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September
SATURDAY 8 SEPTEMBER - Last Night of the Proms
Dvorák, Rakhmaninov, Ravel, Thomas Adès, Elgar, Bellini, Fucík, Léhar, Ponce, arr. Heifetz, R. Strauss, Henry Wood, Parry orch. Elgar.
FRIDAY 7 SEPTEMBER - Elliott Carter, Bartók and Brahms
Elliott Carter Three Illusions for Orchestra, Bartók Concerto for Orchestra, Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor.
THURSDAY 6 SEPTEMBER - Berlioz
Berlioz The Damnation of Faust (sung in French)
WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER - Beethoven and Brahms
Beethoven's Overture 'Coriolan' and Violin Concerto in D major followed by Brahms's Symphony No. 4 in E minor
TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER - Bartók, Kodály, Ligeti and Enescu
Bartók Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Kodály Dances from Galánta; Ligeti Atmosphères; Enescu Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
MONDAY 3 SEPTEMBER - Benjamin Britten, Dieterich Buxtehude and Domenico Scarlatti
Britten: Hymn to St Cecilia; Buxtehude: Organ works; Scarlatti: Stabat mater
MONDAY 3 SEPTEMBER - Franz Schubert and Anton Bruckner
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major and Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, 'Romantic'
MONDAY 3 SEPTEMBER - Bach and Scarlatti
Bach Partita No. 1 in B flat major D. Scarlatti Two sonatas Bach Partita No. 4 in D major
SUNDAY 2 SEPTEMBER - Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E minor
SATURDAY 1 SEPTEMBER - Charles Ives, Richard Strauss and Dmitry Shostakovich
Ives: Symphony No. 3,'The Camp Meeting'; Strauss: Salome – final scene; Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor
SATURDAY 1 SEPTEMBER - Proms Saturday Matinee 4
Britten: The Way to the Sea, On this Island, Cabaret Songs, Night Mail, In memoriam Dennis Brain and Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
August
FRIDAY 31 AUGUST - Thea Musgrave and Gustav Mahler
Thea Musgrave: Two's Company; Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major
THURSDAY 30 AUGUST - Arthur Honegger and Ludwig van Beethoven
Arthur Honegger: Symphony No. 3, 'Liturgique'; Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'Choral'
WEDNESDAY 29 AUGUST - Oliver Knussen, Anton Webern and Julian Anderson
Knussen: Ophelia Dances, Book 1 and Requiem – Songs for Sue; Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra; Anderson: Book of Hours
WEDNESDAY 29 AUGUST - Richard Strauss and Jean Sibelius
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra;
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D major
TUESDAY 28 AUGUST - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Sergey Prokofiev
Tchaikovsky: Fantasy Overture 'Romeo and Juliet' and Fantasy Overture 'Hamlet'; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 and Symphony No. 7
MONDAY 27 AUGUST - An Evening with Michael Ball
MONDAY 27 AUGUST - Rachel Portman/Owen Sheers
'The Water Diviner's Tale' (BBC commission: world premiere)
MONDAY 27 AUGUST - Lost Songs of a Rhineland Harper
SUNDAY 26 AUGUST - Benjamin Britten, Bohuslav Martinů and Sergey Prokofiev
Britten: Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’d; Martinů: Incantation (Piano Concerto No. 4) and Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major
SATURDAY 25 AUGUST - Richard Wagner and Claude Debussy
Wagner: Parsifal – Prelude to Act 1, 'Good Friday Music' and Tristan und Isolde – Prelude and Liebestod; Debussy: Nocturnes and Six épigraphes antiques
FRIDAY 24 AUGUST - Joseph Haydn, György Ligeti and Ludwig van Beethoven
Haydn: Symphony No. 102 in B flat major; Ligeti: Études for solo piano – selection and Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major
FRIDAY 24 AUGUST - Anton Brucker
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor
THURSDAY 23 AUGUST - George Frideric Handel, Henry Purcell and Georg Philipp Telemann
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, Concerto a due cori and Arias and duets; Purcell: Sett of Favourite Airs, Fantasies and Dances; Telemann: Overture (Suite)
WEDNESDAY 22 AUGUST - Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No 3 in D Minor
TUESDAY 21 AUGUST - Aaron Copland and John Adams
Aaron Copland: Billy the Kid - Suite; John Adams: Century Rolls and Doctor Atomic Symphony.
MONDAY 20 AUGUST - Philharmonia Orchestra
J S Bach, orch. Webern Ricercar from 'Musical Offering'; Thomas Adès Overture, Waltz and Finale from 'Powder Her Face' - Suite; Bartók Duke Bluebeard's Castle.
MONDAY 20 AUGUST - Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Mozart Flute Quartet in D major, K285; Brahms String Sextet in G major, Op.36.
SUNDAY 19 AUGUST - Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela
Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 in E minor; Bernstein West Side Story - Symphonic Dances; Latin American works including music by Revueltas and Ginastera.
