PROMS 2018 Page 1 of 13 Prom 1: First Night of the Proms Maurice Ravel 20:15 Friday 13 July 2018 ON TV Tzigane (10 mins) Royal Albert Hall James MacMillan Ralph Vaughan Williams Britannia (13 mins) Toward the Unknown Region (13 mins) Modest Mussorgsky Gustav Holst Pictures at an Exhibition - 10. The Great Gate of Kiev (orch. The Planets (52 mins) Ravel) Anna Meredith Nicola Benedetti violin Five Telegrams (22 mins) Jennifer Pike violin BBC co-commission with 14–18 NOW and Edinburgh Nicholas Daniel oboe International Festival: world première Ben Goldscheider horn Alexander Bone saxophone National Youth Choir of Great Britain Jess Gillam saxophone BBC Symphony Chorus Alexandra Ridout trumpet BBC Proms Youth Ensemble David Childs euphonium BBC Symphony Orchestra Natalie Clein cello Sakari Oramo conductor Guy Johnston cello Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello Laura van der Heijden cello Michael Collins clarinet Prom 2: Mozart, Ravel and Fauré Emma Johnson clarinet 19:30 Saturday 14 July 2018 Colin Currie percussion Royal Albert Hall Owen Gunnell percussion Adrian Spillett percussion Gabriel Fauré Sam Walton percussion Pavane (choral version) (5 mins) Martin James Bartlett piano Freddy Kempf piano Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Lara Melda piano Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat major (32 mins) Lauren Zhang piano BBC Concert Orchestra Maurice Ravel Andrew Gourlay conductor Daphnis and Chloe (52 mins) Francesco Piemontesi piano Proms at … Cadogan Hall 1 BBC Symphony Chorus 13:00 Monday 16 July 2018 City of London Choir Cadogan Hall, London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Alain Altinoglu conductor Caroline Shaw Second Essay: Echo (15 mins) Third Essay: Ruby Prom 3: BBC Young Musician 40th Robert Schumann Anniversary Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op 44 (30 mins) 19:00 Sunday 15 July 2018 ON TV Royal Albert Hall Calidore String Quartet ensemble Javier Perianes piano Ben Foster Fantasia on the Young Musician Theme BBC commission: world première Prom 4: Shostakovich’s ‘Leningrad’ Steve Reich Symphony Drumming - Part 1 (15 mins) 19:30 Monday 16 July 2018 Royal Albert Hall Giovanni Sollima Violoncelles, vibrez! (12 mins) Magnus Lindberg (new arrangement for 4 cellos & orchestra by Sollima) Clarinet Concerto (25 mins) Iain Farrington Dmitri Shostakovich Gershwinicity (13 mins) Symphony No 7 in C major, 'Leningrad' (75 mins) BBC commission: world première Mark Simpson clarinet Camille Saint‐Saëns BBC Philharmonic The Carnival of the Animals (13 mins) Juanjo Mena conductor Iain Farrington Carnival of the Animals (excerpts) (13 mins) Prom 5: Debussy Pélleas et Mélisande 18:30 Tuesday 17 July 2018 David Bruce Royal Albert Hall Sidechaining (10 mins) BBC commission: world première Claude Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande (180 mins) promslist_2018_v02.html 2018-06-21 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 2 of 13 Christina Gansch Mélisande Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (35 mins) John Chest Pelléas Christopher Purves Golaud Susan Bickley mezzo-soprano Brindley Sherratt Arkel London Sinfonietta Karen Cargill Genevieve Sir George Benjamin conductor Chloé Briot Yniold Glyndebourne Festival Opera London Philharmonic Orchestra Prom 9: War & Peace Robin Ticciati conductor 19:30 Saturday 21 July 2018 Royal Albert Hall Prom 6: An American in Paris & Turangalîla Eriks Esenvalds 19:30 Wednesday 18 July 2018 Shadow (8 mins) Royal Albert Hall Benjamin Britten George Gershwin Sinfonia da Requiem (21 mins) An American in Paris (17 mins) Ludwig van Beethoven Olivier Messiaen Symphony No 9 in D minor, 'Choral' (65 mins) Turangalîla Symphony (74 mins) Erin Wall soprano Angela Hewitt piano Judit Kutasi mezzo-soprano Cynthia Millar ondes Martenot Russell Thomas tenor BBC Symphony Orchestra Franz-Josef Selig baritone Sakari Oramo conductor BBC Proms Youth Choir World Orchestra for Peace Simon Halsey conductor Prom 7: Jacob Collier and Friends Donald Runnicles conductor 19:30 Thursday 19 July 2018 ON TV Royal Albert Hall Prom 10: Fauré, Franck & Widor’s Toccata Jacob Collier 11:00 Sunday 22 July 2018 Becca Stevens Royal Albert Hall Sam Amidon Metropole Orkest Charles‐Marie Widor Hamid El Kasri Organ Symphony No 5 in F minor, Op 42 (6 mins) Take 6 ensemble Jules Buckley conductor César Franck Trois Pièces – Pièce héroïque (11 mins) Prom 8: Youthful Beginnings Gabriel Fauré 19:30 Friday 20 July 2018 ON TV Pavane (arr. Apkalna) (8 mins) Royal Albert Hall Johann Sebastian Bach Lili Boulanger Fantasia in G major, BWV 572 (10 mins) D’un matin de printemps (5 mins) D’un soir triste (11 mins) Sir George Thomas Thalben-Ball Variations on a Theme by Paganini (A Study for the Pedals) (8 Felix Mendelssohn mins) Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor (20 mins) Thierry Escaich Morfydd Llwyn Owen Deux Évocations (13 mins) Nocturne (15 mins) Iveta Apkalna organ Robert Schumann Symphony No 4 in D minor (original 1841 version) (28 mins) Prom 11: Mahler Symphony of a Thousand Bertrand Chamayou piano 19:00 Sunday 22 July 2018 BBC National Orchestra of Wales Royal Albert Hall Thomas Søndergård conductor Gustav Mahler Symphony No 8 in E flat major, 'Symphony of a Thousand' Proms at … The Roundhouse 15:00 Saturday 21 July 2018 Tamara Wilson soprano Roundhouse, Camden Camilla Nylund soprano Joélle Harvey soprano Charles Ives Christine Rice mezzo-soprano The Unanswered Question (6 mins) Claudia Huckle contralto Simon O'Neill tenor Igor Stravinsky Quinn Kelsey baritone Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1947 version) (9 mins) Morris Robinson bass Southend Boys’ Choir Olivier Messiaen Southend Girls' Choir promslist_2018_v02.html 2018-06-21 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 3 of 13 BBC National Chorus of Wales Franz Schubert BBC Symphony Chorus Die junge Nonne London Symphony Chorus Gretchen am Spinnrade BBC National Orchestra of Wales Lied der Mignon Thomas Søndergård conductor Erlkönig Bernd Alois Zimmermann Proms at … Cadogan Hall 2 Symphony in One Movement (15 mins) 13:00 Monday 23 July 2018 Cadogan Hall, London Franz Schubert Fantasy in C major, D760, 'Wanderer' (orch. Liszt) (22 mins) Jean‐Philippe Rameau Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 – Prelude in A minor (5 mins) Jean Sibelius Pièces de clavecin, Book 3 (12 mins) Symphony No 7 in C major (22 mins) excerpts Elizabeth Watts soprano Eve Risser Louis Lortie piano Furakèla (5 mins) BBC Philharmonic BBC commission: world première John Storgårds conductor François Couperin Piéces de clavecin, Book 1 – Sarabande 'La lugubre' Prom 15: Paul Lewis plays Beethoven’s Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 – Chaconne 'La Favorite' ‘Emperor’ concerto 19:30 Wednesday 25 July 2018 ON TV Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer Royal Albert Hall Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 – La sensible Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 – La marche des Scythes Tansy Davies What Did We See? (orchestral suite from 'Between Worlds') Jean Rondeau harpsichord BBC commission: world première Ludwig van Beethoven Prom 12: Beethoven, Shostakovich & Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major, 'Emperor' (38 mins) Rachmaninov 19:00 Monday 23 July 2018 ON TV Johannes Brahms Royal Albert Hall Symphony No 2 in D major (42 mins) Ludwig van Beethoven Paul Lewis piano Overture 'Coriolan' (8 mins) BBC Philharmonic Ben Gernon conductor Dmitri Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat major (29 mins) Prom 16: Stravinsky, Debussy & Wagner Andrew Norman 19:30 Thursday 26 July 2018 Spiral (6 mins) Royal Albert Hall UK première Richard Wagner Sergei Rachmaninov Tannhäuser – overture (14 mins) Symphonic Dances (36 mins) Claude Debussy Alisa Weilerstein cello La damoiselle élue (20 mins) BBC Symphony Orchestra Karina Canellakis conductor Igor Stravinsky Song of the Nightingale (20 mins) The Firebird – suite (1945 version) (31 mins) Prom 13: Pioneers of Sound 22:15 Monday 23 July 2018 ON TV Sabine Devieilhe soprano Royal Albert Hall Anna Stéphany mezzo soprano Hallé Choir (female voices) Daphne Oram Hallé Youth Choir (female voices) Still Point (30 mins) Hallé world première of revised version Mark Elder conductor Shiva Feshareki turntables/electronics London Contemporary Orchestra Prom 17: Parry, Vaughan Williams & Holst Robert Ames conductor 19:00 Friday 27 July 2018 ON TV Royal Albert Hall Prom 14: Sibelius, Schubert & Zimmermann Hubert Parry 19:30 Tuesday 24 July 2018 Symphony No. 5 in B minor (27 mins) Royal Albert Hall Ralph Vaughan Williams Richard Wagner The Lark Ascending (15 mins) The Mastersingers of Nuremberg – overture (10 mins) promslist_2018_v02.html 2018-06-21 Information from bbc.co.uk/proms/ PROMS 2018 Page 4 of 13 Hubert Parry Jean Sibelius Hear my words, ye people (15 mins) Igor Stravinsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Gustav Holst Music by Kerry Andrew, Mason Bates, Joseph Bologne Ode to Death (12 mins) (Chevalier de Saint-Georges), Copland, Dvořák, Elgar, Orff, Purcell, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky Ralph Vaughan Williams Pastoral Symphony (No. 3) (35 mins) Naomi Wilkinson presenter Ten Pieces Children's Choir Tai Murray violin BBC Singers Francesca Chiejina soprano Denni Sayers Stage Director Ashley Riches bass-baritone London Music Masters BBC National Chorus of Wales Brave New Voices from English PEN BBC National Orchestra of Wales Phoenix Dance Theatre’s Youth Academy Martyn Brabbins conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra Rafael Payare conductor Prom 18: Currentzis conducts Beethoven 19:30 Saturday 28 July 2018 Proms at ... Cadogan Hall 3: Ancient Rituals Royal Albert Hall and New Tales 13:00 Monday 30 July 2018 Ludwig van Beethoven Cadogan Hall Symphony No 2 in D major (32 mins) Joseph Tawadros Ludwig van Beethoven Constellation (5 mins) Symphony No 5 in C minor (31 mins) Work (5 mins) Permission to Evaporate (4