BBC Proms 2016

Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill from the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 12th August 2016.

Jamie Cullum, piano/vocals

The Roundhouse Choir

Jules Buckley, conductor

Straddling the boundaries of jazz, pop and rock, Jamie Cullum returns for another Late Night Prom after his sell-out appearance in 2010. This time, backed by the Roundhouse Choir and Heritage Orchestra, he offers his own take on a collection of pop songs, in the spirit of The Song Society - Cullum's project to create fast and loose covers of favourite tracks. He brings the same approach of new discovery both to his use of the wide array of instruments available and to exploring the distinctive space of the Royal Albert Hall.

Pianist Jamie Cullum features in a special jazz Prom.

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Presented by Petroc Trelawny from from the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 13 August 2016.

Louise Dearman

Julian Ovenden

Matthew Ford

Maida Vale Singers

The John Wilson Orchestra

John Wilson, conductor.

The John Wilson Orchestra celebrates the music of George and Ira Gershwin.

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Presented by Penny Gore from the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 18 August 2016.

Walton arr Muir Mathieson: Prelude to Richard III

Finzi: Suite from Love's Labour's Lost

Sullivan: Overture to Act IV of The Tempest, Op 1

Walton compiled Christopher Palmer: As You Like It: A Poem for Orchestra after Shakespeare

Joby Talbot: 'Springtime Dance' from The Winter's Tale

Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

The Bard on Broadway

Porter: Kiss Me, Kate - Another Openin', Another Show; Always True to You; Where is the Life that Late I Led?; So In Love

Rodgers/Hart: The Boys from Syracuse - Dear Old Syracuse; You Have Cast Your Shadow on the Sea; Falling in Love with Love; Sing for your Supper; This Can't Be Love

Porter: 'Brush Up Your Shakespeare' (Kiss Me, Kate)

Hannah Waddingham, Anna-Jane Casey, Sarah Eyden, Graham Bickley (singers)

BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Keith Lockhart

This transatlantic Prom presents a range of Shakespeare's characters as reflected on stage and screen - with an all-British first half and a second half devoted to American musicals, conducted by the US-born Keith Lockhart.

The BBC Concert Orchestra celebrates Shakespeare-inspired music from the stage and screen.

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Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch from the Royal Albert Hall, on 22nd August 2016.

Richard Bona, voice/bass guitar

Jacob Collier, voice/piano/synthesiser

Alfredo Rodr퀀guez, piano

Jules Buckley, conductor

Jules Buckley and his Metropole Orkest return to the Proms to celebrate the career of composer, arranger, conductor, producer and all-round musical giant Quincy Jones. Recent musical partners of Quincy's join the longest-established jazz orchestra in existence as special guests to collaborate on new arrangements of hits both old and new - and the great man himself makes an appearance.

The Metropole Orkest pays a special Proms tribute to Quincy Jones.

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Presented by Ian Skelly from the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 26 August 2016.

Mozart: Concert aria 'Per questa bella mano', K612

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K622

Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626

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Lucy Crowe (soprano)

Barbara Kozelj (mezzo-soprano)

Jeremy Ovenden (tenor)

Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass)

Ivကn Fischer (conductor)

The story of Mozart's last months is almost as remarkable as the string of masterpieces he produced during them. Who was the cloaked figure rumoured to have commissioned Mozart to write the Requiem? We'll never know, but the deathly tread, furious fight and radiant hope of the music remain unparalleled.

Ivကn Fischer brings his equally exceptional Budapest Festival Orchestra to the Proms, joined by one of Europe's leading choirs for the Requiem, alongside the autumnal shades of Mozart's late Clarinet Concerto.

An All-Mozart Prom, featuring Per questa bella mano; Clarinet Concerto in A; Requiem.

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Presented by Petroc Trelawny from the Royal Albert Hall on 27th August 2016.

Mozart: The Magic Flute - Overture

Hans Abrahamsen: let me tell you (London premiere)

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4 in F minor

Barbara Hannigan, soprano

Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla, conductor

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with their music director Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla. While Mozart's overture combines infectious energy with Masonic symbolism, Tchaikovsky's dramatic Fourth Symphony explores the shadow cast by Fate. Hans Abrahamsen's Grawemeyer Award-winning song-cycle for Barbara Hannigan centres on Shakespeare's Ophelia, using only words allotted to her in Hamlet.

Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla conducts the CBSO in music by Mozart, Hans Abrahamsen and Tchaikovsky

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Presented by Martin Handley from the Royal Albert Hall on 29th August 2016

Beethoven:

Overture 'Leonore' No 2

Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major, 'Emperor

Symphony No 7 in A major

Andrကs Schiff, piano

Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

Tonight's all-Beethoven Prom culminates in the composer's most fascinating and bold symphony, a piece shaped by irresistible rhythmic drive, whether in the inevitable tread of its slow march or the propulsive energy of its outer movements.

One of the world's oldest orchestras, along with one of its closest collaborators, lights the fuse on Beethoven's Seventh and his excitable Leonore Overture No. 2, while 'pianist's pianist' Sir Andrကs Schiff performs the composer's most commanding piano concerto.

Herbert Blomstedt conducts the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in an all-Beethoven Prom.

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Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch from the Royal Albert Hall on 30th August 2016

JS Bach: Cantata No.82, 'Ich habe genug

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D minor

Christian Gerhaher baritone

Philippe Jordan conductor

Death laid its hand on Anton Bruckner as he laboured over the incomplete last movement of his final symphony. But as life was leaving Bruckner, vision and faith were only strengthening in him. Even in its incompleteness, Bruckner's Ninth carries with it an inspiring optimism in the face of death. 'Art had its beginning in God,' believed Bruckner, 'and so it must lead back to God.' Appropriate sentiments given that it is preceded by Bach's cantata of resignation and acceptance 'Ich habe genug' from the thrilling bass-baritone of Christian Gerhaher.

Philippe Jordan conducts the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester in music by Bach and Bruckner.

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Presented by Andrew McGregor from the Royal Albert Hall on 30th August

Kamasi Washington (saxophone)

The Next Step

T.O.P. Gospel Choir

Thrilling California-based saxophonist and composer Kamasi Washington has been described as the biggest thing to hit jazz for years. Having toured for over a decade with artists such as Herbie Hancock, Lauryn Hill and Snoop Dogg, he now brings his own band to the Proms, combining with the strings of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and choral backing, to perform tracks from his groundbreaking recent three-disc album The Epic.

A Prom featuring jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington with his own band and the CBSO Strings

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Presented by Ian Skelly from the Royal Albert Hall on 31st August

Bayan Northcott: Concerto for Orchestra (BBC commission: world premiere)

Mozart: Violin Concerto No 5 in A major, K219, Turkish

Alexander von Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony, Op.18

Baiba Skride, violin

Siobhan Stagg, soprano

Christopher Maltman, baritone

Simone Young, conductor

Simone Young makes her Proms debut with the world premiere of Bayan Northcott's Concerto for Orchestra and Mozart's Eastern-influenced violin concerto. Then, a rare chance to hear Zemlinsky's setting of Hindu poetry by Rabindranath Tagore, an alluring and mysterious slice of late-Romantic lusciousness in which soprano and baritone drape verses over a kaleidoscopic orchestra.

BBC Symphony Orchestra under Simone Young in Bayan Northcott, Mozart and Zemlinsky.

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Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch from the Royal Albert Hall on 1st September 2016

Bach: Mass in B minor

Katherine Watson (soprano)

Tim Mead (countertenor)

Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor)

Andr退 Morsch (baritone)

William Christie (conductor)

During the last four years of his life, Johann Sebastian Bach worked on a piece that he knew would represent the summation of his life's work. In the end, the material of Bach's almighty Mass in B minor was almost two decades in the making - a compilation of some of his finest vocal music woven together with startlingly original new music born of acute inspiration.

William Christie conducts Bach's Mass with a quartet of soloists and his own ensemble Les Arts Florissants, known for its historically informed and infectiously exciting performances of Baroque music.

William Christie conducts Les Arts Florissants in a performance of Bach's Mass in B minor.

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Presented by Martin Handley from the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 2nd September 2016.

7:30pm

Boulez: ɀclat

Mahler: Symphony No. 7

Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

The first of two concerts from this year's BBC Proms featuring the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle commemorates the towering genius that was the late Pierre Boulez.

Here Boulez's kaleidoscopic ɀclat forms a prelude to perhaps Gustav Mahler's most radical symphony, a work in which his musical imagination stormed new territories in its fierce harmonies and wild scoring.

In the symphony's celebrated 'Night Music' serenades - eerie yet strangely calming nocturnes for orchestra, one hinging on a gently strumming guitar and mandolin - Mahler appears to look to a realm far beyond his own.

Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Boulez's Eclat and Mahler's Symphony No 7

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Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch from the Royal Albert Hall on 2nd September

Bela Bartok: Three Village Scenes

Pierre Boulez: Anth耀mes 2

Elliott Carter: Penthode

Pierre Boulez: cummings ist der Dichter

Baldur Br怀nnimann, conductor

The Ensemble Intercontemporain commemorates the late Pierre Boulez - composer, conductor, polemicist and founder of the ensemble - with a programme of pieces he conducted during more than 40 years of appearances at the Proms. His Anth耀mes 2, for violin and electronics, contrasts with the exuberant vocal setting of avian poetry by EE Cummings, performed by the BBC Singers.

Around these come Bart　k's earthy Village Scenes and Elliott Carter's Penthode - written for tonight's ensemble - a slow movement of geological power that has been compared to the steady glide of tectonic plates.

Ensemble intercontemporain and the BBC Singers perform music by Bartok, Boulez and Carter.

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Presented by Martin Handley from the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 3rd September 2016.

Julian Anderson: Incantesimi (UK premiere)

Dvorကk: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major

Sir Simon Rattle conductor

Overlooking a lake in the Austrian resort of P怀rtschach, Johannes Brahms created a symphony that captured all he saw: the beauty of the sunset; the stillness of the night; the peaceful awakening to a new day. And yet its musicians were to play, said Brahms, as if 'with a mourning ribbon around their arm'.

Brahms's meeting of glowing melancholy and piercing brightness is the culmination of the Berlin Philharmonic's second Prom under Sir Simon Rattle, following Dvorကk's colourful Slavonic Dances and a new work from Julian Anderson.

Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Julian Anderson, Dvorak and Brahms.

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Presented by Andrew McGregor from the Royal Albert Hall on 4th September

Paul Desenne: Hipnosis mariposa (UK premiere)

Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No 2

Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe - Suite No 2

Ravel: La Valse

The incomparable Sim　n Bol퀀var Symphony Orchestra makes a return following its second appearance at the Proms back in 2011. As part of the 2016 Proms celebration of South American music and musicians, we hear a performance of Venezuelan composer Paul Desenne's Hipnosis mariposa and one of Heitor Villa-Lobos's orchestral tributes to JS Bach - his Bachianas Brasileiras No 2. This most thrusting of orchestras ends with Ravel's dizzying parody of a fin-de-si耀cle waltz, La Valse.

Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra and Gustavo Dudamel: Paul Desenne, Villa-Lobos and Ravel.

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Presented by Ian Skelly from the Royal Albert Hall on 5th September 2016

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K491

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E flat major (Romantic)

Daniel Barenboim (piano and director)

Daniel Barenboim and his Staatskapelle Berlin pair a Mozart piano concerto with a Bruckner symphony. 'We shall never be able to do anything like that,' proclaimed Beethoven when he heard Mozart's dramatic, minor-key Piano Concerto No. 24.

As with Mozart in his concertos, with each of Bruckner's symphonies came a keener focus of vision and honing of craft. With the Fourth, Bruckner really came of age, bringing a newfound confidence in the glowing first movement, while its statuesque Andante is a moving premonition of loss.

Staatskapelle Berlin/Barenboim. Mozart: Piano Concerto No 24. Bruckner: Symphony No 4.

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Presented by Ian Skelly from the Royal Albert Hall on 6th September 2016

Mozart: Piano Concerto No 26 in D major, K537 'Coronation

Bruckner: Symphony No 6 in A major

Staatskapelle Berlin

Daniel Barenboim (piano and director)

Bruckner, but not as we know him. In the Sixth Symphony, gone is the composer's typical heft, his long-drawn crescendos and his archetypal brooding introduction. Instead, this symphony gallops into life, crackling with vitality. Bruckner's rich and individual Sixth Symphony is heard in the second of the Staatskapelle Berlin's two Proms after a piano concerto by Mozart that boasts similar rarity and individuality.

Mozart's sparkling Piano Concerto No. 26 was performed by the composer in Frankfurt during festivities in 1790 for the coronation of Leopold II as Holy Roman Emperor.

Staatskapelle Berlin/Barenboim. Mozart: Piano Concerto No 26. Bruckner: Symphony No 6.

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Presented by Tom Service from the Royal Albert Hall on 8th September

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D

Reger: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart

Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

Nikolaj Znaider (violin)

Christian Thielemann (conductor)

The Staatskapelle Dresden and its Chief Conductor Christian Thielemann open their second Prom with Beethoven's most radiant, smiling work, his sublime Violin Concerto, in the sure hands of Nikolaj Znaider. This famously rich-toned orchestra digs into Max Reger's affectionate and beautifully orchestrated Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart and finally Richard Strauss's witty and abrasive depiction of an impish figure from German folklore, his outlandish tone-poem telling of 'Till Eulenspiegel's merry pranks'.

First broadcast in September 2016.

Christian Thielemann conducts the Staatskapelle Dresden in Beethoven, Reger and Strauss.

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Presented by Andrew McGregor from the Royal Albert Hall on 8th September 2016

Handel: Coronation Anthems: Zadok the Priest; My Heart is Inditing

Georg Muffat: Armonico tributo - Sonata No. 5 in G major

Handel: Coronation Anthem: Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened

JS Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 - Air (arr. Stokowski)

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - 'When I am Laid in Earth' (Dido's Lament) (arr. Stokowski)

Handel: Coronation Anthem: The King Shall Rejoice

Richard Egarr conductor

On 11 October 1727, George II was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey. The House of Hanover's favourite composer was the natural choice to provide the music. Handel wrote four majestic Coronation Anthems for the occasion, the most famous, Zadok the Priest, designed to unleash its blazing choral entry just as George stepped into the Abbey's chancel.

The Academy of Ancient Music returns to the Proms to fill the Royal Albert Hall with all the regal splendour of Handel's Coronation Anthems and with Leopold Stokowski's equally grandiose upholstering of music by Bach and Purcell.

Richard Egarr conducts the Academy of Ancient Music in music by Handel, Purcell and Bach.

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Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch from the Royal Albert Hall on 9th September

Verdi: Requiem

Tamara Wilson (soprano)

Alisa Kolosova (mezzo-soprano)

Dimitri Pittas (tenor)

Morris Robinson (bass)

Marin Alsop (conductor)

Verdi's shattering Requiem - which began life as a memorial to Rossini - was so forthright in its expression of grief, faith and judgement that many thought it too dramatic for performance in church.

Marin Alsop leads the period instruments of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the fresh voices of the BBC Proms Youth Choir through all the passion, turbulence and reflection of Verdi's sacred masterpiece.

Marin Alsop conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Verdi's Requiem.

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Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill and Petroc Trelawny

Tom Harrold: Raze (BBC commission)

Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow

Borodin: Prince Igor - Polovtsian Dances (Act 2)

Rossini: La Cenerentola - Si, ritrovarla io giuro

Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore - Una furtiva lagrima

Offenbach: La Belle H退l耀ne - Au mont Ida

Britten: Matin退es musicales

Jonathan Dove: Our revels now are ended

Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music

Donizetti: La Fille du r退giment - 'Ah! mes amis

¡Fiesta Caribeကa! - arr. Anne Dudley

Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D major, 'Land of Hope and Glory

Arr. Wood: Fantasia on British Sea-Songs

Arne: Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent)

Parry: Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)

The National Anthem (arr. Britten)

Juan Diego Fl　rez (tenor)

Duncan Rock (baritone)

Francesca Chiejina, Eve Daniell, Lauren Fagan, Alison Rose (sopranos)

Claire Barnett-Jones, Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Anna Harvey, Katie Stevenson (mezzo-sopranos)

Trystan Llyr Griffiths, Oliver Johnston, Joshua Owen Mills, James Way (tenors)

Bragi J　nsson, Benjamin Lewis, James Newby, Bradley Travis (basses)

BBC Proms Youth Ensemble

BBC Symphony Chorus

Sakari Oramo conductor

First broadcast 10th September 2016.

From the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Last Night of the 2016 Proms.

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Presented by Georgia Mann

Steve Reich: Vermont Counterpoint

Eight Lines

Music for a Large Ensemble

Christopher Stark, conductor

The Proms steps out of the Royal Albert Hall and into a municipal car park in Peckham to salute the man who reconnected art music to urban culture in all its drive, repetition and asymmetry.

South London favourites Christopher Stark and the Multi-Story Orchestra make their Proms debut in an all-Reich performance on their home ground.

The programme includes Reich's bright and excitable Music for a Large Ensemble - his first major work for full orchestra - and the shifting patterns of his single-movement 'octet' Eight Lines.

First broadcast 3rd September 2016.

The Multi-Story Orchestra plays Reich at Bold Tendencies multi-storey car park in Peckham.

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Presented by Andrew McGregor from the Roundhouse, Camden, on 20th August 2016.

Sir Harrison Birtwistle: The Message

Georg Friedrich Haas: Open Spaces II

Mica Levi: Signal Before War (BBC commission)

David Sawer: April \ March (BBC co-commission with the RPS Drummond Fund)

Jonny Greenwood: smear

Gy怀rgy Ligeti: Ramifications

Jonathan Morton, violin

Andrew Gourlay, conductor

The Proms returns to Camden's industrial answer to the Royal Albert Hall for a programme which takes its lead from Ligeti's iconic Ramifications. This embracing score, for two groups of spatially positioned strings, is heard alongside music by one of Ligeti's natural musical heirs, Georg Friedrich Haas, and other new pieces concerned with physical space.

The central piece of the concert is a major new work from David Sawer that reflects the energy and physicality of dance.

London Sinfonietta in music by Haas, Mica Levi, Ligeti, Jonny Greenwood and David Sawer.

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