Seasons - 2012

Sean Rafferty and Suzy Klein present a live Proms edition of BBC Radio 3’s In Tune, featuring artists from the season.

Mark-Anthony Turnage - Canon Fever (3 mins)
Edward Elgar - Overture 'Cockaigne (In London Town)' (15 mins)
Frederick Delius - Sea Drift (25 mins)
Michael Tippett - Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles (16 mins)
Edward Elgar - Coronation Ode, Op 44 (33 mins)

Bring your family to join professional singers in favourite songs from My Fair Lady. Ideal for family members aged 7-plus.

George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, the inspiration for My Fair Lady, is discussed by Shaw’s biographer Sir Michael Holroyd and Professor of Irish History, Roy Foster. Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle are brought to life by the actors Tim Pigott-Smith and Rachael Stirling, who recently appeared in Pygmalion on stage. Matthew Sweet presents.

Frederick Loewe - My Fair Lady (170 mins)

Informal post-Prom music and poetry from emerging young talent.

Louise Fryer explores Debussy’s only completed opera with guests Richard Langham-Smith and Patrick McGuinness.

Claude Debussy - Pelléas et Mélisande (145 mins)

Charles-François Gounod - Au printemps (2 mins)
Camille Saint-Saëns - Aimons-nous (4 mins)
Gabriel Fauré - Poème d'un jour (6 mins)
Gabriel Fauré - Cinq mélodies 'de Venise' – En sourdine (3 mins)
Gabriel Fauré - Au bord de l'eau (2 mins)
Gabriel Fauré - Les roses d'Ispahan (3 mins)
Gabriel Fauré - Le secret (2 mins)
Gabriel Fauré - Notre amour (2 mins)
Erik Satie - Je te veux (4 mins)
Reynaldo Hahn - L'énamourée (4 mins)
Reynaldo Hahn - Fumée (3 mins)
Reynaldo Hahn - Dans la nuit (2 mins)
Reynaldo Hahn - Chansons grises – L'heure exquise (2 mins)
Francis Poulenc - Métamorphoses – C'est ainsi que tu es (2 mins)
Francis Poulenc - Banalités – Hôtel, Voyages à Paris (2 mins)
Francis Poulenc - Les chemins d'amour (4 mins)

Ara Guzelimian (Provost and Dean, Juilliard School of Music) and Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (Principal, Royal Academy of Music) discuss the long-standing series of collaborations between their distinguished conservatoires. Louise Fryer hosts.

Ottorino Respighi - Roman Festivals (22 mins)
Maurice Ravel - Piano Concerto in G major (22 mins)
John Adams - City Noir (34 mins)

Kaija Saariaho discusses Laterna magica with Tom Service prior to its UK premiere and introduces performances of her chamber works Serenatas and Tocar given by musicians from the London Sinfonietta Academy Ensemble.

Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra (32 mins)
Richard Strauss - Four Last Songs (22 mins)
Kaija Saariaho - Laterna magica (22 mins)
Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op 105 (23 mins)

Conductor Jane Glover begins a four-part series in which musicians from this year’s Proms season reveal their literary passions and talk about what they are reading this summer.

Fung Lam - Endless Forms (c9 mins)
Sergey Rachmaninov - Concerto for Piano No. 2 in C minor, Op 18 (35 mins)
Earl Wild - Seven Virtuoso Études – I got rhythm (2 mins)
Sergey Prokofiev - Symphony No. 6 in E flat minor, Op 111 (43 mins)

Musicians from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment introduce Handel’s oratorio Judas Maccabaeus with musical examples. Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents.

On the first night of Daniel Barenboim’s Beethoven/Boulez cycle, the conductor talks to Proms Director Roger Wright.

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op 21 (25 mins)
Pierre Boulez - Dérive 2 (45 mins)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op 36 (35 mins)

Beethoven Family Orchestra and Chorus, with a little bit of Boulez!

J. S. Bach - The Art of Fugue (arr. M. Esfahani) (70 mins)

A live musical introduction perfect for all the family, with Rachel Leach and professional musicians. Bring your instrument and join in!

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op 60 (35 mins)
Pierre Boulez - Dialogue de l'ombre double (20 mins)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica', Op 55 (50 mins)

Informal post-Prom music and poetry from emerging young talent.