SATURDAY 18 AUGUST - London Symphony Orchestra and Venezuelan Brass Ensemble
LSO: Copland, Piazzolla arr. Adams, Piazzolla, Copland; VBE: Copland, R Strauss, J S Bach, Gershwin and Latin-American composers
SATURDAY 18 AUGUST - Edward Elgar
Edward Elgar: The Apostles
SATURDAY 18 AUGUST - Proms Saturday Matinee 3
Boyce, Arne, Thomas Linley Jr and Handel.
FRIDAY 17 AUGUST - Arnold Schoenberg, Oliver Knussen, Hans Werner Henze and Igor Stravinsky
Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces; Knussen: Violin Concerto; Hans Werner Henze: Sebastian im Traum; Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
THURSDAY 16 AUGUST - James MacMillan, Witold Lutoslawski and Sir Harrison Birtwistle
James MacMillan: Veni, veni, Emmanuel; Witold Lutoslawski: Chantefleurs et Chantefables and Sir Harrison Birtwistle: Panic.
THURSDAY 16 AUGUST - Edvard Grieg and William Walton
Edvard Grieg: Funeral March for Rikard Nordraak, Piano Concerto in A minor and William Walton: Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor
WEDNESDAY 15 AUGUST - Jean Sibelius
Jean Sibelius: The Tempest, Orchestral Selection and Symphony No 7 in C major.
TUESDAY 14 AUGUST - Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin
Igor Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 version), Leonard Bernstein: On the Town – Three Dance Episodes, George Gershwin, arr. Ferde Grofé: Rhapsody in Blue
MONDAY 13 AUGUST - Carl Maria von Weber, Gustav Mahler and Johannes Brahms
Weber: Oberon – Overture, Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn – selection and Brahms, arr Schoenberg: Piano Quartet in G minor
MONDAY 13 AUGUST - Philip Langridge
Schumann: Liederkreis, Maconchy: Four Shakespeare Songs, Britten: Winter Words.
SUNDAY 12 AUGUST - Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung
SATURDAY 11 AUGUST - Johannes Brahms and Jean Sibelius
Johannes Brahms: Tragic Overture and Symphony No. 3 in F major, Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major
FRIDAY 10 AUGUST - An Evening with Nitin Sawhney and Friends
THURSDAY 9 AUGUST - Guto Puw, William Walton and Sergey Rakhmaninov
Guto Puw: … onyt agoraf y drws … (… unless I open the door …),
William Walton: Viola Concerto and
Sergey Rakhmaninov: Symphonic Dances.
WEDNESDAY 8 AUGUST - From Bards to the Blues
with John Dankworth, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn
TUESDAY 7 AUGUST - J S Bach Cantatas and Mass
J S Bach
Cantata No. 78, 'Jesu, der du meine Seele' - Cantata No. 179, 'Siehe zu, dass deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei' - Cantata No. 200, 'Bekennen will ich seinen Namen' – aria - Mass in G major, BWV 236
TUESDAY 7 AUGUST - Britten Sinfonia da Requiem
Mahler, completed D. Cooke Symphony No. 10
MONDAY 6 AUGUST - Beethoven Symphony No. 8 in F Major
Berg Seven Early Songs; Korngold Die Kathrin – 'Ich soll ihn niemals, niemals mehr sehn' and Das Wunder der Heliane – 'Ich ging zu ihm'; Schumann Symphony No. 2 in C Major.
MONDAY 6 AUGUST - Janáček String Quartet No. 1, 'The Kreutzer Sonata'
Mendelssohn Capriccio, Op. 81 No. 3; Sibelius String Quartet Op. 56, 'Voces Intimae'
SUNDAY 5 AUGUST - Elgar Enigma Variations
Brahms Variations on the St Anthony Chorale; R. Strauss Oboe Concerto in D major and Der Rosenkavalier – Suite.
SUNDAY 5 AUGUST - Elgar Four Choral Songs, Op. 53
Brahms Four Songs, Op. 17; Reubke Organ Sonata in C minor on Psalm 94 – finale; Sir Richard Rodney Bennett Four Poems of Thomas Campion; Grieg Four Psalms, Op. 74 – Nos 1 & 2; Elgar Organ Sonata in G major – finale and Give unto the Lord.
SATURDAY 4 AUGUST - Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat major
Aaron Jay Kernis New Era Dance, Shostakovich Symphony No. 7 in C major, 'Leningrad'.
SATURDAY 4 AUGUST - Elgar Serenade for Strings
Finzi Clarinet Concerto, Maconchy Music for Strings, Grieg Holberg Suite.
FRIDAY 3 AUGUST - Stravinsky Scherzo fantastique
Magnus Lindberg Clarinet Concerto, Rakhmaninov, Symphony No. 2 in E minor.
THURSDAY 2 AUGUST - Debussy Printemps
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, David Matthews Symphony No. 6, Ravel La valse.
WEDNESDAY 1 AUGUST - Mahler Symphony No. 9 in D
György Kurtág Stele.
July
TUESDAY 31 JULY - Pierre Boulez Dérive 2
Sir Harrison Birtwistle Neruda Madrigales
TUESDAY 31 JULY - Debussy La mer
Sibelius Tapiola, Britten Piano Concerto and Varèse Ecuatorial.
MONDAY 30 JULY - Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin
Esa-Pekka Salonen Piano Concerto, Berlioz Romeo and Juliet.
MONDAY 30 JULY - Sir John Tavener The Tyger - The Lamb
Britten Chorale after an Old French Carol - Shepherd’s Carol, Vaughan Williams Willow Song - O Mistress Mine - Come Away, Death.
SUNDAY 29 JULY - Bizet L'Arlésienne
Berlioz Les nuits d'été and Fauré Shylock.
SATURDAY 28 JULY - Brass day
J. Bingham, Schumann, HK Gruber, Peter Wiegold, Janáček.
SATURDAY 28 JULY - Brass day
J. Bingham, Monteverdi, Gabrieli, Grillo, Traditional Uzbek Music, Vaughan Williams, HW Henze, Heaton, P. Wilby, Elgar and Musorgsky.
FRIDAY 27 JULY - Britten Les Illuminations
R. Strauss Macbeth, Nielsen, Symphony No.4, 'The Inextinguishable'
THURSDAY 26 JULY - Tippett Triple Concerto
Delius A Song of Summer, Vaughan Williams Symphony No.5
WEDNESDAY 25 JULY - Schubert Mass in E flat major, D950
Hummel Alma virgo
WEDNESDAY 25 JULY - Barber Violin Concerto
Beethoven Overture – Leonore No. 3 and Copland Symphony No. 3
TUESDAY 24 JULY - Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Glyndebourne's new production of Verdi's Macbeth, part of this year's Proms Shakespeare celebrations
MONDAY 23 JULY - Haydn The Seasons
Haydn's ode to nature based on a poem by James Thomson celebrating the timeless passing of the seasons
MONDAY 23 JULY - James Ehnes and Eduard Laurel
Mozart Sonata in E minor for Violin and Piano, Elgar Sonata in E minor for Violin and Piano.
SUNDAY 22 JULY - Beethoven Symphony No.7 in A major
Brett Dean Vexations and Devotions, with Australia's national children's choir Gondwana Voices
SUNDAY 22 JULY - Blue Peter Prom
A riotous morning in the company of Peter Duncan, Gemma Hunt, the BBC Philharmonic, youth choirs and the funky Bollywood Brass Band
SATURDAY 21 JULY - Fauré Requiem
Debussy Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No.1 in A minor and Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine
SATURDAY 21 JULY - Blue Peter Prom
A riotous morning in the company of Peter Duncan, Gemma Hunt, the BBC Philharmonic, youth choirs and the funky Bollywood Brass Band
FRIDAY 20 JULY - Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
Henri Dutilleux The Shadows of Time, Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
THURSDAY 19 JULY - Rakhmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Arvo Pärt Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten, Glière Symphony No.3 'Ilya Murometz'
WEDNESDAY 18 JULY - Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings
Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E major conducted by Kurt Masur on his 80th birthday.
TUESDAY 17 JULY - Tallis Spem in alium
Striggio's celebrated 40-part motet Ecce beatam lucem and Lassus Motet and Magnificat 'Aurora lucis rutilat'
TUESDAY 17 JULY - Bernstein The Age of Anxiety
A transatlantic programme including the innovative Fourth Symphony by Ives and opened by Sam Hayden's new work Substratum.
MONDAY 16 JULY - Berio Sinfonia
Rossini's operatic setting of the Stabat mater with a young all-star cast contrasts with a seminal work by Berio.
MONDAY 16 JULY - Alice Coote and Graham Johnson
Alice Coote revisits the poignant song-cycle specially composed for her by Judith Weir after music by earlier generations of lyrical English song composers, headed by Elgar.
SUNDAY 15 JULY - Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists
Excerpts from Rameau's stage works include dazzling dance sequences with specially created choreography by the Paris-based Compagnie Roussat-Lubek, featuring players from the Buskaid Soweto String Project.
SATURDAY 14 JULY - Music from Great British Films
A wide-ranging feast of some of the finest scores that composers have brought to the silver screen through more than 60 years of British film-making.
SATURDAY 14 JULY - Proms Saturday Matinee 1
A Shakespeare themed programme of music and speech with works by Mendelssohn, Korngold, Bridge and Shostakovich.
FRIDAY 13 JULY - the First Night of the Proms
Beethoven's life-affirming 'Choral' Symphony makes a historic first appearance at a First Night, conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek.
