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15 JULY – 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 Sakari Oramo Chloë Hanslip Bernard Haitink Jean-Baptiste Millot (Isserlis); © Michael Agel (Cullum); Gómez (Dudamel); © Gerardo (Hardenberger); Marco Borggreve Simon Fowler (Flórez); Heitman (Argerich);Adriano

Steven Isserlis Katie Derham Gustavo Dudamel Sir BBC/Chris Christodoulou (Barenboim); Christodoulou (Derham);BBC/Chris Burlem © BBC/Ray Burmiston/Matt Vern Evans (Gražinyte˙ -Tyla) 15 JULY – 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 Sol Gabetta Roderick Williams Bryn Terfel

Håkan Mirga Gražinyte˙-Tyla Hardenberger Alistair McGowan

Daniel Barenboim Martha Argerich Juan Diego Flórez David Bowie Marin Alsop Benjamin Ealovega (Oramo); Benjamin Ealovega (Hanslip); Todd Rosenberg (Haitink); Johann Sebastian Haenel (Rattle); BBC/Chris Christodoulou (Terfel); Adriane White (Alsop); White (Alsop); Adriane BBC/Chris Christodoulou (Terfel); Johann Sebastian Haenel (Rattle); Rosenberg (Haitink); Todd (Hanslip); Benjamin Ealovega (Oramo); Benjamin Ealovega (Williams) Benjamin Ealovega Arens (Gabetta); Uwe Images (Jones); © Edu Hawkins/Redferns/Getty (Bowie); Archive Bowie The David & Archive Duffy/Duffy

2 Full information available at .co.uk/proms Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms 3 CONTENTS SEASON AT A GLANCE The has been home to since 1941, and has since hosted over 4,300 Proms concerts

Proms At … 6 75 Proms at the Royal Albert Hall In the year in which the Olympics are  and the John Wilson 76 Proms Extra events at the Imperial staged in Brazil, the Proms celebrates the return to the Proms to mark the Celebration of the Cello 7 College Union music and musicians of Latin America, 120th anniversary of ’s birth Shakespeare 400 8 30 premieres including 13 world premieres featuring performances from the São Paulo with a tribute to one of America’s most Latin America 9 and 17 UK or London premieres Symphony Orchestra, pianists Martha celebrated and dynamic song-writing duos 9 Late Night Proms Argerich and Gabriela Montero, tenor Young Artists, Young Audiences 10 8 Matinees Juan Diego Flórez, cellist Sol Gabetta and Sakari Oramo, Chief Conductor of the Proms Debuts 11 8 Proms Extra Lates music by Villa-Lobos and Ginastera, who BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducts 8 Proms Chamber Music at Cadogan Hall this year would have been 100 both the First and Last Nights of the International Guests 12 4 Proms At … Proms, including Proms Inspire winner UK Guests 13 4 Last Night celebrations around the UK String players from the São Paulo Tom Harrold’s world premiere Raze Symphony Orchestra let their hair down Late Nights & More… 14 Proms At … The Proms takes four with Marin Alsop and members of the As part of a series of weekend matinee © Royal Hall Albert New Music 16 Saturday matinees to further venues São Paulo Jazz Symphony Orchestra for concerts aimed at family audiences, Tom around London: The Chapel, Old a Late Night Prom celebrating Brazilian Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Last Night of the Proms 18 Royal Naval College, Greenwich; Sam popular music and unpick Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 Proms in the Park 19 Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s in C major, played from memory by the Proms Extra 20 Globe; Roundhouse, Camden; Bold From a weekend of concerts by youth Aurora Orchestra Katie Derham and professional dancers French pianist and Satie champion Tendencies Multi-Storey Car Park, ensembles and choirs around the UK to from BBC is joined by actor Multiplatform Proms 21 Peckham the return of the hugely popular CBeebies Rossini will be centre stage at the Proms present an evening of music and dance and impressionist Alistair McGowan for Watch the 2016 Proms 22 Proms and two Proms devoted to the BBC’s with a number of performances of his from Vienna to Latin America and back a cabaret of music and words to mark The Proms puts the spotlight on the cello Ten Pieces II project, this summer celebrates works, including his operas The Barber with the BBC Concert Orchestra and the 150th anniversary of Satie’s birth with 10 concertos ranging from Elgar’s a huge range of youth music-making of Seville and Semiramide English National Ballet Music Director, Cello Concerto performed by Sol Gabetta Gavin Sutherland The City of Birmingham Symphony on the First Night to the world premiere In the 50th-anniversary year of his The works of Henri Dutilleux appear Orchestra makes its first London of Huw Watkins’s Cello Concerto first appearance at the Proms, Bernard throughout the season, from Ainsi la Musical giant Quincy Jones is joined by appearance with young Lithuanian performed by his brother, Paul Watkins Haitink conducts Mahler in what will be nuit to The Shadows of Time, 100 years and his Mirga Gražinyte˙-Tyla, who becomes the his 88th Prom since the composer’s birth to celebrate his extraordinary career orchestra’s Music Director next season The Proms marks 400 years since the spanning six decades death of Shakespeare with a broad As part of this year’s Late Night Proms Two great Russian nationalistic works Jamie Cullum returns to the Proms with survey of music inspired by the Bard series, the Proms reflects on the legacy appear in the opening weekend of the All three of Stravinsky’s landmark ballets the , Roundhouse from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet to of two musical giants: David Bowie and Proms − Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky for the Ballet Russes are performed over Choir and talent from the BBC Music extracts from Kiss Me, Kate and Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov one weekend by Scottish Introducing scheme

4 Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms 5 The first performance In 1971 Pierre of Elgar’s Cello Boulez conducted PROMS AT … CELEBRATION OF THE CELLO Concerto at the the BBC Symphony Proms was on 30 Orchestra in the August 1922 with Music matched to four different venues across London: first ever Prom at The Proms puts the spotlight on the cello this year with 10 concertos (four of them soloist Beatrice the Roundhouse, The Chapel, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich; world or UK premieres) plus a Proms Chamber Music concert featuring multiple Harrison Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe; Roundhouse, Camden; Camden cellos led by . Bold Tendencies Multi-Storey Car Park, Peckham.

Proms At … The Chapel, Old Royal Proms At … Roundhouse, Camden Roundhouse, Camden Elgar Cello Concerto Charlotte Bray Falling in the Fire Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1 Naval College, Greenwich Programme to include: Sol Gabetta cello BBC commission: world premiere Narek Hakhnazaryan cello Rossini Petite messe solennelle Sir The Message BBC Symphony Orchestra Guy Johnston cello Ulster Orchestra Elizabeth Watts soprano Ligeti Ramifications Sakari Oramo, 15 July BBC Symphony Orchestra Rafael Payare, 21 August Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano Georg Friedrich Haas Open Spaces II Sakari Oramo, 14 August Peter Auty tenor UK premiere Debussy Cello Sonata Matthias Pintscher Reflections James Platt bass David Sawer April \ March Bjørg Lewis cello Thomas Adès Lieux retrouvés on Narcissus

Richard Pearce harmonium BBC co-commission: world premiere Will Pearson 18 July UK premiere of version with orchestra Alisa Weilerstein cello Iain Farrington piano London Sinfonietta Steven Isserlis cello BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra BBC Singers Andrew Gourlay, 20 August Music for multiple cellos, including Britten Sinfonia Matthias Pintscher, 21 August David Hill, 6 August works by Bach, Brahms, Elgar, Thomas Adès, 15 August Proms At … Bold Tendencies Multi- Villa-Lobos and Klengel Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 Proms At … Sam Wanamaker Storey Car Park, Peckham Guy Johnston and friends cellos  Berceuse for Dresden Truls Mørk cello © 2010 ORNC and Jigsaw Design & Publishing Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe Steve Reich Vermont Counterpoint; 25 July London premiere Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Shakespeare-themed works by Purcell, Eight Lines; Music for a Large Ensemble Leonard Elschenbroich cello Vasily Petrenko, 25 August Blow, Locke and Draghi, including Multi-Story Orchestra Dvo∑ák Cello Concerto Hallé excerpts from music for ‘Timon of Athens’, Christopher Stark, 3 September Alban Gerhardt cello Sir Mark Elder, 16 August ‘The Fairy Queen’ (after ‘A Midsummer Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Night’s Dream’) and ‘The Tempest’ Charles Dutoit, 3 August Katherine Watson soprano Samuel Boden tenor The Chapel, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich Dutilleux ‘Tout un monde lointain …’ Callum Thorpe bass Johannes Moser cello Arcangelo BBC Philharmonic Jonathan Cohen, 13 August Juanjo Mena, 9 August

Huw Watkins Cello Concerto BBC commission: world premiere Paul Watkins cello BBC National Orchestra of Wales Hoffmann/Decca © Harald Thomas Søndergård, 12 August Quintin Lake Pete Le May

Bold Tendencies Multi-Storey Car Park, Peckham Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe Alisa Weilerstein

6 Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms 7 SHAKESPEARE 400 LATIN AMERICA Pianist Martha Argerich first appeared at the Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet overture launches the Proms’ celebrations marking 400 years since the death In the year in which the Olympics are staged in Brazil the Proms celebrates the Proms 50 years ago at the 1966 Last of Shakespeare. Music inspired by the Bard, including orchestral works by Berlioz, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky music and musicians of Latin America with an array of South American orchestras, Night of the Proms and less familiar pieces by Hans Abrahamsen and Jonathan Dove via Kiss Me, Kate and , feature soloists and music. throughout the season.

Tchaikovsky Fantasy-Overture ‘Romeo Sibelius The Tempest – Prelude Sol Gabetta cello Martha Argerich piano Late Night Brazilian Popular Music Prom

and Juliet’ BBC Philharmonic Seasoned BBC Symphony Orchestra West–Eastern Divan Orchestra São Paulo Symphony Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra John Storgårds, 1 August Shakespearean actor Sakari Oramo, 15 July , 17 August São Paulo Jazz Symphony Orchestra Dame Judi Dench has Sakari Oramo, 15 July appeared twice at Marin Alsop, 24 August Duke Ellington, arr. M Lockhart: the Proms − in 1991 Villa-Lobos Bachianas brasileiras No. 5 Music by Villa-Lobos and Marlos Nobre and in 2010 Fauré Shylock Such Sweet Thunder Guy Johnston and friends cellos, 25 July São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Music by Villa-Lobos and Paul Desenne BBC Symphony Orchestra National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Gabriela Montero piano Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra Marc Minkowski, 20 July Scotland Ginastera Ollantay London premiere Marin Alsop, 24 August Gustavo Dudamel, 4 September Andrew Bain, 5 August BBC Philharmonic Tchaikovsky The Tempest Juanjo Mena, 2 August Juan Diego Flórez tenor BBC Symphony Orchestra Music for Shakespeare’s plays and Last Night of the Proms, 10 September Sir Andrew Davis, 26 July inspired by Shakespeare performed at The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Tchaikovsky Fantasy-Overture ‘Hamlet’ Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet – excerpts Arcangelo BBC Symphony Orchestra BBC National Orchestra of Wales Jonathan Cohen, 13 August Alexander Vedernikov, 23 August Jac van Steen, 27 July Shakespeare choral settings by Johnson, Hans Abrahamsen let me tell you Berlioz Beatrice and Benedict – overture Morley, Nico Muhly and Huw Watkins, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR) and music by his contemporaries soprano Sir Roger Norrington, 28 July Stile Antico & Fretwork, 15 August Mirga Gražinyte˙-Tyla, 27 August

Berlioz Romeo and Juliet Berlioz Overture ‘King Lear’ Shakespeare settings by Purcell (arr. Orchestra Révolutionnaire et Hallé Britten) and Quilter Romantique, Monteverdi Choir & Sir Mark Elder, 16 August Carolyn Sampson soprano National Youth Choir of Scotland Iestyn Davies counter-tenor Sir , 30 July Shakespeare: Stage and Screen Joseph Middleton piano BBC Concert Orchestra 5 September

Debussy, orch. Roger-Ducasse: King Keith Lockhart, 18 August Garcia Rawlins Reuters/Carlos Lear – Fanfare d’ouverture; Le sommeil Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music de Lear Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Jonathan Dove Our revels now are BBC Symphony Orchestra & Crouch Dream – overture and incidental music ended End Festival Chorus BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra Edward Gardner, 31 July Matthias Pintscher, 21 August Sakari Oramo, 10 September Gustavo Dudamel

8 Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms 9 Rafael Payare makes his Proms conducting YOUNG ARTISTS, YOUNG AUDIENCES PROMS DEBUTS debut this year but his first performance at the The Proms invites a host of the UK’s talented youth orchestras and choirs to the Royal Albert Hall. festival was as Principal Horn of the Simón Bolívar Orchestra

Ten Pieces II Prom The BBC Proms Inspire scheme returns to The free Proms Extra Lates events offer THERE WILL BE 132 DEBUT ARTISTS AT Pekka Kuusisto violin (5 August) Gabriela Montero piano (24 August) BBC Philharmonic offer a platform to young composers aged the chance to hear emerging world, jazz THE PROMS INCLUDING… National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Mirga Gražinyte˙-Tyla conductor Alpesh Chauhan, 23 & 24 July between 12 and 18 years old across the and folk musicians perform in the Royal Scotland (5 August) (27 August) UK. Past winner Tom Harrold’s BBC Albert Hall’s Elgar Room, alongside Behzod Abduraimov piano (18 July) Iain Ballamy saxophone (5 August) Armida Quartet (29 August) National Youth Choir of Scotland commission Raze will receive its world upcoming poets selected in collaboration YolanDa Brown saxophone (19 July) Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano (6 August) Kamasi Washington saxophone Sir John Eliot Gardiner, 30 July premiere at this year’s Last Night of the with the Poetry Society. Julie Fuchs soprano (20 July) Pavel Kolesnikov piano (7 August) (30 August) Proms performed by the BBC Proms Le Cercle de l’Harmonie (22 July) Johannes Moser cello (9 August) Simone Young conductor (31 August) National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Youth Ensemble and members and the The Proms Poetry Competition returns Rosa Feola soprano (22 July) Arcangelo (13 August) Baldur Brönnimann conductor Scotland BBC SO. this year with entries in two categories Jérémie Rhorer conductor (22 July) Jonathan Cohen harpsichord/organ/ (2 September) Andrew Bain, 5 August (ages 12–18 and over-19). Winners are Alpesh Chauhan conductor (23 & 24 July) director (13 August) Christopher Stark conductor BBC Proms Sessions for young composers announced at the Proms Extra event on Esther Yoo violin (23 & 24 July) Augustin Hadelich violin (15 August) (3 September) City of Birmingham Symphony Youth are held during the festival with some 8 September. Enrique Mazzola conductor (25 July) Rafael Payare conductor (21 August) Multi-Story Orchestra (3 September) Chorus (women’s voices) of the leading composers featured in Ray Chen violin (26 July) Quincy Jones producer (22 August) Christian Thielemann conductor National Youth Orchestra of Great this year’s season, and young musicians Free activities for families to participate s t a r g a z e (29 July) Alexander Vedernikov conductor (7 & 8 September) Britain have the chance to work with cellist in through-out the season including pre- Alistair McGowan actor (1 August) (23 August) Edward Gardner, 6 August Guy Johnston, jazz singer-songwriter concert family workshops and Proms Jamie Cullum and DJ Mr Switch. Family Orchestra and Chorus. National Youth Orchestra of Scotland Ilan Volkov, 7 August 13 current and former Radio 3 New CBeebies Prom Generation Artists BBC Concert Orchestra appear at the Proms Jessica Cottis, 28 & 29 August this year Matthias Creutziger

Proms Youth Choir Marin Alsop, 9 September ChristianThielemann Agenda Proms Youth Ensemble Sakari Oramo, 10 September Jamie Reynolds/BBC Shelley Mosman

BBC Proms Inspire Session Gabriela Montero YolanDa Brown

10 Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms 11 This year, pianist The Moscow Radio Kirill Gerstein gives the first modern-day Orchestra became UK GUESTS INTERNATIONAL GUESTS performance in the UK the first non-British orchestra to perform of the 1879 version of Tchaikovsky’s at the Proms in 1966 As the backbone of the Proms, the BBC Performing Groups (BBC Concert Orchestra, A glittering array of the world’s leading orchestras and star – the score Tchaikovsky is BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Chorus, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, soloists will visit the Proms this year. known to have himself conducted BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus) give a total of 32 performances this season.

VISITING ORCHESTRAS AND INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS INCLUDE: Louis Lortie piano (22 August) UK ENSEMBLES INCLUDE: UK ARTISTS INCLUDE: Jamie Cullum (11 August) ENSEMBLES INCLUDE: Gabriela Montero (24 August) Paul Watkins cello (12 August) Sol Gabetta cello (15 July) Marin Alsop conductor Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Bryn Terfel bass-baritone (16 July) John Wilson conductor (13 August) Munich Philharmonic Orchestra Sakari Oramo conductor (24 August & 9 September) (17 July, 4 & 9 September) Roderick Williams baritone (17 July) Steven Isserlis cello (15 August) (18 July) (15 July, 10 & 14 August, Truls Mørk cello (25 August) London Philharmonic Orchestra & Lucy Crowe soprano (17 July & Alice Coote mezzo-soprano (16 August) Le Cercle de l’Harmonie (22 July) 10 September) Vasily Petrenko conductor (25 August) Chorus (24 & 25 July) 26 August)  conductor Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra Sir Antonio Pappano conductor Iván Fischer conductor (26 August) London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus  conductor (17 July) (16 August) (SWR) (28 July) (16 July) Mirga Gražinyte˙ -Tyla conductor (29 July) Paul Lewis piano (18 July) Sir Mark Elder conductor s t a r g a z e (29 July) Valery Gergiev conductor (18 July) (27 August) Aurora Orchestra (31 July) Wayne Marshall organ (23 & 24 July) (16 August & 4 September) West–Eastern Divan Orchestra Stuart Skelton tenor (19 July) Barbara Hannigan soprano (27 August) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Guy Johnston cello (25 July & 14 August) Carolyn Sampson soprano (20 August (17 August) Miah Persson soprano (24 July)  conductor (3 August) Sir Andrew Davis conductor (26 July) & 5 September) Metropole Orkest (22 August) Danielle de Niese soprano (25 July) (29 August) Academy of St Martin in the Fields Sir Roger Norrington conductor Stephen Hough piano (23 August) São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Bernard Haitink conductor (29 July) Sir András Schiff piano (29 August) (8 August) (28 July) Sir András Schiff piano (29 August) (24 August) Vadim Gluzman violin (31 July) Kamasi Washington saxophone Philharmonia Orchestra & Voices  mezzo-soprano (29 July) Christopher Maltman baritone São Paulo Jazz Symphony Orchestra Charles Dutoit conductor (3 August) (30 August) (8 August) Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor (31 August) (24 August) Kirill Gerstein piano (7 August) Baiba Skride violin (31 August) John Wilson Orchestra (13 August) (30 July) William Christie conductor (1 September) Budapest Festival Orchestra (26 August) Håkan Hardenberger (8 August) Gustavo Dudamel conductor Britten Sinfonia (15 August) Nicholas Collon conductor (31 July) Sir Simon Rattle conductor Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Martha Argerich piano (17 August) (4 September) Hallé (16 August) Edward Gardner conductor (31 July & (2 & 3 September) (29 August) Daniel Barenboim piano/conductor Daniil Trifonov piano (7 September) The Sixteen (16 August) 6 August) Iestyn Davies counter-tenor  Jugendorchester (17 August, 5 & 6 September) Christian Thielemann conductor London Sinfonietta (20 August) Steven Osborne piano (2 August) (5 September) (30 August) Jirˇí Beˇlohlávek conductor (19 August) (7 & 8 September) Ulster Orchestra (21 August) Les Arts Florissants (1 September) Rafael Payare conductor (21 August) Nikolaj Znaider violin (8 September) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Ensemble Intercontemporain Alisa Weilerstein cello (21 August) Juan Diego Flórez tenor (10 September) (25 August) (2 September) City of Birmingham Symphony  (2 & 3 September) Orchestra (27 August) & Youth Chorus Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra (6 August) (4 September) Multi-Story Orchestra (3 September)

Staatskapelle Berlin (5 & 6 September) Academy of Ancient Music Mundi Josep Molina Harmonia Staatskapelle Dresden (7 & 8 September) (8 September) Emanuel Florakis

S t a r g a z e Paul Lewis

12 Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms 13 LATE NIGHTS This year’s eclectic Late Night Proms series ranges from Bach to Bowie and Brazilian dance rhythms to Gospel sounds.

Gospel, 19 July Sacred Choral Music, 16 August Brazilian Popular Music, 24 August MORE TO LOOK OUT FOR A selection of handpicked singers from The Sixteen under Harry Christophers The string players of the São Paulo leading gospel groups come together in a present a selection of J. S. Bach’s motets Symphony Orchestra and their Principal Strictly Prom, 21 July celebration of traditional gospel classics alongside sacred choral works by Conductor Marin Alsop are joined Katie Derham and professional dancers and arrangements, alongside original contemporary Estonian composer by members of the São Paulo Jazz from BBC Strictly Come Dancing material. Arvo Pärt. Symphony Orchestra for a celebration present an evening of music and dance of Brazilian popular music from the past from Vienna to Latin America and back David Bowie, 29 July 100 years. with the BBC Concert Orchestra and

A celebration and reinterpretation of Duffy/Duffy Archive & The David Bowie Archive English National Ballet Music Director, the music of David Bowie with the Kamasi Washington, 30 August Gavin Sutherland Berlin-based, genre-defying musicians’ California-based saxophonist and collective s t a r g a z e and its Artistic composer Kamasi Washington brings his John Wilson, 13 August Director André de Ridder. own band, combining with the strings John Wilson and the John Wilson of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra return to the Proms to mark Duke Ellington, 5 August Orchestra along with choral backing, to the 120th anniversary of Ira Gershwin’s To mark Shakespeare’s 400th perform tracks from his groundbreaking birth with a tribute to one of America’s anniversary, the National Youth Jazz recent three-disc album The Epic. most celebrated and dynamic song- Orchestra of Scotland presents Duke writing duos Ellington’s jazz tribute to the Bard, Such Sweet Thunder. Quincy Jones, 22 August Pierre Boulez

Harold Hoffmann/DG Musical giant Quincy Jones is joined by Jamie Cullum, 11 August Jules Buckley and his Metropole Orkest Jamie Cullum returns to the Proms with David Bowie’s Boulez, 2 September Handel and Leopold Stokowski, to celebrate his extraordinary career Life on Mars? was the Heritage Orchestra, the Roundhouse The Ensemble Intercontemporain 8 September working with to Michael given its Choir and special guests, including Proms premiere by commemorates its founder – the late The Academy of Ancient Music returns Jackson the Ukulele Orchestra emerging talent from BBC Music Pierre Boulez – with a programme of to the Proms under Richard Egarr to of Great Britain Introducing. in 2009 pieces he conducted during more than perform Handel’s Coronation Anthems 40 years of appearances at the Proms. and Leopold Stokowski’s equally Joined by conductor Baldur Brönnimann grandiose upholstering of music by Bach and the BBC Singers, it performs two and Purcell. Boulez works alongside Bartók’s earthy Village Scenes and Elliott Carter’s Penthode – written for the ensemble.

14 Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms 15 Håkan Hardenberger is not NEW MUSIC only back at the Proms for the third year in a The Proms continues to champion new music, with 30 premieres including 13 world premieres row, but is also celebrating 30 years since his first and 17 UK or London premieres (15 of which are BBC commissions or co-commissions). appearance at the festival

WORLD PREMIERES: Huw Watkins Cello Concerto Emily Howard Torus (BBC commission) UK AND LONDON PREMIERES: Iris ter Schiphorst Gravitational Waves Gérard Grisey Dérives (UK premiere) (BBC commission) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (London premiere) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Magnus Lindberg new work Paul Watkins cello Vasily Petrenko, 25 August Lera Auerbach The Infant Minstrel and (BBC co-commission with the National Ilan Volkov, 20 August (BBC co-commission with the London BBC National Orchestra of Wales His Peculiar Menagerie (UK premiere) Youth Orchestra of Great Britain) Philharmonic Orchestra, Helsinki Thomas Søndergård, 12 August Sally Beamish Merula perpetua (BBC co-commission with the Bergen National Youth Orchestra of Great Marlos Nobre Kabbalah (UK premiere) Festival & Casa da Música, Porto) (BBC co-commission with the Royal Philharmonic and the Orchestre de la Britain São Paulo Symphony Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Charlotte Bray Falling in the Fire Philharmonic Society) Suisse Romande) Edward Gardner, 6 August Marin Alsop, 24 August Vladimir Jurowski, 24 July (BBC commission) Lise Berthaud viola & David Saudubray Vadim Gluzman violin Guy Johnston cello piano, 29 August Crouch End Festival Chorus Mark Simpson Israfel (London premiere) Thomas Adès Lieux retrouvés  Of Land, Sea and Sky BBC Symphony Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra BBC Philharmonic (UK premiere of version with orchestra) (BBC commission) Sakari Oramo, 14 August Bayan Northcott Concerto for Orchestra Edward Gardner, 31 July Juanjo Mena, 9 August Steven Isserlis cello BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (BBC commission) Britten Sinfonia Sir Andrew Davis, 26 July David Sawer April \ March BBC Symphony Orchestra Jörg Widmann Armonica (UK premiere) HK Gruber Busking (London premiere) Thomas Adès, 15 August (BBC co-commission with the Royal Simone Young, 31 August Christa Schönfeldinger glass harmonica Håkan Hardenberger trumpet  Violin Concerto Philharmonic Society) London Sinfonietta Teodoro Anzellotti accordion BBC Symphony Orchestra Hans Abrahamsen let me tell you (BBC commission) Andrew Gourlay, 20 August Tom Harrold Raze (BBC commission) BBC Philharmonic Sakari Oramo, 10 August (London Premiere) Chloë Hanslip violin Proms Youth Ensemble and BBC John Storgårds, 1 August Barbara Hannigan soprano BBC National Orchestra of Wales Piers Hellawell Wild Flow (BBC commission) Symphony Orchestra Francisco Coll Four Iberian Miniatures City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Jac van Steen, 27 July Ulster Orchestra Sakari Oramo, 10 September Alberto Ginastera Ollantay (London premiere) Mirga Gražinyte˙-Tyla, 27 August Rafael Payare, 21 August (London premiere) Britten Sinfonia Helen Grime Two Eardley Pictures BBC Philharmonic Thomas Adès, 15 August Thomas Larcher Symphony No. 2 (BBC commission) Juanjo Mena, 2 August (UK premiere) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/ Colin Matthews Berceuse for Dresden BBC Symphony Orchestra Thomas Dausgaard, 5 August Reinbert de Leeuw Der nächtliche (London premiere) Semyon Bychkov, 28 August National Youth Orchestra of Scotland Wanderer (UK premiere) Leonard Elschenbroich cello Ilan Volkov, 7 August BBC Symphony Orchestra Hallé Julian Anderson Incantesimi (UK premiere) , 4 August Sir Mark Elder, 16 August Berlin Philharmonic Malcolm Hayes Violin Concerto Sir Simon Rattle, 3 September (BBC commission) Georg Friedrich Haas Open Spaces II Tai Murray violin (UK premiere) Paul Desenne Hipnosis mariposa

BBC National Orchestra of Wales Richard Ion London Sinfonietta (UK premiere)

Thomas Søndergård, 11 August Mueller Andrew Gourlay, 20 August Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra Iris ter Schiphorst Tom Harrold Gustavo Dudamel, 4 September

16 Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms 17 The Last Night of LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS the Proms was first PROMS IN THE PARK broadcast on TV in 1947 – it was the first ever Sakari Oramo leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers and The Last Night celebrations spill out from the Royal Albert Hall into all four nations televised concert BBC Symphony Chorus plus the BBC Proms Youth Ensemble in the in Britain of the UK on Saturday 10 September. world-famous finale of the festival on Saturday 10 September. 2016 marks 100 years since Hubert Parry completed Jerusalem setting of the opening, his verses of William Blake’s

poem Milton Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez makes his Celebrations in Hyde Park, London will In Scotland, the BBC Scottish Symphony Highlights of the Last Night of the first appearance at the Proms since 2006. feature a host of musical stars, including Orchestra takes the magic of the Last Proms celebrations around the UK will 16 young singers take to the stage to perform the BBC Concert Orchestra with Night to Green, for a glorious be included as part of the coverage on Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music. conductor Richard Balcombe, special guest night of music on the banks of the Clyde. BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Radio 2 and Juan Diego Flórez, who will also appear BBC Radio 3. All four events can also be Opening with the world premiere of across the road at the Royal Albert Hall. In Wales, Proms in the Park promises to watched live at bbc.co.uk/proms and via past BBC Proms Inspire winner Tom be an evening of spectacular music and the red button. Harrold’s BBC commission Raze, the In Northern Ireland, the Ulster Orchestra celebration, led by the BBC National We celebrate the centenary year night’s festivities feature the music of returns for a night of music-making at the Orchestra and Chorus of Wales. of author Roald Dahl Butterworth, Borodin, Rossini, Donizetti, Titanic Slipways, Belfast. at Proms in the Park in Hyde Park with highlights Offenbach, Britten, Jonathan Dove and from Matilda: The Musical in the Royal Shakespeare Vaughan Williams before closing with Company’s West End the traditional Last Night pieces, this year production marking 100 years since the composition of Parry’s Jerusalem.

BBC/Chris Christodoulou BBC/Chris Kristin Hoebermann Kristin © BBC Juan Diego Flórez Last Night of the Proms Proms in the Park, Hyde Park

18 Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms 19 PROMS EXTRA MULTIPLATFORM PROMS The BBC not only broadcasts the Proms but funds and organises the A series of free daily events at Imperial College Union offering the chance to get closer to the music through whole festival – and has workshops, talks and film screenings as well as participation events for all ages and musical abilities. done since 1927

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FRIDAY 15 JULY SATURDAY 23 JULY SUNDAY 31 JULY SATURDAY 20 AUGUST THURSDAY 25 AUGUST SATURDAY 3 SEPTEMBER PROM 1, FIRST NIGHT OF THE PROMS PROMS EXTRA (EPISODE 1) PROM 20 PROM 4 PROM 52 PROMS EXTRA (EPISODE 7) Tchaikovsky: Fantasy-Overture ‘Romeo and Juliet’ BBC Two Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet (sung in French) Ravel: Boléro A celebration of Brazilian popular music from BBC Two Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor the past 100 years SUNDAY 24 JULY Julie Boulianne mezzo-soprano Ustvolskaya Strings of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra SUNDAY 4 SEPTEMBER Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky – cantata : Symphony No. 3, ‘Jesus Messiah, Save Us!’ PROM 11 Jean-Paul Fouchecourt tenor R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier – suite São Paulo Jazz Symphony Orchestra PROM 55 Sol Gabetta cello Wagner Laurent Naouri bass Marin Alsop conductor Die Walküre – final scene Behzod Abduraimov piano Mozart: – overture Olga Borodina mezzo-soprano Tippett Monteverdi Choir A Child of Our Time Munich Philharmonic Orchestra BBC iPlayer and online at bbc.co.uk/proms Hans Abrahamsen: let me tell you London premiere BBC National Chorus of Wales National Youth Choir of Scotland Tamara Wilson soprano Valery Gergiev conductor Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor BBC Symphony Chorus Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique FRIDAY 26 AUGUST Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano Barbara Hannigan soprano BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor BBC Two Peter Hoare tenor PROM 54 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Sakari Oramo conductor BBC Four James Creswell bass MONDAY 22 AUGUST Mozart: Aria, ‘Per questa bella mano’, K612, Mirga Gražinyte˙ -Tyla conductor BBC National Chorus of Wales PROM 49, QUINCY JONES PROM Concerto in A major, K622 and Requiem First half on BBC Two, second half on BBC Four FRIDAY 5 AUGUST BBC Four BBC National Orchestra of Wales Quincy Jones (compl. Sussmayr) SUNDAY 17 JULY PROM 27 Mark Wigglesworth conductor Akos Acs clarinet FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER Helen Grime: Two Eardley Pictures – 1: Richard Bona voice/bass guitar PROM 3 Lucy Crowe soprano Tippet broadcast on BBC Four. Watch Wagner on Catterline in Winter BBC commission: world premiere voice/piano/synth PROM 74 Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate BBC iPlayer and online at bbc.co.uk/proms James Morrison trumpet Barbara Kozelj mezzo-soprano Verdi: Requiem Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major Haydn: Mass in Time of War (‘Paukenmesse’) Alfredo Rodriguez piano Jeremy Ovenden tenor SUNDAY 24 JULY Stravinsky: Petrushka Tamara Wilson soprano Faure: Pavane (choral version), Cantique de Jean Racine Metropole Orkest Neal Davies bass Alisa Kolosova mezzo-soprano and Requiem PROM 12, TEN PIECES II PROM Pekka Kuusisto violin Jules Buckley conductor Collegium Vocale Gent Michael Fabiano tenor Naomi Wilkinson presenter BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Budapest Festival Orchestra Lucy Crowe soprano BBC Four Morris Robinson bass Lemn Sissay presenter Thomas Dausgaard conductor Iván Fischer conductor Paula Murrihy mezzo-soprano BBC Proms Youth Choir DJ Mr Switch turntables TUESDAY 23 AUGUST Robin Tritschler tenor BBC Four BBC Four Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Matilda Lloyd trumpet PROM 21 Roderick Williams baritone SATURDAY 6 AUGUST FRIDAY 26 AUGUST Marin Alsop conductor Choir of King’s College, Cambridge Esther Yoo violin Gejagte Form (revised version, 2002) PROMS EXTRA (EPISODE 3) BBC Four Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Wayne Marshall organ R. Strauss Concerto PROM 36, JAMIE CULLUM PROM Ten Pieces Choir Stephen Cleobury conductor BBC Two Mozart Symphony No. 41 in C major, K551 ‘Jupiter’ with special guests, including emerging talent from SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER BBC Philharmonic performed from memory BBC Music Introducing SATURDAY 6 AUGUST ( ) PROM 75, LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS BBC Four Alpesh Chauhan conductor Jamie Cullum piano/vocals Tom Service presenter PROM 29 Roundhouse Choir BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo TUESDAY 19 JULY BBC iPlayer and online at bbc.co.uk/proms Francois Leleux oboe Iris ter Schiphorst: Gravitational Waves Heritage Orchestra First half on BBC Two, second half on BBC One PROM 6, GOSPEL PROM Recorded for future broadcast on CBBC Aurora Orchestra BBC co-commission: London premiere Jules Buckley conductor Artists to include: FRIDAY 29 JULY Nicholas Collon conductor R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra BBC Four Israel J. Allen singer PROM 18 Holst: The Planets Mozart broadcast on BBC Four. Watch Rihm and Strauss Tehila Daniel singer Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minor including on BBC iPlayer and online at bbc.co.uk/proms SATURDAY 27 AUGUST PROM 56, CBEEBIES PROM Dawn Thomas Wallace singer Colin Matthews PROMS EXTRA (EPISODE 6) Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano : Pluto, the Renewer WEDNESDAY 24 AUGUST Presenters to include: YolanDa Brown saxophone City of Birmingham Symphony Andy Day (from ‘Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures’) Eltham College Boys’ Choir PROM 51 BBC Two Niji Adeleye keyboards/MD Youth Chorus Ben Faulks London Symphony Chorus (women’s voices) (women’s voices) (Mr Bloom) Marlos Nobre UK premiere SUNDAY 28 AUGUST London Adventist Chorale London Symphony Orchestra National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain : Kabbalah Gemma Hunt (from ‘Swashbuckle’) London Community Gospel Choir Edward Gardner conductor Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor Chris Jarvis (from ‘Show Me, Show Me’ and ‘Stargazing’) Bernard Haitink conductor PROM 43 Muyiwa & Riversongz Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras No. 4 – Prelude Rebecca Keatley (from ‘Let’s Play’) BBC iPlayer and online at bbc.co.uk/proms Jorg Widmann: Con brio Noel Robinson & Nu Image BBC Four Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances Steven Kynman (Robert the Robot) Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major V9 Collective Cat Sandion (CBeebies presenter) SATURDAY 13 AUGUST Gabriela Montero piano Wagner: Tannhauser – overture, Gotterdammerung – Volney Morgan & New-Ye FRIDAY 29 JULY BBC Concert Orchestra PROMS EXTRA (EPISODE 4) São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Dawn, Siegfried’s, Rhine Journey and Funeral March University Gospel Choir of the Year Mass Choir PROM 19, DAVID BOWIE PROM Jessica Cottis conductor Marin Alsop conductor and The Mastersingers of Nuremberg – overture Karen Gibson conductor s t a r g a z e BBC Two Martha Argerich Recorded for future broadcast on CBeebies Andre de Ridder conductor BBC Four piano BBC iPlayer and online at bbc.co.uk/proms SATURDAY 13 AUGUST West–Eastern Divan Orchestra BBC Four PROM 38, GEORGE AND IRA GERSHWIN THURSDAY 25 AUGUST FRIDAY 22 JULY Daniel Barenboim conductor REDISCOVERED PROM 41 PROM 8, STRICTLY PROM SATURDAY 30 JULY BBC Four John Wilson Orchestra Berlioz: Overture ‘King Lear’ Katie Derham presenter/dancer PROMS EXTRA (EPISODE 2) John Wilson conductor Colin Matthews: Berceuse for Dresden London premiere FRIDAY 2 SEPTEMBER Joanne Clifton dancer BBC Two Mahler BBC Two : Das Lied von der Erde PROM 64 Karen Clifton dancer Leonard Elschenbroich cello Boulez: Eclat Kevin Clifton dancer SATURDAY 20 AUGUST Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Mahler: Symphony No. 7 Janette Manrara dancer PROMS EXTRA (EPISODE 5) Gregory Kunde tenor Berlin Philharmonic Giovanni Pernice dancer BBC Two Hallé Sir Simon Rattle conductor AljaΩ Skorjanec dancer Sir Mark Elder conductor BBC Concert Orchestra BBC Four BBC Four Gavin Sutherland conductor BBC Four

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