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Week 1: 18 - 24 July 2008
Fri 18	Sat 19	Sun 20	Mon 21	Tue 22	Wed 23	Thu 24
20.00 - 22.25 Prom 1 R. Strauss Festliches Präludium Mozart Oboe Concerto in C major, K314 R. Strauss Four Last Songs Messiaen Dieu parmi nous, from 'La Nativité du Seigneur' Beethoven Rondo in B-flat, for piano and orchestra E. Carter Catenaires (solo piano) - UK premiere Scriabin The Poem of Ecstasy Christine Brewer soprano Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano Nicholas Daniel oboe Wayne Marshall organ Royal College of Music Brass BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiří Bělohlávek conductor	18.30 - 21.00 Prom 2 Bax: The Garden of Fand Finzi: Intimations of Immortality Elgar: Violin Concerto Andrew Kennedy tenor Nigel Kennedy violin BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Concert Orchestra Paul Daniel conductor 22.00 - 23.30 Prom 3 Nigel Kennedy Quintet Nigel Kennedy violin Tomasz Grzegorski saxophone Piotr Wylezol piano Adam Kowalewski double bass Pawel Dobrowolski percussion With Xantone Blacq singer	15.30 - 18.00 Prom 4 Folk Day (1) Traditional Folk songs Grainger & Vaughan Williams Folk song-inspired works Berio Folk songs Trad. arr. Folkestra Folk music from the British Isles Bartok Romanian Dances Tickell New arrangement (BBC commission: world premiere) Bella Hardy singer London Young Musicians Folkestra Muzsikas London Sinfonietta Martyn Brabbins conductor 19.30 - 21.30 Prom 5 Folk Day (2) To include sets by: Bella Hardy Singer Martin Simpson singer/guitar Bellowhead	13:00 - 14:00 PCM 1 Schumann 5 Gesänge der Frühe, Op.133 E. Carter Night Fantasies Messiaen L'Alouette Lulu, from Catalogue d'oiseaux Bartok Suite: Out of Doors Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano 19:30 - 21:45 Prom 6 Messiaen L'Ascension, for solo organ Messiaen Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3 ('Organ') Olivier Latry organ Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France Myung-Whun Chung conductor	19:00 - 21:05 Prom 7 Rossini William Tell - Overture Haydn Cello Concerto No.1 Elgar Symphony No.1 Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR) Sir Roger Norrington conductor 22.00 - 23.30 Prom 8 Obrecht Missa 'Malheur me bat' Josquin Des Prez Missa 'Malheur me bat' Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips conductor	19.00 - 22.05 Prom 9 Mendelssohn Overture - Ruy Blas Mendelssohn Symphony No.4 Brahms Piano Concerto No.2 Brahms Symphony No.2 Lars Vogt piano BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiří Bělohlávek conductor	19:30 - 21:25 Prom 10 Bax In memoriam Patrick Pearse (1st public performance) Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.1 Vaughan Williams Symphony No.4 Yevgeny Sudbin piano BBC Philharmonic Yan Pascal Tortelier conductor

Week 2: 25 - 31 July 2008
Fri 25	Sat 26	Sun 27	Mon 28	Tue 29	Wed 30	Thu 31
19:30 - 21:25 Prom 11 Debussy Nocturnes Simon Holt Troubled Light (BBC Commission; world premiere) Musorgsky orch. Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition Cantamus Girls' Choir BBC National Orchestra of Wales Thierry Fischer conductor	19:00 - 21:40 Prom 12 Musorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain (Sorochintsky Fair version) Musorgsky Boris Godunov - Coronation Scene, Boris's Monologue & Death Scene Thomas Adès Tevot Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.1 Borodin Polovtsian Dances Sir John Tomlinson bass Louis Lortie piano City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Thomas Adès conductor	11:00 - 13.00 Prom 13 Doctor Who Prom Murray Gold Music from Doctor Who Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Holst The Planets - Jupiter Mark-Anthony Turnage The Torino Scale (UK premiere) Wagner The Ride of the Valkyries Freema Agyeman presenter with Daleks and Cybermen London Philharmonic Choir BBC Philharmonic Stephen Bell conductor Benjamin Foster conductor 19.00 - 20.50 Prom 14 Messiaen La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ Gerard Bouwhuis piano Adam Walker flute Julian Bliss clarinet Sonia Wieder-Atherton cello Colin Currie xylophone Adrian Spillett marimba Richard Benjafield vibraphone BBC Symphony Chorus BBC National Chorus of Wales BBC National Orchestra of Wales Thierry Fischer conductor	13:00 - 14:00 PCM 2 Monteverdi Volgendo il ciel Monteverdi Lamento d'Arianna Monteverdi Il ballo delle ingrate I Fagiolini Barokksolistene Robert Hollingworth director 19.30 - 21.15 Prom 15 Beethoven Grosse Fuge Elliott Carter Oboe Concerto Beethoven Symphony No.5 Nicholas Daniel oboe BBC Symphony Orchestra David Robertson conductor	19:30 - 21:40 Prom 16 Butterworth A Shropshire Lad Vaughan Williams Symphony No.8 in D minor Bruch Violin Concerto No.1 R Strauss Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Janine Jansen violin Hallé Mark Elder conductor	19:00 - 22:45 Prom 17 World Music Celebration - Winners of the Radio 3 Awards for World Music. In collaboration with Serious Mayra Andrade Cape Verde Juldeh Camara Gambia & Justin Adams UK Sa Ding Ding China Son de la Frontera Spain Bassekou Kouyate Mali	19:00 - 22:30 Prom 18 Monteverdi The Coronation of Poppaea (semi-staged; sung in Italian) Glyndebourne Festival Opera Sonya Yoncheva Fortune soprano Simona Mihai Virtue soprano Amy Freston Cupid soprano Iestyn Davies Otho counter-tenor Alice Coote Nero mezzo-soprano Danielle De Niese Poppaea soprano Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke Amalta tenor Tamara Mumford Octavia mezzo-soprano Marie Arnet Drusilla soprano Paolo Battaglia Seneca bass Trevor Scheunemann Mercury/Consul bass Patrick Schramm Lictor/Consul bass Dominique Visse Nurse/Friend counter-tenor Claire Ormshaw Lady-in-Waiting soprano Lucia Cirillo Page mezzo-soprano Andrew Tortise Lucan/Soldier 1/Tribune/Friend tenor Peter Gijsbertsen Liberto/Soldier 2/Tribune tenor Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Emmanuelle Haïm conductor

Week 3 : 1 - 7 August 2008
Fri 1	Sat 2	Sun 3	Mon 4	Tue 5	Wed 6	Thu 7
19:00 - 22:30 Prom 19 Kenneth Hesketh Graven Image (BBC/RLPO co-commission; world premiere) Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4 Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Paul Lewis piano Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Vasily Petrenko conductor	18.00 - 21.10 Prom 20 Stockhausen Day Stockhausen Gruppen; Klang, 13th hour - Cosmic Pulses (UK premiere); Klang, 5th hour - Harmonien for solo trumpet (BBC commission; world premiere); Kontakte; Gruppen (repeat) Marco Blaauw trumpet Nicolas Hodges piano Colin Currie percussion BBC Symphony Orchestra David Robertson, Pascal Rophé, Martyn Brabbins conductors 22:15 - 23:35 Prom 21 Stockhausen Stimmung Theatre of Voices Paul Hillier director	16.00 - 17.00 Prom 22 Demessieux Te Deum Messiaen Verset pour la Fête de la Dédicace Dupré Symphony for organ No.2 Naji Hakim Pange Lingua Messiaen Prelude Improvisation Wayne Marshall organ 19:30 - 21:40 Prom 23 Beethoven Symphony No.1 Mahler Das Lied von der Erde Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano Johan Botha tenor BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Donald Runnicles conductor	13:00 - 14:00 PCM 3 Debussy Sonata for violin and piano Messiaen Theme and variations Prokofiev Sonata No.2 in D major, Op.94a Alina Ibragimova violin Huw Watkins piano 19:30 - 21:55 Prom 24 Bach orch. H Wood Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565 Smyth Concerto for Horn and Violin Rachmaninov orch. H Wood Prelude in C sharp minor Rachmaninov Symphony No.2 Richard Watkins horn Tasmin Little violin BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Stefan Solyom conductor	19:00 - 21:15 Prom 25 Wagenaar Overture - Cyrano de Bergerac Dvorak Symphony No. 6 Brahms Violin Concerto Julia Fischer violin Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Yakov Kreizberg conductor 22:15 - 23:30 Prom 26 Poulenc Chansons françaises, Op. 130 - selection John McCabe Scenes in America Deserta French Renaissance madrigals Lassus Dessus le marche d'Arras Passereau Il est bel et bon Lassus Toutes les nuits Janequin La guerre Victorian Part-Songs Rogers Hears not my Phyllis Hobbs Phillis is my only joy Trad. arr. SE Lovatt The Little Green Lane Bridge The Goslings English Folk songs Trad. arr. Bob Chilcott Greensleeves Trad. arr. Langford Blow away the morning dew Trad. arr Lawson The Turtle Dove Trad. arr. Langford Widdicombe Fair The King's Singers	19:30 - 21:45 Prom 27 Messiaen L'Ascension (for orchestra) Stravinsky Violin Concerto George Benjamin Ringed by the Flat Horizon Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte Ravel Boléro Carolin Widmann violin BBC Symphony Orchestra George Benjamin conductor	19:30 - 21:45 Prom 28 Ferguson Overture for an Occasion Stanford Piano Concerto No.2 Smetana Má Vlast - Vltava Dvorak Symphony No.8 Finghin Collins piano Ulster Orchestra Kenneth Montgomery conductor

Week 4 : 8 - 14 August 2008
Fri 8	Sat 9	Sun 10	Mon 11	Tue 12	Wed 13	Thu 14
19.00 - 21.05 Prom 29 Chen Yi Olympic Fire (BBC commission: world premiere) Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Vaughan Williams Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus' Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 6 Olga Kern piano Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Leonard Slatkin conductor 22.00 - 23.20 Prom 30 Michael Torke Javelin John Adams The Chairman Dances Bernstein Mass - Three Meditations Ellington Harlem Han-Na Chang cello BBC National Orchestra of Wales Kristjan Järvi conductor NB: Opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics today.	19.00 - 21.00 Prom 31 Gershwin Strike Up the Band Gershwin, arr. Jason Yarde Porgy and Bess - My man's gone now (BBC commission; world premiere) Jason Yarde Rhythm and other Fascinations (BBC commission; world premiere) Stravinsky Ebony Concerto Bernstein Prelude, Fugue and Riffs Gwilym Simcock Progressions for piano and orchestra (BBC commission; world premiere) Gershwin An American in Paris Gwilym Simcock piano Phil Donkin bass Martin France drums Michael Collins clarinet BBC Concert Orchestra Charles Hazlewood conductor	16:00 - 17:00 Prom 32 Messiaen Messe de la Pentecôte Interspersed with: Manchicourt Missa 'Veni Creator Spiritus' James O'Donnell organ BBC Singers Andrew Carwood conductor 19.30 - 21.30 Prom 33 Sibelius Night-Ride and Sunrise Michael Berkeley Slow Dawn (world premiere of new version) Stuart MacRae Gaudete (BBC commission; world premiere) Elgar Enigma Variations Susanna Andersson soprano BBC Symphony Orchestra Edward Gardner conductor	13:00 - 14:00 PCM 4 Messiaen Harawi Gweneth-Ann Jeffers