The London Proms (classical music)

[LONDONER]

Programme for Friday the 30th August:

I highlighted the Prokofiev piano concerto because it's one of my favourites. Anika Vavic, the Sertbian born pianist in tonight's perfromance says:

"Prokofiev's five piano concertos have such variety, each is a different world. The first is youthful and Romantic, the second angry and sad, and the third is full of vitality - it's bright, compact and brilliant. Prokofiev wrote it during a summer in Brittany and you can almost sense a succession of beautiful daysplaying chess, visiting the beach. I love how the pianist's syncopations drive against the orchestra. When you finish you feel energised."

Presented by Christopher Cook

London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski live at the BBC Proms in music by Bantock, Prokofiev, Sibelius and Richard Strauss.

Bantock: The Witch of Atlas
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major

8:20pm Interval

8:40pm
Sibelius: Pohjola's Daughter
R Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

Anika Vavic (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)

Tonight's Prom traces the development of the tone-poem in music inspired by Nietzsche, Shelley and the Finnish epic, the Kalevala. The concert opens with Granville Bantock's 1902 tone-poem 'The Witch of Atlas', based on Shelley's eponymous poem. The Serbian-born pianist Anika Vavic joins the LPO, making her Proms debut in Prokofiev's virtuosic Piano Concerto No 3. The second half of the concert starts with Sibelius's dark fantasy 'Pohjola's Daughter', and concludes with the great sunrise of Richard Strauss's thrilling 'Also sprach Zarathustra'.

[LONDONER]

Programme for Saturday the 31st August:

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Alwyn: The True Glory - March
Walton: Suite - Battle of Britain
Richard Rodney Bennett: Lady Caroline Lamb - Elegy
Lucas: Ice Cold in Alex - March
Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto (from 'Dangerous Moonlight')

8.25 Interval

8.50
Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra - opening
Ligeti: Atmosphères (excerpt)
Johann Strauss II: By the Beautiful Blue Danube - waltz (excerpt)
M. Giacchino: Suite from Star Trek: Into Darkness UK premiere
David Arnold: Independence Day - closing title
Jerry Goldsmith: Alien - closing title
John Williams: Star Wars Suite

Valentina Lisitsa (piano)
Lawrence Power (viola)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Keith Lockhart (conductor).

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

[LONDONER]

Programme for Sunday the 1st September:

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

Pärt: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Britten: Violin Concerto

8.15pm Interval

8.35pm
Berlioz: Overture 'Le corsaire'
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, 'Organ'

Janine Jansen (violin)
Thierry Escaich (organ)
Orchestre de Paris
Paavo Järvi (conductor)

The Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten was written by Arvo Pärt in response to his sense of loss for a composer he had never met but whose music he describes as possessing the "unusual purity" he himself sought as a composer. Britten's own Violin Concerto was written during the composer's war-time years in New York, "I feel so deeply about this piece...one experiences the incredible strength of it" says tonight's soloist Janine Jansen. In the second half of the concert Paavo Järvi leads his Orchestre de Paris in two French works: firstly the Mediterranean swagger of Berlioz's overture 'Le corsaire' and then the weight of full orchestra and organ in Saint-Saëns 'Third Symphony' which concludes a concert that journeys from Estonian introspection to Gallic extrovert display.

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

[LONDONER]

Programme for Monday the 2nd September:

Wow! Tonight features two gay composers, Tchaikovsky and Szymanowski!


Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 in G minor, 'Winter Daydreams'

8.10 pm Interval

8.35
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No.1
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

Baiba Skride (violin)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

Proms debut violinist Baiba Skride joins the Oslo Philharmonic and its new Chief Conductor, Vasily Petrenko, to continue the Proms focus on Polish music in their performance of Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No. 1, an opulent nocturnal fantasy from a composer enchanted by the sound-worlds of North Africa and the southern Mediterranean, and inspired by the 'amorous conflagration' of Tadeusz Micinski's poem 'May Night'.
Tchaikovsky's youthful Symphony No. 1, 'Winter Daydreams', and Rachmaninov's nostalgic final work, the Symphonic Dances of 1940, frame the concerto in a programme rich with dreams


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

[princealbertofb]

Quel programme!! Merci, Londoner.

[LONDONER]

Quel programme!! Merci, Londoner.

Wow! I think that this is only the second time that someone has replied to this thread. Thank you. Now I know my life is worth living!

[LONDONER]

Programme for Tuesday the 3rd September:

The Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko, live at the BBC Proms, play Bruckner's Fourth Symphony, and, with Christian Ihle Hadland, Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major

7.35pm Interval

7.55pm
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, 'Romantic'

Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

In their second Proms appearance this summer Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic explore the Romantic landscape and Schubertian echoes of Bruckner's Fourth Symphony. Repeatedly revised by the composer during his lifetime, the symphony opens with a radiant sunrise.
Last heard playing Brahms with the Signum Quartet (PCM 7), Christian Ihle Hadland joins Petrenko and the orchestra for Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto, built on the Mozartian model but already pointing to the bold gestures of the composer's maturity.

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

[LONDONER]

Programme for Wednesday the 4th of September:

Presented by Suzy Klein

The BBC Symphony Orchestra & Osmo Vänskä live at the BBC Proms. Gorecki's famous 3rd Symphony, Vaughan Williams' Four Last Songs, & Tchaikovsky's great and final 6th Symphony.

A series of farewells as Osmo Vänskä conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a programme concluding the season's focus on Polish music and premiering Anthony Payne's orchestration of Vaughan Williams's Four Last Songs. BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Ruby Hughes and Jennifer Johnston are the soloists, Hughes singing the three Polish texts of Henryk Górecki's 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs', Johnston singing Procris, Menelaus, Tired and Hands, Eyes and Heart in the Vaughan Williams. Tchaikovsky's 'Pathétique' is the penultimate instalment of this summer's cycle of his symphonies.

Górecki: Symphony No. 3, 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'

8.30pm Interval

8.50pm Vaughan Williams Orch. A. Payne: Four Last Songs (BBC commission: world premiere)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, 'Pathétique'

Ruby Hughes (soprano)
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä (conductor).

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

[princealbertofb]

I think it's on BBC Radio 3 either this evening or tomorrow. Just heard the ad.

[LONDONER]

I think it's on BBC Radio 3 either this evening or tomorrow. Just heard the ad.

It's tonight. You can check it here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/programmes/schedules