BBC Proms [2017]

Live from Cadogan Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Monteverdi: Cruda Amarilli; Sfogava con le stelle; Longe da te, cor mio; 'Possente spirto' - from Orfeo; Chiome d'oro; Vorrei baciarti, o Filli

Roderick Williams: L

Live from Cadogan Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Webern: Langsamer Satz

Laurent Durupt: Grids for Greed (BBC commission: world premiere)

Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major

Annelien Van Wauwe, clarinet

Two of BBC Radio 3's current New Generation Artists come together for a programme of chamber music spanning over 200 years.

The Van Kuijk Quartet joins forces with clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe for Mozart's lyrical Clarinet Quintet, whose expansive melodies and sunny A major key belie the struggles and sadnesses of his personal life.

Webern's Langsamer Satz (Slow Movement) is, by contrast, the ecstatic outpouring of a young man in love, happier than ever before and writing music once described as 'Tristan and Isolde compressed into 11 minutes'.

In his first string quartet, which today receives its world premiere, French composer and pianist Laurent Durupt explores contrasts both of musical material and musical time and asks whether the differences are conflicting or complementary.

Producer Ellie Mant.

Live from Cadogan Hall, the Van Kuijk Quartet and Annelien Van Wauwe perform Mozart.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Finnish folk music meets familiar Baroque textures in a programme exploring two genres with a shared love of song and dance.

Anu Komsi (soprano)

Kreeta-Maria Kentala (violin)

Andrew Lawrence-King (harp, kantele, psaltery)

Eero Palviainen (theorbo, guitar)

Milla Viljamaa (harmonium)

Soprano Anu Komsi and violinist Kreeta-Maria Kentala both have family roots in the folk-rich municipality of Kaustinen, western Finland. They are joined by fellow boundary-crossing musicians for a whistle-stop journey through Finnish musical history encompassing the 16th-century Piae cantiones (the earliest printed book of Finnish music) and the 19th-century national folk epic, the Kalevala, which so inspired Sibelius. The concert also features favourites by Corelli and other Baroque composers, as well as folk songs from Kaustinen and music by Kreeta Haapasalo (1813-93), who was born in the region.

Live from Cadogan Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Hasse: Adagio and Fugue in G minor

Platti: Cello Concerto in D major

Vivaldi: Cello Concerto in A minor, RV 419

Telemann: Divertimento in B flat major

Boccherini: Cello Concerto in D major, G479

Edgar Moreau, cello

Maxim Emelyanychev, director

Still in his early twenties, French cellist Edgar Moreau is already making his mark with the exuberant virtuosity of his playing. Here he joins the Baroque ensemble Il Pomo d'Oro for a programme focusing on 18th-century concertos.

Charged with all the rhetorical and emotional intensity of opera arias, these wonderfully expressive and colourful works range from the fretful melancholy of Vivaldi's Cello Concerto in A minor to the poised elegance of Boccherini's Concerto in D major and the irrepressible joy of Platti's Concerto in D major.

Live at Cadogan Hall: Edgar Moreau with Il Pomo d'Oro perform Vivaldi and Telemann.

Live at Cadogan Hall, London.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Shostakovich: Ten Poems on Texts by Revolutionary Poets - excerpts

Shostakovich: Preludes and Fugues, Op 87 Nos 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8

Alexander Melnikov (piano)

Sigvards K?ava (conductor)

Our family discussed the Revolution of 1905 constantly ... The stories deeply affected my imagination.' Born in the shadow of one of Russia's darkest hours - the slaughter of over 1,000 peaceful protesters outside the Winter Palace in St Petersburg - Shostakovich carried its ghosts with him throughout his life. They are given voice here in a concert that brings together the wordless songs of the composer's Preludes and Fugues with the more explicit homage of the Ten Poems on Texts by Revolutionary Poets. In the last of its three appearances this season, the Latvian Radio Choir is joined by Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov.

The Latvian Radio Choir and pianist Alexander Melnikov perform Shostakovich.

Live at Cadogan Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Duparc: L'invitation au voyage

Guridi: Seis canciones castellanas

Ravel: Cinq melodies populaires grecques

Hahn: ɀtudes latines - Lyd退; Vile potabis; Tyndaris

Koechlin: Sh退h退razade - Chanson d'Engaddi; La chanson d'Ishak de Moussoul; Le voyage

Poulenc: Voyage

Live from Cadogan Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Waltz in A flat major, Op. 69 No. 1

Impromptu in A flat major, Op. 29

Waltz in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2

Fantasy-Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op. 66

Fantasy in F minor/A flat major, Op. 49

Mazurkas - selection

Scherzo in E major, Op. 54

Pavel Kolesnikov piano

Still in his twenties, award-winning pianist and former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Pavel Kolesnikov has been praised for the sensitivity and maturity of his playing.

Fresh from a critically acclaimed recording of Chopin's Mazurkas, he performs an all-Chopin recital at Cadogan Hall, including the brooding Fantasy, Op. 49, the mercurial Scherzo in E major and the ever popular Waltz in A flat major, Op. 69 No 1, alongside a selection of Mazurkas - one of the forms in which Chopin most deeply expressed his feelings for his Polish homeland.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill and Petroc Trelawny

Tom Coult: St John's Dance (BBC commission: world premiere)

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor

c 20:15 INTERVAL: Clemency Burton-Hill and Petroc Trelawny look forward to two months of world-class music-making in the company of guests, and go backstage to chat to some of the performers in tonight's Prom.

c 20:35

Igor Levit, piano

BBC Proms Youth Choir

BBC Symphony Chorus

Edward Gardner, conductor

John Adams's Harmonium is an intricate tapestry of sound, with bright vocal threads and driving brass and percussion rhythms. Marking the composer's 70th birthday this year, it features the BBC Proms Youth Choir alongside stalwarts of the First and Last Nights, the BBC Symphony Chorus.

Award-winning pianist Igor Levit is the soloist in Beethoven's groundbreaking Third Piano Concerto, and this year's First Night opens with the world premiere of St John's Dance by rising British composer, Tom Coult.

The First Night of the 2017 Proms, with music by Tom Coult, Beethoven and Adams.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Tom Service

Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen

Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, with live excerpts.

c.8.30pm INTERVAL: Proms Extra

Historian Andrew Roberts explores the influence of the figure of Napoleon on contemporary novelists and poets and Napoleon's long shadow across the 19th Century. Recorded as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College earlier this evening.

Producer Simon Richardson

c.8.50pm

Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica

Nicholas Collon, conductor

No symphony pulses more vigorously with the rhythms of political protest than Beethoven's 'Eroica', whose defiant opening chords mark the arrival of the Romantic symphony. In their novel introduction, BBC Radio 3's Tom Service and conductor Nicholas Collon dismantle and reassemble this groundbreaking work, with the help of live excerpts, before the Aurora Orchestra gets under the skin of the work by performing the complete symphony from memory.

The concert also includes Richard Strauss's 1945 Metamorphosen. Scored for 23 solo strings, this ecstatic, elegiac work closes with an 'Eroica' quotation that mourns the devastation brought about by another, even darker, political regime.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall

Presented by Georgia Mann.

Programme to include music by Beethoven, Copland, Elgar, Mozart, Respighi and Ravi Shankar

Kathryn Lewek, soprano

Jess Gillam, saxophone

Gaurav Mazumdar, sitar

Ten Pieces Children's Choir

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Jessica Cottis (conductor)

Together with young performers, the Ten Pieces Children's Choir and guests, Sir Henry discovers how nature, history, dreams, love, magic and lots more have inspired composers to create musical masterpieces.

Producer Peter Thresh.

