RADIO-LISTS: PROMS 2017
Unofficial Listings for the 123rd Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts: 14th July - 9th September

Prom 1: First Night of the Proms
19:30 Friday 14 July 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Tom Coult
St John’s Dance (5 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor (36 mins)

John Adams
Harmonium (33 mins)

Igor Levit piano
BBC Proms Youth Choir
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor


Prom 2: Daniel Barenboim conducts Sibelius and Elgar
19:30 Saturday 15 July 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor (33 mins)

Edward Elgar
Symphony No 1 in A flat major (52 mins)

Lisa Batiashvili violin
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim conductor


Prom 3: Bernard Haitink conducts Mozart and Schumann
15:45 Sunday 16 July 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No 38 in D major 'Prague', K 504 (29 mins)
Violin Concerto No 3 in G major, K 216 (24 mins)

Robert Schumann
Symphony No 2 in C major (38 mins)

Isabelle Faust violin
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Bernard Haitink conductor


Prom 4: Daniel Barenboim and Staatskapelle Berlin
19:45 Sunday 16 July 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Deep Time (25 mins)
BBC co-commission with the Staatskapelle Berlin: UK première

Edward Elgar
Symphony No 2 in E flat major (56 mins)

Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim conductor


Proms at ... Cadogan Hall, PCM 1
13:00 Monday 17 July 2017
Cadogan Hall

Claudio Monteverdi
Cruda Amarilli (3 mins)
Sfogava con le stelle (4 mins)
Longe da te, cor mio (3 mins)
Orfeo – 'Possente spirto' (9 mins)
Chiome d'oro (3 mins)
Vorrei baciarti, o Filli (5 mins)

Roderick Williams
Là ci darem la mano (6 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Claudio Monteverdi
Laudate pueri Dominum a 5 (concertato) (7 mins)
Volgendo il ciel per l'immortal sentiero (11 mins)

I Fagiolini
Robert Hollingworth director


Prom 5: Sibelius, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich
19:30 Monday 17 July 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Jean Sibelius
Symphony No 7 in C major (21 mins)

Sergei Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor (33 mins)

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No 10 in E minor (57 mins)

Behzod Abduraimov piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Søndergård conductor


Prom 6: Nicola Benedetti plays Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1
19:00 Tuesday 18 July 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Dmitri Shostakovich
October (12 mins)
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor (39 mins)

Jean Sibelius
Symphony No 2 in D major (44 mins)

Nicola Benedetti violin
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Søndergård conductor


Prom 7: Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique
19:30 Wednesday 19 July 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Jean‐Féry Rebel
Les élémens – Le cahos (7 mins)

Pascal Dusapin
Outscape (28 mins)
BBC co-commission with the Casa da Música Foundation (Porto), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Opéra de Paris and Stuttgart Opera: UK première

Hector Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique (50 mins)

Alisa Weilerstein cello
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Joshua Weilerstein conductor


Prom 8: Celebrating John Williams
19:30 Thursday 20 July 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

John Williams

Raider's March from 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' (5 mins)
Overture to 'Goodbye, Mr. Chips' (4 mins)
Main Theme from 'Jaws' (3 mins)
March from 'Superman' (4 mins)
Suite for Cello and Orchestra from Memoirs of a Geisha: No. 1 Sayuri's Theme (5 mins)
The Tale of Viktor Navorski from 'The Terminal' (4 mins)
Dartmoor, 1912 from 'War Horse' (7 mins)
'Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone' - Hedwig's Theme (5 mins)
A Child’s Tale: Suite from the BFG (5 mins)
Flying Theme from 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' (4 mins)
Suite from J.F.K., 1st mvt: Theme from J.F.K (4 mins)
Prayer for Peace from 'Munich' (4 mins)
Dry Your Tears, Afrika from 'Amistad' (4 mins)
Devil's Dance from 'The Witches of Eastwick' (5 mins)
Escapades (No. 3) for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra from 'Catch me if you Can' (5 mins)
March of the Resistance from 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' (2 mins)
Rey's Theme from 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' (3 mins)
Main Title from 'Star Wars: A New Hope' (4 mins)

Jamal Aliyev cello
Annelien Van Wauwe clarinet
Haringey Vox
Choir of Music Centre London
Jess Gillam presenter
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart conductor


Prom 9: Beethoven – Fidelio
19:30 Friday 21 July 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio (108 mins)
(concert performance; sung in German)

Stuart Skelton Florestan
Ricarda Merbeth Leonore
Brindley Sherratt Rocco
Louise Alder Marzelline
Benjamin Hulett Jaquino
Detlef Roth Don Pizarro
David Soar Don Fernando
Orfeón Donostiarra
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena conductor


Proms at ... Stage@TheDock, Hull
12:30 Saturday 22 July 2017
Stage @TheDock

Georg Philipp Telemann
Water Music – overture (8 mins)

