1antimuzak
Sunday 27th July 2025 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 15:00 to 17:00 (2 hours long)
Sean Shibe and Friends.
Sarah Walker presents a concert from the Glasshouse International Centre for Music in Gateshead, with guitarist Sean Shibe and friends performing of Boulez's Le Marteau sans maître (The Hammer Without a Master). a chamber cantata drawing on words by French surrealist poet Rene Char. The work, which is regarded as one of Boulez's most significant and influential compositions, is heard here as part of the Proms' Boulez centenary celebrations. Also on the programme is music by James Dillon and Cassandra Miller. James Dillon: 12 Caprices. Cassandra Miller: Bel Canto. Interval. Boulez: Le Marteau sans maître. Sean Shibe (guitar), Ema Nikolovska (mezzo), Adam Walker (flute), Matthew Hunt (clarinet), Mira Benjamin (violin), Emma Wernig (viola), Colin Alexander (cello), George Barton (percussion), Sam Wilson (percussion), Iris van den Bros (percussion), Alphonse Cemin (conductor).
(Live)
Time: 15:00 to 17:00 (2 hours long)
Sean Shibe and Friends.
Sarah Walker presents a concert from the Glasshouse International Centre for Music in Gateshead, with guitarist Sean Shibe and friends performing of Boulez's Le Marteau sans maître (The Hammer Without a Master). a chamber cantata drawing on words by French surrealist poet Rene Char. The work, which is regarded as one of Boulez's most significant and influential compositions, is heard here as part of the Proms' Boulez centenary celebrations. Also on the programme is music by James Dillon and Cassandra Miller. James Dillon: 12 Caprices. Cassandra Miller: Bel Canto. Interval. Boulez: Le Marteau sans maître. Sean Shibe (guitar), Ema Nikolovska (mezzo), Adam Walker (flute), Matthew Hunt (clarinet), Mira Benjamin (violin), Emma Wernig (viola), Colin Alexander (cello), George Barton (percussion), Sam Wilson (percussion), Iris van den Bros (percussion), Alphonse Cemin (conductor).
(Live)
2antimuzak
Sunday 27th July 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:15 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Mozart and Bruckner.
Andrew McGregor presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and pianist Mariam Batsashvili in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor and Bruckner's Symphony No 7 in E. A melody heard in a dream, a tribute to a dying genius, and a vision of cosmic beauty, Bruckner's Symphony No 7 is the composer's musical memorial to Richard Wagner. It's a homage that elevated the Austrian composer to new heights, a musical walk around a magnificent cathedral. A contemporary tribute opens tonight's Prom, with Ryan Wigglesworth's For Laura, after Bach, dedicated to the memory of former BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra leader Laura Samuel and inspired by her recording of a Bach partita, played at her funeral. Mozart's stormy Piano Concerto No 20 completes the programme, with Georgian pianist Mariam Batsashvili as the soloist. Ryan Wigglesworth: For Laura, after Bach (BBC commission: world premiere). Mozart: Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor. c 8.05 Interval. Pianist and conductor Yshani Perinpanayagam joins Andrew with her personal picks of forthcoming BBC Proms. c 8.25 Bruckner: Symphony No 7 in E. Mariam Batsashvili (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor).
(Live)
Time: 19:30 to 22:15 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Mozart and Bruckner.
Andrew McGregor presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and pianist Mariam Batsashvili in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor and Bruckner's Symphony No 7 in E. A melody heard in a dream, a tribute to a dying genius, and a vision of cosmic beauty, Bruckner's Symphony No 7 is the composer's musical memorial to Richard Wagner. It's a homage that elevated the Austrian composer to new heights, a musical walk around a magnificent cathedral. A contemporary tribute opens tonight's Prom, with Ryan Wigglesworth's For Laura, after Bach, dedicated to the memory of former BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra leader Laura Samuel and inspired by her recording of a Bach partita, played at her funeral. Mozart's stormy Piano Concerto No 20 completes the programme, with Georgian pianist Mariam Batsashvili as the soloist. Ryan Wigglesworth: For Laura, after Bach (BBC commission: world premiere). Mozart: Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor. c 8.05 Interval. Pianist and conductor Yshani Perinpanayagam joins Andrew with her personal picks of forthcoming BBC Proms. c 8.25 Bruckner: Symphony No 7 in E. Mariam Batsashvili (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor).
(Live)
3antimuzak
Monday 28th July 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Beethoven & Birtwistle.
Andrew McGregor presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall as Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Birtwistle's Earth Dances and Beethoven's Symphony No 3. Harrison Birtwistle's monumental Earth Dances returns to the Proms for the first time this century, a contemporary orchestral masterpiece boasting tectonic shifts that surge and fissure with inexorable, elemental force. Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra pair it with a mould-breaking orchestral pinnacle of another age. Grander than anything that came before, Beethoven's Symphony No 3, the Eroica, ushered in Romanticism, revolutionising both the form itself and expectations of what a symphony can - and should - be. Birtwistle: Earth Dances. c 8.10 Interval. Helen Gordon, author of Notes From Deep Time, describes her research into the Earth's crust and the layers that inspired the Harrison Birtwistle composition. She describes visiting three-billion-year-old rocks in Scotland, volcanoes in Naples and earthquake monitors in California. c 8.30 Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat, Eroica BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor).
(Live)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Beethoven & Birtwistle.
Andrew McGregor presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall as Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Birtwistle's Earth Dances and Beethoven's Symphony No 3. Harrison Birtwistle's monumental Earth Dances returns to the Proms for the first time this century, a contemporary orchestral masterpiece boasting tectonic shifts that surge and fissure with inexorable, elemental force. Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra pair it with a mould-breaking orchestral pinnacle of another age. Grander than anything that came before, Beethoven's Symphony No 3, the Eroica, ushered in Romanticism, revolutionising both the form itself and expectations of what a symphony can - and should - be. Birtwistle: Earth Dances. c 8.10 Interval. Helen Gordon, author of Notes From Deep Time, describes her research into the Earth's crust and the layers that inspired the Harrison Birtwistle composition. She describes visiting three-billion-year-old rocks in Scotland, volcanoes in Naples and earthquake monitors in California. c 8.30 Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat, Eroica BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor).
(Live)
4antimuzak
Wednesday 30th July 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto.
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Tadaaki Otaka are joined by Vadym Kholodenko to perform Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto. Hannah French presents, from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Bacewicz: Concerto for String Orchestra. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor. 8.20 Interval: Composer Roxanna Panufnik joins Hannah to put Lutoslawsk's Concerto for Orchestra into context. 8.40 Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra. Vadym Kholodenko (piano), The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Tadaaki Otaka.
(Live)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto.
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Tadaaki Otaka are joined by Vadym Kholodenko to perform Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto. Hannah French presents, from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Bacewicz: Concerto for String Orchestra. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor. 8.20 Interval: Composer Roxanna Panufnik joins Hannah to put Lutoslawsk's Concerto for Orchestra into context. 8.40 Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra. Vadym Kholodenko (piano), The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Tadaaki Otaka.
(Live)
5antimuzak
Friday 1st August 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
BBC Proms: Yunchan Lim Plays Rachmaninov.
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers, with conductor Kazuki Yamada and pianist Yunchan Lim, perform Adams, Rachmaninov and Berio, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Presented by Hannah French. John Adams: The Chairman Dances; Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor. 8.15 Interval - Gillian Moore joins Hannah French to uncover the story of Berio's unique Sinfonia. 8.35 Luciano Berio: Sinfonia. Yunchan Lim (piano), BBC Singers, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Kazuki Yamada.
(Live)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
BBC Proms: Yunchan Lim Plays Rachmaninov.
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers, with conductor Kazuki Yamada and pianist Yunchan Lim, perform Adams, Rachmaninov and Berio, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Presented by Hannah French. John Adams: The Chairman Dances; Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor. 8.15 Interval - Gillian Moore joins Hannah French to uncover the story of Berio's unique Sinfonia. 8.35 Luciano Berio: Sinfonia. Yunchan Lim (piano), BBC Singers, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Kazuki Yamada.
(Live)
6kleh
>5 antimuzak: This one is going to be packed out.
My Korean friend joined the queue for a standing place in the arena at 3am today.
My Korean friend joined the queue for a standing place in the arena at 3am today.
7kleh
>4 antimuzak: Didn't know the Bacewicz or the Lutoslawsk, but enjoyed both a lot.
Rachmaninov was a bit plodding.
Rachmaninov was a bit plodding.
8antimuzak
Saturday 2nd August 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 21:45 (1 hour and 45 minutes long)
Mahler's Resurrection Symphony.
Tom McKinney presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with Kahchun Wong conducting the Hallé in Mahler's Symphony No 2 in C minor. Known as the Resurrection Symphony, the work offers a panoramic vision of human existence and hope for the life beyond, with suffering, redemption and renewal generated by huge orchestral and choral forces. The Hallé's new principal conductor Kahchun Wong directs his Manchester-based forces for the first time at the Proms, joined by two star soloists in the form of Norwegian soprano Mari Eriksmoen and Canadian mezzo Emily D'Angelo, who makes her much-anticipated Proms debut. Mahler: Symphony No 2 in C minor, Resurrection. Mari Eriksmoen (soprano), Emily D'Angelo (mezzo), Hallé Choir, Hallé Youth Choir, Hallé, Kahchun Wong (conductor).
(Live)
Time: 20:00 to 21:45 (1 hour and 45 minutes long)
Mahler's Resurrection Symphony.
Tom McKinney presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with Kahchun Wong conducting the Hallé in Mahler's Symphony No 2 in C minor. Known as the Resurrection Symphony, the work offers a panoramic vision of human existence and hope for the life beyond, with suffering, redemption and renewal generated by huge orchestral and choral forces. The Hallé's new principal conductor Kahchun Wong directs his Manchester-based forces for the first time at the Proms, joined by two star soloists in the form of Norwegian soprano Mari Eriksmoen and Canadian mezzo Emily D'Angelo, who makes her much-anticipated Proms debut. Mahler: Symphony No 2 in C minor, Resurrection. Mari Eriksmoen (soprano), Emily D'Angelo (mezzo), Hallé Choir, Hallé Youth Choir, Hallé, Kahchun Wong (conductor).
(Live)
10antimuzak
Wednesday 6th August 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Beethoven and Bartók from Budapest.
Iván Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No 7 and Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle. Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A. 8.10 Interval: The writer Nigel Simeone joins Andrew to introduce Duke Bluebeard's Castle, which is Bartók's only opera. 8.30 Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle. Dorottya Láng (soprano); (Judith), Krisztián Cser (bass); (Duke Bluebeard), Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Iván Fischer.
(Live)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Beethoven and Bartók from Budapest.
Iván Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No 7 and Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle. Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A. 8.10 Interval: The writer Nigel Simeone joins Andrew to introduce Duke Bluebeard's Castle, which is Bartók's only opera. 8.30 Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle. Dorottya Láng (soprano); (Judith), Krisztián Cser (bass); (Duke Bluebeard), Budapest Festival Orchestra, conductor Iván Fischer.
(Live)
11antimuzak
Friday 8th August 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:00 to 20:15 (2 hours and 15 minutes long)
Rachmaninov's 'Paganini' Variations.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Joseph Pons in Rachmaninov's 'Paganini' Variations, with Beatrice Rana, and Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin. Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall. Dukas: La Péri - Poème dansé. Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. 6.40 Interval: The writer and music historian Emily MacGregor joins Ian Skelly, live at the Royal Albert Hall, to discuss the controversy surrounding Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin, to examine the social attitudes of Hungary in the early 20th century, and to explore the story of censorship behind the re-versioning of the composer's pantomime ballet for the concert stage. 7.00 Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin Beatrice Rana (piano). BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Josep Pons. Desire, brutality and the supernatural are shaken together in the orchestral kaleidoscope of Bartók's ballet The Miraculous Mandarin. Josep Pons conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the last of Bartók's three great music-theatre scores, a fusion of folk music and modernism. Angular brilliance gives way to exotic, Impressionistic colours in Dukas's exotic 'danced poem' La Péri. 'Remarkable' Italian pianist Beatrice Rana is the soloist in Rachmaninov's thrilling Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
(Live)
Time: 18:00 to 20:15 (2 hours and 15 minutes long)
Rachmaninov's 'Paganini' Variations.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Joseph Pons in Rachmaninov's 'Paganini' Variations, with Beatrice Rana, and Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin. Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall. Dukas: La Péri - Poème dansé. Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. 6.40 Interval: The writer and music historian Emily MacGregor joins Ian Skelly, live at the Royal Albert Hall, to discuss the controversy surrounding Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin, to examine the social attitudes of Hungary in the early 20th century, and to explore the story of censorship behind the re-versioning of the composer's pantomime ballet for the concert stage. 7.00 Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin Beatrice Rana (piano). BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Josep Pons. Desire, brutality and the supernatural are shaken together in the orchestral kaleidoscope of Bartók's ballet The Miraculous Mandarin. Josep Pons conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the last of Bartók's three great music-theatre scores, a fusion of folk music and modernism. Angular brilliance gives way to exotic, Impressionistic colours in Dukas's exotic 'danced poem' La Péri. 'Remarkable' Italian pianist Beatrice Rana is the soloist in Rachmaninov's thrilling Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
(Live)
12antimuzak
Friday 8th August 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:00 to 23:00 (2 hours long)
100 Years of the Shipping Forecast.
Ulster Orchestra and Chloé van Soeterstède perform music to celebrate 100 years of the Shipping Forecast, including works by Benjamin Britten, Malcolm Arnold, María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, composer and cellist Neil Martin and Ronald Binge. Live from the Ulster Hall in Belfast. Binge: Sailing By Britten- Storm (Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes'). Sigfúsdóttir: Oceans. Seán Ó Riada- Howth Landing from Mise Éire. Neil Martin: Port na bPúcaí. LYR: Yonderland (BBC Commission- World Premiere). Anna Clyne: Restless Ocean. Ravel: Une barque sur l'ocean. Arnold: The Padstow Lifeboat. Ulster Orchestra, conductor Chloé van Soeterstède. LYR.
(Live)
Time: 21:00 to 23:00 (2 hours long)
100 Years of the Shipping Forecast.
Ulster Orchestra and Chloé van Soeterstède perform music to celebrate 100 years of the Shipping Forecast, including works by Benjamin Britten, Malcolm Arnold, María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, composer and cellist Neil Martin and Ronald Binge. Live from the Ulster Hall in Belfast. Binge: Sailing By Britten- Storm (Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes'). Sigfúsdóttir: Oceans. Seán Ó Riada- Howth Landing from Mise Éire. Neil Martin: Port na bPúcaí. LYR: Yonderland (BBC Commission- World Premiere). Anna Clyne: Restless Ocean. Ravel: Une barque sur l'ocean. Arnold: The Padstow Lifeboat. Ulster Orchestra, conductor Chloé van Soeterstède. LYR.
(Live)
13antimuzak
Friday 8th August 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 23:00 to 06:30 (7 hours and 30 minutes long)
From Dark Till Dawn.
Organist Anna Lapwood is joined by the Pembroke College Chapel Choir, as well as Barokksolistene and director Bjarte Eike, cellist Anastasia Kobekina, and pianist Hayato Sumino, in a musical journey that extends from the nocturnal hours to beyond the dawn chorus. Presented by Hannah Peel and Tom McKinney live from the Royal Albert Hall. Anastasia Kobekina (cello), Hayato Sumino (piano), Anna Lapwood (organ/conductor). Pembroke College Chapel Choir, Barokksolistene, Bjarte Eike (violin/director).
(Live)
Time: 23:00 to 06:30 (7 hours and 30 minutes long)
From Dark Till Dawn.
Organist Anna Lapwood is joined by the Pembroke College Chapel Choir, as well as Barokksolistene and director Bjarte Eike, cellist Anastasia Kobekina, and pianist Hayato Sumino, in a musical journey that extends from the nocturnal hours to beyond the dawn chorus. Presented by Hannah Peel and Tom McKinney live from the Royal Albert Hall. Anastasia Kobekina (cello), Hayato Sumino (piano), Anna Lapwood (organ/conductor). Pembroke College Chapel Choir, Barokksolistene, Bjarte Eike (violin/director).
(Live)
14antimuzak
Saturday 9th August 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:00 to 21:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
The Planets and Star Wars.
Georgia Mann presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall as Dalia Stasevska conducts the National Youth Orchestra performs John Williams' Star Wars suite, Caroline Shaw's The Observatory and Holst's The Planets. Britain's most talented teenagers present a concert of intergalactic musical giants, so expect moons and meteor showers, spaceships, stars and lightsabers. The many worlds of Holst's The Planets, including the mysterious beauty of Neptune and rousing Jupiter theme meet the music from John Williams's mighty Star Wars soundtracks, as well as Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw's piece inspired by sci-fi and skygazing at the Griffin Observatory in Los Angeles. John Williams: Star Wars - suite; Caroline Shaw: The Observatory. 7.45 Interval. Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth? is an exhibition currently running at the Natural History Museum. Curator Caroline Smith shares her interest in meteorites from Mars and the Moon, and one which, at 4,567 billion years old, is older than the Earth. 8.05 Holst: The Planets. National Youth Orchestra, conductor Dalia Stasevska.
(Live)
Time: 19:00 to 21:45 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
The Planets and Star Wars.
Georgia Mann presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall as Dalia Stasevska conducts the National Youth Orchestra performs John Williams' Star Wars suite, Caroline Shaw's The Observatory and Holst's The Planets. Britain's most talented teenagers present a concert of intergalactic musical giants, so expect moons and meteor showers, spaceships, stars and lightsabers. The many worlds of Holst's The Planets, including the mysterious beauty of Neptune and rousing Jupiter theme meet the music from John Williams's mighty Star Wars soundtracks, as well as Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw's piece inspired by sci-fi and skygazing at the Griffin Observatory in Los Angeles. John Williams: Star Wars - suite; Caroline Shaw: The Observatory. 7.45 Interval. Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth? is an exhibition currently running at the Natural History Museum. Curator Caroline Smith shares her interest in meteorites from Mars and the Moon, and one which, at 4,567 billion years old, is older than the Earth. 8.05 Holst: The Planets. National Youth Orchestra, conductor Dalia Stasevska.
(Live)
15antimuzak
Monday 11th August 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:00 to 21:15 (2 hours and 15 minutes long)
Mahler's Third.
Alexandra Humphreys presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with the BBC National Orchestra and Orchestre National de Bretagne performing Mahler's Symphony No 3. 'A symphony should be like the world', Mahler said, 'it should embrace everything.' Nowhere does this vision come more powerfully to life than in his mighty Symphony No 3, an intricate, joyful tapestry of man, nature and heaven. The work opens in heavy summer heat and closes in rapt tranquillity in a sublime finale, animated in between by marches, dances and birdsong. Ryan Bancroft brings together the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Orchestre National de Bretagne, joined by the CBSO Children's Chorus and BBC National Chorus of Wales and mezzo Beth Taylor. Mahler: Symphony No 3 in D minor. Beth Taylor (mezzo), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC National Chorus of Wales (upper voices), CBSO Children's Chorus, Members of Orchestre National de Bretagne, conductor Ryan Bancroft.
(Live)
Time: 19:00 to 21:15 (2 hours and 15 minutes long)
Mahler's Third.
Alexandra Humphreys presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with the BBC National Orchestra and Orchestre National de Bretagne performing Mahler's Symphony No 3. 'A symphony should be like the world', Mahler said, 'it should embrace everything.' Nowhere does this vision come more powerfully to life than in his mighty Symphony No 3, an intricate, joyful tapestry of man, nature and heaven. The work opens in heavy summer heat and closes in rapt tranquillity in a sublime finale, animated in between by marches, dances and birdsong. Ryan Bancroft brings together the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Orchestre National de Bretagne, joined by the CBSO Children's Chorus and BBC National Chorus of Wales and mezzo Beth Taylor. Mahler: Symphony No 3 in D minor. Beth Taylor (mezzo), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC National Chorus of Wales (upper voices), CBSO Children's Chorus, Members of Orchestre National de Bretagne, conductor Ryan Bancroft.
(Live)
16antimuzak
Wednesday 13th August 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Boléro and The Rite of Spring.
Georgia Mann presents as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eva Ollikainen, performs Stravinsky, Ravel, Varèse and Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Cello Concerto with cellist Johannes Moser live at the Royal Albert Hall. Varèse: Intégrales; Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Before we fall (Cello Concerto) (BBC co-commission: UK premiere); Ravel: Boléro. 8.20 Interval - Journalist and dance critic Sarah Crompton discusses the Ballet Russes company, directed by Sergei Diaghilev, which commissioned Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. 8.40 Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring. Johannes Moser (cello), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Eva Ollikainen.
(Live)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Boléro and The Rite of Spring.
Georgia Mann presents as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eva Ollikainen, performs Stravinsky, Ravel, Varèse and Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Cello Concerto with cellist Johannes Moser live at the Royal Albert Hall. Varèse: Intégrales; Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Before we fall (Cello Concerto) (BBC co-commission: UK premiere); Ravel: Boléro. 8.20 Interval - Journalist and dance critic Sarah Crompton discusses the Ballet Russes company, directed by Sergei Diaghilev, which commissioned Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. 8.40 Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring. Johannes Moser (cello), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Eva Ollikainen.
(Live)
17antimuzak
Friday 15th August 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:15 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Benjamin Grosvenor Plays Ravel.
The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, Ryan Bancroft, Benjamin Grosvenor, Kostas Smoriginas & Synergy Vocals perform works by Gubaidulina and Ravel. Presented by Alexandra Humphreys, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Gubaidulina: Revue Music for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band (UK premiere). Ravel: Piano Concerto in G. 8.10pm Interval: The writer and academic Philip Bullock joins Alexandra Humphreys to discuss Shostakovich's setting of poetry by Russian writer and novelist, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and his musical depictions of Soviet history described therein - including events at Babi Yar ravine near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. 8.30pm Shostakovich: Symphony No 13 in B flat minor, Op 113. 'Babi Yar'. Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), Kostas Smoriginas (bass-baritone). BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales Synergy Vocals, conductor Ryan Bancroft. A jazz band and a symphony orchestra meet in the zany groovings of Sofia Gubaidulina's Revue Music for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band - part of a concert that brings these two sound- worlds together. Jazz is represented by the syncopated brilliance of Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, performed by Proms favourite and former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor. Shostakovich supplies the symphony - the snarling, sometimes shockingly tender 'Babi Yar', bearing witness to the horrors of a Nazi massacre of Jews in Soviet Ukraine.
(Live)ia Limited.
Time: 19:30 to 22:15 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)
Benjamin Grosvenor Plays Ravel.
The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, Ryan Bancroft, Benjamin Grosvenor, Kostas Smoriginas & Synergy Vocals perform works by Gubaidulina and Ravel. Presented by Alexandra Humphreys, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Gubaidulina: Revue Music for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band (UK premiere). Ravel: Piano Concerto in G. 8.10pm Interval: The writer and academic Philip Bullock joins Alexandra Humphreys to discuss Shostakovich's setting of poetry by Russian writer and novelist, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and his musical depictions of Soviet history described therein - including events at Babi Yar ravine near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. 8.30pm Shostakovich: Symphony No 13 in B flat minor, Op 113. 'Babi Yar'. Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), Kostas Smoriginas (bass-baritone). BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales Synergy Vocals, conductor Ryan Bancroft. A jazz band and a symphony orchestra meet in the zany groovings of Sofia Gubaidulina's Revue Music for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band - part of a concert that brings these two sound- worlds together. Jazz is represented by the syncopated brilliance of Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, performed by Proms favourite and former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor. Shostakovich supplies the symphony - the snarling, sometimes shockingly tender 'Babi Yar', bearing witness to the horrors of a Nazi massacre of Jews in Soviet Ukraine.
(Live)ia Limited.
18antimuzak
Saturday 16th August 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:00 to 21:15 (2 hours and 15 minutes long)
Shostakovich's Fifth by Heart.
Katie Derham presents live from the Royal Albert Hall, London as the Aurora Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Collon, perform Shostakovich: Symphony No 5 from memory. Actor Max Revell joins the players to bring to life a symphony born in the shadow of Stalin's regime.
(Live)
Time: 19:00 to 21:15 (2 hours and 15 minutes long)
Shostakovich's Fifth by Heart.
Katie Derham presents live from the Royal Albert Hall, London as the Aurora Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Collon, perform Shostakovich: Symphony No 5 from memory. Actor Max Revell joins the players to bring to life a symphony born in the shadow of Stalin's regime.
(Live)
19antimuzak
Sunday 17th August 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:30 (2 hours long)
Le Concert Spirituel.
Hannah French presents live from the Royal Albert Hall, London as Hervé Niquet conducts Le Concert Spirituel in Striggio's epic Missa sopra Ecco si beato giorno, as well as works by Benevolo, Corteccia and Palestrina.
(Live)
Time: 19:30 to 21:30 (2 hours long)
Le Concert Spirituel.
Hannah French presents live from the Royal Albert Hall, London as Hervé Niquet conducts Le Concert Spirituel in Striggio's epic Missa sopra Ecco si beato giorno, as well as works by Benevolo, Corteccia and Palestrina.
(Live)
20antimuzak
Monday 18th August 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Elder Conducts A Mass of Life.
Martin Handley presents live from the Royal Albert Hall, London as the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, LPO Chorus and soloists Jennifer Davis, Claudia Huckle, David Butt Philip and Roderick Williams perform Delius's A Mass of Life under conductor Sir Mark Elder. During the interval, writer and musicologist Daniel Grimley joins the presenter to discuss the genesis of Delius's musical response to the prose of German philosopher Nietzsche. Delius: A Mass of Life. Jennifer Davis (soprano), Claudia Huckle (contralto), David Butt Philip (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), BBC Symphony Chorus, London Philharmonic Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Sir Mark Elder.
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Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Elder Conducts A Mass of Life.
Martin Handley presents live from the Royal Albert Hall, London as the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, LPO Chorus and soloists Jennifer Davis, Claudia Huckle, David Butt Philip and Roderick Williams perform Delius's A Mass of Life under conductor Sir Mark Elder. During the interval, writer and musicologist Daniel Grimley joins the presenter to discuss the genesis of Delius's musical response to the prose of German philosopher Nietzsche. Delius: A Mass of Life. Jennifer Davis (soprano), Claudia Huckle (contralto), David Butt Philip (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), BBC Symphony Chorus, London Philharmonic Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Sir Mark Elder.
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Wednesday 20th August 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
BBC Proms: Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky.
The Philharmonia and conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali with pianist Bruce Liu in Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky. Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Gabriela Ortiz: Antrópolis. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 2 in G. 20.30 Interval: Helen Wallace, the Head of Music at the Barbican Centre in London, joins Ian Skelly live at the Royal Albert Hall to introduce Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and discuss the appeal of depicting artwork that has exercised composers across the ages. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Maurice Ravel). Bruce Liu (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
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Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
BBC Proms: Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky.
The Philharmonia and conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali with pianist Bruce Liu in Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky. Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Gabriela Ortiz: Antrópolis. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 2 in G. 20.30 Interval: Helen Wallace, the Head of Music at the Barbican Centre in London, joins Ian Skelly live at the Royal Albert Hall to introduce Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and discuss the appeal of depicting artwork that has exercised composers across the ages. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Maurice Ravel). Bruce Liu (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
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Thursday 21st August 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Beethoven's Ninth.
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir with conductor Fabio Luisi perform music by Bent Sørensen, Anna Clyne and Beethoven. Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Bent Sørensen: Evening Land. Anna Clyne: The Years. 7.40pm During the interval, Martin Handley is joined by Anna Clyne to reflect on her love of the music of Beethoven and how she finds creative inspiration from him in her own music. 8pm Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'Choral'. Clara Cecilie Thomsen (soprano), Jasmin White (contralto). Issachah Savage (tenor), Adam Palka (bass). Danish National Concert Choir, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fabio Luisi.
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Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Beethoven's Ninth.
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir with conductor Fabio Luisi perform music by Bent Sørensen, Anna Clyne and Beethoven. Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Bent Sørensen: Evening Land. Anna Clyne: The Years. 7.40pm During the interval, Martin Handley is joined by Anna Clyne to reflect on her love of the music of Beethoven and how she finds creative inspiration from him in her own music. 8pm Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'Choral'. Clara Cecilie Thomsen (soprano), Jasmin White (contralto). Issachah Savage (tenor), Adam Palka (bass). Danish National Concert Choir, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fabio Luisi.
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Friday 22nd August 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dalia Stasevska in Górecki's Symphony No.3. Plus violinist Joshua Bell joins for de Hartmann's Violin Concerto. Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall. Bach: Three Chorales - No. 1: 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland' (orch. Respighi). Thomas de Hartmann: Violin Concerto (UK premiere). Interval The musicologist Daniel Elphick talks to Martin Handley about Gorecki and why his 3rd Symphony became a cult success. Górecki: Symphony No. 3 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'. Joshua Bell (violin), Francesca Chiejina (soprano). BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Dalia Stasevska.
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Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dalia Stasevska in Górecki's Symphony No.3. Plus violinist Joshua Bell joins for de Hartmann's Violin Concerto. Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall. Bach: Three Chorales - No. 1: 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland' (orch. Respighi). Thomas de Hartmann: Violin Concerto (UK premiere). Interval The musicologist Daniel Elphick talks to Martin Handley about Gorecki and why his 3rd Symphony became a cult success. Górecki: Symphony No. 3 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'. Joshua Bell (violin), Francesca Chiejina (soprano). BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Dalia Stasevska.
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Saturday 23rd August 2025
Time: 11:00 to 13:00 (2 hours long)
András Schiff Plays Bach.
Martin Handley presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with pianist András Schiff playing Bach's The Art of Fugue. Following acclaimed Proms performances of The Well-Tempered Clavier and the Goldberg Variations, Schiff returns for a musical high-point of his career-long relationship with Bach's music. Here he squares up to a musical enigma, a cycle left unfinished at the composer's death that represents the most complex, inventive, intimate and joyful act of creation, and is joined for one of the work's fugues by German pianist and long-time collaborator Schaghajegh Nosrati. Bach: The Art of Fugue. András Schiff (piano), Schaghajegh Nosrati (piano).
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Time: 11:00 to 13:00 (2 hours long)
András Schiff Plays Bach.