Join ringmaster Henry Wood on an exciting adventure for all the family.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Kate Molleson

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.9

c. 7.05pm INTERVAL - Proms Extra

Martin Handley talks to the musicologist Kate Kennedy and film director Tony Palmer about tonight's music, and the relationship between Vaughan Williams and Holst. Recorded earlier at the Imperial College Union.

c. 7.25pm

Holst: The Planets

John Wilson, conductor

Proms favourite, John Wilson, makes his first appearance at the Proms as the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's new Associate Guest Conductor. Here he swaps Hollywood and Broadway classics for another of his personal passions: the great British symphonic classics. Holst's galactic suite conjures up the epic scope of a movie blockbuster in luminous music of infinite vistas, while Vaughan Williams's enigmatic final symphony also revels in an augmented sound-world: it's a piece Wilson sees as a suitably radical counterpart to The Planets.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Kate Molleson

Liszt: Hamlet

Julian Anderson: Piano Concerto, The Imaginary Museum (world premiere)

c. 8.10pm INTERVAL - Proms Extra

Presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch and guest, the pianist and broadcaster David Owen Norris, explore the theme of orchestration in connection with today's Prom.

c. 8.30pm

Liszt: From the Cradle to the Grave

Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov, conductor

Steven Osborne, piano

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and its Principal Guest Conductor, Ilan Volkov, perform two of the last in the series of Liszt's symphonic poems - the mercurial Hamlet, a study of Shakespeare's tragic hero, and From the Cradle to the Grave, one of Liszt's most experimental works. They sit alongside Mussorgsky's much-loved Pictures at an Exhibition and the world premiere of a new piano concerto by Julian Anderson, which offers a tour around 'an imaginary museum' of contrasting worlds and sensations.

Producer Douglas Templeton.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, the world premiere of Julian Anderson's piano concerto.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Mark Simpson: The Immortal

8.10 INTERVAL - Proms Extra

Composer Mark Simpson talks to presenter Kate Molleson. Highlights of a discussion recorded at the Imperial College Union earlier this evening.

8.30

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6, 'Path退tique

Christopher Purves (baritone)

London Voices

Crouch End Festival Chorus

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Life and death collide in a concert that explores what lies beyond the limits of human existence. In his passionate Sixth Symphony, which Tchaikovsky described as 'the best thing I ever composed or shall compose', he re-imagined what the symphony could be, daring to face death with uncertainty. The BBC Philharmonic's Composer in Association, a former BBC Young Musician winner and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Mark Simpson, also looks to the afterlife in his critically acclaimed oratorio 'The Immortal'. Inspired by Victorian seances, he conjures up eerie visions of a world beyond.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, BBC Philharmonic in music by Mark Simpson and Tchaikovsky

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Ian Skelly

Korngold: The Sea Hawk - overture

Anders Hillborg: Sirens (UK premiere)

8.10pm INTERVAL - Proms Extra

Emeritus Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Sir Barry Cunliffe and Professor Edith Hall will consider epic sea journeys and the role of the sea in Greek myth and legend with presenter Rana Mitter. Recorded earlier as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College.

Producer: Craig Smith

8.30pm

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

Hannah Holgerrson (soprano)

Ida Falk Winland (soprano)

James Gaffigan (conductor)

James Gaffigan and the BBC Symphony Orchestra take you on a maritime journey from the exotic oceans of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade to the siren-filled waters of Homer's Odyssey as imagined by Swedish composer Anders Hillborg - with two Swedish sopranos and the BBC Symphony Chorus - and the stormy seas of Korngold's stirring film score for The Sea Hawk.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andy Pidcock

Andy Pidcock, arr Glyn: Hello

Rossini: Overture (William Tell)

Rimsky-Korsakov, arr Bell: The Flight of the Bumble Bee

Pidcock, arr Glyn: La La Na Na

Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker)

J Strauss II: The Blue Danube

Pidcock, arr Glyn: Andy's Waltz

Brahms, arr Parlow: Hungarian Dance No 6 in D flat major

Pharrell Williams, arr Bachalis: Happy

Pidcock, arr Glyn: A.E.I.O.U; La,La,La

Grainer, arr Gold, orch Foster: Main Theme (Doctor Who)

Pidcock, arr Glyn: Thank you very much

Quincy Jones, arr Burton: Soul Bossanova

Pupils from Ty Coch School

Grant Llewellyn, conductor

A concert suitable for children and adults with autism, sensory and communication impairments and learning disabilities as well as individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind and partially sighted.

Presented by conductor Grant Llewellyn and musician Andy Pidcock, the first ever Relaxed Prom is a fun and interactive musical experience in a welcoming environment, with plenty of opportunities for participation.

During the concert there is a relaxed attitude to movement and noise in the auditorium. (There are over 80 musicians in the orchestra alone, so it will be loud!) You can move about, dance, sing or just listen. 'Chill-out' spaces outside the auditorium are available.

Produced in collaboration with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Royal Albert Hall Education & Outreach, the Relaxed Prom also features picture communication systems projected onto large screens, as well as audio description and British Sign Language interpretation. Radio 3 listeners will hear audio description of the Prom from Louise Fryer.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Grant Llewellyn perform in the first ever Relaxed Prom

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor

8.00pm INTERVAL - Proms Extra

Professor Thomas Dixon, who is the Director of the Centre of the History of Emotions, and musicologist Wiebke Thorm䀀hlen look at mood and how composers have engaged with themes of sentimentality, happiness, sorrow in their work and how writers have explored these emotions in novels and poetry. Hosted as a Proms Extra event recorded with an audience at Imperial College by presenter Matthew Sweet.

Producer: Fiona McLean

8.20pm

Elgar: Symphony No 1 in A flat major

Lisa Batiashvili, violin

Daniel Barenboim, conductor

Fresh from two remarkable Elgar recordings with his Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim launches this year's cycle of Elgar symphonies with a performance of the First - a work of thrilling emotional contrasts and a slow movement of Mahlerian richness and beauty.

He pairs it with one of the great Romantic violin concertos, once described by musicologist Donald Francis Tovey as 'more original, more masterly and more exhilarating' than any of its rivals, in which former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Lisa Batiashvili is the soloist.

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in music by Sibelius and Elgar.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor

8.25 INTERVAL - Proms Extra

In the second of our discussions about mood and emotion, novelist and broadcaster Charlotte Mendelson considers happiness: why do fewer writers engage with that emotion and why is so much of literature full of unhappy people? She's joined by psychologist and broadcaster Claudia Hammond, presenter of Radio 4's All In The Mind programme and author of 'Emotional Rollercoaster: A Journey Through The Science Of Feelings' and the discussion is chaired by New Generation Thinker Will Abberley. Recorded earlier as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod

8.45

David Sawer: the greatest happiness principle

Haydn: Symphony No 99 in E flat major

Stephen Hough (piano)

Mark Wigglesworth (conductor)

Though booed at its premiere in 1859, Brahms's First Piano Concerto has gone on to become one of the most beloved of the great rollercoasters among concertos. A giant of a piece with an emotional scope to match, it is at its most tender in the slow movement - a 'gentle portrait' of Clara Schumann. Tempering this intensity is Haydn's graceful Symphony No 99 and David Sawer's 'the greatest happiness principle', with its dancing, rhythmically charged textures, inspired by Jeremy Bentham's Utopian philosophies.

The BBC Philharmonic in music by Brahms, Haydn and David Sawer.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

James MacMillan: A European Requiem

c.7.45 INTERVAL - Proms Extra

Novelist Lawrence Norfolk makes a selection of European writers who have considered the idea of 'Europe', with readings performed by Peter Marinker. Hosted by New Generation Thinker Nandini Das. Recorded earlier as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College.

Producer: Zahid Warley

c. 8.10

Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D minor, 'Choral

Iestyn Davies (countertenor)

Jacques Imbrailo (baritone)

Erin Wall (soprano)

Sonia Prina (mezzo)

Simon O'Neil (tenor)

Alexander Vinogradov (bass)

City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus

Xian Zhang (conductor)

Freedom, hope and brotherhood are the notions that underpin both Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Sir James MacMillan's new choral work A European Requiem - a plea for unity in a troubled world. Xian Zhang and the BBC NOW perform this European premiere.

Producer Tim Thorne.

BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales and Xian Zhang perform Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill

Giuseppina Bridelli, mezzo-soprano

Eva Zacik, mezzo-soprano

Emiliano Gonzalez?Toro, tenor

Magnus Staveland, tenor

Virgile Ancely, bass

Renaud Bres, bass

Geoffroy Buffi耀re, bass

Rapha뀀l Pichon, director

Before there was Bach's Mass in B minor or Beethoven's Missa solemnis there was Monteverdi's Vespers, a choral masterpiece of unprecedented musical scope and audacious beauty. The work's textural extremes, multiple choirs and sonic effects are brought to life in a performance marking the 450th anniversary of the composer's birth.

Award-winning French Baroque ensemble Pygmalion makes its Proms debut under its director Rapha뀀l Pichon, together with an exciting line-up of young soloists.

French baroque ensemble Pygmalion perform Monteverdi Vespers.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill

Handel Israel in Egypt (1739 version)

Zo뀀 Brookshaw, soprano

Rowan Pierce, soprano

Christopher Lowrey, countertenor

Jeremy Budd, tenor

Dingle Yandell, bass-baritone

Callum Thorpe, bass

Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

William Christie conductor

Filled with frogs, locusts, hailstones and rivers of blood, Israel in Egypt is one of Handel's most extravagant oratorios and, by placing the chorus in the spotlight, Handel uses the collective voices to tell the story of an entire people.

In this performance of the 1739 version, William Christie conducts the period ensemble the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, joined by the group's own choir, in the launch of a series of Handel oratorios to be performed over the coming seasons at the Proms.

During the interval, Martin Handley and Handel experts Suzanne Aspden and Richard Wigmore introduce Handel's 'Israel in Egypt' in a talk recorded earlier in the evening as a Proms Extra at Imperial College Union.

Producer Peter Thresh.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Johann Sebastian Bach: Canonic Variations on 'Vom Himmel hoch, da komm, ich her', BWV 769 (arr. Stravinsky)

Maurice Ravel: Sh退h退razade

c.7.35pm INTERVAL - Proms Extra

Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers and authors Seကn Williams and Rachel Hewitt discuss the German writer Friedrich Schiller's essay On Nave And Sentimental Poetry, in the third of our Interval conversations about mood and emotion. Hosted by Anne McElvoy. Recorded earlier this evening as a Proms Extra event with an audience at Imperial College.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod

c.7.55pm

John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music

Marianne Crebassa, mezzo-soprano

Philharmonia Voices

Esa?Pekka Salonen, conductor

The celebrations of John Adams's 70th birthday continue with his Naive and Sentimental Music, conducted by its dedicatee, Esa-Pekka Salonen. A symphony in all but name, the work glows with multi-layered textures. From meditative Minimalism to intricate counterpoint in Stravinsky's Canonic Variations on 'Vom Himmel hoch, da komm' ich her' - a colourful 'recomposition' of Bach's own chorale variations on the Lutheran hymn. Rising French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa is the soloist in Ravel's heady song-cycle Sh退h退razade, an exotic musical fantasy of distant lands and forbidden love.

Esa\u2010Pekka Salonen, Philharmonia Orchestra and mezzo Marianne Crebassa live at the Proms.

From the Royal Albert Hall

Presented by Georgia Mann

Schütz: Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren, SWV 41

Nicht uns, Herr, sondern deinem Namen, SWV 43

Danket dem Herren, denn er ist freundlich, SWV 45

Bach: Cantata No. 79, 'Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild

Cantata No. 80, 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott

Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. Bach's austere and beautiful Lutheran cantatas stand in contrast to the lively rhythms and rich textures of Schütz's music.

Producer Anthony Sellors.

The Monteverdi Choir marks the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Presented by Martin Handley

Erkki-Sven Tüür Flamma (UK premiere)

Mozart Sinfonia concertante in E flat major

c.8.15pm Interval - Proms Extra

Petroc Trelawny talks to musicians from the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen about the life of the orchestra and its innovative education collaboration with Bremen East School. Highlights of a discussion recorded at the Imperial College Union earlier this evening.

c.8.35

Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D major

Vilde Frang violin

Lawrence Power viola

Paavo J䀀rvi conductor

The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and its Artistic Director Paavo J䀀rvi return to the Proms, joined by British violist Lawrence Power and Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang for Mozart's genial Sinfonia concertante.

Sitting somewhere between a concerto and a symphony, it's a perfect showcase for the virtuosity of this ensemble and its sunny good humour offers a striking contrast to Erkki-Sven Tüür's arresting Flamma - a vivid musical portrait of fire as both purifying force and agent of destruction.

Smoke clears and sunshine returns in Brahms's optimistic Second Symphony, with its free-flowing melodies and irrepressible closing dance.

Producer Peter Thresh.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Tom Redmond

Francisco Coll: Mural

Thomas Ad耀s: Polaris

8.15pm Interval

Tom Redmond and Georgia Mann talk to members of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, past and present

8.40pm

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Thomas Ad耀s (conductor)

Hear some of the UK's finest young musical talent, directed by composer and conductor Thomas Ad耀s, in a bold programme of works that push the orchestra to its technical and sonic limits. Ad耀s's own Polaris, subtitled 'A Voyage for Orchestra', takes inspiration from the North Star, conjuring a vast interstellar landscape that unfolds from a simple piano theme into a massive sonic spiral. Francisco Coll's Mural, tonight receiving its London premiere, is another richly textured, large-scale work - a 'grotesque symphony, in which Dionysus meets Apollo'. The concert's climax is Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring, whose frenzied rhythms and provocative harmonies prompted a legendary riot at its Paris premiere.

Interval: Tom Redmond and Georgia Mann talk to members of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, past and present.

Featuring the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, conducted by Thomas Ades.

Live at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Ian Skelly

Khovanshchina, Act 1

6.45pm INTERVAL - Proms Extra

Petroc Trelawny discusses Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina with Rosamund Bartlett and Nicholas Baragwanath.

7.05pm

Khovanshchina, Acts 2 & 3

8.10pm INTERVAL: Throwing a Wobbly

Louise Fryer uncovers the ups and downs of vocal vibrato. How and why do singers use it? With guests sopranos Janis Kelly and Peyee Chen, tenor John Potter, scientist Helena Daffern and early music researcher Richard Bethell.

Producer David Gallagher

8.30pm

Khovanshchina, Acts 4 & 5

Ivan Khovansky - Ante Jerkunica (bass)

Andrey Khovansky - Christopher Ventris (tenor)

Golitsin .....Vsevolod Grivnov (tenor)

Marfa - Elena Maximova (mezzo-soprano)

Dosifey - Ain Anger (bass)

Shaklovity - Georg Gagnidze (bass)

Susanna - Jennifer Rhys-Davies (soprano)

Scribe - Norbert Ernst (tenor)

Emma - Anush Hovhannisyan (soprano)

Kuzka - Colin Judson (tenor)

Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School Schola Cantorum

Tiffin Boys' Choir

Paul Weigold (asst.conductor)

Paul Curran (director)

Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

Shot through with folk melodies, Mussorgsky's 'national music drama' Khovanshchina weaves a richly coloured operatic tapestry in which Russia herself is the heroine. Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestras and an exciting cast, including Russian mezzo-soprano Elena Maximova.

Mussorgsky's opera Khovanshchina, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Britten: Ballad of Heroes

Brian Elias: Cello Concerto

c. 7.45pm INTERVAL - Proms Extra

Christopher Eccleston and Yolanda Vasquez perform readings and poems by the British volunteers of the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War. Britten's 'Ballad of Heroes' is dedicated to them. Dr Richard Baxell talks to presenter Clemency Burton-Hill about the history. Recorded as a Proms Extra earlier with an audience at Imperial College Union.

Producer, Karen Holden

c. 8.10pm

Purcell, arr Elgar: Jehova, quam multi sunt

Elgar: Enigma Variations

Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)

Toby Spence (tenor)

Henry Waddington (bass)

Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

Ryan Wigglesworth joins the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales for a programme that spans four centuries, from Purcell's dramatic choral motet 'Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei', to the world premiere of Brian Elias's Cello Concerto, whose intricate, spiral structure creates a dream-like musical narrative.

