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Prom 1: First Night of Poulenc Beethoven Friday 13 July Les chemins d'amour (4 mins) Symphony No. 1 in C major (25 mins) 7.30pm – c. 9.40pm Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Pierre Boulez Royal Albert Hall piano Dérive 2 (45 mins) INTERVAL Mark-Anthony Turnage Beethoven Canon Fever (3 mins) Prom 4: Respighi, Ravel and Adams Symphony No. 2 in D major (35 mins) World Premiere Monday 16 July West–Eastern Divan Orchestra Elgar 7.30pm – c. 9.35pm Daniel Barenboim conductor Overture 'Cockaigne (In London Town)' (15 mins) Royal Albert Hall Delius Sea Drift (25 mins) Respighi Proms Saturday Matinee 1: Bach – The Art of Fugue INTERVAL Roman Festivals (22 mins) Saturday 21 July Tippett Ravel 3.00pm – c. 4.30pm Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles (16 mins) Piano Concerto in G major (22 mins) Cadogan Hall Elgar INTERVAL Coronation Ode (33 mins) John Adams J. S. Bach 1911 version City Noir (34 mins) The Art of Fugue (arr. M. Esfahani) (70 mins) soprano Imogen Cooper piano Mahan Esfahani harpsichord/director Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Juilliard Orchestra Academy of Ancient Music Robert Murray tenor Orchestra of the Gerald Finley bass-baritone John Adams conductor Bryn Terfel bass-baritone Prom 10: Beethoven Cycle – Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 BBC Symphony Chorus Saturday 21 July BBC Symphony Orchestra Prom 5: Strauss, Saariaho & Sibelius 7.30pm – c. 9.55pm Edward Gardner conductor (Canon Fever, Coronation Ode) Tuesday 17 July Royal Albert Hall Sir Roger Norrington conductor (Cockaigne) 7.30pm – c. 9.50pm Sir conductor (Sea Drift) Royal Albert Hall Beethoven Martyn Brabbins conductor (Suite for the Birthday of Prince Symphony No. 4 in B flat major (35 mins) Charles) R. Strauss Pierre Boulez Also sprach Zarathustra (32 mins) Dialogue de l'ombre double (20 mins) R. Strauss INTERVAL Prom 2: Lerner & Loewe – Four Last Songs (22 mins) Beethoven Saturday 14 July INTERVAL Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica' (50 mins) 7.00pm – c. 10.30pm Kaija Saariaho Jussef Eisa clarinet, Proms debut artist Royal Albert Hall Laterna magica (22 mins) IRCAM live electronics UK Premiere West–Eastern Divan Orchestra Loewe Sibelius Daniel Barenboim conductor My Fair Lady (170 mins) Symphony No. 7 in C major (23 mins) (semi-staged) Anne Schwanewilms soprano Anthony Andrews actor, Proms debut artist (Professor Henry BBC Philharmonic Prom 11: Berlioz – The Trojans Higgins) Juanjo Mena conductor Sunday 22 July Annalene Beechey vocalist (Eliza Doolittle) 4.30pm – c. 10.00pm Orchestra Royal Albert Hall John Wilson conductor Prom 6: Lam, Rachmaninov & Prokofiev Shaun Kerrison stage director Wednesday 18 July Berlioz 7.00pm – c. 9.15pm The Trojans (255 mins) Royal Albert Hall Jonas Kaufmann tenor (Aeneas) Prom 3: Debussy – Pelléas et Mélisande Fabio Capitanucci baritone, Proms debut artist (Coroebus) Sunday 15 July Fung Lam Ashley Holland baritone (Panthus) 7.00pm – c. 10.00pm Endless Forms (c9 mins) Brindley Sherratt bass (Narbal) Royal Albert Hall BBC Commission, World Premiere Ji-Min Park tenor, Proms debut artist (Iopas, Iopas) Rachmaninov Barbara Senator mezzo-soprano, Proms debut artist (Ascanius) Debussy Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (35 mins) Anna Caterina Antonacci soprano (Cassandra) Pelléas et Mélisande (145 mins) INTERVAL Eva Maria Westbroek soprano, Proms debut artist (Dido) concert performance; sung in French Prokofiev Hanna Hipp mezzo-soprano, Proms debut artist (Anna) Phillip Addis baritone (Pelléas) Symphony No. 6 in E flat minor (43 mins) Ed Lyon tenor (Hylas) Karen Vourc'h soprano, Proms debut artist (Mélisande) Kirill Gerstein piano Robert Lloyd bass (Priam) Laurent Naouri bass-baritone, Proms debut artist (Golaud) BBC Symphony Orchestra Lukas Jakobski bass (Greek Chieftain) Sir John Tomlinson bass (Arkel) Jirí Belohlávek conductor Jihoon Kim bass, Proms debut artist (Ghost of Hector) Elodie Méchain alto, Proms debut artist (Geneviève) Ji Hyun Kim tenor, Proms debut artist (Helenus) Dima Bawab soprano, Proms debut artist (Yniold) Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano (Hecuba) Nahuel di Pierro bass, Proms debut artist (Doctor) Prom 7: Handel – Water Music and Music for the Royal Royal Opera Chorus Monteverdi Choir Fireworks Orchestra of the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique Wednesday 18 July Sir Antonio Pappano conductor Sir conductor 10.15pm – c. 11.30pm Royal Albert Hall Proms Chamber Music 2: Tenebrae Proms Chamber Music 1: Alice Coote sings French chansons Handel Monday 23 July Monday 16 July Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major (26 mins) 1.00pm – c. 2.00pm 1.00pm – c. 2.00pm Handel Cadogan Hall Cadogan Hall Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major (10 mins) Handel Gibbons Gounod Water Music Suite No. 3 in G major (10 mins) First Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts (1612) – selection Au printemps (2 mins) Handel (8 mins) Saint-Saëns Music for the Royal Fireworks (17 mins) Gibbons Aimons-nous (4 mins) Hervé Niquet conductor, Proms debut artist The Cryes of London (7 mins) Fauré Le Concert Spirituel Julian Philips Poème d'un jour (6 mins) Sorowfull Songes (c10 mins) Fauré BBC Commission, World Premiere Cinq mélodies 'de Venise' – En sourdine (3 mins) Prom 8: Handel – Judas Maccabaeus Steve Martland Fauré Thursday 19 July Street Songs – selection (22 mins) Au bord de l'eau (2 mins) 7.30pm – c. 10.20pm Tenebrae Fauré Royal Albert Hall Nigel Short conductor Les roses d'Ispahan (3 mins) Fauré Handel Le secret (2 mins) Judas Maccabaeus (130 mins) Prom 12: Beethoven Cycle – Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 Fauré John Mark Ainsley tenor (Judas Maccabaeus) Monday 23 July Notre amour (2 mins) Christopher Purves baritone (Simon/Eupolemus) 7.30pm – c. 9.45pm Satie Rosemary Joshua soprano (Israelitish Woman) Royal Albert Hall Je te veux (4 mins) Christine Rice mezzo-soprano, New Generation Artist (Israelitish Hahn Man) Beethoven L'énamourée (4 mins) Tim Mead counter-tenor (Israelitish Messenger/Israelitish Priest) Symphony No. 6 in F major 'Pastoral' (40 mins) Hahn Choir of the Enlightenment Pierre Boulez Fumée (3 mins) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Mémoriale ('… explosante-fixe …' Originel) (8 mins) Hahn Laurence Cummings director INTERVAL Dans la nuit (2 mins) Pierre Boulez Hahn Messagesquisse (8 mins) Chansons grises – L'heure exquise (2 mins) Prom 9: Beethoven Cycle – Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 Beethoven Poulenc Friday 20 July Symphony No. 5 in C minor (30 mins) Métamorphoses – C'est ainsi que tu es (2 mins) 7.30pm – c. 9.55pm Hassan Moataz El Molla cello, Proms debut artist Poulenc Royal Albert Hall West–Eastern Divan Orchestra Banalités – Hôtel, Voyages à Paris (2 mins) Daniel Barenboim conductor

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Prom 13: Beethoven Cycle – Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 Peter Seiffert tenor L'Arpeggiata Tuesday 24 July René Pape bass Christina Pluhar theorbo/director 7.00pm – c. 9.00pm National Youth Choir of Great Britain Royal Albert Hall West–Eastern Divan Orchestra Daniel Barenboim conductor Prom 22: Mozart, Mahler & Knussen Beethoven Monday 30 July Symphony No. 8 in F major (25 mins) 7.30pm – c. 9.50pm Pierre Boulez Proms Saturday Matinee 2: Les 24 Violons du Roy Royal Albert Hall Anthèmes 2 (25 mins) Saturday 28 July INTERVAL 3.00pm – c. 4.30pm Mozart Beethoven Cadogan Hall Don Giovanni – overture (6 mins) Symphony No. 7 in A major (35 min) Oliver Knussen Michael Barenboim violin Lully Symphony No. 2 (17 mins) IRCAM live electronics Armide – suite (15 mins) INTERVAL West–Eastern Divan Orchestra Desmarets Mahler Daniel Barenboim conductor Circé – suite (10 mins) Symphony No. 7 (78 mins) Marais Gillian Keith soprano Ariane et Bacchus – suite (15 mins) BBC Philharmonic Prom 14: Kronos Quartet Campra conductor Tuesday 24 July Tancrède – suite (13 mins) 10.00pm – c. 11.15pm Lalande Royal Albert Hall Symphonies pour les soupez du roy – suite (12 mins) Prom 23: Vaughan Williams, Ireland, Delius & Walton Les 24 Violons du Roy Tuesday 31 July Omar Souleyman Sir Roger Norrington conductor 7.00pm – c. 9.05pm I'll Prevent the Hunters from Hunting You (La sidounak sayyada) Royal Albert Hall (arr. Jacob Garchik) (4 mins) UK Premiere Prom 19: Mason, Shostakovich, Langgaard & Tchaikovsky Vaughan Williams Sofia Gubaidulina Saturday 28 July Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (16 mins) String Quartet No. 4 (12 mins) 7.30pm – c. 10.00pm Ireland Ben Johnston Royal Albert Hall These Things Shall Be (22 mins) String Quartet No. 4, 'Amazing Grace' (11 mins) INTERVAL Nicole Lizée Benedict Mason Delius The Golden Age of the Radiophonic Workshop (Fibre-Optic meld (c25 mins) The Walk to the Paradise Garden (10 mins) Flowers) (c10 mins) BBC Commission, World Premiere Walton BBC Commission, World Premiere Shostakovich Belshazzar's Feast (36 mins) Traditional Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major (29 mins) Jonathan Lemalu baritone, bass-baritone Tusen tankar (A Thousand Thoughts) transcr. Ljova, arr. Kronos Langgaard London Brass Quartet (5 mins) Symphony No. 11, ‘Ixion’ (5 mins) BBC Symphony Chorus Aleksandra Vrebalov INTERVAL BBC National Chorus of Wales … hold me, neighbor, in this storm … (22 mins) Tchaikovsky BBC National Orchestra of Wales Kronos Quartet Symphony No. 6 in B minor, 'Pathétique' (45 mins) Tadaaki Otaka conductor Daniel Müller-Schott cello Chantage Prom 15: Smetana, Prokofiev & Dvorák BBC Symphony Orchestra Prom 24: BBC Radio 3 World Routes Academy Wednesday 25 July Thomas Dausgaard conductor Tuesday 31 July 7.30pm – c. 9.40pm 10.15pm – c. 11.30pm Royal Albert Hall Royal Albert Hall Prom 20: The Wallace & Gromit Prom: Musical Marvels! Smetana Sunday 29 July Now in its third year, BBC Radio 3’s World Routes Academy String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, 'From My Life' (orch. Szell) (28 3.30pm – c. 5.15pm mentoring project turns to Latin America. Born in London of mins) Royal Albert Hall Colombian descent, 2012’s young apprentice is self-taught Prokofiev 20-year-old accordionist, singer and guitarist José Hernando Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major (22 mins) The world premiere of a new show, with classical favourites Arias Noguera. His mentor, the renowned Bogotá-based INTERVAL for all the family – including music by John Adams, accordion king Egidio Cuadrado – who brings his own band Dvorák Debussy and Shostakovich – plus specially filmed new – is probably best known for his collaborations with Carlos Symphony No. 7 in D minor (35 mins) Wallace & Gromit animations, featuring the dynamic Vives, the Latin American superstar actor-turned-singer. Vadim Gluzman violin duo’s backstage exploits as they prepare for the first Fusing the folk tradition of vallenato with elements of rock BBC Symphony Orchestra performance of Wallace’s brand-new Proms commission, and pop has proved a game-changer for music now enjoyed Jirí Belohlávek conductor My Concerto in Ee, Lad. And A Matter of Loaf and Death, all over the Spanish-speaking world and beyond. screened for the first time with a live orchestral soundtrack.

Prom 16: Elgar, Wood, Ravel & Debussy There will be one interval Prom 25: Ives, Barber, Zimmermann & Tippett Thursday 26 July Wednesday 1 August 7.00pm – c. 9.15pm Tasmin Little violin 7.30pm – c. 10.00pm Royal Albert Hall Royal Albert Hall Aurora Orchestra Elgar Nicholas Collon conductor Ives In the South (Alassio) (23 mins) The Unanswered Question (6 mins) Hugh Wood Barber Concerto for Piano (25 mins) Prom 21: Aldeburgh World Orchestra Adagio for strings (8 mins) INTERVAL Sunday 29 July Zimmermann Ravel 8.00pm – c. 10.05pm Nobody knows de trouble I see (15 mins) Une barque sur l'océan (8 mins) Royal Albert Hall INTERVAL Debussy Tippett La cathédrale engloutie (orch. Henry Wood) (8 mins) Britten A Child of Our Time (72 mins) Debussy Sinfonia da Requiem (21 mins) Håkan Hardenberger trumpet La mer (25 mins) Mahler Measha Brueggergosman soprano Joanna MacGregor piano Symphony No. 10 – Adagio (22 mins) Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano BBC National Orchestra of Wales INTERVAL Paul Groves tenor Thierry Fischer conductor Charlotte Bray Jubilant Sykes bass-baritone At the Speed of Stillness (c10 mins) BBC Proms Youth Choir BBC Commission, World Premiere BBC Symphony Orchestra Prom 17: Beethoven & Boulez Stravinsky David Robertson conductor Thursday 26 July The Rite of Spring (32 mins) 10.15pm – c. 11.30pm Aldeburgh World Orchestra Royal Albert Hall Sir Mark Elder conductor Prom 26: Bach – Mass in B minor Thursday 2 August Beethoven 7.30pm – c. 9.55pm Piano Quintet in E flat major (25 mins) Proms Chamber Music 3: La Tarantella Royal Albert Hall Pierre Boulez Monday 30 July Le marteau sans maître (35 mins) 1.00pm – c. 2.00pm J. S. Bach West–Eastern Divan Orchestra (members) Cadogan Hall Mass in B minor (110 mins) Pierre Boulez conductor Joélle Harvey soprano The tarantella, the entrancing dance form found in several Malin Christensson soprano Mediterranean countries, is the unifying thread here. Iestyn Davies counter-tenor Prom 18: Beethoven Cycle – Symphony No. 9, 'Choral' L'Arpeggiata's programme recalls the popular myth that Ed Lyon tenor Friday 27 July the bite of the tarantula could only be cured by music and Matthew Rose bass 6.30pm – c. 7.55pm dancing, a remedy known since the Middle Ages as Choir of Royal Albert Hall 'tarantismo'. The associated songs and improvisations The English Concert – tailored to match the varied symptoms of torpor, conductor Beethoven excitability and restlessness afflicting victims of the Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'Choral' (77 mins) spider's poison – are revived in a virtuosic performance Anna Samuil soprano that transcends generic boundaries. The innovative Waltraud Meier mezzo-soprano period-instrument ensemble is joined by dancer Anna Dego.

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Prom 27: Wagner & Bruckner Proms Chamber Music 4: Debussy & Ravel Prom 36: Glamorous Night: A Celebration of Ivor Novello Friday 3 August Monday 6 August Thursday 9 August 7.45pm – c. 10.00pm 1.00pm – c. 2.00pm 10.15pm – c. 11.30pm Royal Albert Hall Cadogan Hall Royal Albert Hall

Wagner Debussy Remember such time-honoured favourites as ‘We’ll gather Siegfried Idyll (18 mins) Violin Sonata (13 mins) lilacs’? Tonight we acknowledge that patriotic First World INTERVAL Debussy War plea to ‘keep the home fires burning’ in a tribute to a Bruckner Cello Sonata (12 mins) silent-movie actor, West End playwright, composer and star Symphony No. 8 in C minor (80 mins) Ravel of a string of stage musicals hugely popular in their day. ed. Nowak, 1955 Piano Trio in A minor (27 mins) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Jennifer Pike violin Ivor Novello, the most consistently successful composer Donald Runnicles conductor Igor Levit piano of British musicals before the advent of Andrew Lloyd Nicolas Altstaedt cello Webber, nowadays tends to be unjustly neglected. Sir Mark Elder is a committed advocate, as is tonight’s Prom 28: Ulster Youth Orchestra of Northern Ireland master of ceremonies, Simon Callow. & Ulster Orchestra Prom 32: Bernstein – Mass Saturday 4 August Monday 6 August There will be no interval. 2.00pm – c. 4.00pm 7.00pm – c. 9.00pm Royal Albert Hall Royal Albert Hall Sophie Bevan soprano Toby Spence tenor Chabrier Bernstein Simon Callow narrator España (8 mins) Mass (103 mins) Mozart Morten Frank Larsen bass-baritone Hallé Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major, K314 (20 mins) Julius Foo treble Sir Mark Elder conductor Elaine Agnew Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Pwll Coch, Caerdydd Dark Hedges (c12 mins) Ysgol Gynradd Gymunedol Gymraeg, Llantrisant BBC Commission, World Premiere Ysgol Gynradd Dolau, Llanharan Prom 37: Elgar – The Apostles INTERVAL Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg, Rhydaman Friday 10 August Stravinsky National Youth Choir of Wales 6.45pm – c. 9.15pm The Firebird (30 mins) Aelwyd y Waun Ddyfal Royal Albert Hall Sir James Galway flute Musicians from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Ulster Youth Orchestra of Northern Ireland BBC National Chorus of Wales Elgar Ulster Orchestra BBC National Orchestra of Wales The Apostles (120 mins) JoAnn Falletta conductor National Youth Orchestra of Wales Rebecca Evans soprano (Blessed Virgin/Angel Gabriel) Kristjan Järvi conductor Alice Coote mezzo-soprano (Mary Magdalene) Paul Groves tenor (St John/Narrator) Prom 29: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Jacques Imbrailo baritone (Jesus) Saturday 4 August Prom 33: Wagner, Bruckner & MacMillan Iain Paterson bass-baritone (St Peter) 7.30pm – c. 10.05pm Tuesday 7 August Clive Bayley bass (Judas) Royal Albert Hall 7.30pm – c. 9.40pm Hallé Choir (formerly Hallé Chorus) Royal Albert Hall Hallé Youth Choir Varèse London Philharmonic Choir Tuning Up (5 mins) Wagner Hallé Nico Muhly Tristan and Isolde – Prelude (Act 1) (9 mins) Sir Mark Elder conductor Gait (20 mins) James MacMillan BBC Commission Credo (c25 mins) London Premiere BBC co-commission Prom 38: National Youth Jazz Orchestra INTERVAL World Premiere Friday 10 August Messiaen INTERVAL 10.15pm – c. 11.30pm Turangalîla Symphony (77 mins) Bruckner Royal Albert Hall Anna Meredith Symphony No. 6 in A major (55 mins) HandsFree (12 mins) Chamber Choir (Proms debut) Ellington Cynthia Millar ondes martenot Northern Sinfonia Chorus (Proms debut) Rockin' in Rhythm (6 mins) Joanna MacGregor piano Rushley Singers (Proms debut) Nikki Iles National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain BBC Philharmonic Hush (8 mins) Vasily Petrenko conductor Juanjo Mena conductor Kenny Wheeler Sweet Time Suite – Know Where You Are (6 mins) Monk Prom 30: The Angry Planet Prom 34: Schubert, Dubugnon & R. Strauss 'Round midnight (arr. M. Armstrong) (5 mins) Sunday 5 August Wednesday 8 August Richardson 4.30pm – c. 5.30pm 7.30pm – c. 9.55pm Groove Merchant (7 mins) Royal Albert Hall Royal Albert Hall Chris Whiter The Change (8 mins) Bob Chilcott Schubert T. Stone The Angry Planet (c45 mins) Symphony No. 8 in B minor, 'Unfinished' (25 mins) Return Flight (7 mins) World Premiere Richard Dubugnon Ellington Ben Parry Battlefield Concerto (27 mins) Caravan (arr. Callum Au) (8 mins) Flame (4 mins) INTERVAL Ellington Ruby Hughes soprano R. Strauss The Queen’s Suite – Sunset and the Mockingbird (4 mins) Children’s Choirs from London Boroughs Ein Heldenleben (45 mins) Tim Garland (Harrow, Royal Borough of Kensington and Katia and Marielle Labèque piano Agro Alegría (c8 mins) Chelsea & Westminster) BBC Symphony Orchestra Tim Garland saxophone BBC Singers Semyon Bychkov conductor National Youth Jazz Orchestra The Bach Choir Mark Armstrong conductor National Youth Choir of Great Britain David Hill conductor Prom 35: Sibelius, Delius, Grieg & Nørgård Thursday 9 August Proms Saturday Matinee 3: Britten Sinfonia 6.30pm – c. 9.20pm Saturday 11 August Prom 31: National Youth Orchestra of Scotland Royal Albert Hall 3.00pm – c. 4.30pm & BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Cadogan Hall Sunday 5 August Sibelius 7.30pm – c. 10.05pm Symphony No. 6 in D minor (29 mins) Michael Finnissy Royal Albert Hall Delius Piano Concerto No. 2 (13 mins) Cynara (10 mins) UK Premiere James MacMillan Grieg Brian Ferneyhough Olympic Fanfare (4 mins) Piano Concerto in A minor (29 mins) Prometheus (23 mins) London Premiere INTERVAL Sir Harrison Birtwistle Wagner Per Nørgård Gigue Machine (12 mins) The Mastersingers of Nuremberg – overture (12 mins) Symphony No. 7 (27 mins) UK Premiere Bruch UK Premiere Brian Elias Scottish Fantasy (30 mins) Sibelius Electra Mourns (c17 mins) INTERVAL Symphony No. 3 in C major (30 mins) World Premiere R. Strauss Roderick Williams baritone Susan Bickley mezzo-soprano Don Juan (17 mins) piano, New Generation Artist Nicholas Daniel cor anglais Thea Musgrave BBC Philharmonic Nicolas Hodges piano Loch Ness – a Postcard from Scotland (c10 mins) John Storgårds conductor, Proms debut artist Britten Sinfonia BBC Commission, World Premiere Clark Rundell conductor Respighi Pines of Rome (23 mins) Nicola Benedetti violin National Youth Orchestra of Scotland BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Donald Runnicles conductor

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Prom 39: Berlioz – Requiem Prom 43: Delius, Saint-Saëns & Tchaikovsky Cage Saturday 11 August Tuesday 14 August Branches (20 mins) 7.30pm – c. 9.05pm 7.00pm – c. 9.15pm John Tilbury piano, prepared piano Royal Albert Hall Royal Albert Hall Frank Denyer piano Aki Takahashi piano Berlioz Delius Christian Wolff piano Requiem (Grande messe des morts) (83 mins) Paris (The Song of a Great City) (22 mins) David Behrman live electronics Toby Spence tenor Saint-Saëns Takehisa Kosugi live electronics BBC National Chorus of Wales Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor (21 mins) Keith Rowe Huddersfield Choral Society INTERVAL Vicki Bennett London Symphony Chorus Tchaikovsky Steve Beresford BBC National Orchestra of Wales Symphony No. 5 in E minor (45 mins) Adam Bohman Thierry Fischer conductor Benjamin Grosvenor piano, New Generation Artist Jonathan Bohman Royal Philharmonic Orchestra John Butcher Charles Dutoit conductor Karen Constance Prom 40: National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain Angharad Davies & National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain Rhodri Davies Sunday 12 August Prom 44: London Sinfonietta Patrick Farmer 3.30pm – c. 5.40pm Tuesday 14 August Ram Gabay Royal Albert Hall 10.15pm – c. 11.30pm Christoph Heemann Royal Albert Hall Lina Lapelyte Vaughan Williams John Lely Flourish for Glorious John (3 mins) Ligeti Anton Lukoszevieze Holst Poème symphonique (8 mins) Dylan Nyoukis Suite No. 2 in F (11 mins) Berio Mariam Rezaei Gavin Higgins Sequenza V (8 mins) Robyn Schulkowsky Der Aufstand (c10 mins) Xenakis BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra BBC Commission, World Premiere Phlegra (12 mins) Exaudi Martin Ellerby Jonathan Harvey Ilan Volkov conductor Paris Sketches (14 mins) Mortuos plango, vivos voco (9 mins) Walton Louis Andriessen Crown Imperial (8 mins) De snelheid (18 mins) Proms Saturday Matinee 4: Birmingham Contemporary INTERVAL Cage Music Group Lucas 4' 33 (4:33 mins) Saturday 18 August Chorale and Variations (7 mins) Byron Fulcher trombone 3.00pm – c. 4.30pm John Pickard Sound Intermedia Cadogan Hall Wildfire (12 mins) London Sinfonietta Gavin Bryars London Sinfonietta Academy Ensemble Alexander Goehr After the Underworlds (c6 mins) André Ridder conductor … a musical offering (J.S.B. 1985) … (15 mins) BBC Commission, World Premiere Oliver Knussen George Benjamin Ophelia Dances (7 mins) Altitude (8 mins) Prom 45: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Oliver Knussen Derek Bourgeois Wednesday 15 August Ophelia's Last Dance (10 mins) Blitz (12 mins) 7.30pm – c. 9.55pm Simon Bainbridge National Youth Wind Orchestra Royal Albert Hall The Garden of Earthly Delights (c35 mins) James Gourlay conductor BBC Commission, World Premiere National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain Dvorák Anne-Marie Owens mezzo-soprano Bramwell Tovey conductor Symphony No. 9 in E minor, 'From the New World' (45 mins) Andrew Watts counter-tenor INTERVAL Huw Watkins piano Copland London Sinfonietta Voices Prom 41: Schoenberg – Gurrelieder Fanfare for the Common Man (4 mins) Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Sunday 12 August Joan Tower Nicholas Collon conductor 8.00pm – c. 9.50pm Fanfare for the Uncomman Woman (3 mins) Royal Albert Hall Villa-Lobos Momoprécoce (28 mins) Prom 48: Weber, Mahler & Tchaikovsky Schoenberg Ginastera Saturday 18 August Gurrelieder (99 mins) Estancia – suite (12 mins) 7.30pm – c. 9.30pm Angela Denoke soprano Nelson Freire piano Royal Albert Hall Simon O'Neill tenor (Waldemar) São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Katarina Karnéus mezzo-soprano (Wood-Dove) Marin Alsop conductor Weber Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts tenor (Klaus the Fool) Der Freischütz – overture (10 mins) Neal Davies bass-baritone (Peasant) Mahler Wolfgang Schöne speaker Prom 46: Vaughan Williams – Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (17 mins) BBC Singers Thursday 16 August INTERVAL BBC Symphony Chorus 7.30pm – c. 9.50pm Tchaikovsky Crouch End Festival Chorus Royal Albert Hall Manfred (57 mins) New London Chamber Choir Alice Coote mezzo-soprano BBC Symphony Orchestra Vaughan Williams London Philharmonic Orchestra Jirí Belohlávek conductor Symphony No. 4 in F minor (30 mins) Vladimir Jurowski conductor INTERVAL Vaughan Williams Proms Chamber Music 5: Nicola Benedetti Symphony No. 5 in D major (39 mins) Prom 49: Gilbert & Sullivan – The Yeomen of the Guard Monday 13 August Vaughan Williams Sunday 19 August 1.00pm – c. 2.00pm Symphony No. 6 in E minor (31 mins) 7.30pm – c. 9.30pm Cadogan Hall BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Royal Albert Hall Andrew Manze conductor J. S. Bach Sullivan No. 2 in D minor for solo violin – Chaconne (13 mins) The Yeomen of the Guard (85 mins) Korngold Prom 47: Cage Centenary Celebration semi-staged Die tote Stadt – Marietta’s Song; Pierrot’s Dance Song (arr. Friday 17 August Leigh Melrose baritone (Lt Sir Richard Cholmondeley) Korngold) (11 mins) 7.45pm – c. 11.15pm Andrew Kennedy tenor (Colonel Fairfax) Brahms Royal Albert Hall Lisa Milne soprano (Elsie Maynard) Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor (30 mins) Victoria Simmonds mezzo-soprano (Phoebe Meryll) Nicola Benedetti violin Cage Felicity Palmer mezzo-soprano (Dame Carruthers) Alexei Grynyuk piano 1O1 (12 mins) Mary Bevan soprano (Kate) Leonard Elschenbroich cello Cage Mark Richardson bass-baritone (Sergeant Meryll) Improvisation III (12 mins) Tom Randle tenor (Leonard Meryll) Christian Marclay Mark Stone baritone (Jack Point) Prom 42: Prokofiev, Neurwirth & Bartók Luggage 2012 – improvisation for orchestra (c5 mins) Toby Stafford-Allen baritone (Wilfred Shadbolt) Monday 13 August Cage BBC Singers 7.30pm – c. 9.35pm Atlas eclipticalis/Winter Music/Cartridge Music (30 mins) BBC Concert Orchestra Royal Albert Hall INTERVAL Jane Glover conductor Cage Martin Duncan stage director Prokofiev Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra (20 mins) Romeo and Juliet – Suite No. 1 (30 mins) Cage Olga Neuwirth Four2 (7 mins) Proms Chamber Music 6: Escher Quartet Remnants of Songs ... an Amphigony (20 mins) Cage Monday 20 August UK Premiere But what about the noise of crumpling paper ... (15 mins) 1.00pm – c. 2.00pm INTERVAL Cage Cadogan Hall Bartók Experiences II (3 mins) Concerto for Orchestra (37 mins) Cage Hugh Wood Lawrence Power viola ear for EAR (Antiphonies) (2 mins) String Quartet No. 4 (24 mins) David Behrman, Takehisa Kosugi, Keith Rowe & Christian Wolff Debussy Susanna Mälkki conductor Quartet – improvisation (c25 mins) String Quartet in G minor (25 mins)

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Escher Quartet Iain Paterson bass-baritone (Captain Balstrode) Prom 59: The Broadway Sound Rebecca de Pont Davies mezzo-soprano (Auntie) Monday 27 August Matthew Best baritone (Swallow) 8.00pm – c. 10.00pm Prom 50: Beethoven, Mozart, Delius & Nielsen Leigh Melrose baritone (Ned Keene) Royal Albert Hall Monday 20 August Michael Colvin tenor (Bob Boles) 7.30pm – c. 9.45pm Felicity Palmer mezzo-soprano (Mrs Sedley) After last year’s celebration of the Hollywood screen Royal Albert Hall Gillian Ramm soprano (First Niece) musical, John Wilson and his high-octane orchestra Mairéad Buicke soprano (Second Niece) – whose technicoloured performances, according to Beethoven Darren Jeffery bass-baritone (Hobson) one critic, offer ‘the auditory equivalent of a Egmont – overture (9 mins) Stuart Kale tenor (Rev Horace Adams) steam-clean’ – present a tribute to the composers and Mozart ENO Chorus and Orchestra arrangers responsible for creating the Broadway Sound Clarinet Concerto in A major (28 mins) Edward Gardner conductor – among them such legendary tunesmiths as , Delius , , Vincent Youmans, Eventyr (Once Upon a Time) (16 mins) and . Nielsen Prom 56: Goehr, Knussen, Grime & Debussy Symphony No. 5 (34 mins) Saturday 25 August With a cast of leading soloists, the concert includes BBC Symphony Orchestra 7.30pm – c. 10.05pm excerpts from Show Boat, No, No, Nanette, On Your Toes, Osmo Vänskä conductor Royal Albert Hall Kiss Me, Kate and Annie Get Your Gun. Michael Collins basset clarinet Alexander Goehr There will be one interval Metamorphosis/Dance (19 mins) Prom 51: Glinka, Howard & Shostakovich Oliver Knussen Maida Vale Singers Tuesday 21 August Symphony No. 3 (15 mins) John Wilson Orchestra 7.30pm – c. 9.45pm INTERVAL John Wilson conductor Royal Albert Hall Helen Grime Night Songs (c10 mins) Glinka BBC Commission, World Premiere Prom 60: Mozart – The Marriage of Figaro Ruslan and Lyudmila – overture (5 mins) Debussy Tuesday 28 August Emily Howard The Martyrdom of St Sebastian (52 mins) 6.30pm – c. 10.20pm Calculus of the Nervous System (15 mins) complete incidental music, without narration Royal Albert Hall UK Premiere Claire Booth soprano INTERVAL Polly May mezzo-soprano Mozart Shostakovich Clare McCaldin mezzo-soprano The Marriage of Figaro (190 mins) Symphony No. 7 in C major 'Leningrad' (75 mins) New London Chamber Choir semi-staged; sung in Italian City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra BBC National Chorus of Wales Vito Priante bass (Figaro) Andris Nelsons conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra Lydia Teuscher soprano (Susanna) Oliver Knussen conductor Sally Matthews soprano (Countess Almaviva) Audun Iversen baritone (Count Almaviva) Prom 52: Prokofiev – Cinderella Andrew Shore baritone (Bartolo) Wednesday 22 August Prom 57: Wagner, Berg, R. Strauss & Ravel Ann Murray mezzo-soprano (Marcellina) 7.00pm – c. 9.15pm Sunday 26 August Isabel Leonard mezzo-soprano (Cherubino) Royal Albert Hall 7.30pm – c. 9.35pm Alan Oke tenor (Don Basilio) Royal Albert Hall Nicholas Folwell baritone (Antonio) Prokofiev Colin Judson tenor (Don Curzio) Cinderella (105) Wagner Sarah Shafer soprano (Barbarina) London Symphony Orchestra Parsifal – Prelude (Act 3) and Good Friday Music (20 mins) Glyndebourne Festival Opera Valery Gergiev conductor Berg Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Violin Concerto (25 mins) Robin Ticciati conductor INTERVAL Prom 53: 1612 Italian Vespers R. Strauss Wednesday 22 August Der Rosenkavalier – suite (22 mins) Prom 61: Howells & Elgar 10.15pm – c. 11.30pm Ravel Wednesday 29 August Royal Albert Hall La valse (12 mins) 7.00pm – c. 9.10pm Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester Royal Albert Hall Viadana Daniele Gatti conductor Salmi a quattro chori (1612) – Deus in adiutorium; Dixit Frank Peter Zimmermann violin Howells Dominus (7 mins) Hymnus Paradisi (44 mins) Barbarino INTERVAL Exaudi Deus (4 mins) Proms Chamber Music 7: Debussy & Schoenberg Elgar Viadana Monday 27 August Symphony No. 1 in A flat major (53 mins) Salmi a quattro chori (1612) – Laetatus sum (7 mins) 1.00pm – c. 2.00pm Miah Persson soprano Viadana Cadogan Hall Andrew Kennedy tenor O dulcissima Maria (2 mins) BBC Symphony Chorus Grandi Debussy London Philharmonic Choir Plorabo die ac nocte (7 mins) Sonata for flute, viola and harp (16 mins) BBC Symphony Orchestra Gabrieli Schoenberg Martyn Brabbins conductor Magnificat a 20/28 con il 'sicut locutus' (reconstr. H. Keyte) (9 Pierrot lunaire (33 mins) mins) Christine Schäfer (Sprechstimme) Monteverdi Martyn Brabbins conductor Prom 62: Eric Whitacre Salve Regina (4 mins) Nash Ensemble Wednesday 29 August Gabrieli 10.15pm – c. 11.30pm In eccelsiis (reconstr. H. Keyte) (7 mins) Royal Albert Hall Robert Hollingworth conductor Prom 58: Family Matinee: A Journey to Far Corners of our I Fagiolini Musical World Bernstein Monday 27 August Warm-Up (2 mins) 3.00pm – c. 5.00pm Eric Whitacre Prom 54: Davies, Delius & Shostakovich Royal Albert Hall Alleluia (9 mins) Thursday 23 August Eric Whitacre 7.30pm – c. 9.50pm The Northern Sinfonia is joined by Montenegrin guitar Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine (9 mins) Royal Albert Hall star Milos Karadaglic and Amadou & Mariam, the Malian J. S. Bach couple who met at the school for the blind in Barnako and Bach Again (arr. E. London) (5 mins) Sir Peter Maxwell Davies have since worked in partnership with an ever-expanding Eric Whitacre Symphony No.9 (25 mins) coalition of African and Western musicians. This Prom sees Higher, Faster, Stronger (c8 mins) London Premiere them perform with their seven-piece band, as well as with BBC Commission, World Premiere Delius Northern Sinfonia and our own Family Orchestra and Chorus. Imogen Heap Violin Concerto (25 mins) The Listening Chair (arr. E. Whitacre) (c5 mins) INTERVAL Programme to include: World Premiere Shostakovich Traditional Symphony No. 10 in E minor (45 mins) Delius Three Spirituals (arr. M. Hogan) (9 mins) Tasmin Little violin On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring Eric Whitacre Vasily Petrenko conductor Rodrigo Cloudburst (9 mins) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Concierto de Aranjuez – 2nd movement Eric Whitacre Falla Sleep (5 mins) El Amor brujo – Ritual Fire Dance Imogen Heap vocals Prom 55: Britten – Peter Grimes Ensemble Bash Friday 24 August Improvisation (Proms Family Orchestra and Chorus) BBC Singers 7.00pm – c. 10.30pm Milos Karadaglic guitar Eric Whitacre Singers Royal Albert Hall Amadou & Mariam Eric Whitacre conductor Proms Family Orchestra Britten Northern Sinfonia Peter Grimes (150 mins) Stephen Bell conductor concert performance Stuart Skelton tenor (Peter Grimes) Amanda Roocroft soprano (Ellen Orford)

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Prom 63: Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle J. S. Bach BBC Singers Thursday 30 August The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I – Prelude and Fugue BBC Symphony Orchestra 7.30pm – c. 9.40pm No. 15 in G major, BWV 860 (5 mins) John Adams conductor Royal Albert Hall J. S. Bach and Mahler Paul Curran stage director Syncretic Prelude and Fugue in D major Ligeti (arr. C. Carpenter) (30 mins) Prom 73: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra – Beethoven & Atmosphères (8 mins) Cameron Carpenter organ Bruckner Wagner Thursday 6 September Lohengrin – Prelude (Act I) (7 mins) 7.00pm – c. 9.20pm Sibelius Prom 69: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra – Messiaen & Royal Albert Hall Symphony No. 4 in A minor (33 mins) Mahler INTERVAL Sunday 2 September Beethoven Debussy 7.30pm – c. 10.00pm Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major (35 mins) Jeux (18 mins) Royal Albert Hall INTERVAL Ravel Bruckner Daphnis et Chloe – Suite No. 2 (17 mins) Messiaen Symphony No. 9 in D minor (65 mins) Berliner Philharmoniker Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (31 mins) Murray Perahia piano Sir Simon Rattle conductor INTERVAL Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Mahler Bernard Haitink conductor Symphony No. 6 in A minor (85 mins) Prom 64: Berliner Philharmoniker – Brahms & Lutoslawski Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Prom 74: Staff Benda Bilili & Baloji Friday 31 August Riccardo Chailly conductor Thursday 6 September 7.00pm – c. 9.05pm 10.15pm – c. 11.30pm Royal Albert Hall Royal Albert Hall Proms Chamber Music 8: Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Brahms Debussy Staff Benda Bilili Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major (50 mins) Monday 3 September Baloji INTERVAL 1.00pm – c. 2.00pm Lutoslawski Cadogan Hall Staff Benda Bilili are like nothing you have ever seen Symphony No. 3 (35 mins) or heard before: a group of paraplegic street musicians Yefim Bronfman piano Debussy and ex-street kids from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Berliner Philharmoniker Les soirs illuminés par l’ardeur du charbon (3 mins) making music rooted in Soukous (or African rumba) with Sir Simon Rattle conductor Debussy elements of old-school rhythm and blues, reggae and funk. Élégie (2 mins) Debussy ‘Afropean’ Congolese-born, Belgian-educated rapper Baloji Prom 65: Taylor/Barker – The Spirit of Django Masques (5 mins) mixes old and cutting-edge sounds with bitingly modern Friday 31 August Debussy lyrics. But his most recent album finds him returning to 10.15pm – c. 11.15pm Préludes – Book 2 (38 mins) his motherland in search of musical understanding and Royal Albert Hall Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano communal improvisation.

Martin Taylor/Guy Barker Prom 75: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra – Haydn & R. The Spirit of Django – orchestral suite (54 mins) Prom 70: Desert Island Discs 70th-Anniversary Prom Strauss London Premiere Monday 3 September Friday 7 September Martin Taylor guitar 7.30pm – c. 9.40pm 7.30pm – c. 9.35pm Britten Sinfonia Royal Albert Hall Royal Albert Hall Guy Barker Jazz Orchestra Spirit of Django In a celebration of the 70th anniversary of BBC Radio 4’s Haydn Guy Barker conductor Desert Island Discs, Kirsty Young interviews guests from Symphony No. 104 in D major, 'London' (30 mins) the series and introduces the most popular music choices, INTERVAL including Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor (BWV 565), R. Strauss Prom 66: Cameron Carpenter plays Bach Coates’s ‘The Dam Busters’ March and The Sleepy Lagoon; An Alpine Symphony (50 mins) Saturday 1 September and excerpts from Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra 4.00pm – c. 5.00pm Coleridge-Taylor’s The Death of Minnehaha, Elgar’s Bernard Haitink conductor Royal Albert Hall Cello Concerto, Handel’s Messiah, Puccini’s Madam Butterfly and Tosca, plus arrangements of favourite Beatles songs. Prom 76: Last Night of the Proms 2012 J. S. Bach Saturday 8 September Toccata and Fugue in F major, BWV 540 (8 mins) Kirsty Young presenter 7.30pm – c. 10.40pm J. S. Bach Ailish Tynan soprano Royal Albert Hall Partita No. 3 in E major for solo violin, BWV 1006 Nicolas Altstaedt cello – excerpt (arr. C. Carpenter) (8 mins) Peter Donohoe piano Mark Simpson J. S. Bach Wayne Marshall organ sparks (c2 mins) Prelude and Fugue in A major, BWV 536 (6 mins) Sir Willard White bass-baritone BBC Commission, World Premiere J. S. Bach Huddersfield Choral Society Suk Chorale Prelude 'Nun freut euch, lieben Christen', BWV 734 BBC Concert Orchestra Towards a New Life (6 mins) (arr. Busoni/C. Carpenter) (3 mins) Keith Lockhart conductor Delius Cameron Carpenter Songs of Farewell (18 mins) Improvisation on B–A–C–H (c12 mins) Verdi J. S. Bach Prom 71: St Louis Symphony Un ballo in maschera – ‘Forse la soglia attinse Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, BWV 552, Tuesday 4 September … Ma se m’è forza perderti’ (5 mins) 'St Anne' (arr. Schoenberg/C. Carpenter) (14 mins) 7.30pm – c. 9.45pm Massenet Cameron Carpenter organ Royal Albert Hall Werther – ‘Pourquoi me réveiller?’ (3 mins) Bruch Brahms Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor (25 mins) Prom 67: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra – Mendelssohn Tragic Overture (14 mins) Puccini Saturday 1 September Beethoven Tosca – ‘E lucevan le stelle’ (3 mins) 7.30pm – c. 9.30pm Violin Concerto in D major (40 mins) Puccini Royal Albert Hall INTERVAL Turandot – ‘Nessun dorma’ (3 mins) Schoenberg INTERVAL Mendelssohn Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16 (16 mins) John Williams Overture 'Ruy Blas' (8 mins) Gershwin Olympic Fanfare and Theme (5 mins) Mendelssohn (18 mins) Dvorák Violin Concerto in E minor (27 mins) Christian Tetzlaff violin Overture 'Carnival' (9 mins) INTERVAL St Louis Symphony Shostakovich Mendelssohn David Robertson conductor The Gadfly – Romance (6 mins) Overture 'The Fair Melusine' (10 mins) Brodzsky Mendelssohn The Toast of New Orleans – ‘Be my love’ (3 mins) Symphony No. 5 in D major, 'Reformation' (27 mins) Prom 72: John Adams – Nixon in China Lara UK premiere of original version Wednesday 5 September Granada (3 mins) Nikolaj Znaider violin 7.00pm – c. 10.25pm Rodgers Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Royal Albert Hall Carousel – ‘You’ll never walk alone’ (4 mins) Riccardo Chailly conductor Wood John Adams Fantasia on British Sea-Songs (20 mins) Nixon in China (180 mins) Elgar Prom 68: Cameron Carpenter plays Bach semi-staged Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major Sunday 2 September Kathleen Kim soprano (Madame Mao) ('Land of Hope and Glory') (8 mins) 4.00pm – c. 5.00pm Alan Oke tenor (Chairman Mao) Parry, orch. Elgar Royal Albert Hall Gerald Finley bass-baritone (Chou En-Lai) Jerusalem (4 mins) Robert Orth baritone (President Nixon) Traditional Cameron Carpenter Jessica Rivera soprano (Pat Nixon) The National Anthem (2 mins) Improvisation on the Bourée from Cello Suite No. 3 James Rutherford bass-baritone, Nicola Benedetti violin in C major, BWV 1009 (c8 mins) New Generation Artist (Kissinger) Joseph Calleja tenor J. S. Bach Stephanie Marshall mezzo-soprano (Secretary) BBC Symphony Chorus Fantasia and Fugue in G minor 'The Great' (8 mins) Louise Poole mezzo-soprano (Secretary) BBC Symphony Orchestra Susan Platts mezzo-soprano (Secretary) Jirí Belohlávek conductor

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