Proms 2012 Page 1 of 12 Prom 1: First Night of the Proms Fauré Friday 13 July Cinq Mélodies 'De Venise' – En Sourdine (3 Mins) 7.30Pm – C

Proms 2012 Page 1 of 12 Prom 1: First Night of the Proms Fauré Friday 13 July Cinq mélodies 'de Venise' – En sourdine (3 mins) 7.30pm – c. 9.40pm Fauré Royal Albert Hall Au bord de l'eau (2 mins) Fauré Mark-Anthony Turnage Les roses d'Ispahan (3 mins) Canon Fever (3 mins) Fauré World Premiere Le secret (2 mins) Elgar Fauré Overture 'Cockaigne (In London Town)' (15 mins) Notre amour (2 mins) Delius Satie Sea Drift (25 mins) Je te veux (4 mins) INTERVAL Hahn Tippett L'énamourée (4 mins) Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles (16 mins) Hahn Elgar Fumée (3 mins) Coronation Ode (33 mins) Hahn 1911 version Dans la nuit (2 mins) Susan Gritton soprano Hahn Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Chansons grises – L'heure exquise (2 mins) Robert Murray tenor Poulenc Gerald Finley bass-baritone Métamorphoses – C'est ainsi que tu es (2 mins) Bryn Terfel bass-baritone Poulenc BBC Symphony Chorus Banalités – Hôtel, Voyages à Paris (2 mins) BBC Symphony Orchestra Poulenc Edward Gardner conductor (Canon Fever, Coronation Ode) Les chemins d'amour (4 mins) Sir Roger Norrington conductor (Cockaigne) Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Sir Mark Elder conductor (Sea Drift) Julius Drake piano Martyn Brabbins conductor (Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles) Prom 4: Respighi, Ravel and Adams Monday 16 July Prom 2: Lerner & Loewe – My Fair Lady 7.30pm – c. 9.35pm Saturday 14 July Royal Albert Hall 7.00pm – c. 10.30pm Royal Albert Hall Respighi Roman Festivals (22 mins) Loewe Ravel My Fair Lady (170 mins) Piano Concerto in G major (22 mins) (semi-staged) INTERVAL Anthony Andrews actor, Proms debut artist (Professor Henry John Adams Higgins) City Noir (34 mins) Annalene Beechey vocalist (Eliza Doolittle) Imogen Cooper piano John Wilson Orchestra Juilliard Orchestra John Wilson conductor Orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music Shaun Kerrison stage director John Adams conductor

Prom 3: Debussy – Pelléas et Mélisande Prom 5: Strauss, Saariaho & Sibelius Sunday 15 July Tuesday 17 July 7.00pm – c. 10.00pm 7.30pm – c. 9.50pm Royal Albert Hall Royal Albert Hall

Debussy R. Strauss Pelléas et Mélisande (145 mins) Also sprach Zarathustra (32 mins) concert performance; sung in French R. Strauss Phillip Addis baritone (Pelléas) Four Last Songs (22 mins) Karen Vourc'h soprano, Proms debut artist (Mélisande) INTERVAL Laurent Naouri bass-baritone, Proms debut artist (Golaud) Kaija Saariaho Sir John Tomlinson bass (Arkel) Laterna magica (22 mins) Elodie Méchain alto, Proms debut artist (Geneviève) UK Premiere Dima Bawab soprano, Proms debut artist (Yniold) Sibelius Nahuel di Pierro bass, Proms debut artist (Doctor) Symphony No. 7 in C major (23 mins) Monteverdi Choir Anne Schwanewilms soprano Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique BBC Philharmonic Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor Juanjo Mena conductor

Proms Chamber Music 1: Alice Coote sings French chansons Prom 6: Lam, Rachmaninov & Prokofiev Monday 16 July Wednesday 18 July 1.00pm – c. 2.00pm 7.00pm – c. 9.15pm Cadogan Hall Royal Albert Hall

Gounod Fung Lam Au printemps (2 mins) Endless Forms (c9 mins) Saint-Saëns BBC Commission, World Premiere Aimons-nous (4 mins) Rachmaninov Fauré Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (35 mins) Poème d'un jour (6 mins) INTERVAL

Version 1 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ Proms 2012 Page 2 of 12 Prokofiev Beethoven Symphony No. 6 in E flat minor (43 mins) Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica' (50 mins) Kirill Gerstein piano Jussef Eisa clarinet, Proms debut artist BBC Symphony Orchestra IRCAM live electronics Jirí Belohlávek conductor West–Eastern Divan Orchestra Daniel Barenboim conductor