The concert opens with Britten's most overtly political work - an impassioned musical stand against fascism that anticipates the composer's War Requiem; and reaches its culmination with Elgar's 'Enigma' Variations, which includes the much-loved 'Nimrod'.

Producer Tim Thorne.

BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales perform Britten, Elias, Purcell and Elgar.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

Grieg: Peer Gynt (excerpts)

Sibelius: Luonnotar; Karelia Suite

Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op.129

Hindemith: Symphony 'Mathis der Maler

Lise Davidsen (soprano)

Alban Gerhardt (cello)

John Storg倀rds (conductor)

Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen makes her Proms debut singing Solveig's Song from Grieg's incidental music to Ibsen's dark drama 'Peer Gynt' and in Sibelius's late, great tone-poem Luonnotar. The sophisticated orchestral textures and sensuous melodies of Luonnotar contrast with the rough-hewn folk music of the same composer's struggle for freedom from Russian tyranny in his buoyant Karelia Suite.

Hindemith's opera 'Mathis der Maler', is set at the time of the Protestant Reformation; it was dubbed as 'degenerate' by the Nazi regime who then banned all performances of his music. But not before the Symphony drawn from the opera was premiered in March 1934 at one of the early peaks of Hitler's power by one his artistic favourites and persuasive defenders of the artistic credo, Wilhelm Furtw䀀ngler. Alban Gerhardt is the soloist in Schumann's Cello Concerto, which rejects overt solo virtuosity, favouring instead dialogue between cello and orchestra.

The BBC Philharmonic with music by Grieg, Sibelius, Schumann and Hindemith.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Ian Skelly

Schubert: Symphony No.8 'Unfinished

c. 8.00pm - INTERVAL: Proms Extra

David Owen Norris discusses unfinished works and composers who complete them.

c. 8.20pm

Mahler: Symphony No.10, compl. Deryck Cooke

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor, Thomas Dausgaard, offer two contrasting answers to the problem of performing unfinished symphonies. Although Schubert started work on his Eighth Symphony nearly six years before his death, he never completed it and the two existing movements of this lyrical, proto-Romantic work are mostly performed without a scherzo or finale. Mahler's final symphony grapples with darkness and doubt in music of rare anguish and intensity. It is presented tonight in the performing version by Deryck Cooke, which allows us to hear the work complete, in all its knotty, generous invention.

The BBC SSO and Thomas Dausgaard perform unfinished works by Schubert and Mahler.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Kate Molleson

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor

c. 6.55pm - Interval: PROMS EXTRA Louise Fryer discusses traditional Russian music with Anastasia Belina-Johnson and David Nice.

c. 7.15pm

Rachmaninov - Symphony No.2 in E minor

Alexander Gavrylyuk, piano

Latvian Radio Choir

Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

In tonight's all-Rachmaninov Prom, prize-winning pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk makes his Proms debut in the composer's demanding Third Piano Concerto, while the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra steps into the spotlight for the mercurial Second Symphony, with its hauntingly beautiful Adagio and impassioned finale. The Latvian Radio Choir complements each work with Russian Orthodox chant, illuminating these blazing orchestral works with the hypnotic sound-world that seeped into Rachmaninov's works.

The BBC SSO with Thomas Dausgaard and pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk perform Rachmaninov.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall.

Presented by Kate Molleson.

Rachmaninov All-Night Vigil (Vespers)

Sigvards K?ava (director)

One of the 2017 Revolutionary Music Late Night Proms.

Hailed as 'the greatest musical achievement of the Russian Orthodox Church', Rachmaninov's All-Night Vigil (Vespers) is also one of the loveliest works of any faith - a profoundly moving statement of belief and the last major work the composer completed before he left Russia.

Sung unaccompanied, the Vigil is a choral tour de force, pushing the singers to the limits of both range and dynamics. The effect is strikingly dramatic, encompassing the ecstatic choral celebration of the Resurrection Hymn 'Today salvation has come' and the infinite tenderness of the 'Ave Maria'.

The Latvian Radio Choir returns following its performance of Orthodox chant in tonight's earlier Prom.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Debussy: Pr退lude

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Clemency Burton-Hill

Harrison Birtwistle: Deep Time (BBC co-commission with the Staatskapelle Berlin: UK premiere)

8.10pm INTERVAL - Proms Extra

Geologist Professor Iain Stewart and geographer and broadcaster Nicholas Crane talk to Rana Mitter about Deep Time in geological and scientific terms. Recorded earlier this evening as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College.

Produced by Zahid Warley.

8.30pm

Elgar: Symphony No 2 in E flat major

Daniel Barenboim, conductor

Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin bring the generous scope of their interpretation of Elgar's Second Symphony to their second concert of the season, celebrating a work whose modernity and astonishing textural effects startle even now.

Dedicated to the memory of Peter Maxwell Davies, who died last year, Sir Harrison Birtwistle's Deep Time continues his career-long fascination with time and its manipulation in a sweeping new orchestral work that swaps the relentless tick-tock of the everyday for something more powerful and more alien.

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in music by Birtwistle and Elgar.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Presented by Penny Gore.

Brahms: Tragic Overture

Berg: Violin Concerto

c.7.50pm Interval: PROMS EXTRA

Nick Littlehales, sports sleep coach and chair of the Sleep Council, talks with novelist AL Kennedy and presenter Rana Mitter about sleep and insomnia.

Recorded earlier as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College.

8.10

Thomas Larcher: Nocturne - Insomnia (UK premiere)

Schumann: Symphony No 3 in E flat major, 'Rhenish

Christian Tetzlaff (violin)

Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Robin Ticciati (conductor)

Brahms's Tragic Overture is not so much tragic as a 'serious' follow-up to his more frivolous Academic Festival Overture.

Dedicated 'To the memory of an angel', Berg's luminous Violin Concerto is an intensely moving personal testament to the death of a young woman, quoting Bach's funeral chorale 'Es ist genug'.

Thomas Larcher's nocturnal wanderings receive their UK premiere before a joyous journey down the Rhine in Schumann's Third Symphony, which climaxes in a musical homage to Cologne Cathedral.

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra performs Brahms, Berg, Schumann and Larcher.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Ian Skelly

Manual de Falla El amor brujo

ɀdouard Lalo: Symphonie espagnole, Op 21

c.7.30pm: Interval: PROMS EXTRA

Clemency Burton-Hill talks to musicologists Clair Rowden and Richard Langham Smith about the music of Saint-Sa뀀ns.

c.7.50pm

Saint?Sa뀀ns: Symphony No 3 in C minor, 'Organ

St退phanie d'Oustrac, mezzo-soprano

Joshua Bell, violin

Cameron Carpenter, organ

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Charles Dutoit, conductor

Tonight's celebration of the sun-scorched landscapes of Spain opens with Falla's flamenco ballet El amor brujo, rich in Andalusian folk melodies and featuring the famous 'Ritual Fire Dance'.

Joshua Bell is the soloist in Lalo's Symphonie espagnole, whose title conceals a virtuosic violin concerto steeped in the sounds of Spain, while Cameron Carpenter takes to the organ console in Saint-Sa뀀ns's mighty 'Organ' Symphony. 'With it I have given all I could,' observed the composer. 'What I did I could not achieve again.'.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra perform music by de Falla, Lalo and Saint-Saens.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Michael Gordon: Big Space (BBC commission: world premiere)*

David Lang: Sunray (London premiere)

Julia Wolfe: Big Beautiful Dark and Scary (London premiere)

Philip Glass: Closing from 'Glassworks

Louis Andriessen: Workers Union

Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Bang on a Can represents all that is most gleefully non-conformist and boundary-breaking in new music. Celebrating its 30th birthday this year, this pioneering American artistic collective and its three composer-directors, Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe, bring their signature energy to this Late Night Prom, together with their six-piece amplified ensemble.