An illustrated introduction to tonight’s performance of The Trojans with Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

Orlando Gibbons - First Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts (1612) – selection (8 mins)
Orlando Gibbons - The Cryes of London (7 mins)
Julian Philips - Sorowfull Songes (c10 mins)
Steve Martland - Street Songs – selection (22 mins)

Mariam Said and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Shahidha Bari on the story of the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra, with host Clemency Burton-Hill.

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 in F major 'Pastoral', Op 68 (40 mins)
Pierre Boulez - Mémoriale ('… explosante-fixe …' Originel) (8 mins)
Pierre Boulez - Messagesquisse (8 mins)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 in C minor (30 mins)

Ed Stourton, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Sunday, is joined by a panel of guests to explore the influence on contemporary Arabic literature of the social and political uprisings of the ‘Arab Spring’.

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op 93 (25 mins)
Pierre Boulez - Anthèmes 2 (25 mins)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op 92 (35 min)

Omar Souleyman - I'll Prevent the Hunters from Hunting You (La sidounak sayyada) (arr. Jacob Garchik) (4 mins)
Sofia Gubaidulina - String Quartet No. 4 (12 mins)
Ben Johnston - String Quartet No. 4, 'Amazing Grace' (11 mins)
Nicole Lizée - The Golden Age of the Radiophonic Workshop (Fibre-Optic Flowers) (c10 mins)
Traditional - Tusen tankar (A Thousand Thoughts) transcr. Ljova, arr. Kronos Quartet (5 mins)
Aleksandra Vrebalov - … hold me, neighbor, in this storm … (22 mins)
Clint Mansell - Death is the Road to Awe (9 mins)

Rachel Leach takes you on a family-friendly whistle-stop tour of the evening Prom with live musical examples. Bring your instrument and join in.

Bedřich Smetana - String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, 'From My Life' (orch. Szell) (28 mins)
Sergey Prokofiev - Concerto for Violin No. 1 in D major, Op 19 (22 mins)
Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op 70 (35 mins)
Eugène Ysaÿe - Violin Sonata No. 2, ‘Jacques Thibaud’ – 1st movement, ‘Obsession’ (8 mins)

Join Rachel Leach and discover the stories behind the music, learn about the composers and perform alongside musicians from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Bring your instrument and join in.

Edward Elgar - In the South (Alassio) (23 mins)
Hugh Wood - Concerto for Piano, Op 32 (30 mins)
Maurice Ravel - Une barque sur l'océan (8 mins)
Claude Debussy - La cathédrale engloutie (orch. Henry Wood) (8 mins)
Claude Debussy - La mer (25 mins)

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op 16 (25 mins)
Pierre Boulez - Le marteau sans maître (35 mins)

Join Mary King in a special sing-through of the ‘Ode to Joy’ from Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony to mark the opening of the London Olympics. No need to book – just turn up!

Jean-Baptiste Lully - Armide – suite (15 mins)
Henri Desmarets - Circé – suite (10 mins)
Marin Marais - Ariane et Bacchus – suite (15 mins)
André Campra - Tancrède – suite (13 mins)
Michel-Richard de Lalande - Symphonies pour les soupez du roy – suite (12 mins)

Join Stephen Johnson for an illustrated introduction to the music in tonight’s Prom.

Rued Langgaard - Symphony No. 11, ‘Ixion’ (5 mins)
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen - Incontri (14)
Dmitry Shostakovich - Concerto for Cello No. 1 in E flat major, Op 107 (29 mins)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 in B minor, 'Pathétique' (45 mins)
Benjamin Britten - Cello Suite No. 2 – Declamato (4 mins)

Informal post-Prom music and poetry from emerging young talent.

Join the Family Orchestra and Chorus in creating its own Wallace & Gromit soundtrack!

Join the Family Orchestra and Chorus in creating its own Wallace & Gromit soundtrack!

Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man (4 mins)
John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine (5 mins)
Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune (arr. Caplet) (5 mins)
Dmitry Shostakovich - Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op 43 (5 mins)
Wallace - My Concerto in Ee, Lad (c5 mins)
Julian Nott - A Matter of Loaf and Death (30 mins)

Stephen Johnson and musicians from the Aldeburgh World Orchestra give an illustrated introduction to the music in tonight’s Prom.   

Benjamin Britten - Sinfonia da Requiem (21 mins)
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 10 – Adagio (22 mins)
Charlotte Bray - At the Speed of Stillness (c10 mins)
Igor Stravinsky - Le sacre du printemps (32 mins)

Various - La Tarantella (60 mins)

Conductor David Hill continues the series in which leading musicians from this year’s Proms season introduce their literary passions and talk about what they are reading this summer.  

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Don Giovanni, K 527 (6 mins)
Oliver Knussen - Symphony No. 2, Op 7 (17 mins)
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 7 (78 mins)

Members of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales explore music by four great British composers. Bring your instrument and join in!

Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (16 mins)
John Ireland - These Things Shall Be (22 mins)
Frederick Delius - The Walk to the Paradise Garden (10 mins)
William Walton - Belshazzar's Feast (36 mins)

Various - Vallenato music of northern Colombia (75mins)

Choral director Simon Halsey introduces the new BBC Proms Youth Choir project and discusses tonight’s programme with Ken Burton, Principal Conductor of the London Adventist Chorale. Martin Handley hosts.

Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question (6 mins)
Samuel Barber - Adagio for strings (8 mins)
Bernd Alois Zimmermann - Nobody knows de trouble I see (15 mins)
Michael Tippett - A Child of Our Time (72 mins)

A musical exploration of Bach’s Mass in B minor with Matthew Rowe and musicians from The English Concert.

Poet Jackie Kay and novelist Ali Smith discuss one of the great Scottish novels, Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the first part of his Scots Quair trilogy, set in a Scottish farming community.  

Richard Wagner - Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103 (18 mins)
Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 8 in C minor (1890 version, ed. Nowak) (80 mins)

Emmanuel Chabrier - España (8 mins)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto for Flute in D major, K 314 (20 mins)
Elaine Agnew - Dark Hedges (c12 mins)
Igor Stravinsky - The Firebird (30 mins)

Edgard Varèse - Tuning Up (5 mins)
Nico Muhly - Gait (20 mins)
Olivier Messiaen - Turangalîla Symphony (77 mins)
Anna Meredith - HandsFree (12 mins)

Informal post-Prom music and poetry from emerging young talent.

Join the Proms team in this special event inspired by The Angry Planet, ending in a performance. Family members can join Proms Plus Sing or Proms Family Orchestra, which will join forces for the performance.

Bob Chilcott - The Angry Planet (c45 mins)
Ben Parry - Flame (4 mins)

Matthew Rowe explores the music in tonight’s Prom, with live musical examples from members of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.  

Willie Hunter - Leaving Lerwick Harbour, arr. Paul Campbell (3 mins)
James MacMillan - Fanfare Upon One Note (4 mins)
Max Bruch - Scottish Fantasy, Op 46 (30 mins)
Richard Strauss - Don Juan (17 mins)
Thea Musgrave - Loch Ness – a Postcard from Scotland (c10 mins)
Ottorino Respighi - Pines of Rome (23 mins)

Claude Debussy - Violin Sonata (13 mins)
Claude Debussy - Cello Sonata (12 mins)
Maurice Ravel - Piano Trio in A minor (27 mins)

War reporter Kate Adie and novelist Aminatta Forna discuss Margaret Atwood’s groundbreaking novel A Handmaid’s Tale, 25 years after its publication, in which a conservative religious revolution brings about a theocratic dictatorship.  

Leonard Bernstein - Mass (103 mins)

James MacMillan and Andrew Carwood, Director of Music at St Paul’s Cathedral, consider the role of religion in music, with presenter Louise Fryer.  

Richard Wagner - Tristan and Isolde – Prelude (Act 1) (9 mins)
James MacMillan - Credo (c25 mins)
Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 6 in A major (55 mins)

Conductor Edward Gardner continues the series of literary passions and talks about what he’s reading this summer.  

Franz Schubert - Symphony No. 8 in B minor, 'Unfinished', D 759 (25 mins)
Richard Dubugnon - Battlefield Concerto (27 mins)
Richard Strauss - Ein Heldenleben, Op 40 (45 mins)

Per Nørgård discusses his Seventh Symphony with Andrew McGregor prior to its UK premiere and introduces performances of his chamber works, Dancers Around Jupiterand String Quartet No. 6, ‘Tintinnabulary’, given by musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music. Due to illness, we regret to announce that Per Nørgård has had to withdraw from this event. We are grateful to Ivan Hewett for taking his place.  

Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op 104 (29 mins)
Frederick Delius - Cynara (10 mins)
Edvard Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor (29 mins)
Per Nørgård - Symphony No. 7 (27 mins)
Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op 52 (30 mins)
Robert Schumann - Widmung, arr. S. Osborne (3 mins)

Ivor Novello - A Celebration of Ivor Novello (75 mins)
Ivor Novello - Keep The Home Fires Burning (3 mins)
Ivor Novello - Glamorous Night (6 mins)
Ivor Novello - Glamorous Night (4 mins)
Ivor Novello - Crest Of The Wave (3 mins)
Ivor Novello - The Dancing Years (3 mins)
Ivor Novello - The Dancing Years (4 mins)
Ivor Novello - King's Rhapsody (2 mins)
Ivor Novello - King's Rhapsody (3 mins)
Ivor Novello - King's Rhapsody (4 mins)
Ivor Novello - Pray For Me (3 mins)
Ivor Novello - We'll Gather Lilacs (4 mins)

Join Matthew Rowe and musicians from the BBC Singers for a musical introduction to Elgar’s oratorio The Apostles.

Duke Ellington - Rockin' in Rhythm (6 mins)
Nikki Iles - Hush (8 mins)
Kenny Wheeler - Sweet Time Suite – Know Where You Are (6 mins)
Thelonious Monk - 'Round midnight (arr. M. Armstrong) (5 mins)
Jerome Richardson - Groove Merchant (7 mins)
Chris Whiter - The Change (8 mins)
Tom Stone - Return Flight (7 mins)
Duke Ellington - Caravan (arr. Callum Au) (8 mins)
Duke Ellington - The Queen’s Suite – Sunset and the Mockingbird (4 mins)
Tim Garland - Agro Alegría (c8 mins)

Sing extracts from Berlioz’s extraordinary Requiem with Mary King. Ideal for enthusiastic amateurs aged 16-plus.

Michael Finnissy - Piano Concerto No. 2 (13 mins)
Brian Ferneyhough - Prometheus (23 mins)
Sir Harrison Birtwistle - Gigue Machine (12 mins)
Brian Elias - Electra Mourns (c17 mins)

Rachael Leach and musicians from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales give a musical insight into Berlioz’s Requiem.

Hector Berlioz - Requiem (Grande messe des morts) (83 mins)

Informal post-Prom music and poetry from emerging young talent.

Join the first Proms Family Wind Band, creating and performing a new piece! 

Vaughan Williams - Flourish (3 mins)
Gustav Holst - Suite No. 2 in F (11 mins)
Gavin Higgins - Der Aufstand (c10 mins)
Martin Ellerby - Paris Sketches (14 mins)
William Walton - Crown Imperial (8 mins)
Leighton Lucas - Chorale and Variations (7 mins)
John Pickard - Wildfire (12 mins)
Gavin Bryars - After the Underworlds (c6 mins)
George Benjamin - Altitude (8 mins)
Derek Bourgeois - Blitz, Op 65 (12 mins)

A musical introduction to Schoenberg’s epic cantata with Andrew McGregor and musicians from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers.  

Arnold Schoenberg - Gurrelieder (99 mins)

J. S. Bach - Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004 – Chaconne (13 mins)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Die tote Stadt – Marietta’s Song; Pierrot’s Dance Song (arr. Korngold) (11 mins)
Johannes Brahms - Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor (30 mins)
Robert Schumann - Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor, Op. 110 – 2nd movement (6 mins)

Olga Neuwirth discusses Remnants of Songs … an Amphigory with Andrew McGregor prior to its UK premiere and introduces performances of her chamber works, … ad auras … in memoriam H. and Marsyas II, given by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music.

Sergey Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet – Suite No. 1, Op 64a (30 mins)
Olga Neuwirth - Remnants of Songs ... an Amphigory (20 mins)
Béla Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra, Sz 116 (37 mins)

Join Rachel Leach and play alongside musicians from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to discover the history behind the evening’s concert.

Frederick Delius - Paris (The Song of a Great City) (22 mins)
Camille Saint-Saëns - Concerto for Piano No. 2 in G minor, Op 22 (21 mins)
Camille Saint-Saëns - The Carnival of the Animals – The Swan, transcr. L. Godowsky (3 mins)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5 in E minor (45 mins)

György Ligeti - Poème symphonique (8 mins)
Luciano Berio - Sequenza V (8 mins)
Iannis Xenakis - Phlegra (12 mins)
Jonathan Harvey - Mortuos plango, vivos voco (9 mins)
Louis Andriessen - De snelheid (18 mins)
John Cage - 4' 33 (4:33 mins)

Tonight’s conductor Marin Alsop and Cathy Graham, Head of Music at the British Council, discuss the São Paulo Orchestra and Brazilian musical life with Petroc Trelawny.

Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No. 9 in E minor, 'From the New World', Op 95 (45 mins)
Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man (4 mins)
Joan Tower - Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman (3 mins)
Hector Villa-Lobos - Momoprécoce (28 mins)
Alberto Ginastera - Estancia, Op 8a – suite (12 mins)
Edu Lobo - Pé de Vento from Suíte Popular Brasileira, orch. Nelson Ayres (3 mins)

Composer Anthony Payne introduces an anthology of readings about Vaughan Williams, including letters, private papers and reviews.

Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 4 in F minor (30 mins)
Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5 in D major (39 mins)
Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 6 in E minor (31 mins)

A whistlestop introduction to the world of John Cage, with experimental composer Alvin Curran and writer and broadcaster Ivan Hewett. Presented by Martin Handley.

Alwynne Pritchard - Glorvina (4'00)
Sound Intermedia - Scraffiti (4'00)
Dai Fujikura - I Dreamed On Singing Flowers (4'00)
John Woolrich - The Devil In The Clock (4'00)
David Sawer - Cagemobile (4'00)
Tansy Davies - encaged (Pegasus) (4'00)
Claudia Molitor - Promming (with Listening Stick) (4'00)
Alvin Curran - DJ Albert Spins Cage and Cardew (4'00)
Joe Cutler - The Greatest Hits of Prince Consort Road (4'00)
Judith Weir - What's In The Lake (4'00)

John Cage - 1O1 (12 mins)
John Cage - Improvisation III (12 mins)
Christian Marclay - Baggage (c5 mins)
John Cage - Cartridge Music and Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music (30 mins)
John Cage - Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra (20 mins)
John Cage - Four2 (7 mins)
John Cage - But what about the noise of crumpling paper ... (15 mins)
John Cage - Experiences II (3 mins)
John Cage - ear for EAR (Antiphonies) (2 mins)
David Behrman, Takehisa Kosugi, Keith Rowe & Christian Wolff - Quartet (c25 mins)
John Cage - Branches (20 mins)

Alexander Goehr - … a musical offering (J.S.B. 1985) …, Op 46 (15 mins)
Oliver Knussen - Ophelia Dances, Book 1, Op 13 (7 mins)
Oliver Knussen - Ophelia's Last Dance, Op 32 (10 mins)
Simon Bainbridge - The Garden of Earthly Delights (c35 mins)

Christine Rice concludes the series of events in which musicians from this year’s Proms season introduce readings from their favourite works of fiction and poetry.  

Carl Maria von Weber - Der Freischütz – overture (10 mins)
Gustav Mahler - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (17 mins)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Manfred (57 mins)

Informal post-Prom music and poetry from emerging young talent.

Sing parts of Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic The Yeomen of the Guard with Mary King. Ideal for enthusiastic amateurs aged 16-plus.

Musicians from the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers present a musical exploration of tonight’s operetta with Sara Mohr-Pietsch.  

Arthur Sullivan - The Yeomen of the Guard (133 mins)

Hugh Wood - String Quartet No. 4 (24 mins)
Claude Debussy - String Quartet in G minor, Op 10 (25 mins)

Journey through the music of this evening’s Prom in a family-friendly introduction with Fraser Trainer. Bring along your instrument and join in.

Ludwig van Beethoven - Egmont, Op 84 (9 mins)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto for Clarinet in A major, K 622 (28 mins)
Gerald Finzi - Five Bagatelles, Op. 23a – Romance (No. 2) (3 mins)
Frederick Delius - Eventyr (Once Upon a Time) (16 mins)
Carl Nielsen - Symphony No. 5, FS97, Op 50 (34 mins)

Novelist Pat Barker and Revd Giles Fraser discuss what British writers can learn from the Russian classics, with readings from their personal favourites.

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka - Ruslan and Lyudmila – overture (5 mins)
Emily Howard - Calculus of the Nervous System (15 mins)
Dmitry Shostakovich - Symphony No. 7 in C major, 'Leningrad', Op 60 (75 mins)

Join Rachel Leach, musicians from the LSO and Director of the Royal Ballet Monica Mason for an interactive introduction to the music of Cinderella. Ideal for all the family. Bring your instrument and join in.