Frederick Delius
Summer Night on the River (5 mins)

George Frideric Handel
Water Music – Suite No. 3 in G major (12 mins)

Grace Evangeline Mason
RIVER (3 mins)
BBC commission: first concert performance

Felix Mendelssohn
Calm Sea and a Prosperous Voyage (12 mins)

Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Naïs – overture (5 mins)

Grace Williams
Sea Sketches – High Wind
Sea Sketches – Calm Sea in Summer (10 mins)

George Frideric Handel
Water Music – Suite No. 2 in D Major (12 mins)

Royal Northern Sinfonia
Nicholas McGegan conductor


Proms at ... Stage@TheDock, Hull
15:00 Saturday 22 July 2017
Stage @TheDock

For details, see the event at 12:30 today.


Proms at ... Stage@TheDock, Hull
17:30 Saturday 22 July 2017
Stage @TheDock

For details, see the event at 12:30 today.


Prom 10: Aurora Orchestra – Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’
19:30 Saturday 22 July 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 with live excerpts (25 mins)
Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, with live excerpts (25 mins)

Richard Strauss
Metamorphosen (27 mins)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 3 in E flat major 'Eroica' (47 mins)

Tom Service presenter
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon conductor


Prom 11: Ten Pieces Presents ... Sir Henry's Magnificent Musical Inspirations!
14:00 Sunday 23 July 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Aaron Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man (3 mins)

Edward Elgar
The Music Makers, Op 69 (2 mins)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Magic Flute (Overture) (6 mins)

Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch Maurice Ravel) (2 mins)

Lili Boulanger
D’un matin de printemps (5 mins)

Ravi Shankar
Symphony - Finale: Banjara (excerpt) (7 mins)

Antonio Vivaldi
Gloria in D major, RV 589 (2 mins)

Sir Henry Wood
Fantasia on British Sea-Songs - Jack’s the Lad (Hornpipe) (2 mins)

William Walton
Henry V - Overture (1 min)
Henry V - extract 3rd movement "Charge & Battle" (5 mins)

Kerry Andrew
No Place Like Home (4 mins)
BBC Commission: world premiere

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Magic Flute - Aria De Holle Rache (3 mins)

Ottorino Respighi
Pines of Rome (5 mins)

Sir Henry Wood
Fantasia on British Sea-Songs - Jack’s the Lad (Hornpipe) (1 min)

Kathryn Lewek soprano
Jess Gillam saxophone
Gaurav Mazumdar sitar
Ten Pieces Children's Choir
Rory Kinnear Sir Henry Wood
Ellis George Emma
Ivanno Jeremiah Henry V
Louis Walwyn Dan
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Jessica Cottis conductor


Prom 12: Ten Pieces Presents ... Sir Henry's Magnificent Musical Inspirations!
18:00 Sunday 23 July 2017
Royal Albert Hall

For details, see Prom 11.


Proms at ... Cadogan Hall, PCM 2
13:00 Monday 24 July 2017
Cadogan Hall

Anton Webern
Langsamer Satz (11 mins)

Laurent Durupt
Grids for Greed (10 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Quintet in A major, K 581 (32 mins)

Van Kuijk Quartet
Annelien Van Wauwe clarinet


Prom 13: Malcolm Sargent's 500th Prom
19:30 Monday 24 July 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

arr. Wood
The National Anthem (3 mins)

Hector Berlioz
Overture 'Le carnaval romain' (9 mins)

Robert Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor (34 mins)

Edward Elgar
Overture 'Cockaigne (In London Town)' (14 mins)

William Walton
Façade, Suite No. 1
Façade Suite No. 2 – Popular Song (14 mins)

Gustav Holst
The Perfect Fool (11 mins)

Frederick Delius
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring (6 mins)

Benjamin Britten
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (18 mins)

Beatrice Rana piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis conductor


Prom 14: Holst – The Planets
18:30 Tuesday 25 July 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 9 in E minor (34 mins)

Gustav Holst
The Planets (50 mins)

CBSO Youth Chorus (female voices)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
John Wilson conductor


Prom 15: The Songs of Scott Walker (1967–70)
22:15 Tuesday 25 July 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Jarvis Cocker artist
John Grant artist
Richard Hawley artist
Susanne Sundfør artist
Heritage Orchestra
Jules Buckley conductor


Prom 16: Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition
19:30 Wednesday 26 July 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Franz Liszt
Hamlet (10 mins)

Julian Anderson
Piano Concerto (25 mins)
BBC co-commission with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Sydney Symphony Orchestra: world première

Franz Liszt
From the Cradle to the Grave (14 mins)

Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch Maurice Ravel) (34 mins)

Steven Osborne piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov conductor


Prom 17: Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique
19:30 Thursday 27 July 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Mark Simpson
The Immortal (34 mins)
London première

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 6 in B minor, 'Pathétique' (46 mins)

Christopher Purves baritone
London Voices
Crouch End Festival Chorus
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena conductor


Prom 18: Sirens and Scheherazade
19:30 Friday 28 July 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The Sea Hawk – overture (6 mins)

Anders Hillborg
Sirens (33 mins)
UK première

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade (45 mins)

Hannah Holgersson soprano
Ida Falk Winland soprano
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
James Gaffigan conductor


Prom 19: Relaxed Prom
12:00 Saturday 29 July 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Programme to include music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Rossini and Johann Strauss II, Pharrell Williams's 'Happy' and music from 'Doctor Who'.

Andy Pidcock presenter/musican
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn conductor/presenter


Prom 20: Stephen Hough plays Brahms
19:30 Saturday 29 July 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor (49 mins)

David Sawer
The Greatest Happiness Principle (14 mins)

Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 99 in E flat major (25 mins)

Stephen Hough piano
BBC Philharmonic
Mark Wigglesworth conductor


Prom 21: Beethoven – Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’
19:00 Sunday 30 July 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Sir James MacMillan
A European Requiem (43 mins)
European première

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 9 in D minor, 'Choral' (65 mins)

Erin Wall soprano
Sonia Prina mezzo-soprano
Iestyn Davies counter-tenor
Simon O'Neill tenor
Jacques Imbrailo baritone
Alexander Vinogradov bass
CBSO Chorus
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Xian Zhang conductor


Proms at ... Cadogan Hall, PCM 3
13:00 Monday 31 July 2017
Cadogan Hall

Finnish music:
16th-century Piae cantiones and the 19th-century Kalevala
Works by Corelli and other baroque composers
Folk-songs from Kaustinen
Music by Kreeta Haapasalo (1813-93).

Anu Komsi soprano
Kreeta-Maria Kentala violin
Andrew Lawrence‐King harp/kantele/psaltery
Eero Palviainen theorbo/guitar
Milla Viljamaa harmonium


Prom 22: Monteverdi's Vespers
19:30 Monday 31 July 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Claudio Monteverdi
Vespers of 1610 (100 mins)

Giuseppina Bridelli soprano
Eva Zaïcik mezzo-soprano
Emiliano Gonzalez‐Toro tenor
Magnus Staveland tenor
Virgile Ancely bass
Renaud Bres bass
Geoffroy Buffière bass
Ensemble Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon director


Prom 23: Handel - Israel in Egypt
19:30 Tuesday 1 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

George Frideric Handel
Israel in Egypt (129 mins)
(original 1739 version)

Zoë Brookshaw soprano
Rowan Pierce soprano
Christopher Lowrey counter-tenor
Ashley Riches bass
Jeremy Budd tenor
Dingle Yandell bass-baritone
Callum Thorpe bass
The Choir of the Age of Enlightenment
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
William Christie conductor


Prom 24: Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts John Adams
19:00 Wednesday 2 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Johann Sebastian Bach
Canonic Variations on 'Vom Himmel hoch, da komm, ich her', BWV 769 (arr. Stravinsky) (11 mins)

Maurice Ravel
Shéhérazade (17 mins)

John Adams
Naive and Sentimental Music (49 mins)

Marianne Crebassa mezzo-soprano
Philharmonia Voices
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa‐Pekka Salonen conductor


Prom 25: Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir
22:15 Wednesday 2 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Heinrich Schütz
Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren, SWV 41 (8 mins)
Nicht uns, Herr, sondern deinem Namen, SWV 43 (6 mins)
Danket dem Herren, denn er ist freundlich, SWV 45 (7 mins)

Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata No. 79, 'Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild' (15 mins)
Cantata No. 80, 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' (25 mins)

Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor


Prom 26: Mozart and Brahms
19:30 Thursday 3 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Erkki-Sven Tüür
Flamma (16 mins)
UK première

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia concertante in E flat major, K 364 (30 mins)

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No 2 in D major (45 mins)

Vilde Frang violin
Lawrence Power viola
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Paavo Järvi conductor


Prom 27: Ella and Dizzy: A Centenary Tribute
19:30 Friday 4 August 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Dianne Reeves singer
James Morrison trumpet
James Morrison Trio ensemble
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Mauceri conductor


Prom 28: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
19:30 Saturday 5 August 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Francisco Coll
Mural (24 mins)
London première

Thomas Adès
Polaris (14 mins)

Igor Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring (34 mins)

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Thomas Adès conductor


Prom 29: Mussorgsky – Khovanshchina
18:00 Sunday 6 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Modest Mussorgsky
Khovanshchina (orch. Dmitry Shostakovich) (190 mins)
(concert performance; sung in Russian)

Ante Jerkunica Ivan Khovansky
Christopher Ventris Andrey Khovansky
Vsevolod Grivnov Golitsin
Elena Maximova Marfa
Ain Anger Dosifey
George Gagnidze Shaklovity
Jennifer Rhys-Davies Susanna
Norbert Ernst Scribe
Anush Hovhannisyan Emma
Colin Judson Kuzka
Schola Cantorum of The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School
Tiffin Boys’ Choir
BBC Singers
Slovak Philharmonic Choir
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov conductor
Paul Curran stage director


Proms at ... Cadogan Hall, PCM 4
13:00 Monday 7 August 2017
Cadogan Hall

Johann Adolf Hasse
Adagio and Fugue in G minor (7 mins)

Giovanni Benedetto Platti
Cello Concerto in D major (12 mins)

Antonio Vivaldi
Cello Concerto in A minor, RV 419 (9 mins)

Georg Philipp Telemann
Divertimento in B flat major (10 mins)

Luigi Boccherini
Cello Concerto in D major, G479 (15 mins)

Edgar Moreau cello
Il Pomo d’Oro
Maxim Emelyanychev director


Prom 30: Walton – Belshazzar’s Feast
19:30 Monday 7 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 1 in C major (26 mins)

Richard Strauss
Die Frau ohne Schatten – Symphonic Fantasy (21 mins)

Sergei Prokofiev
Seven, They Are Seven (8 mins)

William Walton
Belshazzar's Feast (36 mins)

David Butt Philip tenor
James Rutherford baritone
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits conductor


Prom 31: Berlioz – The Damnation of Faust
19:30 Tuesday 8 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Hector Berlioz
The Damnation of Faust (125 mins)
(sung in French)

Michael Spyres Faust
Ann Hallenberg Marguerite
Laurent Naouri Méphistophélès
Ashley Riches Brander
Trinity Boys Choir
Monteverdi Choir
National Youth Choir of Scotland
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor


Prom 32: Britten, Brian Elias, Purcell and Elgar
19:00 Wednesday 9 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Benjamin Britten
Ballad of Heroes (17 mins)

Brian Elias
Cello Concerto (25 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Henry Purcell
Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei, arr. Elgar (7 mins)

Edward Elgar
Enigma Variations (30 mins)

Toby Spence tenor
Nicholas Perfect bass
Natalie Clein cello
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Wigglesworth conductor


Prom 33: Sibelius, Grieg, Schumann and Hindemith
19:30 Thursday 10 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite (15 mins)
Luonnotar (9 mins)

Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt (21 mins)
excerpts

Robert Schumann
Cello Concerto in A minor (22 mins)

Paul Hindemith
Symphony 'Mathis der Maler' (24 mins)

Lise Davidsen soprano
Alban Gerhardt cello
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds conductor


Prom 34: John Wilson conducts Oklahoma! (matinee)
14:00 Friday 11 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Richard Rodgers
Oscar Hammerstein II
Oklahoma! (180 mins)
(semi-staged)

Belinda Lang Aunt Eller
Nathaniel Hackmann Curly
Scarlett Strallen Laurey
Robert Fairchild Will Parker
David Seadon-Young Jud Fry
Lizzy Connolly Ado Annie
Marcus Brigstocke Ali Hakim
John Wilson Orchestra
John Wilson conductor
Rachel Kavanaugh stage director


Prom 35: John Wilson conducts Oklahoma!
19:30 Friday 11 August 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

For details, see Prom 34.


Proms at ... Southwark Cathedral
15:00 Saturday 12 August 2017
Southwark Cathederal

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Offertorium 'Confitebor tibi, Domine' (2 mins)
Missa 'Confitebor tibi' (32 mins)

Judith Weir
In the Land of Uz (35 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Adrian Thompson tenor
BBC Singers
Nash Ensemble
David Hill conductor


Prom 36: Schubert and Mahler
19:30 Saturday 12 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Franz Schubert
Symphony No 8 in B minor 'Unfinished' (26 mins)

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No 10 in F sharp minor (performing version by Deryck Cooke) (74 mins)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard conductor


Prom 37: Rachmaninov – Piano Concerto No. 3
18:00 Sunday 13 August 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Sergei Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor (41 mins)

Sergei Rachmaninov
Symphony No 2 in E minor (60 mins)

Alexander Gavrylyuk piano
Latvian Radio Choir
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard conductor


Prom 38: Rachmaninov – All-Night Vigil (Vespers)
21:45 Sunday 13 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Sergei Rachmaninov
All-Night Vigil (Vespers) (63 mins)

Latvian Radio Choir
Sigvards Kļava director


Proms at ... Cadogan Hall, PCM 5
13:00 Monday 14 August 2017
Cadogan Hall

Dmitri Shostakovich
Ten Poems on Texts by Revolutionary Poets – excerpts (21 mins)
excerpts
Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C major, Op. 87
Prelude and Fugue No. 2 in A minor, Op. 87
Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in G major, Op. 87
Prelude and Fugue No. 4 in E minor, Op. 87
Prelude and Fugue No. 7 in A major, Op. 87
Prelude and Fugue No. 8 in F-sharp minor, Op. 87

Alexander Melnikov piano
Latvian Radio Choir
Sigvards Kļava director


Prom 39: Debussy, Ravel and Mark-Anthony Turnage
19:30 Monday 14 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Claude Debussy
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (10 mins)

Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G major (22 mins)

Mark-Anthony Turnage
Hibiki (50 mins)
European première

Inon Barnatan piano
Sally Matthews soprano
Mihoko Fujimura mezzo-soprano
Finchley Children's Music Group
New London Children's Choir
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Kazushi Ono conductor


Prom 40: Brahms, Berg, Larcher and Schumann
19:00 Tuesday 15 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Johannes Brahms
Tragic Overture (14 mins)

Alban Berg
Violin Concerto (27 mins)

Thomas Larcher
Nocturne – Insomnia (15 mins)
UK première

Robert Schumann
Symphony No 3 in E flat major 'Rhenish' (32 mins)

Christian Tetzlaff violin
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Robin Ticciati conductor


Prom 41: Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar
22:15 Tuesday 15 August 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Philip Glass
Ravi Shankar
Passages (65 mins)
(first complete live performance)

Anoushka Shankar sitar
Ravichandra Kulur bansuri
Gaurav Mazumdar sitar
Britten Sinfonia
Karen Kamensek conductor


Prom 42: Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth
19:30 Wednesday 16 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Camille Saint‐Saëns
La princesse jaune – overture (7 mins)

Léo Delibes
Lakmé – ballet music (6 mins)

Camille Saint‐Saëns
Piano Concerto No 5 in F major, 'Egyptian' (25 mins)

César Franck
Les Djinns (12 mins)

Édouard Lalo
Namouna – Suite No. 1
Namouna – Suite No. 2 (22 mins)

Camille Saint‐Saëns
Samson and Delilah – Bacchanal (8 mins)

Cédric Tiberghien piano
Les Siècles
François‐Xavier Roth conductor


Prom 43: Saint-Saëns – ‘Organ’ Symphony
18:30 Thursday 17 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Manuel de Falla
El amor brujo (24 mins)

Édouard Lalo
Symphonie espagnole, Op 21 (34 mins)

Camille Saint‐Saëns
Symphony No 3 in C minor, 'Organ' (36 mins)

Stéphanie d'Oustrac mezzo-soprano
Joshua Bell violin
Cameron Carpenter organ
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Dutoit conductor


Prom 44: Bang on a Can All-Stars
22:15 Thursday 17 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Michael Gordon
Big Space (15 mins)
BBC commission: world première

David Lang
Sunray (12 mins)
London première

Julia Wolfe
Big Beautiful Dark and Scary (9 mins)
London première

Philip Glass
Glassworks – Closing (6 mins)

Louis Andriessen
Workers Union (17 mins)

BBC Proms Youth Ensemble
Bang on a Can All-Stars
Rumon Gamba conductor


Prom 45: Mahler – ‘Resurrection’ Symphony
19:30 Friday 18 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No 2 in C minor 'Resurrection' (85 mins)

Elizabeth Watts soprano
Elisabeth Kulman mezzo-soprano
The Bach Choir
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor


Prom 46: Schoenberg – Gurrelieder
19:30 Saturday 19 August 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Arnold Schoenberg
Gurrelieder (99 mins)

Eva-Maria Westbroek Tove
Simon O'Neill Waldemar
Karen Cargill Wood-Dove
Peter Hoare Klaus the Fool
Christopher Purves Peasant
Thomas Quasthoff Speaker
CBSO Chorus
Orfeó Català
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle conductor


Prom 47: Bach’s ‘Little Organ Book’ past and present
13:00 Sunday 20 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude in E flat (from ClavierübungIII) BWV 552 (9 mins)

Robert Schumann
Fugue no. 4 on B-A-C-H (5 mins)

Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Chorale Prelude ‘Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott’ (3 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Johann Sebastian Bach
Ich ruf zu dir BWV 639 (2 mins)

Jonathan Dove
Chorale Prelude ‘Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam’ (3 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Johann Sebastian Bach
Christus der uns selig macht, BWV 620 (2 mins)

Daniel Saleeb
Chorale Prelude 'Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort' (3 mins)
world première
Toccata on 'Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort' (5 mins)

Felix Mendelssohn
Organ Sonata in A major, Op. 65 No. 3 (10 mins)

Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Prelude to the Grand Organ Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach (3 mins)

William Whitehead organ
Robert Quinney organ


Prom 48: A Patchwork Passion
15:30 Sunday 20 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

The story of the Crucifixion told through five centuries of music.