The All-Stars perform classic works by Wolfe, Lang and Louis Andriessen alongside an 80th-birthday tribute to Philip Glass and a world premiere by Michael Gordon, performed by the Proms Youth Ensemble. Expect propulsive rhythms and plenty of big grooves.

The BBC Proms Youth Ensemble and Bang on a Can All-Stars perform in premieres.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Mahler: Symphony No.2 'Resurrection

[There will be no interval]

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)

Elisabeth Kulman (mezzo)

The Bach Choir

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

In this season's second Mahler symphony, the composer wrestles with the essential questions of humanity in a work that took over six years to complete. Faith, mortality and the hope of resurrection are the subject of this epic musical exploration, which culminates in a glowing, transcendent choral finale.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo are joined by soloists Elizabeth Watts and Elisabeth Kulman as well as the combined forces of the BBC Symphony Chorus and the Bach Choir for a work whose scale and scope come into their own in the Royal Albert Hall.

Soloists Elizabeth Watts and Elisabeth Kulman feature in Mahler's Symphony No 2.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall

Presented by Martin Handley

Schoenberg: Gurrelieder

Tove:Eva-Maria Westbroek (soprano)

Waldemar: Simon O'Neill (tenor)

Wood-Dove: Karen Cargill (mezzo)

Klaus the Fool: Peter Hoare (tenor)

Peasant: Christopher Purves (bass-baritone)

Speaker: Thomas Quasthoff

CBSO Chorus

Orfe　 Catal

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Programme includes:

Bach: Chorale preludes, BWV 599644 (selection)

Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Chorale Prelude 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' (BBC commission, world premiere)

Jonathan Dove: Chorale Prelude 'Christ under Herr zum Jordan kam' (BBC commission, world premiere)

Daniel Saleeb: Chorale Prelude 'Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort' (World premiere); Toccata on 'Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort

Plus other works by Bach, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Samuel Wesley

William Whitehead (organ)

Robert Quinney (organ)

Organists William Whitehead and Robert Quinney launch our Reformation Day with a recital featuring the great Lutheran chorale preludes of Bach's Orgelbüchlein at its heart, alongside three brand-new chorale preludes by British composers, Bach's 'St Anne' Fugue, Mendelssohn's Organ Sonata No. 3 and other Bach-related works by Schumann and Samuel Wesley.

Producer Janet Tuppen.

Organists William Whitehead and Robert Quinney play Bach Chorale Preludes.

Joined by tenors Thomas Elwin and Christopher Bowen and the bass David Shipley, Passion works from Johann Walter through to James MacMillan are explored in a programme depicting the Passion of Christ through many and varied compositions.

Thomas Elwin, tenor

Christopher Bowen, tenor

David Shipley, bass

Sofi Jeannin, conductor

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

Sofi Jeannin conducts the BBC Singers and City of London Sinfonia in A Patchwork Passion.

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Bach: St John Passion, BWV 245

Nicholas Mulroy, tenor (Evangelist)

Matthew Brook, bass (Jesus)

Sophie Bevan, soprano

Tim Mead, countertenor

Andrew Tortise, tenor

Konstantin Wolff, bass

Dunedin Consort

John Butt, conductor

A complete performance of Bach's St John Passion. 'More daring, forceful and poetic' than the St Matthew Passion, according to Schumann, this is a work of almost operatic vividness that brings both a humanity and a painful immediacy to the Passion narrative. Bach specialist John Butt and his Dunedin Consort make their Proms debut in a performance that offers the audience the chance to join in the chorale-singing, reflecting how the work might originally have been heard in a church setting.

Live from the Albert Hall, John Butt and the Dunedin Concert in JS Bach's St John Passion.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Ian Skelly

Sibelius: Sc耀nes historiques, Suite No. 1

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor

20.10 INTERVAL: Proms Extra

The novelist Meg Rosoff and art curator Karen Serres consider unfinished works in literature and in painting, and whether or not it is always a good idea for other people to finish them. Ian McMillan hosts. Recorded earlier as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College. Producer: Jacqueline Smith.

Elgar/Payne: Symphony No.3

Javier Perianes (piano)

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

This year's Elgar cycle concludes with the originally unfinished Third Symphony. The concert also features the vivid, descriptive miniatures of Sibelius's Sc耀nes historiques and Saint-Sa뀀ns's brilliantly youthful Second Piano Concerto.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo in Elgar's Symphony No 3.

Presented by Georgia Mann

Shabaka Hutchings (saxophones)

Christian Scott (trumpet)

Kandace Springs (vocals)

Metropole Orkest

conductor Jules Buckley

A giant of jazz, Charles Mingus (1922-79) combined the classic style of Duke Ellington and Jelly Roll Morton with the radical spirit of black music of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and has influenced artists from Joni Mitchell and Elvis Costello to Debbie Harry.

Following sell-out Quincy Jones and Jamie Cullum Proms last year, Jules Buckley returns - with his Metropole Orkest - to celebrate the life and music of this legendary composer, bandleader and bass-player. The Prom features Mingus favourites including 'Better Git It in Your Soul', 'Moanin' and 'Goodbye Pork Pie Hat', performed by a starry line-up of artists Kandace Springs, Shabaka Hutchings, Christian Scott and Leo Pellegrino.

During the Interval: PROMS EXTRA

Georgia Mann talks to Catherine Tackley and Geoffrey Smith about Mingus.

Jules Buckley and the Metropole Orkest pay homage to Charles Mingus.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major

c.19:15 INTERVAL: Proms Extra

Writer and classicist Natalie Haynes talks to Matthew Sweet about Ancient Rome and how its ruins and history have inspired writers and artists through the centuries. Recorded earlier as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College. Producer: Zahid Warley.

c.19:35

Respighi: Fountains of Rome; Pines of Rome

Leonidas Kavakos, violin

Riccardo Chailly, conductor

Riccardo Chailly returns to the Proms, this time as Music Director of the Filarmonica della Scala (Orchestra of La Scala, Milan), which makes its Proms debut. They bring with them a little piece of Italy in two of Respighi's Rome-inspired tone-poems. Richly vivid in orchestral colour, these works delight in the kind of huge sonorities that come into their own in the Royal Albert Hall. The concert opens with one of the great violin concertos - Brahms's joyous, virtuosic musical homage to his friend and mentor, the virtuoso violinist Joseph Joachim.

Riccardo Chailly conducts the Orchestra of La Scala in Brahms's Violin Concerto.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Ian Skelly

Traditional: Hussite Chorale 'Ktož jsú Boži bojovn퀀ci' (You Who Are Warriors of God)

Smetana: Tကbor; Blan퀀k (Mက vlast)

Martin?: Field Mass

20.20

INTERVAL: Proms Extra: Musicologists Jan Smaczny and Gavin Plumley discuss Czech music. Highlights of the Proms Extra event recorded earlier this evening at Imperial College Union, hosted by Louise Fryer.

c.20:40

Dvo?ကk: Hussite Overture

Janက?ek: Song of the Hussites (The Excursions of Mr Brou?ek)

Josef Suk: Prague

Svatopluk Sem (baritone)

Men of the BBC Singers

Jakub Hr?ša (conductor)

Rising star conductor Jakub Hr?ša presents an all-Czech concert with the BBC SO and the BBC Singers. Smetana's evocative tone-poem Ma vlast sits alongside Martin?'s Field Mass - written in 1939 at the start of World War Two and written for outdoor performance - and Suk's Prague. This is music of protest, anger and national pride.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers perform a programme of Czech music.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall

Introduced by Katie Derham

Clare Teal, singer/presenter

Hiromi, piano

Guy Barker Big Band

Guy Barker, bandleader

Winston Rollins Big Band

Winston Rollins, bandleader

From stomps and shuffles to boogie-woogie and blues, from bebop to Latin, this Sunday matinee Prom presents a slice of musical action from the 1930s and 1940s. Two roaring big bands battle against each other, joined by special guests and led by Guy Barker and Winston Rollins.

Singer and broadcaster Clare Teal is our guide on a journey that celebrates the triumphs of big band greats, including Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmie Lunceford, Boyd Raeburn, Machito, Stan Kenton and Woody Herman.

Tribute is also paid to a highly respected but unassuming giant of the big band world - pianist, arranger and composer Mary Lou Williams.

During the INTERVAL: The Literature of Jazz. To complement today's Prom, Geoffrey Smith presents a celebration of the novels and poetry that were inspired by the jazz of the Thirties and Forties, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Jack Kerouac. With readings by Jamie Parker and Rhashan Stone.

Producer: Justine Willett

Jamie Parker is an acclaimed British actor who made his name as part of the original company of Alan Bennett's The History Boys. He recently won an Olivier Award for his role as Harry Potter in the West End play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Rhashan Stone is an American-born British actor and comedian. He is best known for appearing in comedy shows such as Desmond's and Mutual Friends.

Geoffrey Smith presents programmes on jazz for BBC Radio 3.

Clare Teal, Guy Barker and Winston Rollins with 'Swing No End' at the Proms.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Donald Macleod

Mozart: La clemenza di Tito - Act 1

c.8.35pm: Interval: PROMS EXTRA

Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to Timothy Jones and Nicholas Till about La clemenza di Tito. Highlights of the Proms Extra recorded earlier at Imperial College Union.

c.8.55pm: Mozart: La clemenza di Tito - Act 2

Vitellia - Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)

Sextus - Anna St退phany (mezzo-soprano)

Annius ... .Mich耀le Losier (mezzo-soprano)

Publio - Clive Bayley (bass)

Titus - Richard Croft (tenor)

Servilia - Jo退lle Harvey (soprano)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Conductor Robin Ticciati

The collision of love and ambition in Mozart's morally conflicted final opera, and the compassion of a wronged emperor, make for a scenario as relevant today as in the ancient Rome where it is set. Blending ravishing arias with intricate human psychology, La clemenza di Tito ranks among the finest of Mozart's mature works.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Mozart's La clemenza di Tito from Glyndebourne.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Shostakovich: October

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1

c.8pm

INTERVAL - Proms Extra

Stephen Johnson and Daniel Grimley introduce Sibelius's Second Symphony. Highlights of a discussion hosted by Clemency Burton-Hill and recorded at the Imperial College Union earlier this evening

c.8.25pm

Sibelius: Symphony No. 2

Nicola Benedetti, violin

Thomas Sønderg倀rd, conductor

Violinist Nicola Benedetti joins Thomas Sønderg倀rd and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales as they continue their exploration of music by Shostakovich and Sibelius. Here they pair the latter's stirring Second Symphony - adopted as a potent symbol of nationalism and resistance by the people of Finland - with Shostakovich's symphonic poem October, a work whose subversive musical message sees the composer at his most pointedly political.

Shostakovich dedicated his First Violin Concerto to the celebrated violinist David Oistrakh, who praised its solo part as 'Shakespearean', and the concerto's demonic Scherzo gives its soloist plenty of opportunity for virtuosity.

Nicola Benedetti and the BBC NOW under Thomas Sondergard: Shostakovich and Sibelius.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall

Presented by Penny Gore

Stravinsky: The Firebird - Suite (revised version, 1919)

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor (revised version, 1941)

8.15: Interval: PROMS EXTRA

Historians Helen Rappaport and Victor Sebestyen consider the figure of Lenin, as the Proms prepares to mark the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Hosted by Anne McElvoy. Recorded earlier as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College. Producer: Luke Mulhall

Shostakovich: Symphony No 12 in D minor, 'The Year 1917

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

Vasily Petrenko, Conductor

It would be impossible to mark this year's centenary of the Russian Revolution without a performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 12 - subtitled 'The Year 1917'. Its sweeping, filmic music paints a portrait of Lenin, both as a man and a political force.

Acclaimed Shostakovich interpreter Vasily Petrenko conducts the Oslo Philharmonic in an all-Russian programme also featuring Stravinsky's ever-popular suite from The Firebird and Rachmaninov's mercurial Fourth Piano Concerto (continuing our cycle of the composer's complete piano concertos).

Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, whose Beethoven concerto cycle was a highlight of the 2015 Proms, returns as soloist.

The Oslo Philharmonic play Stravinsky and Shostakovich, live from the Royal Albert Hall.

Presented by Martin Handley

Renee Fleming sings Strauss and Barber with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, conducted by Sakari Oramo. Plus Nielsen's Symphony no.2.

Andrea Tarrodi: Liguria

UK premiere

Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op 24

7.35pm:

INTERVAL: Proms Extra:

Daniel Grimley introduces Nielsen's Symphony No 2 'The Four Temperaments' in an edited version of a discussion recorded earlier this evening at Imperial College.

7.55pm: Part 2

Strauss: Daphne - Transformation Scene, 'Ich komme - ich komme

Nielsen: Symphony No 2 'The Four Temperaments

Ren退e Fleming, soprano

Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Sakari Oramo, conductor

Star American soprano Ren退e Fleming returns to join Sakari Oramo and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra for the shimmering 'transformation' music that closes Richard Strauss's opera Daphne, and Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915, a nostalgic portrait of the America of a simpler age.

The RSPO also brings music by its Swedish compatriot Andrea Tarrodi - Liguria, a vivid musical 'walking tour' through Italian fishing villages as well as Nielsen's Second Symphony, 'The Four Temperaments', whose four movements offer different character portraits, from a choleric opening Allegro to a melancholic slow movement.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Penny Gore

Taneyev: Overture - The Oresteia

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.1

c.20.10 INTERVAL: Proms Extra

Novelist Ben Markovits and Dr Anna Camilleri from the University of Oxford talk to New Generation Thinker Shahidha Bari about Lord Byron and his poem 'Manfred', the story of a Faustian nobleman living in the Bernese Alps who summons seven spirits to help him forget the death of his beloved Astarte. Readings are performed by Samuel West. Recorded earlier as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College.

Producer: Fiona McLean

c.20:40

Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony

Kirill Gerstein (piano)

Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

Continuing his season-long Tchaikovsky Project, which included performances earlier this summer with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov conducts an all-Russian programme that climaxes with the composer's vividly programmatic symphony Manfred. Translating the struggles of Byron's hero (who celebrates his 200th anniversary this year) into music proved a challenging task for the composer but the result is a glorious musical epic, full of drama and colour.

Kirill Gerstein is the soloist for Rachmaninov's youthful Piano Concerto No. 1, concluding our cycle of the composer's piano concertos with a work whose stormy beauty is a natural companion for Taneyev's brooding Oresteia overture.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov in Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Rihm: In-Schrift

c18:50

INTERVAL: Proms Extra

c19.10

Bruckner: Symphony No 9 in D minor

Daniele Gatti, conductor

Amsterdam's mighty Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is regularly named as one of the world's finest orchestras. Here it returns to the Proms for the first time in almost a decade, under its new Chief Conductor Daniele Gatti. The main work on their programme is Bruckner's Ninth Symphony - the composer's great, unfinished farewell to the form, and his final testament of faith. Written in 1995 for St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Rihm's In-Schrift is an exploration of space and its sonic possibilities. With no high strings and additional low brass, Rihm creates a sound-world of striking darkness, illuminated only by the piercing brilliance of percussion.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Haydn: Symphony No. 82 in C major, 'The Bear

c.7.55pm Interval: PROMS EXTRA

Booker Prize-winning novelist Alan Hollinghurst will be interviewed by Anne McElvoy about his latest novel The Sparsholt Affair which is published later this autumn. Recorded earlier as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College. Producer Zahid Warley.

c.8.15pm

Mahler: Symphony No 4 in G major

Chen Reiss, soprano

Daniele Gatti, conductor

From its jingling opening sleigh bells to its charming closing song for soprano and orchestra, Mahler's Fourth Symphony is one of the composer's sunniest and most appealing works, lively with birdsong and youthful energy.

It's a mood it shares with Haydn's ebullient and richly orchestrated Symphony No. 82, nicknamed 'The Bear' for the lurching melody of its final movement, with its suggestion of dancing bears at a country fair.

For their second concert, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Daniele Gatti are joined by Israeli soprano Chen Reiss, making her Proms debut.

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Daniele Gatti play Haydn and Mahler.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Prokofiev: Cantata for the Twentieth Anniversary of the October Revolution, Op 74

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 3 in E flat major

8.15: Interval: 'The Noise of Time' by Julian Barnes

Before the Proms performance of Shostakovitch's Fifth Symphony, Julian Barnes reads from his recently acclaimed novel about the composer.

What has he written? Is the question to himself? What will he be remembered for? Four symphonies, one piano concerto, some orchestral suites ... All this retrospection is brought on by his visit to the Big House, where he will questioned by Interrogator Zakrevsky.

Producer Duncan Minshull

8.40

Shostakovich: Symphony No 5 in D minor

Denis Matsuev, piano

Mariinsky Chorus

Valery Gergiev, conductor

Who better than Russia's foremost opera orchestra and chorus to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution? Along with Artistic Director Valery Gergiev they perform Prokofiev's epic Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution - a work that captures the violence of the Bolshevik Revolution and the birth of the Soviet Union in bold orchestral textures and rich, folk-infused choral writing.

The cruelty of the Stalinist regime is captured in Shostakovich's evocative Fifth Symphony, and regular collaborator Denis Matsuev joins the orchestra as soloist in Tchaikovsky's final work - the single-movement Piano Concerto No. 3.

Mariinsky Orchestra play Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich at the Proms.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Adams: Lollapalooza

Dvo?ကk: Violin Concerto in A minor

c.8.15: Interval

Proms Extra: The final talk in our series with pianist and broadcaster David Owen Norris, exploring a particular musical theme connected with the following Prom. Highlights of the event recorded earlier at Imperial College Union, hosted by Sara Mohr Pietsch.

c.8.35

Mahler: Symphony No 1 in D major

Anne?Sophie Mutter, violin

Manfred Honeck, conductor

Following hot on the heels of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is a visit from another great American ensemble. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Manfred Honeck continue this season's strand of Mahler symphonies with the First, a work that started life as a tone-poem and retains all of that narrative energy. A young hero sets out, hopeful, into the world, only to have his ambitions dashed by cruel fate.

Anne-Sophie Mutter makes a welcome Proms return as soloist in Dvo?ကk's vivacious Violin Concerto, and the concert opens with a nod to great American Minimalist John Adams's 70th birthday, with his joyous orchestral dance Lollapalooza.

Anne\u2010Sophie Mutter and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra play Dvorak and Mahler.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Jean-F退ry Rebel: Le Chaos from 'Les El退mens

Pascal Dusapin: Outscape* (BBC co-commission: UK premiere)

8.00pm INTERVAL - Proms Extra

Richard Davenport-Hines - author of 'The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Social History of Drugs' - considers how opium became a stimulus to creativity in the 19th century for writers such as Baudelaire, Apollinaire and Mallarm退 and in the plot underpinning Symphonie Fantastique. He's joined by historian and Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Dr Daisy Hay, author of 'Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives'. The presenter is Matthew Sweet.

Recorded earlier this evening as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College

Producer: Jacqueline Smith

8.20pm

Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14

Alisa Weilerstein (cello)*

Joshua Weilerstein (conductor)

Visions of chaos give way to a diabolical scene in a musical thrill-ride that takes us from creation itself to the wild dances of a Witches' Sabbath. Jean-F退ry Rebel's suite The Elements is one of Baroque music's most unusual works, opening with a vivid portrait of Chaos. The same audacity surfaces a century later in Berlioz's quasi-autobiographical Symphonie fantastique, whose large orchestral forces and colourful textures make it a perfect fit for the Royal Albert Hall.

Star cellist Alisa Weilerstein is soloist for the UK premiere of Pascal Dusapin's nature-inspired concerto Outscape - a work written for her - while her brother, rising young star Joshua Weilerstein, conducts.

Joshua Weilerstein conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Rebel, Dusapin and Berlioz.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Ian Skelly

Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)

European premiere of orchestral version

Bart　k: Piano Concerto No 2

c.20.10

Interval: Proms Extra: presenter Andrew McGregor talks to composer Missy Mazzoli about her work and career.

c.20.30

Dvo?ကk: Symphony No 8 in G major

Jeremy Denk (piano)

Karina Canellakis (conductor)

Following her recent UK debut, American conductor Karina Canellakis now makes her first visit to the Proms, joining the BBC Symphony Orchestra and fellow American Jeremy Denk for Bart　k's ferociously brilliant Second Piano Concerto.

Dvo?ကk's Symphony No. 8, by contrast, is a work of genial lyricism. 'Melodies simply pour out of me,' wrote the composer, and the result is a pastoral symphony in all but name.

The concert opens with the European premiere of Missy Mazzoli's mesmeric Sinfonia - music 'in the shape of the solar system' that weaves and coils itself in a sequence of pulsing loops.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra in Dvorak's Symphony No 8 and Missy Mazzoli's Sinfonia.

The master pianist plays nearly two hours of music that for many represents both the foundation and one of the summits of the entire keyboard literature.

Presented by Ian Skelly

Bach The Well-Tempered Clavier - Book 1

Sir Andrကs Schiff (piano)

The two volumes of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier together represent one of Western music's greatest achievements.

Once described as the 'Old Testament' of the keyboard repertoire, these two sequences of 24 Preludes and Fugues - one in every key - represent a wealth of musical invention, ingenuity and delight. A supreme technical challenge for any performer, they also offer an astonishing experience for every listener.

Sir Andrကs Schiff, whose discography includes Bach's complete keyboard repertoire, here performs Book I - embarking upon a cycle that he will conclude next year with Book 2.

Sir Andras Schiff performs Book 1 of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier.

Presented by Donald Macleod

Beethoven: Fidelio

Act I

8.40 INTERVAL - Proms Extra

Presenter Ian Skelly chairs an introduction to Beethoven's 'Fidelio' with guests, the academic and 19th-century opera expert Flora Willson and critic and broadcaster Fiona Maddocks.

9.00

Act II

Stuart Skelton, tenor (Florestan)

Ricarda Merbeth, soprano (Leonore)

Brindley Sherratt, bass (Rocco)

Louise Alder, soprano (Marzelline)

Benjamin Hulett, tenor (Jaquino)

Detlef Roth, bass-baritone (Don Pizarro)

David Soar, bass (Don Fernando)

Andrew Masterson, tenor (First Prisoner)

Tomothy Bagley, bass-baritone (Second Prisoner)

Orfe　n Donostiarra

BBC Philharmonic

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

The first of three politically charged stage works this season is Beethoven's only opera, 'Fidelio' - a passionate musical protest against political oppression, first performed in Vienna in the wake of the French Revolution to an audience mostly consisting of Napoleon's troops. At its heart is the stirring 'Prisoners' Chorus', a poignant hymn to freedom and the power of the human spirit. The BBC Philharmonic brings its highly acclaimed performance to the Proms with a cast starring Australian tenor Stuart Skelton as the imprisoned Florestan, and soprano Ricarda Merbeth as his faithful and resourceful wife Leonore.

Juanjo Mena conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a performance of Beethoven's opera Fidelio.

Presented by Tom Service

Bach: Chorale Prelude 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme', BWV 645 (orch. Granville Bantock)

Kate Whitley: I Am I say

John Adams: Harmonielehre

Ruby Hughes, soprano

Michael Sumuel, bass-baritone

The Multi-Story Youth Choir

Christopher Stark, conductor

Following the success last year of their Proms debut on their home turf in Peckham, Christopher Stark and The Multi-Story Orchestra return for a programme that picks up two of the threads running through this year's Proms, and continues our showcase for talented young musicians.

The classical symphony gets an appropriately urban, contemporary makeover in the pulsing rhythms and metallic glitter of John Adams's Harmonielehre, while Kate Whitley's I am I say, written for local schoolchildren to perform, is inspired by nature but also firmly rooted in the sounds and communities of the city.

