CHRISTMAS LISTINGS 25 DECEMBER 2018 – 8 JANUARY 2019

Another chance to hear and watch selected BBC Proms 2018 concerts, on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Four over the festive period.

TUESDAY 25 DECEMBER SUNDAY 30 DECEMBER Brett Dean, Tabea Zimmermann violas 7.30pm • Radio 3 7.30pm • Radio 3 Swedish Chamber Orchestra Thomas Dausgaard conductor PROM 39 PROM 29 West Side Story The Brandenburg Project – 1 MONDAY 31 DECEMBER Mikaela Bennett Maria Johann Sebastian Bach 7.00pm • Radio 3 Ross Lekites Tony Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major PROM 60 John Wilson Orchestra Mark-Anthony Turnage Maya John Wilson conductor Johann Sebastian Bach Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major Symphony Orchestra THURSDAY 27 DECEMBER Anders Hillborg Bach Materia Leonard Bernstein Slava! (A Political Overture) 7.30pm • Radio 3 Johann Sebastian Bach Symphony No. 2, ‘The Age of Anxiety’ Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major PROM 62 Dmitry Shostakovich Uri Caine Hamsa Symphony No. 5 in D minor Strauss Songs Fiona Kelly flute Jean‐Yves Thibaudet piano Edward Elgar In the South (Alassio) Lisa Almberg, Daniel Burstedt, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Iain Bell Aurora * Mårten Larsson oboes horns Marin Alsop conductor Richard Strauss Göran Hülphers, Terése Larsson Pekka Kuusisto, Antje Weithaas violins Ständchen; Das Bächlein; Morgen!; Zueignung † Maya Beiser cello • Uri Caine piano 9.00pm • Radio 3 Béla Bartók Mahan Esfahani harpsichord PROM 75 Concerto for Orchestra Swedish Chamber Orchestra Last Night of the Proms * Adela Zaharia soprano Thomas Dausgaard conductor † Miah Persson soprano Paul Hindemith Neues vom Tage – overture Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 10.00pm • Radio 3 Vasily Petrenko conductor PROM 30 Hector Berlioz Lélio – Fantasy on Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ The Brandenburg Project – 2 FRIDAY 28 DECEMBER Roxanna Panufnik Songs of Darkness, Johann Sebastian Bach Dreams of Light 7.30pm • Radio 3 Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major Charles Villiers Stanford PROM 68 Olga Neuwirth Aello – ballet Songs of the Sea; The Blue Bird mécanomorphe Berlin Philharmonic and Hubert Parry Blest Pair of Sirens Brett Dean Approach – Prelude to a Kirill Petrenko – 1 Camille Saint‐Saëns Suite algérienne – Canon Richard Strauss marche militaire française Johann Sebastian Bach Don Juan Darius Milhaud Scaramouche Death and Transfiguration Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat major Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major Richard Rodgers Carousel – Soliloquy Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major Steven Mackey Triceros arr. Anne Dudley Popular Songs from the First World War Berliner Philharmoniker Claire Chase, Fiona Kelly flutes Kirill Petrenko conductor Per Gross, Katarina Widell recorders arr. Henry Wood Fantasia on Mårten Larsson oboe British Sea-Songs Håkan Hardenberger trumpet Pekka Kuusisto, Antje Weithaas violins Thomas Arne, arr. Sargent 9.30pm • Radio 3 9.00pm • Radio 3 Rule, Britannia! PROM 13 PROM 23 Edward Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope Pioneers of Sound Havana Meets Kingston and Glory’ Delia Derbyshire The Delian Mode Mista Savona keyboards/samples Hubert Parry, orch. Elgar Jerusalem CHAINES Knockturning Solis vocals Randy Valentine vocals The National Anthem Laurie Spiegel Only Night Thoughts Brenda Navarrete percussion/vocals Auld Lang Syne Suzanne Ciani Improvisation on Four Julito Padrón trumpet/vocals Sequences Matthieu Bost tenor saxophone Jess Gillam alto/soprano saxophone Bopee Bowen guitar Gerald Finley baritone Daphne Oram Still Point Rolando Luna piano BBC Singers • BBC Symphony Chorus Shiva Feshareki turntables/electronics Valery ‘Valess’ Assouan electric bass BBC Symphony Orchestra James Bulley live mix/electronics Manuel García drums Sir Andrew Davis conductor CHAINES live electronics Suzanne Ciani Buchla 200e synthesizer SUNDAY 6 JANUARY TUESDAY 1 JANUARY London Contemporary Orchestra Robert Ames conductor 9.00pm • Radio 3 7.00pm • Radio 3 PROM 74 PROM 57 THURSDAY 3 JANUARY Handel’s ‘Theodora’ On the Town 7.00pm • Radio 3 George Frideric Handel Theodora Nadim Naaman Ozzie PROMS AT… ALEXANDRA PALACE Louise Alder Theodora Fra Fee Chip Iestyn Davies Didymus Nathaniel Hackmann Gabey Trial by Jury Benjamin Hulett Septimus London Symphony Orchestra Arthur Sullivan Trial by Jury Ann Hallenberg Irene John Wilson conductor and music by Alfred Cellier, Samuel Tareq Nazmi Valens Coleridge-Taylor, Hubert Parry, Ethyl Smyth, Arcangelo 9.30pm • Radio 3 Charles Villiers Stanford and Arthur Sullivan Jonathan Cohen conductor PROM 73 BBC Concert Orchestra Before the Ending of the Day Jane Glover conductor MONDAY 7 JANUARY Hildegard von Bingen Ordo virtutum 7.00pm • Radio 3 7.30pm • Radio 3 – In principio omnes PROM 63 Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla Deus in PROM 7 adiutorium Jacob Collier and Friends Sir András Schiff Plays ‘The Well-Tempered Clavier’ Jacobus Gallus Pater noster Jacob Collier (Book 2) Gregorio Allegri Miserere Sam Amidon Hamid El Kasri Johann Sebastian Bach The Well- Thomas Tallis Te lucis ante terminum I Becca Stevens Tempered Clavier Book 2 Arvo Pärt Nunc dimittis Ta ke 6 Sir András Schiffpiano John Browne O Maria salvatoris mater Metropole Orkest Tallis Scholars Jules Buckley conductor TUESDAY 8 JANUARY Peter Phillips director 7.30pm • Radio 3 FRIDAY 4 JANUARY PROM 69 WEDNESDAY 2 DECEMBER 7.00pm • Radio 3 7.00pm • Radio 3 Boston Symphony Orchestra: PROM 67 Bernstein and Shostakovich PROM 66 Andris Nelsons and the Leonard Bernstein Serenade after Berlin Philharmonic and Boston Symphony Orchestra Plato’s ‘Symposium’ Kirill Petrenko – 2 Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 3 in Dmitry Shostakovich Symphony No. 4 Paul Dukas La Péri – Fanfare and D minor in C minor Poème dansé Susan Graham mezzo-soprano Baiba Skride violin Sergey ProkofievPiano Concerto No. 3 CBSO Chorus Boston Symphony Orchestra in C major CBSO Youth Chorus Andris Nelsons conductor Franz Schmidt Symphony No. 4 in Boston Symphony Orchestra C major Andris Nelsons conductor Yuja Wang piano Berliner Philharmoniker Kirill Petrenko conductor