First Night of the Proms 2021
19:30 Friday 30 July 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Serenade to Music (15 mins)
Francis Poulenc
Organ Concerto (22 mins)
Sir James MacMillan
When Soft Voices Die (8 mins)
BBC co-commission with Help Musicians: world première
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 2 in D major (43 mins)
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
Richard Rodgers
South Pacific: Overture
Irving Berlin
There's No Business Like Showbusiness
Annie Get Your Gun
George Gershwin
The Rhythm’s Alright With Me (medley)
Cole Porter, arr. R. Balcombe
Cole Porter
You’re the Top
Anything Goes
Richard Rodgers
My Funny Valentine
Babes in Arms
Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’
Oklahoma!
(When I Marry) Mister Snow
Carousel
Some Enchanted Evening
South Pacific
This Nearly Was Mine
South Pacific
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
On Your Toes
Frederick Loewe
Gigi
overture
Show Me
My Fair Lady
On the Street Where You Live
My Fair Lady
I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face
My Fair Lady
George Gershwin
Someone to Watch Over Me
Oh, Kay!
Promenade (‘Walking the Dog’)
Shall We Dance
Frank Loesser
Luck Be a Lady
Guys and Dolls
Joey, Joey, Joey
The Most Happy Fella
Jerome Kern
All the Things You Are
Very Warm for May
Cole Porter
You’re Sensational
High Society
Hugh Martin
The Trolley Song
Meet Me in St Louis
Cole Porter
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
High Society
Louise Dearman
Katie Hall
Nadim Naaman
Jamie Parker
Clarke Peters
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’ (15 mins)
Martin Baker
Improvisation on Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in E flat major BWV 552, ‘St Anne'
Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasia in G major, BWV 572 (Pièce d'orgue) (10 mins)
Martin Baker
Improvisation on Bach’s Fantasia in G major, BWV 572 (Pièce d'orgue)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582 (13 mins)
Martin Baker
Improvisation on English Melodies
Martin Baker 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. 39 in E flat major (29 mins)
Symphony No. 40 in G minor (30 mins)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in C major, 'Jupiter' (31 mins)
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 (27 mins)
Johannes Brahms
Trio for Piano, Clarinet, and Cello in A minor, Op. 114 (25 mins)
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 (27 mins)
Johannes Brahms
Trio for Piano, Clarinet, and Cello in A minor, Op. 114
Michael Collins clarinet
Adrian Brendel cello
Michael McHale piano
Ryan Bancroft Conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
19:30 Monday 2 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Henry Purcell
Dido and Aeneas – ‘When I am laid in earth’ (Dido’s Lament) (4 mins)
arr. Stokowski
Elizabeth Ogonek
Cloudline (15 mins)
(BBC co-commission: world première)
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor (19 mins)
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No 4 in E minor (39 mins)
Guy Johnston cello
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft conductor
Haydn, Mozart & Beethoven
19:30 Tuesday 3 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 103 in E flat major 'Drumroll' (31 mins)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K488 (27 mins)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 4 in B flat major (34 mins)
Elisabeth Brauss piano
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon 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 (15 mins)
Ottorino Respighi
Concerto gregoriano (30 mins)
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 5 in D major, 'Reformation' (27 mins)
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 (21 mins)
Thomas Adès
The Exterminating Angel Symphony (20 mins)
London première
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 3 in F major (33 mins)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Mirga Gražinytė‐Tyla conductor
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Celebrates Stravinsky
19:30 Friday 6 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Stabat mater (39 mins)
Igor Stravinsky
Pulcinella (40 mins)
Carolyn Sampson soprano
Tim Mead counter-tenor
Benjamin Hulett tenor
Simon Shibambu bass-baritone
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Nicola Benedetti and the NYOGB
19:30 Saturday 7 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Laura Jurd
CHANT (8 mins)
London première
Sergei Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor (26 mins)
Jessie Montgomery
Banner (8 mins)
London première of chamber-orchestra version
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica' (47 mins)
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 (13 mins)
BBC commission: world première
Charles Ives
Three places in New England (Orchestral Set No. 1) (19 mins)
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, 'From the New World' (43 mins)
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 (7 mins)
Sethus Calvisius
Praeter rerum seriem (7 mins)
Josquin des Prez
Benedicta es, caelorum Regina (8 mins)
Adriaan Willaert
Benedicta es, caelorum regina (8 mins)
Josquin des Prez
Inviolata, integra et casta es (7 mins)
Vicente Lusitano
Inviolata, integra et casta es (9 mins)
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 (7 mins)
Sethus Calvisius
Praeter rerum seriem (7 mins)
Josquin des Prez
Benedicta es, caelorum Regina (8 mins)
Adriaan Willaert
Benedicta es, caelorum regina (8 mins)
Josquin des Prez
Inviolata, integra et casta es (7 mins)
Vicente Lusitano
Inviolata, integra et casta es (9 mins)
The Marian Consort ensemble
Rory McCleery director
Elgar's Cello Concerto
19:30 Monday 9 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Mason Bates
Auditorium (16 mins)
Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor (30 mins)
Leos Janáček
Taras Bulba (23 mins)
Johannes Moser cello
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits conductor
Parallel Universes
19:30 Tuesday 10 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Britta Byström
Parallel Universes (12 mins)
BBC commission: world première
Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47 (34 mins)
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, ‘Rhenish’ (32 mins)
Liza Ferschtman violin
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds conductor
Stravinsky from Memory
15:30 Wednesday 11 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Sergey Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (23 mins)
Igor Stravinsky
Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Stravinsky’s ‘The Firebird’ suite (20 mins)
The Firebird Suite (31 mins)
(1945)
Pavel Kolesnikov piano
Tom Service presenter
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon conductor/presenter
Stravinsky from Memory
20:00 Wednesday 11 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Sergey Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (23 mins)
Igor Stravinsky
Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Stravinsky’s ‘The Firebird’ suite (20 mins)
The Firebird Suite (31 mins)
(1945)
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 (23 mins)
William Walton
Cello Concerto (27 mins)
Johann Sebastian Bach
14 ‘Goldberg’ Canons, BWV 1087 (17 mins)
arr F.Goldmann (UK première)
Paul Hindemith
Symphony 'Mathis der Maler' (28 mins)
Steven Isserlis cello
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Martyn Brabbins & the BBC Symphony Orchestra
19:30 Friday 13 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Anthony Payne
Spring’s Shining Wake (18 mins)
Hector Berlioz
Les nuits d'été (31 mins)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 6 in F major, ‘Pastoral’ (39 mins)
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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' (14 mins)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056 (11 mins)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K 491 (31 mins)
Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No 9 in E flat major (27 mins)
Víkingur Ólafsson piano
Philharmonia Orchestra
Paavo Järvi conductor
Abel Selaocoe: Africa Meets Europe
19:00 Sunday 15 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Abel Selaocoe
Qhawe (8 mins)
arr. Ian Gardiner
Zawose
arr. Ian Gardiner
Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Les boréades – ‘Entrée d’Abaris’ (7 mins)
Giovanni Sollima
L. B. Files (21 mins)
Sidiki Dembélé
Shaka (5 mins)
arr. Ian Gardiner
Abel Selaocoe
As You Are (6 mins)
arr. Benjamin Woodgates
Lerato (4 mins)
arr. Benjamin Woodgates
Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Les Indes galantes – ‘La fête des fleurs’ (7 mins)
Simo Lagnawi
Bambara (6 mins)
arr. Abel Selaocoe & Alan Keary, orch. Ian Gardiner & Peter Riley
Dounia Lafou (6 mins)
arr. Alan Keary, orch. Ian Gardiner & Peter Riley
Abel Selaocoe
Ka bohaleng (5 mins)
Abel Selaocoe cello/voice
Simo Lagnawi guembri
Chesaba
Gnawa London ensemble
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’ (20 mins)
Robert Simpson
String Quartet No. 1 (25 mins)
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’ (20 mins)
Robert Simpson
String Quartet No. 1 (25 mins)
Marmen Quartet ensemble
A Night at the Opera
19:30 Monday 16 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Francesca Caccini
La liberazione di Ruggiero – suite (5 mins)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio – ‘Abscheulicher! … Komm, Hoffnung, lass den letzten Stern’ (7 mins)
Fidelio – Gott! welch Dunkel hier! … In des Lebens Frühlingstagen (11 mins)
Fidelio – ‘O namenlose Freude!’ (3 mins)
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice – ‘Che farò senza Euridice?’ (5 mins)
Giacomo Puccini
La bohème – ‘Che gelida manina’ (5 mins)
La bohème – ‘Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì’ (6 mins)
La bohème – ‘O soave fanciulla’ (5 mins)
Georges Bizet
Carmen – Prelude (4 mins)
Carmen – ‘La fleur que tu m’avais jetée’ (4 mins)
George Frideric Handel
Rodelinda – ‘Io t'abbraccio’ (7 mins)
Engelbert Humperdinck
Hansel and Gretel – ‘Der kleine Sandmann bin ich’ (5 mins)
Hansel and Gretel – ‘Abends, will ich schlafen gehn’ (6 mins)
Hansel and Gretel – Dream Pantomime (3 mins)
Leos Janáček
Jenůfa – closing scene (5 mins)
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
Manchester Collective
19:30 Tuesday 17 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 40 (9 mins)
Edmund Finnis
The Centre is Everywhere (13 mins)
Julius Eastman
The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc (21 mins)
Dobrinka Tabakova
Suite in Old Style, ‘The Court Jester Amareu’ (19 mins)
Joseph Horovitz
Jazz Harpsichord Concerto (15 mins)
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) (6 mins)
Thomas Tallis
Loquebantur variis linguis (4 mins)
Ken Burton
Many Are the Wonders (5 mins)
Hildegard von Bingen
O viridissima virga (4 mins)
Clément Janequin
Le chant des oiseaux (2 mins)
Bernard Hughes
Birdchant (5 mins)
BBC commission: world première
Igor Stravinsky
Tres sacrae cantiones – Illumina nos (3 mins)
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Je sens en moy une flamme nouvelle (2 mins)
Nico Muhly
A New Flame (after Sweelinck) (8 mins)
BBC commission: world première
William Byrd
Ave verum corpus (4 mins)
Roderick Williams
Ave verum corpus Re-imagined (6 mins)
Shiva Feshareki
Aetherworld (12 mins)
BBC commission: world première
Shiva Feshareki turntables/immersive electronics
Liam Byrne viola da gamba
Kit Downes organ
Stuart King bass clarinet
Tom Rogerson synthesisers
Delia Stevens percussion
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin conductor
Mozart’s Requiem
19:30 Friday 20 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Hippolyte et Aricie (1 mins)
Bruit de tonnerre
Hippolyte et Aricie (2 mins)
Ritornello
Dardanus – Tambourins I & II (3 mins)
Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Castor et Pollux (5 mins)
‘Tristes apprêts’
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Symphony No. 2 in D major (12 mins)
Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Dardanus – ‘Lieux funestes’ (6 mins)
Platée (2 mins)
Orage
Les Indes Galantes – Chaconne (6 mins)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem in D minor (compl. Süssmayr) (48 mins)
Samantha Clarke soprano
Claudia Huckle contralto
Nick Pritchard tenor
William Thomas bass
The National Youth Chamber Choir
Britten Sinfonia
David Bates conductor
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 (12 mins)
Symphony in C (28 mins)
Symphony in Three Movements (22 mins)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
The Sound of Argentina
13:00 Monday 23 August 2021
Cadogan Hall
Astor Piazzolla
Histoire du tango (20 mins)
María de Buenos Aires – Yo soy María (3 mins)
arr. Clarice Assad
Ariel Ramírez
Antiguos dueños de las flechas (5 mins)
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Gringa chaqueña (5 mins)
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Dorotea, la cautiva (5 mins)
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Alfonsina y el mar (5 mins)
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Juana Azurduy (3 mins)
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Wallis Giunta mezzo-soprano
Sean Shibe guitars
Adam Walker flute
The Sound of Argentina
18:00 Monday 23 August 2021
Cadogan Hall
Astor Piazzolla
Histoire du tango (20 mins)
María de Buenos Aires – Yo soy María (3 mins)
arr. Clarice Assad
Ariel Ramírez
Antiguos dueños de las flechas (5 mins)
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Gringa chaqueña (5 mins)
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Dorotea, la cautiva (5 mins)
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Alfonsina y el mar (5 mins)
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Juana Azurduy (3 mins)
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Wallis Giunta mezzo-soprano
Sean Shibe guitars
Adam Walker flute
Catrin Finch + Seckou Keita
19:30 Monday 23 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Catrin Finch harp
Seckou Keita kora
Chineke! Orchestra
19:30 Tuesday 24 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast – overture (11 mins)
Fela Sowande
African Suite (23 mins)
Florence Price
Piano Concerto in One Movement (20 mins)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Symphony in A minor (35 mins)
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason piano
Chineke! Orchestra
Kalena Bovell conductor
Vivaldi's Four Seasons
15:30 Wednesday 25 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons (37 mins)
Astor Piazzolla
The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (27 mins)
(arr. Leonid Desyatnikov)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Joshua Bell director/violin
Vivaldi's Four Seasons
20:00 Wednesday 25 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons (37 mins)
Astor Piazzolla
The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (27 mins)
(arr. Leonid Desyatnikov)
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 (30 mins)
BBC commission: world première
Ludwig van Beethoven
Concert aria ‘Ah! perfido’ (13 mins)
Symphony No. 2 in D major (32 mins)
Lucy Crowe soprano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov conductor
Charlotte Bray, Walton & Arnold
19:30 Friday 27 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
John Foulds
Le cabaret (Overture to a French Comedy) (5 mins)
William Walton
Viola Concerto (27 mins)
Charlotte Bray
Where Icebergs Dance Away (4 mins)
Malcolm Arnold
Symphony No. 5 (30 mins)
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 (36 mins)
Béla Bartók
Suite No. 2 (34 mins)
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin
Folktone
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov conductor
Family Prom
14:30 Sunday 29 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Daniel Kidane
Revel
BBC commission: world première. With narration by Lemn Sissay
Camille Saint‐Saëns
The Carnival of the Animals (39 mins)
with new narration by Michael Morpurgo
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
Lemn Sissay narrator
Angie Newman BSL interpreter
Family Prom
19:00 Sunday 29 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Daniel Kidane
Revel (20 mins)
BBC commission: world première. With narration by Lemn Sissay
Camille Saint‐Saëns
The Carnival of the Animals (39 mins)
with new narration by Michael Morpurgo
Aminata Kanneh-Mason violin
Lemn Sissay narrator
Braimah Kanneh-Mason violin
Ayla Sahin violin
Angie Newman BSL interpreter
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 (11 mins)
Ruth Gipps
Sea-Shore Suite (6 mins)
Henri Dutilleux
Oboe Sonata (10 mins)
Francis Poulenc
Oboe Sonata (11 mins)
Eugène Bozza
Fantaisie pastorale (6 mins)
Olivier Stankiewicz oboe
Huw Watkins piano
French Fancies
18:00 Monday 30 August 2021
Cadogan Hall
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Oboe Sonata (11 mins)
Ruth Gipps
Sea-Shore Suite (6 mins)
Henri Dutilleux
Oboe Sonata (10 mins)
Francis Poulenc
Oboe Sonata (11 mins)
Eugène Bozza
Fantaisie pastorale (6 mins)
Olivier Stankiewicz oboe
Huw Watkins 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 (8 mins)
Henry Purcell
Three Consorts (1680) (11 mins)
transcr. Benjamin; world première
Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G major (23 mins)
Sir George Benjamin
Concerto for Orchestra (18 mins)
BBC co-commission with Mahler Chamber Orchestra: world première
Pierre‐Laurent Aimard piano
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Sir George Benjamin conductor
Wagner’s Tristan & Isolde
17:00 Tuesday 31 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Richard Wagner
Tristan and Isolde
John Mackenzie-Lavansch Steersman
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 (30 mins)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4 (22 mins)
George Frideric Handel
Dixit Dominus (31 mins)
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 (4 mins)
arr. Philip Lane
Malcolm Arnold
Hobson’s Choice – concert suite (17 mins)
arr. C. Palmer
Alan Rawsthorne
The Cruel Sea (5 mins)
Main titles and nocturne
William Walton
Escape Me Never – suite (10 mins)
Elisabeth Lutyens
The Skull – excerpts (5 mins)
William Alwyn
Odd Man Out (17 mins)
Police Chase; Nemesis
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Three Portraits from ‘The England of Elizabeth’ (17 mins)
arr. Muir Mathieson
Malcolm Arnold
The Belles of St Trinian’s – comedy suite (8 mins)
arr. C. Palmer
BBC Concert Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey conductor
Semyon Bychkov Conducts the BBC SO & Kirill Gerstein
19:30 Friday 3 September 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture ‘Coriolan’ (8 mins)
Robert Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor (31 mins)
Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 3 in A minor, 'Scottish' (40 mins)
Kirill Gerstein piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov conductor
Organ Recital
11:45 Saturday 4 September 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Le prophète (5 mins)
Coronation March - transcr. W. T. Best
Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537 (10 mins)
Charles‐Marie Widor
Symphony No. 5 – Allegro vivace (1st mvt) (10 mins)
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Fantaisie No. 1 in E flat major (6 mins)
Franz Liszt
Fantasia and Fugue on 'Ad nos, ad salutarem undam' (30 mins)
Peter Holder 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 (8 mins)
Alban Berg
Seven Early Songs (18 mins)
Maurice Ravel
La valse (12 mins)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Symphony in F sharp (45 mins)
Francesca Chiejina soprano
Sinfonia of London
John Wilson conductor
Sheku Kanneh-Mason Plays Dvořák’s Cello Concerto
19:30 Sunday 5 September 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Grace-Evangeline Mason
The Imagined Forest (12 mins)
BBC co-commission with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra: world première
Antonín Dvořák
Cello Concerto in B minor (40 mins)
Richard Strauss
Don Juan (17 mins)
Paul Hindemith
Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (21 mins)
Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Domingo Hindoyan conductor
Pauline Viardot and Her Circle
13:00 Monday 6 September 2021
Cadogan Hall
Pauline Viardot
Canzonetta de concert (4 mins)
Johannes Brahms
Fünf Lieder, Op. 94 – No.4: Sapphische Ode (2 mins)
Sieben Lieder, Op. 48 – No. 1: Der Gang zum Liebchen (2 mins)
Clara Schumann
Volkslied (3 mins)
Lorelei (3 mins)
Franz Liszt
Vergiftet sind meine Lieder (1 mins)
Comment, disaient-ils (2 mins)
Pauline Viardot
Six chansons du XVe siècle – No. 1: ‘Aimez-moi’ (3 mins)
María Malibrán
La voix qui dit: je t’aime (2 mins)
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Le prophète – ‘Donnez pour une pauvre âme’ (6 mins)
Pauline Viardot
Le dernier sorcier – ‘Coulez, gouttes fines’ (Chanson de la pluie) (3 mins)
Gabriel Fauré
La chanson du pêcheur (Lamento) (3 mins)
Pauline Viardot
The Tit (2 mins)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
My genius, my angel, my friend (2 mins)
12 Romances, Op. 60 – No. 10: ‘At the window, in the shadow ‘ (2 mins)
Pauline Viardot
Zalotna (La coquette) (3 mins)
Manuel García
Es corredor (2 mins)
arr. Pauline Viardot
Ema Nikolovska mezzo-soprano
Malcolm Martineau piano
Pauline Viardot and Her Circle
18:00 Monday 6 September 2021
Cadogan Hall
Pauline Viardot
Canzonetta de concert (4 mins)
Johannes Brahms
Fünf Lieder, Op. 94 – No.4: Sapphische Ode (2 mins)
Sieben Lieder, Op. 48 – No. 1: Der Gang zum Liebchen (2 mins)
Clara Schumann
Volkslied (3 mins)
Lorelei (3 mins)
Franz Liszt
Vergiftet sind meine Lieder (1 mins)
Comment, disaient-ils (2 mins)
Pauline Viardot
Six chansons du XVe siècle – No. 1: ‘Aimez-moi’ (3 mins)
María Malibrán
La voix qui dit: je t’aime (2 mins)
Manuel García
Es corredor (2 mins)
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Le prophète – ‘Donnez pour une pauvre âme’ (6 mins)
Pauline Viardot
Le dernier sorcier – ‘Coulez, gouttes fines’ (Chanson de la pluie) (3 mins)
Gabriel Fauré
La chanson du pêcheur (Lamento) (3 mins)
Pauline Viardot
The Tit (2 mins)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
My genius, my angel, my friend (2 mins)
Pauline Viardot
On Georgian hills (2 mins)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
12 Romances, Op. 60 – No. 10: ‘At the window, in the shadow ‘ (2 mins)
Pauline Viardot
Zalotna (La coquette) (3 mins)
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 (11 mins)
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Cantus arcticus (18 mins)
Judith Weir
Still, Glowing (4 mins)
Arvo Pärt
Festina lente (6 mins)
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Good Night, Day (4 mins)
Olivier Messiaen
Méditations sur le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité – Méditation V: ‘Dieu est immense’ (10 mins)
Jóhann Jóhannsson
A Sparrow Alighted Upon Our Shoulder (3 mins)
Missy Mazzoli
Holy Roller (9 mins)
Samy Moussa
A Globe Itself Infolding (11 mins)
UK première
BBC Concert Orchestra
James McVinnie organ
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 (5 mins)
BBC co-commission: UK première
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 4 in G major (34 mins)
(cadenzas: Saint-Saëns)
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Symphony No. 3 in C minor, 'Organ' (36 mins)
Benjamin Grosvenor piano
Anna Lapwood organ
Hallé
Sir Mark Elder conductor
Mahler's 5th Symphony conducted by Mark Wigglesworth
19:30 Wednesday 8 September 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Dmitry Shostakovich
Festive Overture, Op. 96 (7 mins)
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor (68 mins)
Mark Wigglesworth conductor
Bach’s St Matthew Passion
19:00 Thursday 9 September 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Johann Sebastian Bach
St Matthew Passion (157 mins)
(sung in German)
Louise Alder soprano
Iestyn Davies counter-tenor
Stuart Jackson Evangelist
Hugo Hymas tenor
Roderick Williams baritone
Matthew Rose Christ
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen harpsichord/director
Pavel Kolesnikov plays Bach's Goldberg Variations
19:30 Friday 10 September 2021
Royal Albert Hall
Johann Sebastian Bach
Goldberg Variations (85 mins)
Pavel Kolesnikov piano
Last Night of the Proms 2021
19:30 Saturday 11 September 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Gity Razaz
Mother (5 mins)
BBC commission: world première
Malcolm Arnold
Variations for Orchestra on a Theme of Ruth Gipps (13 mins)
Samuel Barber
Adagio for strings (8 mins)
arr. Jonathan Manners
Maurice Ravel
Le tombeau de Couperin: IV. Rigaudon (3 mins)
Franck Angelis
Fantasie on a Theme of Piazzolla – Chiquilín de Bachín (6 mins)
Richard Wagner
Wesendonck-Lieder: III. Im Treibhaus (6 mins)
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (5 mins)
Prize Song
Florence Price
Symphony no. 1 in E minor: III. (4 mins)
Astor Piazzolla
Libertango (5 mins)
arr. John Lenehan
Aníbal Troilo
Sur (4 mins)
arr. George Morton
Trad.
Brigg Fair (3 mins)
arr. Percy Grainger
Peter Allen
I Still Call Australia Home (3 mins)
arr. Iain Farrington
Henry Wood
Fantasia on British Sea-Songs (17 mins)
orch. Mark Millidge
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
Unknown
The National Anthem (arr. Britten) (3 mins)
Hubert Parry
Jerusalem (orch. Elgar) (2 mins)
Unknown
Auld Lang Syne (2 mins)
arr. Paul Campbell
Stuart Skelton tenor
Ksenija Sidorova accordian
BBC Singers ensemble
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor