PROMS 2018 Page 1 of 13 Prom 1: First Night of Maurice Ravel 20:15 Friday 13 July 2018 ON TV Tzigane (10 mins) James MacMillan Britannia (13 mins) Toward the Unknown Region (13 mins) Modest Mussorgsky Gustav Holst Pictures at an Exhibition - 10. The Great Gate of Kiev (orch. The Planets (52 mins) Ravel)

Anna Meredith violin Five Telegrams (22 mins) violin BBC co-commission with 14–18 NOW and Edinburgh International Festival: world première Ben Goldscheider horn saxophone National Youth Choir of Great Britain Jess Gillam saxophone BBC Symphony Chorus trumpet BBC Proms Youth Ensemble David Childs euphonium BBC Symphony Orchestra cello Sakari Oramo conductor cello Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello Laura van der Heijden cello Michael Collins clarinet Prom 2: Mozart, Ravel and Fauré Emma Johnson clarinet 19:30 Saturday 14 July 2018 Colin Currie percussion Royal Albert Hall Owen Gunnell percussion Adrian Spillett percussion Gabriel Fauré Sam Walton percussion Pavane (choral version) (5 mins) piano piano Piano No 27 in B flat major (32 mins) piano BBC Concert Orchestra Maurice Ravel Andrew Gourlay conductor Daphnis and Chloe (52 mins)

Francesco Piemontesi piano Proms at … Cadogan Hall 1 BBC Symphony Chorus 13:00 Monday 16 July 2018 City of Choir Cadogan Hall, London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Alain Altinoglu conductor Caroline Shaw Second Essay: Echo (15 mins) Third Essay: Ruby Prom 3: BBC Young Musician 40th Anniversary Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op 44 (30 mins) 19:00 Sunday 15 July 2018 ON TV Royal Albert Hall Calidore String Quartet ensemble Javier Perianes piano Ben Foster Fantasia on the Young Musician Theme BBC commission: world première Prom 4: Shostakovich’s ‘Leningrad’ Steve Reich Symphony Drumming - Part 1 (15 mins) 19:30 Monday 16 July 2018 Royal Albert Hall Giovanni Sollima Violoncelles, vibrez! (12 mins) Magnus Lindberg (new arrangement for 4 cellos & orchestra by Sollima) Clarinet Concerto (25 mins)

Iain Farrington Dmitri Shostakovich Gershwinicity (13 mins) Symphony No 7 in C major, 'Leningrad' (75 mins) BBC commission: world première Mark Simpson clarinet Camille Saint‐Saëns BBC Philharmonic The Carnival of the Animals (13 mins) Juanjo Mena conductor

Iain Farrington Carnival of the Animals (excerpts) (13 mins) Prom 5: Debussy Pélleas et Mélisande 18:30 Tuesday 17 July 2018 David Bruce Royal Albert Hall Sidechaining (10 mins) BBC commission: world première Pelléas et Mélisande (180 mins) promslist_2018_v02.html 2018-06-21 Information from .co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 2 of 13 Christina Gansch Mélisande Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (35 mins) John Chest Pelléas Christopher Purves Golaud Susan Bickley mezzo-soprano Brindley Sherratt Arkel London Sinfonietta Karen Cargill Genevieve Sir George Benjamin conductor Chloé Briot Yniold Glyndebourne Festival Opera London Philharmonic Orchestra Prom 9: War & Peace Robin Ticciati conductor 19:30 Saturday 21 July 2018 Royal Albert Hall

Prom 6: An American in Paris & Turangalîla Eriks Esenvalds 19:30 Wednesday 18 July 2018 Shadow (8 mins) Royal Albert Hall George Gershwin Sinfonia da Requiem (21 mins) An American in Paris (17 mins) Olivier Messiaen Symphony No 9 in D minor, 'Choral' (65 mins) Turangalîla Symphony (74 mins) Erin Wall soprano Angela Hewitt piano Judit Kutasi mezzo-soprano Cynthia Millar ondes Martenot Russell Thomas tenor BBC Symphony Orchestra Franz-Josef Selig baritone Sakari Oramo conductor BBC Proms Youth Choir World Orchestra for Peace conductor Prom 7: Jacob Collier and Friends Donald Runnicles conductor 19:30 Thursday 19 July 2018 ON TV Royal Albert Hall Prom 10: Fauré, Franck & Widor’s Toccata Jacob Collier 11:00 Sunday 22 July 2018 Becca Stevens Royal Albert Hall Sam Amidon Metropole Orkest Charles‐Marie Widor Hamid El Kasri Organ Symphony No 5 in F minor, Op 42 (6 mins) Take 6 ensemble Jules Buckley conductor César Franck Trois Pièces – Pièce héroïque (11 mins)

Prom 8: Youthful Beginnings Gabriel Fauré 19:30 Friday 20 July 2018 ON TV Pavane (arr. Apkalna) (8 mins) Royal Albert Hall Johann Sebastian Bach Lili Boulanger Fantasia in G major, BWV 572 (10 mins) D’un matin de printemps (5 mins) D’un soir triste (11 mins) Sir George Thomas Thalben-Ball Variations on a Theme by Paganini (A Study for the Pedals) (8 mins) Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor (20 mins) Thierry Escaich Morfydd Llwyn Owen Deux Évocations (13 mins) Nocturne (15 mins) Iveta Apkalna organ Robert Schumann Symphony No 4 in D minor (original 1841 version) (28 mins) Prom 11: Mahler Symphony of a Thousand Bertrand Chamayou piano 19:00 Sunday 22 July 2018 BBC National Orchestra of Wales Royal Albert Hall Thomas Søndergård conductor Gustav Mahler Symphony No 8 in E flat major, 'Symphony of a Thousand' Proms at … The Roundhouse 15:00 Saturday 21 July 2018 Tamara Wilson soprano Roundhouse, Camden Camilla Nylund soprano Joélle Harvey soprano Charles Ives Christine Rice mezzo-soprano The Unanswered Question (6 mins) Claudia Huckle contralto Simon O'Neill tenor Igor Stravinsky Quinn Kelsey baritone Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947 version) (9 mins) Morris Robinson bass Southend Boys’ Choir Olivier Messiaen Southend Girls' Choir

promslist_2018_v02.html 2018-06-21 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 3 of 13 BBC National Chorus of Wales BBC Symphony Chorus Die junge Nonne London Symphony Chorus Gretchen am Spinnrade BBC National Orchestra of Wales Lied der Mignon Thomas Søndergård conductor Erlkönig

Bernd Alois Zimmermann Proms at … Cadogan Hall 2 Symphony in One Movement (15 mins) 13:00 Monday 23 July 2018 Cadogan Hall, London Franz Schubert Fantasy in C major, D760, 'Wanderer' (orch. Liszt) (22 mins) Jean‐Philippe Rameau Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 – Prelude in A minor (5 mins) Jean Sibelius Pièces de clavecin, Book 3 (12 mins) Symphony No 7 in C major (22 mins) excerpts Elizabeth Watts soprano Eve Risser Louis Lortie piano Furakèla (5 mins) BBC Philharmonic BBC commission: world première John Storgårds conductor

François Couperin Piéces de clavecin, Book 1 – Sarabande 'La lugubre' Prom 15: Paul Lewis plays Beethoven’s Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 – Chaconne 'La Favorite' ‘Emperor’ concerto 19:30 Wednesday 25 July 2018 ON TV Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer Royal Albert Hall Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 – La sensible Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 – La marche des Scythes Tansy Davies What Did We See? (orchestral suite from 'Between Worlds') Jean Rondeau harpsichord BBC commission: world première

Ludwig van Beethoven Prom 12: Beethoven, Shostakovich & Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major, 'Emperor' (38 mins) Rachmaninov 19:00 Monday 23 July 2018 ON TV Johannes Brahms Royal Albert Hall Symphony No 2 in D major (42 mins)

Ludwig van Beethoven Paul Lewis piano Overture 'Coriolan' (8 mins) BBC Philharmonic Ben Gernon conductor Dmitri Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat major (29 mins) Prom 16: Stravinsky, Debussy & Wagner Andrew Norman 19:30 Thursday 26 July 2018 Spiral (6 mins) Royal Albert Hall UK première Richard Wagner Sergei Rachmaninov Tannhäuser – overture (14 mins) Symphonic Dances (36 mins) Claude Debussy Alisa Weilerstein cello La damoiselle élue (20 mins) BBC Symphony Orchestra Karina Canellakis conductor Igor Stravinsky Song of the Nightingale (20 mins) The Firebird – suite (1945 version) (31 mins) Prom 13: Pioneers of Sound 22:15 Monday 23 July 2018 ON TV Sabine Devieilhe soprano Royal Albert Hall Anna Stéphany mezzo soprano Hallé Choir (female voices) Daphne Oram Hallé Youth Choir (female voices) Still Point (30 mins) Hallé world première of revised version Mark Elder conductor

Shiva Feshareki turntables/electronics London Contemporary Orchestra Prom 17: Parry, Vaughan Williams & Holst Robert Ames conductor 19:00 Friday 27 July 2018 ON TV Royal Albert Hall

Prom 14: Sibelius, Schubert & Zimmermann Hubert Parry 19:30 Tuesday 24 July 2018 Symphony No. 5 in B minor (27 mins) Royal Albert Hall Ralph Vaughan Williams Richard Wagner The Lark Ascending (15 mins) The Mastersingers of Nuremberg – overture (10 mins) promslist_2018_v02.html 2018-06-21 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 4 of 13 Hubert Parry Jean Sibelius Hear my words, ye people (15 mins) Igor Stravinsky Gustav Holst Music by Kerry Andrew, Mason Bates, Joseph Bologne Ode to Death (12 mins) (Chevalier de Saint-Georges), Copland, Dvořák, Elgar, Orff, Purcell, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky Ralph Vaughan Williams Pastoral Symphony (No. 3) (35 mins) Naomi Wilkinson presenter Ten Pieces Children's Choir Tai Murray violin BBC Singers Francesca Chiejina soprano Denni Sayers Stage Director Ashley Riches bass-baritone London Music Masters BBC National Chorus of Wales Brave New Voices from English PEN BBC National Orchestra of Wales Phoenix Dance Theatre’s Youth Academy Martyn Brabbins conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra Rafael Payare conductor

Prom 18: Currentzis conducts Beethoven 19:30 Saturday 28 July 2018 Proms at ... Cadogan Hall 3: Ancient Rituals Royal Albert Hall and New Tales 13:00 Monday 30 July 2018 Ludwig van Beethoven Cadogan Hall Symphony No 2 in D major (32 mins) Joseph Tawadros Ludwig van Beethoven Constellation (5 mins) Symphony No 5 in C minor (31 mins) Work (5 mins) Permission to Evaporate (4 mins) MusicAeterna Gare De L’est (7 mins) Teodor Currentzis conductor Jessica Wells Rhapsody for solo oud (5 mins) Prom 19: Ten Pieces Prom BBC commission: world première 13:00 Sunday 29 July 2018 Royal Albert Hall Joseph Tawadros Heal (6 mins) Kerry Andrew Eye of the Beholder (4 mins) Mason Bates Forbidden Fruit (5 mins) Joseph Bologne de Saint‐Georges Bluegrass Nikriz (4 mins) Aaron Copland Antonín Dvořák Joseph Tawadros oud Edward Elgar Carl Orff Henry Purcell Prom 21: An Alpine Symphony Jean Sibelius 19:30 Monday 30 July 2018 Igor Stravinsky Royal Albert Hall Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Music by Kerry Andrew, Mason Bates, Joseph Bologne Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Chevalier de Saint-Georges), Copland, Dvořák, Elgar, Orff, Notturno in D major, K286 (17 mins) Purcell, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky Georg Friedrich Haas Naomi Wilkinson presenter Concerto grosso No. 1 (30 mins) Ten Pieces Children's Choir UK première BBC Singers London Music Masters Richard Strauss Phoenix Dance Theatre’s Youth Academy An Alpine Symphony (50 mins) Brave New Voices from English PEN BBC Symphony Orchestra Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet Rafael Payare conductor BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Denni Sayers Stage Director Ilan Volkov conductor

Prom 20: Ten Pieces Prom Prom 22: A London Symphony 17:00 Sunday 29 July 2018 19:00 Tuesday 31 July 2018 Royal Albert Hall Royal Albert Hall

Kerry Andrew Mason Bates Symphony No. 104 in D major, 'London' (29 mins) Joseph Bologne de Saint‐Georges Aaron Copland Ralph Vaughan Williams Antonín Dvořák A London Symphony (Symphony No 2) (50 mins) Edward Elgar Carl Orff BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Henry Purcell conductor

promslist_2018_v02.html 2018-06-21 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 5 of 13 Prom 23: Havana Meets Kingston Matthew Locke 22:15 Tuesday 31 July 2018 ON TV The Tempest – Curtain Tune (5 mins) Royal Albert Hall George Frideric Handel Mista Savona keyboard/samples Julius Caesar in Egypt – ‘Che sento? Oh Dio! … Se pietà di me Randy Valentine vocals non senti’ (8 mins) Solis vocals Brenda Navarrete percussion/vocals Dario Castello Julito Padrón trumpet/vocals Sonata No. 15 in D minor (5 mins) Mathieu Bost saxophone Bopee guitar Francesco Cavalli Rolando Luna piano Dido – 'Rè de' Getuli altero … Il mio marito' (3 mins) Valery ‘Valess’ Assouan bass Manuel Garcia drums Johann Adolf Hasse Mark Antony and Cleopatra – ‘Morte col fiero aspetto’ (4 mins)

Prom 24: A Hero’s Life George Frideric Handel 19:00 Wednesday 1 August 2018 Concerto grosso in C minor, Op. 6 No. 8 (15 mins) Royal Albert Hall Anna Prohaska soprano Dame Ethel Smyth Il Giardino Armonico The Wreckers – On the Cliffs of Cornwall (Prelude to Act 2) (8 Giovanni Antonini conductor mins)

Antonín Dvořák Prom 27: Folk Music around Britain and Cello Concerto in B minor (42 mins) Ireland 19:30 Friday 3 August 2018 ON TV Richard Strauss Royal Albert Hall Ein Heldenleben (45 mins) Julie Fowlis singer Daniel Müller‐Schott cello Jarlath Henderson singer BBC National Orchestra of Wales Sam Lee singer Otto Tausk conductor Alaw Welsh folk group The Unthanks English folk group BBC Concert Orchestra Prom 25: Tchaikovsky, Glinka & Joby Talbot Stephen Bell conductor 19:00 Thursday 2 August 2018 Royal Albert Hall Proms at … Lincoln Drill Hall Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka 15:00 Saturday 4 August 2018 Summer Night in (Spanish Overture No 2) (10 mins) Lincoln Drill Hall

Joby Talbot Igor Stravinsky Ink Dark Moon for guitar and orchestra (25 mins) The Soldier's Tale (65 mins) BBC commission: world première Hebrides Ensemble Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky William Conway conductor The Nutcracker – Act 1 (40 mins)

Miloš Karadaglić guitar Proms at … Lincoln Drill Hall Finchley Childrens Music Group ensemble 19:30 Saturday 4 August 2018 BBC Symphony Orchestra Lincoln Drill Hall Alexander Vedernikov conductor Igor Stravinsky The Soldier's Tale (65 mins) Prom 26: Late Night Serpent and Fire 22:15 Thursday 2 August 2018 Hebrides Ensemble Royal Albert Hall William Conway conductor

Henry Purcell Dido and Aeneas (15 mins) Prom 28: NYO perform Mussorgsky, Ligeti excerpts and Debussy The Fairy Queen – Chaconne: Dance for Chinese Man and 19:30 Saturday 4 August 2018 ON TV Woman (3 mins) Royal Albert Hall Dance for Chinese Man and Woman Modest Mussorgsky Christoph Graupner A Night on the Bare Mountain (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov) (12 Dido, Queen of Carthage (8 mins) mins) excerpts George Benjamin Antonio Sartorio Dance Figures (16 mins) Julius Caesar in Egypt (3 mins) excerpts Maurice Ravel promslist_2018_v02.html 2018-06-21 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 6 of 13 Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (19 mins) Antje Weithaas violin Brett Dean György Ligeti Tabea Zimmermann viola Lontano (12 mins) Claire Chase flute Fiona Kelly flute Claude Debussy Marten Larsson oboe La mer (23 mins) Håkan Hardenberger trumpet Swedish Chamber Orchestra Tamara Stefanovich piano Thomas Dausgaard conductor National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Sir George Benjamin conductor Proms at ... Cadogan Hall 4 13:00 Monday 6 August 2018 Prom 29: Brandenburg Project – 1 Cadogan Hall 15:00 Sunday 5 August 2018 Royal Albert Hall Charles Villiers Stanford A Soft Day (2 mins) Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F major, BWV 1046 (20 mins) Hubert Parry Weep you no more, sad fountains (3 mins) Mark-Anthony Turnage Maya (12 mins) Ralph Vaughan Williams UK première The House of Life – 'Love-Sight' (4 mins)

Johann Sebastian Bach Ivor Gurney Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major, BWV 1048 (10 mins) Thou didst delight my eyes (2 mins)

Anders Hillborg Sir Arthur Somervell Bach Materia (18 mins) A Shropshire Lad – 'Into my heart an air that kills' (2 mins) UK première Frank Bridge Johann Sebastian Bach Come to me in my dreams (4 mins) Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major, BWV 1050 (21 mins) Herbert Howells Uri Caine Goddess of Night (2 mins) Hamsa (28 mins) UK première Frank Bridge Journey's End (4 mins) Pekka Kuusisto violin Antje Weithaas violin Benjamin Britten Maya Beiser cello A Sweet Lullaby (5 mins) Fiona Kelly flute world première Uri Caine piano Somnus (2 mins) Mahan Esfahani harpsichord world première Swedish Chamber Orchestra Thomas Dausgaard conductor Gustav Holst Journey's End (4 mins)

Prom 30: Brandenburg Concertos Project – 2 Benjamin Britten 19:30 Sunday 5 August 2018 A Charm of Lullabies (11 mins) Royal Albert Hall Mark-Anthony Turnage Johann Sebastian Bach Farewell (2 mins) Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G major, BWV 1049 (15 mins) world première

Olga Neuwirth Lisa Illean Aello - ballet mécanomorphe (18 mins) Sleeplessness ... Sails (6 mins) UK première BBC commission: world première

Brett Dean Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Approach – Prelude to a Canon (18 mins) Joseph Middleton piano

Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in B flat major, BWV 1051 (17 Prom 31: Minnesota Orchestra & Osmo mins) Vänskä 19:00 Monday 6 August 2018 Johann Sebastian Bach Royal Albert Hall Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F major, BWV 1047 (arr. Felix Mottl) (12 mins) Leonard Bernstein Candide – overture (5 mins) Steven Mackey Triceros (18 mins) George Gershwin UK première Piano Concerto in F major (31 mins)

promslist_2018_v02.html 2018-06-21 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 7 of 13 Charles Ives Heritage Orchestra Symphony No. 2 (37 mins) Jules Buckley conductor

Inon Barnatan piano Minnesota Orchestra Prom 36: Mahler, Wagner and Webern Osmo Vänskä conductor 19:30 Thursday 9 August 2018 Royal Albert Hall

Prom 32: Inside Shostakovich Anton Webern 22:15 Monday 6 August 2018 Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10 (6 mins) Royal Albert Hall Gustav Mahler Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No 10 – Adagio (24 mins) Piano Concerto No 2 in F major (20 mins) Symphony No 9 in E flat major (20 mins) Richard Wagner Tom Service and Nicholas Collon present Shostakovich’s Die Walküre – Act 1 (66 mins) Symphony No. 9, with live excerpts Anja Kampe Sieglinde Denis Kozhukhin piano Robert Dean Smith Siegmund Tom Service presenter Franz-Josef Selig Hunding Aurora Orchestra Nicholas Collon conductor Esa‐Pekka Salonen conductor

Prom 33: Brahms's A German Requiem Prom 37: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa 19:30 Tuesday 7 August 2018 ON TV Cecilia & Sir Antonio Pappano Royal Albert Hall 19:30 Friday 10 August 2018 Royal Albert Hall Phoenix Rising (23 mins) Joseph Haydn The Creation – Chaos (6 mins) Johannes Brahms A German Requiem (68 mins) Leonard Bernstein Symphony No. 1 'Jeremiah' (25 mins) Golda Schultz soprano Johan Reuter baritone Gustav Mahler BBC Symphony Chorus Symphony No 1 in D major (56 mins) BBC Symphony Orchestra Richard Farnes conductor Elizabeth DeShong mezzo-soprano Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome Sir Antonio Pappano conductor Prom 34: Barber, Britten & Copland 19:00 Wednesday 8 August 2018 Royal Albert Hall Prom 38: West Side Story 15:30 Saturday 11 August 2018 William Walton Royal Albert Hall Overture 'Portsmouth Point' (7 mins) Leonard Bernstein Aaron Copland West Side Story (76 mins) Connotations for Orchestra (19 mins) concert performance

Benjamin Britten Ross Lekites Tony Les illuminations (23 mins) Students from ArtsEd and Mountview John Wilson Orchestra Samuel Barber John Wilson conductor Antony and Cleopatra (18 mins) Two Scenes Prom 39: West Side Story Benjamin Britten 20:00 Saturday 11 August 2018 Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (16 mins) Royal Albert Hall Sally Matthews soprano Leonard Bernstein BBC Philharmonic West Side Story (76 mins) Juanjo Mena conductor concert performance

Ross Lekites Tony Prom 35: New York: Sound of a City Students from ArtsEd and Mountview 22:15 Wednesday 8 August 2018 ON TV John Wilson Orchestra Royal Albert Hall John Wilson conductor

Hercules and Love Affair serpentwithfeet Prom 40: Joshua Bell & the Academy of St Sharon Van Etten Martin in the Fields promslist_2018_v02.html 2018-06-21 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 8 of 13 16:00 Sunday 12 August 2018 Jean Sibelius Royal Albert Hall Symphony No 5 in E flat major (32 mins)

Felix Mendelssohn Khatia Buniatishvili piano A Midsummer Night's Dream – overture (12 mins) Estonian Festival Orchestra Paavo Järvi conductor Camille Saint‐Saëns Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor (29 mins) Prom 43: & West–Eastern Frank Bridge Divan Orchestra Lament (5 mins) 19:30 Tuesday 14 August 2018 Royal Albert Hall Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No 4 in B flat major (34 mins) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (34 mins) Academy of St Martin in the Fields Joshua Bell David Robert Coleman Looking for Palestine (20 mins) London première Prom 41: Edward Gardner conducts Elgar & Vaughan Williams Alexander Scriabin 20:00 Sunday 12 August 2018 ON TV The Poem of Ecstasy (22 mins) Royal Albert Hall Elsa Dreisig soprano Lili Boulanger Lisa Batiashvili violin Pour les funerailles d'un soldat (9 mins) West–Eastern Divan Orchestra Daniel Barenboim conductor Edward Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor (28 mins) Prom 44: Debussy, Ravel & Boulanger Ralph Vaughan Williams 19:30 Wednesday 15 August 2018 Dona nobis pacem (36 mins) Royal Albert Hall

Sophie Bevan soprano Claude Debussy Neal Davies bass-baritone Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (10 mins) Jean‐Guihen Queyras cello BBC Symphony Chorus Lili Boulanger BBC Symphony Orchestra Psalm 130 'Du fond de l'abîme' (25 mins) Edward Gardner conductor Claude Debussy Nocturnes (25 mins) Proms at … Cadogan Hall 5 13:00 Monday 13 August 2018 Maurice Ravel Cadogan Hall Boléro (15 mins)

Iannis Xenakis Justina Gringytė mezzo-soprano Rebonds B (6 mins) CBSO Youth Chorus CBSO Chorus Simon Holt City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Quadriga (16 mins) Ludovic Morlot conductor world première

Suzanne Farrin Prom 45: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande & new work (10 mins) Jonathan Nott BBC commission: world première 19:00 Thursday 16 August 2018 Royal Albert Hall Iannis Xenakis Tetras (17 mins) Claude Debussy Jeux (19 mins) Colin Currie percussion JACK Quartet Maurice Ravel Violin Sonata in G major (orch. Yan Maresz) (19 mins) UK première of this orchestration Prom 42: Grieg's Piano Concerto 19:30 Monday 13 August 2018 Igor Stravinsky Royal Albert Hall Petrushka (1911 version) (34 mins)

Arvo Pärt Renaud Capuçon violin Symphony No 3 (25 mins) Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Jonathan Nott conductor Piano Concerto in A minor (29 mins) Prom 46: Benjamin Grosvenor & National promslist_2018_v02.html 2018-06-21 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 9 of 13 Youth Jazz Orchestra Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 22:15 Thursday 16 August 2018 Symphony No 5 in E minor (45 mins) Royal Albert Hall Seong-Jin Cho piano Laura Jurd European Union Youth Orchestra The Earth Keeps Spinning Gianandrea Noseda conductor World première

George Gershwin Prom 50: Mozart's Clarinet Concerto & (original version with jazz band, arr. Grofé) Mahler's Fifth Symphony 20:00 Sunday 19 August 2018 ON TV Benjamin Grosvenor piano Royal Albert Hall National Youth Jazz Orchestra Guy Barker conductor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mark Armstrong conductor Clarinet Concerto in A major (28 mins)

Gustav Mahler Prom 47: Elgar, Prokofiev & Venables Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor (68 mins) 19:30 Friday 17 August 2018 Royal Albert Hall Annelien Van Wauwe clarinet BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Edward Elgar Thomas Dausgaard conductor Introduction and Allegro (14 mins)

Philip Venables Proms at ... Cadogan Hall 6 – The Sense of An Béla Bartók Ending Venables Plays Bartok 13:00 Monday 20 August 2018 BBC commission: world première Cadogan Hall Frank Bridge Symphony No 5 in B flat major (44 mins) Music, when soft voices die (3 mins) Pekka Kuusisto violin Ralph Vaughan Williams BBC Symphony Orchestra Rest (4 mins) Sakari Oramo Gustav Holst Nunc dimittis (4 mins) Prom 48: Sir Simon Rattle conducts L’enfant et les sortilèges Laura Mvula 19:30 Saturday 18 August 2018 ON TV The Virgin of Montserrat (8 mins) Royal Albert Hall BBC commission: world première

Maurice Ravel Hubert Parry Mother Goose (ballet) Songs of Farewell (32 mins) Shéhérazade BBC Singers Maurice Ravel Sakari Oramo conductor L'enfant et les sortilèges (44 mins) (concert performance; sung in French, with surtitles) Prom 51: Strauss, Wagner & Per Nørgård Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano 19:30 Monday 20 August 2018 Patricia Bardon Mother/Shepherd/Dragonfly Royal Albert Hall Jane Archibald Fire/Nightingale/Princess Anna Stéphany Chair/White Cat/Chinese Cup/Squirrel Richard Wagner Elizabeth Watts Shepherdess/Bat/Owl Parsifal – Prelude to Act I (12 mins) Teapot/Little Old Man/Tree-Frog Gavan Ring Grandfather Clock/Black Cat Richard Strauss David Shipley Tree/Armchair Four Last Songs (22 mins) London Symphony Chorus London Symphony Orchestra Per Nørgård Sir Simon Rattle conductor Symphony No 3 (50 mins) UK première

Prom 49: Chopin & Tchaikovsky Malin Byström soprano 11:00 Sunday 19 August 2018 London Voices Royal Albert Hall The National Youth Chamber Choir BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Agata Zubel Thomas Dausgaard conductor Fireworks (7 mins) UK première Prom 52: Edward Gardner & Bergen Frédéric Chopin Philharmonic Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor (34 mins) 19:00 Tuesday 21 August 2018 promslist_2018_v02.html 2018-06-21 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 10 of 13 Royal Albert Hall Anton Bruckner Symphony No 5 in B flat major (75 mins) Richard Wagner Flying Dutchman – overture (11 mins) Benjamin Grosvenor piano BBC Symphony Orchestra Rolf Wallin Sakari Oramo conductor Violin Concerto (25 mins) world première Prom 57: John Wilson conducts Bernstein's Jean Sibelius On the Town Symphony No 2 in D major (45 mins) 19:30 Saturday 25 August 2018 ON TV Royal Albert Hall Alina Ibragimova violin Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Leonard Bernstein Edward Gardner conductor On the Town (106 mins)

Nathaniel Hackmann Gabey Prom 54: Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival Louise Dearman Hildy Orchestra (I) London Symphony Orchestra orchestra 19:30 Wednesday 22 August 2018 John Wilson conductor Royal Albert Hall Martin Duncan Stage Director

George Enescu Suite No. 1 – Prélude à l’unisson (9 mins) Prom 58: The Sound of an Orchestra 19:30 Sunday 26 August 2018 Béla Bartók Royal Albert Hall Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (28 mins) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Gustav Mahler Joshua Weilerstein Conductor Symphony No 4 in G major (57 mins) Gerard McBurney creative director Mike Tutaj projection design Anna Lucia Richter soprano Budapest Festival Orchestra Iván Fischer conductor Proms at ... Cadogan Hall 7 13:00 Monday 27 August 2018 Cadogan Hall Prom 55: Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra (II) Leonard Bernstein 19:30 Thursday 23 August 2018 ON TV La bonne cuisine (5 mins) Royal Albert Hall Bushra El-Turk Crème Brûlée on a Tree (5 mins) Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 in C sharp minor (14 mins) BBC commission: world première

Johannes Brahms Leonard Bernstein Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor (4 mins) Fancy Free – 'Big Stuff' (3 mins) Conch Town (12 mins) Franz Liszt UK première Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3 in B flat major (5 mins) Aaron Copland Pablo de Sarasate Pastorale (3 mins) Zigeunerweisen (9 mins) Samuel Barber Johannes Brahms Hermit Songs, Op. 29 – ‘Sea Snatch’; ‘The Monk and His Cat’ (3 Hungarian Dance No. 11 in C minor (4 mins) mins)

Johannes Brahms Marc Blitzstein Symphony No 1 in C minor (46 mins) Modest Maid’; ‘Stay in My Arms’ (4 mins)

József Lendvay Sr violin Stephen Sondheim József Lendvay Jr violin A Little Night Music – 'The Miller's Son' (4 mins) Jenő Lisztes cimbalom Jenő Lisztes cimbalom Leonard Bernstein Budapest Festival Orchestra Trouble in Tahiti – 'What a Movie!' (3 mins) Iván Fischer conductor Wallis Giunta mezzo-soprano Michael Sikich piano Prom 56: Mozart & Bruckner Iain Farrington piano 19:30 Friday 24 August 2018 Toby Kearney percussion Royal Albert Hall Owen Gunnell percussion

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No 21 in C major, K 467 (29 mins) Prom 59: Relaxed Prom promslist_2018_v02.html 2018-06-21 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 11 of 13 16:15 Monday 27 August 2018 Royal Albert Hall Royal Albert Hall Johann Sebastian Bach James Redwood presenter The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2 (145 mins) Donna Williams Poet Julie Doyle signer Sir András Schiff piano BSO Resound* ensemble Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Sian Edwards conductor Prom 64: Verdi Requiem James Rose* conductor 19:30 Thursday 30 August 2018 Royal Albert Hall

Prom 60: Marin Alsop & Baltimore Symphony Giuseppe Verdi Orchestra Requiem (84 mins) 20:00 Monday 27 August 2018 ON TV Royal Albert Hall Lise Davidsen soprano Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano Leonard Bernstein Dmytro Popov tenor Slava! (A Political Overture) (4 mins) Tomasz Konieczny bass Symphony No 2 'The Age of Anxiety' (35 mins) London Philharmonic Choir London Philharmonic Orchestra Dmitri Shostakovich Andrés Orozco‐Estrada conductor Symphony No 5 in D minor (51 mins)

Jean‐Yves Thibaudet piano Prom 65: Stravinsky, Ravel & Berio Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 19:00 Friday 31 August 2018 Marin Alsop conductor Royal Albert Hall

Maurice Ravel Prom 61: Yannick Nézet-Séguin & Rotterdam La valse (13 mins) Philharmonic Luciano Berio 19:30 Tuesday 28 August 2018 Sinfonia (34 mins) Royal Albert Hall Igor Stravinsky Franz Liszt The Rite of Spring (34 mins) Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major (21 mins) London Voices ensemble Anton Bruckner BBC Symphony Orchestra Symphony No 4 in E flat major 'Romantic' (68 mins) Semyon Bychkov conductor Yefim Bronfman piano Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Yannick Nézet‐Séguin conductor Prom 65a: Youssou Ndour & Le Super Étoile de Dakar 22:15 Friday 31 August 2018 ON TV Prom 62: Diana Damrau sings Strauss Royal Albert Hall 18:00 Wednesday 29 August 2018 Royal Albert Hall Youssou N'Dour & Le Super Étoile

Edward Elgar In the South (Alassio) (19 mins) Proms at ... Alexandra Palace 15:00 Saturday 1 September 2018 Iain Bell Alexandra Palace Aurora (17 mins) BBC co-commission: world première Hubert Parry Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Richard Strauss Charles Villiers Stanford Das Rosenband (4 mins) Music by contemporaries of Sullivan (45 mins) Ständchen (3 mins) Wiegenlied (3 mins) Arthur Sullivan Zueignung (3 mins) Trial by Jury (45 mins)

Béla Bartók Neal Davies The Learned Judge Concerto for Orchestra (35 mins) Mary Bevan The Plaintiff The Defendant Diana Damrau soprano Counsel for the Plaintiff Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra BBC Singers ensemble Vasily Petrenko conductor BBC Concert Orchestra Jane Glover conductor

Prom 63: Sir András Schiff plays 'The Well- Tempered Clavier' (Book 2) Prom 66: Philharmonic & Kirill 21:30 Wednesday 29 August 2018 ON TV Petrenko (I) promslist_2018_v02.html 2018-06-21 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 12 of 13 19:30 Saturday 1 September 2018 Emmanuel Pahud flute Royal Albert Hall Andreas Ottensamer clarinet Marie‐Pierre Langlamet harp Paul Dukas Alasdair Beatson piano La Péri – Fanfare (21 mins)

Sergei Prokofiev Prom 69: Boston Symphony Orchestra Piano Concerto No 3 in C major (29 mins) Bernstein and Shostakovich 19:30 Monday 3 September 2018 Franz Schmidt Royal Albert Hall Symphony No 4 in C major (44 mins) Leonard Bernstein Yuja Wang piano Serenade after Plato's 'Symposium' (31 mins) Berliner Philharmoniker Kirill Petrenko conductor Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No 4 in C minor (64 mins)

Prom 67: Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Baiba Skride violin Symphony Orchestra Boston Symphony Orchestra 14:00 Sunday 2 September 2018 Andris Nelsons conductor Royal Albert Hall

Gustav Mahler Prom 70: Tango Prom Symphony No 3 in D minor (102 mins) 19:30 Tuesday 4 September 2018 ON TV Royal Albert Hall Susan Graham mezzo-soprano CBSO Chorus Pablo Ziegler piano CBSO Youth Chorus Héctor Del Curto bandoneon Boston Symphony Orchestra Claudio Ragazzi guitar Andris Nelsons conductor Pedro Giraudo double bass Franco Pinna drums Prom 68: Berlin Philharmonic & Kirill Clark Rundell Conductor Petrenko (II) 20:00 Sunday 2 September 2018 Royal Albert Hall Prom 71: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique perform Berlioz Richard Strauss 19:30 Wednesday 5 September 2018 Don Juan (18 mins) Royal Albert Hall Death and Transfiguration (26 mins) Hector Berlioz Ludwig van Beethoven Overture 'Le corsaire' (8 mins) Symphony No 7 in A major (38 mins) La mort de Cléopâtre (21 mins) The Trojans – Royal Hunt and Storm (10 mins) Berliner Philharmoniker The Trojans – Dido’s death scene (7 mins) Kirill Petrenko conductor Hector Berlioz Harold in Italy (42 mins) Proms at ... Cadogan Hall 8 13:00 Monday 3 September 2018 Antoine Tamestit viola Cadogan Hall Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique Lili Boulanger Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor Nocturne (version for violin and piano) (3 mins)

Claude Debussy Prom 72: Britten's War Requiem Sonata for flute, viola and harp (18 mins) 19:00 Thursday 6 September 2018 Royal Albert Hall Nina Šenk Baca (8 mins) Benjamin Britten BBC commission: world première War Requiem (80 mins)

Lili Boulanger Erin Wall soprano Trois morceaux pour piano Allan Clayton tenor Russell Braun baritone Maurice Ravel Huddersfield Choral Society Introduction and Allegro (11 mins) Royal Scottish National Orchestra Junior Chorus Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus Soloists of the Berliner Philharmoniker Royal Scottish National Orchestra Maja Avramović violin Peter Oundjian conductor Daishin Kashimoto violin Amihai Grosz viola Bruno Delepelaire cello Prom 73: Before the Ending of the Day promslist_2018_v02.html 2018-06-21 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 13 of 13 22:15 Thursday 6 September 2018 Jerusalem (orch. Elgar) (3 mins) Royal Albert Hall Unknown Hildegard von Bingen The National Anthem (arr. Britten) (3 mins) Ordo virtutum – In principio omnes (4 mins) Auld Lang Syne (2 mins)

Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla Jess Gillam saxophone Deus in adiutorium (3 mins) Gerald Finley baritone BBC Singers Jacobus Gallus BBC Symphony Chorus Pater noster (5 mins) BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir conductor Gregorio Allegri Miserere (12 mins)

Thomas Tallis Te lucis ante terminum (I) (3 mins)

Arvo Pärt Nunc dimittis (8 mins)

John Browne O Maria salvatoris (15 mins)

Tallis Scholars ensemble Peter Phillips director

Prom 74: Handel's Theodora 19:00 Friday 7 September 2018 Royal Albert Hall

George Frideric Handel Theodora (147 mins)

Louise Alder Theodora Iestyn Davies Didymus Benjamin Hulett Septimius Ann Hallenberg Irene Valens Arcangelo Jonathan Cohen conductor

Prom 75: Last Night of the Proms 19:15 Saturday 8 September 2018 ON TV Royal Albert Hall

Roxanna Panufnik Songs of Darkness, Dreams of Light (10 mins)

Charles Villiers Stanford Songs of the Sea (18 mins)

Hubert Parry Blest Pair of Sirens (11 mins)

Darius Milhaud Scaramouche (10 mins)

Richard Rodgers Carousel – 'Soliloquy' (8 mins)

Henry Wood Fantasia on British Sea-Songs

Thomas Arne Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent) (5 mins)

Edward Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D major, 'Land of Hope and Glory' (8 mins)

Hubert Parry promslist_2018_v02.html 2018-06-21 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/

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