BBC Proms 2007 (repeats)

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20071224Over Christmas and New Year, Performance on 3 revisits some of the highlights of the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.

Geoffrey Smith begins the series with a Prom that celebrated the eightieth birthdays of jazz legends John Dankworth and Cleo Laine. Together with special guests, the BBC Big Band and members of the BBC Concert Orchestra, they pay tribute to the enduring genius of William Shakespeare through their music. Dankworth fashions a sequence of Shakespeare settings that really swing and celebrates his friendship with Duke Ellington by performing his Shakespearean suite Such Sweet Thunder.

Cleo Laine (singer)

Soweto Kinch, Tommy Smith (saxophones)

Guy Barker (trumpet)

John Dankworth Quintet

John Dankworth (director/reeds)

Dankworth: The Million Dollar Collection (excerpts); Shakespeare and All That Jazz (excerpts)

Ellington, arr. Dankworth: Such Sweet Thunder (excerpts)

Strayhorn, arr. Dankworth: Take the A Train

Ellington: Tonight I Shall Sleep

Dankworth: The Blues Ain't

Ellington: Creole Love Call

Ellington, arr. Dankworth: It Don't Mean a Thing.

A Prom to celebrate the eightieth birthdays of jazz legends John Dankworth and Cleo Laine.

Another chance to hear concerts from the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Continuing Radio 3's Christmas and New Year series of highlights from the 2007 BBC Proms, Christopher Cook introduces a concert in which two of the UK's leading choirs join forces in a programme of choral blockbusters from the late Renaissance, including the modern premiere of Alessandro Striggio's Mass, a 40-voice piece that had lain forgotten for 450 years in a Paris library.

Striggio: Motet (Ecce beatam lucem)

Lassus: Aurora lucis rutilat (Motet and Magnificat)

Tallis: Spem in alium

Striggio: Mass in 40 and 60 parts (Ecco si beato giorno)

BBC Singers

The Tallis Scholars

His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts

Peter Phillips, Davitt Moroney (conductors).

Two of the UK's leading choirs join forces for choral blockbusters of the late Renaissance

Another chance to hear concerts from the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London

20071225Continuing the Christmas and New Year series of highlights of the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, Andrew McGregor introduces a concert of music from Bach's time in Leipzig.

Carolyn Sampson (soprano)

Robin Blaze (countertenor)

Gerd Turk (tenor)

Peter Kooy (bass)

Bach Collegium Japan

Masaaki Suzuki (conductor)

Bach: Cantata No 78 (Jesu, der du meine Seele); Cantata No 179 (Siehe zu, dass deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei); Cantata No 200 (Bekennen will ich seinen Namen); Mass in G, BWV236.

The Bach Collegium Japan perform a concert of music from Bach's time in Leipzig.

Another chance to hear concerts from the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London

20071226Continuing the Christmas and New Year series of highlights of the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a concert featuring singing star Michael Ball performing some of the music theatre hits that have made him famous in London's West End and on Broadway. With special guests Alfie Boe, Laura Michelle Kelly and Izzy Johnston.

Capital Voices

BBC Concert Orchestra

Callum McLeod (conductor)

John Miles/Queen, arr. Martin Williams: Overture

Frank Wildhorn/Leslie Bricusse: This Is the Moment

Jule Styne/Bob Merrill: Don't Rain on My Parade

Leslie Bricusse/Anthony Newley: The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd

Gilbert & Sullivan: Am I Alone; If You're Anxious for to Shine

Borodin/Robert Wright/George Forrest, orch. Richard Balcombe: Stranger in Paradise; And This Is My Beloved

Bizet: Au fond du temple saint (Les pecheurs de perles)

Ernesto de Curtis: Torna a Surriento

Stephen Schwartz: Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord

Lloyd Webber/Rice: Gethsemane (Jesus Christ Superstar)

Lloyd Webber/Don Black/Christopher Hampton: Sunset Boulevard Suite; As If We Never Said Goodbye; Sunset Boulevard

Benny Andersson/Bjorn Ulvaeus/Tim Rice: Anthem (Chess)

Lloyd Webber/Charles Hart/Richard Stilgoe: All I Ask of You (Phantom of the Opera)

Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine: Loving You (Passion)

Leonard Bernstein/Arthur Laurents: Something's Coming

Claude-Michel Schoenberg/Herbert Kretzmer: Empty Chairs (Les Miserables)

Queen: The Show Must Go On

Carole Bayer Sager/David Foster, orch. Richard Balcombe: The Prayer (The Quest for Camelot)

Carly Simon: Let the Rivers Run

John Miles, orch. Balcombe: Music.

Michael Ball performs some of the hits that have made him famous in London's West End.

Another chance to hear concerts from the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Continuing the Christmas and New Year series of highlights of the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, Petroc Trelawny introduces a performance by the Britten Sinfonia with actors Prunella Scales and Timothy West of readings from Shakespeare interleaved with music inspired by his plays.

Anna Dennis (mezzo-soprano)

Prunella Scales, Timothy West (speakers)

Alexander Shelley (conductor)

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Overture and Scherzo)

Korngold: Much Ado About Nothing Suite

Stravinsky: Three Songs from William Shakespeare

Bridge: There Is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook

Shostakovich: Hamlet Suite.

A concert by the Britten Sinfonia of a selection of works inspired by Shakespeare.

20071227Mariss Jansons conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Strauss and Sibelius.

Another chance to hear concerts from the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Continuing the Christmas and New Year series of highlights of the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, John Shea introduces a concert that revisits three contrasting Proms premieres.

Colin Currie (percussion)

Solveig Kringelborn (soprano)

Martin Robertson (saxophone)

Peter Erskine (drummer)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

James MacMillan: Veni, veni Emmanuel

Lutoslawski: Chantefleurs et Chantefables

Harrison Birtwistle: Panic.

The BBC SSO perform works by James MacMillan, Lutoslawski and Harrison Birtwistle.

Another chance to hear concerts from the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London

20071231Continuing the Christmas and New Year series of highlights of the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, Petroc Trelawny introduces the Last Night of the 113th Proms season, with conductor Jiri Belohlavek as master of ceremonies.

Anna Netrebko (soprano)

Joshua Bell (violin)

Andrew Kennedy (tenor)

BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

Dvorak: Overture (Othello)

Rachmaninov, arr. Joshua Bell: Vocalise

Ravel: Tzigane

Thomas Ades: The Storm (The Tempest)

Elgar: The Spirit of England (The Fourth of August)

Bellini: Ah! se una volta...Ah! no credea...Ah! non giunge (La sonnambula)

Fucik: Entrance of the Gladiators

Lehar: Meine Lippen sie kussen so heiss (Giuditta)

Ponce, arr. Heifetz: Estrellita

Strauss: Morgen

Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D (Land of Hope and Glory)

Henry Wood: Fantasia on British Sea-Songs (with additional numbers arr. Bob Chilcott)

Parry, orch. Elgar: Jerusalem

Henry Wood: The National Anthem

Auld Lang Syne.

Another chance to hear the Last Night of the 113th Proms, conducted by Jiri Belohlavek.

Another chance to hear concerts from the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Continuing the Christmas and New Year series of highlights of the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert that explores the delights of 18th-century London.

Mark Padmore (tenor)

The English Concert

Laurence Cummings (conductor/harpsichord)

Boyce: Symphony No 5 in D

Arne: Under the greenwood tree; When icicles hang; Where the bee sucks (Three Shakespeare Songs)

Thomas Linley Jr: Ode on the Spirits of Shakespeare Overture

Handel: His Mighty Arm and Waft Her; Angels from Jephtha (Samson); Water Music (Suites G and D).

Laurence Cummings conducts the English Concert in a Prom that explores 18th-century London

Another chance to hear concerts from the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London

20080101Continuing the Christmas and New Year series of highlights of the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, Petroc Trelawny introduces the first Proms appearance by Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly, in a programme of much-loved classics.

Viviane Hagner (violin)

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture; Violin Concerto in D

Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor.

Riccardo Chailly conducts the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Beethoven and Brahms.

Another chance to hear concerts from the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Continuing the Christmas and New Year series of highlights of the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, Petroc Trelawny introduces a Prom in which Pierre-Laurent Aimard takes on the roles of pianist and conductor with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in a concert combining masterpieces from past and present.

Haydn: Symphony No 102 in B flat

Ligeti: Etudes for Solo Piano (selection)

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat.

Pianist and conductor Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

Another chance to hear concerts from the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London

20080102Continuing the Christmas and New Year series of highlights of the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, The Nash Ensemble continues the Proms Britten/Auden celebration with a performance of some of the works on which the composer and poet collaborated.

Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano)

Andrew Kennedy (tenor)

Richard Watkins (horn)

Iain Burnside (piano)

Samuel West (narrator)

Edward Gardner (conductor)

Britten: The Way to the Sea; On This Island

Britten, arr. Daryl Runswick: Cabaret Songs

Britten: Night Mail

Britten, arr. Colin Matthews: In memoriam Dennis Brain

Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and strings.

The Nash Ensemble perform some of the works on which Britten and Auden collaborated.

Another chance to hear concerts from the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Continuing the Christmas and New Year series of highlights of the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, Petroc Trelawny introduces the Proms debut by Roger Norrington who conducts the Handel and Haydn Society in Haydn's timeless representation of the passage of the seasons.

Haydn: The Seasons (sung in German)

Sally Matthews (soprano)

James Gilchrist (tenor)

Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone)

Handel and Haydn Society of Boston

Roger Norrington (conductor).

Roger Norrington conducts the Handel and Haydn Society in Haydn's The Seasons.

Another chance to hear concerts from the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London

20080103Continuing the Christmas and New Year series of highlights of the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, Richard Hickox conducts his choir and period instrument forces in Schubert's sixth and last Mass, prefaced by Hummel's florid offertory setting.

Hummel: Alma Virgo

Schubert: Mass in E flat, D950

Susan Gritton (soprano)

Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano)

Mark Padmore, James Gilchrist (tenors)

Matthew Rose (bass)

Collegium Musicum 90

Richard Hickox (conductor).

Richard Hickox conducts the Collegium Musicum 90 in works by Schubert and Hummel.

Another chance to hear concerts from the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Continuing the Christmas and New Year series of highlights of the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, Michael Tilson Thomas directs his acclaimed West Coast orchestra in symphonies from America and Russia, and Deborah Voigt takes on the role of Strauss's vengeful, sexually depraved Salome.

Deborah Voigt (soprano)

San Francisco Symphony

Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

Ives: Symphony No 3 (The Camp Meeting)

Strauss: Salome (Final Scene)

Shostakovich: Symphony No 5 in D minor.

Michael Tilson Thomas directs the San Francisco Symphony in works by Shostakovich and Ives

Another chance to hear concerts from the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London

20080104Daniel Barenboim conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in works by Schubert and Bruckner.

Another chance to hear concerts from the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London

20080107Continuing the Christmas and New Year series of highlights of the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, Petroc Trelawny introduces a second Proms performance of the season from Daniel Barenboim and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

Bart k: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

Kodကly: Dances from Galanta

Ligeti: Atmospheres

Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No 1.

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Bartok, Kodaly and Ligeti.

Another chance to hear concerts from the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London

20080108James Levine conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in works by Carter, Bartok and Brahms.

Another chance to hear concerts from the 2007 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London