Thomas Elwin tenor
Oliver Johnston tenor
David Shipley bass
BBC Singers
City of London Sinfonia
Sofi Jeannin conductor


Prom 49: Bach’s St John Passion
19:45 Sunday 20 August 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Johann Sebastian Bach
St John Passion (130 mins)

Nicholas Mulroy Evangelist
Matthew Brook Jesus
Sophie Bevan soprano
Tim Mead counter-tenor
Andrew Tortise tenor
Konstantin Wolff bass
Dunedin Consort
John Butt harpsichord/director


Proms at ... Cadogan Hall, PCM 6
13:00 Monday 21 August 2017
Cadogan Hall

Henri Duparc
L'invitation au voyage (5 mins)

Jesús Guridi
Seis canciones castellanas (17 mins)

Maurice Ravel
Cinq melodies populaires grècques (5 mins)

Reynaldo Hahn
Études latines – Lydé
Études latines – Vile potabis
Études latines – Tyndaris (6 mins)

Charles Koechlin
Shéhérazade – 'Chanson d'Engaddi'
'La chanson d'Ishak de Moussoul'
'Le voyage' (7 mins)

Francis Poulenc
Banalités – Voyage à Paris
Deux mélodies de Guillaume Apollinaire
Banalités – Hôtel

Christiane Karg soprano
Malcolm Martineau piano


Prom 50: Beethoven, Stravinsky and Gerald Barry
19:30 Monday 21 August 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture 'Leonore' No. 3 (14 mins)

Igor Stravinsky
Violin Concerto in D major (22 mins)

Gerald Barry
Canada (10 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 5 in C minor (31 mins)

Leila Josefowicz violin
Allan Clayton tenor
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conductor


Prom 51: Sibelius, Saint-Saens and Elgar–Payne
19:30 Tuesday 22 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Jean Sibelius
Scènes historiques – Suite No. 1 (18 mins)

Camille Saint‐Saëns
Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor (24 mins)

Edward Elgar
Anthony Payne
Symphony No 3 (elab. Payne) (58 mins)

Javier Perianes piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor


Prom 52: Beyond the Score®: Dvořák’s New World Symphony
19:30 Wednesday 23 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No 9 in E minor, 'From the New World'

Henry Goodman actor
Rodney Earl Clarke bass-baritone
Hallé Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder conductor
Gerard McBurney creative director
Mike Tutaj projection design


Prom 53: Beneath the Underdog: Charles Mingus Revisited
19:30 Thursday 24 August 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Shabaka Hutchings saxophones
Leo Pellegrino baritone saxophone
Christian Scott trumpet
Kandace Springs singer
Metropole Orkest
Jules Buckley conductor


Prom 54: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, and Riccardo Chailly
18:30 Friday 25 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto in D major (42 mins)

Ottorino Respighi
Fountains of Rome (16 mins)
Pines of Rome (23 mins)

Leonidas Kavakos violin
Filarmonica della Scala
Riccardo Chailly conductor


Prom 55: Classical Music of India and Pakistan
22:15 Friday 25 August 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Budhaditya Mukherjee sitar
Soumen Nandy tabla
Kumaresh Rajagopalan Carnatic violin
Jayanthi Kumaresh Saraswati veena
Anantha R Krishnan mridangam
Fareed Ayaz, Abu Muhammad Qawwal & Brothers


Proms at ... Bold Tendencies Multi-Storey Car Park, Peckham
12:00 Saturday 26 August 2017
Bold Tendencies Multi-Storey Car Park, Peckham

Johann Sebastian Bach
Chorale Prelude 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme', BWV 645 (orch. Granville Bantock) (5 mins)

Kate Whitley
I am I say (13 mins)

John Adams
Harmonielehre (40 mins)

Ruby Hughes soprano
Michael Sumuel bass-baritone
The Multi-Story Youth Choir
The Multi-Story Orchestra
Christopher Stark conductor


Proms at ... Bold Tendencies Multi-Storey Car Park, Peckham
15:00 Saturday 26 August 2017
Bold Tendencies Multi-Storey Car Park, Peckham

For details, see the event at 12:00 today.


