PROMS 2020 Page 1 of 12 19:00 BBC Proms (m000kx6f) Gardiner favoured this earlier version of the work, conceived at Beethoven: Missa solemnis First Night of the BBC Proms 2020 a time when Beethoven was fired up by the ideals of Napoleon Friday 17 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 and the social fragmentation of society in the wake of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe French Revolution. This performance came soon after the Arnold Schoenberg Choir Tonight sees the launch of six weeks of highlights from the past experience of recording all of Beethoven's symphonies with his Ruth Ziesak (soprano) three decades of the Proms, featuring memorable performances Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. The period Bernarda Fink (alto) from an array of the world’s greatest soloists, orchestras and instruments, he said, gave the music ‘greater transparency of Herbert Lippert (tenor) conductors. texture, more sharply differentiated character of the Neal Davies () instruments and an almost visceral struggle with the musical Nikolous Harnoncourt (conductor) Marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, we open material.' with a mash-up of Beethoven’s nine symphonies – a First Night (From BBC Proms 1998, 11 September) commission by Iain Farrington recorded in lockdown by a Presented by Martin Handley. Grand Virtual Orchestra formed of around 320 players from 13:00 BBC Proms (m000l1m6) across the BBC Performing Groups. The Beethoven Leonore.....Hillevi Martinpelto (soprano) Proms Chamber Music: Apollon Musagète Quartet celebrations continue with the dramatic Piano Concerto No. 3 Florestan.....Kim Begley (tenor) Monday 20 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 performed at the 2017 First Night by Igor Levit, who has more Rocco.....Franz Hawlata (bass) recently reached a new audience through his live Twitter Marzelline.....Christiane Oelze (soprano) In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from concerts streamed direct from his Berlin apartment during the Jaquino.....Michael Schade (tenor) the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. coronavirus lockdown. Don Pizarro.....Matthew Best (bass) Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s riotous, hard-hitting Panic – for Don Fernando.....Geert Smits () Proms concerts. saxophone, drums and orchestra – won instant notoriety First Prisoner.....Robert Burt (tenor) following its premiere at the Last Night of the 100th- Second Prisoner.....Colin Campbell (baritoner) Webern: Langsamer Satz anniversary Proms season in 1995. Monteverdi Choir Colin Matthews: String Quartet No. 5 (European premiere) Tonight’s selection concludes with Claudio Abbado’s final Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique Beethoven: String Quartet in D major, Op. 18 No. 3 Proms appearance, in 2007, conducting the 127 players of his Sir (conductor) Lucerne Festival Orchestra in a rapturous performance of Apollon Musagète Quartet Mahler’s epic hymn to nature, his Third Symphony. In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. (From BBC Proms 2015, 3 August) 7.05pm Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Ian Farrington: Beethoveniana (BBC commission: world Proms concerts. Presented by Petroc Trelawny. premiere) Grand Virtual Orchestra (BBC Performing Groups) 13:00 BBC Proms (m000l1y9) Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Apollon Proms Chamber Music: Jeremy Denk Musagète Quartet present the European premiere of the Fifth c.7.15pm Sunday 19 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 String Quartet by one of Britain’s foremost living composers, Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Colin Matthews. Commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the Igor Levit, piano In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Tanglewood Festival in 2015, the piece remains the last work BBC Symphony Orchestra the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Matthews has written in the medium. Edward Gardner, conductor Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable (From the First Night of the BBC Proms 2017, 14 July) Proms concerts. Bookending the Quartet are Webern’s youthful Langsamer Satz – an ecstatic piece that showcases the composer’s formal skill c.7.50pm Bartók: Piano Sonata within a lyrical idiom – and Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 18 Sir Harrison Birtwistle: Panic Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 9, 'Black Mass’ No. 3. Of Beethoven’s six Op. 18 quartets, No. 3 is both the John Harle, saxophone Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 lightest and the hardest to pin down: the scherzo is fleeting, and BBC Symphony Orchestra even the framing movements have an unusual delicacy and Sir Andrew Davis, conductor Jeremy Denk (piano) wistfulness about them. (From the Last Night of the BBC Proms 1995, 16 September) (From BBC Proms 2015, 24 August) 14:00 Afternoon Concert - BBC Proms (m000l1m8) c.8.20pm Summer Festivals Mahler: Symphony no 3 Jeremy Denk is one of America’s foremost pianists – a Monday 20 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 Anna Larsson, mezzo-soprano musician the New York Times hails as someone ‘you want to Trinity Boys Choir hear no matter what he performs’. In 2015 he put Beethoven’s A new series of great Proms concerts from recent years by BBC London Symphony Chorus final piano sonata at the core of his debut Proms recital. This orchestras and choirs, launched by the BBC National Orchestra Lucerne Festival Orchestra majestic work – which he later recorded for a 2019 disc entitled of Wales, BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Concert Claudio Abbado, conductor ‘c.1300–c.2000’ – blends extrovert passion with a depth that Orchestra. Presented by Fiona Talkington. (From BBC Proms 2007, 22 August) characterises all of the composer’s late works. Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 in D major (Classical Symphony) 15:00 BBC Proms (m000l289) Denk paired the Beethoven with Bartók’s only piano sonata – a Qigang Chen: Iris Dévoilée (London premiere) Christian Thielemann conducts the Staatskapelle Dresden piece strongly coloured by Hungarian folk melodies and with Meng Meng, Anu Komsi and Piia Komsi (sopranos), Jia Li Saturday 18 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 rhythmic attack – and Scriabin’s ‘Black Mass’ Piano Sonata. His (pipa), Jing Chang (zheng) and Nan Wang (erhu) most famous work in the genre, Scriabin’s sonata is a Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2 in E minor Presented by Kate Molleson disconcerting, phantasmagoric musical journey – and a gleeful BBC NOW vision of horror. Conductor Xian Zhang The Staatskapelle Dresden and its Chief Conductor Christian Thielemann open with Beethoven’s most radiant, smiling work, 18:15 Proms Preview (m000l1yk) George Benjamin: Ringed by the Flat Horizon his sublime Violin Concerto, in the sure hands of Nikolaj A Week at the Proms - Programme 1 BBC Symphony Orchestra Znaider. Sunday 19 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 Conducted by the composer

After the interval this famously rich-toned orchestra digs into Starting a series of six weekly programmes, Georgia Mann Throughout the 2020 Proms season Afternoon Concert Max Reger’s affectionate and beautifully orchestrated explores the coming week's Proms together with a group of celebrates top music-making at Summer Festivals, with four Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart and finally guests, including Nicholas Kenyon, Managing Director of the weeks of concerts from 2019 summer festivals across Europe ’s witty and abrasive depiction of an impish Barbican Centre; Gillian Moore, Director of Music at and four weeks of great Proms performances from recent years figure from German folklore, his outlandish tone-poem telling Southbank Centre, and Helen Wallace, Artistic Director at by the BBC Orchestras and Choirs. This week features all six of ‘Till Eulenspiegel’s merry pranks’. Kings Place. As Radio 3 opens its rich archives during the BBC-associated orchestras including the Ulster Orchestra, plus summer, the guests offer tips, recommendations and the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Chorus; the BBC Beethoven: Violin Concerto rediscoveries in a unique chance to hear some historic and National Chorus of Wales will feature in two weeks' time. The memorable recordings. The most significant people and events series will also celebrate the 60th birthdays in 2020 of two great Interval: Kate Molleson in conversation with Christian coming up in the week ahead are put under a spotlight, and the British composers, George Benjamin and Mark-Anthony Thielemann. guests react to both archive interviews and fresh material Turnage, and highlight some of the best Proms premieres from recorded especially for the programme. James MacMillan's The Confession of Isobel Gowdie in 1990 to Reger: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart the present day. R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks 21:00 BBC Proms (m000l1yp) Beethoven’s Missa solemnis To launch the series today Chinese-American conductor Xian Nikolaj Znaider (violin) Sunday 19 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 Zhang makes her Proms debut in a hyper-Romantic 2015 Staatskapelle Dresden concert featuring two Russian blockbusters and a gorgeous Christian Thielemann (conductor) Presented by Tom Service recent work by her compatriot Qigang Chen. Plus George Benjamin conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the (From BBC Proms 2016, 8 September) Finding the terror alongside the spiritual awe, the questioning piece whose 1980 Proms premiere catapulted him to fame, and doubt as well as the faith, Beethoven’s mighty Missa solemnis is film favourites from a 2011 Prom by the BBC Concert 18:30 BBC Proms (m000l28f) a work of visceral power – a public statement of intensely Orchestra and their then Principal Conductor Keith Lockhart - Beethoven's Leonore - a landmark performance private belief. ‘From the heart – may it return to the heart!,’ the who feature throughout this week. Saturday 18 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 composer wrote at the top of a score that stretched the proportions and ambitions of the orchestral Mass to new limits. 19:30 BBC Proms (m000l1mk) Beethoven: Leonore Leif Ove Andsnes plays Beethoven (From BBC Proms 1996, 16 August) A work close to Harnoncourt’s heart, the Missa solemnis was Monday 20 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 Beethoven’s only is a passionate musical protest against also the work he conducted in his final public performance political oppression that also celebrates the power of human before retiring in December 2015. Experience the raw intensity In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from love. This performance from 1996 of the opera’s first version of his account here with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. (it was later revised as Fidelio) was only its second ever at the Arnold Schoenberg Choir at the 1998 BBC Proms. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms, and the first featuring period instruments. Sir John Eliot Proms concerts. promslist_2020_v08.html 2020-08-19 Information from bbc.co.uk/programmes/ PROMS 2020 Page 2 of 12 This evening we've another chance to hear a Prom from 2015 - Also premiered were two other works by British composers: the postponed. Though the second act was given in a concert in Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Symphony by Minna Keal; and John Tavener’s The Protecting Paris conducted by Koussevitzky in June 1928, the opera as a Orchestra present Beethoven’s Second and Fifth piano Veil for cello and orchestra, a radiant expression of Tavener’s whole was not seen until 1954. Prokofiev rescued some of the concertos – the composer’s first and final experiments in the faith which, in his own words, attempted to ‘capture some of the material by developing it symphonically; the result is a work of genre. In No 2, a spacious and gentle central adagio is framed almost cosmic power of the Mother of God’. Commissioned by great drama and intensity. with Mozartean grace in the outer movements, while the Fifth is the BBC, it has since become a contemporary classic, having the composer’s last word on the subject – a musical received over a dozen recordings. Presented by Ian Skelly emancipation of the soloist that anticipates the Romantic concertos of Beethoven’s successors. Knussen: Flourish with Fireworks Rossini: Semiramide – overture Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C major Opening tonight’s concert is Stravinsky’s Octet, written for wind Keal: Symphony, Op. 3 (first concert performance of complete Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3 in C minor ensemble. Looking to the musical past for inspiration once work) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra again, Stravinsky’s Neo-classical masterpiece pastiches the Tavener: The Protecting Veil (world premiere) (conductor) forms and textures of the 18th century, colouring them with a Mussorgsky: Intermezzo in modo classico (orchestral version) mood and mischief all his own. Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale (From BBC Proms 1990, 11 September)

Presented by Andrew McGregor, who chats to Leif Ove Steven Isserlis (cello) 14:00 Afternoon Concert - BBC Proms (m000l2v7) between the two piano concertos. BBC Symphony Orchestra Summer Festivals Oliver Knussen (conductor) Thursday 23 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 Stravinsky: Octet c.7.55pm (From BBC Proms, 4 September 1989) Proms Opera Matinee: Hannah French introduces Michael Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major Tippett's masterpiece The Midsummer Marriage from the BBC c.8.35pm 22:00 BBC Proms (b04b2lwg) SO, BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Chorus conducted by Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, ‘Emperor’ Proms Plus Andrew Davis - an acclaimed performance from the 2013 BBC Tavener and Literature Proms. Tippett asked T S Eliot to write the libretto for his first Mahler Chamber Orchestra Tuesday 21 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 opera, but Eliot recommended the composer to try it himself. Leif Ove Andsnes (piano/conductor) The result is one of the most unusual but haunting ever (From BBC Proms 2015, 26 July) Matthew Sweet and his guests, the award-winning poet and written, a kind of 1950s Magic Flute. Its three acts are filled librettist Michael Symmons Roberts and musician, priest and with some of the most beautiful operatic music composed since 22:00 BBC Proms (p02xfqpc) broadcaster Richard Coles, explore the inspiration John Tavener the Second World War, from the chorus's opening hymn to the Proms Lecture - Daniel Levitin: Music and Our Brains took from poems written by George Herbert, John Donne and sun and Mark's rapturous love song to Jenifer through the Monday 20 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 William Blake. Tonight's Proms broadcast includes The famous Ritual Dances of Act 2 to the deeply moving aria for Protecting Veil, which earnt Tavener a nomination for the the oracle Sosostris at the heart of the final act. Before becoming a leading neuroscientist, Daniel Levitin Mercury Prize and whilst this work takes its cue from an icon worked as a musician and record producer. In "Unlocking the and the Orthodox feast of the Protecting Veil of the Mother of Michael Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage Mysteries of Music in Your Brain", the Proms Lecture given in God, other pieces by Tavener draw on literary sources. Mark ….. Paul Groves (tenor) front of an audience at the Royal College of Music, he explores Jenifer, his fiancée ….. Erin Wall (soprano) the new thinking about the crucial relationship between music Originally recorded before an audience at the Royal College of King Fisher, her father, a rich businessman ….. David Wilson- and our neural responses. Music at the BBC Proms on 23 July 2014. Johnson (baritone) Bella, his secretary ….. (soprano) (From BBC Proms 2015, 18 July) 22:20 BBC Proms (m000l23m) Jack, her mechanic boyfriend ….. Allan Clayton (tenor) Proms Plus Sosostris ….. Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano) 14:00 Afternoon Concert - BBC Proms (m000l22v) Birds He-Ancient ….. David Soar (bass) Summer Festivals Tuesday 21 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 She-Ancient ….. Madeleine Shaw (mezzo-soprano) Tuesday 21 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 BBC Singers Helen Macdonald, author of H Is For Hawk and Tim Birkhead, BBC Symphony Chorus Fiona Talkington presents great Prom concerts from recent Professor of Behaviour and Evolution at the University of BBC Symphony Orchestra years by BBC orchestras and choirs - today the BBC Singers in Sheffield and author of Bird Sense, share their experiences of Conductor Andrew Davis Palestrina and and Ulster Orchestra in observing birds closely and their pick of writing inspired by real Tchaikovsky. Venezuelan Rafael Payare makes his 2016 Proms and fictional birds. Professor Birkhead’s recent research has 19:30 BBC Proms (m000l2vf) debut as Principal Conductor and Music Director of the Ulster been into the adaptive significance of egg shape in birds and Mariss Jansons conducts Dvorak and Strauss Orchestra with Tchaikovsky's Fifth and a brand-new work by Helen Macdonald won the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize and Thursday 23 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 Professor of Composition at Queens University, Belfast, Piers Costa Book Award for her writing about the year she spent Hellawell, plus Haydn with the cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan, training a goshawk. The presenter is New Generation Thinker In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from who was then a BBC New Generation Artist. Plus a 2017 Prom Lucy Powell who researches birds in British 18th-century the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. at Southwark Cathedral with Palestrina from BBC Singers and literature. Tonight's Proms concert broadcast ends with a Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable their then chief conductor, David Hill, who are joined by the performance of Stravinsky's Song of the Nightingale. Proms concerts. Nash Ensemble for another world premiere by Master of the Queen's Music Judith Weir. Producer: Jacqueline Smith The late, great Mariss Jansons and his Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra mark the centenary of Dvořák’s death in a Piers Hellawell: Wild Flow (world premiere) Originally recorded with an audience at BBC Proms on 26 July 2004 Prom also featuring a popular tone poem by Richard Haydn: Cello Concerto No 1 in C major 2018. Strauss. Presented by Petroc Trelawny with Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello) Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 14:00 Afternoon Concert - BBC Proms (m000l1dr) Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G major Ulster Orchestra Summer Festivals Strauss: Ein Heldenleben Conductor Rafael Payare Wednesday 22 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Proms at… Southwark Cathedral Hannah French presents great Prom concerts from recent years Conductor Mariss Jansons Palestrina: Motet 'Confitebor tibi, Domine'; Missa 'Confitebor by BBC orchestras and choirs - today Stephen Hough and the tibi' BBC Philharmonic play Brahms's mighty First Piano Concerto. (From BBC Proms 2004, 30 July) Judith Weir: In the Land of Uz (BBC commission: world premiere) Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor The late Latvian maestro Mariss Jansons appeared at the Proms with Adrian Thompson (tenor), Stephen Farr (organ) and Nash David Sawer: the greatest happiness principle in 2004 with his renowned German orchestra, of which he was Ensemble Haydn: Symphony No 99 in E flat major Chief Conductor from 2003 until the end of his life. Together BBC Singers BBC Philharmonic they present Richard Strauss’s autobiographical showpiece, Ein Conductor David Hill Conductor Mark Wigglesworth Heldenleben.

19:30 BBC Proms (m000l23b) 19:30 BBC Proms (m000l1f2) Opening the programme is Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony. Written The world premiere of John Tavener's 20th-century classic, The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at the Proms at his brother-in-law’s estate around 30 miles outside of Prague, The Protecting Veil Wednesday 22 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 the symphony reflects Dvořák’s pastoral surroundings, and gives Tuesday 21 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 a flavour of the profusion of ideas to come in his ‘New World’ In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Ninth. In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable 23:00 BBC Proms (m000l2vh) Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. Baroque classics from Anne Sofie von Otter and Les Proms concerts. Musiciens du Louvre The sparkling overture from Rossini’s opera Semiramide opens Thursday 23 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 Kate Molleson introduces a Prom from 1989 conducted by the this Prom given by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, led by late Oliver Knussen, one of the most respected figures in British Italian maestro Riccardo Chailly. Flexing his Beethoven In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from contemporary music. She is also joined by the soloist in muscles, Chailly gives his unique reading of the composer’s the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. tonight's concert, cellist Steven Isserlis. First Symphony – a work later captured as part of a complete Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable cycle, recorded with the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester from Proms concerts. Knussen composed his Flourish with Fireworks for American 2007 to 2009. conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, to reflect a shared In this late-night concert from 2003, Anne Sofie von Otter joins admiration for the music of Stravinsky, here represented in the Rounding off the programme is Prokofiev’s striking Third French conductor Marc Minkowski and his period-instrument symphonic poem he made in 1917 from his opera The Symphony. Written in 1928, it was a direct and spirited reaction orchestra in a pair of arias from Handel’s mighty opera Nightingale. Song of the Nightingale later became a successful to the disappointment Prokofiev experienced with his opera Ariodante – which they recorded together in 1997 – and one of ballet, with choreography by Massine and later Balanchine. The Fiery Angel, whose first performance, accepted by Bruno Bach’s most beautiful and consoling solo cantatas, ‘Vergnügte Walter for Berlin, had been summarily and indefinitely Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust’. promslist_2020_v08.html 2020-08-19 Information from bbc.co.uk/programmes/ PROMS 2020 Page 3 of 12 Rounding off this all-Baroque affair is a colourful selection of performance from the 2013 BBC Proms when Daniel Concerto No. 24 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under dances by Jean-Philippe Rameau, a near-direct contemporary of Barenboim conducted the Staatskapelle Berlin and a starry cast Bernard Haitink; and Janacek's 'The Makropulos Affair' with Bach. The suite, which was compiled by Marc Minkowski, in Wagner's Die Walküre, as part of the first complete Ring the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jiri Belohlavek, starring draws from a selection of the French composer’s operas. cycle in a single Proms season. - we hear an interview with her, recorded for the programme, on portraying the diva Emilia Marty and about Bach: Cantata No 170, ‘Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust’ It was an event which drew unanimous critical and audience performing at the Proms in this critically acclaimed Rameau: L'apothéose de la dance – suite acclaim for conductor cast and, not least, the orchestra. As one performance. Handel: Ariodante: Scherza infida; Doppo notte critic put it: 'there's surely no other ensemble in the world that has this music more deeply ingrained in its collective psyche 21:00 BBC Proms (m000l72d) Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) than the Berlin Staatskapelle. Even with some of the greatest Late Escapes Les Musiciens du Louvre Wagner singers of the present day onstage here, it was the BBC Proms: Monteverdi's Vespers Marc Minkowski (conductor) orchestral playing that regularly demanded the attention, Sunday 26 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 whether it was the effortless depth of tone in the strings, the (From BBC Proms, 10 September 2003) sheer solidity and easy assertiveness of the brass, the perfectly In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from defined pianissimos or the immaculate articulation of every solo the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. 14:00 Afternoon Concert - BBC Proms (m000l2zf) detail.' Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Summer Festivals Proms concerts. Friday 24 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 Wagner: Die Walküre French period instrument collective Pygmalion make their 2017 Hannah French presents great Prom concerts from recent years 7.30pm: Act 2 Proms debut in Monteverdi’s iconic Vespers of 1610. Presented by BBC Orchestras and Choirs. Today, a feast of 20th- and 21st- by Kate Molleson. century music from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. In 9.15pm: Act 3 this remarkable BBC Prom from 2008, Ilan Volkov - then Claudio Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610 Principal Conductor of the BBC SSO, now their Principal (Wotan) Giuseppina Bridelli (soprano) Guest Conductor - leads a beautifully shaped concert featuring Simon O'Neill (Siegmund) Eva Zaïcik (mezzo-soprano) classics of electronic music by the French-American pioneer Anja Kampe (Sieglinde) Emiliano Gonzalez‐Toro (tenor) Edgard Varese and the modern master Jonathan Harvey, plus a Eric Halfvarson (Hunding) Magnus Staveland (tenor) Harvey world premiere. The concert is launched by two Proms Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde) Virgile Ancely (bass) premieres: from another towering French modernist, Olivier Ekaterina Gubanova (Fricka) Renaud Bres (bass) Messiaen, and Harvey's tribute to him on the centenary of his Sonja Mühleck (Gerhilde) Geoffroy Buffière (bass) birth. Carola Höhn (Ortlinde) Ensemble Pygmalion Ivonne Fuchs (Waltraute) Director Raphaël Pichon Jonathan Harvey: Tombeau de Messiaen for piano and tape Anaïk Morel (Schwertleite) (From BBC Proms 2017, 31 July) Cédric Tiberghien (piano) Susan Foster (Helmwige) Messiaen: Concert à quatre Leann Sandel-Pantaleo (Siegrune) Before there was Bach's Mass in B minor or Beethoven's Missa with Emily Beynon (flute), Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe), Anna Lapkovskaja (Grimgerde) solemnis there was Monteverdi's Vespers, a choral masterpiece Danjulo Ishizaka (cello) and Cédric Tiberghien (piano) Simone Schröder (Rossweisse) of unprecedented musical scope and audacious beauty. The Harvey: Mortuos plango, vivos voco; Speakings (world Staatskapelle Berlin work's textural extremes, multiple choirs and sonic effects are premiere) Daniel Barenboim (conductor) brought richly to life in this 2017 Proms performance marking Varèse: Poème électronique; Déserts the 450th anniversary of the composer’s birth. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Die Walküre, the second instalment of Wagner's epic four- Conductor Ilan Volkov opera cycle The Ring, opens with a terrible storm presaging the This concert was the Proms debut of award-winning French devastating events which are about to unfold, as the gods fall Baroque ensemble Pygmalion under its director Raphaël 19:30 BBC Proms (m000l2zm) prey to all too-human flaws. Siegmund, who has been asked by Pichon, together with an exciting line-up of young soloists. Late Escapes his father Wotan to help him acquire the Ring, meets and falls Hollywood Rhapsody Prom in love with his long-lost twin sister Sieglinde. Fricka, Wotan's 13:00 BBC Proms (m000l79b) Friday 24 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 consort, is infuriated and demands Siegmund's death. Proms Chamber Music: Emmanuel Pahud Brünnhilde, Wotan's rebel daughter, tries to defend him, but in Monday 27 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from punishment she is put to sleep on a rock surrounded by fire. the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable 13:00 BBC Proms (m000l71z) the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Proms concerts. This evening's concert, from 2013, features English choral music new and old Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms favourites John Wilson and his orchestra in a celebration Sunday 26 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 Proms concerts. of classic Hollywood film scores. In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Martinů: Flute Sonata Connecticut-born child prodigy Alfred Newman’s ‘Street the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Dutilleux: Sonatine Scene’, from the 1953 classic How to Marry a Millionaire, Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Prokofiev: Flute Sonata contrasts with the music of Jewish émigrés Erich Korngold, Proms concerts. Emmanuel Pahud (flute) Max Steiner and Franz Waxman, with suites from Korngold’s Eric Le Sage (piano) swashbuckling score for Robin Hood, Steiner’s nostalgic music Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s long association with the Proms is for Casablanca and Waxman’s brooding score for A Place in the reflected in this concert from 2013, in which Nicholas Kok (From BBC Proms 2011, 22 August) Sun – all of them Academy Award-winners – making for a red- conducts the UK premiere of The Moth Requiem for women’s Presented by Catherine Bott carpet event. voices, alto flute and three harps, a dream-like incantation of the names of the dustier cousins of the sun-loving butterfly. Emmanuel Pahud – principal flute of the Presented by Georgia Mann and a featured artist at the 2011 Proms – returned following a Before that, pre-Reformation motets by William Cornysh and concerto appearance earlier the same Proms season for a recital 7.30pm Walter Lambe, preserved in the Eton Choirbook, intersperse of pieces composed in the 1940s. Newman: Street Scene with alluring works by Gustav Holst and his daughter Imogen, Kaper: Confetti including the third set of Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda for Martinů's amiable Sonata plumbs unexpected depths in its Raskin: Laura - New Suite female voices and harp, central core, while the Prokofiev Sonata's delightfully sunny Herrmann: Psycho Suite nature makes it an ideal vehicle for the brilliant sparkle of the Herrmann: Salammbo Aria (Citizen Kane) Presented by Petroc Trelawny. flute. Korngold: Robin Hood - Suite Moross: The Big Country Gustav Holst: Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda – Group 3 In between comes the Sonatine by Dutilleux, here at his most William Cornysh: Ave Maria mater Dei pastoral and Debussyan, carrying the flag for the Paris c.8:20pm Interval Imogen Holst: Hallo, my fancy, whither wilt thou go? Conservatoire tradition of commissioning new scores for its Walter Lambe: Stella caeli final examinations. c.8:35pm Sir Harrison Birtwistle: The Moth Requiem (BBC co- Steiner: Casablanca - Suite commission with the Danish National Vocal Ensemble: UK Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Apollon Various: Main Title - Song Medley premiere) Musagète Quartet present the European premiere of the Fifth Waxman: A Place in the Sun String Quartet by one of Britain’s foremost living composers, Rózsa: Ben-Hur - Suite BBC Singers Colin Matthews. Commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the Nash Ensemble Tanglewood Festival in 2015, the piece remains the last work Venera Gimadieva (soprano) Nicholas Kok (conductor) Matthews has written in the medium. Matthew Ford (vocalist) Jane Monheit (vocalist) (From BBC Proms, 12 August 2013) Bookending the Quartet are Webern’s youthful Langsamer Satz John Wilson Orchestra – an ecstatic piece that showcases the composer’s formal skill John Wilson (conductor) 18:15 Proms Preview (m000l726) within a lyrical idiom – and Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 18 A Week at the Proms - Programme 2 No. 3. Of Beethoven’s six Op. 18 quartets, No. 3 is both the (From BBC Proms 2013, 26 August) Sunday 26 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 lightest and the hardest to pin down: the scherzo is fleeting, and even the framing movements have an unusual delicacy and 18:30 BBC Proms (m000l7m3) In the second programme of this series Georgia Mann explores wistfulness about them. Wagner's Die Walküre from the 2013 BBC Proms the coming week's Proms concerts with guests Nigel Simeone, Saturday 25 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 Fiona Maddocks and Edward Seckerson as they react to archive 19:30 BBC Proms (m000l79n) performances, hear fresh interviews and select Beethoven and Schubert from In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from recommendations. Among the topics in discussion are Roger Monday 27 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Norrington performing Beethoven Symphony No. 2 with the Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable London Classical Players; Steven Sondheim's 80th birthday Sir Roger Norrington conducts his period instrument London Proms concerts. This evening, Kate Molleson introduces a celebration Prom; Murray Perahia playing Mozart's Piano Classical Players in symphonies by Beethoven and Schubert. promslist_2020_v08.html 2020-08-19 Information from bbc.co.uk/programmes/ PROMS 2020 Page 4 of 12 Where some musicians follow trends, Roger Norrington has Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet) music. All made their Proms debut in 2015. Mary Anne's always led them, not least in his long collaboration with the Boston Symphony Orchestra interest in these artists was piqued when she noticed the seismic London Classical Players, the orchestra he formed to explore Andris Nelsons (conductor) effect their music had whenever she played it on her 6Music the playing styles relating to Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, weekend breakfast show. Schubert and Berlioz. In this 1989 Prom, Schubert's (From BBC Proms 2015, 22 August) monumental 'Great' symphony - once praised for its 'heavenly 19:30 BBC Proms (m000l8zn) length'- is paired with early Beethoven. 19:30 BBC Proms (m000l96c) Stephen Sondheim 80th birthday Prom Presented by Hannah French. Mark Elder and the Hallé Friday 31 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 Thursday 30 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D major In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Schubert: Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major, ‘Great’ the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. London Classical Players Proms concerts. Sir Roger Norrington (conductor) Marking the 80th birthday in 2010 of one of Broadway's great Works inspired by the sea and night-time, plus Beethoven’s innovators, this first ever Sondheim Prom drew together leading (From BBC Proms 1989, 21 August) barnstorming ‘Eroica’ Symphony - Mark Elder conducts the figures of the opera and theatre worlds, plus an array of special Hallé in a classic BBC Prom from August 2014. guests. Bryn Terfel had previously proved himself a magnetic Sir Roger Norrington's ‘Experiences’ were one of the defining The sunshine glitters on the waves in Berlioz’s overture Le Sweeney Todd in performances at London’s Royal Festival Hall features of the UK's musical life in the 1980s. In these hugely corsaire, while the ocean ebbs and flows in Elgar’s Sea Pictures. in 2007. popular events, Sir Roger and his London Classical Players Human rather than natural drama is what drives Beethoven’s offered music, talk and provocative discussion and brought new ‘Eroica’ Symphony, however – a stirring musical meditation on Terfel led a strong cast, joined by aspiring young performers insights into works from the Classical and Romantic periods, heroism and valour. Presented by Hannah French. supported by the BBC Performing Arts fund. On the bill were seen then as the preserve of the traditional symphony excerpts from for horror opera Sweeney Todd, the Ingmar orchestras. It is no exaggeration to say that performance style of Berlioz: Overture ‘Le corsaire’ Bergman-inspired. A Little Night Music and the fairy-tale Beethoven and Schubert has not been the same since. Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op. 37 compendium of Into the Woods, as well as excerpts from with Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano) Company, Pacific Overtures and Sunday in the Park with In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Helen Grime: Near Midnight (London premiere) George. the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat major, ‘Eroica' Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Hallé Presented by Georgian Mann Proms concerts. Sir Mark Elder Simon Russell Beale (vocalist) 19:30 BBC Proms (m000l6lt) (From BBC Proms 2014, 9 August) Dame Judi Dench (vocalist) Haitink and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Daniel Evans (vocalist) Tuesday 28 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 The sea lies the centre of tonight’s concert from Sir Mark Elder Maria Friedman (vocalist) and the Hallé. Berlioz composed his swashbuckling overture Le Caroline O'Connor (vocalist) In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from corsaire on holiday by the Mediterranean Sea in Nice. Julian Ovenden (vocalist) the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Jenna Russell (vocalist) Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable A celebrated Elgar champion, Elder is joined by British mezzo- Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) Proms concerts. soprano Alice Coote for Sea Pictures: Elgar’s only orchestral Proms Sondheim Ensemble song-cycle, which explores the fascination and fear inspired by Murray Perahia and Bernard Haitink have a musical rapport the sea. While Helen Grime’s Near Midnight explores a BBC Performing Arts Fund Singers that has given us countless magnificent performances. This nocturnal theme, Beethoven created a storm of human drama in BBC Concert Orchestra performance from the BBC Proms in 2008 saw Perahia return his ‘Eroica’ Symphony. David Charles Abell (conductor) to the Proms, following a gap of 20 years, to perform one of Mozart's greatest piano concertos. 22:00 BBC Proms (m000l96f) 18:30 BBC Proms (p08k9fgd) Proms Plus Janáček's The Makropulos Affair It was while writing his Fourth Symphony that Shostakovich Sea Journeys and Sea Voyages Saturday 01 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 was denounced in a newspaper article entitled ‘Muddle Instead Thursday 30 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 of Music’. He continued composing the work in private, but it In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from had to wait 25 years – beyond the death of Stalin – before it was Edith Hall and Sir Barry Cunliffe, Emeritus Professor of the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. first heard in public, in 1961. European Archaeology at the University of Oxford, consider Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable epic sea journeys in history and the role of the sea in Greek Proms concerts. Presented by Ian Skelly myth and legend. Hosted by Rana Mitter. Tonight's Proms Karita Mattila stars in a concert performance of Janáček’s opera concert broadcast includes pieces by Berlioz and Elgar with a The Makropulos Affair, a drama of immortality, death and the 7.30pm maritime theme. purpose of life, conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek with the BBC Mozart: Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K491 Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra. Recorded in front of an audience at the BBC Proms on 28 July c.8.10pm 2017. Janáček: The Makropulos Affair (concert performance; sung in Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4 in C minor Czech) 22:20 BBC Proms (b01m0pmb) Emilia Marty ..... Karita Mattila (soprano) Murray Perahia (piano) Proms Plus Albert Gregor ..... Aleš Briscein (tenor) Chicago Symphony Orchestra Russian Literature, Faith and Doubt Dr Kolenatý ..... Gustáv Beláček (bass) Bernard Haitink (conductor) Thursday 30 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 Vítek ..... Jan Vacík (tenor) Kristina ..... Eva Štěrbová (soprano) (From BBC Proms 2008, 9 September) The novelist Pat Barker and the Reverend Giles Fraser explore Baron Jaroslav Prus ..... Svatopluk Sem (baritone) what Russian literature from Dostoevsky to Tolstoy can teach Janek ..... Aleš Voráček (tenor) 19:30 BBC Proms (m000l8xs) us about faith, doubt and redemption, with readings from their Hauk-Šendorf ..... Jan Ježek (tenor) Mahler's Sixth Symphony personal favourites. Ian McMillan presents. Stage Technician ..... Jiří Klecker (bass) Wednesday 29 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 Cleaning Woman ..... Yvona Skvárová (mezzo-soprano) Producer Laura Thomas Chambermaid ..... Jana Hrochová (mezzo-soprano) In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from BBC Singers the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Recorded with an audience at the BBC Proms 21 August 2012. BBC Symphony Orchestra Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. Tonight's prom finds two contrasting heroes 23:00 BBC Proms (m000l96j) Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor) sharing the limelight in an evening of musical drama from the Late Escapes Boston Symphony Orchestra and its then new Chief Conductor, Nils Frahm and A Winged Victory for the Sullen (From the BBC Proms 2016, 19 August) Andris Nelsons. Brett Dean’s trumpet concerto Dramatis Thursday 30 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 personae, composed for tonight’s soloist, Swedish virtuoso An all-star cast gathers for Janáček’s late, existential Håkan Hardenberger, assigns all roles to the trumpet, casting In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from masterpiece, The Makropulos Affair. This tragic satire is him by turns as fallen superhero and accidental revolutionary. the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. powered by a score that contains some of the composer’s most Mahler’s Sixth Symphony sees the composer himself as cursed Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable extreme and alluring music, written as Janáček was approaching hero – one, he explained, ‘on whom fall three blows of fate, the Proms concerts. 70 – and aflame with desire for a married woman less than half last of which fells him as a tree is felled’. The conclusion may his age. The opera’s heroine, Emilia Marty, is part-inspired by be a tragic one but there are also scenes of beauty and joy in a For this late night Prom first broadcast in 2015, 6Music's Mary his reluctant muse, Kamila Stösslová. work that includes a glowing theme associated with Mahler’s Anne Hobbs presents performance featuring the influential wife, Alma. German composer-performer Nils Frahm and the American The Finnish soprano Karita Mattila, acclaimed for her duo A Winged Victory for the Sullen. ‘electrifying’ portrayal of Marty in a 2012 production at the Presented by Hannah French , New York, is joined by native Czech Royal Albert Hall, London musicians, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s former 7.30pm Presented by Mary Anne Hobbs Conductor Laureate Jiří Bělohlávek. This is only the second Brett Dean: Dramatis personae performance of The Makropulos Affair at the Proms – the first Nils Frahm (piano/keyboards) being Glyndebourne Festival Opera’s 1995 production under Sir c.8.05pm Members of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance Andrew Davis. Interval A Winged Victory for the Sullen London Brass 13:00 BBC Proms (p08l2lz4) c.8.20 A celebration of Henry Purcell Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor Nils Frahm and the American duo A Winged Victory for the Sunday 02 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Sullen are musicians who explore the borderlands of classical promslist_2020_v08.html 2020-08-19 Information from bbc.co.uk/programmes/ PROMS 2020 Page 5 of 12 In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Proms Chamber Music: Khatia Buniatishvili Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Monday 03 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable c. 8.10pm Proms concerts. In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Interval the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. The centrepiece of this concert – introduced by Suzy Klein and Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable c.8.25pm originally presented to celebrate the 350th anniversary year of Proms concerts. Wagner: Tannhäuser – Overture Purcell’s birth in 2009 – is an affecting tribute to the composer Wagner: Götterdämmerung – Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine by his teacher and predecessor as organist of Westminster Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor Journey Abbey, John Blow. It sets Dryden’s poem of the same name, Liszt: Liebesträum No. 3 in A flat major Wagner: Götterdämmerung – Siegfried's Death and Funeral which describes how ‘the lark and linnet sing’ but then fall silent Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat major March at the appearance of ‘the matchless man, our Orpheus’. Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28 – No. 4 in E minor Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg – Overture

A sequence of Purcell’s solo songs and keyboard pieces and the Khatia Buniatishvili (piano) Martha Argerich (piano) deeply moving Evening Hymn complete this mix of mellifluous West–Eastern Divan Orchestra music, performed by English singers Iestyn Davies and Simon (From the BBC Proms 2011, 8 August) Daniel Barenboim (conductor) Wall. The duo are accompanied by members of the Academy Presented by Catherine Bott of Ancient Music, led from the harpsichord by their Artistic (From the BBC Proms 2016, 17 August) Director Richard Egarr. Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Khatia Buniatishvili has for years been turning heads with her 14:00 Afternoon Concert - BBC Proms (m000lgbs) Purcell: Suite in G major – excerpts mesmerising stage presence and unique style of pianism, mixing Summer Festivals Purcell: Hail, Bright Cecelia – ’Tis nature’s voice uncanny sensitivity with old-school fireworks. In this recital she Tuesday 04 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Purcell: A New Ground explores the different brands of virtuosity perfected by three Purcell: Music for a while composer-pianists, Chopin, Liszt and Prokofiev. Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts by BBC Purcell: Suite in D major – excerpts orchestras: the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Wagner Purcell: Sweeter than roses Liszt’s B minor Piano Sonata, dedicated to Schumann, is and Strauss and Ulster Orchestra with Beethoven and Clara Blow: Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell considered by many to be his finest work, whilst his Schumann. Purcell: Evening Hymn Liebesträum No. 3 is one of his most popular – the quintessential Romantic piano miniature. Buniatishvili recorded In a Prom from 2018 the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Iestyn Davies () both as part of her 2011 disc Liszt: Piano Works, which was and their Chief Conductor are joined by Swedish soprano Malin Simon Wall (tenor) released shortly before this chamber performance. Prokofiev’s Byström for Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs and by the Members of the Academy of Ancient Music Seventh Sonata, meanwhile, contains some of the most dynamic National Youth Chamber Choir and London Voices for the UK Richard Egarr (harpsichord/director) music ever devised by a composer renowned for his motoric premiere of Per Nørgård's Symphony No 3. piano style. (From the BBC Proms, 7 September 2009) Then, recorded at last year's Proms, the Ulster Orchestra and 14:00 Afternoon Concert - BBC Proms (m000ldb3) their outgoing Chief Conductor Rafael Payare perform Russian 18:15 Proms Preview (m000lgwk) Summer Festivals music, Beethoven's First Symphony and a Proms premiere: A Week at the Proms - Programme 3 Monday 03 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto, with Radio 3 New Sunday 02 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Generation Artist Mariam Batsashvili as soloist. Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts from recent In the third programme of this series Georgia Mann explores years by BBC orchestras and choirs - today the BBC 2.00pm the coming week's Proms concerts with guests Nicholas Philharmonic with music by Pärt, Rachmaninov and Gliere, Wagner: Parsifal – Prelude to Act 1 Kenyon, Gillian Moore and Roderick Williams as they react to from a 2007 Prom. The climax of their concert with conductor Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs archive performances, hear fresh interviews and select Vassily Sinaisky is the Proms premiere of the monumental with Malin Byström (soprano) recommendations. Among the topics in discussion are Simon Third Symphony by Russian composer Reinhold Gliere, Per Nørgård: Symphony No 3 (UK premiere) Rattle's 2014 visit to the Proms with the Berlin Philharmonic inspired by legendary folk hero Ilya Muromets. Plus ecstatic London Voices Orchestra in Stravinsky's The Firebird suite and Rachmaninov's music by Welsh composer Grace Williams from a 2015 Prom The National Youth Chamber Choir Symphonic Dances; Neville Marriner and the Academy of St- given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Martin-in-the-Fields performing symphonies by Haydn and Conductor Thomas Dausgaard Beethoven, among other things, from a Prom dating back to 2.00pm 1994; Richard Hickox and the BBC National Orchestra of Arvo Pärt: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten 3.25pm Wales, the London Symphony Chorus and London Brass in an Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C major, Op. 21 all-English Prom dating from 2006 including music by Elgar, with Nelson Goerner (piano) Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7 (Proms Bliss and Walton's mighty cantata Belshazzar's Feast with Bryn 2.30pm premiere) Terfel; and the London Contemporary Orchestra with music by Gliere: Symphony No 3 in B minor, Op 42 (Ilya Muromets) Sofia Gubaidulina: Fairytale Poem Suzanne Ciani, Shiva Feshareki and James Bulley from a 2018 (Proms premiere) Shostakovich: Symphony No 1 in F minor, Op. 10 Prom. BBC Philharmonic Mariam Batsashvili (piano) Conductor Vassily Sinaisky Ulster Orchestra 21:00 BBC Proms (p08k9gxy) Conductor Rafael Payare Elgar, Bax and Walton from the 2006 BBC Proms 3.55pm Sunday 02 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Grace Williams: Fairest of Stars 19:30 BBC Proms (p08k9kr5) Ailish Tynan (soprano) Sibelius's epic Kalevala In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from BBC National Orchestra of Wales Tuesday 04 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Conductor Tadaaki Otaka Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Proms concerts and tonight Martin Handley presents an all- Throughout the 2020 Proms season Afternoon Concert the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. English programme from the 2006 season conducted by the celebrates top music-making at Summer Festivals, with four Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable much-missed Richard Hickox. weeks of concerts from 2019 summer festivals across Europe Proms concerts. and four weeks of great Proms performances from recent years Elgar: In the South (Alassio) by the BBC orchestras and choirs. This week features all six This evening, Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo pairs two of Bliss: A Colour Symphony BBC-associated orchestras including the Ulster Orchestra, plus Sibelius’s most engagingly descriptive works as part of a Proms Walton: Belshazzar's Feast the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC National season that marked 150 years since the composer’s birth. The (From the BBC Proms 2006, 23 July) Chorus of Wales. The series also celebrates the 60th birthdays folk hero Kullervo was the inspiration behind a powerful in 2020 of two great British composers, George Benjamin and national statement for a country struggling to overthrow Russian Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) Mark-Anthony Turnage (on Thursday this week), and highlights rule. This massive musical hybrid – part cantata, part BBC National Chorus of Wales some of the best Proms premieres from James MacMillan's The symphony, part suite – is a vivid work, richly melodic but London Symphony Chorus Confession of Isobel Gowdie in 1990 to the present day. looking ahead to modernism in some striking musical gestures. BBC National Orchestra of Wales London Brass 19:30 BBC Proms (p08k9k11) The opening work, En saga, is a fairy tale without a plot, whose Richard Hickox (conductor) Daniel Barenboim and his West–Eastern Divan Orchestra contrasting movements suggest many possible stories, but never Monday 03 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 commit to just one. Sibelius began working on the piece in Ever the champion of British music, Richard Hickox conducts 1891, soon after returning from musical studies in Vienna and his final Prom at the helm of the BBC National Orchestra of In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Berlin. It wasn’t until 1902, however, that he completed the Wales, joined by Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel and massed the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. version we know today. choirs from London and Cardiff in the Old Testament fire-and- Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable brimstone tale of Belshazzar's Feast. Walton’s mighty cantata Proms concerts. Tonight, a memorable concert from the 2016 Presented by Ian Skelly. was commissioned by the BBC in 1929, originally as a small- season, when Daniel Barenboim paired his orchestra of young scale choral work. It soon outgrew its conception, morphing Arabs and Israelis with the iconic pianist Martha Argerich in a Sibelius: En saga into a musical behemoth for orchestra, eight-part choir, organ thundering performance of Liszt’s First Piano Concerto. The Sibelius: Kullervo and two brass bands. concert begins with a work by Jörg Widmann. Entitled Con brio, it harnesses the energy of Beethoven’s fast movements in Johanna Rusanen (soprano) Commissioned at the behest of Elgar – whose own In the South an ‘exercise in fury and rhythmic insistence’. Barenboim – who Waltteri Torikka (baritone) (Alassio) opens this concert – Bliss’s A Colour Symphony conducted Wagner’s Ring cycle at the Proms in 2013 – Polyteknikkojen Kuoro explores the heraldic associations of the colours purple, red, concludes with powerful excerpts from three of the composer’s BBC Symphony Chorus (men's voices) blue and green. Hickox and BBC NOW would go on to record most popular works. BBC Symphony Orchestra the work in 2006, alongside Bliss’s Violin Concerto. Sakari Oramo (conductor) Presented by Martin Handley. Presented by Petroc Trelawny (From the BBC Proms 2015, 29 August)

13:00 BBC Proms (p08k9hp9) Jörg Widmann: Con brio 14:00 Afternoon Concert - BBC Proms (m000lgrq) promslist_2020_v08.html 2020-08-19 Information from bbc.co.uk/programmes/ PROMS 2020 Page 6 of 12 Summer Festivals 19:30 BBC Proms (p08k9m6p) 19:30 BBC Proms (p08krgbn) Wednesday 05 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Academy of St Martin in the Fields at the Proms Sir Simon Rattle conducts Rachmaninov and Stravinsky Thursday 06 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Friday 07 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts from recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs: today Pierre Boulez In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from conducts his own music plus works by Varèse and Stravinsky - the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. the original version of his ballet Petrushka - in a Prom given in Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable 2002. Proms concerts. Proms concerts.

2.00pm Hannah French presents a highlight of the 1994 season. Georgia Mann presents this concert from 2014, Sir Simon Varèse: Intégrales Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic perform an all-Russian Boulez: Le visage nuptial; Le soleil des eaux Haydn’s Symphony No. 96 was written during the composer’s programme inspired by dance. Opening the concert is Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 version) first visit to London and was premiered in Hannover Square, Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances – the composer’s blazing Francoise Pollet (soprano) just two miles from where the Royal Albert Hall now stands. ‘final spark’ and, for many, his finest orchestral work. Susan Parry (mezzo-soprano) The lightest of the 12 symphonies he wrote in the city, its four Embracing jazz, plainchant and the waltz, it is a mercurial BBC Singers movements perfectly capture the elegance and wit that brought showcase of dramatic skill. BBC Symphony Orchestra Haydn such popularity in London society. His virtuosic First Conductor Pierre Boulez Violin Concerto, performed in this concert by the Japanese- In the second half we enter the Russian fairy-tale world of born violinist Mayumi Seiler, was written two decades earlier, Stravinsky’s The Firebird, the vivid, folk-infused ballet score 19:30 BBC Proms (p08k9m04) in the early years of his employment at the Esterházy court. for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes that established the young Beethoven, Barber and Copland from the 2007 BBC Proms composer as a rising star. Wednesday 05 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Sir Neville Marriner and his Academy of St Martin in the Fields conclude with a performance of the Fourth Symphony by Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Haydn’s frustrated pupil, Beethoven. Despite being written at Stravinsky: The Firebird the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. the same time as his better-known Fifth, the symphony is Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable classical in proportion, its bubbling finale imbued with the spirit Berlin Philharmonic Proms concerts ant tonight martin Handley introduces a concert of Beethoven’s teacher. Sir Simon Rattle from the 2007 season featuring the Bournemouth Symphony Haydn: Symphony No. 96 in D major, ‘Miracle’ (From the BBC Proms, 5 September 2014) Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop in a programme including Haydn: Violin Concerto No. 1 in C major two American 20th-century classics. Beethoven: ‘Ah! pérfido’ 18:30 BBC Proms (p08k9nd2) Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades Beethoven: Overture ‘Leonore’ No. 3 Saturday 08 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Barber: Violin Concerto Adrianne Pieczonka (soprano) Copland: Symphony No. 3 Mayumi Seiler (violin) In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Academy of St Martin in the Fields the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. James Ehnes (violin) Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Proms concerts. Marin Alsop (conductor) (From the BBC Proms 1994, 15 August) Presented by Andrew McGregor. (From the BBC Proms 2007, 25 July) 23:00 BBC Proms (p08k9mgq) Late Escapes Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades New York-born Marin Alsop conducts a programme that Pioneers of Sound reflects the substantial body of American works introduced to Thursday 06 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Yuri Marusin (Hermann) the BBC Proms during the 1940s and 1950s. Barber’s lushly Sergei Leiferkus (Tomsky) romantic Violin Concerto – which received its UK premiere at In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Dimitri Kharitonov (Prince Yeletsky) the 1943 Proms – is heard alongside Copland’s iconic folk- the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Felicity Palmer (Countess) influenced symphony, a work which helped define the sound of Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Nancy Gustafson (Lisa) American orchestral music. Proms concerts. Tonight's concert takes a recent glance back to Enid Hartle (Governess) a Prom from just a few years ago, celebrating some of the great Anne Dawson (Chloe) Opening the concert is Beethoven’s third attempt at a curtain pioneers in electronic music. Oram’s visionary Still Glyndebourne Chorus raiser for his only opera, Leonore (later renamed Fidelio). Point fills the Royal Albert Hall for the first time in the London Philharmonic Orchestra Despite being rejected for a fourth and final iteration, this premiere of a revised realisation. Composed in 1949 – almost a Sir Andrew Davis (conductor) overture perfectly encapsulates the essence of Beethoven’s decade before Oram co-founded the BBC Radiophonic opera: a proud celebration of freedom and conjugal love. Workshop – the piece is thought to be the first to combine a (From BBC Proms 1992, 26 July) live orchestra with live electronic manipulations, here played Presented by Martin Handley via turntables. At the time Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra as well as Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 14:00 Afternoon Concert - BBC Proms (m000lhdy) Still Point forms the centrepiece of a late-night sonic newly knighted Sir Andrew Davis brought his distinguished Summer Festivals exploration that features works by Delia Derbyshire – another East Sussex opera company to the Royal Albert Hall in 1992 for Thursday 06 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Radiophonic Workshop pioneer, who achieved cult status for the Proms premiere of Tchaikovsky’s chilling supernatural tale her electronic arrangement of the Doctor Who TV theme – as of obsession and revenge, based on Pushkin. Nancy Gustafson, Penny Gore with great BBC Prom concerts from recent years well as new works inspired by the Radiophonic legacy. who made a memorable Proms appearance (alongside Felicity by BBC orchestras and choirs: today the BBC National Palmer) two years earlier as Janáček’s Katya, sings Lisa to the Orchestra of Wales in Messiaen and the BBC Symphony Presented by Kate Molleson Hermann of leading Russian tenor Yuri Marusin; while Palmer Orchestra playing Turnage. – who was created DBE the following year – added Delia Derbyshire: The Delian Mode Tchaikovsky’s Countess to her long list of distinguished roles. Today's programme features two major choral-orchestral CHAINES: Knockturning (world premiere of new arrangement works. From a Prom given in 2008, the BBC National for orchestra) 13:00 BBC Proms (p08kr8ry) Orchestra of Wales and their then Principal Conductor Thierry Laurie Spiegel: Only Night Thoughts (world premiere) Nicola Benedetti and Friends play Brahms's First Piano Fischer are joined by massed choirs and seven instrumental Suzanne Ciani: Improvisation on Four Sequences Trio soloists in Messiaen's gigantic La Transfiguration de Notre Daphne Oram: Still Point (world premiere of revised version) Sunday 09 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Seigneur Jésus-Christ. Plus, from the 2017 Proms, the European premiere of Hibiki by Mark-Anthony Turnage, who Shiva Feshareki (turntables/electronics) In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from celebrates his 60th birthday this year. James Bulley (live mix/electronics) the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Suzanne Ciani (synthesiser) Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable 2.00pm CHAINES (live electronics) Proms concerts. Messiaen: La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ London Contemporary Orchestra Adam Walker (flute) Robert Ames (conductor) When not performing as a soloist, violinist Nicola Benedetti Julian Bliss (clarinet) appears frequently as a chamber musician – most often with the Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello) (From the BBC Proms 2018, 23 July) trio she co-founded with pianist Alexei Grynyuk and cellist Adrian Spillett (marimba) Leonard Elschenbroich. Here the three musicians pair Brahms’s Colin Currie (xylorimba) 14:00 Afternoon Concert - BBC Proms (m000lfl3) first and stormiest piano trio – its darkness belying the work’s Richard Benjafield (vibraphone) Summer Festivals major key – with music composed in 2013 by American-born Gerard Bouwhuis (piano) Friday 07 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 composer Arlene Sierra. Inspired by the migration patterns of Philharmonia Voices butterflies, her Butterflies Remember a Mountain is a work of BBC Symphony Chorus Penny Gore with great Prom concerts from recent years by pointillist detail and shimmering harmonies, painted in a BBC National Chorus of Wales BBC orchestras and choirs - today Nigel Kennedy plays Elgar's sequence of delicate textural gestures. BBC National Orchestra of Wales Violin Concerto with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor Thierry Fischer Presented by Petroc Trelawny. 2.00pm 3.50pm Bax: The Garden of Fand Brahms: Piano Trio No 1 in B major Mark-Anthony Turnage: Hibiki (European premiere) Finzi: Intimations of Immortality (Proms premiere) Arlene Sierra: Butterflies Remember a Mountain Sally Matthews (soprano) with Andrew Kennedy (tenor) Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo-soprano) BBC Symphony Chorus Nicola Benedetti (violin) Finchley Children's Music Group 2.55pm Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) New London Children's Choir Elgar: Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61 Alexei Grynyuk (piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra Nigel Kennedy (violin) Conductor Kazushi Ono BBC Concert Orchestra (From BBC Proms 7 September 2015) Conductor Paul Daniel promslist_2020_v08.html 2020-08-19 Information from bbc.co.uk/programmes/ PROMS 2020 Page 7 of 12 18:15 Proms Preview (m000llhg) familiar orchestral strains usually heard on stage only before the Presented by Hannah French A Week at the Proms - Programme 4 conductor arrives. Sunday 09 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 11pm Presented by Georgia Mann. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas Georgia Mann explores the coming week's Proms, in the company of Flora Willson, Nigel Simeone and Roderick Edgard Varèse: Tuning Up Christopher Purves (Aeneas) Williams. In a week featuring Renée Fleming singing Strauss, a Nico Muhly: Gait (BBC commission: London premiere) Sarah Connolly (Dido) new work by Colin Matthews and a whole host of concerts from Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony Carolyn Sampson (Belinda) Scottish ensembles, they react to archive performances and Anna Meredith: HandsFree D’Arcy Bleiker (Sorcerer) select recommendations. Elizabeth Cragg (Second Woman) Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot) Matthew Beale (Sailor) 21:00 BBC Proms (p08k9p0m) Joanna MacGregor (piano) Lucy Crowe (Spirit) Music championed by, or written in memory of, Richard National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Choir of the Enlightenment Hickox Vassily Petrenko (conductor) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Sunday 09 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Richard Egarr (conductor) (From BBC Proms 2012, 4 August) In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from (From BBC Proms 2003, 2 September) the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. 19:30 BBC Proms (p08k9t5n) Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 4, 5 and 6 19:30 BBC Proms (p08kd5yd) Proms concerts. Wednesday 12 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 CBSO, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony Friday 14 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Britten's Variations is one of many British pieces championed In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from by the late Richard Hickox, two of whose distinguished vocal the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from collaborators, Ian Bostridge and Roderick Williams, are Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. featured in Colin Matthews's new work, which Hickox Proms concerts. At the 2012 season Andrew Manze tackled Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable commissioned. three very different, powerful symphonies by Vaughan Proms concerts. Williams which, whatever their own emotional back-stories, Mozart’s Requiem was left incomplete at the composer’s early may still be seen as chronicling our national life in troubled Petroc Trelawny presents a highlight from the 2017 season. death, its deathly tread and radiant hope adding to its symbolism times. While he was Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC as Mozart’s musical epitaph. Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Manze conducted all nine Beethoven: Overture ‘Leonore’ No. 3 Vaughan Williams symphonies, commenting: "Vaughan Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D major Presented by Martin Handley. Williams is one of those composers some people have fixed Gerald Barry: Canada (BBC commission: world premiere) ideas about… I’m on a bit of a mission to rehabilitate him in Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge people’s minds as an important figure in the music-making of Colin Matthews: No Man’s Land (world premiere) this country". Allan Clayton (tenor) Mozart (compl. Sussmayr): Requiem in D minor City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Presented by Hannah French Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (conductor) Emma Bell (soprano) Renata Pokupić (mezzo-soprano) 7.30pm (From BBC Proms 2017, 21 August) Ian Bostridge (tenor) Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 4 in F minor Roderick Williams (baritone) Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D major The CBSO and Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla explore the theme of Henk Neven (bass) political and artistic freedom. Beethoven’s Leonore Overture Polyphony c.8.50pm No. 3, written for his rescue opera Fidelio, celebrates the City of London Sinfonia Interval triumph of truth over tyranny in music of radiant beauty, while Stephen Layton (conductor) his Fifth Symphony rewrites the rules for the classical c.9.05pm symphony. (From BBC Proms 2011, 21 August) Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6 in E minor In his new work, maverick composer Gerald Barry sets a text 19:30 BBC Proms (p08k9q26) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra from Fidelio’s Prisoners’ Chorus – including the lines ‘Speak Renée Fleming's Proms Debut Andrew Manze (conductor) softly! We are watched with eyes and ears’, suggesting a Monday 10 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 resonance with today’s concerns over public surveillance. And (From BBC Proms 2012, 16 August) Leila Josefowicz amps up the drama in the fierce brilliance of In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Stravinsky’s neoclassical concerto. the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. 19:30 BBC Proms (p08kd549) Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Mackerras and Brendel play Mozart 18:30 BBC Proms (p08kd699) Proms concerts. Thursday 13 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Richard Strauss: Saturday 15 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 In this her Proms debut, star soprano Renée Fleming performed In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from music by two composers with whom she has long been the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from associated – a florid Mozart motet and Strauss’s ravishing final Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. songs, which were given their premiere at the Royal Albert Proms concerts. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Hall. Proms concerts. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra and its then Conductor Christoph Eschenbach also conducted Richard Strauss’s Laureate Charles Mackerras collaborated with Alfred Brendel The crushing, five-note dissonance at the grizzly climax of colourful tone poem inspired by the lothario Don Juan, and on a series of performances and recordings of the piano Richard Strauss’s operatic masterpiece – when Salome kisses Brahms’s classically elegant variations on the ‘St Anthony concertos by Mozart, and they brought the grandest of them all the severed head of John the Baptist – is one of the most Chorale’, a theme thought at the time to have been penned by to the Proms in 2001, along with an Italianate Symphony from influential moments in 20th-century music. Overnight Strauss Haydn. the late 1770s. The classical strand continued with Schubert's redefined the scope of opera, paving the way for modernists rarely heard early Fourth Symphony, and Stravinsky's such as Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg, both of whom Presented by Ian Skelly neoclassical string concerto. were present at the 1906 Austrian premiere.

Dvořák: Carnival Overture Presented by Martin Handley In this concert performance from the 2014 Proms, Scottish Brahms: Variations on the St Anthony Chorale conductor Donald Runnicles leads the Deutsche Oper Berlin Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate Mozart: Symphony No. 32, K318 orchestra and a cast that includes Nina Stemme in the title role. R. Strauss: Don Juan Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25, K50 Fresh from acclaimed productions in Stockholm and Zurich, R. Strauss: Four Last Songs Stravinsky: Concerto in D the Swedish soprano gives a thrilling account of this blood- Schubert: Symphony No.4, ‘Tragic’ curdling tale. Renée Fleming (soprano) Philharmonia Orchestra Alfred Brendel (piano) Presented by Kate Molleson Christoph Eschenbach (conductor) Scottish Chamber Orchestra Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) Nina Stemme (Salome) (From BBC Proms 2001, 1 August) Samuel Youn (Jokanaan) (From BBC Proms 2001, 5 September) Burkhard Ulrich (Herod) 19:30 BBC Proms (p08kv97h) Doris Soffel (Herodias) The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 23:00 BBC Proms (p08kd5cq) Thomas Blondelle (Narraboth) Tuesday 11 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Sarah Connolly sings Purcell's Dido Ronnita Miller (Herodias's Page) Thursday 13 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Paul Kaufmann (1st Jew) In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Gideon Poppe (2nd Jew) the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Jörg Schörner (3rd Jew) Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Clemens Bieber (4th Jew) Proms concerts. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Andrew Harris (5th Jew) Proms concerts. In a profoundly moving late-night performance Noel Bouley (1st Narazene) Messiaen’s ecstatic, Eastern-influenced celebration of love is from the 2003 season, British mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly Carlton Ford (2nd Nazarene) framed by a BBC commission from American talent Nico led an all-star cast in Purcell's most popular opera. The drama Marko Mimica (1st Soldier) Muhly and British composer Anna Meredith’s acclaimed tour de portrays the tragedy of human relationships torn apart by fate Tobias Kehrer (2nd Soldier) force of clapping, stamping, singing and body percussion, first and divine intervention, while the music - including one of the Seth Carico (Cappadocian) performed earlier the same year by NYO members. most heartfelt laments in all opera - powerfully and poignantly Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin expresses the characters' emotions. Donald Runnicles (conductor) Varèse’s Tuning Up is a tongue-in-cheek parody based on the promslist_2020_v08.html 2020-08-19 Information from bbc.co.uk/programmes/ PROMS 2020 Page 8 of 12 (From the BBC Proms 2014, 30 August) Monday 17 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 music by various composers Thomas Elwin,tenor 13:00 BBC Proms (p08l2p9c) Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts from recent Christopher Bowen,tenor Stile Antico and Fretwork celebrate a Shakespearean years by BBC orchestras and choirs - today the BBC Scottish David Shipley, bass anniversary Symphony Orchestra with music by Debussy, Dutilleux, Ravel BBC Singers Sunday 16 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 and James MacMillan - the famous 1990 world premiere of his City of London Sinfonia The Confession of Isobel Gowdie. Conductor Sofi Jeannin In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. 2.00pm 3.30pm Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 Proms concerts. Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain, with Lynn Harrell (cello) BBC Symphony Orchestra Ravel: Bolero Conductor Günter Wand Today's concert, introduced by Petroc Trelawny, comes from Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe (complete) 2016, when vocal ensemble Stile Antico and viol consort BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 19:30 BBC Proms (p08kd8yy) Fretwork combined to celebrate the 400th anniversary year of Conductor Donald Runnicles Carlo Maria Giulini conducts Brahms the death of ’s great bard, William Shakespeare. Their Tuesday 18 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 programme contrasts music by Shakespeare’s contemporaries 3.45pm with new settings from Nico Muhly and Composer in James MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (world In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Association with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Huw premiere) the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Watkins. In the words of Shakespeare himself, ‘How sweet the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the Conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk Proms concerts. sounds of music creep in our ears …’ This week of Afternoon Concert features BBC Proms by six BBC Proms: Brahms’s development in the time between Morley: It was a lover and his lass different BBC performing groups, starting with the BBC composing his First and Second Symphonies was remarkable. Byrd: O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth Scottish Symphony Orchestra today. Tomorrow you can hear Despite finishing it less than a year after the premiere of his Byrd: Why do I use my paper, ink and pen? two concerts: the BBC Singers in A Patchwork Passion - a First, the Second Symphony belongs to an entirely different Huw Watkins: The Phoenix and the Turtle retelling of Passion story with music from five centuries of world. It is an expansive, full-bodied work, infused with the Byrd: Fantasia a 5, 'Two parts in one in the fourth above’ Biblical settings, including works by Schütz, J.S. Bach, Handel, idyllic surroundings of the Austrian spa town in which it was Tomkins: Be strong and of a good courage Mendelssohn, Arvo Pärt and James MacMillan; and then Günter written. Ramsey: Sleep, fleshly birth Wand conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner's Byrd: Browning a 5, 'The leaves be green’ Eighth Symphony - the last of his legendary Proms with the In this concert from the 1994 Proms, Italian maestro Carlo Johnson: Full fathom five orchestra, from 1995. On Wednesday Gianandrea Noseda Maria Giulini and the European Union Youth Orchestra pair the Nico Muhly: Gentle sleep conducts the BBC Philharmonic (and BBC Singers again) in symphony with Brahms’s final effort in the medium: his Gibbons: In nomine No 1 Haydn and Schubert, in a Prom from 2006. In Thursday Opera thrilling Fourth. Written at the height of his musical powers Wilbye: Draw on, sweet night Matinee, conducts a 2012 Prom semi-staging of (again, within a year of its predecessor), it is the first symphony Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard. And on by any composer to incorporate a strict set of variations into Fretwork Friday, following a 2013 concert by the BBC National one of its movements: the finale is based on a repeating bass Stile Antico Orchestra of Wales and conductor Thomas Sondergard, the melody from Bach’s Cantata 150, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget BBC Concert Orchestra return to end the week on Friday with a mich’. (From the BBC Proms, 15 August 2016) 2003 Prom performance of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf narrated by David Attenborough . Presented by Ian Skelly 18:15 Proms Preview (m000lv93) . A Week at the Proms - Programme 5 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major Sunday 16 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 19:30 BBC Proms (p08kd82m) Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor Mahler's Seventh Symphony with the BBC Philharmonic In the Fifth programme of this series Georgia Mann explores Monday 17 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 European Union Youth Orchestra the coming week's Proms concerts with guests Katy Hamilton Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) and Fiona Maddocks, as they react to archive performances, In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from hear fresh interviews and select recommendations. Among the the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. (From the BBC Proms 1994, 20 August) topics in discussion are a 1996 performance of Verdi’s opera, Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable , with conductor Bernard Haitink and forces from Proms concerts. 14:00 Afternoon Concert - BBC Proms (m000ls7w) the Royal Opera (Covent Garden) – of which he was Music Summer Festivals Director at the time – and a cast including Olga Borodina and After almost a decade at the helm of the BBC Philharmonic, Wednesday 19 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 ; we reflect on the 2008 performance of Gianandrea Noseda (who later became the orchestra’s Stockhausen’s Stimmung with Theatre of Voices and director Conductor Laureate) opened this 2012 Prom with Mozart’s Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts from recent Paul Hillier; and describe the magic that Colin Davis brought to famous overture to Don Giovanni – by turns solemn, impetuous years by BBC Orchestras and Choirs. Today's programme of the London Symphony Orchestra during its 2001 rendition of and edgy. From dreaming sleep to a dawn awakening, Oliver music by Haydn and Schubert was given at the Royal Albert Beethoven’s "Pastoral" Symphony. Knussen’s Second Symphony then takes us through a landscape Hall on 30 July 2006. of iridescent colour, with a vocal line that soars to stratospheric 21:00 BBC Proms (p08kd6qm) heights. Haydn: Mass in B flat major 'Heiligmesse' Paul McCreesh conducts Handel's Saul Schubert: Symphony No 9 in C major, D 944 Sunday 16 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 One of British music’s great originals, Knussen found an Lucy Crowe, soprano individual voice while still in his teens. This performance – Alexandra Sherman, mezzo-soprano In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from given on his 60th-birthday year – is a celebration of his unique Alexander James Edwards, tenor the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. contribution to UK music. Its nocturnal sequence finds a Matthew Rose, bass Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable counterpart in the two ‘Night Music’ movements of Mahler’s BBC Singers Proms concerts. The sole work in tonight's concert is one of Seventh Symphony – his own all-encompassing journey from BBC Philharmonic Handel’s most dramatic and poignant biblical oratorios, Saul, darkness to light – which concludes the programme. Conductor Gianandrea Noseda performed complete by leading period-informed collective the Gabrieli Consort & Players, under Paul McCreesh. The cast is Presented by Petroc Trelawny 19:30 BBC Proms (m000ls86) led by British bass Neal Davies as the mad king of Israel, with A solo recital by star pianist Evgeny Kissin star German counter-tenor Andreas Scholl as his psalm-singing Mozart: Don Giovanni – overture Wednesday 19 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 successor. Knussen: Symphony No. 2 Mahler: Symphony No 7 in E minor In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Davies, Scholl and McCreesh had recorded Saul with the the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Gabrieli Consort & Players in 2002, for a disc described by Gillian Keith (soprano) Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable BBC Music Magazine as ‘overwhelming’. It was later made First BBC Philharmonic Proms concerts. Choice on BBC Radio 3’s Building a Library. Experience the Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) work live in this exhilarating performance from the 2003 Proms Martin Handley introduces this 1997 recital – the first-ever solo season. (From the BBC Proms 2012, 7 July) piano recital at the Proms – showcases the Russian phenomenon Evgeny Kissin in only his second Proms performance. At 26, Presented by Martin Handley 14:00 Afternoon Concert - BBC Proms (m000lw1r) his performances and recordings had already brought him the Summer Festivals kind of attention reserved for the starriest virtuosos – such as Handel: Saul Tuesday 18 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Chopin and Liszt themselves, whose music he plays here alongside Haydn’s noble Sonata No 52. Neal Davies (Saul) Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts from recent Andreas Scholl (David) years by BBC orchestras and choirs. The first of today's two Liszt’s fiendishly difficult Hungarian Rhapsody No 12 is the Deborah York (Michal) concerts is a Prom from 2017 given by the BBC Singers, the jewel in centre of this mammoth recital. With eight distinctive Susan Gritton (Merab) City of London Sinfonia and soloists under the baton of Sofi melodies, it is the most thematically rich of the 19 Rhapsodies – Mark Padmore (Jonathan) Jeannin: it's called A Patchwork Passion, and brings together as well as one of the most popular. Closing the performance is Paul Agnew (High Priest/Witch of Endor) five centuries of Biblical settings, including works by Schütz, J. the last of Chopin’s three piano sonatas. Jonathan Lemalu (Ghost of Samuel) S. Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn, Arvo Pärt and Sir James Gabrieli Consort & Players MacMillan. Haydn: Sonata No 52 in E flat Paul McCreesh (conductor) Then, from 1995, the last of the legendary BBC Proms given by Liszt: Liebesträum No 3 in A flat the German conductor Günter Wand with the BBC Symphony Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No 12 in C sharp minor (From the BBC Proms 2003, 24 August) Orchestra. Chopin: Nocturnes Ops 27 Nos 1 & 2 Chopin: Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor 14:00 Afternoon Concert - BBC Proms (m000lsmy) 2.00pm Summer Festivals A Patchwork Passion - a retelling of the Passion story with Evgeny Kissin (piano) promslist_2020_v08.html 2020-08-19 Information from bbc.co.uk/programmes/ PROMS 2020 Page 9 of 12 (From the BBC Proms, 10 August 1997) Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts by BBC (From the BBC Proms 1996, 20 July) Orchestras and Choirs: Russian music from the BBC NOW and 14:00 Afternoon Concert - BBC Proms (m000lv8b) the BBC Concert Orchestra with David Attenborough in Peter 13:00 BBC Proms (m000m0n9) Summer Festivals and the Wolf. Susan Graham sings French song Thursday 20 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Sunday 23 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 2.00pm Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts by BBC Colin Matthews: Turning Point (UK premiere) In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Orchestras and Choirs: Jane Glover conducts the BBC Concert Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 63 the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Orchestra & Singers in The Yeomen of the Guard by Gilbert & Shostakovich: Symphony No 11 in G minor, Op 103 (The Year Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Sullivan - perhaps the most touching operetta they ever wrote - 1905) Proms concerts. in this Prom from 2012. Daniel Hope, violin BBC National Orchestra of Wales In today's chamber music concert given in Cadogan Hall in Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard Conductor Thomas Sondergard 2009, American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham performs Elsie Maynard ….. Lisa Milne, soprano repertoire close to her heart with pianist Malcolm Martineau: a Jack Point ….. Mark Stone, baritone 3.45pm sampler of 19th- and 20th-century French song. Colonel Fairfax ….. Andrew Kennedy, tenor Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf Phoebe Meryll ….. Victoria Simmonds, mezzo-soprano David Attenborough, narrator Introduced by Louise Fryer. Wilfred Shadbolt ….. Toby Stafford-Allen, baritone BBC Concert Orchestra Leonard Meryll ….. Tom Randle, tenor Conductor Barry Wordsworth Bizet: Chanson d'avril Lt Sir Richard Cholmondeley ….. Leigh Melrose, baritone Franck: Nocturne Dame Carruthers ….. Dame Felicity Palmer, mezzo-soprano 19:30 BBC Proms (p08kvd7h) Chabrier: Les cigales Kate, her niece ..... Mary Bevan, soprano Music of the Spheres Bachelet: Chere nuit Sergeant Meryll ..... Mark Richardson, bass-baritone Friday 21 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Duparc: Au pays ou se fait la guerre BBC Singers BBC Concert Orchestra BBC Proms: In this Prom from the 2010 season, Thomas Ravel: La paon Conductor Jane Glover Dausgaard conducts his Danish forces in Tchaikovsky’s ever- Caplet: Le corbeau et le renard captivating Violin Concerto – written for the composer’s young Roussel: Reponse d'une epouse sage 19:30 BBC Proms (m000lv8j) muse, the violinist Josef Kotek – and Sibelius’s Fifth Debussy: Colloque sentimental Colin Davis conducts Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Symphony Symphony, overwhelming in its nobly expansive final- Honegger: Three Songs from 'The Little Mermaid' Thursday 20 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 movement ‘Swan Hymn’. Three short choral pieces by György Rosenthal: La souris d'Angleterre Ligeti – including Lux aeterna, heard in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from A Space Odyssey – take us to ethereal heights, while Ligeti Poulenc: La Dame de Monte Carlo the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. himself recognised the mesmeric, free-floating character of Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Rued Langgard’s 1918 Music of the Spheres as prefiguring his (From the BBC Proms, 27 July 2009) Proms concerts. own style. Henning Kraggerud is the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, and previous winner of the BBC Cardiff 16:00 BBC Proms (p08kznz8) BBC Proms: Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony is surely the apogee Singer of the World competition, Inger Dam-Jensen, sings in Organ Symphony of the pastoral. Here it is prefaced by Sibelius’s late tone-poem, Langgaard’s kaleidoscopic masterpiece. Audiences at this Sunday 23 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 which he premiered in the USA, and Michael Tippett’s landmark UK premiere left the hall with the sound of shimmering evocation of a Senegalese lakeside view. The last "heavenly" music, angel choirs and the sound of harps in their BBC Proms: Paavo Järvi and the Orchestre de Paris continue orchestral piece Tippett wrote, The Rose Lake was ears. our series of highlights from the Proms archive, beginning with commissioned jointly by the London Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Pärt’s meditative Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten. Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Presented by Kate Molleson. Janine Jansen is the soloist in Britten’s Violin Concerto, written Orchestra to celebrate the composer’s 90th birthday. during the composer’s war-time years in New York. ‘I feel so Ligeti: Night; Morning (Proms premiere) deeply about this piece… one experiences the incredible As with Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, Tippett's piece is Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major strength of it,’ Jansen has said. concerned with expressions of feeling rather than description. Ligeti: Lux aeterna The Mediterranean verve of Berlioz’s overture Le corsaire and The late Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra give Langgaard: Music of the Spheres (UK premiere) the shimmering weight of full orchestra and organ in Saint- free reign to that feeling in this thrilling concert from the 2001 Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major Saëns’s Third Symphony complete a programme of Proms. introspective reflection and extrovert display. Henning Kraggerud (violin) Presented by Hanna French. Presented by Martin Handley Inger Dam-Jensen (soprano) Danish Radio Vocal Ensemble and Concert Chorus Arvo Pärt: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten Sibelius: The Oceanides, Op. 73 Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra Britten: Violin Concerto Tippett: The Rose Lake Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) Berlioz: Overture ‘Le corsaire’ Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, ‘Pastoral’ Saint‐Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, ‘Organ’ (From the BBC Proms 2010, 11 August) London Symphony Orchestra Janine Jansen (violin) Colin Davis (conductor) In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Orchestre de Paris the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Paavo Järvi (conductor) (From the BBC Proms 2001, 13 September) Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from 23:00 BBC Proms (p08kr2nm) the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Late Escapes 18:30 BBC Proms (p08kdbgl) Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Paul Hillier's Theatre of Voices perform Stockhausen's Haitink conducts Verdi's Don Carlos Proms concerts. Stimmung Saturday 22 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Thursday 20 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 (From the BC Proms 2013, 1 September) In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from BBC Proms: Theatre of Voices and Paul Hillier had already the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. 18:15 Proms Preview (m000m0ng) released a magnificent recording of Stimmung a year before Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable A Week at the Proms - Programme 6 this Prom (one which lends ‘even more enchantment to this Proms concerts. First appearing at the festival in 1966, Bernard Sunday 23 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 extraordinary work’, according to The Guardian). But this Haitink gave his final Proms performance – his 90th! – in hypnotic piece for ‘six singers and six microphones’ takes on a September 2019, on his last week before retirement. In 1996 he An exploration of the coming week's Proms. Georgia Mann in unique atmosphere when performed live – as in this 2008 Prom. brought to the Proms forces from the Royal Opera (Covent conversation with Flora Willson, Edward Seckerson and Sir Garden) – of which he was Music Director at the time – for a Nicholas Kenyon. Stockhausen: Stimmung (Copenhagen version) performance of Verdi’s Don Carlos. Perhaps the composer’s Theatre of Voices greatest opera, its principal characters are entangled in a web 21:00 BBC Proms (p08kvsbr) Paul Hillier (director) cast by the Church and State. This Proms performance features Bach's St Matthew Passion a fine cast including Olga Borodina and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Sunday 23 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Original performance from 2nd August 2008 presented by as well as future Proms favourite Roderick Williams. Louise Fryer. In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Presented by Petroc Trelawny the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Verdi: Don Carlos (1886 version) Proms concerts. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. Roberto Scandiuzzi (King Philip II) BBC Proms: Phillipe Herreweghe’s expressive but fleet-footed Richard Margison (Don Carlos) Bach won praise at his Proms debut in 1996. Two years later, in Among many influences that Stockhausen acknowledged when Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Rodrigo) this highlight from the archives, he turned to one of the peaks composing the work was a month spent wondering among Robert Lloyd (Grand Inquisitor) of Bach’s output: the telling of Matthew’s version of the Passion Mexico ruins. The Theatre of Voices – as adept in music of the Sylvie Valayre (Elisabeth de Valois) with the narration of Christ’s mission, his political fates, and our Middle Ages as in new music – have made something of a Olga Borodina (Princess Eboli) response in the meditative music of arias, all mingled to create specialty of Stimmung, and Hillier’s long association with the Susan Parry (Thibault) one of the most original music dramas of any age. Ian piece includes his participation as one of the singers at a Prom Robin Leggate (Count of Lerma) Bostridge, then near the start of his career sings the role of the performance 30 years ago. Sorin Coliban (Old Monk) Evangelist. Mary Plazas (Voice from Heaven) 14:00 Afternoon Concert - BBC Proms (m000lvr9) Roderick Williams (Royal Herald) Presented by Petroc Trelawny who between Parts 1 and 2 talks Summer Festivals Royal Opera Chorus to Andreas Scholl about working with Herreweghe, and his Friday 21 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Orchestra of the Royal Opera House approach to singing the music of JS Bach. Bernard Haitink (conductor) promslist_2020_v08.html 2020-08-19 Information from bbc.co.uk/programmes/ PROMS 2020 Page 10 of 12 Bach: St Matthew Passion tenderness in its famous Adagietto. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, ‘Eroica’ Ian Bostridge (Evangelist) Presented by Ian Skelly Sibylla Rubens (soprano) BBC Singers* Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor) Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K622 BBC Symphony Orchestra Werner Güra (tenor) Mahler: Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor Sakari Oramo (conductor) Dietrich Henschel (bass) Elisabeth Hermans (soprano) Peter Schmidl (clarinet) Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra kick off this Susan Hamilton (soprano) Vienna Philharmonic season’s live offering with a specially-commissioned work by Franz-Josef Selig (bass) Leonard Bernstein (conductor) English composer Hannah Kendall. Tuxedo: Vasco ‘de’ Gama Frits Vanhule (bass) takes as its title a quote from American artist Jean-Michel Dominik Wörner (bass) (From the BBC Proms 1987, 10 September) Basquiat’s matrix of hieroglyphs, symbols and words, and it Schola Cantorum Cantate Domino launches a voyage across the Atlantic that takes us via Eric Chorus and Orchestra of Collegium Vocale Ghent 19:30 BBC Proms (p08kvpsn) Whitacre’s tender Sleep, sung by the BBC Singers, to the Vasily Petrenko conducts Rachmaninov and Shostakovich expansive, desolate sound-world of Copland’s Quiet City. (From the BBC Proms 1998, 23 August) Thursday 27 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 For the concert’s climax we plunge into the stormy waters of 19:30 BBC Proms (p08kvlv4) In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Beethoven’s revolutionary ‘Eroica’ Symphony, noted by one Daniel Harding and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. early reviewer for its ‘strange modulations and violent Bremen in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable transitions’ – a passionate musical vision of heroism. Monday 24 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Proms concerts. 19:30 BBC Proms (m000m561) In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from BBC Proms: ‘A composer’s music should express his love Jonathan Scott Organ Recital at the RAH the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. affairs, his religion, the books that have influenced him, the Saturday 29 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable pictures he loves.’ So said Rachmaninov, whose Third Proms concerts. Symphony does just that through irrepressible yearning and Live from BBC Proms: Jonathan Scott organ recital. longing. It forms the culmination of this performance from the BBC Proms: In 2003 the distinguished Deutsche 2016 Proms archive, in which the Royal Liverpool Presented by Georgia Mann Kammerphilharmonie Bremen made its second visit to the Philharmonic Orchestra and its Russian Chief Conductor Proms, with its then Music Director Daniel Harding – making performed Shostakovich’s disquieting First Cello Concerto, In the vast space of the Royal Albert Hall, Manchester-born his fifth Proms appearance at the age of just 27. A suite of joined by cellist Alexey Stadler. The concert opens with Jonathan Scott sits alone at the 70-foot-tall Henry Willis organ – dance music from Rameau’s celebrated first opera and the Liverpool-born Emily Howard’s Torus, inspired by the an instrument Scott describes as ‘one of the greatest concert Beethoven symphony that Wagner declared ‘the apotheosis of doughnut-shaped form of ‘the whole with a hole’. organs in the entire world’. Here he exploits the full possibilities dance’ framed Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, whose final of the musical beast’s four manuals, 147 stops and 9,999 pipes, movement was once famously described as ‘a polonaise for a Presented by Andrew McGregor to bring to life his own symphonic arrangements of colourful polar bear’. The soloist was the acclaimed Russian-born orchestral classics. Viktoria Mullova. Emily Howard: Torus (Concerto for Orchestra) (world premiere) Scott’s selection opens with the overture to Rossini’s The Presented by Tom Service. Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 Thieving Magpie, its famous snare drum exchanged for Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 bellowing pedals. (Scott’s footwork has been said to put Gene Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie – suite Kelly to shame.) Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor Alexey Stadler (cello) Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra After the serene, reflective Intermezzo from Mascagni’s opera Vasily Petrenko (conductor) Cavalleria rusticana comes Dukas’s mischievous trainee wizard, Viktoria Mullova (violin) whose attempt to make light work of filling a cauldron with Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (From the BBC Proms 2016, 8 September) pails of water backfires, resulting in a rising tide of chaos. The Daniel Harding (conductor) concert’s climax is the ‘Organ’ Symphony by Saint-Saëns, 23:00 BBC Proms (p08kvt99) commissioned by London’s Philharmonic Society and first 19:30 BBC Proms (p08kvmld) The Manchester Camerata performed at St James’s Hall, Piccadilly, a couple of miles from The Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra Thursday 27 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 the Royal Albert Hall. With Scott taking on the roles of both Tuesday 25 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 solo organist and orchestra, it’s a fitting tribute to the French In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from composer, who was himself was among the first to play the BBC Proms: In this concert from the Proms archives, British the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Royal Albert Hall’s mighty organ when it was completed in conductor Jonathan Nott conducted the Gustav Mahler Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable 1871. Jugendorchester in a programme framed by a pair of works Proms concerts. famously used on the soundtrack of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 Rossini: Overture to The Thieving Magpie film 2001: A Space Odyssey – Ligeti’s nebulous Atmosphères BBC Proms: Our series exploring the Proms archives continues Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana - Intermezzo and Strauss’s visionary Also sprach Zarathustra. Leading with a performance from 2005 marking the Manchester Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice German baritone Matthias Goerner sings Mahler’s harrowing set Camerata’s debut at the festival. Kate Royal returned for her Saint-Saens: Symphony No.3 of meditations on infant mortality. Premiered at the 1912 third Proms visit to sing a pair of Mozart arias, having won the Proms by Henry Wood, Schoenberg’s Five Orchestral Pieces Kathleen Ferrier Award the previous summer. Michael 13:00 BBC Proms (p08l2pfd) contain the composer’s first painterly experiments in shaping Tippett’s Divertimento on Sellinger’s Round, which draws on A recital by pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard melodies based on instrumental colours, as opposed to pitches. British music from across the centuries, was an apt inclusion in Sunday 30 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Presented by Tom Service. the centenary year of the composer’s birth. Beethoven’s sparkling Eighth Symphony contrasts with his ballet overture in In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Ligeti: Atmosphères praise of the Greek-mythical creator of mankind. the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces Beethoven: Overture: The Creatures of Prometheus; Proms concerts. R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra Tippett: Divertimento on Sellinger’s Round Mozart: ‘Bella mia fiamma … Resta, o cara’, K528 BBC Proms: a Proms Chamber Music recital from 2008 typical Matthias Goerne (baritone) Mozart: ‘Chi sà, chi sà, qual sia’, K582 of the ever-questing Pierre-Laurent Aimard, blending music Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F major from various periods. Schumann’s last piano work looks Jonathan Nott (conductor) forward with its harmonically advanced language. Its mood is Kate Royal (soprano) taken up by Elliott Carter’s classic Night Fantasies of 1980, a In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Manchester Camerata work described by its composer as ‘a piano piece of the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Douglas Boyd (conductor) continuously changing moods, suggesting the fleeting thoughts Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable and feelings that are passed through the mind during a period of Proms concerts. (From the BBC Proms 2005, 27 July) wakefulness at night’.

(From the BBC Proms 2009, 4 September) 19:30 BBC Proms (m000m17d) Bartók is represented by his Out of Doors Suite, written very Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ much with himself in mind as performer, and exploiting the 19:30 BBC Proms (p08kvnrv) Friday 28 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 piano’s percussive qualities to winning effect. And as a leading Leonard Bernstein conducts Mahler's Fifth Symphony exponent of Messiaen’s piano music, Aimard offers a sketch of Wednesday 26 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the a night bird, ‘L’alouette lulu’ (The Woodlark). first live Prom of the 2020 season. Beethoven’s epic Third In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Symphony sits alongside Copland’s Quiet City and a Basquiat- Introduced by Christopher Cook. the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. inspired world premiere from Hannah Kendall. The BBC Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Singers perform Eric Whitacre's Sleep. Schumann: 5 Gesänge der Frühe, Op 133 Proms concerts. Elliott Carter: Night Fantasies Live from the Royal Albert Hall Messiaen: Catalogue d’oiseaux – No 8: L’alouette lulu BBC Proms: Bernstein appeared only twice at the Proms. In Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny Bartók: Out of Doors Suite tonight’s selection from the Proms archive, we hear the first of those appearances, from 1987. Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, with Hannah Kendall: Tuxedo: Vasco ‘de’ Gama (BBC commission: Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) its sublime slow movement, is the composer at his sunniest and world premiere) most mellow, despite the fact that he was to die two months (From BBC Proms, 21 July 2008) after its completion. Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, a work Eric Whitacre: Sleep* especially associated with Bernstein, is by contrast the urgent 19:30 BBC Proms (m000m6fb) work of a composer starting a new adventure, charged with new Aaron Copland: Quiet City Rattle conducts the LSO musical possibilities and a new love, expressed with impossible Sunday 30 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 promslist_2020_v08.html 2020-08-19 Information from bbc.co.uk/programmes/ PROMS 2020 Page 11 of 12 Making his 75th appearance at the Proms, Sir Simon Rattle commission: world premiere) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor) conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a programme that Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor explores the ideas of dialogue and space, opening with Thomas at approx. 3.10pm Adès’s new work, Dawn, for piano and ensemble. Elgar’s Julian Bliss (clarinet) Introduction and Allegro – written for an all-Elgar concert given Elias Quartet From 14 August 1999 Prom 36 by the LSO in 1905 – singles out a string quartet alongside the string orchestra, while the brass have a chance to shine in (From the BBC Proms, 25 July 2011) Nielsen: Rhapsodic Overture 'An Imaginary Journey to the canzons by Giovanni Gabrieli, with the 12 players arranged Faroes' (Proms premiere) around the hall in separate ‘choirs’, calling and answering each 14:00 Afternoon Concert - BBC Proms (m000m47f) Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major, 'Emperor' other. Summer Festivals with Stephen Hough (piano) Monday 31 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Nielsen: Paraphrase on 'Nearer my God to Thee', FS63 (Proms Alone at the piano, Dame Mitsuko Uchida performs the famous premiere) first movement of Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata, which BBC Orchestras at the Proms. Georgia Mann introduces Sibelius: Symphony No 1 in E minor merges into Kurtág’s …quasi una fantasia… Creating an performances recorded at the BBC Proms of music ranging BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor) extraordinary sound palette, Kurtág explores ‘instrumental from Beethoven to Brahms, starting today with an American groups dispersed in space’ around the piano. Night at the Proms, courtesy of the BBC Concert Orchestra and 19:30 BBC Proms (m000m48f) its New York State-born Principal Conductor Keith Lockhart. London Sinfonietta In his Fifth Symphony Vaughan Williams deepened the Toes were tapping in a concert that started with folk songs and Tuesday 01 September 2020, BBC Radio 3 dialogue in his music between the folk and the symphonic. dances – joyously orchestrated and reworked by Aaron Copland After hearing the work’s first performance – conducted by the – and ended in Chris Brubeck’s distinctive blend of classical, Leading contemporary chamber ensemble the London composer at the Proms in 1943 – Adrian Boult was prompted to jazz, blues and country music and his exhilarating musical Sinfonietta returns to the Royal Albert Hall for a showcase of write to Vaughan Williams: ‘Its serene loveliness is completely journey, Travels in Time for Three – a thrill-ride concerto Minimalist classics, including music by two giants of the 20th satisfying in these times and shows, as only music can, what we composed for virtuoso string trio and orchestra. Plus music by and 21st centuries, Steve Reich and Philip Glass. must work for when this madness is over’ – an observation as Dave Brubeck whose 100th birthday falls this year. relevant today as it was then. Presented by Georgia Mann. From a BBC Prom on 09 September 2014. Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Philip Glass: Facades Copland: Appalachian spring – suite for orchestra Julia Wolfe: East Broadway Thomas Adès: Dawn (BBC commission: world premiere) Copland: Rodeo – 4 dance episodes Nancarrow arr. Yvar Mikhashoff Player Piano Study No. 6 Edward Elgar: Introduction and Allegro Dave Brubeck, arr. Chris Brubeck: Blue rondo à la turk (UK Nancarrow arr. Yvar Mikhashoff Player Piano Study No. 9 Giovanni Gabrieli (arr. Eric Crees): Sacrae symphoniae (1597) premiere) Tansy Davies: Neon – Canzon septimi et octavi toni a 12 Chris Brubeck: Travels in time for three – for string trio and Edmund Finnis in situ Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op 27 orchestra (UK premiere) Meredith: Axeman No 2 ‘quasi una fantasia’ (‘Moonlight’) – 1st mvt BBC Concert Orchestra with Time for Three (string trio: Nick Steve Reich: City Life György Kurtág: … quasi una fantasia … Kendall and Zach De Pue on violins and Ranaan Meyer on Giovanni Gabrieli (arr. Eric Crees): Sacrae symphoniae (1597) double bass) London Sinfonietta – Canzon noni toni a 12 Conductor Keith Lockhart Geoffrey Paterson conductor Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 5 in D major 19:30 BBC Proms (m000m7c1) 14:00 Afternoon Concert - BBC Proms (m000m6lr) Dame Mitsuko Uchida (piano) Viennese Night BBC NOW at the Proms London Symphony Orchestra Monday 31 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Wednesday 02 September 2020, BBC Radio 3 Sir Simon Rattle (conductor) Live at BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor BBC Orchestras at the Proms: the BBC National Orchestra of 21:20 BBC Proms (m000m6xn) Bramwell Tovey. Wales at last year's Proms. Rachmaninov – All-Night Vigil (Vespers) The mischievous escapades of the irrepressible Till Sunday 30 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Eulenspiegel – Germany’s beloved folk-hero – introduce a Presented by Petroc Trelawny. concert that celebrates the dramatic power of the orchestra. In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Markus Stenz conducts the BBC NOW in a concert which pairs the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Marking 150 years since the birth of Franz Lehár – and Strauss’s lively tone-poem with Brahms’s turbulent Symphony Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable recalling the long-running Proms tradition of the ‘Viennese No. 1 – the work that announced him as the ‘heir to Beethoven’. Proms concerts. Night’ begun in the 1950s – the BBC Concert Orchestra and And trumpeters Håkan Hardenberger and Jeroen Berwaerts are Bramwell Tovey step into the gilded ballroom of operetta, rival soloists in a rhythmically charged new double concerto by This Late Night Prom is a chance to relive the Latvian Radio evoking the glamour and sophistication of turn-of-the-century Swedish composer Tobias Broström. Choir performing a work hailed as ‘the greatest musical Vienna. achievement of the Russian Orthodox Church’. Rachmaninov’s Presented by Georgia Mann. All-Night Vigil (Vespers) is also one of the loveliest works of The concert features some of Lehár’s most popular titles such as any faith – a profoundly moving statement of belief and the last The Merry Widow, The Land of Smiles and Giuditta, as well as From 25 July 2019 Prom 9 major work the composer completed before he left Russia. music by some of his contemporaries. Nathaniel Anderson- Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Frank, leader of the BBC Concert Orchestra, takes the role of Tobias Broström: Nigredo (concerto for two trumpets – UK Sung unaccompanied, the Vigil is a choral tour de force, Paganini with a solo from Lehar’s operetta of the same name, premiere) pushing the singers to the limits of both range and dynamics. and the evening also includes excerpts from the most enduring with Jeroen Berwaerts; Håkan Hardenberger (trumpets) The effect is strikingly dramatic, encompassing the ecstatic and popular operetta of them all, Johann Strauss II’s Die Brahms: Symphony No 1 choral celebration of the Resurrection Hymn ‘Today salvation Fledermaus. BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Markus Stenz (conductor) has come’ and the infinite tenderness of the ‘Ave Maria’. Lehar: Overture (The Merry Widow) 19:30 BBC Proms (m000m6lz) Presented by Kate Molleson Oscar Straus: Don’t eat them all, you greedy man (from The The BBC Philharmonic - with strings attached Chocolate Soldier) Wednesday 02 September 2020, BBC Radio 3 Sergey Rachmaninov: All-Night Vigil (Vespers) Lehar: Meine lippen sie Küssen so heiss (from Giuditta) Kalman: Gruss mir mein Wien (from Gräfin Mariza) Omer Meir Wellber, the BBC Philharmonic's Chief Conductor, Latvian Radio Choir Johann Strauss II: Overture (Die Fledermaus) is a keen fan of Haydn. 'Apart from period-instrument Sigvards Kļava (director) Lehar, arr Dexter: Prelude and Violin solo (from Paganini) ensembles, hardly anyone plays him much these days and bigger Heuberger: Im Chambre separée (from Opera Ball) orchestras need to be able to play his music,' he says. I'm going (From the BBC Proms 2017, 13 August) Lehar: Gold and Silver Waltz to be conducting a lot of his music with the BBC Philharmonic.' Lehar: Es lebt eine Vilja (from The Merry Widow) 13:00 BBC Proms (p08krd2r) Lehar: You are my heart’s delight (from The Land of Smiles) Two of Haydn's works frame tonight's programme - the Julian Bliss and the Elias Quartet in Brahms's Clarinet Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss: Pizzicato Polka overture to Philemon und Baucis, a puppet opera written in Quintet Johann Strauss II: The Watch Duet (from Die Fledermaus) 1773 for the Esterhazy court; and the powerful D minor Monday 31 August 2020, BBC Radio 3 Symphony, No 80, written in the following decade as Haydn Sophie Bevan (soprano) stood at the crossroads of a story that parachuted him from In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from Robert Murray (tenor) local composer in Esterhaza to the height of international fame. the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. BBC Concert Orchestra Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Bramwell Tovey (conductor) Marionettes, a commission from Uzbek-born, Berlin-based Proms concerts. Aziza Sadikova, continues the puppet-play theme, while 14:00 Afternoon Concert - BBC Proms (m000m487) Britten's Nocturne - one of the treasured song-cycles he wrote BBC Proms: A potent mix of old and new from the 2011 Beethoven's Emperor Concerto for his partner, Peter Pears - explores a rich world of night-time Proms, in which the youthful members of the Elias Quartet, at Tuesday 01 September 2020, BBC Radio 3 images and dreams, setting words by poets including that time members of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists Shakespeare, Tennyson and Keats. The soloist this evening is scheme, were joined by young clarinettist Julian Bliss, by then BBC Orchestras at the Proms: today there's a Nordic flavour to leading British tenor and former BBC Radio 3 New Generation already established on the world’s stages. After music from the things with music by Sibelius and Nielsen played by BBC Artist Allan Clayton. English Baroque and the present day – the latter represented by Symphony and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. And new work from Sally Beamish based on a Celtic-inspired Proms-favourite, Stephen Hough plays Beethoven's most Live from MediaCityUK, Salford, presented by Tom McKinney melody – Bliss joins the quartet for Brahms’s autumnal Clarinet popular piano concerto. Quintet. Presented by Georgia Mann. Haydn: Overture, Philemon und Baucis Aziza Sadikova: Marionettes (BBC commission, first Introduced by Catherine Bott. From 17 August 2018 Prom 62 performance) Britten: Nocturne Purcell: Fantasia No 6 in F major Philip Venables (and Béla Bartók): Venables Plays Bartok Haydn: Symphony No 80 in D minor Purcell: Fantasia No 7 in C minor (World premiere) Sally Beamish: Reed Stanzas (String Quartet No. 3) (BBC with Pekka Kuusisto (violin) Allan Clayton (tenor) promslist_2020_v08.html 2020-08-19 Information from bbc.co.uk/programmes/ PROMS 2020 Page 12 of 12 BBC Philharmonic L. Mvula: Diamonds Omer Meir Wellber (conductor) L. Mvula: Father, Father E. Spalding: Cinnamon Tree 14:00 Afternoon Concert - BBC Proms (m000m59x) L. Mvula; Green Garden Duke Ellington’s Sacred Music George Houston Bass/Nina Simone: Seeline Woman Thursday 03 September 2020, BBC Radio 3 L. Mvula: That’s Alright

BBC Singers at the 2019 Proms perform Duke Ellington’s Laura Mvula (singer) Sacred Music. ElectricVocals Jazz, showbiz swagger and spirituality came together as never Metropole Orchestra before in Duke Ellington’s spectacular Sacred Concerts. Jules Buckley (conductor) Described by Ellington himself as ‘the most important thing I have ever done’, these sacred revues, blending big-band jazz, (From BBC Proms 2014, 19 August) gospel and Broadway-style melodies, bring all the legendary musician’s originality and energy to Christian subjects, and 14:00 Afternoon Concert - BBC Proms (m000m6rz) generated three critically acclaimed, boundary-crossing albums. Live from Waterfront Hall Belfast Drawing on these, the Proms premiered a brand-new Sacred Friday 04 September 2020, BBC Radio 3 Concert – an exhilarating evening of dance, song and spectacle. Introduced by Georgia Mann. The BBC Orchestras: the Ulster Orchestra perform live. To round off this week featuring all the BBC's performing From 29 August 2019 Prom 54 groups, the Ulster Orchestra plays Bela Bartók's haunting Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. Duke Ellington’s Sacred Music And after that live event, Georgia Mann introduces a including: In The Beginning God, Something 'Bout Believing, memorable performance of Beethoven's Missa solemnis given The Lord's Prayer, Praise God and Dance, My Love, Ain't but at the 2016 Proms by two of Manchester's finest choirs. the One. Father Forgive, Freedom Introduced by Georgia Mann. Heritage, Tell Me It's The Truth, Heaven, Come Sunday, David Danced. Presented by John Toal from the Waterfront Hall, Belfast BBC Singers Carleen Anderson and the UK Vocal Assembly Martinů: Concerto for Double String Orchestra, Piano and Peter Edwards and Monty Alexander (piano) Timpani Nu Civilisation Orchestra Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Ulster Orchestra and at approx 3.40pm Conductor Jac Van Steen Waterfront Hall, Belfast

Prokofiev: Symphony No 5 at approx 3pm. BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor) From 19 July 2016 Prom 5 19:30 BBC Proms (m000m5b3) Playing Doubles: Benedetti and Ibragimova perform Beethoven: Missa Solemnis concertos for two violins Camilla Nylund (soprano) Thursday 03 September 2020, BBC Radio 3 Birgit Remmert (mezzo-soprano) Stuart Skelton (tenor) The cavernous Royal Albert Hall auditorium is an ideal space to Hanno Müller‐Brachmann (bass) explore the clean harmonies and decorative melodies of the Hallé Choir Baroque concerto. Period-instrument ensemble the Orchestra of Manchester Chamber Choir the Age of Enlightenment is joined by leading violinists Nicola BBC Philharmonic Benedetti and Alina Ibragimova (the latter a former BBC Radio Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) 3 New Generation Artist) to perform two-violin concertos by Vivaldi and Bachi. In addition to one of only three concertos 19:30 BBC Proms (m000m6s5) Vivaldi wrote for two oboes, we hear concerti grossi by Handel Anoushka Shankar: New Explorations and Newcastle-born Charles Avison, responding to the Italian Friday 04 September 2020, BBC Radio 3 style made fashionable in England by Alessandro Scarlatti. Live from the BBC Proms: Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Anoushka Shankar, Gold Panda and Manu Delago perform 'The Sitar and the Hang', with the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in D minor for two violins, RV 514 Jules Buckley. George Frideric Handel: Concerto grosso in B flat major, Op 3 No 2 Presented by Ian Skelly live from the Royal Albert Hall. Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in D major for two violins, RV 513 George Frideric Handel: Radamisto – Passacaglia Anoushka Shankar sitar Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in A minor for two oboes, RV 536 Gold Panda live electronics Charles Avison: Concerto grosso No 5 in D minor (after Manu Delago percussion Scarlatti) Britten Sinfonia Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto in D minor for two violins, Jules Buckley conductor BWV 1043 Boundary-crossing, multi-Grammy-nominated sitar player and Nicola Benedetti (violin) composer Anoushka Shankar returns to the Proms, showcasing Alina Ibragimova (violin) two of her most recent collaborations. Alexandra Bellamy (oboe) Katharina Spreckelsen (oboe) In the centenary year of her father Ravi Shankar’s birth and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with the aim of presenting ‘ragas and the sitar in a new light’, Jonathan Cohen (director/harpsichord) she combines recordings of some of his works both with her own sitar improvisations and with live electronics by 23:00 BBC Proms (p08kvstr) composer/producer Gold Panda. Laura Mvula and the Metropole Orkest Thursday 03 September 2020, BBC Radio 3 Alongside conductor and arranger Jules Buckley, Anoushka Shankar has produced new arrangements of her own pieces for In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the Britten Sinfonia strings, who are joined by her regular the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. collaborator percussionist Manu Delago. Among them are Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable ‘Wandering Around’, ‘Voice of the Moon’, ‘Land of Gold’ and Proms concerts. ‘Chasing Shadows’.

BBC Proms: Award-winning singer-songwriter Laura Mvula made her second Proms appearance in 2014 following her hugely successful debut in the Urban Classic Prom the previous year. The evening showcased Mvula’s talents in a new light, featuring the public premiere of Jules Buckley’s new orchestral remix of the singer’s album Sing to the Moon, with the Netherlands-based Metropole Orchestra making its Proms debut.

L. Mvula: Like the Morning Dew L. Mvula: Sing to the Moon L. Mvula: Flying Without You L. Mvula: She L. Mvula: Can’t Live with the World L. Mvula: Is There Anybody Out There? L. Mvula: I Don’t Know What the Weather Will Be promslist_2020_v08.html 2020-08-19 Information from bbc.co.uk/programmes/

Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)