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Prom 37 Repeat: Orchestra Of The Academy Of Santa Cecilia And Sir Antonio Pappano20180826Another chance to hear the Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome, conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano, play Haydn, Bernstein and Mahler at the BBC Proms.

Presented by Ian Skelly at the Royal Albert Hall.

Haydn: The Creation - Chaos

Bernstein: Symphony No. 1 'Jeremiah

Mahler: Symphony No 1 in D major

Elizabeth DeShong, mezzo-soprano

Sir Antonio Pappano, conductor

The Bernstein centenary celebrations continue in a programme that pairs his ‘Jeremiah' Symphony with music by two composers he admired and championed.

Appearing at the Proms for the first time in five years, Rome's Santa Cecilia Orchestra (of which Bernstein was Honorary President for almost a decade) and its Music Director Sir Antonio Pappano perform Bernstein's youthful First Symphony, charged with political anxiety and dread, alongside another symphonic debut, Mahler's dramatic First.

The concert opens with Haydn's arresting musical vision of primordial chaos.

Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome, plays Mahler at the Royal Albert Hall.

Another chance to hear broadcasts of selected concerts from the 2018 BBC Proms season

Prom 51 Repeat: Strauss, Wagner And Per N\u00f8rg\u00e5rd20180902The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and their Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard at the BBC Proms with soprano Malin Bystr怀m.

Presented by Kate Molleson at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Wagner: Parsifal - Prelude to Act I

Strauss: Four Last Songs

Per Nørg倀rd: Symphony No 3

Malin Bystr怀m (soprano)

London Voices

The National Youth Chamber Choir

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

Premiered in 1976, Per Nørg倀rd's Third Symphony is one of the great contemporary symphonies - a Danish classic that has never before been performed in the UK. Suffused with glowing microtones and thick, textural beauty, the eclectic score draws on everything from plainchant to Latin-American rhythms to spin its extraordinary narrative.

Thomas Dausgaard and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra preface it with two works of equal sonic breadth: Wagner's exquisite musical meditation, the Prelude to Act 1 of Parsifal, and the autumnal warmth of Strauss's Four Last Songs, sung by Swedish soprano Malin Bystr怀m.

BBC SSO, Thomas Dausgaard and Malin Bystrom perform Strauss, Wagner and Norgard

Another chance to hear broadcasts of selected concerts from the 2018 BBC Proms season