Prom 56: The Bohemian Reformation
19:30 Saturday 26 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Unknown
Hussite Chorale 'Ktož jsú Boži bojovníci' (You Who Are Warriors of God) (2 mins)

Bedrich Smetana
Má vlast – Tábor
Má vlast – Blaník (27 mins)

Bohuslav Martinu
Field Mass (26 mins)

Antonín Dvořák
Hussite Overture (14 mins)

Leos Janáček
The Excursions of Mr Brouček – Song of the Hussites (4 mins)

Josef Suk
Prague (25 mins)

Svatopluk Sem baritone
BBC Singers (men's voices)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jakub Hrůša conductor


Prom 57: Swing No End
15:00 Sunday 27 August 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Clare Teal singer/presenter
Hiromi piano
Guy Barker Big Band Big Band
Guy Barker bandleader
Winston Rollins Big Band Big Band
Winston Rollins bandleader


Prom 58: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Louis Langrée
19:45 Sunday 27 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Leonard Bernstein
On the Waterfront – symphonic suite (22 mins)

Aaron Copland
Lincoln Portrait (15 mins)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 5 in E minor (45 mins)

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Louis Langrée conductor


Proms at ... Cadogan Hall, PCM 7
13:00 Monday 28 August 2017
Cadogan Hall

Frédéric Chopin
Waltz in A flat major, Op. 69 No. 1 (3 mins)
Impromptu in A flat major, Op. 29 (4 mins)
Waltz in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2 (3 mins)
Fantasy-Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op 66 (5 mins)
Fantasy in F minor/A flat major, Op. 49 (14 mins)
Mazurka in A flat major, Op. 50 No. 2 (3 mins)
Mazurka in F minor, Op. 68 No. 4 (4 mins)
Mazurka in B flat major. KK IIa/3 (2 mins)
Mazurka in C major, Op. 56 No. 2 (2 mins)
Scherzo in E major, Op. 54 (10 mins)

Pavel Kolesnikov piano


Prom 59: Mozart - La clemenza di Tito
19:00 Monday 28 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
La clemenza di Tito, K 621 (132 mins)
(semi-staged; sung in Italian)

Steve Davislim Titus
Alice Coote Vitellia
Joélle Harvey Servilia
Anna Stéphany Sextus
Michèle Losier Annius
Clive Bayley Publius
Glyndebourne Festival Opera ensemble
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Robin Ticciati conductor


Prom 60: Stravinsky, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich
19:30 Tuesday 29 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird – suite (revised version, 1919) (21 mins)

Sergei Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor (24 mins)
(revised version, 1941)

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No 12 in D minor 'The Year 1917' (41 mins)

Leif Ove Andsnes piano
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko conductor


Prom 61: Renée Fleming sings Strauss
19:00 Wednesday 30 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Andrea Tarrodi
Liguria (12 mins)
UK première

Samuel Barber
Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op 24 (16 mins)

Richard Strauss
Daphne – Transformation Scene, 'Ich komme – ich komme' (11 mins)

Carl Nielsen
Symphony No 2 'The Four Temperaments' (33 mins)

Renée Fleming soprano
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Sakari Oramo


Prom 62: Chineke!
22:15 Wednesday 30 August 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Hannah Kendall
The Spark Catchers (10 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Antonín Dvořák
Rondo in G minor, Op 94 (7 mins)

David Popper
Hungarian Rhapsody, Op. 68 (10 mins)
orch M. Schlegel

George Walker
Lyric for Strings (6 mins)

George Frideric Handel
Julius Caesar – 'Da tempeste il legno infranto' (6 mins)

Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint‐Georges
Au penchant qui nous entrâine (4 mins)

George Frideric Handel
Messiah – 'Rejoice greatly' (5 mins)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio espagnol, Op 34 (16 mins)

Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
Jeanine De Bique soprano
Chineke!
Kevin John Edusei conductor


Prom 63: Taneyev, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky
19:30 Thursday 31 August 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev
Overture 'The Oresteia' (19 mins)

Sergei Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor (27 mins)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Manfred (61 mins)

Kirill Gerstein piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov conductor


Prom 64: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Daniele Gatti
18:30 Friday 1 September 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Wolfgang Rihm
In-Schrift (17 mins)

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No 9 in D minor (65 mins)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Daniele Gatti conductor


Prom 65: Stax Records: 50 Years of Soul
22:15 Friday 1 September 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Booker T. Jones Hammond organ
Sam Moore
Sir Tom Jones
Beverley Knight
James Morrison
Ruby Turner
William Bell singer
Eddie Floyd singer
Steve Cropper guitar
Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra


Proms at ... Wilton's Music Hall
15:00 Saturday 2 September 2017
Wilton's Music Hall

John Luther Adams
songbirdsongs (14 mins)
excerpts

Olivier Messiaen
Le merle noir (6 mins)

George Frideric Handel
Rinaldo - 'Augelletti, che cantate' (5 mins)

Rebecca Saunders
Molly's Song 3 (11 mins)

Peter Maxwell Davies
Eight Songs for a Mad King

Jennifer France soprano
Marcus Farnsworth baritone
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Sian Edwards conductor
Olivia Fuchs stage director


Proms at ... Wilton's Music Hall
19:30 Saturday 2 September 2017
Wilton's Music Hall

For details, see the event at 15:00 today.


Prom 66: Haydn and Mahler
19:30 Saturday 2 September 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 82 in C major, 'The Bear' (26 mins)

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No 4 in G major (56 mins)

Chen Reiss soprano
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Daniele Gatti conductor


Prom 67: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Pablo Heras-Casado
13:00 Sunday 3 September 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Felix Mendelssohn
Overture 'The Hebrides' ('Fingal's Cave') (10 mins)
Violin Concerto in E minor (27 mins)

Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No 5 in D major 'Reformation' (27 mins)

Isabelle Faust violin
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Pablo Heras‐Casado conductor


Prom 68: Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich
19:30 Sunday 3 September 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Sergei Prokofiev
Cantata for the Twentieth Anniversary of the October Revolution, Op 74 (39 mins)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 3 in E flat major (16 mins)

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No 5 in D minor (49 mins)

Denis Matsuev piano
Mariinsky Chorus
Mariinsky Orchestra
Valery Gergiev conductor


Proms at ... Cadogan Hall, PCM 8
13:00 Monday 4 September 2017
Cadogan Hall

Franz Schubert
String Quintet in C major (53 mins)

Elias String Quartet
Alice Neary cello


Prom 69: Anne-Sophie Mutter plays Dvořák’s Violin Concerto
19:30 Monday 4 September 2017
Royal Albert Hall

John Adams
Lollapalooza (7 mins)

Antonín Dvořák
Violin Concerto in A minor (33 mins)

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No 1 in D major (56 mins)

Anne‐Sophie Mutter violin
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck conductor


Prom 70: Missy Mazzoli, Bartók and Dvořák
19:30 Tuesday 5 September 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Missy Mazzoli
Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) (12 mins)
European première of orchestral version

Béla Bartók
Piano Concerto No 2 (30 mins)

Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No 8 in G major (36 mins)

Jeremy Denk piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Karina Canellakis conductor


Prom 71: Stravinsky, Britten, Prokofiev and Shostakovich
19:00 Wednesday 6 September 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Igor Stravinsky
Funeral Song (12 mins)
Song of the Volga Boatmen (arr. Stravinsky) (2 mins)

Sergei Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major (22 mins)

Benjamin Britten
Russian Funeral (7 mins)

Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No 11 in G minor 'The Year 1905' (65 mins)

Alina Ibragimova violin
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski conductor


Proms at ... The Tanks at Tate Modern
22:15 Wednesday 6 September 2017
The Tanks at Tate Modern

Emilie Levienaise Farrouch
New Work
LCO

Rodrigo Constanzo
(solo percussion improvisation)

Catherine Lamb
Prisma Interius V
LCO

Cassandra Miller
Guide
Exaudi

Actress arr. Hugh Brunt
Momentum
LCO with Actress (electronics)

Actress electronics
Rodrigo Constanzo drums/electronics/lights
Exaudi
The London Contemporary Orchestra
Robert Ames director
Hugh Brunt director


Prom 72: Vienna Philharmonic – Mahler’s Sixth Symphony
18:30 Thursday 7 September 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No 6 in A minor (82 mins)

Vienna Philharmonic
Daniel Harding conductor


Prom 73: Sir András Schiff performs Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier
21:30 Thursday 7 September 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Johann Sebastian Bach
The Well-Tempered Clavier – Book 1 (111 mins)

Sir András Schiff piano


Prom 74: Vienna Philharmonic – Brahms, Mozart and Beethoven
19:30 Friday 8 September 2017
Royal Albert Hall

Johannes Brahms
Variations on the St Anthony Chorale (18 mins)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No 14 in E flat major, K449 (23 mins)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 7 in A major (40 mins)

Emanuel Ax piano
Vienna Philharmonic
Michael Tilson Thomas conductor


Prom 75: Last Night of the Proms
19:15 Saturday 9 September 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Lotta Wennäkoski
Flounce (5 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Zoltán Kodály
Budavári Te Deum (21 mins)

Sir Malcolm Sargent
An Impression on a Windy Day (7 mins)

Jean Sibelius
Finlandia (8 mins)
(choral version)

Richard Wagner
Tristan and Isolde – Prelude and Liebestod (17 mins)

John Adams
Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance (5 mins)
London première

Songs by Weill and Gershwin (15 mins)

arr. Wood
Fantasia on British Sea-Songs (18 mins)

Thomas Arne
Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent) (5 mins)

Edward Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D major, 'Land of Hope and Glory' (8 mins)

Hubert Parry
Jerusalem (orch. Elgar) (3 mins)

The National Anthem (3 mins)

Trad., arr. Thorpe Davie
Auld Lang Syne (2 mins)

Nina Stemme soprano
Lucy Crowe soprano
Christine Rice mezzo-soprano
Ben Johnson tenor
John Relyea bass
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor