The BBC Proms are Back!

Omer Meir Wellber, conductor

Lawrence Power, viola; BBC Philharmonic

Programme: Johann Sebastian Bach: Musical Offering – Ricercar a 6 (orch. Webern) (8 mins); Cassandra Miller: Viola Concerto (25 mins)  BBC co-commission: world premiere; Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A major(54 mins)

Omer Meir Wellber conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Bruckner’s mighty Sixth Symphony, alongside Webern’s take on Bach and a new viola concerto by Cassandra Miller.

Omer Meir Wellber, conductor

BBC Philharmonic

Programme: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 4 in F minor (30 mins); Michael Tippett: Symphony No. 4 (33 mins)

Omer Meir Wellber conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Bruckner’s mighty Sixth Symphony, alongside Webern’s take on Bach and a new viola concerto by Cassandra Miller.

Karis Tucker, Thirza; Philip Horst, Pascoe; James Rutherford, Lawrence; Rodrigo Porras Garulo, Mark; Lauren Fagan, Avis; Donovan Singletary, Harvey; Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, Tallan; Glyndebourne Festival Opera; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Robin Ticciati, condcutor

Programme: Ethel Smyth: The Wreckers (170 mins)

Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers: an opera of love and tragedy in a community lashed by the sea. Glyndebourne Festival Opera presents a concert version of its landmark new production.

Johan Dalene, violin

BBC Symphony Orchestra; Jordan de Souza, conductor

Programme
Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto (23 mins); Leonard Bernstein: Candide – overture (5 mins); George Walker: Variations for Orchestra (14 mins); Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor (44 mins)

Jordan de Souza conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Johan Dalene is the soloist in Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, in a concert that also features music by Bernstein, Tchaikovsky and George Walker.

<Liudmyla Monastyrska, soprano

Anna Fedorova, piano; Ukranian Freedom Orchestra; Keri-Lynn Wilson, conductor

Programme: Valentin Silvestrov: Symphony No. 7(17 mins); Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor(30 mins); Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio – ‘Abscheulicher! … Komm, Hoffnung, lass den letzten Stern’(7 mins); Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor(40 mins)

Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra – Ukrainian musicians – from their besieged country and from around Europe – join together in a special addition to the Proms, to play Chopin, Brahms, Beethoven and Ukraine’s leading living composer, Valentin Silvestrov.

Semyon Bychkov, conductor

Katia & Marielle Labèque, pianos; BBC Symphony Orchestra

Programme: Julian Anderson: Symphony No. 2, ‘Prague Panoramas ’(28 mins) – BBC co-commission: world premiere of complete symphony; Bohuslav Martinů: Concerto for Two Pianos (23 mins); Sergey Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances (35 mins)

Semyon Bychkov conducts the UK premiere of Julian Anderson’s keenly awaited Second Symphony – plus Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, and a Martinů concerto with the extraordinary Labèque sisters.

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Programme; Mozart Momentum – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro – overture (5 mins); Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor (30 mins); Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major (34 mins)

Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes stands in for Mozart with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, as he directs and plays two contrasting piano concertos from 1785: the dark-hued Concerto No. 20, and the gloriously playful Concerto No. 22.

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

Christiane Karg, soprano; Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Programme: Mozart Momentum – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D major, ‘Prague’ (22 mins); Die Zufriedenheit( 3 mins); Der Zauberer (3 mins); Das Veilchen (2 mins); Concert Aria ‘Ch’io mi scordi di te?’ (10 mins); Masonic Funeral Music (6 mins); Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor (31 mins)

In the second of three all-Mozart Proms with his Mahler Chamber Orchestra colleagues, Norwegian conductor-pianist Leif Ove Andsnes zooms in on the year 1786, and finds Amadeus at the absolute peak of his game.

Vasily Petrenko, conductor

Peter Moore, trombone; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Programme: Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring – suite (24 mins); George Walker: Trombone Concerto(17 mins); Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major(46 mins)

Forged in a time of war and tyranny, Prokofiev said that his Fifth Symphony embodied ‘the greatness of the human spirit’. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Music Director Vasily Petrenko pairs it with American classics by Copland and George Walker.

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor; Benjamin Appl, baritone

Behzod Abduraimov, piano; Elizabeth Watts, soprano; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Programme: Maurice Ravel: La valse (12 mins); Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major(36 mins); Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 3, ‘Sinfonia espansiva’(39 mins)

Nielsen’s ebullient Sinfonia espansiva, Ravel’s La valse and Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto – played by pianist Behzod Abduraimov at the heart of a supercharged Prom from Thomas Dausgaard and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Ben Palmer, conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Programme: Earth Prom with Chris Packham: Over a century of public service broadcasting, the BBC has forged a global reputation for its coverage of the planet we call home – from the oceans and mountains to rivers, glaciers, deserts and the infinite wonders of life on Earth itself. Tonight, the Proms hosts a stunning audio-visual celebration of the BBC’s world-famous Natural History Unit, from David Attenborough’s pioneering early adventures through to the landmark series of the 21st century. Expect breath-taking images, natural sounds, spoken words and music by composers including Hans Zimmer and George Fenton, performed live in the spectacular surroundings of the Royal Albert Hall by Ben Palmer and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Audio-described by Timna Fibert; British Sign Language interpreted by Angie Newman

Ben Palmer, conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Programme: Earth Prom with Chris Packham: Over a century of public service broadcasting, the BBC has forged a global reputation for its coverage of the planet we call home – from the oceans and mountains to rivers, glaciers, deserts and the infinite wonders of life on Earth itself. Tonight, the Proms hosts a stunning audio-visual celebration of the BBC’s world-famous Natural History Unit, from David Attenborough’s pioneering early adventures through to the landmark series of the 21st century. Expect breath-taking images, natural sounds, spoken words and music by composers including Hans Zimmer and George Fenton, performed live in the spectacular surroundings of the Royal Albert Hall by Ben Palmer and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Audio-described by Timna Fibert; British Sign Language interpreted by Angie Newman

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello

Lise Davidsen, soprano; BBC Singers; BBC Symphony Chorus; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Dalia Stasevska, conductor

Programme: James B. Wilson: 1922 (6 mins) – BBC commission: world premiere; Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Deep River (5 mins), arr. Simon Parkin; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser – ‘Dich, teure Halle’ (3 mins); Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana – Easter Hymn (6 mins):; Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth – ‘Vieni! t’affretta!’ (6 mins); Doreen Carwithen: Overture ‘ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another)’ (9 mins); Karl Davydov: At the Fountain (4 mins) arr. Simon Parkin Fantasia on British Sea-Songs (17 mins), arr. Wood; Thomas Arne: Rule, Britannia! (4 mins); Edward Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ (8 mins) arr. Anne Dudley; Hubert Parry: Jerusalem (orch. Elgar) (2 mins); Unknown: The National Anthem (arr. Britten) (3 mins); Trad.: Auld Lang Syne (2 mins)