soprano Simon Lepper piano 19.30 - 21.50 Prom 34 Rachmaninov Symphony No.1 in D minor Puccini Il tabarro (concert performance; sung in Italian) Barbara Frittoli soprano Giorgetta Miro Dvorsky tenor Luigi Lado Ataneli baritone Michele Jane Henschel mezzo-soprano La Frugola Barry Banks tenor Il Tinca Alastair Miles bass Il Talpa Allan Clayton tenor Ballad-seller Katherine Broderick soprano & Edgaras Montvidas tenor Young lovers BBC Singers BBC Philharmonic Gianandrea Noseda conductor	19:00 - 21:15 Prom 35 Elgar In the South (Alassio) Vaughan Williams Piano Concerto Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade Ashley Wass piano BBC Philharmonic Vassily Sinaisky conductor 22.15 - 23.30 Prom 36 Rachmaninov All-night vigil (Vespers) Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir Paul Hillier conductor	19.30 - 21.50 Prom 37 Ravel La Valse Anders Hillborg Clarinet Concerto (Peacock Tales) (UK premiere) Berlioz Symphonie fantastique Martin Fröst clarinet Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Gustavo Dudamel conductor	19.00 - 21.05 Prom 38 Haydn Sinfonia Concertante in B flat major, for oboe, bassoon, violin, cello* Schoenberg Variations for Orchestra, Op.31 Brahms Symphony No.4 Members of West-Eastern Divan Orchestra West-Eastern Divan Orchestra* Daniel Barenboim conductor 22.15 - 23.30 Prom 39 Pierre Boulez Mémoriale ('... explosante-fixe ...' Originel) Stravinsky L'Histoire du Soldat Members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Daniel Barenboim conductor

Week 5 : 15 - 21 August 2008
Fri 15	Sat 16	Sun 17	Mon 18	Tue 19	Wed 20	Thu 21
19.30 - 21.30 Prom 40 Janáček Sinfonietta Janáček Capriccio Janáček Glagolitic Mass (original version, reconstr. Paul Wingfield) Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet soprano Anna Stéphany mezzo-soprano Simon O'Neill tenor Peter Fried bass Simon Preston organ BBC Symphony Chorus London Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Pierre Boulez conductor	18.30 - 22.00 Prom 41 Handel Belshazzar Paul Groves tenor Belshazzar Rosemary Joshua soprano Nitocris Bejun Mehta counter-tenor Cyrus Iestyn Davies counter-tenor Daniel Robert Gleadow bass/baritone Gobrias Choir of the Enlightenment Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Sir Charles Mackerras conductor	16.00 - 17.15 Prom 42 Messiaen Apparition de l'église éternelle; Messiaen La Nativité du Seigneur Jennifer Bate organ 19.30 - 21.55 Prom 43 Mozart Symphony No.34 in C, K338 Vaughan Williams Flos Campi Nigel Osborne Flute Concerto Beethoven Mass in C Rebecca Evans soprano Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano Thomas Walker tenor Matthew Rose bass Sharon Bezaly flute Lawrence Power viola BBC Singers City of London Sinfonia Richard Hickox conductor	13.00 - 14.00 PCM 5 Ortiz Passamezzo antico; Folia; Ruggiero Romanesca; Passamezzo moderno Hume A Souldiers March; Harke, harke; A Souldiers Resolution Marais Pièces de viole, 3è livre - Prélude; Muzettes I/II; La sautillante Sanz Jácaras; Canarios Marais Couplets des Folies d'espagne Jordi Savall bass viol/viola da gamba Rolf Lislevand theorbo/guitar 19.30 - 21.35 Prom 44 Elliott Carter Soundings (UK premiere) Prokofiev Symphony-Concerto Beethoven Symphony No.6, 'Pastoral' Nicolas Hodges piano Alban Gerhardt cello BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Ilan Volkov conductor	19.00 - 22.00 Prom 45 Jonathan Harvey Tombeau de Messiaen Messiaen Concert à quatre Jonathan Harvey Mortuos plango, vivos voco Jonathan Harvey Speakings (BBC co-commission with IRCAM and Radio France; UK premiere) Varèse Poème éléctronique Varèse Déserts Cédric Tiberghien piano Emily Beynon flute Alexei Ogrintchouk oboe Danjulo Ishizaka cello BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Ilan Volkov conductor	19.00 - 22.30 Prom 46 Tchaikovsky The Sleeping Beauty London Symphony Orchestra Valery Gergiev conductor	19.30 - 22.00 Prom 47 Dvořák Slavonic Dances, Op.46 Janáček Osud (concert performance, sung in Czech) cast includes: Štefan Margita tenor Živný Amanda Roocroft soprano Míla Rosalind Plowright mezzo-soprano Míla's Mother Aleš Briscein tenor Dr Suda Owen Gilhooly baritone Konečny Ailish Tynan soprano Miss Stuhlá Martina Bauerová soprano Miss Pacovská/Fanča George Longworth treble Doubek as child BBC Singers BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiří Bělohlávek conductor

Week 6 : 22 - 28 August 2008
Fri 22	Sat 23	Sun 24	Mon 25	Tue 26	Wed 27	Thu 28
19.00 - 22.20 Prom 48 Mahler Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor Stockhausen Punkte (1952/ 1962/ 1993) Schubert Songs Orch. David Matthews Ständchen, D920b Orch. Manfred Trojahn Bei dir allein, D866/2 Orch. Colin Matthews Nacht und Träume, D827 Orch. Detlev Glanert Das Lied im Grünen, D109 Beethoven Overture 'Leonore' No.3 Angelika Kirchschlager mezzo-soprano Apollo Voices (womens' voices) Gürzenich Orchestra Markus Stenz conductor	18.30 - 20.45 Prom 49 Varèse Amériques Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.4 in G minor Copland Symphony No.3 Boris Berezovsky piano National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Antonio Pappano conductor	16.00 - 17.00 Prom 50 Bach Day J S Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565; Canonic Variations on 'Vom Himmel Hoch' BWV769; Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, 'St Anne', BWV 552; Chorale Prelude on 'Vater unser im Himmelreich', BWV 682; Chorale Prelude on 'Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir', BWV 687; Duetto No.2 in F major, BWV 803 Simon Preston organ 19.00 - 21.10 Prom 51 J S Bach St. John Passion (sung in German) Mark Padmore tenor Evangelist Peter Harvey bass Christus Katherine Fuge soprano Robin Blaze counter-tenor Nicholas Mulroy tenor Jeremy Budd tenor Matthew Brook bass Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor 22.00 - 23.15 Prom 52 J S Bach Suite No.1 in G major for solo cello J S Bach Suite No.2 in D minor for solo cello J S Bach Suite No.3 in C major for solo cello Jian Wang cello NB: Closing Ceremony Of Beijing Olympics Today	13:00 - 14:00 PCM 6 Lambert Air 'Vos mépris chaque jour' Marais Sonate à la marésienne - excerpts Montéclair Cantata - Le dépit généreux Couperin 14è ordre - Le rossignol-en-amour; Double du rossignol Rameau Cantata - Orphée Les Talens Lyriques: Céline Scheen soprano Stéphanie Paulet violin Atsushi Sakaï cello Christophe Rousset harpsichord/director 19.00 - 21.10 Prom 53 Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet - excerpts Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 in E minor Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Daniele Gatti conductor	19.30 - 22.05 Prom 54 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis; Job: A Masque for Dancing Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music; Symphony No.9 Sarah Tynan, Elizabeth Atherton, Sophie Bevan, Rachel Nicholls sopranos Allison Cook, Louise Poole, Julia Riley, Catherine Hopper mezzo-sopranos Ed Lyon, Joshua Ellicott, Peter Wedd, Nicholas Sharratt tenors Mark Stone, Darren Jeffery, George von Bergen,Tim Mirfin basses BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Andrew Davis conductor	19:00 - 21:05 Prom 55 Debussy Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending Peter Eötvös Seven (UK premiere) Ravel Shéhérazade; Daphnis et Chloé - Suite No.2 Akiko Suwanai violin Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Philharmonia Orchestra Susanna Mälkki conductor 22.00 - 23.20 Prom 56 Einojuhani Rautavaara Cantus arcticus Sir John Tavener Cantus Mysticus (UK premiere); The Whale Patricia Rozario soprano Susan Bickley mezzo-soprano David Wilson-Johnson baritone Mark van de Wiel clarinet London Sinfonietta Chorus London Sinfonietta David Atherton conductor	19.30 - 21.35 Prom 57 Steven Stucky Rhapsodies (BBC/NYPO co- commission; world premiere) Gershwin Piano Concerto in F major Stravinsky The Rite of Spring Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano New York Philharmonic Lorin Maazel conductor

Week 7 : 29 Aug - 4 Sept 2008
Fri 29	Sat 30	Sun 31	Mon 1	Tue 2	Wed 3	Thu 4
19.30 - 21.35 Prom 58 Ravel Mother Goose - suite Bartók The Miraculous Mandarin - suite Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4 New York Philharmonic Lorin Maazel conductor	19.30 - 22.05 Prom 59 Magnus Lindberg Seht die Sonne (UK premiere) Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor Sibelius Symphony No.1 in E minor Nikolai Lugansky piano Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra Jukka-Pekka Saraste conductor	16.00 - 17.30 Prom 60 Mozart Piano Sonata No.13 in B flat major, K.333 Rachmaninov Prelude in G minor, Op.23 No.5; Prelude in Bb Major, Op.23 No.2 Chopin Grand Polonaise in E-flat major Schubert Fantasia in F minor for piano duet, D940* Debussy Preludes (Book 1) - La fille aux cheveux de lin; Les collines d'Anacapri Trad. Chinese Moonlight Reflections; Spring Dance Liszt transc. Horowitz Hungarian Rhapsody No.2, S.244 Lang Lang piano with Marc Yu* piano 20.00 - 21.35 Prom 61 Verdi Requiem Violeta Urmana soprano Michelle DeYoung mezzo-soprano Joseph Calleja tenor Ildebrando d'Arcangelo bass BBC Symphony Chorus Crouch End Festival Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Jirí Belohlávek conductor	13:00 - 14:00 PCM 7 Coleridge-Taylor Clarinet Quintet Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge Mark Padmore tenor Nash Ensemble 19.00 - 21.10 Prom 62 Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major Sibelius Symphony No.2 in D major Nikolaj Znaider violin Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester Sir Colin Davis conductor 22.00 - 23.30 Prom 63 Motets and chansons by Claude Le Jeune, Antoine Brumel and Claudin de Sermisy, interspersed with Indian ragas Messiaen Cinq rechants Night ragas Nishat Khan sitar Rashid Mustafa Thirakwa tabla Natasha Ahmad tanpura BBC Singers David Hill conductor	19.30 - 21.40 Prom 64 Wagner Tristan und Isolde - Prelude and Liebestod Messiaen Turangalîla Symphony Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano Tristan Murail ondes martenot Berliner Philharmoniker Sir Simon Rattle conductor	19.30 - 21.40 Prom 65 Brahms Symphony No.3 in F major Shostakovich Symphony No.10 in E minor Berliner Philharmoniker Sir Simon Rattle conductor	19.00 - 21.10 Prom 66 Grace Williams Sea Sketches Elgar Sea Pictures Tchaikovsky Symphony No.6, 'Pathetique' Christine Rice mezzo-soprano BBC National Orchestra of Wales Tadaaki Otaka conductor 22.00 - 23.00 Prom 67 Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time Martin Fröst clarinet Anthony Marwood violin Matthew Barley cello Thomas Larchner piano

Week 8 : 5 - 11 September 2008