Lodovico Viadana - Salmi a quattro chori (1612) – Deus in adiutorium; Dixit Dominus (7 mins)
Giovanni Bassano - Divisions on Palestrina's 'Introduxit me rex' (4 mins)
Lodovico Viadana - Salmi a quattro chori (1612) – Laetatus sum (7 mins)
Lodovico Viadana - O dulcissima Maria (2 mins)
Lodovico Viadana - Salmi a quattro chori (1612) – Lauda, Ierusalem (5 mins)
Alessandro Grandi - Plorabo die ac nocte (7 mins)
Giovanni Gabrieli - Magnificat a 20/28 con il 'sicut locutus' (reconstr. H. Keyte) (9 mins)
Claudio Monteverdi - Salve Regina (4 mins)
Giovanni Gabrieli - In ecclesiis (reconstr. H. Keyte) (7 mins)

Glenda Jackson MP and film critic Mark Kermode celebrate the work of the late Ken Russell, the film director of groundbreaking and controversial films about Delius, Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Liszt, Mahler and Strauss.  

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies - Symphony No.9 (25 mins)
Frederick Delius - Violin Concerto (25 mins)
Dmitry Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op 93 (45 mins)

Musicians from ENO provide an illustrated guide to Britten’s first operatic masterpiece. Andrew McGregor presents.

Helen Grime discusses Night Songs ahead of its world premiere tonight and introduces performances of her chamber pieces 10 Miniatures for solo piano, To see the summer sky and Shadowplay by students from the Royal College of Music. Tom Service presents.

Alexander Goehr - Metamorphosis/Dance, Op 36 (19 mins)
Oliver Knussen - Symphony No. 3, Op 18 (15 mins)
Helen Grime - Night Songs (c5 mins)
Claude Debussy - The Martyrdom of St Sebastian (52 mins)

Informal post-Prom music and poetry from emerging young talent.

Musicians from the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester are joined by Andrew McGregor to give some musical insights into tonight’s programme.

Richard Wagner - Parsifal – Prelude (Act 3) and Good Friday Music (20 mins)
Alban Berg - Violin Concerto (25 mins)
J. S. Bach - Sonata for Solo Violin No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003 (3 mins)
Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier – suite (22 mins)
Maurice Ravel - La valse (12 mins)
Richard Wagner - The Mastersingers of Nuremberg – overture (5 mins)

Claude Debussy - Sonata for flute, viola and harp (16 mins)
Arnold Schoenberg - Pierrot lunaire, Op 21 (33 mins)

We're looking for musical families to come and perform at the BBC Proms as part of the Proms Family Orchestra and Chorus!

Antonín Dvořák - Slavonic Dance in C major, Op. 46 No. 1 (4 mins)
Frederick Delius - On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring (6 mins)
Hari Vrndavn Sivanesan - Postcard from India and Sri Lanka (8 mins)
Manuel de Falla - El amor brujo (4 mins)
Joaquín Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez (12 mins)
Bizet - L' Arlésienne, Suite No. 2 (3 mins)
Proms Family Orchestra - Wish You Were Here (10 mins)
Blind Boys of Alabama - People get ready, arr. Jason Yarde (3 mins)
Blind Boys of Alabama - Take the High Road, arr. Jason Yarde (3 mins)
Blind Boys of Alabama - Amazing Grace, arr. Jason Yarde (3 mins)
Blind Boys of Alabama - Down By the Riverside, arr. Jason Yarde (3 mins)

Clive James, poet, essayist and lyricist, Tell Me on a Sunday lyricist Don Black and singer-songwriter Barb Jungr discuss the great musical wordsmiths and reveal their personal favourites, as well as the great lyrics that work even though they really shouldn’t. Matthew Sweet presents.

George Gershwin - Funny Face (6 mins)
Cole Porter - Kiss Me, Kate (6 mins)
Kern - Show Boat (14 mins)
Richard Rodgers - On Your Toes (9 mins)
Meredith Wilson - The Music Man (4 mins)
Richard Rodgers - The Boys from Syracuse (3 mins)
Richard Rodgers - South Pacific (3 mins)
Richard Adler - The Pajama Game – Seven and a Half Cents (6 mins)
Frederick Loewe - Camelot (4 mins)
Frank Loesser - Guys and Dolls (3 mins)
Frank Loesser - The Most Happy Fella (4 mins)
Leonard Bernstein - On The Town (6 mins)
George Gershwin - Porgy and Bess (6 mins)
Jerry Bock - Fiorello! (4 mins)
Richard Rodgers - Allegro (4 mins)
Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story (7 mins)
Jule Styne - Funny Girl (3 mins)
Jerry Herman - Mame (6 mins)
Jerry Herman - Mack & Mabel (6 mins)

A great way to explore opera for the first time with the Glyndebourne Opera Land team. Suitable for 12- to 18-year-olds.

Join Rachel Leach and musicians from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for a musical introduction to Mozart’s comic opera.

Award-winning film-maker John Bridcut introduces a selection of fascinating and unexpected readings about Edward Elgar, including letters, diaries and reviews.

Herbert Howells - Hymnus Paradisi (44 mins)
Edward Elgar - Symphony No. 1 in A flat major, Op 55 (53 mins)

Leonard Bernstein - Warm-Up (2 mins)
Eric Whitacre - Alleluia (9 mins)
Eric Whitacre - Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine (9 mins)
J. S. Bach - Bach Again (arr. E. London) (5 mins)
Eric Whitacre - Higher, Faster, Stronger (c8 mins)
Imogen Heap - The Listening Chair (arr. E. Whitacre) (c5 mins)
Traditional - Three Spirituals (arr. M. Hogan) (9 mins)
Eric Whitacre - Cloudburst (9 mins)
Eric Whitacre - Sleep (5 mins)

A musical introduction to tonight’s programme with members of the Berliner Philharmoniker and Rachel Leach.

György Ligeti - Atmosphères (8 mins)
Richard Wagner - Lohengrin – Prelude (Act I) (7 mins)
Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 4 in A minor, Op 63 (33 mins)
Claude Debussy - Jeux (18 mins)
Maurice Ravel - Daphnis et Chloe – Suite No. 2 (17 mins)

Journalist Shirley Apthorp and Mark Pemberton, Director of the Association of British Orchestras, discuss the future of orchestras ahead of tonight’s performance by one of the world’s greatest.

Johannes Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major (50 mins)
Witold Lutosławski - Symphony No. 3 (35 mins)

Martin Taylor/Guy Barker - The Spirit of Django – orchestral suite (54 mins)

J. S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in F major, BWV 540 (8 mins)
J. S. Bach - Partita No. 3 in E major for solo violin, BWV 1006 – excerpt (arr. C. Carpenter) (8 mins)
J. S. Bach - Prelude and Fugue in A major, BWV 536 (6 mins)
J. S. Bach - Chorale Prelude 'Nun freut euch, lieben Christen', BWV 734 (arr. Busoni/C. Carpenter) (3 mins)
Cameron Carpenter - Improvisation on B–A–C–H (c12 mins)
J. S. Bach - 'Evolutionary' Toccata in D minor, BWV 565 (after Henry Wood and Busoni, arr. C. Carpenter) (11 mins)

John Deathridge explores the personal writing of Mendelssohn, including letters, diaries, autobiography and reviews.

Felix Mendelssohn - Overture 'Ruy Blas', Op 95 (8 mins)
Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor (27 mins)
Felix Mendelssohn - Overture 'The Fair Melusine', Op 32 (10 mins)
Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 5 in D major, 'Reformation' (27 mins)
Felix Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op 61 (5 mins)

Informal post-Prom music and poetry from emerging young talent.

A rare opportunity to sing extracts from Adams’s Nixon in China, with Mary King, before Wednesday’s performance of the opera. Suitable for enthusiastic amateurs aged 16-plus.

Cameron Carpenter - Improvisation on the Bourée from Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009 (c8 mins)
J. S. Bach - Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, 'The Great', BWV 542 (8 mins)
J. S. Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I – Prelude and Fugue No. 15 in G major, BWV 860 (5 mins)
J. S. Bach and Mahler - Syncretic Prelude and Fugue in D major (arr. C. Carpenter) (30 mins)

A musical introduction to Mahler’s Sixth Symphony with members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Stephen Johnson.

Olivier Messiaen - Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (31 mins)
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 6 in A minor (85 mins)

Claude Debussy - Les soirs illuminés par l’ardeur du charbon (3 mins)
Claude Debussy - Élégie (2 mins)
Claude Debussy - Masques (5 mins)
Claude Debussy - Préludes – Book 2 (38 mins)

Mariella Frostrup is joined by Sir Tim Rice to explore the regular favourites of guests’ book choices on Desert Island Discs.  

Eric Coates - By the Sleepy Lagoon (4 mins)
Sergey Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet – Dance of the Knights (5 mins)
J. S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (9 mins)
Edward Elgar - Concerto for Cello in E minor, Op 85 (8 mins)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Scenes from 'The Song of Hiawatha' – Death of Minnehaha (excerpt) (6 mins)
George Frideric Handel - Messiah, HWV 56 (7 mins)
Rhet Stoller - Match of the Day – theme (3 mins)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Concerto for Piano No. 5 in E flat major 'Emperor', Op 73 (20 mins)
Giacomo Puccini - Tosca (7 mins)
Eric Coates - March 'The Dambusters' (4 mins)

Musicians from the St Louis Symphony and Tom Service introduce tonight’s programme.

Johannes Brahms - Tragic Overture (14 mins)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Concerto for Violin in D major, Op 61 (40 mins)
Arnold Schoenberg - Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16 (16 mins)
George Gershwin - An American in Paris (18 mins)
J. S. Bach - Partita for Solo Violin No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006 (3 mins)
Leonard Bernstein - Candide - overture (4 mins)

Writer and broadcaster Rana Mitter, in conversation with journalist Shuyun Sun, discusses the political context of John Adams’s first opera, Nixon in China. Hosted by Louise Fryer.

John Adams - Nixon in China (180 mins)

Join Proms Director Roger Wright and Chris Cotton, Chief Executive of the Royal Albert Hall, as they look back over the 2012 season with Petroc Trelawny. Questions can be submitted in advance to proms@bbc.co.uk.

Ludwig van Beethoven - Concerto for Piano No. 4 in G major, Op 58 (35 mins)
Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 9 in D minor (65 mins)

Congolese street musicians Staff Benda Bilili and Congolese-Belgo rapper Baloji bring their own pieces of Africa to the Proms.

Award-winning poet Wendy Cope and Ian McMillan introduce the winning entries in this year’s Proms Poetry competition. Juliet Stevenson reads the winning poems.

Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 104 in D major, 'London' (30 mins)
Richard Strauss - An Alpine Symphony (50 mins)

Get ready for the Last Night celebrations with a singalong workshop led by Mary King. no need to book, just turn up.

Join in the Last Night celebrations in Hyde Park with Kylie, Alfie Boe, Il Divo and a host of musical stars.

Join the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Stephen Bell at Glasgow's City Halls to celebrate the Last Night of the Proms in Scotland!

BBC Proms in the Park Belfast is a major celebration of culture, achievement, people and places.

Mark Simpson - sparks (c2 mins)
Josef Suk - Towards a New Life, Op 35c (6 mins)
Frederick Delius - Songs of Farewell (18 mins)
Giuseppe Verdi - Un ballo in maschera – ‘Forse la soglia attinse … Ma se m’è forza perderti’ (5 mins)
Jules Massenet - Werther – ‘Pourquoi me réveiller?’ (3 mins)
Max Bruch - Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor (25 mins)
Giacomo Puccini - Tosca – ‘E lucevan le stelle’ (3 mins)
Giacomo Puccini - Turandot – ‘Nessun dorma’ (3 mins)
John Williams - Olympic Fanfare and Theme (5 mins)
Antonín Dvořák - Overture 'Carnival', Op 92 (9 mins)
Dmitry Shostakovich - The Gadfly – Romance (6 mins)
Ruggero Leoncavallo - Mattinata (3 mins)
Agustín Lara - Granada (3 mins)
Henry Wood - Fantasia on British Sea-Songs (20 mins)
Edward Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major ('Land of Hope and Glory') (8 mins)
Traditional - The National Anthem (arr. Britten) (2 mins)

A magical evening of music under the stars in Caerphilly.

A creative and fun approach to composition for school groups

A creative and fun approach to composition for school groups.

A creative and fun approach to composition for young musicians

A creative and fun approach to composition for young musicians.

A creative and fun approach to composition for young musicians.

Sergey Prokofiev - Cinderella, Op 87 (105)

George Frideric Handel - Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63 (130 mins)

J. S. Bach - Mass in B minor, BWV 232 (110 mins)

George Frideric Handel - Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348 (26 mins)
George Frideric Handel - Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349 (10 mins)
George Frideric Handel - Water Music Suite No. 3 in G major, HWV 350 (10 mins)
George Frideric Handel - Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351 (17 mins)

Benjamin Britten - Peter Grimes, Op 33 (150 mins)

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'Choral' (77 mins)

Edward Elgar - The Apostles, Op 49 (120 mins)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro, K 492 (190 mins)

Hector Berlioz - Les Troyens (255 mins)