BBC Proms 2022

Friday 15th July 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:15 to 22:00 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)

First Night of the Proms 2022.

Live at the BBC Proms: Sakari Oramo opens the season with the BBC SO in Verdi's Requiem, with Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, Jennifer Johnston, Freddie De Tommaso and Kihwan Sim. Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall in London. Georgia and Petroc are joined in the box by Flora Willson, expert in 19th-century music and culture, to chat about the powerful work in this evening's concert, and look forward to the eight weeks of exciting music making ahead. 19.30: Verdi: Requiem. Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (soprano); Jennifer Johnston (mezzo); Freddie De Tommaso (tenor); Kihwan Sim (bass). BBC Symphony Chorus. Crouch End Festival Chorus. BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo (conductor). Giuseppe Verdi had a complicated relationship with religion: he asked to be buried with just 'one priest, one candle, one cross'. But as a born dramatist, he knew how to tell a great story - and his colossal Requiem encompasses death, rebirth and the end of the world itself, in music that simply blazes with passion and power. Now, in the vast spaces of the Royal Albert Hall, Sakari Oramo assembles two choruses, a multinational team of solo singers (including 2021 Cardiff Singer of the World Song Prize winner Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha) and the full forces of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and prepares to raise the roof. A truly spectacular First Night of the 2022 BBC Proms. There will be no interval.

Saturday 16th July 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 21:15 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)

Prom 2: John Wilson Conducts the Sinfonia of London.

Andrew McGregor presents live from the Royal Albert Hall as John Wilson conducts the Sinfonia of London in Vaughan Williams, Walton and Elgar, with flautist Adam Walker joining for Huw Watkins' Flute Concerto. British conductor Wilson has long been a Proms favourite, but last year's debut appearance of his new super-orchestra the Sinfonia of London caused a sensation. Now they are back in an all-British programme that pairs much-loved classics by Elgar and Vaughan Williams with Walton's kaleidoscopic Partita, Bax's stirring musical seascape and Huw Watkins's spirited Flute Concerto, played by its dedicatee Adam Walker. Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Huw Watkins: Flute Concerto; Bax: Tintagel. 7.30 Interval: Andrew McGregor is joined by Fiona Stafford to reflect on how poets have constructed, expressed and represented what it means to be English, from the Tudor contemporaries of Thomas Tallis, via the Romantics, to the 20th century. 7.50 Walton: Partita for Orchestra. Elgar: Enigma Variations. Adam Walker (flute), Sinfonia of London, John Wilson (conductor).
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Monday 18th July 2022 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Proms in Belfast.

Petroc Trelawny presents live from the Waterfront Hall Studio, Belfast, as Hebrides Ensemble plays pieces by French composers Ravel, Messiaen and Xenakis. From the exquisitely realised miniature worlds of Ravel, to the sacred ecstasies of Messiaen and the bold, sonic architecture of his pupil Iannis Xenakis (who would have been 100 this year), these are sounds to ravish the ear and set the synapses sparking. Xenakis: Allegro molto; Akea; Messiaen: Pièce pour piano et quatuor à cordes; Xenakis: Ittidra; Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte; Xenakis: À r. (Hommage à Ravel); Messiaen: Louange a l'Immortalité de Jésus (Quartet for the End of Time). Hebrides Ensemble.
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Monday 18th July 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 5: Bruckner: Symphony No. 6.

Hannah French presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with Juanjo Mena conducting the BBC Philharmonic in Bruckner's Sixth Symphony, with soloist Lawrence Power joining for James MacMillan's Viola Concerto. `They want me to write differently", said Anton Bruckner. `Certainly I could, but I must not." And from its quiet opening pulse to its towering finish, it's hard to imagine his mighty Sixth Symphony unfolding any other way - one man's utterly individual voyage towards heaven, expressed in music of quiet wonder and mountainous grandeur. Tonight it is the climax of an evening that begins with Webern's jewel-like setting of Bruckner's great hero Bach, and continues with James MacMillan's Viola Concerto, with soloist and dedicatee Lawrence Power. Bach (orch. Webern): Musical Offering - Ricercar a 6; James MacMillan: Viola Concerto. 8.15 Interval. Hannah French is joined by broadcaster and violinist Tasmin Little to talk about tonight's Prom and look ahead to the forthcoming week. 8.40 Bruckner: Symphony No 6. BBC Philharmonic, Lawrence Power (viola), Juanjo Mena (conductor).
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Tuesday 19th July 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:00 to 21:15 (2 hours and 15 minutes long)

