The London Proms (classical music)

[LONDONER]

Programme for Saturday the 3rd August:

Live from the Royal Albert Hall
Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Johann Strauss II: By the Beautiful Blue Danube - waltz
James MacMillan: Violin Concerto

8.10pm Interval

8.30 pm
Beethoven: Overture 'Coriolan'
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor

Vadim Repin (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)

A renowned interpreter of Austro-German repertoire, Donald Runnicles opens this concert with arguably the most famous waltz in the world - The Blue Danube - and the evening ends with the symphony which has one of the most recognisable openings of all time, Beethoven's Fifth.

James MacMillan's Violin Concerto, which was premiered by Vadim Repin in 2010, is the centrepiece of the concert. The concerto is influenced strongly by Scottish traditional music, as the composer says "Fiddle music has long been under my skin, and in writing a violin concerto it is inevitable that it would rise up to the surface. Its roots are in song and dance, and these most ancient modes of expression and storytelling are at the heart of my new work."

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Programme for Sunday the 4th August:

Donald Runnicles brings together an international cast and the Concert Association of the Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he is General Music Director, in this concert performance of Wagner's opera Tannhäuser.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Presented by Louise Fryer.

Wagner: Tannhäuser, Act 1

7.05pm: Interval

7.35pm
Wagner: Tannhäuser, Act 2

8.45pm: Interval

9.15pm
Wagner: Tannhäuser, Act 3

Tannhäuser ..... Robert Dean Smith(tenor)
Elisabeth ..... Heidi Melton (soprano)
Venus ..... Daniela Sindram (soprano)
Landgraf ..... Ain Anger (bass)
Wolfram ..... Christoph Pohl (baritone)
Walter ..... Thomas Blondelle (tenor)
Heinrich ..... Andrew Rees (tenor)
Reimar ..... Brian Bannatyne-Scott (bass)
Biterolf ..... Ashley Holland (bass)
Shepherd Boy ..... Hila Fahima (soprano)
Concert Association of the Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)

Knightly minstrel Tannhäuser has been lover of the godess Venus for a year and a day when he invokes the name of the Virgin Mary and is sent back to the mortal world. There he is reunited with Elisabeth, niece of Landgraf, and a singing tournament is arranged with her hand as the prize. When Tannhäuser sings in praise of Venus he is forced to become a pilgrim and seek absolution from the Pope in Rome .....

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[Counselor]

It's a heavy burden to carry this thread yourself, Londoner. Maybe include another aspect of the topic, like "London Prom Remixes"?

[LONDONER]

It's a heavy burden to carry this thread yourself, Londoner. Maybe include another aspect of the topic, like "London Prom Remixes"?

It's no burden at all Councelor. I just hope that it's serving some purpose. The number of views goes up very slightly each day. It would be interesting to know how many people find it useful and who actually tune in to listen to the Proms.

As for remixes, err.....I think not.

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Programme for Monday the 5th August:

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Katie Derham

Borodin: Overture and Polovtsian Dances from 'Prince Igor'
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 2

8.30pm Interval

8.50pm
Edward Cowie: Earth Music 1: The Great Barrier Reef (BBC commission: world premiere)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 2 in C minor, 'Little Russian'

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

Borodin's overture to 'Prince Igor' opens a programme celebrating the 70th birthday of composer Edward Cowie and the close musical relationship between the BBC Philharmonic, their Conductor Laureate Gianandrea Noseda and pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Bavouzet plays Prokofiev's brilliant Second Piano Concerto, its original score destroyed in the Russian Revolution and revised by the composer in Paris in 1923. The fragile beauty of the Great Barrier Reef is the subject of Edward Cowie's Earth Music 1, while the 'Little Russian' continues the season's Tchaikovsky symphony cycle.


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Programme for Tuesday the 6th August:

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley

Walton: March 'Orb and Sceptre'
Rubbra: Ode to the Queen
Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor

8.25pm Interval

8.45pm
Korngold: Symphony in F sharp minor

Vilde Frang (violin)
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds (conductor)

The BBC Philharmonic and its Principal Guest Conductor return to the Royal Albert Hall for the first Proms performance of Korngold's Symphony. Dedicated to the memory of Franklin D Roosevelt, the symphony refers back to Korngold's score for the 1939 Errol Flynn and Bette Davis romance 'The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex'. Rubbra's 'Ode to the Queen' and Walton's 'Orb and Sceptre' celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Queen's coronation, while Vilde Frang joins Storgårds and the orchestra for Bruch's ever-popular Violin Concerto.

The Proms can be heard by anyone online at this site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/on-air

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Programme for Wednesday 7th August:

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Suzy Klein

Lutoslawski: Symphonic Variations
Holst: Egdon Heath
Lutoslawski: Piano Concerto

8.35m Interval

8.55pm
Holst: The Planets

Louis Lortie (piano)
BBC Symphony Chorus (women's voices)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor)

Leading champion of Lutoslawski's music and Music Director of English National Opera, Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a programme contrasting one each of the Polish composer's earliest and latest works with music by the British composer Gustav Holst.

Completed shortly before the occupation of Poland, Lutoslawski's Symphonic Variations is juxtaposed with Holst's rarely heard tribute to Thomas Hardy, Egdon Heath. Louis Lortie is the soloist in Lutoslawski's monumental 1988 Piano Concerto in a concert that closes with Holst's extraordinarily visionary suite, The Planets.

The Proms can be heard by anyone online at this site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/on-air

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Programme for Thursday the 8th August:

The pianist Mitsuko Uchida returns to the Proms after a long absence, joining the Bavarian Radio Symphony and Mariss Jansons for Beethoven's fourth piano concerto. The concert concludes with Berlioz's gothic masterpiece, his Symphonie fantastique.

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major

7.40pm Interval

8.00pm
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons (conductor)

Mitsuko Uchida is a much loved figure on the concert platform, and this evening she returns to the Proms after an absence of almost 20 years, joining the Bavarian Radio Symphony for Beethoven's Piano Concerto no.4, in which musical ideas are tested to their limits in a dialogue between the keyboard and orchestra. The rest of the programme is devoted to Berlioz's monumental Symphonie fantastique, complete with opium-fuelled obsessions, a rural idyll and a danse macabre. The conductor Mariss Jansons, who celebrates his 70th birthday this year, is a regular at the Proms, and he demonstrates the closeness of his 10 year partnership with the Bavarian orchestra.

The Proms can be heard by anyone online at this site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/on-air

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Programme for Friday the 9th August:

For me a not to be missed Prom. Malher's 2nd symphony. As it says below, it is unmissable

Mahler
Symphony No. 2 in C minor, 'Resurrection' (85 mins)
Genia Kühmeier soprano
Gerhild Romberger mezzo-soprano
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons conductor


MaestroCam: Mahler Symphony No.2 (1st movement)
Commentary by Peter Stark
MaestroCam: Mahler Symphony No.2 (2nd-5th movements)
Commentary by Peter Stark
Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony
Mahler
Mariss Jansons
Mahler: Symphony No 2 in C minor 'Resurrection' (Preview Clip)
About this event
In their second Proms appearance this summer, Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra are joined by the Bavarian Radio Chorus for Mahler’s transcendent ‘Resurrection’ Symphony.

Soprano Genia Kühmeier and mezzo-soprano Gerhild Romberger are the soloists in a work that begins with a depiction of a funeral procession and opens out into a vision of life after death. With allusions to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and klezmer melodies, its off-stage brass and percussion, and a grand choral climax, the symphony stands alone and unmissable.

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Programme for Saturday the 10th August:

Urban Classics Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Fazer, Laura Mvula, BBC SO and Jules Buckley live at the BBC proms

Mosolov: The Iron Foundry
Maverick Sabre Arr. Ben Cottrell: These Days
Laura Mvula Arr. Tom Richards: Sing to the Moon
Jacob Banks Arr. Ben Cottrell : Rainy Day
Fazer Arr. Jules Buckley: Fireflies
Lady Leshurr Arr. Jason Yarde: Blazin'
Wretch 32 Arr. Tom Trapp: Blackout
Laura Mvula Arr. Jules Buckley: Father Father

20.30 Interval

20.50
Henze: The Bassarids: Dance of the Maenads
Lady Leshurr: Solo
Maverick Sabre Arr. Tom Trapp: I Need
Fazer Arr. Ben Cottrell : Movie
Fazer & Young Artists: Chapters
Jacob Banks Arr. Jules Buckley: Worthy
Wretch 32 & Jacob Banks Arr. Jason Yarde: I'm Doing Ok
Laura Mvula Arr. Jules Buckley: That's Alright
Maverick Sabre Arr. Jules Buckley: Let Me Go
Wretch 32 Arr. Jason Yarde: Traktor
Labrinth Feat. Lady Leshurr Arr. Ben Cottrell: Let the Dogs Run Wild
Jules Buckley: Finale

Fazer (singer)
Laura Mvula (singer)
Maverick Sabre (singer)
Lady Leshurr (singer)
Wretch 32 (singer)
Jacob Banks (singer)

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jules Buckley (conductor)

A dynamic meeting of musical cultures as conductor Jules Buckley brings together the BBC Symphony Orchestra with leading performers from the UK's vibrant urban music scene. In Urban Classics' experimental fusion of musical styles, high-octane orchestral showpieces by Mosolov and Henze rub shoulders with rap, R&B and soul. 'It's a culture clash,' says Jules Buckley. 'We're taking artists from different worlds and messing with their music, putting it in an orchestral context and exploring it in a new way.'.

The Proms can be heard by anyone online at this site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/on-air