First Night of the Proms 2021
19:30 Friday 30 July 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Serenade to Music
Francis Poulenc
Organ Concerto
Sir James MacMillan
When Soft Voices Die
Elizabeth Llewellyn soprano
Jess Dandy contralto
Allan Clayton tenor
Michael Mofidian bass-baritone
Daniel Hyde organ
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska conductor
The Golden Age of Broadway
19:30 Saturday 31 July 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
BBC Concert Orchestra
Richard Balcombe conductor
Organ Recital
11:45 Sunday 1 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, BWV 552, ‘St Anne'
Olivier Latry
Improvisation on Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in E flat major BWV 552, ‘St Anne'
Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasia and Fugue in G major, BWV 572 (Pièce d'orgue)
Olivier Latry
Improvisation on Bach’s Fantasia in G major, BWV 572 (Pièce d'orgue)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
Olivier Latry
Improvisation on English Melodies
Olivier Latry organ
An Evening of Mozart with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
20:00 Sunday 1 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 40 in G minor
Symphony No. 41 in C major, 'Jupiter'
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 39 in E flat major
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Maxim Emelyanychev conductor
Michael Collins, Adrian Brendel & Michael McHale Celebrate Zemlinsky
13:00 Monday 2 August 2021
Cadogan Hall
Alexander von Zemlinsky
Clarinet Trio in D minor, Op. 3
Johannes Brahms
Trio for Piano, Clarinet, and Cello in A minor, Op. 114
Michael Collins clarinet
Adrian Brendel cello
Michael McHale piano
Michael Collins, Adrian Brendel & Michael McHale Celebrate Zemlinsky
18:00 Monday 2 August 2021
Cadogan Hall
Alexander von Zemlinsky
Clarinet Trio in D minor, Op. 3
Johannes Brahms
Trio for Piano, Clarinet, and Cello in A minor, Op. 114
Michael Collins clarinet
Adrian Brendel cello
Michael McHale piano
Elim Chan Conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
19:30 Monday 2 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Henry Purcell
D- Dido and Aeneas – ‘When I am laid in earth’ (Dido’s Lament)
Elizabeth Ogonek
Cloudline
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No 4 in E minor
Sol Gabetta cello
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Elim Chan conductor
Schubert, Ella Milch-Sheriff & Beethoven
19:30 Tuesday 3 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 2 in B flat major
Ella Milch-Sheriff
The Eternal Stranger
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 4 in B flat major
BBC Philharmonic
Omer Meir Wellber conductor
Vaughan Williams, Respighi and Mendelssohn
19:30 Wednesday 4 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Ottorino Respighi
Concerto gregoriano
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No 5 in D major 'Reformation'
Sayaka Shoji violin
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko conductor
Gražinytė-Tyla Conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
19:30 Thursday 5 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Ruth Gipps
Symphony No. 2 in B major
Thomas Adès
The Exterminating Angel Symphony
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 3 in F major
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Mirga Gražinytė‐Tyla conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra celebrates Stravinsky
19:30 Friday 6 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Stabat mater
Igor Stravinsky
Pulcinella
Carolyn Sampson soprano
Tim Mead counter-tenor
Benjamin Hulett tenor
Simon Shibambu bass-baritone
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Joana Carneiro conductor
Nicola Benedetti and the NYOGB
19:30 Saturday 7 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Jessie Montgomery
Banner
Laura Jurd
New work
Sergei Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica'
Nicola Benedetti violin
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Jonathon Heyward conductor
Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony
19:30 Sunday 8 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Augusta Read Thomas
Dance Foldings
Charles Ives
Three places in New England (Orchestral Set No. 1)
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, 'From the New World'
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft conductor
The Marian Consort Performs Josquin
13:00 Monday 9 August 2021
Cadogan Hall
Josquin des Prez
Praeter rerum seriem
Sethus Calvisius
Praeter rerum seriem
Josquin des Prez
Benedicta es, caelorum Regina
Adriaan Willaert
Benedicta es, caelorum regina
Josquin des Prez
Inviolata, integra et casta es
Vicente Lusitano
Inviolata, integra et casta es
The Marian Consort ensemble
Rory McCleery director
The Marian Consort Performs Josquin
18:00 Monday 9 August 2021
Cadogan Hall
Josquin des Prez
Praeter rerum seriem
Sethus Calvisius
Praeter rerum seriem
Josquin des Prez
Benedicta es, caelorum Regina
Adriaan Willaert
Benedicta es, caelorum regina
Josquin des Prez
Inviolata, integra et casta es
Vicente Lusitano
Inviolata, integra et casta es
The Marian Consort ensemble
Rory McCleery director
Elgar's Cello Concerto
19:30 Monday 9 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Mason Bates
Auditorium
Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor
Leos Janáček
Taras Bulba
Johannes Moser cello
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits conductor
Parallel Universes
19:30 Tuesday 10 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Britta Byström
Parallel Universes
Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47
Jennifer Pike violin
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds conductor
Stravinsky from memory
19:30 Wednesday 11 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Sergey Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Igor Stravinsky
Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Stravinsky’s ‘The Firebird’ suite
The Firebird Suite
Pavel Kolesnikov piano
Tom Service presenter
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon conductor/presenter
Vladimir Jurowski & the LPO
19:30 Thursday 12 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Igor Stravinsky
Jeu de cartes
William Walton
Cello Concerto
Johann Sebastian Bach
14 Canons (Goldberg Variations)
Paul Hindemith
Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'
Steven Isserlis cello
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Sir Andrew Davis & the BBC Symphony Orchestra
19:30 Friday 13 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis conductor
Víkingur Ólafsson Plays Bach and Mozart
19:30 Saturday 14 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No 1 in D major, 'Classical'
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K 491
Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No 9 in E flat major
Víkingur Ólafsson piano
Philharmonia Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali conductor
Abel Selaocoe: Africa Meets Europe
19:30 Sunday 15 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Abel Selaocoe cello/voice
Simo Lagnawi guembri
Chesaba
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Clark Rundell conductor
The Marmen Quartet Plays Haydn and Simpson
13:00 Monday 16 August 2021
Cadogan Hall
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in D major, Op. 64 No. 5, ‘The Lark’
Robert Simpson
String Quartet No. 1
Marmen Quartet
The Marmen Quartet Plays Haydn and Simpson
18:00 Monday 16 August 2021
Cadogan Hall
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in D major, Op. 64 No. 5, ‘The Lark’
Robert Simpson
String Quartet No. 1
Marmen Quartet ensemble
To Soothe the Aching Heart
19:30 Monday 16 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Francesca Caccini
La liberazione di Ruggiero – suite
Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio
Fidelio
Fidelio
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice
Giacomo Puccini
La bohème
La bohème
Georges Bizet
Carmen
George Frideric Handel
Rodelinda, regina d'e' Longobardi, HWV 19
Engelbert Humperdinck
Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel
Sally Matthews soprano
Natalya Romaniw soprano
Nardus Williams soprano
Christine Rice mezzo-soprano
Nicky Spence tenor
Freddie De Tommaso tenor
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Glassberg conductor
The Manchester Collective
19:30 Tuesday 17 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 40
Edmund Finnis
The Centre is Everywhere
Julius Eastman
The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc
Dobrinka Tabakova
Suite in Old Style, ‘The Court Jester Amareu’
Joseph Horovitz
Jazz Harpsichord Concerto
Mahan Esfahani harpsichord
Manchester Collective
Rakhi Singh violin/director
Nubya Garcia
19:30 Wednesday 18 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Nubya Garcia saxophone
The BBC Singers & Shiva Feshareki
19:30 Thursday 19 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Josquin des Prez
Qui habitat in adiutorio altissimi (a 24)
Clément Janequin
Le chant des oiseaux
Bernard Hughes
Birdchant
Hildegard von Bingen
O viridissima Virga
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Je sens en moy une flamme nouvelle
Nico Muhly
A New Flame (after Sweelinck)