Prom 6: Vaughan Williams and Tippett - Full Fourths.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Vaughan Williams' Fourth Symphony and Tippett's Fourth Symphony. Presented by Tom McKinney. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 4 in F minor. Interval: Tom McKinney talks to composer William Mival about the significance of the two symphonies in tonight's Prom. Tippett: Symphony No 4. British music: it isn't always what you think. Written as Europe lurched towards the war, Vaughan Williams' volcanic Fourth Symphony is a might cry of protest and rage, expressed in music that burns itself into the soul. A generation later in the Cold War, Michael Tippett began his final symphony with the most primal of sounds - a human breath. This isn't so much a symphony as a whole life, in all its rapture, its chaos and its teeming, tumultuous beauty. BBC Philharmonic, Andrew Davis (conductor).
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Tuesday 19th July 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:15 to 23:30 (1 hour and 15 minutes long)

Prom 7: Purcell: Dido and Aeneas.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, La Nuova Musica and director David Bates are joined by mezzo Alice Coote and baritone James Newby for Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. Hannah French presents. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas. Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano: Dido), James Newby (baritone: Aeneas), Gemma Summerfield (soprano: Belinda), Madeleine Shaw (mezzo: Sorceress), Nardus Williams (soprano: Second Woman), Nicky Spence (tenor: Sailor), Tim Mead (counter-tenor: Spirit). La Nuova Musica, Choir La Nuova Musica, David Bates (harpsichord/conductor). Abandoned by her lover, Dido must choose between death or a life without love. Her painful decision is powerfully dramatised in some of the most emotive music of the Baroque period, including Dido's famous lament, When I am laid in earth. Period instrument ensemble La Nuova Musica makes its Proms debut under Artistic Director David Bates, who made his own Proms debut last year conducting Mozart's Requiem. They are joined by an exciting cast led by mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and former Kathleen Ferrier Prize winner and Radio 3 New Generation Artist James Newby in the title roles.
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Wednesday 20th July 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 8: Russian Romance and Icelandic Elements.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall: Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky, a world premiere by Guðnadóttir, and Rachmaninov with pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk. Presented by Kate Molleson. Jóhann Jóhannsson: The Miners' Hymns - They Being Dead Yet Speaketh. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor, Op 18. 20.10 Interval: The film Brief Encounter features in the top 10 romantic films of yesteryear list compiled by the Reader's Digest Magazine. That publication is celebrating its centenary this year. In the first of a series of Interval features looking back at cultural milestones in 1922 - the year the BBC was founded - Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough finds out about the history of the Reader's Digest. 20.30 Hildur Guðnadóttir: The Fact of the Matter (BBC commission: world premiere). Tchaikovsky: Fantasy-Overture 'Romeo and Juliet'. Alexander Gavrylyuk (piano). BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska (conductor). A piano sounds quietly in the silence; an old song, long buried, heaves itself upwards to echo and resound anew. At first, Jóhann Jóhannsson's atmospheric reworkings of Durham miners' songs might not sound as if they have much to do with Rachmaninov's popular Piano Concerto No.2. But in the hands of BBC Symphony Orchestra Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska and pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk ('Dazzling': The Financial Times), they become part of a deeper, darker picture: an unfolding soundscape that embraces both the soaring romantic tragedy of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet and the elemental sonorities of Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir - the extraordinary, Academy Award-winning musical imagination behind Joker and Chernobyl.
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Thursday 21st July 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:00 to 22:00 (3 hours long)

Prom 9: The Two Scheherazades.

Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Ariane Matiakh perform Ravel and Rimsky-Korsakov, plus harpist Catrin Finch joins for a Sally Beamish world premiere. Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. 7pm Ravel: Shéhérazade - ouverture de féerie. Sally Beamish: Hive (BBC co-commission: world premiere). 7.50pm Interval: Following Sally Beamish's work Hive, commissioned for this year's Proms, in the interval Nicola Heywood-Thomas will be joined by biologist Lars Chittika whose work investigates the sensory experience of bee. 8.10pm Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op 35. Catrin Finch (harp). BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Ariane Matiakh (conductor). For composers in the 19th century, the pages of the One Thousand and One Nights were a portal to a new imaginative world: a place where fantastic stories and exotic images inspired sounds more sensuous, more colourful and more magical than anything that had been heard before. Ravel and Rimsky-Korsakov both drew inspiration from the tales of the beautiful Scheherazade, and both created music that lets a full symphony orchestra weave pure enchantment: a glorious showcase for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and its charismatic French guest conductor Ariane Matiakh. Sally Beamish, meanwhile, finds stories closer to home, in a beehive-inspired premiere for 'Queen of Harps' Catrin Finch.
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Saturday 23rd July 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Proms at Sage Gateshead: Folk Connections.

Elizabeth Alker presents a live concert from the Sage Gateshead, with Dinis Sousa conducting the Royal Northern Sinfonia in symphonies by John Adams and Dvorak and a world premiere of a piece by Judith Weir, in collaboration with community choir Voices of the River's Edge and folk ensemble Spell Songs. For Adams, driving rhythms and clean textures were a path to the musical future, with a surprising link to the idealism of America's frontier past, while Dvorak meant his Ninth Symphony as a salute to his American hosts, and yet every note glows with passionate longing for his home, far away in rural Bohemia. The common thread is folklore, and in this Prom from Sage Gateshead, Dinis Sousa and Royal Northern Sinfonia collaborate with the choir Voices of the River's Edge and Karine Polwart, Rachel Newton and Jim Molyneux from folk ensemble Spell Songs. A world premiere from Master of the Queen's Music Judith Weir completes the programme. John Adams: Shaker Loops; Judith Weir: Indelible Miraculous, a poem by Julia Darling (world premiere); Spell Songs: Thrift (Dig In, Dig In); Acorn; Little Astronaut; Moth; Traditional: Water of Tyne. 8.20 Interval: Elizabeth Alker hears the rehearsal stories of the Voices from the River's Edge Choir. This new chorus is made up of 85 young people from across the north-east who've given up evenings and weekends to sing together. Their grassroots story is a real-life reminder of the ancient link between the classical, contemporary and folk music performed in this concert. 8.40 Dvorak: Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World. Spell Songs, Voices from the River's Edge, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Dini Sousa (conductor).
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Sunday 24th July 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:30 to 23:00 (4 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 13: Ethel Smyth: The Wreckers.

Kate Molleson presents Glyndebourne Festival Opera's production of Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers live from the Royal Albert Hall, with Robin Ticciati condcuting the London Philharmonic. Admired by Mahler and Britten and praised as a masterpiece by Thomas Beecham, Smyth's psychological drama was the pinnacle of the composer's career. With its sweeping musical soundscapes, passionate central love story and radical interrogation of fear, hypocrisy and mob violence, it's a compelling piece of music-theatre, whose heroine is a mirror of her fascinating, unorthodox creator. Glyndebourne presents the opera for the first time with its original score and French libretto. Ethel Smyth: The Wreckers - Act 1. 7.25 Interval 1:Kate Molleson discusses this opera's music with Leah Broad, focusing on some of its highlights, the general context in which The Wreckers came into being as well as influences that inspired Ethel Smyth when writing the piece and its reception. 7.45 The Wreckers - Act 2. 8.35 Interval 2: Kate Molleson talks to Joan Passey, an expert on the cultural and literary histories of seascapes and coasts, about the Cornish context of tonight's opera. 9.00 The Wreckers - Act 3. Philip Horst (bass-baritone: Pascoe), James Rutherford (baritone: Lawrence), Rodrigo Porras Garulo (tenor: Mark), Lauren Fagan (soprano: Avis), Donovan Singletary (baritone: Harvey), Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (tenor: Tallan), Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo: Jack), Karis Tucker (mezzo: Thirza), Glyndebourne Festival Opera, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Robin Ticciati (conductor).
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Wednesday 27th July 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:00 to 22:00 (3 hours long)

Prom 16: Sea Sketches with Andrew Manze and BBC NOW.

Live at Royal Albert Hall, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Andrew Manze perform works inspired by the sea by Doreen Carwithen, Grace Williams and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas. Carwithen: Bishop Rock. Williams: Sea Sketches. 7.30 Interval: Vaughan Williams' Symphony No 1 features settings of two poems by Walt Whitman - Sea Drift and Passage to India. Poet and literary scholar Jack Parlett joins Nicola Heywood Thomas to share some thoughts about the great American poet and his magnum opus Leaves of Grass. 7.50pm Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (Symphony No 1). Elizabeth Llewellyn (soprano), Andrew Foster-Williams (bass-baritone). BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, BBC Symphony Chorus, Andrew Manze (conductor). 'Behold, the sea itself!' Vaughan Williams's A Sea Symphony takes the poetry of Walt Whitman and opens the floodgates to a spring tide of inspiration. Andrew Manze's Vaughan Williams recordings have been praised for their 'rare sensitivity and warmth', and in the composer's 150th-anniversary year, A Sea Symphony gets the deluxe treatment from two of the BBC's great symphonic choruses, plus the operatic voices of soloists Elizabeth Llewellyn and Andrew Foster-Williams. But the concert opens the way Vaughan Williams would have wanted: with a surging musical seascape from his Welsh pupil Grace Williams, and an equally nautical opener by Doreen Carwithen, composed in 1952 and receiving its first Proms performance in this, her centenary year.
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Thursday 28th July 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 17: Brahms's A German Requiem.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC SSO and Ilan Volkov are joined by Elena Tsallagova and Shenyang for Brahms's A German Requiem. Jennifer Walshe is the soloist in her own piece. Presented by Kate Molleson, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Jennifer Walshe: The Site of an Investigation. 20.00 Interval: Chain Reactions (1/6). Georgia Mann and Tom Service take listeners on the first of six unpredictable musical journeys which connect the last piece in the first half of a Prom to the first piece after the interval. 20.20 Brahms: A German Requiem. Jennifer Walshe (voice), Elena Tsallagova (soprano), Shenyang (bass-baritone). National Youth Choir of Great Britain. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Ilan Volkov (conductor).
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Saturday 30th July 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 19: Puccini's Il tabarro.

Sir Mark Elder conducts the Halle in Respighi's tone poem Pines of Rome, Dukas's symphonic poem The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Puccini's opera Il tabarro. Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice; Respighi: Fountains of Rome. 8.00 Interval: Georgia Mann discusses the historical context and cultural background to Puccini's Il tabarro with Alexandra Wilson, Professor of Music and Cultural History at Oxford Brookes University. 8.25 Puccini: Il tabarro - (Concert performance; sung in Italian). George Gagnidze (Michele: baritone), Natalya Romaniw (Giorgetta: soprano), Ivan Gyngazov (Luigi: tenor), Daniela Barcellona (La Frugola: mezzo-soprano), Alasdair Elliott ('Tinca': tenor), Simon Shibambu ('Talpa': bass), Jung Soo Yun (Ballad-Seller: tenor), Hallé, Sir Mark Elder (conductor).
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Sunday 31st July 2022
Time: 11:00 to 13:00 (2 hours long)

Prom 19a: Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra.

Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra in Silvestrov, Beethoven and Brahms. Anna Fedorova joins the orchestra for Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2. Presented by Georgia Mann, live at the Royal Albert Hall. Valentin Silvestrov: Symphony No. 7; Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor; Beethoven: 'Abscheulicher!Komm, Hoffnung, lass den letzten Stern'; Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor. Anna Fedorova (piano), Liudmyla Monastyrska (soprano), Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, Keri-Lynn Wilson (conductor).
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Sunday 31st July 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 20: Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky, Xenakis, Birtwistle and Ravel's kaleidoscopic Piano Concerto with soloist Tom Borrow. Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Harrison Birtwistle: Sonance Severance 2000; Ravel: Piano Concerto in G; Iannis Xenakis: Jonchaies. 8.15 Interval: Gillian Moore joins Ian Skelly to look ahead to the week's forthcoming highlights at the BBC Proms. 8.35 Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring. Tom Borrow (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
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Monday 1st August 2022 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Proms at Bristol: Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien.

Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien perform Romantic showpieces for violin and piano, including music by Franck, Ysaÿe and Havergal Brian. Presented by Petroc Trelawny, live from St George's, Bristol. Havergal Brian: Legend; Eugène Ysaÿe: Poème élégiaque; César Franck: Violin Sonata in A major. Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano).
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Tuesday 2nd August 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 22: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony from Memory.

Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon with Patricia Kopatchinskaja in music by Xenakis, Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Presented by Tom Service and Nicholas Collon, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Xenakis: O-Mega. Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor. 8.20 Interval. Chain Reaction: Georgia Mann and Tom Service take listeners on the second of six unpredictable musical journeys which connect the last piece in the first half of a Prom to the first piece after the interval. 8.40 Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor. Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon (conductor).
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Wednesday 3rd August 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:00 to 22:00 (3 hours long)

Prom 24: Ryan Bancroft Conducts Mahler's Fourth Symphony.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Ryan Bancroft perform Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with Clara-Jumi Kang and Mahler's Fourth Symphony with Miah Persson, presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas and live from the Royal Albert Hall. Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64. 7.45 Interval. Continuing our series of features looking at cultural life in 1922, John Gallagher gets a taste of what and how we were eating a hundred years ago. From health fads, to Virginia Woolf having a premonition of the microwave, John is joined by food historians Annie Gray and Elsa Richardson. 8.05 Mahler: Symphony No 4 in G major. Clara-Jumi Kang (violin), Miah Persson (soprano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ryan Bancroft (conductor).
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Sunday 7th August 2022 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 15:00 to 17:00 (2 hours long)

Prom 28: Leif Ove Andsnes - Mozart Momentum 1.

Tom Service presents live from the Royal Albert Hall as Leif Ove Andsnes directs the Mahler Chamber Orchestra from the keyboard in an all-Mozart programme that includes two contrasting piano concertos. When Mozart composed his piano concertos, he had a very specific performer in mind - himself. For Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes that is part of the appeal. Tonight, this endlessly engaging, multi-award-winning pianist puts himself in Mozart's shoes, as he plays two contrasting masterworks from 1785: the tempestuous and tender Concerto No 20, and the sunny, gloriously playful Concerto No 22. Throughout, he'll direct the Mahler Chamber Orchestra from the keyboard, just as Mozart would have done. Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro - overture; Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor. c 3.40 Interval. c 4.00 Mozart: Piano Concerto No 22 in E flat. Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Leif Ove Andsnes (piano/director).
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Sunday 7th August 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 29: Leif Ove Andsnes - Mozart Momentum 2.

Tom Service presents live from the Royal Albert Hall as.Leif Ove Andsnes directs the Mahler Chamber Orchestra from the piano in the second of three all-Mozart concerts. The Norwegian pianist zooms in on the year 1786, and finds Amadeus at the absolute peak of his game. Soprano Christiane Karg is one of the supreme Mozart interpreters of this era, and Andsnes takes the place of the composer, directing Mozart's tragic C minor Piano Concerto - some say his greatest - from the piano. Mozart: Symphony No 38 in D - Prague; Die Zufriedenheit; Der Zauberer; Das Veilchen; Concert Aria - Ch'io mi scordi di te? c 8.15 Interval: Mozart specialist Tim Jones chats to To about Mozart's music from 1786 and why this was such a momentous year in his creative output. c 8.35 Mozart: Masonic Funeral Music; Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor. Christiane Karg (soprano), Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Leif Ove Andsnes (piano/director).
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Monday 8th August 2022 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Proms at Battersea: Leif Ove Andsnes - Mozart Momentum 3.

Petroc Trelawny presents live from Battersea Arts Centre as Leif Ove Andsnes and three Mahler Chamber Orchestra members play Mozart's Piano Trio in B flat and Piano Quartet in E flat. This is music that Mozart conceived to be played at home, intimate without being inhibited, and playful without being flashy. Just inspiration, wit and melodies that speak straight to the heart. Mozart: Piano Trio in B flat; Mozart: Piano Quartet in E flat. Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Matthew Truscott (violin), Joel Hunter (viola), Frank-Michael Guthmann (cello).
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Tuesday 9th August 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:00 to 21:15 (2 hours and 15 minutes long)

Prom 31: Strauss's Four Last Songs and Other Romantics.

Daniele Rustioni conducts the Ulster Orchestra and Louise Alder in Strauss's Four Last Songs, plus music from Wagner's Tannhauser and Schumann's Fourth Symphony. Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Wagner: Tannhäuser - Overture; Venusberg Music. c. 7:25 Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs; c. 7:55 Gustav Mahler: Blumine; c. 8:05 Robert Schumann: Symphony No 4 in D minor. Louise Alder (soprano), Ulster Orchestra, Daniele Rustioni (conductor).
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Thursday 11th August 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 34: Thorvaldsdottir, Elgar and Sibelius.

Eva Ollikainen conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Jean Sibelius. They are joined by Kian Soltani for Elgar's Cello Concerto. Presented by Tom McKinney live from the Royal Albert Hall. Anna Thorvaldsdottir: ARCHORA (20') (BBC co-commission: world premiere). Elgar: Cello Concerto (27'). 20:30 Interval: Journalist and critic Andrew Mellor joins Tom McKinney to explore the music for Sibelius. Sibelius: Symphony No.2 (43'). Kian Soltani (cello). BBC Philharmonic. Eva Ollikainen. Three composers, three landscapes. Elgar wrote his Cello Concerto in the woodlands of Sussex; for many listeners, its autumnal colours evoke emotions too deep for words. From his home in Finland, Sibelius created a symphony that has the grandeur and inevitability of a great river - though some have heard it as a stirring song of national awakening. And elemental forces are the very bedrock of Anna Thorvaldsottir's inspiration. The BBC Philharmonic, under Eva Ollikainen - a Finnish conductor with close links to Iceland - teams up with soloist Kian Soltani in Elgar's hugely popular concerto, and gives the world premiere of a newly forged orchestral work by Iceland-born Anna Thorvaldsottir.
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Saturday 13th August 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 36: Marin Alsop Conducts the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Ian Skelly presents live from the Royal Albert Hall as Marin Alsop conducts the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Benjamin Grosvenor in Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 3 and Dvorák's Symphony No 7. Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Marin Alsop. Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin - suite. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3 in C. c. 8.25 Interval: Chain Reaction. Georgia Mann and Tom Service explore Chain Reaction, connecting the last piece in the first half of this Prom to the first piece after the interval c. 8:45 Hannah Eisendle: Heliosis (UK premiere). Dvorák: Symphony No 7 in D minor.
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Monday 15th August 2022 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Proms at Cardiff: Ligeti, Nielsen and Stravinsky.

Petroc Trelawny presents live from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff as Carion Wind Quintet plays Nielsen's Quintet for Wind and works by Ligeti and Stravinsky. No chairs, no music stands, playing from memory, and with every performance exuberantly choreographed, the five members of Carion Wind Quintet make all their performances fresh and unique. In this lunchtime concert, their programme centres on Nielsen's Wind Quintet, a mesmerising kaleidoscope of colours that's deservedly become a cornerstone of wind repertory. There are some ingenious games courtesy of Ligeti to begin with and an arrangement by their horn player David Palmquist of Stravinsky's Suite No 2 that exploits the contrasting characters of the wind instruments. Ligeti: Bagatelles; Nielsen: Wind Quintet; Stravinsky, arr. David MAP Palmquist: Suite No 2. Carion Wind Quintet.
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Monday 15th August 2022 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 39: Mark-Anthony Turnage, Vaughan Williams and Elgar.

Andrew McGregor presents live from the Royal Albert Hall as Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Elgar's Symphony No 1, Vaughan Williams' Tuba Concerto with soloist Constantin Hartwig and the UK premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's Time Flies. A muffled drum, a quiet march and the melody for which a nation had been waiting. From first hesitant notes to heaven-storming conclusion, Elgar's First Symphony is more than just a landmark in British music: it's the autobiography of a creative spirit, passionate, troubled and profoundly moving. BBC Symphony Orchestra chief conductor Sakari Oramo has loved the music of Elgar for decades, and it's a thrilling contrast to the playfulness and poetry of Vaughan Williams's Tuba Concerto, played by rising international brass star Constantin Hartwig. Meanwhile, what's a composer to do when he's invited to the Tokyo Olympics during a global travel ban? Mark-Anthony Turnage lets his music do the globetrotting in his jazz-inspired Time Flies. Mark-Anthony Turnage: Time Flies (BBC co-commission: UK premiere). Vaughan Williams: Tuba Concerto. 8.10 Interval: Nigel Simeone joins Andrew McGregor to look forward to the week's highlights at the BBC Proms. 8.30 Elgar: Symphony No 1 in A flat. Constantin Hartwig (tuba), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor).
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