Prom 1: First Night of the Proms
Friday 13 July
7.30pm – c. 9.40pm
Royal Albert Hall
Mark-Anthony Turnage
Canon Fever (3 mins)
World Premiere
Elgar
Overture 'Cockaigne (In London Town)' (15 mins)
Delius
Sea Drift (25 mins)
INTERVAL
Tippett
Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles (16 mins)
Elgar
Coronation Ode (33 mins)
1911 version
Susan Gritton soprano
Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano
Robert Murray tenor
Gerald Finley bass-baritone
Bryn Terfel bass-baritone
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor (Canon Fever, Coronation Ode)
Sir Roger Norrington conductor (Cockaigne)
Sir Mark Elder conductor (Sea Drift)
Martyn Brabbins conductor (Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles)
Prom 2: Lerner & Loewe – My Fair Lady
Saturday 14 July
7.00pm – c. 10.30pm
Royal Albert Hall
Loewe
My Fair Lady (170 mins)
(semi-staged)
Anthony Andrews actor, Proms debut artist (Professor Henry Higgins)
Annalene Beechey vocalist (Eliza Doolittle)
John Wilson Orchestra
John Wilson conductor
Shaun Kerrison stage director
Prom 3: Debussy – Pelléas et Mélisande
Sunday 15 July
7.00pm – c. 10.00pm
Royal Albert Hall
Debussy
Pelléas et Mélisande (145 mins)
concert performance; sung in French
Phillip Addis baritone (Pelléas)
Karen Vourc'h soprano, Proms debut artist (Mélisande)
Laurent Naouri bass-baritone, Proms debut artist (Golaud)
Sir John Tomlinson bass (Arkel)
Elodie Méchain alto, Proms debut artist (Geneviève)
Dima Bawab soprano, Proms debut artist (Yniold)
Nahuel di Pierro bass, Proms debut artist (Doctor)
Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor
Proms Chamber Music 1: Alice Coote sings French chansons
Monday 16 July
1.00pm – c. 2.00pm
Cadogan Hall
Gounod
Au printemps (2 mins)
Saint-Saëns
Aimons-nous (4 mins)
Fauré
Poème d'un jour (6 mins)
Fauré
Cinq mélodies 'de Venise' – En sourdine (3 mins)
Fauré
Au bord de l'eau (2 mins)
Fauré
Les roses d'Ispahan (3 mins)
Fauré
Le secret (2 mins)
Fauré
Notre amour (2 mins)
Satie
Je te veux (4 mins)
Hahn
L'énamourée (4 mins)
Hahn
Fumée (3 mins)
Hahn
Dans la nuit (2 mins)
Hahn
Chansons grises – L'heure exquise (2 mins)
Poulenc
Métamorphoses – C'est ainsi que tu es (2 mins)
Poulenc
Banalités – Hôtel, Voyages à Paris (2 mins)
Poulenc
Les chemins d'amour (4 mins)
Alice Coote mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake piano
Prom 4: Respighi, Ravel and Adams
Monday 16 July
7.30pm – c. 9.35pm
Royal Albert Hall
Respighi
Roman Festivals (22 mins)
Ravel
Piano Concerto in G major (22 mins)
INTERVAL
John Adams
City Noir (34 mins)
Imogen Cooper piano
Juilliard Orchestra
Orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music
John Adams conductor
Prom 5: Strauss, Saariaho & Sibelius
Tuesday 17 July
7.30pm – c. 9.50pm
Royal Albert Hall
R. Strauss
Also sprach Zarathustra (32 mins)
R. Strauss
Four Last Songs (22 mins)
INTERVAL
Kaija Saariaho
Laterna magica (22 mins)
UK Premiere
Sibelius
Symphony No. 7 in C major (23 mins)
Anne Schwanewilms soprano
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena conductor
Prom 6: Lam, Rachmaninov & Prokofiev
Wednesday 18 July
7.00pm – c. 9.15pm
Royal Albert Hall
Fung Lam
Endless Forms (c9 mins)
BBC Commission, World Premiere
Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (35 mins)
INTERVAL
Prokofiev
Symphony No. 6 in E flat minor (43 mins)
Kirill Gerstein piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jirí Belohlávek conductor
Prom 7: Handel – Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks
Wednesday 18 July
10.15pm – c. 11.30pm
Royal Albert Hall
Handel
Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major (26 mins)
Handel
Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major (10 mins)
Handel
Water Music Suite No. 3 in G major (10 mins)
Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks (17 mins)
Hervé Niquet conductor, Proms debut artist
Le Concert Spirituel
Prom 8: Handel – Judas Maccabaeus
Thursday 19 July
7.30pm – c. 10.20pm
Royal Albert Hall
Handel
Judas Maccabaeus (130 mins)
John Mark Ainsley tenor (Judas Maccabaeus)
Christopher Purves baritone (Simon/Eupolemus)
Rosemary Joshua soprano (Israelitish Woman)
Christine Rice mezzo-soprano, New Generation Artist (Israelitish Man)
Tim Mead counter-tenor (Israelitish Messenger/Israelitish Priest)
Choir of the Enlightenment
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Laurence Cummings director
Prom 9: Beethoven Cycle – Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
Friday 20 July
7.30pm – c. 9.55pm
Royal Albert Hall
Beethoven
Symphony No. 1 in C major (25 mins)
Pierre Boulez
Dérive 2 (45 mins)
INTERVAL
Beethoven
Symphony No. 2 in D major (35 mins)
West–Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim conductor
Proms Saturday Matinee 1: Bach – The Art of Fugue
Saturday 21 July
3.00pm – c. 4.30pm
Cadogan Hall
J. S. Bach
The Art of Fugue (arr. M. Esfahani) (70 mins)
Mahan Esfahani harpsichord/director
Academy of Ancient Music
Prom 10: Beethoven Cycle – Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
Saturday 21 July
7.30pm – c. 9.55pm
Royal Albert Hall
Beethoven
Symphony No. 4 in B flat major (35 mins)
Pierre Boulez
Dialogue de l'ombre double (20 mins)
INTERVAL
Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica' (50 mins)
Jussef Eisa clarinet, Proms debut artist
IRCAM live electronics
West–Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim conductor
Prom 11: Berlioz – The Trojans
Sunday 22 July
4.30pm – c. 10.00pm
Royal Albert Hall
Berlioz
The Trojans (255 mins)
Jonas Kaufmann tenor (Aeneas)
Fabio Capitanucci baritone, Proms debut artist (Coroebus)
Ashley Holland baritone (Panthus)
Brindley Sherratt bass (Narbal)
Ji-Min Park tenor, Proms debut artist (Iopas, Iopas)
Barbara Senator mezzo-soprano, Proms debut artist (Ascanius)
Anna Caterina Antonacci soprano (Cassandra)
Eva Maria Westbroek soprano, Proms debut artist (Dido)
Hanna Hipp mezzo-soprano, Proms debut artist (Anna)
Ed Lyon tenor (Hylas)
Robert Lloyd bass (Priam)
Lukas Jakobski bass (Greek Chieftain)
Jihoon Kim bass, Proms debut artist (Ghost of Hector)
Ji Hyun Kim tenor, Proms debut artist (Helenus)
Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano (Hecuba)
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Sir Antonio Pappano conductor
Proms Chamber Music 2: Tenebrae
Monday 23 July
1.00pm – c. 2.00pm
Cadogan Hall
Gibbons
First Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts (1612) – selection (8 mins)
Gibbons
The Cryes of London (7 mins)
Julian Philips
Sorowfull Songes (c10 mins)
BBC Commission, World Premiere
Steve Martland
Street Songs – selection (22 mins)
Tenebrae
Nigel Short conductor
Prom 12: Beethoven Cycle – Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
Monday 23 July
7.30pm – c. 9.45pm
Royal Albert Hall
Beethoven
Symphony No. 6 in F major 'Pastoral' (40 mins)
Pierre Boulez
Mémoriale ('… explosante-fixe …' Originel) (8 mins)
INTERVAL
Pierre Boulez
Messagesquisse (8 mins)
Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor (30 mins)
Hassan Moataz El Molla cello, Proms debut artist
West–Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim conductor
Prom 13: Beethoven Cycle – Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
Tuesday 24 July
7.00pm – c. 9.00pm
Royal Albert Hall
Beethoven
Symphony No. 8 in F major (25 mins)
Pierre Boulez
Anthèmes 2 (25 mins)
INTERVAL
Beethoven
Symphony No. 7 in A major (35 min)
Michael Barenboim violin
IRCAM live electronics
West–Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim conductor
Prom 14: Kronos Quartet
Tuesday 24 July
10.00pm – c. 11.15pm
Royal Albert Hall
Omar Souleyman
I'll Prevent the Hunters from Hunting You (La sidounak sayyada) (arr. Jacob Garchik) (4 mins)
UK Premiere
Sofia Gubaidulina
String Quartet No. 4 (12 mins)
Ben Johnston
String Quartet No. 4, 'Amazing Grace' (11 mins)
Nicole Lizée
The Golden Age of the Radiophonic Workshop (Fibre-Optic Flowers) (c10 mins)
BBC Commission, World Premiere
Traditional
Tusen tankar (A Thousand Thoughts) transcr. Ljova, arr. Kronos Quartet (5 mins)
Aleksandra Vrebalov
… hold me, neighbor, in this storm … (22 mins)
Kronos Quartet
Prom 15: Smetana, Prokofiev & Dvorák
Wednesday 25 July
7.30pm – c. 9.40pm
Royal Albert Hall
Smetana
String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, 'From My Life' (orch. Szell) (28 mins)
Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major (22 mins)
INTERVAL
Dvorák
Symphony No. 7 in D minor (35 mins)
Vadim Gluzman violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jirí Belohlávek conductor
Prom 16: Elgar, Wood, Ravel & Debussy
Thursday 26 July
7.00pm – c. 9.15pm
Royal Albert Hall
Elgar
In the South (Alassio) (23 mins)
Hugh Wood
Concerto for Piano (25 mins)
INTERVAL
Ravel
Une barque sur l'océan (8 mins)
Debussy
La cathédrale engloutie (orch. Henry Wood) (8 mins)
Debussy
La mer (25 mins)
Joanna MacGregor piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer conductor
Prom 17: Beethoven & Boulez
Thursday 26 July
10.15pm – c. 11.30pm
Royal Albert Hall
Beethoven
Piano Quintet in E flat major (25 mins)
Pierre Boulez
Le marteau sans maître (35 mins)
West–Eastern Divan Orchestra (members)
Pierre Boulez conductor
Prom 18: Beethoven Cycle – Symphony No. 9, 'Choral'
Friday 27 July
6.30pm – c. 7.55pm
Royal Albert Hall
Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'Choral' (77 mins)
Anna Samuil soprano
Waltraud Meier mezzo-soprano
Peter Seiffert tenor
René Pape bass
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
West–Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim conductor
Proms Saturday Matinee 2: Les 24 Violons du Roy
Saturday 28 July
3.00pm – c. 4.30pm
Cadogan Hall
Lully
Armide – suite (15 mins)
Desmarets
Circé – suite (10 mins)
Marais
Ariane et Bacchus – suite (15 mins)
Campra
Tancrède – suite (13 mins)
Lalande
Symphonies pour les soupez du roy – suite (12 mins)
Les 24 Violons du Roy
Sir Roger Norrington conductor
Prom 19: Mason, Shostakovich, Langgaard & Tchaikovsky
Saturday 28 July
7.30pm – c. 10.00pm
Royal Albert Hall
Benedict Mason
meld (c25 mins)
BBC Commission, World Premiere
Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major (29 mins)
Langgaard
Symphony No. 11, ‘Ixion’ (5 mins)
INTERVAL
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, 'Pathétique' (45 mins)
Daniel Müller-Schott cello
Chantage
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard conductor
Prom 20: The Wallace & Gromit Prom: Musical Marvels!
Sunday 29 July
3.30pm – c. 5.15pm
Royal Albert Hall
The world premiere of a new show, with classical favourites
for all the family – including music by John Adams,
Debussy and Shostakovich – plus specially filmed new
Wallace & Gromit animations, featuring the dynamic
duo’s backstage exploits as they prepare for the first
performance of Wallace’s brand-new Proms commission,
My Concerto in Ee, Lad. And A Matter of Loaf and Death,
screened for the first time with a live orchestral soundtrack.
There will be one interval
Tasmin Little violin
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon conductor
Prom 21: Aldeburgh World Orchestra
Sunday 29 July
8.00pm – c. 10.05pm
Royal Albert Hall
Britten
Sinfonia da Requiem (21 mins)
Mahler
Symphony No. 10 – Adagio (22 mins)
INTERVAL
Charlotte Bray
At the Speed of Stillness (c10 mins)
BBC Commission, World Premiere
Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring (32 mins)
Aldeburgh World Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder conductor
Proms Chamber Music 3: La Tarantella
Monday 30 July
1.00pm – c. 2.00pm
Cadogan Hall
The tarantella, the entrancing dance form found in several
Mediterranean countries, is the unifying thread here.
L'Arpeggiata's programme recalls the popular myth that
the bite of the tarantula could only be cured by music and
dancing, a remedy known since the Middle Ages as
'tarantismo'. The associated songs and improvisations
– tailored to match the varied symptoms of torpor,
excitability and restlessness afflicting victims of the
spider's poison – are revived in a virtuosic performance
that transcends generic boundaries. The innovative
period-instrument ensemble is joined by dancer Anna Dego.
L'Arpeggiata
Christina Pluhar theorbo/director
Prom 22: Mozart, Mahler & Knussen
Monday 30 July
7.30pm – c. 9.50pm
Royal Albert Hall
Mozart
Don Giovanni – overture (6 mins)
Oliver Knussen
Symphony No. 2 (17 mins)
INTERVAL
Mahler
Symphony No. 7 (78 mins)
Gillian Keith soprano
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda conductor
Prom 23: Vaughan Williams, Ireland, Delius & Walton
Tuesday 31 July
7.00pm – c. 9.05pm
Royal Albert Hall
Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (16 mins)
Ireland
These Things Shall Be (22 mins)
INTERVAL
Delius
The Walk to the Paradise Garden (10 mins)
Walton
Belshazzar's Feast (36 mins)
Jonathan Lemalu baritone, bass-baritone
London Brass
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka conductor
Prom 24: BBC Radio 3 World Routes Academy
Tuesday 31 July
10.15pm – c. 11.30pm
Royal Albert Hall
Now in its third year, BBC Radio 3’s World Routes Academy
mentoring project turns to Latin America. Born in London of
Colombian descent, 2012’s young apprentice is self-taught
20-year-old accordionist, singer and guitarist José Hernando
Arias Noguera. His mentor, the renowned Bogotá-based
accordion king Egidio Cuadrado – who brings his own band
– is probably best known for his collaborations with Carlos
Vives, the Latin American superstar actor-turned-singer.
Fusing the folk tradition of vallenato with elements of rock
and pop has proved a game-changer for music now enjoyed
all over the Spanish-speaking world and beyond.
Prom 25: Ives, Barber, Zimmermann & Tippett
Wednesday 1 August
7.30pm – c. 10.00pm
Royal Albert Hall
Ives
The Unanswered Question (6 mins)
Barber
Adagio for strings (8 mins)
Zimmermann
Nobody knows de trouble I see (15 mins)
INTERVAL
Tippett
A Child of Our Time (72 mins)
Håkan Hardenberger trumpet
Measha Brueggergosman soprano
Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano
Paul Groves tenor
Jubilant Sykes bass-baritone
BBC Proms Youth Choir
BBC Symphony Orchestra
David Robertson conductor
Prom 26: Bach – Mass in B minor
Thursday 2 August
7.30pm – c. 9.55pm
Royal Albert Hall
J. S. Bach
Mass in B minor (110 mins)
Joélle Harvey soprano
Malin Christensson soprano
Iestyn Davies counter-tenor
Ed Lyon tenor
Matthew Rose bass
Choir of the English Concert
The English Concert
Harry Bicket conductor
Prom 27: Wagner & Bruckner
Friday 3 August
7.45pm – c. 10.00pm
Royal Albert Hall
Wagner
Siegfried Idyll (18 mins)
INTERVAL
Bruckner
Symphony No. 8 in C minor (80 mins)
ed. Nowak, 1955
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles conductor
Prom 28: Ulster Youth Orchestra of Northern Ireland
& Ulster Orchestra
Saturday 4 August
2.00pm – c. 4.00pm
Royal Albert Hall
Chabrier
España (8 mins)
Mozart
Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major, K314 (20 mins)
Elaine Agnew
Dark Hedges (c12 mins)
BBC Commission, World Premiere
INTERVAL
Stravinsky
The Firebird (30 mins)
Sir James Galway flute
Ulster Youth Orchestra of Northern Ireland
Ulster Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta conductor
Prom 29: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Saturday 4 August
7.30pm – c. 10.05pm
Royal Albert Hall
Varèse
Tuning Up (5 mins)
Nico Muhly
Gait (20 mins)
BBC Commission
London Premiere
INTERVAL
Messiaen
Turangalîla Symphony (77 mins)
Anna Meredith
HandsFree (12 mins)
Cynthia Millar ondes martenot
Joanna MacGregor piano
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Vasily Petrenko conductor
Prom 30: The Angry Planet
Sunday 5 August
4.30pm – c. 5.30pm
Royal Albert Hall
Bob Chilcott
The Angry Planet (c45 mins)
World Premiere
Ben Parry
Flame (4 mins)
Ruby Hughes soprano
Children’s Choirs from London Boroughs
(Harrow, Royal Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea & Westminster)
BBC Singers
The Bach Choir
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
David Hill conductor
Prom 31: National Youth Orchestra of Scotland
& BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Sunday 5 August
7.30pm – c. 10.05pm
Royal Albert Hall
James MacMillan
Olympic Fanfare (4 mins)
London Premiere
Wagner
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg – overture (12 mins)
Bruch
Scottish Fantasy (30 mins)
INTERVAL
R. Strauss
Don Juan (17 mins)
Thea Musgrave
Loch Ness – a Postcard from Scotland (c10 mins)
BBC Commission, World Premiere
Respighi
Pines of Rome (23 mins)
Nicola Benedetti violin
National Youth Orchestra of Scotland
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles conductor
Proms Chamber Music 4: Debussy & Ravel
Monday 6 August
1.00pm – c. 2.00pm
Cadogan Hall
Debussy
Violin Sonata (13 mins)
Debussy
Cello Sonata (12 mins)
Ravel
Piano Trio in A minor (27 mins)
Jennifer Pike violin
Igor Levit piano
Nicolas Altstaedt cello
Prom 32: Bernstein – Mass
Monday 6 August
7.00pm – c. 9.00pm
Royal Albert Hall
Bernstein
Mass (103 mins)
Morten Frank Larsen bass-baritone
Julius Foo treble
Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Pwll Coch, Caerdydd
Ysgol Gynradd Gymunedol Gymraeg, Llantrisant
Ysgol Gynradd Dolau, Llanharan
Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg, Rhydaman
National Youth Choir of Wales
Aelwyd y Waun Ddyfal
Musicians from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
National Youth Orchestra of Wales
Kristjan Järvi conductor
Prom 33: Wagner, Bruckner & MacMillan
Tuesday 7 August
7.30pm – c. 9.40pm
Royal Albert Hall
Wagner
Tristan and Isolde – Prelude (Act 1) (9 mins)
James MacMillan
Credo (c25 mins)
BBC co-commission
World Premiere
INTERVAL
Bruckner
Symphony No. 6 in A major (55 mins)
Manchester Chamber Choir (Proms debut)
Northern Sinfonia Chorus (Proms debut)
Rushley Singers (Proms debut)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena conductor
Prom 34: Schubert, Dubugnon & R. Strauss
Wednesday 8 August
7.30pm – c. 9.55pm
Royal Albert Hall
Schubert
Symphony No. 8 in B minor, 'Unfinished' (25 mins)
Richard Dubugnon
Battlefield Concerto (27 mins)
INTERVAL
R. Strauss
Ein Heldenleben (45 mins)
Katia and Marielle Labèque piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov conductor
Prom 35: Sibelius, Delius, Grieg & Nørgård
Thursday 9 August
6.30pm – c. 9.20pm
Royal Albert Hall
Sibelius
Symphony No. 6 in D minor (29 mins)
Delius
Cynara (10 mins)
Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor (29 mins)
INTERVAL
Per Nørgård
Symphony No. 7 (27 mins)
UK Premiere
Sibelius
Symphony No. 3 in C major (30 mins)
Roderick Williams baritone
Steven Osborne piano, New Generation Artist
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds conductor, Proms debut artist
Prom 36: Glamorous Night: A Celebration of Ivor Novello
Thursday 9 August
10.15pm – c. 11.30pm
Royal Albert Hall
Remember such time-honoured favourites as ‘We’ll gather
lilacs’? Tonight we acknowledge that patriotic First World
War plea to ‘keep the home fires burning’ in a tribute to a
silent-movie actor, West End playwright, composer and star
of a string of stage musicals hugely popular in their day.
Ivor Novello, the most consistently successful composer
of British musicals before the advent of Andrew Lloyd
Webber, nowadays tends to be unjustly neglected.
Sir Mark Elder is a committed advocate, as is tonight’s
master of ceremonies, Simon Callow.
There will be no interval.
Sophie Bevan soprano
Toby Spence tenor
Simon Callow narrator
Hallé
Sir Mark Elder conductor
Prom 37: Elgar – The Apostles
Friday 10 August
6.45pm – c. 9.15pm
Royal Albert Hall
Elgar
The Apostles (120 mins)
Rebecca Evans soprano (Blessed Virgin/Angel Gabriel)
Alice Coote mezzo-soprano (Mary Magdalene)
Paul Groves tenor (St John/Narrator)
Jacques Imbrailo baritone (Jesus)
Iain Paterson bass-baritone (St Peter)
Clive Bayley bass (Judas)
Hallé Choir (formerly Hallé Chorus)
Hallé Youth Choir
London Philharmonic Choir
Hallé
Sir Mark Elder conductor
Prom 38: National Youth Jazz Orchestra
Friday 10 August
10.15pm – c. 11.30pm
Royal Albert Hall
Ellington
Rockin' in Rhythm (6 mins)
Nikki Iles
Hush (8 mins)
Kenny Wheeler
Sweet Time Suite – Know Where You Are (6 mins)
Monk
'Round midnight (arr. M. Armstrong) (5 mins)
Richardson
Groove Merchant (7 mins)
Chris Whiter
The Change (8 mins)
T. Stone
Return Flight (7 mins)
Ellington
Caravan (arr. Callum Au) (8 mins)
Ellington
The Queen’s Suite – Sunset and the Mockingbird (4 mins)
Tim Garland
Agro Alegría (c8 mins)
Tim Garland saxophone
National Youth Jazz Orchestra
Mark Armstrong conductor
Proms Saturday Matinee 3: Britten Sinfonia
Saturday 11 August
3.00pm – c. 4.30pm
Cadogan Hall
Michael Finnissy
Piano Concerto No. 2 (13 mins)
UK Premiere
Brian Ferneyhough
Prometheus (23 mins)
Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Gigue Machine (12 mins)
UK Premiere
Brian Elias
Electra Mourns (c17 mins)
World Premiere
Susan Bickley mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Daniel cor anglais
Nicolas Hodges piano
Britten Sinfonia
Clark Rundell conductor
Prom 39: Berlioz – Requiem
Saturday 11 August
7.30pm – c. 9.05pm
Royal Albert Hall
Berlioz
Requiem (Grande messe des morts) (83 mins)
Toby Spence tenor
BBC National Chorus of Wales
Huddersfield Choral Society
London Symphony Chorus
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer conductor
Prom 40: National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain
& National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain
Sunday 12 August
3.30pm – c. 5.40pm
Royal Albert Hall
Vaughan Williams
Flourish for Glorious John (3 mins)
Holst
Suite No. 2 in F (11 mins)
Gavin Higgins
Der Aufstand (c10 mins)
BBC Commission, World Premiere
Martin Ellerby
Paris Sketches (14 mins)
Walton
Crown Imperial (8 mins)
INTERVAL
Lucas
Chorale and Variations (7 mins)
John Pickard
Wildfire (12 mins)
Gavin Bryars
After the Underworlds (c6 mins)
BBC Commission, World Premiere
George Benjamin
Altitude (8 mins)
Derek Bourgeois
Blitz (12 mins)
National Youth Wind Orchestra
James Gourlay conductor
National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain
Bramwell Tovey conductor
Prom 41: Schoenberg – Gurrelieder
Sunday 12 August
8.00pm – c. 9.50pm
Royal Albert Hall
Schoenberg
Gurrelieder (99 mins)
Angela Denoke soprano
Simon O'Neill tenor (Waldemar)
Katarina Karnéus mezzo-soprano (Wood-Dove)
Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts tenor (Klaus the Fool)
Neal Davies bass-baritone (Peasant)
Wolfgang Schöne speaker
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
Crouch End Festival Chorus
New London Chamber Choir
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jirí Belohlávek conductor
Proms Chamber Music 5: Nicola Benedetti
Monday 13 August
1.00pm – c. 2.00pm
Cadogan Hall
J. S. Bach
Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin – Chaconne (13 mins)
Korngold
Die tote Stadt – Marietta’s Song; Pierrot’s Dance Song (arr. Korngold) (11 mins)
Brahms
Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor (30 mins)
Nicola Benedetti violin
Alexei Grynyuk piano
Leonard Elschenbroich cello
Prom 42: Prokofiev, Neurwirth & Bartók
Monday 13 August
7.30pm – c. 9.35pm
Royal Albert Hall
Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet – Suite No. 1 (30 mins)
Olga Neuwirth
Remnants of Songs ... an Amphigony (20 mins)
UK Premiere
INTERVAL
Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra (37 mins)
Lawrence Power viola
Philharmonia Orchestra
Susanna Mälkki conductor
Prom 43: Delius, Saint-Saëns & Tchaikovsky
Tuesday 14 August
7.00pm – c. 9.15pm
Royal Albert Hall
Delius
Paris (The Song of a Great City) (22 mins)
Saint-Saëns
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor (21 mins)
INTERVAL
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 5 in E minor (45 mins)
Benjamin Grosvenor piano, New Generation Artist
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Dutoit conductor
Prom 44: London Sinfonietta
Tuesday 14 August
10.15pm – c. 11.30pm
Royal Albert Hall
Ligeti
Poème symphonique (8 mins)
Berio
Sequenza V (8 mins)
Xenakis
Phlegra (12 mins)
Jonathan Harvey
Mortuos plango, vivos voco (9 mins)
Louis Andriessen
De snelheid (18 mins)
Cage
4' 33 (4:33 mins)
Byron Fulcher trombone
Sound Intermedia
London Sinfonietta
London Sinfonietta Academy Ensemble
André Ridder conductor
Prom 45: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra
Wednesday 15 August
7.30pm – c. 9.55pm
Royal Albert Hall
Dvorák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, 'From the New World' (45 mins)
INTERVAL
Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man (4 mins)
Joan Tower
Fanfare for the Uncomman Woman (3 mins)
Villa-Lobos
Momoprécoce (28 mins)
Ginastera
Estancia – suite (12 mins)
Nelson Freire piano
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conductor
Prom 46: Vaughan Williams – Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6
Thursday 16 August
7.30pm – c. 9.50pm
Royal Albert Hall
Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 4 in F minor (30 mins)
INTERVAL
Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 5 in D major (39 mins)
Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 6 in E minor (31 mins)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Manze conductor
Prom 47: Cage Centenary Celebration
Friday 17 August
7.45pm – c. 11.15pm
Royal Albert Hall
Cage
1O1 (12 mins)
Cage
Improvisation III (12 mins)
Christian Marclay
Luggage 2012 – improvisation for orchestra (c5 mins)
Cage
Atlas eclipticalis/Winter Music/Cartridge Music (30 mins)
INTERVAL
Cage
Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra (20 mins)
Cage
Four2 (7 mins)
Cage
But what about the noise of crumpling paper ... (15 mins)
Cage
Experiences II (3 mins)
Cage
ear for EAR (Antiphonies) (2 mins)
David Behrman, Takehisa Kosugi, Keith Rowe & Christian Wolff
Quartet – improvisation (c25 mins)
Cage
Branches (20 mins)
John Tilbury piano, prepared piano
Frank Denyer piano
Aki Takahashi piano
Christian Wolff piano
David Behrman live electronics
Takehisa Kosugi live electronics
Keith Rowe
Vicki Bennett
Steve Beresford
Adam Bohman
Jonathan Bohman
John Butcher
Karen Constance
Angharad Davies
Rhodri Davies
Patrick Farmer
Ram Gabay
Christoph Heemann
Lina Lapelyte
John Lely
Anton Lukoszevieze
Dylan Nyoukis
Mariam Rezaei
Robyn Schulkowsky
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Exaudi
Ilan Volkov conductor
Proms Saturday Matinee 4: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Saturday 18 August
3.00pm – c. 4.30pm
Cadogan Hall
Alexander Goehr
… a musical offering (J.S.B. 1985) … (15 mins)
Oliver Knussen
Ophelia Dances (7 mins)
Oliver Knussen
Ophelia's Last Dance (10 mins)
Simon Bainbridge
The Garden of Earthly Delights (c35 mins)
BBC Commission, World Premiere
Anne-Marie Owens mezzo-soprano
Andrew Watts counter-tenor
Huw Watkins piano
London Sinfonietta Voices
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Nicholas Collon conductor
Prom 48: Weber, Mahler & Tchaikovsky
Saturday 18 August
7.30pm – c. 9.30pm
Royal Albert Hall
Weber
Der Freischütz – overture (10 mins)
Mahler
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (17 mins)
INTERVAL
Tchaikovsky
Manfred (57 mins)
Alice Coote mezzo-soprano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Prom 49: Gilbert & Sullivan – The Yeomen of the Guard
Sunday 19 August
7.30pm – c. 9.30pm
Royal Albert Hall
Sullivan
The Yeomen of the Guard (85 mins)
semi-staged
Leigh Melrose baritone (Lt Sir Richard Cholmondeley)
Andrew Kennedy tenor (Colonel Fairfax)
Lisa Milne soprano (Elsie Maynard)
Victoria Simmonds mezzo-soprano (Phoebe Meryll)
Felicity Palmer mezzo-soprano (Dame Carruthers)
Mary Bevan soprano (Kate)
Mark Richardson bass-baritone (Sergeant Meryll)
Tom Randle tenor (Leonard Meryll)
Mark Stone baritone (Jack Point)
Toby Stafford-Allen baritone (Wilfred Shadbolt)
BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
Jane Glover conductor
Martin Duncan stage director
Proms Chamber Music 6: Escher Quartet
Monday 20 August
1.00pm – c. 2.00pm
Cadogan Hall
Hugh Wood
String Quartet No. 4 (24 mins)
Debussy
String Quartet in G minor (25 mins)
Escher Quartet
Prom 50: Beethoven, Mozart, Delius & Nielsen
Monday 20 August
7.30pm – c. 9.45pm
Royal Albert Hall
Beethoven
Egmont – overture (9 mins)
Mozart
Clarinet Concerto in A major (28 mins)
Delius
Eventyr (Once Upon a Time) (16 mins)
Nielsen
Symphony No. 5 (34 mins)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä conductor
Michael Collins basset clarinet
Prom 51: Glinka, Howard & Shostakovich
Tuesday 21 August
7.30pm – c. 9.45pm
Royal Albert Hall
Glinka
Ruslan and Lyudmila – overture (5 mins)
Emily Howard
Calculus of the Nervous System (15 mins)
UK Premiere
INTERVAL
Shostakovich
Symphony No. 7 in C major 'Leningrad' (75 mins)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons conductor
Prom 52: Prokofiev – Cinderella
Wednesday 22 August
7.00pm – c. 9.15pm
Royal Albert Hall
Prokofiev
Cinderella (105)
London Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev conductor
Prom 53: 1612 Italian Vespers
Wednesday 22 August
10.15pm – c. 11.30pm
Royal Albert Hall
Viadana
Salmi a quattro chori (1612) – Deus in adiutorium; Dixit Dominus (7 mins)
Barbarino
Exaudi Deus (4 mins)
Viadana
Salmi a quattro chori (1612) – Laetatus sum (7 mins)
Viadana
O dulcissima Maria (2 mins)
Grandi
Plorabo die ac nocte (7 mins)
Gabrieli
Magnificat a 20/28 con il 'sicut locutus' (reconstr. H. Keyte) (9 mins)
Monteverdi
Salve Regina (4 mins)
Gabrieli
In eccelsiis (reconstr. H. Keyte) (7 mins)
Robert Hollingworth conductor
I Fagiolini
Prom 54: Davies, Delius & Shostakovich
Thursday 23 August
7.30pm – c. 9.50pm
Royal Albert Hall
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Symphony No.9 (25 mins)
London Premiere
Delius
Violin Concerto (25 mins)
INTERVAL
Shostakovich
Symphony No. 10 in E minor (45 mins)
Tasmin Little violin
Vasily Petrenko conductor
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Prom 55: Britten – Peter Grimes
Friday 24 August
7.00pm – c. 10.30pm
Royal Albert Hall
Britten
Peter Grimes (150 mins)
concert performance
Stuart Skelton tenor (Peter Grimes)
Amanda Roocroft soprano (Ellen Orford)
Iain Paterson bass-baritone (Captain Balstrode)
Rebecca de Pont Davies mezzo-soprano (Auntie)
Matthew Best baritone (Swallow)
Leigh Melrose baritone (Ned Keene)
Michael Colvin tenor (Bob Boles)
Felicity Palmer mezzo-soprano (Mrs Sedley)
Gillian Ramm soprano (First Niece)
Mairéad Buicke soprano (Second Niece)
Darren Jeffery bass-baritone (Hobson)
Stuart Kale tenor (Rev Horace Adams)
ENO Chorus and Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor
Prom 56: Goehr, Knussen, Grime & Debussy
Saturday 25 August
7.30pm – c. 10.05pm
Royal Albert Hall
Alexander Goehr
Metamorphosis/Dance (19 mins)
Oliver Knussen
Symphony No. 3 (15 mins)
INTERVAL
Helen Grime
Night Songs (c10 mins)
BBC Commission, World Premiere
Debussy
The Martyrdom of St Sebastian (52 mins)
complete incidental music, without narration
Claire Booth soprano
Polly May mezzo-soprano
Clare McCaldin mezzo-soprano
New London Chamber Choir
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen conductor
Prom 57: Wagner, Berg, R. Strauss & Ravel
Sunday 26 August
7.30pm – c. 9.35pm
Royal Albert Hall
Wagner
Parsifal – Prelude (Act 3) and Good Friday Music (20 mins)
Berg
Violin Concerto (25 mins)
INTERVAL
R. Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier – suite (22 mins)
Ravel
La valse (12 mins)
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Daniele Gatti conductor
Frank Peter Zimmermann violin
Proms Chamber Music 7: Debussy & Schoenberg
Monday 27 August
1.00pm – c. 2.00pm
Cadogan Hall
Debussy
Sonata for flute, viola and harp (16 mins)
Schoenberg
Pierrot lunaire (33 mins)
Christine Schäfer (Sprechstimme)
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Nash Ensemble
Prom 58: Family Matinee: A Journey to Far Corners of our
Musical World
Monday 27 August
3.00pm – c. 5.00pm
Royal Albert Hall
The Northern Sinfonia is joined by Montenegrin guitar
star Milos Karadaglic and Amadou & Mariam, the Malian
couple who met at the school for the blind in Barnako and
have since worked in partnership with an ever-expanding
coalition of African and Western musicians. This Prom sees
them perform with their seven-piece band, as well as with
Northern Sinfonia and our own Family Orchestra and Chorus.
Programme to include:
Delius
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez – 2nd movement
Falla
El Amor brujo – Ritual Fire Dance
Improvisation (Proms Family Orchestra and Chorus)
Milos Karadaglic guitar
Amadou & Mariam
Proms Family Orchestra
Northern Sinfonia
Stephen Bell conductor
Prom 59: The Broadway Sound
Monday 27 August
8.00pm – c. 10.00pm
Royal Albert Hall
After last year’s celebration of the Hollywood screen
musical, John Wilson and his high-octane orchestra
– whose technicoloured performances, according to
one critic, offer ‘the auditory equivalent of a
steam-clean’ – present a tribute to the composers and
arrangers responsible for creating the Broadway Sound
– among them such legendary tunesmiths as Jerome Kern,
Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Vincent Youmans,
Richard Rodgers and Frank Loesser.
With a cast of leading soloists, the concert includes
excerpts from Show Boat, No, No, Nanette, On Your Toes,
Kiss Me, Kate and Annie Get Your Gun.
There will be one interval
Maida Vale Singers
John Wilson Orchestra
John Wilson conductor
Prom 60: Mozart – The Marriage of Figaro
Tuesday 28 August
6.30pm – c. 10.20pm
Royal Albert Hall
Mozart
The Marriage of Figaro (190 mins)
semi-staged; sung in Italian
Vito Priante bass (Figaro)
Lydia Teuscher soprano (Susanna)
Sally Matthews soprano (Countess Almaviva)
Audun Iversen baritone (Count Almaviva)
Andrew Shore baritone (Bartolo)
Ann Murray mezzo-soprano (Marcellina)
Isabel Leonard mezzo-soprano (Cherubino)
Alan Oke tenor (Don Basilio)
Nicholas Folwell baritone (Antonio)
Colin Judson tenor (Don Curzio)
Sarah Shafer soprano (Barbarina)
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Robin Ticciati conductor
Prom 61: Howells & Elgar
Wednesday 29 August
7.00pm – c. 9.10pm
Royal Albert Hall
Howells
Hymnus Paradisi (44 mins)
INTERVAL
Elgar
Symphony No. 1 in A flat major (53 mins)
Miah Persson soprano
Andrew Kennedy tenor
BBC Symphony Chorus
London Philharmonic Choir
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Prom 62: Eric Whitacre
Wednesday 29 August
10.15pm – c. 11.30pm
Royal Albert Hall
Bernstein
Warm-Up (2 mins)
Eric Whitacre
Alleluia (9 mins)
Eric Whitacre
Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine (9 mins)
J. S. Bach
Bach Again (arr. E. London) (5 mins)
Eric Whitacre
Higher, Faster, Stronger (c8 mins)
BBC Commission, World Premiere
Imogen Heap
The Listening Chair (arr. E. Whitacre) (c5 mins)
World Premiere
Traditional
Three Spirituals (arr. M. Hogan) (9 mins)
Eric Whitacre
Cloudburst (9 mins)
Eric Whitacre
Sleep (5 mins)
Imogen Heap vocals
Ensemble Bash
BBC Singers
Eric Whitacre Singers
Eric Whitacre conductor
Prom 63: Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle
Thursday 30 August
7.30pm – c. 9.40pm
Royal Albert Hall
Ligeti
Atmosphères (8 mins)
Wagner
Lohengrin – Prelude (Act I) (7 mins)
Sibelius
Symphony No. 4 in A minor (33 mins)
INTERVAL
Debussy
Jeux (18 mins)
Ravel
Daphnis et Chloe – Suite No. 2 (17 mins)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Prom 64: Berliner Philharmoniker – Brahms & Lutoslawski
Friday 31 August
7.00pm – c. 9.05pm
Royal Albert Hall
Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major (50 mins)
INTERVAL
Lutoslawski
Symphony No. 3 (35 mins)
Yefim Bronfman piano
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Prom 65: Taylor/Barker – The Spirit of Django
Friday 31 August
10.15pm – c. 11.15pm
Royal Albert Hall
Martin Taylor/Guy Barker
The Spirit of Django – orchestral suite (54 mins)
London Premiere
Martin Taylor guitar
Britten Sinfonia
Guy Barker Jazz Orchestra
Spirit of Django
Guy Barker conductor
Prom 66: Cameron Carpenter plays Bach
Saturday 1 September
4.00pm – c. 5.00pm
Royal Albert Hall
J. S. Bach
Toccata and Fugue in F major, BWV 540 (8 mins)
J. S. Bach
Partita No. 3 in E major for solo violin, BWV 1006
– excerpt (arr. C. Carpenter) (8 mins)
J. S. Bach
Prelude and Fugue in A major, BWV 536 (6 mins)
J. S. Bach
Chorale Prelude 'Nun freut euch, lieben Christen', BWV 734
(arr. Busoni/C. Carpenter) (3 mins)
Cameron Carpenter
Improvisation on B–A–C–H (c12 mins)
J. S. Bach
Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, BWV 552,
'St Anne' (arr. Schoenberg/C. Carpenter) (14 mins)
Cameron Carpenter organ
Prom 67: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra – Mendelssohn
Saturday 1 September
7.30pm – c. 9.30pm
Royal Albert Hall
Mendelssohn
Overture 'Ruy Blas' (8 mins)
Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor (27 mins)
INTERVAL
Mendelssohn
Overture 'The Fair Melusine' (10 mins)
Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 5 in D major, 'Reformation' (27 mins)
UK premiere of original version
Nikolaj Znaider violin
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly conductor
Prom 68: Cameron Carpenter plays Bach
Sunday 2 September
4.00pm – c. 5.00pm
Royal Albert Hall
Cameron Carpenter
Improvisation on the Bourée from Cello Suite No. 3
in C major, BWV 1009 (c8 mins)
J. S. Bach
Fantasia and Fugue in G minor 'The Great' (8 mins)
J. S. Bach
The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I – Prelude and Fugue
No. 15 in G major, BWV 860 (5 mins)
J. S. Bach and Mahler
Syncretic Prelude and Fugue in D major
(arr. C. Carpenter) (30 mins)
Cameron Carpenter organ
Prom 69: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra – Messiaen & Mahler
Sunday 2 September
7.30pm – c. 10.00pm
Royal Albert Hall
Messiaen
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (31 mins)
INTERVAL
Mahler
Symphony No. 6 in A minor (85 mins)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly conductor
Proms Chamber Music 8: Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Debussy
Monday 3 September
1.00pm – c. 2.00pm
Cadogan Hall
Debussy
Les soirs illuminés par l’ardeur du charbon (3 mins)
Debussy
Élégie (2 mins)
Debussy
Masques (5 mins)
Debussy
Préludes – Book 2 (38 mins)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano
Prom 70: Desert Island Discs 70th-Anniversary Prom
Monday 3 September
7.30pm – c. 9.40pm
Royal Albert Hall
In a celebration of the 70th anniversary of BBC Radio 4’s
Desert Island Discs, Kirsty Young interviews guests from
the series and introduces the most popular music choices,
including Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565),
Coates’s ‘The Dam Busters’ March and The Sleepy Lagoon;
and excerpts from Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto,
Coleridge-Taylor’s The Death of Minnehaha, Elgar’s
Cello Concerto, Handel’s Messiah, Puccini’s Madam Butterfly
and Tosca, plus arrangements of favourite Beatles songs.
Kirsty Young presenter
Ailish Tynan soprano
Nicolas Altstaedt cello
Peter Donohoe piano
Wayne Marshall organ
Sir Willard White bass-baritone
Huddersfield Choral Society
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart conductor
Prom 71: St Louis Symphony
Tuesday 4 September
7.30pm – c. 9.45pm
Royal Albert Hall
Brahms
Tragic Overture (14 mins)
Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D major (40 mins)
INTERVAL
Schoenberg
Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16 (16 mins)
Gershwin
An American in Paris (18 mins)
Christian Tetzlaff violin
St Louis Symphony
David Robertson conductor
Prom 72: John Adams – Nixon in China
Wednesday 5 September
7.00pm – c. 10.25pm
Royal Albert Hall
John Adams
Nixon in China (180 mins)
semi-staged
Kathleen Kim soprano (Madame Mao)
Alan Oke tenor (Chairman Mao)
Gerald Finley bass-baritone (Chou En-Lai)
Robert Orth baritone (President Nixon)
Jessica Rivera soprano (Pat Nixon)
James Rutherford bass-baritone,
New Generation Artist (Kissinger)
Stephanie Marshall mezzo-soprano (Secretary)
Louise Poole mezzo-soprano (Secretary)
Susan Platts mezzo-soprano (Secretary)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Adams conductor
Paul Curran stage director
Prom 73: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra – Beethoven & Bruckner
Thursday 6 September
7.00pm – c. 9.20pm
Royal Albert Hall
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major (35 mins)
INTERVAL
Bruckner
Symphony No. 9 in D minor (65 mins)
Murray Perahia piano
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink conductor
Prom 74: Staff Benda Bilili & Baloji
Thursday 6 September
10.15pm – c. 11.30pm
Royal Albert Hall
Staff Benda Bilili
Baloji
Staff Benda Bilili are like nothing you have ever seen
or heard before: a group of paraplegic street musicians
and ex-street kids from the Democratic Republic of Congo,
making music rooted in Soukous (or African rumba) with
elements of old-school rhythm and blues, reggae and funk.
‘Afropean’ Congolese-born, Belgian-educated rapper Baloji
mixes old and cutting-edge sounds with bitingly modern
lyrics. But his most recent album finds him returning to
his motherland in search of musical understanding and
communal improvisation.
Prom 75: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra – Haydn & R. Strauss
Friday 7 September
7.30pm – c. 9.35pm
Royal Albert Hall
Haydn
Symphony No. 104 in D major, 'London' (30 mins)
INTERVAL
R. Strauss
An Alpine Symphony (50 mins)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink conductor
Prom 76: Last Night of the Proms 2012
Saturday 8 September
7.30pm – c. 10.40pm
Royal Albert Hall
Mark Simpson
sparks (c2 mins)
BBC Commission, World Premiere
Suk
Towards a New Life (6 mins)
Delius
Songs of Farewell (18 mins)
Verdi
Un ballo in maschera – ‘Forse la soglia attinse
… Ma se m’è forza perderti’ (5 mins)
Massenet
Werther – ‘Pourquoi me réveiller?’ (3 mins)
Bruch
Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor (25 mins)
Puccini
Tosca – ‘E lucevan le stelle’ (3 mins)
Puccini
Turandot – ‘Nessun dorma’ (3 mins)
INTERVAL
John Williams
Olympic Fanfare and Theme (5 mins)
Dvorák
Overture 'Carnival' (9 mins)
Shostakovich
The Gadfly – Romance (6 mins)
Brodzsky
The Toast of New Orleans – ‘Be my love’ (3 mins)
Lara
Granada (3 mins)
Rodgers
Carousel – ‘You’ll never walk alone’ (4 mins)
Wood
Fantasia on British Sea-Songs (20 mins)
Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major
('Land of Hope and Glory') (8 mins)
Parry, orch. Elgar
Jerusalem (4 mins)
Traditional
The National Anthem (2 mins)
Nicola Benedetti violin
Joseph Calleja tenor
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jirí Belohlávek conductor