Fri 5	Sat 6	Sun 7	Mon 8	Tue 9	Wed 10	Thu 11
19.30 - 21.55 Prom 68 Rimsky-Korsakov Kashchey the Immortal(concert performance; sung in Russian) Stravinsky The Firebird Vyacheslav Voynarovsky tenor Kashchey Tatiana Monogarova soprano Princess Pavel Baransky baritone Ivan Korolevich Elena Manistina mezzo-soprano Kashcheyevna Mikhail Petrenko bass Storm Knight BBC Singers London Philharmonic Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski conductor	19.30 - 21.45 Prom 69 Roussel Bacchus et Arianne - Suite No.2 Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor Thea Musgrave Rainbow Debussy La mer Stephen Hough piano Royal Scottish National Orchestra Stéphane Denève conductor	16.00 - 22.00 Prom 70 Messiaen Saint Francis of Assisi (concert performance; sung in French) The Netherlands Opera Rodney Gilfrey St Francis Heidi Grant Murphy Angel Hubert Delamboye Leper Henk Neven Brother Leo Charles Workman Brother Masseo Donald Kaasch Brother Elias Armand Arapian Brother Bernard Jan Willem Balijet Brother Sylvester André Morsch Brother Rufus Chorus of The Netherlands Opera Martin Wright chorus master The Hague Philharmonic Ingo Metzmacher conductor	13:00 - 14:00 PCM 8 R. Strauss Capriccio - Sextet Fauré La bonne chanson Huw Watkins Sad Steps (BBC commission; world premiere) Elizabeth Watts soprano Aronowitz Ensemble 19.30 - 21.45 Prom 71 Mark-Anthony Turnage Chicago Remains (UK premiere) Mahler Symphony No.6 in A minor Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bernard Haitink conductor	19.30 - 21.45 Prom 72 Mozart Piano Concerto No.24 in C minor, K410 Shostakovich Symphony No.4 in C minor Murray Perahia piano Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bernard Haitink conductor	18.30 - 21.20 Prom 73 Vaughan Williams Sinfonia Antartica (Symphony No.7) Xenakis Pleiades Holst The Planets Elizabeth Watts soprano 4-Mality O Duo Holst Singers women's voices BBC Symphony Orchestra Martyn Brabbins conductor	19.30 - 21.30 Prom 74 Matthias Pintscher Hérodiade-Fragmente Mahler Symphony No.1 in D major Marisol Montalvo soprano Orchestre de Paris Christoph Eschenbach conductor

Week 9 : 12 - 13 September 2008
Fri 12	Sat 13	Sun 14	Mon 15	Tue 16	Wed 17	Thu 18
19.30 - 21.50 Prom 75 Wagner Parsifal - Prelude (Act 1) Krzysztof Penderecki Threnody 'For the Victims of Hiroshima' Beethoven Elegischer Gesang Beethoven Symphony No.9 in D minor 'Choral' Emma Bell soprano Jane Irwin mezzo-soprano Timothy Robinson tenor Iain Paterson bass City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus BBC Philharmonic Gianandrea Noseda conductor	20.00 - 22.35 Prom 76 The Last Night of the Proms Beethoven The Creatures of Prometheus - Overture Wagner Tannhäuser - 'Wie Todesahnung Dämmrung ... O du, mein holder Abendstern' (Act 3) Puccini Tosca - 'Tre sbirri, una carrozza' (Act 1, Te Deum) Verdi Falstaff - 'Ehi! paggio! ... L'onore! Ladri!' (Act 1) Beethoven Choral Fantasy Denza arr. Rimsky-Korsakov Funiculì, funiculà Trad. arr. Chris Hazell: Folk-Song Medley The Turtle Dove (England) - Loch Lomond (Scotland) - Cariad cyntaf (Wales) - Molly Malone (Ireland) (BBC commission: world premiere) Anna Meredith froms (BBC commission; world premiere) Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 Vaughan Williams Sea Songs Arne arr. Sargent Rule, Britannia! Parry orch. Elgar Jerusalem The National Anthem Bryn Terfel bass-baritone Hélène Grimaud piano BBC Singers BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Roger Norrington conductor

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