenko Conducts Tchaikovsky.
Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Tchaikovsky, Ives and Debussy, and Denis Kozhukhin plays Ravel Piano Concerto in G major. Presented by Tom Service, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Ives: Three Places in New England. Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major. 8.20pm Interval. Debussy's Nocturnes is based upon selections from Poèmes anciens et romanesques by the French symbolist poet Henri de Régnier while Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini draws on the Italian noblewoman depicted in Dante's Divine Comedy. To shed light on these literary texts, Tom Service is joined by Dr Julia Hartley, a Lecturer in Comparative Literature in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. 8.50pm Debussy: Nocturnes. Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini. Denis Kozhukhin (piano), Philharmonia Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor).
(Live)
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Saturday 3rd August 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 19: Elgar's Cello Concerto.
Martin Handley presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with soloist Senja Rummukainen joining conductor Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for Elgar's Cello Concerto, as well as performances of Jonathan Harvey's Tranquil Abiding and Holst's the Cloud Messenger with the BBC Symphony Chorus. Deeply in love and enlightened by Sanskrit literature, Gustav Holst embarked upon what many consider his true masterpiece in the form of The Cloud Messenger, which recounts an ancient tale in which a man sends a message of love to his distant wife via a passing cloud. It drew from the composer a rich and passionate work charting love's trials and rewards. This performance, marking 150 years since Holst's birth, comes after Elgar's ever-popular, bittersweet Cello Concerto, with soloist Rummukainen making her Proms debut, and the gentle exhalations of Harvey's work inspired by Buddhist meditation. Jonathan Harvey: Tranquil Abiding. Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor. c. 8.20 Interval: Writer Kate Kennedy joins Martin to explore some of Holst's lesser-known works c 8.40 Holst: The Cloud Messenger. Jess Dandy (contralto), Senja Rummukainen (cello), BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor).
(Live)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 19: Elgar's Cello Concerto.
Martin Handley presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with soloist Senja Rummukainen joining conductor Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for Elgar's Cello Concerto, as well as performances of Jonathan Harvey's Tranquil Abiding and Holst's the Cloud Messenger with the BBC Symphony Chorus. Deeply in love and enlightened by Sanskrit literature, Gustav Holst embarked upon what many consider his true masterpiece in the form of The Cloud Messenger, which recounts an ancient tale in which a man sends a message of love to his distant wife via a passing cloud. It drew from the composer a rich and passionate work charting love's trials and rewards. This performance, marking 150 years since Holst's birth, comes after Elgar's ever-popular, bittersweet Cello Concerto, with soloist Rummukainen making her Proms debut, and the gentle exhalations of Harvey's work inspired by Buddhist meditation. Jonathan Harvey: Tranquil Abiding. Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor. c. 8.20 Interval: Writer Kate Kennedy joins Martin to explore some of Holst's lesser-known works c 8.40 Holst: The Cloud Messenger. Jess Dandy (contralto), Senja Rummukainen (cello), BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor).
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Monday 5th August 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:15 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Prom 23: Grosvenor Plays Busoni's Piano Concerto.
Penny Gore presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with the London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra performing Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances, and Benjamin Grosvenor the soloist in Busoni's Piano Concerto. Ferruccio Busoni's gargantuan Piano Concerto is perhaps better described as a symphony in five movements, capped by a male chorus. Woven through Busoni's bizarrely wonderful and utterly engrossing score is one of the most challenging piano parts ever committed to paper - tackled tonight by British star pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. Before it, Edward Gardner and his London Philharmonic forces whet the appetite with the snap, crackle and pop of Rachmaninov's riveting Symphonic Dances. Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances. c 8.05 Interval. Pianist and Busoni expert Karl Lutchmayer paints a picture of who Busoni was and the influences that shaped his music. He also explores the story of the piano concerto, and Busoni's piano music at the Proms, from John Ogdon to Peter Donohoe c 8.25 Busoni: Piano Concerto. Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), the Rodolfus Choir, London Philharmonic Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner (conductor).
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Time: 19:30 to 22:15 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Prom 23: Grosvenor Plays Busoni's Piano Concerto.
Penny Gore presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with the London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra performing Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances, and Benjamin Grosvenor the soloist in Busoni's Piano Concerto. Ferruccio Busoni's gargantuan Piano Concerto is perhaps better described as a symphony in five movements, capped by a male chorus. Woven through Busoni's bizarrely wonderful and utterly engrossing score is one of the most challenging piano parts ever committed to paper - tackled tonight by British star pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. Before it, Edward Gardner and his London Philharmonic forces whet the appetite with the snap, crackle and pop of Rachmaninov's riveting Symphonic Dances. Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances. c 8.05 Interval. Pianist and Busoni expert Karl Lutchmayer paints a picture of who Busoni was and the influences that shaped his music. He also explores the story of the piano concerto, and Busoni's piano music at the Proms, from John Ogdon to Peter Donohoe c 8.25 Busoni: Piano Concerto. Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), the Rodolfus Choir, London Philharmonic Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner (conductor).
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Tuesday 6th August 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:00 to 22:00 (3 hours long)
Prom 24: Purcell's The Fairy Queen.
Paul Agnew conducts Les Arts Florissants in Purcell's The Fairy Queen, based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Tom Service presents live from the Royal Albert Hall. Purcell: The Fairy Queen. Paulina Francisco (soprano), Georgia Burashko (mezzo-soprano), Rebecca Leggett (mezzo-soprano), Juliette Mey (mezzo-soprano), Rodrigo Carreto (tenor), Ilja Aksionov (tenor), Hugo Herman-Wilson (baritone), Benjamin Schilperoort (bass-baritone), Samuel Florimond, Anahi Passi, Alary-Youra Ravin, Timothée Zig, Baptiste Coppin, Daniel Saad (dancers), Compagnie KAFIG, Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew (conductor), Mourad Merzouki (choreographer and stage director).
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Time: 19:00 to 22:00 (3 hours long)
Prom 24: Purcell's The Fairy Queen.
Paul Agnew conducts Les Arts Florissants in Purcell's The Fairy Queen, based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Tom Service presents live from the Royal Albert Hall. Purcell: The Fairy Queen. Paulina Francisco (soprano), Georgia Burashko (mezzo-soprano), Rebecca Leggett (mezzo-soprano), Juliette Mey (mezzo-soprano), Rodrigo Carreto (tenor), Ilja Aksionov (tenor), Hugo Herman-Wilson (baritone), Benjamin Schilperoort (bass-baritone), Samuel Florimond, Anahi Passi, Alary-Youra Ravin, Timothée Zig, Baptiste Coppin, Daniel Saad (dancers), Compagnie KAFIG, Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew (conductor), Mourad Merzouki (choreographer and stage director).
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Friday 9th August 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:00 to 20:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 27: Strauss's An Alpine Symphony.
The BBC SO conducted by Sakari Oramo in Strauss' Alpine Symphony, Saariaho's Mirage, and Mozart's Jeunehomme Concerto with soloist Seong-Jin Cho, live from the Royal Albert Hall, presented by Andrew McGregor. Saariaho: Mirage (12 mins). Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat major 'Jeunehomme' K271. 6.45pm Interval. To discuss Alpine tourism, Andrew McGregor is joined by Dr Seán Williams, a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker who has made programmes for BBC Radio 3 about a murder in Trieste in the 1760s, the idea of luxury, the rise and fall of the hairdresser. Seán is a Senior Lecturer in German and European Cultural History in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sheffield. 7.05pm Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony. Silja Aalto (soprano), Anssi Karttunen (cello), Seong-Jin Cho (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor).
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Time: 18:00 to 20:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 27: Strauss's An Alpine Symphony.
The BBC SO conducted by Sakari Oramo in Strauss' Alpine Symphony, Saariaho's Mirage, and Mozart's Jeunehomme Concerto with soloist Seong-Jin Cho, live from the Royal Albert Hall, presented by Andrew McGregor. Saariaho: Mirage (12 mins). Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat major 'Jeunehomme' K271. 6.45pm Interval. To discuss Alpine tourism, Andrew McGregor is joined by Dr Seán Williams, a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker who has made programmes for BBC Radio 3 about a murder in Trieste in the 1760s, the idea of luxury, the rise and fall of the hairdresser. Seán is a Senior Lecturer in German and European Cultural History in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sheffield. 7.05pm Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony. Silja Aalto (soprano), Anssi Karttunen (cello), Seong-Jin Cho (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor).
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Saturday 10th August 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 30: The National Youth Orchestra Plays Mahler's First.
Katie Derham presenst a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with the National Youth Orchestra playing Mahler's Symphony No 1 and works by Wagner, Missy Mazzoli and Dani Howard. Gustav Mahler poured his life into his symphonies right from the very beginning, and his first takes us through the wonder of nature and the pain of anguish, with simple tunes and folksy rhythms driving the work from despair to hope to blazing triumph. The orchestra, comprising some of Britain's most talented young players, also perform Mazzoli's reflection on time Orpheus Undone, Wagner's most storm-tossed overture and a new work by the orchestra's resident artist Dani Howard, written in celebration of the NYO Inspire scheme. Wagner: The Flying Dutchman - overture. Missy Mazzoli: Orpheus Undone. Dani Howard: As One (BBC co-commission: world premiere). c 8.20 Interval. Katie talks to members of the NYO about performing in the orchestra, and working with composers Missy Mazzoli and Dani Howard. We also hear a specially selected playlist, selected by members of the NYO. 8.40 Mahler: Symphony No 1 in D. The National Youth Orchestra, Musicians from NYO Inspire, Alexandre Bloch (conductor), Tess Jackson (conductor).
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Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 30: The National Youth Orchestra Plays Mahler's First.
Katie Derham presenst a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with the National Youth Orchestra playing Mahler's Symphony No 1 and works by Wagner, Missy Mazzoli and Dani Howard. Gustav Mahler poured his life into his symphonies right from the very beginning, and his first takes us through the wonder of nature and the pain of anguish, with simple tunes and folksy rhythms driving the work from despair to hope to blazing triumph. The orchestra, comprising some of Britain's most talented young players, also perform Mazzoli's reflection on time Orpheus Undone, Wagner's most storm-tossed overture and a new work by the orchestra's resident artist Dani Howard, written in celebration of the NYO Inspire scheme. Wagner: The Flying Dutchman - overture. Missy Mazzoli: Orpheus Undone. Dani Howard: As One (BBC co-commission: world premiere). c 8.20 Interval. Katie talks to members of the NYO about performing in the orchestra, and working with composers Missy Mazzoli and Dani Howard. We also hear a specially selected playlist, selected by members of the NYO. 8.40 Mahler: Symphony No 1 in D. The National Youth Orchestra, Musicians from NYO Inspire, Alexandre Bloch (conductor), Tess Jackson (conductor).
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Tuesday 13th August 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 33: Titans of British Music.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Martyn Brabbins, performs Elgar, Vaughan Williams's London Symphony and Stanford Songs with Christopher Maltman. Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Elgar: Overture 'Cockaigne (In London Town)'; Holst: Hammersmith; Stanford: Songs of Faith Op 97: 'To the Soul'; 'Tears'; 'Joy, shipmate, joy!'; Stanford: 'The Fairy Lough'. 8.15 Interval: Penny Gore is joined by historian and journalist Simon Heffer. 8.35 Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (Symphony No 2). Christopher Maltman (baritone), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
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Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 33: Titans of British Music.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Martyn Brabbins, performs Elgar, Vaughan Williams's London Symphony and Stanford Songs with Christopher Maltman. Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Elgar: Overture 'Cockaigne (In London Town)'; Holst: Hammersmith; Stanford: Songs of Faith Op 97: 'To the Soul'; 'Tears'; 'Joy, shipmate, joy!'; Stanford: 'The Fairy Lough'. 8.15 Interval: Penny Gore is joined by historian and journalist Simon Heffer. 8.35 Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (Symphony No 2). Christopher Maltman (baritone), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
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Saturday 17th August 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:15 (1 hour and 45 minutes long)
Prom 37: Britten's War Requiem.
Martin Handley presents a live performance of Britten's War Requiemf rom the Royal Albert Hall. Conductor Antonio Pappano and his London Symphony Orchestra are joined by three choirs and three outstanding vocal soloists for a work of hope that emerged from the ashes of destruction. Benjamin Britten was moved by the bombing of Coventry during the Second World War to write his monumental War Requiem, a work that pits contrasting musical ensembles against one another, as the chilling innocence of boys' voices meets the outspoken, acerbic protests of soldiers and massed choirs expressing suffering and deliverance. Britten: War Requiem. Natalya Romaniw (soprano), Allan Clayton (tenor), Will Liverman (baritone), Tiffin Boys' Choir, BBC Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano (conductor).
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Time: 19:30 to 21:15 (1 hour and 45 minutes long)
Prom 37: Britten's War Requiem.
Martin Handley presents a live performance of Britten's War Requiemf rom the Royal Albert Hall. Conductor Antonio Pappano and his London Symphony Orchestra are joined by three choirs and three outstanding vocal soloists for a work of hope that emerged from the ashes of destruction. Benjamin Britten was moved by the bombing of Coventry during the Second World War to write his monumental War Requiem, a work that pits contrasting musical ensembles against one another, as the chilling innocence of boys' voices meets the outspoken, acerbic protests of soldiers and massed choirs expressing suffering and deliverance. Britten: War Requiem. Natalya Romaniw (soprano), Allan Clayton (tenor), Will Liverman (baritone), Tiffin Boys' Choir, BBC Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano (conductor).
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Monday 19th August 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:15 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Prom 40: Bach's St John Passion.
Hannah French presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with Masaaki Suzuki conducting the Bach Collegium Japan and star soloists in a performance of Bach's St John Passion. The ensemble makes a welcome return to the Proms for the composer's concentrated depiction of Christ's arrest, rendition and execution. Probing, unsettling, dramatic and beautiful, Bach's work is known as much for its optimism as for its turbulence, its final bars appearing to invite all of us to imagine a brighter future. Specialist soloists led by Benjamin Bruns, Christian Immler and Carolyn Sampson join Suzuki and his ensemble for a performance of Bach's masterpiece marking three centuries since it was written. Bach: St John Passion. c 8.20 Interval. Harpsichordist, conductor and researcher Joseph McHardy talks to Hannah about the musical and cultural background to Bach's St John Passion. What might the soloists, choristers, instrumentalists and the listeners in the Lutheran congregation itself have made of Bach's often theatrical music at the work's first performance in Leipzig on Good Friday, 1724? Benjamin Bruns (tenor), Christian Immler (bass), Yusuke Watanabe (bass), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Alexander Chance (countertenor), Shimon Yoshida (tenor), Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki (conductor).
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Time: 19:30 to 22:15 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Prom 40: Bach's St John Passion.
Hannah French presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with Masaaki Suzuki conducting the Bach Collegium Japan and star soloists in a performance of Bach's St John Passion. The ensemble makes a welcome return to the Proms for the composer's concentrated depiction of Christ's arrest, rendition and execution. Probing, unsettling, dramatic and beautiful, Bach's work is known as much for its optimism as for its turbulence, its final bars appearing to invite all of us to imagine a brighter future. Specialist soloists led by Benjamin Bruns, Christian Immler and Carolyn Sampson join Suzuki and his ensemble for a performance of Bach's masterpiece marking three centuries since it was written. Bach: St John Passion. c 8.20 Interval. Harpsichordist, conductor and researcher Joseph McHardy talks to Hannah about the musical and cultural background to Bach's St John Passion. What might the soloists, choristers, instrumentalists and the listeners in the Lutheran congregation itself have made of Bach's often theatrical music at the work's first performance in Leipzig on Good Friday, 1724? Benjamin Bruns (tenor), Christian Immler (bass), Yusuke Watanabe (bass), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Alexander Chance (countertenor), Shimon Yoshida (tenor), Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki (conductor).
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Tuesday 20th August 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 41: Mozart with Ensemble Resonanz.
Hamburg-based Ensemble Resonanz, conducted by Riccardo Minasi, are joined by soloists Clara-Jumi Kang and Timothy Ridout for an all-Mozart celebration. Ian Skelly presents live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro - overture. Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E flat. 8.10 INTERVAL: The Listening Service - Mozart and The Enlightenment. 8.30 Mozart: Don Giovanni - overture. Mozart: Symphony No 41 in C, 'Jupiter'. Clara-Jumi Kang (violin); Timothy Ridout (viola); Ensemble Resonanz; Riccardo Minasi (conductor).
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Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 41: Mozart with Ensemble Resonanz.
Hamburg-based Ensemble Resonanz, conducted by Riccardo Minasi, are joined by soloists Clara-Jumi Kang and Timothy Ridout for an all-Mozart celebration. Ian Skelly presents live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro - overture. Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E flat. 8.10 INTERVAL: The Listening Service - Mozart and The Enlightenment. 8.30 Mozart: Don Giovanni - overture. Mozart: Symphony No 41 in C, 'Jupiter'. Clara-Jumi Kang (violin); Timothy Ridout (viola); Ensemble Resonanz; Riccardo Minasi (conductor).
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Wednesday 21st August 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 42: Beethoven's Ninth by Heart.
The Aurora Orchestra, the National Youth Choir and the BBC Singers, conducted by Nicholas Collon, in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Petroc Trelawny presents live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. A musical and dramatic exploration of Beethoven's Symphony No 9 (40 mins). 8.10 INTERVAL: Chamber music recordings featuring members of the all-star Aurora Orchestra. Beethoven: Symphony No 9 in D minor, 'Choral'. Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (soprano); Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo-soprano); Brenden Gunnell (tenor); Christopher Purves (baritone); BBC Singers; National Youth Choir; Aurora Orchestra; Nicholas Collon (conductor); Rhiannon May (actor); Thomas Simper (actor/BSL interpreter); James Bonas (stage director).
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Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 42: Beethoven's Ninth by Heart.
The Aurora Orchestra, the National Youth Choir and the BBC Singers, conducted by Nicholas Collon, in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Petroc Trelawny presents live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. A musical and dramatic exploration of Beethoven's Symphony No 9 (40 mins). 8.10 INTERVAL: Chamber music recordings featuring members of the all-star Aurora Orchestra. Beethoven: Symphony No 9 in D minor, 'Choral'. Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (soprano); Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo-soprano); Brenden Gunnell (tenor); Christopher Purves (baritone); BBC Singers; National Youth Choir; Aurora Orchestra; Nicholas Collon (conductor); Rhiannon May (actor); Thomas Simper (actor/BSL interpreter); James Bonas (stage director).
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Friday 23rd August 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 44: Lahav Shani plays and directs Prokofiev.
The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra performs early 20th-century classics by Lili Boulanger, Debussy, Prokofiev and Ravel with Lahav Shani as conductor and pianist. Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Boulanger: D'un soir triste, Debussy: La mer. 8.10pm Interval. The French music historian Caroline Potter joins Martin Handley to explore how Parisian creative life informed the musical voices of Boulanger, Debussy and Ravel, and how the French capital seduced Prokofiev. 8.30pm Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major. Ravel: La valse. Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Lahav Shani (piano/conductor). Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto isn't just a sure-fire showpiece that paints a vivid picture of its creator's acerbic spirit, it's also a treacherously difficult work conceived for Prokofiev's own extraordinary pianistic prowess. Bringing his Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra to the Proms, Lahav Shani goes all-in: playing the concerto while directing it at the same time. This feat of musical derring-do is apt for a concert packed with game-changing masterpieces from the first decades of the 20th century, including Debussy's symphonic seascape La mer. It culminates in the waltz to end all waltzes: Ravel's compelling, nightmarish piece of orchestral theatre, La valse.
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Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Prom 44: Lahav Shani plays and directs Prokofiev.
The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra performs early 20th-century classics by Lili Boulanger, Debussy, Prokofiev and Ravel with Lahav Shani as conductor and pianist. Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Boulanger: D'un soir triste, Debussy: La mer. 8.10pm Interval. The French music historian Caroline Potter joins Martin Handley to explore how Parisian creative life informed the musical voices of Boulanger, Debussy and Ravel, and how the French capital seduced Prokofiev. 8.30pm Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major. Ravel: La valse. Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Lahav Shani (piano/conductor). Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto isn't just a sure-fire showpiece that paints a vivid picture of its creator's acerbic spirit, it's also a treacherously difficult work conceived for Prokofiev's own extraordinary pianistic prowess. Bringing his Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra to the Proms, Lahav Shani goes all-in: playing the concerto while directing it at the same time. This feat of musical derring-do is apt for a concert packed with game-changing masterpieces from the first decades of the 20th century, including Debussy's symphonic seascape La mer. It culminates in the waltz to end all waltzes: Ravel's compelling, nightmarish piece of orchestral theatre, La valse.
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Saturday 24th August 2024 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:45 (2 hours and 15 minutes long)
Prom 45: Dalia Stasevska Conducts Sibelius's Fifth Symphony.
Ian Skelly presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with Dalia Stasevska conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Julius Eastman and Sibelius's Symphony No 5, with mezzo Jamie Barton joining for Mahler's Rückert-Lieder. One day in 1983, troubled American composer Eastman presented his ex-boyfriend with a rolled-up score, that of his Symphony No 2. The music, which wasn't seen again or performed until 2018, tells of their love and its disintegration in an orchestral language all of its own - part drone piece, part thematic symphony. The BBC SO's principal guest conductor Dalia Stasevska follows this remarkable work with Gustav Mahler's songs on love, loneliness and withdrawal, sung by the inimitable Jamie Barton, and Sibelius's most awe-inspiring symphony, the Fifth - his testament to nature's capacity to embolden and console. Julius Eastman: Symphony No 2, The Faithful Friend: The Lover Friend's Love for the Beloved, UK premiere. Mahler: Rückert-Lieder. 8.10 Interval: Biographer Daniel Grimley talks to Ian about the way in which Sibelius's music was influenced by his native landscape and the way in which the music has in turn influenced our own perceptions of Finland. 8.30 Sibelius: Symphony No 5 in E flat. Jamie Barton (mezzo), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska (conductor).
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Time: 19:30 to 21:45 (2 hours and 15 minutes long)
Prom 45: Dalia Stasevska Conducts Sibelius's Fifth Symphony.
Ian Skelly presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with Dalia Stasevska conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Julius Eastman and Sibelius's Symphony No 5, with mezzo Jamie Barton joining for Mahler's Rückert-Lieder. One day in 1983, troubled American composer Eastman presented his ex-boyfriend with a rolled-up score, that of his Symphony No 2. The music, which wasn't seen again or performed until 2018, tells of their love and its disintegration in an orchestral language all of its own - part drone piece, part thematic symphony. The BBC SO's principal guest conductor Dalia Stasevska follows this remarkable work with Gustav Mahler's songs on love, loneliness and withdrawal, sung by the inimitable Jamie Barton, and Sibelius's most awe-inspiring symphony, the Fifth - his testament to nature's capacity to embolden and console. Julius Eastman: Symphony No 2, The Faithful Friend: The Lover Friend's Love for the Beloved, UK premiere. Mahler: Rückert-Lieder. 8.10 Interval: Biographer Daniel Grimley talks to Ian about the way in which Sibelius's music was influenced by his native landscape and the way in which the music has in turn influenced our own perceptions of Finland. 8.30 Sibelius: Symphony No 5 in E flat. Jamie Barton (mezzo), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska (conductor).
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