Prom 7: Handel – Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks Wednesday 18 July Prom 11: Berlioz – The Trojans 10.15pm – c. 11.30pm Sunday 22 July Royal Albert Hall 4.30pm – c. 10.00pm Royal Albert Hall Handel Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major (26 mins) Berlioz Handel The Trojans (255 mins) Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major (10 mins) Jonas Kaufmann tenor (Aeneas) Handel Fabio Capitanucci baritone, Proms debut artist (Coroebus) Water Music Suite No. 3 in G major (10 mins) Ashley Holland baritone (Panthus) Handel Brindley Sherratt bass (Narbal) Music for the Royal Fireworks (17 mins) Ji-Min Park tenor, Proms debut artist (Iopas, Iopas) Hervé Niquet conductor, Proms debut artist Barbara Senator mezzo-soprano, Proms debut artist (Ascanius) Le Concert Spirituel Anna Caterina Antonacci soprano (Cassandra) Eva Maria Westbroek soprano, Proms debut artist (Dido) Hanna Hipp mezzo-soprano, Proms debut artist (Anna) Prom 8: Handel – Judas Maccabaeus Ed Lyon tenor (Hylas) Thursday 19 July Robert Lloyd bass (Priam) 7.30pm – c. 10.20pm Lukas Jakobski bass (Greek Chieftain) Royal Albert Hall Jihoon Kim bass, Proms debut artist (Ghost of Hector) Ji Hyun Kim tenor, Proms debut artist (Helenus) Handel Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano (Hecuba) Judas Maccabaeus (130 mins) Royal Opera Chorus John Mark Ainsley tenor (Judas Maccabaeus) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Christopher Purves baritone (Simon/Eupolemus) Sir Antonio Pappano conductor Rosemary Joshua soprano (Israelitish Woman) Christine Rice mezzo-soprano, New Generation Artist (Israelitish Man) Proms Chamber Music 2: Tenebrae Tim Mead counter-tenor (Israelitish Messenger/Israelitish Priest) Monday 23 July Choir of the Enlightenment 1.00pm – c. 2.00pm Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Cadogan Hall Laurence Cummings director Gibbons First Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts (1612) – selection (8 Prom 9: Beethoven Cycle – Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 mins) Friday 20 July Gibbons 7.30pm – c. 9.55pm The Cryes of London (7 mins) Royal Albert Hall Julian Philips Sorowfull Songes (c10 mins) Beethoven BBC Commission, World Premiere Symphony No. 1 in C major (25 mins) Steve Martland Pierre Boulez Street Songs – selection (22 mins) Dérive 2 (45 mins) Tenebrae INTERVAL Nigel Short conductor Beethoven Symphony No. 2 in D major (35 mins) West–Eastern Divan Orchestra Prom 12: Beethoven Cycle – Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 Daniel Barenboim conductor Monday 23 July 7.30pm – c. 9.45pm Royal Albert Hall Proms Saturday Matinee 1: Bach – The Art of Fugue Saturday 21 July Beethoven 3.00pm – c. 4.30pm Symphony No. 6 in F major 'Pastoral' (40 mins) Cadogan Hall Pierre Boulez Mémoriale ('… explosante-fixe …' Originel) (8 mins) J. S. Bach INTERVAL The Art of Fugue (arr. M. Esfahani) (70 mins) Pierre Boulez Mahan Esfahani harpsichord/director Messagesquisse (8 mins) Academy of Ancient Music Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor (30 mins) Hassan Moataz El Molla cello, Proms debut artist Prom 10: Beethoven Cycle – Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 West–Eastern Divan Orchestra Saturday 21 July Daniel Barenboim conductor 7.30pm – c. 9.55pm Royal Albert Hall

Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B flat major (35 mins) Pierre Boulez Dialogue de l'ombre double (20 mins) INTERVAL

Version 1 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ Proms 2012 Page 3 of 12 Prom 13: Beethoven Cycle – Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 Thierry Fischer conductor Tuesday 24 July 7.00pm – c. 9.00pm Royal Albert Hall Prom 17: Beethoven & Boulez Thursday 26 July Beethoven 10.15pm – c. 11.30pm Symphony No. 8 in F major (25 mins) Royal Albert Hall Pierre Boulez Anthèmes 2 (25 mins) Beethoven INTERVAL Piano Quintet in E flat major (25 mins) Beethoven Pierre Boulez Symphony No. 7 in A major (35 min) Le marteau sans maître (35 mins) Michael Barenboim violin West–Eastern Divan Orchestra (members) IRCAM live electronics Pierre Boulez conductor West–Eastern Divan Orchestra Daniel Barenboim conductor Prom 18: Beethoven Cycle – Symphony No. 9, 'Choral' Friday 27 July Prom 14: Kronos Quartet 6.30pm – c. 7.55pm Tuesday 24 July Royal Albert Hall 10.00pm – c. 11.15pm Royal Albert Hall Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'Choral' (77 mins) Omar Souleyman Anna Samuil soprano I'll Prevent the Hunters from Hunting You (La sidounak sayyada) Waltraud Meier mezzo-soprano (arr. Jacob Garchik) (4 mins) Peter Seiffert tenor UK Premiere René Pape bass Sofia Gubaidulina National Youth Choir of Great Britain String Quartet No. 4 (12 mins) West–Eastern Divan Orchestra Ben Johnston Daniel Barenboim conductor String Quartet No. 4, 'Amazing Grace' (11 mins) Nicole Lizée The Golden Age of the Radiophonic Workshop (Fibre-Optic Proms Saturday Matinee 2: Les 24 Violons du Roy Flowers) (c10 mins) Saturday 28 July BBC Commission, World Premiere 3.00pm – c. 4.30pm Traditional Cadogan Hall Tusen tankar (A Thousand Thoughts) transcr. Ljova, arr. Kronos Quartet (5 mins) Lully Aleksandra Vrebalov Armide – suite (15 mins) … hold me, neighbor, in this storm … (22 mins) Desmarets Kronos Quartet Circé – suite (10 mins) Marais Ariane et Bacchus – suite (15 mins) Prom 15: Smetana, Prokofiev & Dvorák Campra Wednesday 25 July Tancrède – suite (13 mins) 7.30pm – c. 9.40pm Lalande Royal Albert Hall Symphonies pour les soupez du roy – suite (12 mins) Les 24 Violons du Roy Smetana Sir Roger Norrington conductor String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, 'From My Life' (orch. Szell) (28 mins) Prokofiev Prom 19: Mason, Shostakovich, Langgaard & Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major (22 mins) Saturday 28 July INTERVAL 7.30pm – c. 10.00pm Dvorák Royal Albert Hall Symphony No. 7 in D minor (35 mins) Vadim Gluzman violin Benedict Mason BBC Symphony Orchestra meld (c25 mins) Jirí Belohlávek conductor BBC Commission, World Premiere Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major (29 mins) Prom 16: Elgar, Wood, Ravel & Debussy Langgaard Thursday 26 July Symphony No. 11, ‘Ixion’ (5 mins) 7.00pm – c. 9.15pm INTERVAL Royal Albert Hall Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B minor, 'Pathétique' (45 mins) Elgar Daniel Müller-Schott cello In the South (Alassio) (23 mins) Chantage Hugh Wood BBC Symphony Orchestra Concerto for Piano (25 mins) Thomas Dausgaard conductor INTERVAL Ravel Une barque sur l'océan (8 mins) Prom 20: The Wallace & Gromit Prom: Musical Marvels! Debussy Sunday 29 July La cathédrale engloutie (orch. Henry Wood) (8 mins) 3.30pm – c. 5.15pm Debussy Royal Albert Hall La mer (25 mins) Joanna MacGregor piano The world premiere of a new show, with classical favourites BBC National Orchestra of Wales for all the family – including music by John Adams,

Version 1 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ Proms 2012 Page 4 of 12 Debussy and Shostakovich – plus specially filmed new Ireland Wallace & Gromit animations, featuring the dynamic These Things Shall Be (22 mins) duo’s backstage exploits as they prepare for the first INTERVAL performance of Wallace’s brand-new Proms commission, Delius My Concerto in Ee, Lad. And A Matter of Loaf and Death, The Walk to the Paradise Garden (10 mins) screened for the first time with a live orchestral soundtrack. Walton Belshazzar's Feast (36 mins) There will be one interval Jonathan Lemalu baritone, bass-baritone London Brass Tasmin Little violin BBC Symphony Chorus BBC National Chorus of Wales Aurora Orchestra BBC National Orchestra of Wales Nicholas Collon conductor Tadaaki Otaka conductor

Prom 21: Aldeburgh World Orchestra Prom 24: BBC Radio 3 World Routes Academy Sunday 29 July Tuesday 31 July 8.00pm – c. 10.05pm 10.15pm – c. 11.30pm Royal Albert Hall Royal Albert Hall

Britten Now in its third year, BBC Radio 3’s World Routes Academy Sinfonia da Requiem (21 mins) mentoring project turns to Latin America. Born in London of Mahler Colombian descent, 2012’s young apprentice is self-taught Symphony No. 10 – Adagio (22 mins) 20-year-old accordionist, singer and guitarist José Hernando INTERVAL Arias Noguera. His mentor, the renowned Bogotá-based Charlotte Bray accordion king Egidio Cuadrado – who brings his own band At the Speed of Stillness (c10 mins) – is probably best known for his collaborations with Carlos BBC Commission, World Premiere Vives, the Latin American superstar actor-turned-singer. Stravinsky Fusing the folk tradition of vallenato with elements of rock The Rite of Spring (32 mins) and pop has proved a game-changer for music now enjoyed Aldeburgh World Orchestra all over the Spanish-speaking world and beyond. Sir Mark Elder conductor

Prom 25: Ives, Barber, Zimmermann & Tippett Proms Chamber Music 3: La Tarantella Wednesday 1 August Monday 30 July 7.30pm – c. 10.00pm 1.00pm – c. 2.00pm Royal Albert Hall Cadogan Hall Ives The tarantella, the entrancing dance form found in several The Unanswered Question (6 mins) Mediterranean countries, is the unifying thread here. Barber L'Arpeggiata's programme recalls the popular myth that Adagio for strings (8 mins) the bite of the tarantula could only be cured by music and Zimmermann dancing, a remedy known since the Middle Ages as Nobody knows de trouble I see (15 mins) 'tarantismo'. The associated songs and improvisations INTERVAL – tailored to match the varied symptoms of torpor, Tippett excitability and restlessness afflicting victims of the A Child of Our Time (72 mins) spider's poison – are revived in a virtuosic performance Håkan Hardenberger trumpet that transcends generic boundaries. The innovative Measha Brueggergosman soprano period-instrument ensemble is joined by dancer Anna Dego. Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Paul Groves tenor L'Arpeggiata Jubilant Sykes bass-baritone Christina Pluhar theorbo/director BBC Proms Youth Choir BBC Symphony Orchestra David Robertson conductor Prom 22: Mozart, Mahler & Knussen Monday 30 July 7.30pm – c. 9.50pm Prom 26: Bach – Mass in B minor Royal Albert Hall Thursday 2 August 7.30pm – c. 9.55pm Mozart Royal Albert Hall Don Giovanni – overture (6 mins) Oliver Knussen J. S. Bach Symphony No. 2 (17 mins) Mass in B minor (110 mins) INTERVAL Joélle Harvey soprano Mahler Malin Christensson soprano Symphony No. 7 (78 mins) Iestyn Davies counter-tenor Gillian Keith soprano Ed Lyon tenor BBC Philharmonic Matthew Rose bass Gianandrea Noseda conductor Choir of the English Concert The English Concert Harry Bicket conductor Prom 23: Vaughan Williams, Ireland, Delius & Walton Tuesday 31 July 7.00pm – c. 9.05pm Royal Albert Hall

Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (16 mins)

Version 1 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ Proms 2012 Page 5 of 12 Prom 27: Wagner & Bruckner Prom 31: National Youth Orchestra of Scotland Friday 3 August & BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 7.45pm – c. 10.00pm Sunday 5 August Royal Albert Hall 7.30pm – c. 10.05pm Royal Albert Hall Wagner Siegfried Idyll (18 mins) James MacMillan INTERVAL Olympic Fanfare (4 mins) Bruckner London Premiere Symphony No. 8 in C minor (80 mins) Wagner ed. Nowak, 1955 The Mastersingers of Nuremberg – overture (12 mins) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Bruch Donald Runnicles conductor Scottish Fantasy (30 mins) INTERVAL R. Strauss Prom 28: Ulster Youth Orchestra of Northern Ireland Don Juan (17 mins) & Ulster Orchestra Thea Musgrave Saturday 4 August Loch Ness – a Postcard from Scotland (c10 mins) 2.00pm – c. 4.00pm BBC Commission, World Premiere Royal Albert Hall Respighi Pines of Rome (23 mins) Chabrier Nicola Benedetti violin España (8 mins) National Youth Orchestra of Scotland Mozart BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major, K314 (20 mins) Donald Runnicles conductor Elaine Agnew Dark Hedges (c12 mins) BBC Commission, World Premiere Proms Chamber Music 4: Debussy & Ravel INTERVAL Monday 6 August Stravinsky 1.00pm – c. 2.00pm The Firebird (30 mins) Cadogan Hall Sir James Galway flute Ulster Youth Orchestra of Northern Ireland Debussy Ulster Orchestra Violin Sonata (13 mins) JoAnn Falletta conductor Debussy Cello Sonata (12 mins) Ravel Prom 29: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Piano Trio in A minor (27 mins) Saturday 4 August Jennifer Pike violin 7.30pm – c. 10.05pm Igor Levit piano Royal Albert Hall Nicolas Altstaedt cello

Varèse Tuning Up (5 mins) Prom 32: Bernstein – Mass Nico Muhly Monday 6 August Gait (20 mins) 7.00pm – c. 9.00pm BBC Commission Royal Albert Hall London Premiere INTERVAL Bernstein Messiaen Mass (103 mins) Turangalîla Symphony (77 mins) Morten Frank Larsen bass-baritone Anna Meredith Julius Foo treble HandsFree (12 mins) Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Pwll Coch, Caerdydd Cynthia Millar ondes martenot Ysgol Gynradd Gymunedol Gymraeg, Llantrisant Joanna MacGregor piano Ysgol Gynradd Dolau, Llanharan National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg, Rhydaman Vasily Petrenko conductor National Youth Choir of Wales Aelwyd y Waun Ddyfal Musicians from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Prom 30: The Angry Planet BBC National Chorus of Wales Sunday 5 August BBC National Orchestra of Wales 4.30pm – c. 5.30pm National Youth Orchestra of Wales Royal Albert Hall Kristjan Järvi conductor

Bob Chilcott The Angry Planet (c45 mins) Prom 33: Wagner, Bruckner & MacMillan World Premiere Tuesday 7 August Ben Parry 7.30pm – c. 9.40pm Flame (4 mins) Royal Albert Hall Ruby Hughes soprano Children’s Choirs from London Boroughs Wagner (Harrow, Royal Borough of Kensington and Tristan and Isolde – Prelude (Act 1) (9 mins) Chelsea & Westminster) James MacMillan BBC Singers Credo (c25 mins) The Bach Choir BBC co-commission National Youth Choir of Great Britain World Premiere David Hill conductor INTERVAL Bruckner Symphony No. 6 in A major (55 mins)

Version 1 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ Proms 2012 Page 6 of 12 Manchester Chamber Choir (Proms debut) Prom 37: Elgar – The Apostles Northern Sinfonia Chorus (Proms debut) Friday 10 August Rushley Singers (Proms debut) 6.45pm – c. 9.15pm BBC Philharmonic Royal Albert Hall Juanjo Mena conductor Elgar The Apostles (120 mins) Prom 34: Schubert, Dubugnon & R. Strauss Rebecca Evans soprano (Blessed Virgin/Angel Gabriel) Wednesday 8 August Alice Coote mezzo-soprano (Mary Magdalene) 7.30pm – c. 9.55pm Paul Groves tenor (St John/Narrator) Royal Albert Hall Jacques Imbrailo baritone (Jesus) Iain Paterson bass-baritone (St Peter) Schubert Clive Bayley bass (Judas) Symphony No. 8 in B minor, 'Unfinished' (25 mins) Hallé Choir (formerly Hallé Chorus) Richard Dubugnon Hallé Youth Choir Battlefield Concerto (27 mins) London Philharmonic Choir INTERVAL Hallé R. Strauss Sir Mark Elder conductor Ein Heldenleben (45 mins) Katia and Marielle Labèque piano BBC Symphony Orchestra Prom 38: National Youth Jazz Orchestra Semyon Bychkov conductor Friday 10 August 10.15pm – c. 11.30pm Royal Albert Hall Prom 35: Sibelius, Delius, Grieg & Nørgård Thursday 9 August Ellington 6.30pm – c. 9.20pm Rockin' in Rhythm (6 mins) Royal Albert Hall Nikki Iles Hush (8 mins) Sibelius Kenny Wheeler Symphony No. 6 in D minor (29 mins) Sweet Time Suite – Know Where You Are (6 mins) Delius Monk Cynara (10 mins) 'Round midnight (arr. M. Armstrong) (5 mins) Grieg Richardson Piano Concerto in A minor (29 mins) Groove Merchant (7 mins) INTERVAL Chris Whiter Per Nørgård The Change (8 mins) Symphony No. 7 (27 mins) T. Stone UK Premiere Return Flight (7 mins) Sibelius Ellington Symphony No. 3 in C major (30 mins) Caravan (arr. Callum Au) (8 mins) Roderick Williams baritone Ellington Steven Osborne piano, New Generation Artist The Queen’s Suite – Sunset and the Mockingbird (4 mins) BBC Philharmonic Tim Garland John Storgårds conductor, Proms debut artist Agro Alegría (c8 mins) Tim Garland saxophone National Youth Jazz Orchestra Prom 36: Glamorous Night: A Celebration of Ivor Novello Mark Armstrong conductor Thursday 9 August 10.15pm – c. 11.30pm Royal Albert Hall Proms Saturday Matinee 3: Britten Sinfonia Saturday 11 August Remember such time-honoured favourites as ‘We’ll gather 3.00pm – c. 4.30pm lilacs’? Tonight we acknowledge that patriotic First World Cadogan Hall War plea to ‘keep the home fires burning’ in a tribute to a silent-movie actor, West End playwright, composer and star Michael Finnissy of a string of stage musicals hugely popular in their day. Piano Concerto No. 2 (13 mins) UK Premiere Ivor Novello, the most consistently successful composer Brian Ferneyhough of British musicals before the advent of Andrew Lloyd Prometheus (23 mins) Webber, nowadays tends to be unjustly neglected. Sir Harrison Birtwistle Sir Mark Elder is a committed advocate, as is tonight’s Gigue Machine (12 mins) master of ceremonies, Simon Callow. UK Premiere Brian Elias There will be no interval. Electra Mourns (c17 mins) World Premiere Sophie Bevan soprano Susan Bickley mezzo-soprano Toby Spence tenor Nicholas Daniel cor anglais Simon Callow narrator Nicolas Hodges piano Britten Sinfonia Hallé Clark Rundell conductor Sir Mark Elder conductor

Version 1 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ Proms 2012 Page 7 of 12 Prom 39: Berlioz – Requiem Korngold Saturday 11 August Die tote Stadt – Marietta’s Song; Pierrot’s Dance Song (arr. 7.30pm – c. 9.05pm Korngold) (11 mins) Royal Albert Hall Brahms Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor (30 mins) Berlioz Nicola Benedetti violin Requiem (Grande messe des morts) (83 mins) Alexei Grynyuk piano Toby Spence tenor Leonard Elschenbroich cello BBC National Chorus of Wales Huddersfield Choral Society London Symphony Chorus Prom 42: Prokofiev, Neurwirth & Bartók BBC National Orchestra of Wales Monday 13 August Thierry Fischer conductor 7.30pm – c. 9.35pm Royal Albert Hall

Prom 40: National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain Prokofiev & National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain Romeo and Juliet – Suite No. 1 (30 mins) Sunday 12 August Olga Neuwirth 3.30pm – c. 5.40pm Remnants of Songs ... an Amphigony (20 mins) Royal Albert Hall UK Premiere INTERVAL Vaughan Williams Bartók Flourish for Glorious John (3 mins) Concerto for Orchestra (37 mins) Holst Lawrence Power viola Suite No. 2 in F (11 mins) Philharmonia Orchestra Gavin Higgins Susanna Mälkki conductor Der Aufstand (c10 mins) BBC Commission, World Premiere Martin Ellerby Prom 43: Delius, Saint-Saëns & Tchaikovsky Paris Sketches (14 mins) Tuesday 14 August Walton 7.00pm – c. 9.15pm Crown Imperial (8 mins) Royal Albert Hall INTERVAL Lucas Delius Chorale and Variations (7 mins) Paris (The Song of a Great City) (22 mins) John Pickard Saint-Saëns Wildfire (12 mins) Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor (21 mins) Gavin Bryars INTERVAL After the Underworlds (c6 mins) Tchaikovsky BBC Commission, World Premiere Symphony No. 5 in E minor (45 mins) George Benjamin Benjamin Grosvenor piano, New Generation Artist Altitude (8 mins) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Derek Bourgeois Charles Dutoit conductor Blitz (12 mins) National Youth Wind Orchestra James Gourlay conductor Prom 44: London Sinfonietta National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain Tuesday 14 August Bramwell Tovey conductor 10.15pm – c. 11.30pm Royal Albert Hall

Prom 41: Schoenberg – Gurrelieder Ligeti Sunday 12 August Poème symphonique (8 mins) 8.00pm – c. 9.50pm Berio Royal Albert Hall Sequenza V (8 mins) Xenakis Schoenberg Phlegra (12 mins) Gurrelieder (99 mins) Jonathan Harvey Angela Denoke soprano Mortuos plango, vivos voco (9 mins) Simon O'Neill tenor (Waldemar) Louis Andriessen Katarina Karnéus mezzo-soprano (Wood-Dove) De snelheid (18 mins) Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts tenor (Klaus the Fool) Cage Neal Davies bass-baritone (Peasant) 4' 33 (4:33 mins) Wolfgang Schöne speaker Byron Fulcher trombone BBC Singers Sound Intermedia BBC Symphony Chorus London Sinfonietta Crouch End Festival Chorus London Sinfonietta Academy Ensemble New London Chamber Choir André Ridder conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra Jirí Belohlávek conductor Prom 45: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Wednesday 15 August Proms Chamber Music 5: Nicola Benedetti 7.30pm – c. 9.55pm Monday 13 August Royal Albert Hall 1.00pm – c. 2.00pm Cadogan Hall Dvorák Symphony No. 9 in E minor, 'From the New World' (45 mins) J. S. Bach INTERVAL Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin – Chaconne (13 mins) Copland Fanfare for the Common Man (4 mins)

Version 1 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ Proms 2012 Page 8 of 12 Joan Tower BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Fanfare for the Uncomman Woman (3 mins) Exaudi Villa-Lobos Ilan Volkov conductor Momoprécoce (28 mins) Ginastera Estancia – suite (12 mins) Proms Saturday Matinee 4: Birmingham Contemporary Music Nelson Freire piano Group São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Saturday 18 August Marin Alsop conductor 3.00pm – c. 4.30pm Cadogan Hall

Prom 46: Vaughan Williams – Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 Alexander Goehr Thursday 16 August … a musical offering (J.S.B. 1985) … (15 mins) 7.30pm – c. 9.50pm Oliver Knussen Royal Albert Hall Ophelia Dances (7 mins) Oliver Knussen Vaughan Williams Ophelia's Last Dance (10 mins) Symphony No. 4 in F minor (30 mins) Simon Bainbridge INTERVAL The Garden of Earthly Delights (c35 mins) Vaughan Williams BBC Commission, World Premiere Symphony No. 5 in D major (39 mins) Anne-Marie Owens mezzo-soprano Vaughan Williams Andrew Watts counter-tenor Symphony No. 6 in E minor (31 mins) Huw Watkins piano BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra London Sinfonietta Voices Andrew Manze conductor Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Nicholas Collon conductor

Prom 47: Cage Centenary Celebration Friday 17 August Prom 48: Weber, Mahler & Tchaikovsky 7.45pm – c. 11.15pm Saturday 18 August Royal Albert Hall 7.30pm – c. 9.30pm Royal Albert Hall Cage 1O1 (12 mins) Weber Cage Der Freischütz – overture (10 mins) Improvisation III (12 mins) Mahler Christian Marclay Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (17 mins) Luggage 2012 – improvisation for orchestra (c5 mins) INTERVAL Cage Tchaikovsky Atlas eclipticalis/Winter Music/Cartridge Music (30 mins) Manfred (57 mins) INTERVAL Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Cage London Philharmonic Orchestra Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra (20 mins) Vladimir Jurowski conductor Cage Four2 (7 mins) Cage Prom 49: Gilbert & Sullivan – The Yeomen of the Guard But what about the noise of crumpling paper ... (15 mins) Sunday 19 August Cage 7.30pm – c. 9.30pm Experiences II (3 mins) Royal Albert Hall Cage ear for EAR (Antiphonies) (2 mins) Sullivan David Behrman, Takehisa Kosugi, Keith Rowe & Christian Wolff The Yeomen of the Guard (85 mins) Quartet – improvisation (c25 mins) semi-staged Cage Leigh Melrose baritone (Lt Sir Richard Cholmondeley) Branches (20 mins) Andrew Kennedy tenor (Colonel Fairfax) John Tilbury piano, prepared piano Lisa Milne soprano (Elsie Maynard) Frank Denyer piano Victoria Simmonds mezzo-soprano (Phoebe Meryll) Aki Takahashi piano Felicity Palmer mezzo-soprano (Dame Carruthers) Christian Wolff piano Mary Bevan soprano (Kate) David Behrman live electronics Mark Richardson bass-baritone (Sergeant Meryll) Takehisa Kosugi live electronics Tom Randle tenor (Leonard Meryll) Keith Rowe Mark Stone baritone (Jack Point) Vicki Bennett Toby Stafford-Allen baritone (Wilfred Shadbolt) Steve Beresford BBC Singers Adam Bohman BBC Concert Orchestra Jonathan Bohman Jane Glover conductor John Butcher Martin Duncan stage director Karen Constance Angharad Davies Rhodri Davies Proms Chamber Music 6: Escher Quartet Patrick Farmer Monday 20 August Ram Gabay 1.00pm – c. 2.00pm Christoph Heemann Cadogan Hall Lina Lapelyte John Lely Hugh Wood Anton Lukoszevieze String Quartet No. 4 (24 mins) Dylan Nyoukis Debussy Mariam Rezaei String Quartet in G minor (25 mins) Robyn Schulkowsky Escher Quartet

Version 1 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ Proms 2012 Page 9 of 12 Prom 50: Beethoven, Mozart, Delius & Nielsen London Premiere Monday 20 August Delius 7.30pm – c. 9.45pm Violin Concerto (25 mins) Royal Albert Hall INTERVAL Shostakovich Beethoven Symphony No. 10 in E minor (45 mins) Egmont – overture (9 mins) Tasmin Little violin Mozart Vasily Petrenko conductor Clarinet Concerto in A major (28 mins) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Delius Eventyr (Once Upon a Time) (16 mins) Nielsen Prom 55: Britten – Peter Grimes Symphony No. 5 (34 mins) Friday 24 August BBC Symphony Orchestra 7.00pm – c. 10.30pm Osmo Vänskä conductor Royal Albert Hall Michael Collins basset clarinet Britten Peter Grimes (150 mins) Prom 51: Glinka, Howard & Shostakovich concert performance Tuesday 21 August Stuart Skelton tenor (Peter Grimes) 7.30pm – c. 9.45pm Amanda Roocroft soprano (Ellen Orford) Royal Albert Hall Iain Paterson bass-baritone (Captain Balstrode) Rebecca de Pont Davies mezzo-soprano (Auntie) Glinka Matthew Best baritone (Swallow) Ruslan and Lyudmila – overture (5 mins) Leigh Melrose baritone (Ned Keene) Emily Howard Michael Colvin tenor (Bob Boles) Calculus of the Nervous System (15 mins) Felicity Palmer mezzo-soprano (Mrs Sedley) UK Premiere Gillian Ramm soprano (First Niece) INTERVAL Mairéad Buicke soprano (Second Niece) Shostakovich Darren Jeffery bass-baritone (Hobson) Symphony No. 7 in C major 'Leningrad' (75 mins) Stuart Kale tenor (Rev Horace Adams) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ENO Chorus and Orchestra Andris Nelsons conductor Edward Gardner conductor

Prom 52: Prokofiev – Cinderella Prom 56: Goehr, Knussen, Grime & Debussy Wednesday 22 August Saturday 25 August 7.00pm – c. 9.15pm 7.30pm – c. 10.05pm Royal Albert Hall Royal Albert Hall

Prokofiev Alexander Goehr Cinderella (105) Metamorphosis/Dance (19 mins) London Symphony Orchestra Oliver Knussen Valery Gergiev conductor Symphony No. 3 (15 mins) INTERVAL Helen Grime Prom 53: 1612 Italian Vespers Night Songs (c10 mins) Wednesday 22 August BBC Commission, World Premiere 10.15pm – c. 11.30pm Debussy Royal Albert Hall The Martyrdom of St Sebastian (52 mins) complete incidental music, without narration Viadana Claire Booth soprano Salmi a quattro chori (1612) – Deus in adiutorium; Dixit Dominus (7 Polly May mezzo-soprano mins) Clare McCaldin mezzo-soprano Barbarino New London Chamber Choir Exaudi Deus (4 mins) BBC National Chorus of Wales Viadana BBC Symphony Orchestra Salmi a quattro chori (1612) – Laetatus sum (7 mins) Oliver Knussen conductor Viadana O dulcissima Maria (2 mins) Grandi Prom 57: Wagner, Berg, R. Strauss & Ravel Plorabo die ac nocte (7 mins) Sunday 26 August Gabrieli 7.30pm – c. 9.35pm Magnificat a 20/28 con il 'sicut locutus' (reconstr. H. Keyte) (9 mins) Royal Albert Hall Monteverdi Salve Regina (4 mins) Wagner Gabrieli Parsifal – Prelude (Act 3) and Good Friday Music (20 mins) In eccelsiis (reconstr. H. Keyte) (7 mins) Berg Robert Hollingworth conductor Violin Concerto (25 mins) I Fagiolini INTERVAL R. Strauss Der Rosenkavalier – suite (22 mins) Prom 54: Davies, Delius & Shostakovich Ravel Thursday 23 August La valse (12 mins) 7.30pm – c. 9.50pm Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester Royal Albert Hall Daniele Gatti conductor Frank Peter Zimmermann violin Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Symphony No.9 (25 mins)

Version 1 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ Proms 2012 Page 10 of 12 Proms Chamber Music 7: Debussy & Schoenberg Vito Priante bass (Figaro) Monday 27 August Lydia Teuscher soprano (Susanna) 1.00pm – c. 2.00pm Sally Matthews soprano (Countess Almaviva) Cadogan Hall Audun Iversen baritone (Count Almaviva) Andrew Shore baritone (Bartolo) Debussy Ann Murray mezzo-soprano (Marcellina) Sonata for flute, viola and harp (16 mins) Isabel Leonard mezzo-soprano (Cherubino) Schoenberg Alan Oke tenor (Don Basilio) Pierrot lunaire (33 mins) Nicholas Folwell baritone (Antonio) Christine Schäfer (Sprechstimme) Colin Judson tenor (Don Curzio) Martyn Brabbins conductor Sarah Shafer soprano (Barbarina) Nash Ensemble Glyndebourne Festival Opera Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Robin Ticciati conductor Prom 58: Family Matinee: A Journey to Far Corners of our Musical World Monday 27 August Prom 61: Howells & Elgar 3.00pm – c. 5.00pm Wednesday 29 August Royal Albert Hall 7.00pm – c. 9.10pm Royal Albert Hall The Northern Sinfonia is joined by Montenegrin guitar star Milos Karadaglic and Amadou & Mariam, the Malian Howells couple who met at the school for the blind in Barnako and Hymnus Paradisi (44 mins) have since worked in partnership with an ever-expanding INTERVAL coalition of African and Western musicians. This Prom sees Elgar them perform with their seven-piece band, as well as with Symphony No. 1 in A flat major (53 mins) Northern Sinfonia and our own Family Orchestra and Chorus. Miah Persson soprano Andrew Kennedy tenor Programme to include: BBC Symphony Chorus London Philharmonic Choir Delius BBC Symphony Orchestra On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring Martyn Brabbins conductor Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez – 2nd movement Falla Prom 62: Eric Whitacre El Amor brujo – Ritual Fire Dance Wednesday 29 August 10.15pm – c. 11.30pm Improvisation (Proms Family Orchestra and Chorus) Royal Albert Hall Milos Karadaglic guitar Amadou & Mariam Bernstein Proms Family Orchestra Warm-Up (2 mins) Northern Sinfonia Eric Whitacre Stephen Bell conductor Alleluia (9 mins) Eric Whitacre Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine (9 mins) Prom 59: The Broadway Sound J. S. Bach Monday 27 August Bach Again (arr. E. London) (5 mins) 8.00pm – c. 10.00pm Eric Whitacre Royal Albert Hall Higher, Faster, Stronger (c8 mins) BBC Commission, World Premiere After last year’s celebration of the Hollywood screen Imogen Heap musical, John Wilson and his high-octane orchestra The Listening Chair (arr. E. Whitacre) (c5 mins) – whose technicoloured performances, according to World Premiere one critic, offer ‘the auditory equivalent of a Traditional steam-clean’ – present a tribute to the composers and Three Spirituals (arr. M. Hogan) (9 mins) arrangers responsible for creating the Broadway Sound Eric Whitacre – among them such legendary tunesmiths as Jerome Kern, Cloudburst (9 mins) Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Vincent Youmans, Eric Whitacre Richard Rodgers and Frank Loesser. Sleep (5 mins) Imogen Heap vocals With a cast of leading soloists, the concert includes Ensemble Bash excerpts from Show Boat, No, No, Nanette, On Your Toes, BBC Singers Kiss Me, Kate and Annie Get Your Gun. Eric Whitacre Singers Eric Whitacre conductor There will be one interval

Maida Vale Singers Prom 63: Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle John Wilson Orchestra Thursday 30 August John Wilson conductor 7.30pm – c. 9.40pm Royal Albert Hall

Prom 60: Mozart – The Marriage of Figaro Ligeti Tuesday 28 August Atmosphères (8 mins) 6.30pm – c. 10.20pm Wagner Royal Albert Hall Lohengrin – Prelude (Act I) (7 mins) Sibelius Mozart Symphony No. 4 in A minor (33 mins) The Marriage of Figaro (190 mins) INTERVAL semi-staged; sung in Italian

Version 1 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ Proms 2012 Page 11 of 12 Debussy Prom 68: Cameron Carpenter plays Bach Jeux (18 mins) Sunday 2 September Ravel 4.00pm – c. 5.00pm Daphnis et Chloe – Suite No. 2 (17 mins) Royal Albert Hall Berliner Philharmoniker Sir Simon Rattle conductor Cameron Carpenter Improvisation on the Bourée from Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009 (c8 mins) Prom 64: Berliner Philharmoniker – Brahms & Lutoslawski J. S. Bach Friday 31 August Fantasia and Fugue in G minor 'The Great' (8 mins) 7.00pm – c. 9.05pm J. S. Bach Royal Albert Hall The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I – Prelude and Fugue No. 15 in G major, BWV 860 (5 mins) Brahms J. S. Bach and Mahler Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major (50 mins) Syncretic Prelude and Fugue in D major INTERVAL (arr. C. Carpenter) (30 mins) Lutoslawski Cameron Carpenter organ Symphony No. 3 (35 mins) Yefim Bronfman piano Berliner Philharmoniker Prom 69: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra – Messiaen & Mahler Sir Simon Rattle conductor Sunday 2 September 7.30pm – c. 10.00pm Royal Albert Hall Prom 65: Taylor/Barker – The Spirit of Django Friday 31 August Messiaen 10.15pm – c. 11.15pm Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (31 mins) Royal Albert Hall INTERVAL Mahler Martin Taylor/Guy Barker Symphony No. 6 in A minor (85 mins) The Spirit of Django – orchestral suite (54 mins) Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra London Premiere Riccardo Chailly conductor Martin Taylor guitar Britten Sinfonia Guy Barker Jazz Orchestra Proms Chamber Music 8: Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Debussy Spirit of Django Monday 3 September Guy Barker conductor 1.00pm – c. 2.00pm Cadogan Hall

Prom 66: Cameron Carpenter plays Bach Debussy Saturday 1 September Les soirs illuminés par l’ardeur du charbon (3 mins) 4.00pm – c. 5.00pm Debussy Royal Albert Hall Élégie (2 mins) Debussy J. S. Bach Masques (5 mins) Toccata and Fugue in F major, BWV 540 (8 mins) Debussy J. S. Bach Préludes – Book 2 (38 mins) Partita No. 3 in E major for solo violin, BWV 1006 Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano – excerpt (arr. C. Carpenter) (8 mins) J. S. Bach Prelude and Fugue in A major, BWV 536 (6 mins) Prom 70: Desert Island Discs 70th-Anniversary Prom J. S. Bach Monday 3 September Chorale Prelude 'Nun freut euch, lieben Christen', BWV 734 7.30pm – c. 9.40pm (arr. Busoni/C. Carpenter) (3 mins) Royal Albert Hall Cameron Carpenter Improvisation on B–A–C–H (c12 mins) In a celebration of the 70th anniversary of BBC Radio 4’s J. S. Bach Desert Island Discs, Kirsty Young interviews guests from Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, BWV 552, the series and introduces the most popular music choices, 'St Anne' (arr. Schoenberg/C. Carpenter) (14 mins) including Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565), Cameron Carpenter organ Coates’s ‘The Dam Busters’ March and The Sleepy Lagoon; and excerpts from Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto, Coleridge-Taylor’s The Death of Minnehaha, Elgar’s Prom 67: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra – Mendelssohn Cello Concerto, Handel’s Messiah, Puccini’s Madam Butterfly Saturday 1 September and Tosca, plus arrangements of favourite Beatles songs. 7.30pm – c. 9.30pm Royal Albert Hall Kirsty Young presenter Ailish Tynan soprano Mendelssohn Nicolas Altstaedt cello Overture 'Ruy Blas' (8 mins) Peter Donohoe piano Mendelssohn Wayne Marshall organ Violin Concerto in E minor (27 mins) Sir Willard White bass-baritone INTERVAL Huddersfield Choral Society Mendelssohn BBC Concert Orchestra Overture 'The Fair Melusine' (10 mins) Keith Lockhart conductor Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5 in D major, 'Reformation' (27 mins) UK premiere of original version Nikolaj Znaider violin Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Riccardo Chailly conductor

Version 1 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ Proms 2012 Page 12 of 12 Prom 71: St Louis Symphony Prom 75: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra – Haydn & R. Strauss Tuesday 4 September Friday 7 September 7.30pm – c. 9.45pm 7.30pm – c. 9.35pm Royal Albert Hall Royal Albert Hall

Brahms Haydn Tragic Overture (14 mins) Symphony No. 104 in D major, 'London' (30 mins) Beethoven INTERVAL Violin Concerto in D major (40 mins) R. Strauss INTERVAL An Alpine Symphony (50 mins) Schoenberg Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16 (16 mins) Bernard Haitink conductor Gershwin An American in Paris (18 mins) Christian Tetzlaff violin Prom 76: Last Night of the Proms 2012 St Louis Symphony Saturday 8 September David Robertson conductor 7.30pm – c. 10.40pm Royal Albert Hall

Prom 72: John Adams – Nixon in China Mark Simpson Wednesday 5 September sparks (c2 mins) 7.00pm – c. 10.25pm BBC Commission, World Premiere Royal Albert Hall Suk Towards a New Life (6 mins) John Adams Delius Nixon in China (180 mins) Songs of Farewell (18 mins) semi-staged Verdi Kathleen Kim soprano (Madame Mao) Un ballo in maschera – ‘Forse la soglia attinse Alan Oke tenor (Chairman Mao) … Ma se m’è forza perderti’ (5 mins) Gerald Finley bass-baritone (Chou En-Lai) Massenet Robert Orth baritone (President Nixon) Werther – ‘Pourquoi me réveiller?’ (3 mins) Jessica Rivera soprano (Pat Nixon) Bruch James Rutherford bass-baritone, Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor (25 mins) New Generation Artist (Kissinger) Puccini Stephanie Marshall mezzo-soprano (Secretary) Tosca – ‘E lucevan le stelle’ (3 mins) Louise Poole mezzo-soprano (Secretary) Puccini Susan Platts mezzo-soprano (Secretary) Turandot – ‘Nessun dorma’ (3 mins) BBC Singers INTERVAL BBC Symphony Orchestra John Williams John Adams conductor Olympic Fanfare and Theme (5 mins) Paul Curran stage director Dvorák Overture 'Carnival' (9 mins) Shostakovich Prom 73: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra – Beethoven & Bruckner The Gadfly – Romance (6 mins) Thursday 6 September Brodzsky 7.00pm – c. 9.20pm The Toast of New Orleans – ‘Be my love’ (3 mins) Royal Albert Hall Lara Granada (3 mins) Beethoven Rodgers Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major (35 mins) Carousel – ‘You’ll never walk alone’ (4 mins) INTERVAL Wood Bruckner Fantasia on British Sea-Songs (20 mins) Symphony No. 9 in D minor (65 mins) Elgar Murray Perahia piano Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra ('Land of Hope and Glory') (8 mins) Bernard Haitink conductor Parry, orch. Elgar Jerusalem (4 mins) Traditional Prom 74: Staff Benda Bilili & Baloji The National Anthem (2 mins) Thursday 6 September Nicola Benedetti violin 10.15pm – c. 11.30pm Joseph Calleja tenor Royal Albert Hall BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Staff Benda Bilili Jirí Belohlávek conductor Baloji

Staff Benda Bilili are like nothing you have ever seen or heard before: a group of paraplegic street musicians and ex-street kids from the Democratic Republic of Congo, making music rooted in Soukous (or African rumba) with elements of old-school rhythm and blues, reggae and funk.

‘Afropean’ Congolese-born, Belgian-educated rapper Baloji mixes old and cutting-edge sounds with bitingly modern lyrics. But his most recent album finds him returning to his motherland in search of musical understanding and communal improvisation.

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