William Byrd
Ave verum corpus
Roderick Williams
Ave verum corpus Re-imagined
Igor Stravinsky
Otche nash
Shiva Feshareki
Aetherworld
Shiva Feshareki turntables/immersive electronics
Liam Byrne viola da gamba
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin conductor
Mystery Prom
19:30 Friday 20 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Moses Sumney Meets Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra
19:30 Saturday 21 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Moses Sumney singer
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jules Buckley conductor
Sir Simon Rattle Conducts the London Symphony Orchestra
19:30 Sunday 22 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Igor Stravinsky
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Symphony in C
Symphony in Three Movements
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
The Sound of Argentina
13:00 Monday 23 August 2021
Cadogan Hall
Astor Piazzolla
Histoire du tango
Ariel Ramírez
Songs by Ramírez - all transcr. Shibe
Wallis Giunta mezzo-soprano
Adam Walker flute
Sean Shibe guitars
The Sound of Argentina
18:00 Monday 23 August 2021
Cadogan Hall
Astor Piazzolla
Histoire du tango
Ariel Ramírez
Songs by Ramírez - all transcr. Shibe
Wallis Giunta mezzo-soprano
Adam Walker flute
Sean Shibe guitars
Mystery Prom
19:30 Monday 23 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Chineke! Orchestra
19:30 Tuesday 24 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast – overture
Fela Sowande
African Suite
Florence Price
Piano Concerto in One Movement
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Symphony in A minor
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason piano
Chineke! Orchestra
Kalena Bovell conductor
Eight Seasons
19:30 Wednesday 25 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons
Astor Piazzolla
The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Joshua Bell director/violin
George Lewis & Beethoven
19:30 Thursday 26 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
George Lewis
Minds in Flux
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concert aria ‘Ah! perfido’
Symphony No. 2 in D major
Lucy Crowe soprano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov conductor
Charlotte Bray, Walton & Arnold
19:30 Friday 27 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Charlotte Bray
Where Icebergs Dance Away
William Walton
Viola Concerto
Malcolm Arnold
Symphony No. 5
Timothy Ridout viola
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor
Bartók Roots
19:30 Saturday 28 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Béla Bartók
Violin Concerto No. 2
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard conductor
Family Prom
14:30 Sunday 29 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Daniel Kidane
New work
Camille Saint‐Saëns
The Carnival of the Animals
Aminata Kanneh-Mason violin
Braimah Kanneh-Mason violin
Ayla Sahin violin
Timothy Ridout viola
Mariatu Kanneh-Mason cello
Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
Toby Hughes double bass
Adam Walker flute
Mark Simpson clarinet
Isata Kanneh-Mason piano
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason piano
Konya Kanneh-Mason piano
Alasdair Malloy glass harmonica
Michael Morpurgo narrator
Family Prom
19:00 Sunday 29 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Daniel Kidane
New Work
Camille Saint‐Saëns
The Carnival of the Animals
Aminata Kanneh-Mason violin
Braimah Kanneh-Mason violin
Ayla Sahin violin
Timothy Ridout viola
Mariatu Kanneh-Mason cello
Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
Toby Hughes double bass
Adam Walker flute
Mark Simpson clarinet
Isata Kanneh-Mason piano
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason piano
Konya Kanneh-Mason piano
Alasdair Malloy glass harmonica
Adrian Spillett percussion
Michael Morpurgo narrator
French Fancies
13:00 Monday 30 August 2021
Cadogan Hall
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Oboe Sonata
Ruth Gipps
Sea-Shore Suite
Henri Dutilleux
Oboe Sonata
Francis Poulenc
Oboe Sonata
Eugène Bozza
Fantaisie pastorale
François Leleux oboe
Eric Le Sage piano
French Fancies
18:00 Monday 30 August 2021
Cadogan Hall
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Oboe Sonata
Ruth Gipps
Sea-Shore Suite
Henri Dutilleux
Oboe Sonata
Francis Poulenc
Oboe Sonata
Eugène Bozza
Fantaisie pastorale
François Leleux oboe
Eric Le Sage piano
Sir George Benjamin Conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra
19:30 Monday 30 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Oliver Knussen
The Way to Castle Yonder
Henry Purcell
Three Consorts (1680)
Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G major
George Benjamin
Concerto for Orchestra
Pierre‐Laurent Aimard piano
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
George Benjamin conductor
Wagner’s Tristan & Isolde
16:00 Tuesday 31 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Richard Wagner
Tristan and Isolde
Simon O’Neill Tristan
Miina-Liisa Värelä Isolde
Karen Cargill Brangäne
Shenyang Kurwenal
John Relyea King Mark
Neal Cooper Melot
Stuart Jackson Shepherd/Young Sailor
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Robin Ticciati conductor
Sir John Eliot Gardiner Conducts the Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists
19:30 Wednesday 1 September 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
George Frideric Handel
Donna, che in ciel
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4
George Frideric Handel
Dixit Dominus
Ann Hallenberg mezzo-soprano
English Baroque Soloists
Monteverdi Choir
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor
20th-Century British Film Music
19:30 Thursday 2 September 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Doreen Carwithen
The Men of Sherwood Forest - overture
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Three Portraits from 'The England of Elizabeth'
Malcolm Arnold
Hobson's Choice - Concert Suite
Scherzetto for clarinet and orchestra (from ‘You Know What Sailors Are’)
The Belles of St Trinian’s – Comedy Suite (Exploits for Orchestra)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey conductor
Semyon Bychkov Conducts the BBC SO & Kirill Gerstein
19:30 Friday 3 September 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Kirill Gerstein piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov conductor
Organ Recital
11:45 Saturday 4 September 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542
Charles‐Marie Widor
Symphony No. 5 – Allegro vivace (1st mvt)
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Rêverie du soir (from ‘Suite algérienne’)
Fantaisie No. 1 in E flat major
Franz Liszt
Fantasia and Fugue on 'Ad nos, ad salutarem undam'
Thomas Trotter organ
John Wilson Conducts the Sinfonia of London
19:30 Saturday 4 September 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Johann Strauss II
Die Fledermaus – overture
Alban Berg
Seven Early Songs
Maurice Ravel
La valse
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Symphony in F sharp
Miah Persson soprano
Sinfonia of London
John Wilson conductor
Sheku Kanneh-Mason Plays Dvořák’s Cello Concerto
19:30 Sunday 5 September 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Antonín Dvořák
Cello Concerto in B minor
Grace-Evangeline Mason
The Imagined Forest
Richard Strauss
Don Juan
Paul Hindemith
Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Domingo Hindoyan conductor
Pauline Viardot and Her Circle
18:00 Monday 6 September 2021
Cadogan Hall
Ema Nikolovska mezzo-soprano
Malcolm Martineau piano
BBC Concert Orchestra & James McVinnie
19:30 Monday 6 September 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Philip Glass
Mad Rush
Samy Moussa
A Globe Itself Infolding
James McVinnie organ
BBC Concert Orchestra
Anna-Maria Helsing conductor
Benjamin Grosvenor Performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4
19:30 Tuesday 7 September 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Unsuk Chin
Subito con forza
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 4 in G major
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Symphony No. 3 in C minor, 'Organ'
Benjamin Grosvenor piano
Anna Lapwood organ
Hallé
Sir Mark Elder conductor
Mystery Prom
19:30 Wednesday 8 September 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Bach’s St Matthew Passion
19:00 Thursday 9 September 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Johann Sebastian Bach
St Matthew Passion
Stuart Jackson Evangelist
Hugo Hymas tenor
Roderick Williams baritone
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen harpsichord/director
Mystery Prom
19:30 Friday 10 September 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Last Night of the Proms 2021
19:30 Saturday 11 September 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Gity Razaz
Mother
Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
Thomas Arne
Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent)
Edward Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, 'Land of Hope and Glory'
Hubert Parry
Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)
Unknown
The National Anthem (arr. Britten)
Auld lang syne
Stuart Skelton tenor
Ksenija Sidorova accordion
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor