CHRISTMAS LISTINGS 18 December 2017 – 1 January 2018 • Another chance to hear and watch selected BBC Proms 2017 concerts, on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Four over the festive period. MONDAY 18 DECEMBER FRIDAY 22 DECEMBER Jennifer France soprano Marcus Farnsworth baritone 7.30pm–10.00pm • Radio 3 7.30pm–10.00pm • Radio 3 Birmingham Contemporary Music PROM 49 PROM 73 Late Night Group Sian Edwards conductor BACH’S ST JOHN PASSION J. S. Bach J. S. Bach St John Passion The Well-Tempered Clavier – Book 1 WEDNESDAY 27 DECEMBER Nicholas Mulroy Evangelist Sir András Schiff piano 7.30pm–9.30pm • Radio 3 Matthew Brook Jesus Sophie Bevan soprano MONDAY 25 DECEMBER PROM 13 Tim Mead counter-tenor MALCOLM SARGENT’S 500th PROM Andrew Tortise tenor 1.40pm–4.30pm • BBC Two Konstantin Wolff bass Trad., arr. Henry Wood 7.30pm–11.00pm • Radio 3 Stephen Farr organ The National Anthem PROM 35 Berlioz Dunedin Consort Overture ‘Le carnaval romain’ John Butt harpsichord/director OKLAHOMA! Schumann Rodgers & Hammerstein Piano Concerto in A minor WEDNESDAY 20 DECEMBER John Wilson Orchestra Elgar Overture ‘Cockaigne (In London Town)’ 7.30pm–10.00pm • Radio 3 John Wilson conductor Walton PROM 25 Late Night Façade Suite No. 1; Suite No. 2 – Popular TUESDAY 26 DECEMBER Schütz Song 7.30pm–9.35pm • Radio 3 Holst Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren, SWV 41 The Perfect Fool – ballet music Nicht uns, Herr, sondern deinem Namen, PROM 8 Delius SWV 43 CELEBRATING JOHN WILLIAMS On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring Danket dem Herren, denn er ist freundlich, Britten cello SWV 45 Jamal Aliyev The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra Annelien Van Wauwe clarinet J. S. Bach Jess Gillam saxophone Beatrice Rana piano Cantata No. 79 ‘Gott der Herr ist Sonn BBC Concert Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra und Schild Keith Lockhart conductor Sir Andrew Davis conductor Cantata No. 80 ‘Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott’ 9.35pm–11.00pm 9.30pm–11.00pm • Radio 3 Monteverdi Choir PROMS AT … PROM 67 English Baroque Soloists WILTON’S MUSIC HALL Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor Mendelssohn John Luther Adams Overture ‘The Hebrides’ (‘Fingal’s Cave’) THURSDAY 21 DECEMBER songbirdsongs – excerpts Violin Concerto in E minor 8.00pm–10.00pm • BBC Four Messiaen Symphony No. 5 in D major, ‘Reformation’ Le merle noir violin PROM 8 Isabelle Faust Handel Freiburg Baroque Orchestra CELEBRATING JOHN WILLIAMS Rinaldo – ‘Augelletti, che cantate’ Pablo Heras-Casado conductor Jamal Aliyev cello • Annelien Van Rebecca Saunders Wauwe clarinet • Jess Gillam saxophone Molly’s Song 3 – shades of crimson Haringey Voices • Music Centre London Davies BBC Concert Orchestra Eight Songs for a Mad King Keith Lockhart conductor THURSDAY 28 DECEMBER FRIDAY 29 DECEMBER Songs by Weill and Gershwin 7.30pm–9.35pm • Radio 3 7.30pm–9.40pm • Radio 3 arr. Wood Fantasia on British Sea-Songs PROM 71 PROM 27 Arne, arr. Sargent Rule, Britannia! Stravinsky ELLA AND DIZZY: Pomp and Circumstance Funeral Song A CENTENARY TRIBUTE Elgar March No. 1in D major (‘Land of Hope arr. Stravinsky Dianne Reeves singer and Glory’) Song of the Volga Boatmen James Morrison trumpet Parry, orch. Elgar Prokofiev James Morrison Trio Jerusalem Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major BBC Concert Orchestra The National Anthem Britten Russian Funeral John Mauceri conductor Trad., arr. Thorpe Davie Shostakovich Symphony No. 11 in Auld Lang Syne G minor, ‘The Year 1905’ 9.40–11.00pm • Radio 3 Nina Stemme Soprano Alina Ibragimova violin PROM 41 LATE NIGHT Lucy Crowe soprano London Philharmonic Orchestra Christine Rice mezzo-soprano Vladimir Jurowski conductor Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass Ben Johnson tenor Passages John Relyea bass 9.35pm–11.00pm • Radio 3 Anoushka Shankar sitar BBC Singers PROM 62 Late Night Britten Sinfonia BBC Symphony Chorus Karen Kamensek conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra Hannah Kendall Sakari Oramo conductor The Spark Catchers SUNDAY 31 DECEMBER Dvořák MONDAY 1 JANUARY 2018 Rondo in G minor, Op. 94 7.30pm–9.30pm • Radio 3 Popper, orch. M. Schlegel Hungarian 7.30pm–9.00pm • Radio 3 PROM 74 Rhapsody, Op. 68 PROM 72 George Walker Brahms Lyric for Strings Variations on the St Anthony Chorale Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor’ Handel Mozart Julius Caesar – ‘Da tempeste il legno Piano Concerto No. 14 in E flat major Vienna Philharmonic infranto’ Beethoven Daniel Harding conductor Saint-Georges Symphony No. 7 in A major Au penchant qui nous entraîne Emanuel Ax piano Handel Messiah – ‘Rejoice greatly’ Vienna Philharmonic Rimsky-Korsakov Michael Tilson Thomas conductor Capriccio espagnol 9.25pm–12.00am Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello Jeanine De Bique soprano LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS 2017 Chineke! Lotta Wennäkoski Kevin John Edusei conductor Flounce Kodály Budavári Te Deum Sargent An Impression on a Windy Day Sibelius Finlandia (choral version) Wagner Tristan and Isolde – Prelude and Liebestod John Adams Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance.