PROMS 2018 Page 1 of 13 Prom 1: First Night of the Proms James MacMillan 20:15 Friday 13 July 2018 ON TV Britannia (13 mins) Royal Albert Hall Modest Mussorgsky Ralph Vaughan Williams Pictures at an Exhibition - 10. The Great Gate of Kiev (orch. Toward the Unknown Region (13 mins) Wood) (5 mins)
Gustav Holst Nicola Benedetti violin The Planets (52 mins) Jennifer Pike violin Nicholas Daniel oboe Anna Meredith Ben Goldscheider horn 59 Productions Alexander Bone saxophone Five Telegrams (22 mins) Jess Gillam saxophone BBC co-commission with 14–18 NOW and Edinburgh Alexandra Ridout trumpet International Festival: world première David Childs euphonium Natalie Clein cello National Youth Choir of Great Britain Guy Johnston cello BBC Symphony Chorus Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello BBC Proms Youth Ensemble Laura van der Heijden cello BBC Symphony Orchestra Michael Collins clarinet Sakari Oramo conductor Emma Johnson clarinet Colin Currie percussion Owen Gunnell percussion Prom 2: Mozart, Ravel and Fauré Adrian Spillett percussion 19:30 Saturday 14 July 2018 Sam Walton percussion Royal Albert Hall Martin James Bartlett piano Freddy Kempf piano Gabriel Fauré Lara Melda piano Pavane (choral version) (5 mins) Lauren Zhang piano BBC Concert Orchestra Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Andrew Gourlay conductor Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat major (32 mins)
Maurice Ravel Proms at … Cadogan Hall 1 Daphnis and Chloe (52 mins) 13:00 Monday 16 July 2018 Cadogan Hall, London Francesco Piemontesi piano BBC Symphony Chorus Caroline Shaw City of London Choir Second Essay: Echo (15 mins) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Third Essay: Ruby Alain Altinoglu conductor Robert Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op 44 (30 mins) Prom 3: BBC Young Musician 40th Calidore String Quartet ensemble Anniversary Javier Perianes piano 19:00 Sunday 15 July 2018 ON TV Royal Albert Hall
Ben Foster Prom 4: Shostakovich’s ‘Leningrad’ Fantasia on the Young Musician Theme Symphony BBC commission: world première 19:30 Monday 16 July 2018 Royal Albert Hall Steve Reich Drumming - Part 1 (15 mins) Magnus Lindberg Clarinet Concerto (25 mins) Giovanni Sollima Violoncelles, vibrez! (12 mins) Dmitri Shostakovich (new arrangement for 4 cellos & orchestra by Sollima) Symphony No 7 in C major, 'Leningrad' (75 mins)
Iain Farrington Mark Simpson clarinet Gershwinicity (13 mins) BBC Philharmonic BBC commission: world première Juanjo Mena conductor
Camille Saint‐Saëns The Carnival of the Animals (13 mins) Prom 5: Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande (arr Iain Farrington) 18:30 Tuesday 17 July 2018 Royal Albert Hall David Bruce Sidechaining (10 mins) Claude Debussy BBC commission: world première Pelléas et Mélisande (180 mins)
Maurice Ravel Christina Gansch Mélisande Tzigane (10 mins) John Chest Pelléas promslist_2018_v04.html 2018-07-22 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 2 of 13 Christopher Purves Golaud world première Brindley Sherratt Arkel Karen Cargill Genevieve Isabel Mundry Chloé Briot Yniold Gefallen (5 mins) Glyndebourne Festival Opera world première London Philharmonic Orchestra Robin Ticciati conductor Luca Francesconi We Wept (5 mins) world première Prom 6: An American in Paris & Turangalîla 19:30 Wednesday 18 July 2018 Igor Stravinsky Royal Albert Hall Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947 version) (9 mins)
George Gershwin Olivier Messiaen An American in Paris (17 mins) Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (35 mins)
Olivier Messiaen Susan Bickley mezzo-soprano Turangalîla Symphony (74 mins) London Sinfonietta George Benjamin conductor Angela Hewitt piano Cynthia Millar ondes Martenot BBC Symphony Orchestra Prom 9: War & Peace Sakari Oramo conductor 19:30 Saturday 21 July 2018 Royal Albert Hall
Prom 7: Jacob Collier and Friends Eriks Esenvalds 19:30 Thursday 19 July 2018 ON TV Shadow (8 mins) Royal Albert Hall Benjamin Britten Jacob Collier Sinfonia da Requiem (21 mins) Becca Stevens Sam Amidon Ludwig van Beethoven Metropole Orkest Symphony No 9 in D minor, 'Choral' (65 mins) Hamid El Kasri Take 6 ensemble Erin Wall soprano Jules Buckley conductor Judit Kutasi mezzo-soprano Russell Thomas tenor Franz-Josef Selig baritone Prom 8: Youthful Beginnings BBC Proms Youth Choir 19:30 Friday 20 July 2018 ON TV World Orchestra for Peace Royal Albert Hall Simon Halsey conductor Donald Runnicles conductor Lili Boulanger D’un matin de printemps (5 mins) D’un soir triste (11 mins) Prom 10: Fauré, Franck & Widor’s Toccata 11:00 Sunday 22 July 2018 Felix Mendelssohn Royal Albert Hall Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor (20 mins) Charles‐Marie Widor Morfydd Llwyn Owen Organ Symphony No 5 in F minor, Op 42 – Toccata (6 mins) Nocturne (15 mins) César Franck Robert Schumann Trois Pièces – Pièce héroïque (11 mins) Symphony No 4 in D minor (original 1841 version) (28 mins) Gabriel Fauré Bertrand Chamayou piano Pavane (arr. Apkalna) (8 mins) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Thomas Søndergård conductor Johann Sebastian Bach Fantasia in G major, BWV 572 (10 mins)
Proms at … The Roundhouse Sir George Thomas Thalben-Ball 15:00 Saturday 21 July 2018 Variations on a Theme by Paganini (A Study for the Pedals) (8 Roundhouse, Camden mins)
Charles Ives Thierry Escaich The Unanswered Question (6 mins) Deux Évocations (13 mins)
Georg Friedrich Haas Iveta Apkalna organ the last minutes of inhumanity (5 mins) world première Prom 11: Mahler Symphony of a Thousand Hannah Kendall 19:00 Sunday 22 July 2018 Verdala (5 mins) Royal Albert Hall
promslist_2018_v04.html 2018-07-22 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 3 of 13 Gustav Mahler The Delian Mode (6 mins) Symphony No 8 in E flat major, 'Symphony of a Thousand' (80 mins) Chaines Knockturning (5 mins) Tamara Wilson soprano (world première of new arrangement for orchestra) Camilla Nylund soprano Joélle Harvey soprano Laurie Spiegel Marianne Beate Kielland mezzo-soprano Only Night Thoughts (5 mins) Claudia Huckle contralto world première Simon O'Neill tenor Quinn Kelsey baritone Suzanne Ciani Morris Robinson bass Improvisation on Four Sequences (15 mins) Southend Boys’ Choir Southend Girls' Choir Daphne Oram BBC National Chorus of Wales Still Point (30 mins) BBC Symphony Chorus world première of revised version London Symphony Chorus BBC National Orchestra of Wales Suzanne Ciani Thomas Søndergård conductor Shiva Feshareki turntables/electronics live-mix/electronics London Contemporary Orchestra Proms at … Cadogan Hall 2 Robert Ames conductor 13:00 Monday 23 July 2018 Cadogan Hall, London Prom 14: Sibelius, Schubert & Zimmermann Jean‐Philippe Rameau 19:30 Tuesday 24 July 2018 Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 – Prelude in A minor (5 mins) Royal Albert Hall Pièces de clavecin, Book 3 (19 mins) excerpts Richard Wagner The Mastersingers of Nuremberg – overture (10 mins) Eve Risser Furakèla (5 mins) Franz Schubert BBC commission: world première Die junge Nonne Gretchen am Spinnrade François Couperin Lied der Mignon Piéces de clavecin, Book 1 – Sarabande 'La lugubre' Erlkönig Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 – Chaconne 'La Favorite' Bernd Alois Zimmermann Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer Symphony in One Movement (15 mins) Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 – La sensible Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 – La marche des Scythes Franz Schubert Fantasy in C major, D760, 'Wanderer' (orch. Liszt) (22 mins) Jean Rondeau harpsichord Jean Sibelius Symphony No 7 in C major (22 mins) Prom 12: Beethoven, Shostakovich & Rachmaninov Elizabeth Watts soprano Louis Lortie piano 19:00 Monday 23 July 2018 ON TV BBC Philharmonic Royal Albert Hall John Storgårds conductor Ludwig van Beethoven Overture 'Coriolan' (8 mins) Prom 15: Paul Lewis plays Beethoven’s Dmitri Shostakovich ‘Emperor’ concerto Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat major (29 mins) 19:30 Wednesday 25 July 2018 ON TV Royal Albert Hall Andrew Norman Spiral (6 mins) Tansy Davies UK première What Did We See? (orchestral suite from 'Between Worlds') BBC commission: world première Sergei Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances (36 mins) Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major, 'Emperor' (38 mins) Alisa Weilerstein cello BBC Symphony Orchestra Johannes Brahms Karina Canellakis conductor Symphony No 2 in D major (42 mins)
Paul Lewis piano Prom 13: Pioneers of Sound BBC Philharmonic 22:15 Monday 23 July 2018 ON TV Ben Gernon conductor Royal Albert Hall
Delia Derbyshire Prom 16: Stravinsky, Debussy & Wagner promslist_2018_v04.html 2018-07-22 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 4 of 13 19:30 Thursday 26 July 2018 Henry Purcell Royal Albert Hall Jean Sibelius Igor Stravinsky Richard Wagner Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Tannhäuser – overture (14 mins) Music by Kerry Andrew, Mason Bates, Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges), Copland, Dvořák, Elgar, Orff, Claude Debussy Purcell, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky La damoiselle élue (20 mins) Naomi Wilkinson presenter Igor Stravinsky Ten Pieces Children's Choir Song of the Nightingale (20 mins) BBC Singers The Firebird – suite (1945 version) (31 mins) London Music Masters Phoenix Dance Theatre’s Youth Academy Sabine Devieilhe soprano Brave New Voices from English PEN Anna Stéphany mezzo soprano BBC Symphony Orchestra Hallé Choir (female voices) Rafael Payare conductor Hallé Youth Choir (female voices) Denni Sayers Stage Director Hallé Mark Elder conductor Prom 20: Ten Pieces Prom 17:00 Sunday 29 July 2018 Prom 17: Parry, Vaughan Williams & Holst Royal Albert Hall 19:00 Friday 27 July 2018 ON TV Royal Albert Hall Kerry Andrew Mason Bates Hubert Parry Joseph Bologne de Saint‐Georges Symphony No. 5 in B minor (27 mins) Aaron Copland Antonín Dvořák Ralph Vaughan Williams Edward Elgar The Lark Ascending (15 mins) Carl Orff Henry Purcell Hubert Parry Jean Sibelius Hear my words, ye people (15 mins) Igor Stravinsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 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
promslist_2018_v04.html 2018-07-22 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 5 of 13 Prom 21: An Alpine Symphony Summer Night in Madrid (Spanish Overture No 2) (10 mins) 19:30 Monday 30 July 2018 Royal Albert Hall Joby Talbot Ink Dark Moon for guitar and orchestra (25 mins) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart BBC commission: world première Notturno in D major, K286 (17 mins) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Georg Friedrich Haas The Nutcracker – Act 1 (40 mins) Concerto grosso No. 1 (30 mins) UK première Miloš Karadaglić guitar Finchley Childrens Music Group ensemble Richard Strauss BBC Symphony Orchestra An Alpine Symphony (50 mins) Alexander Vedernikov conductor
Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Prom 26: Late Night Serpent and Fire Ilan Volkov conductor 22:15 Thursday 2 August 2018 Royal Albert Hall
Prom 22: A London Symphony Henry Purcell 19:00 Tuesday 31 July 2018 Dido and Aeneas (15 mins) Royal Albert Hall excerpts The Fairy Queen – Chaconne: Dance for Chinese Man and Joseph Haydn Woman (3 mins) Symphony No. 104 in D major, 'London' (29 mins) Dance for Chinese Man and Woman
Ralph Vaughan Williams Christoph Graupner A London Symphony (Symphony No 2) (50 mins) Dido, Queen of Carthage (8 mins) excerpts BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Andrew Manze conductor Antonio Sartorio Julius Caesar in Egypt (3 mins) excerpts Prom 23: Havana Meets Kingston 22:15 Tuesday 31 July 2018 ON TV Matthew Locke Royal Albert Hall The Tempest – Curtain Tune (5 mins)
Mista Savona keyboard/samples George Frideric Handel Randy Valentine vocals Julius Caesar in Egypt – ‘Che sento? Oh Dio! … Se pietà di me Solis vocals non senti’ (8 mins) Brenda Navarrete percussion/vocals Julito Padrón trumpet/vocals Dario Castello Mathieu Bost saxophone Sonata No. 15 in D minor (5 mins) Bopee guitar Rolando Luna piano Francesco Cavalli Valery ‘Valess’ Assouan bass Dido – 'Rè de' Getuli altero … Il mio marito' (3 mins) 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 Cello Concerto in B minor (42 mins) Prom 27: Folk Music around Britain and Ireland Richard Strauss 19:30 Friday 3 August 2018 ON TV Ein Heldenleben (45 mins) Royal Albert Hall
Daniel Müller‐Schott cello Julie Fowlis singer BBC National Orchestra of Wales Jarlath Henderson singer Otto Tausk conductor Sam Lee singer Alaw Welsh folk group The Unthanks English folk group Prom 25: Tchaikovsky, Glinka & Joby Talbot BBC Concert Orchestra 19:00 Thursday 2 August 2018 Stephen Bell conductor Royal Albert Hall
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka Proms at … Lincoln Drill Hall promslist_2018_v04.html 2018-07-22 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 6 of 13 15:00 Saturday 4 August 2018 Antje Weithaas violin Lincoln Drill Hall Maya Beiser cello Fiona Kelly flute Igor Stravinsky Uri Caine piano The Soldier's Tale (65 mins) Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Swedish Chamber Orchestra Hebrides Ensemble Thomas Dausgaard conductor William Conway conductor
Prom 30: Brandenburg Concertos Project – 2 Proms at … Lincoln Drill Hall 19:30 Sunday 5 August 2018 19:30 Saturday 4 August 2018 Royal Albert Hall Lincoln Drill Hall Johann Sebastian Bach Igor Stravinsky Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G major, BWV 1049 (15 mins) The Soldier's Tale (65 mins) Olga Neuwirth Hebrides Ensemble Aello - ballet mécanomorphe (18 mins) William Conway conductor UK première
Brett Dean Prom 28: NYO perform Mussorgsky, Ligeti Approach – Prelude to a Canon (18 mins) and Debussy Johann Sebastian Bach 19:30 Saturday 4 August 2018 ON TV Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in B flat major, BWV 1051 (17 Royal Albert Hall mins) Modest Mussorgsky Johann Sebastian Bach A Night on the Bare Mountain (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov) (12 Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F major, BWV 1047 (arr. Felix mins) Mottl) (12 mins) George Benjamin Steven Mackey Dance Figures (16 mins) Triceros (18 mins) UK première Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (19 mins) Antje Weithaas violin Brett Dean viola 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 Prom 29: Brandenburg Concertos Project – 1 13:00 Monday 6 August 2018 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
promslist_2018_v04.html 2018-07-22 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 7 of 13 Benjamin Britten Richard Farnes conductor A Sweet Lullaby (5 mins) world première Somnus (2 mins) Prom 34: Barber, Britten & Copland world première 19:00 Wednesday 8 August 2018 Royal Albert Hall Gustav Holst Journey's End (4 mins) William Walton Overture 'Portsmouth Point' (7 mins) Benjamin Britten A Charm of Lullabies (11 mins) Aaron Copland Connotations for Orchestra (19 mins) Mark-Anthony Turnage Farewell (2 mins) Benjamin Britten world première Les illuminations (23 mins)
Lisa Illean Samuel Barber Sleeplessness ... Sails (6 mins) Antony and Cleopatra (18 mins) BBC commission: world première Two Scenes
Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Benjamin Britten Joseph Middleton piano Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (16 mins)
Sally Matthews soprano Prom 31: Minnesota Orchestra & Osmo BBC Philharmonic Vänskä Juanjo Mena conductor 19:00 Monday 6 August 2018 Royal Albert Hall Prom 35: New York: Sound of a City Leonard Bernstein 22:15 Wednesday 8 August 2018 ON TV Candide – overture (5 mins) Royal Albert Hall
George Gershwin Hercules and Love Affair Piano Concerto in F major (31 mins) serpentwithfeet Sharon Van Etten 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 Philharmonia 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 Thea Musgrave 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 promslist_2018_v04.html 2018-07-22 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 8 of 13 Elizabeth DeShong mezzo-soprano Edward Gardner conductor Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome Sir Antonio Pappano conductor Proms at … Cadogan Hall 5 13:00 Monday 13 August 2018 Prom 38: West Side Story Cadogan Hall 15:30 Saturday 11 August 2018 Royal Albert Hall Iannis Xenakis Rebonds B (6 mins) Leonard Bernstein West Side Story (76 mins) Simon Holt concert performance Quadriga (16 mins) world première Ross Lekites Tony Students from ArtsEd and Mountview Suzanne Farrin John Wilson Orchestra Hypersea (10 mins) John Wilson conductor BBC commission: world première
Iannis Xenakis Prom 39: West Side Story Tetras (17 mins) 20:00 Saturday 11 August 2018 Royal Albert Hall Colin Currie percussion JACK Quartet Leonard Bernstein West Side Story (76 mins) concert performance Prom 42: Grieg's Piano Concerto 19:30 Monday 13 August 2018 Ross Lekites Tony Royal Albert Hall Students from ArtsEd and Mountview John Wilson Orchestra Arvo Pärt John Wilson conductor Symphony No 3 (25 mins)
Edvard Grieg Prom 40: Joshua Bell & the Academy of St Piano Concerto in A minor (29 mins) Martin in the Fields Jean Sibelius 16:00 Sunday 12 August 2018 Symphony No 5 in E flat major (32 mins) Royal Albert Hall Khatia Buniatishvili piano Felix Mendelssohn Estonian Festival Orchestra A Midsummer Night's Dream – overture (12 mins) Paavo Järvi conductor Camille Saint‐Saëns Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor (29 mins) Prom 43: Daniel Barenboim & 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 The Poem of Ecstasy (22 mins) 20:00 Sunday 12 August 2018 ON TV Royal Albert Hall Elsa Dreisig soprano Lisa Batiashvili violin Lili Boulanger West–Eastern Divan Orchestra Pour les funerailles d'un soldat (9 mins) 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) promslist_2018_v04.html 2018-07-22 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 9 of 13 Claude Debussy Prom 48: Sir Simon Rattle conducts L’enfant Nocturnes (25 mins) et les sortilèges 19:30 Saturday 18 August 2018 ON TV Maurice Ravel Royal Albert Hall Boléro (15 mins) Maurice Ravel Justina Gringytė mezzo-soprano Mother Goose (ballet) (30 mins) CBSO Youth Chorus Shéhérazade (17 mins) CBSO Chorus City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Maurice Ravel Ludovic Morlot conductor L'enfant et les sortilèges (44 mins) (concert performance; sung in French, with surtitles)
Prom 45: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande & Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano Jonathan Nott Patricia Bardon Mother/Shepherd/Dragonfly 19:00 Thursday 16 August 2018 Jane Archibald Fire/Nightingale/Princess Royal Albert Hall Anna Stéphany Chair/White Cat/Chinese Cup/Squirrel Elizabeth Watts Shepherdess/Bat/Owl Claude Debussy Sunnyboy Dladla Teapot/Little Old Man/Tree-Frog Jeux (19 mins) Gavan Ring Grandfather Clock/Black Cat David Shipley Tree/Armchair Maurice Ravel London Symphony Chorus Violin Sonata in G major (orch. Yan Maresz) (19 mins) London Symphony Orchestra UK première of this orchestration Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Igor Stravinsky Petrushka (1911 version) (34 mins) Prom 49: Chopin & Tchaikovsky 11:00 Sunday 19 August 2018 Renaud Capuçon violin Royal Albert Hall Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Jonathan Nott conductor Agata Zubel Fireworks (7 mins) UK première Prom 46: Benjamin Grosvenor & National Youth Jazz Orchestra Frédéric Chopin 22:15 Thursday 16 August 2018 Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor (34 mins) Royal Albert Hall Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Laura Jurd Symphony No 5 in E minor (45 mins) The Earth Keeps Spinning World première Seong-Jin Cho piano European Union Youth Orchestra George Gershwin Gianandrea Noseda conductor Rhapsody in Blue (original version with jazz band, arr. Grofé)
Leonard Bernstein Prom 50: Mozart's Clarinet Concerto & Stan Kenton's West Side Story (40 mins) Mahler's Fifth Symphony arr. Johnny Richards (UK Premiere) 20:00 Sunday 19 August 2018 ON TV Royal Albert Hall Benjamin Grosvenor piano National Youth Jazz Orchestra Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Guy Barker conductor Clarinet Concerto in A major (28 mins) Mark Armstrong conductor Gustav Mahler Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor (68 mins) Prom 47: Elgar, Prokofiev & Venables 19:30 Friday 17 August 2018 Annelien Van Wauwe clarinet Royal Albert Hall BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Thomas Dausgaard conductor Edward Elgar Introduction and Allegro (14 mins) Proms at ... Cadogan Hall 6 – The Sense of An Philip Venables Ending Béla Bartók 13:00 Monday 20 August 2018 Venables Plays Bartok Cadogan Hall BBC commission: world première Frank Bridge Sergei Prokofiev Music, when soft voices die (3 mins) Symphony No 5 in B flat major (44 mins) Ralph Vaughan Williams Pekka Kuusisto violin Rest (4 mins) BBC Symphony Orchestra Sakari Oramo Gustav Holst promslist_2018_v04.html 2018-07-22 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 10 of 13 Nunc dimittis (4 mins) Prom 55: Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra (II) Laura Mvula 19:30 Thursday 23 August 2018 ON TV Love Like A Lion (8 mins) Royal Albert Hall BBC commission: world première Franz Liszt Hubert Parry Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 in C sharp minor (14 mins) Songs of Farewell (32 mins) Johannes Brahms BBC Singers Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor (4 mins) Sakari Oramo conductor Franz Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3 in B flat major (5 mins) Prom 51: Strauss, Wagner & Per Nørgård 19:30 Monday 20 August 2018 Pablo de Sarasate Royal Albert Hall Zigeunerweisen (9 mins)
Richard Wagner Johannes Brahms Parsifal – Prelude to Act I (12 mins) Hungarian Dance No. 11 in C minor (4 mins)
Richard Strauss Johannes Brahms Four Last Songs (22 mins) Symphony No 1 in C minor (46 mins)
Per Nørgård József Lendvay Sr violin Symphony No 3 (50 mins) József Lendvay Jr violin UK première Jenő Lisztes cimbalom Jenő Lisztes cimbalom Malin Byström soprano Budapest Festival Orchestra London Voices Iván Fischer conductor The National Youth Chamber Choir BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Thomas Dausgaard conductor Prom 56: Mozart & Bruckner 19:30 Friday 24 August 2018 Royal Albert Hall Prom 52: Edward Gardner & Bergen Philharmonic Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 19:00 Tuesday 21 August 2018 Piano Concerto No 21 in C major, K 467 (29 mins) Royal Albert Hall Anton Bruckner Richard Wagner Symphony No 5 in B flat major (75 mins) Flying Dutchman – overture (11 mins) Benjamin Grosvenor piano Rolf Wallin BBC Symphony Orchestra Violin Concerto (25 mins) Sakari Oramo conductor world première
Jean Sibelius Prom 57: John Wilson conducts Bernstein's Symphony No 2 in D major (45 mins) On the Town 19:30 Saturday 25 August 2018 ON TV Alina Ibragimova violin Royal Albert Hall Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Edward Gardner conductor Leonard Bernstein On the Town (106 mins)
Prom 54: Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival Nathaniel Hackmann Gabey Orchestra (I) Louise Dearman Hildy 19:30 Wednesday 22 August 2018 London Symphony Orchestra orchestra Royal Albert Hall John Wilson conductor Martin Duncan Stage Director George Enescu Suite No. 1 – Prélude à l’unisson (9 mins) Prom 58: The Sound of an Orchestra Béla Bartók 19:30 Sunday 26 August 2018 Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (28 mins) Royal Albert Hall
Gustav Mahler Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Symphony No 4 in G major (57 mins) Joshua Weilerstein Conductor Gerard McBurney creative director Anna Lucia Richter soprano Mike Tutaj projection design Budapest Festival Orchestra Iván Fischer conductor Proms at ... Cadogan Hall 7 13:00 Monday 27 August 2018 promslist_2018_v04.html 2018-07-22 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 11 of 13 Cadogan Hall Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major (21 mins)
Leonard Bernstein Anton Bruckner La bonne cuisine (5 mins) Symphony No 4 in E flat major 'Romantic' (68 mins)
Bushra El-Turk Yefim Bronfman piano Crème Brûlée on a Tree (5 mins) Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra BBC commission: world première Yannick Nézet‐Séguin conductor
Leonard Bernstein Fancy Free – 'Big Stuff' (3 mins) Prom 62: Diana Damrau sings Strauss Conch Town (12 mins) 18:00 Wednesday 29 August 2018 UK première Royal Albert Hall
Aaron Copland Edward Elgar Pastorale (3 mins) In the South (Alassio) (19 mins)
Samuel Barber Iain Bell Hermit Songs, Op. 29 – ‘Sea Snatch’; ‘The Monk and His Cat’ (3 Aurora (17 mins) mins) BBC co-commission: world première
Marc Blitzstein Richard Strauss Modest Maid’; ‘Stay in My Arms’ (4 mins) Das Rosenband (4 mins) Ständchen (3 mins) Stephen Sondheim Wiegenlied (3 mins) A Little Night Music – 'The Miller's Son' (4 mins) Zueignung (3 mins)
Leonard Bernstein Béla Bartók Trouble in Tahiti – 'What a Movie!' (3 mins) Concerto for Orchestra (35 mins)
Wallis Giunta mezzo-soprano Diana Damrau soprano Michael Sikich piano Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Iain Farrington piano Vasily Petrenko conductor Toby Kearney percussion Owen Gunnell percussion Prom 63: Sir András Schiff plays 'The Well- Tempered Clavier' (Book 2) Prom 59: Relaxed Prom 21:30 Wednesday 29 August 2018 ON TV 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 James Rose* conductor Prom 64: Verdi Requiem 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 19:30 Tuesday 28 August 2018 Luciano Berio Royal Albert Hall Sinfonia (34 mins)
Franz Liszt Igor Stravinsky promslist_2018_v04.html 2018-07-22 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 12 of 13 The Rite of Spring (34 mins) 20:00 Sunday 2 September 2018 Royal Albert Hall London Voices ensemble BBC Symphony Orchestra Richard Strauss Semyon Bychkov conductor Don Juan (18 mins) Death and Transfiguration (26 mins)
Prom 65a: Youssou Ndour & Le Super Étoile Ludwig van Beethoven de Dakar Symphony No 7 in A major (38 mins) 22:15 Friday 31 August 2018 ON TV Berliner Philharmoniker Royal Albert Hall Kirill Petrenko conductor Youssou N'Dour & Le Super Étoile Proms at ... Cadogan Hall 8 Proms at ... Alexandra Palace 13:00 Monday 3 September 2018 Cadogan Hall 15:00 Saturday 1 September 2018 Alexandra Palace Lili Boulanger Nocturne (version for violin and piano) (3 mins) Hubert Parry Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Claude Debussy Charles Villiers Stanford Sonata for flute, viola and harp (18 mins) Music by contemporaries of Sullivan (45 mins) Nina Šenk Arthur Sullivan Baca (8 mins) Trial by Jury (45 mins) BBC commission: world première Neal Davies The Learned Judge Lili Boulanger Mary Bevan The Plaintiff Trois morceaux pour piano The Defendant Counsel for the Plaintiff Maurice Ravel BBC Singers ensemble Introduction and Allegro (11 mins) BBC Concert Orchestra Jane Glover conductor Soloists of the Berliner Philharmoniker Maja Avramović violin Daishin Kashimoto violin Prom 66: Berlin Philharmonic & Kirill Amihai Grosz viola Petrenko (I) Bruno Delepelaire cello 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 Britten Sinfonia Prom 68: Berlin Philharmonic & Kirill Clark Rundell Conductor Petrenko (II) promslist_2018_v04.html 2018-07-22 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 13 of 13 Prom 71: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Louise Alder Theodora Romantique perform Berlioz Iestyn Davies Didymus Benjamin Hulett Septimius 19:30 Wednesday 5 September 2018 Ann Hallenberg Irene Royal Albert Hall Valens Arcangelo Hector Berlioz Jonathan Cohen conductor Overture 'Le corsaire' (8 mins) La mort de Cléopâtre (21 mins) The Trojans – Royal Hunt and Storm (10 mins) The Trojans – Dido’s death scene (7 mins) Prom 75: Last Night of the Proms 19:15 Saturday 8 September 2018 ON TV Hector Berlioz Royal Albert Hall Harold in Italy (42 mins) Roxanna Panufnik Antoine Tamestit viola Songs of Darkness, Dreams of Light (10 mins) Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique Charles Villiers Stanford Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor Songs of the Sea (18 mins)
Hubert Parry Prom 72: Britten's War Requiem Blest Pair of Sirens (11 mins) 19:00 Thursday 6 September 2018 Darius Milhaud Royal Albert Hall Scaramouche (10 mins) Benjamin Britten Richard Rodgers War Requiem (80 mins) Carousel – 'Soliloquy' (8 mins) Erin Wall soprano Henry Wood Allan Clayton tenor Fantasia on British Sea-Songs Russell Braun baritone Huddersfield Choral Society Thomas Arne Royal Scottish National Orchestra Junior Chorus Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent) (5 mins) Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus Royal Scottish National Orchestra Edward Elgar Peter Oundjian conductor Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D major, 'Land of Hope and Glory' (8 mins)
Prom 73: Before the Ending of the Day Hubert Parry 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 Andrew Davis 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)
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