Martin Handley presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with pianist András Schiff playing Bach's The Art of Fugue. Following acclaimed Proms performances of The Well-Tempered Clavier and the Goldberg Variations, Schiff returns for a musical high-point of his career-long relationship with Bach's music. Here he squares up to a musical enigma, a cycle left unfinished at the composer's death that represents the most complex, inventive, intimate and joyful act of creation, and is joined for one of the work's fugues by German pianist and long-time collaborator Schaghajegh Nosrati. Bach: The Art of Fugue. András Schiff (piano), Schaghajegh Nosrati (piano).
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Saturday 23rd August 2025 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 14:00 to 15:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Danish National Vocal Ensemble (Bristol).
Sarah Walker presents live concert from St George's Bristol, with the Danish National Vocal Ensemble presenting a choral dialogue across the centuries. British composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth responds to Bach, while Italian-born Paola Prestini reflects on Palestrina, born 500 years ago. The great Dane Carl Nielsen paid his own tribute to Palestrina and the choir also brings songs of summer and autumn. Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm!, BWV 229. Ethel Smyth: Five Sacred Partsongs - Komm, su?sser Tod. Palestrina: Fratres ego enim accepi. Paola Prestini: Fratres, after Palestrina. Nielsen: Three Motets. Anon: Three traditional Danish summer songs. Krek: Three Autumn Songs. Alma Mahler-Werfel, arr. C Gottwald: Five Songs - Laue Sommernacht. Mahler, arr. N Forte: Rückert-Lieder - Liebst du um Schönheit. Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Graham Ross (conductor).
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Time: 14:00 to 15:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)
Danish National Vocal Ensemble (Bristol).
Sarah Walker presents live concert from St George's Bristol, with the Danish National Vocal Ensemble presenting a choral dialogue across the centuries. British composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth responds to Bach, while Italian-born Paola Prestini reflects on Palestrina, born 500 years ago. The great Dane Carl Nielsen paid his own tribute to Palestrina and the choir also brings songs of summer and autumn. Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm!, BWV 229. Ethel Smyth: Five Sacred Partsongs - Komm, su?sser Tod. Palestrina: Fratres ego enim accepi. Paola Prestini: Fratres, after Palestrina. Nielsen: Three Motets. Anon: Three traditional Danish summer songs. Krek: Three Autumn Songs. Alma Mahler-Werfel, arr. C Gottwald: Five Songs - Laue Sommernacht. Mahler, arr. N Forte: Rückert-Lieder - Liebst du um Schönheit. Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Graham Ross (conductor).
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Saturday 23rd August 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 22:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Mäkelä Conducts Mahler's Fifth.
Petroc Trelawny presents live from the Royal Albert Hall as Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Royal Concertgebouw in Berio's Rendering and Mahler's Symphony No 5. Still in his twenties, electrifying Finnish conductor Mäkelä already leads orchestras in Oslo and Paris, with Chicago and Amsterdam soon to come, and he makes his Proms debut as Chief Conductor Designate of the Royal Concertgebouw. Mahler's Fifth Symphony is a tumultuous journey from the darkness of a funeral march to brilliant light via the famous Adagietto, the tenderest musical love letter in the repertoire. It sits alongside Berio's delicate 'rendering' of Schubert's unfinished D major symphony, a musical palimpsest and sonic fantasy. Berio: Rendering. c 8.25 Interval. Petroc speaks to Klaus Mäkelä, and hears from musicologist and conductor Nigel Simeone about the careers of internationally recognized conductors who travel the world to perform with and lead prestigious orchestras. c 8.45 Mahler: Symphony No 5. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Klaus Mäkelä (conductor).
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Time: 20:00 to 22:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)
Mäkelä Conducts Mahler's Fifth.
Petroc Trelawny presents live from the Royal Albert Hall as Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Royal Concertgebouw in Berio's Rendering and Mahler's Symphony No 5. Still in his twenties, electrifying Finnish conductor Mäkelä already leads orchestras in Oslo and Paris, with Chicago and Amsterdam soon to come, and he makes his Proms debut as Chief Conductor Designate of the Royal Concertgebouw. Mahler's Fifth Symphony is a tumultuous journey from the darkness of a funeral march to brilliant light via the famous Adagietto, the tenderest musical love letter in the repertoire. It sits alongside Berio's delicate 'rendering' of Schubert's unfinished D major symphony, a musical palimpsest and sonic fantasy. Berio: Rendering. c 8.25 Interval. Petroc speaks to Klaus Mäkelä, and hears from musicologist and conductor Nigel Simeone about the careers of internationally recognized conductors who travel the world to perform with and lead prestigious orchestras. c 8.45 Mahler: Symphony No 5. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Klaus Mäkelä (conductor).
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