The concert opens with Bach's 'Wachet auf' (Sleepers, Awake) in Granville Bantock's unexpectedly rich orchestration.

The Proms returns to a Peckham car park to join The Multi-Story Orchestra.

The BBC Singers also perform Palestrina's masterful Missa 'Confitebor tibi' in the sumptuous acoustic of Southwark Cathedral.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Offertorium 'Confitebor tibi, Domine'; Missa 'Confitebor tibi

Judith Weir: In the Land of Uz (BBC commission: world premiere)

Adrian Thompson, tenor

Stephen Farr, organ

David Hill, conductor

Presented by Georgia Mann.

The BBC Singers perform the world premiere of Judith Weir's In the Land of Uz.

Live from TheDock, Hull

Presented by Tom Redmond

Telemann: Water Music - overture

Delius: Summer Night on the River

Handel: Water Music - Suite No. 3 in G major

Grace Evangeline Mason: RIVER (BBC commission: first concert performance)

Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage

Rameau: Nas - overture

Grace Williams: Sea Sketches - High Wind; Calm Sea in Summer

Handel: Water Music - Suite No. 2 in D major

Nicholas McGegan (conductor)

The BBC Proms travels out of London, to Hull - UK City of Culture 2017 - for a site-specific performance of music inspired by water, centering on Handel's Water Music suites, first performed 300 years ago at a river party for George I on the Thames.

Pioneering early music expert Nicholas McGegan directs the Royal Northern Sinfonia at Stage@TheDock - Hull's outdoor amphitheatre - in a programme featuring everything from storms and shipwrecks to calm seas and seductive sirens.

A water-themed concert with Royal Northern Sinfonia from TheDock, Hull.

Emilie Levienaise Farrouch: New Work

LCO

Rodrigo Constanzo (solo percussion improvisation)

Catherine Lamb: Prisma Interius V

Cassandra Miller: Guide

Exaudi

Actress arr. Hugh Brunt: Momentum

LCO with Actress (electronics).

Sara Mohr-Pietsch hosts an Open Ear concert of experimental music live from Tate Modern.

Recorded earlier this evening as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College.

The winners are

12 - 18 category: Emily Hana for a poem The Planets in Love inspired by Holst.

runners up: Cia Mangat for Scheherazade inspired by Rimsky Korsakov and Annie Fan for On Wholeness inspired by John Adams' Harmonium.

19 and over: Meredith Andrea for her poem Giving Birth to Monteverdi inspired by Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610

runners up: Jane Lovell for Beloved inspired by Rachmaninov's All Night Vigil and Isabel White for Valedictory for Max inspired by Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies.

Producer: Fiona McLean.

Judges Jacob Polley, Ian McMillan and Judith Palmer meet the winners and hear their poems.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

Mozart: Symphony No 38 in D major 'Prague', K 504

Mozart: Violin Concerto No 3 in G major, K 216

4.30pm INTERVAL: How to Start a World-Class Orchestra

No resident concert hall, no resident conductor, no problem. Take 45 young musicians, fresh out of the European Community Youth Orchestra, together with the renowned conductor Claudio Abbado and his assistant James Judd. Add a horn-playing businessman and his wife on honeymoon in Salzburg. Throw in a bucketful of naive enthusiasm and dogged persistence, and in 1981 the Chamber Orchestra of Europe is born. But how easy was it to bring the right selection of players from across Europe together, with only limited funds, and without mobile phones, budget airlines or the internet? Sarah Walker finds out how founders of the COE overcame the obstacles, and grew up with the orchestra that for some has become the habit of a lifetime.

With Douglas Boyd, James Judd, June Megennis, Peter Readman, Victoria Readman, Enno Senft and Elizabeth Wexler.

A Tandem Production for BBC Radio 3

4.55pm Part 2

Schumann: Symphony No.2 in C major

Isabelle Faust (violin)

conductor Bernard Haitink

The two symphonies that frame this Prom each offer a defiant, optimistic challenge to the status quo. Mozart's pioneering 'Prague' Symphony rewrites the rule book for the genre, while in Schumann's Second Symphony the composer overcomes the demons of his own mental health to produce a work of invigorating, captivating extremes.

Conductor Bernard Haitink - a Proms regular for over half a century - returns with frequent collaborators, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. They are joined by award-winning German violinist Isabelle Faust, the soloist in Mozart's graceful Violin Concerto No. 3.

Bernard Haitink conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in music by Mozart and Schumann.

Live from Cadogan Hall, London

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Elias String Quartet

Alice Neary (cello)

Schubert's final chamber work is a piece of sublime beauty, a masterpiece of the repertoire composed only two months before the composer's death at the age of just 31. Instead of the additional viola preferred by Mozart and Beethoven in their string quintets, Schubert adds a second cello, to create a work of sonorous beauty. From its expansive opening Allegro and the fragile beauty of the Adagio to its exuberant Scherzo and good-humoured closing Allegretto, this is a work of boundless invention and charm. Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Elias String Quartet are joined by cellist Alice Neary.

Live at Cadogan Hall, the Elias Quartet and Alice Neary play Schubert's String Quintet.

Presented by Stuart Maconie

Live from the Royal Albert Hall

Richard Hawley

Susanne Sundfør

Jules Buckley, conductor

An icon of the 1960s, Scott Walker has travelled from Walker Brothers teen idol to avant-garde contemporary musician, influencing artists from David Bowie and Leonard Cohen to Goldfrapp along the way.

Tonight's Late Night Prom tribute presents tracks from his four self-titled albums with live orchestral backing for the very first time. Among the special guests are Jarvis Cocker, John Grant, Susanne Sundfør and Richard Hawley.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, a celebration of Scott Walker.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall

Presented by Martin Handley

Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C major

Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten - Symphonic Fantasy

c.8.20

Interval- Proms Extra

Irving Finkel of the British Museum talks about the Babylonian history behind Belshazzar's Feast and the stories he has deciphered from cuneiform tablets. Hosted by New Generation Thinker Shahidha Bari. Producer: Jacqueline Smith

c.8.40pm

Prokofiev: Seven, They Are Seven

Walton: Belshazzar's Feast

David Butt Philip, tenor

James Rutherford, baritone

Kirill Karabits, conductor

Gods, demons and mortals do battle in a concert full of musical legends and fairy tales. Prokofiev's revolution-inspired cantata Seven, They Are Seven is played for the first time at the Proms, alongside Walton's choral spectacular Belshazzar's Feast.

Producer Anthony Sellors.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Ian Skelly

The Damnation of Faust, Parts 1 & 2

c.20:30 INTERVAL - Proms Extra

Presenter Christopher Cook discusses the devil in music with opera historian Sarah Lenton and Peter Stanford, writer of the book 'The Devil: a biography', a theme inspired by Berlioz's Damnation of Faust.

c.20:50

The Damnation of Faust, Parts 3 & 4

Michael Spyres (tenor), Faust

Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano), Marguerite

Laurent Naouri (bass-baritone), M退phistoph退l耀s

Ashley Riches (bass-baritone), Brander

Trinity Boys Choir

Monteverdi Choir

National Youth Choir of Scotland

Sir John Eliot Gardiner returns to the Proms with The Damnation of Faust, continuing his multi-season Berlioz series. Part opera, part cantata, this 'dramatic legend' is an epic retelling of the Faust story that captures the extremes of man's ambition and folly in music by turns exquisite and grotesque. American tenor Michael Spyres returns to the Proms in the title-role, with Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg as the innocent victim, Marguerite.

The hugely acclaimed period instruments of Les Si耀cles return to the Proms this year with C退dric Tiberghien as the soloist in Saint-Sa뀀ns's Egyptian Concerto as part of a programme of Romantic French music inspired by the East.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall.

Presented by Martin Handley.

Saint-Sa뀀ns: La princesse jaune - overture

Delibes: Lakm退 - ballet music

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, 'Egyptian

approx 8.15pm Interval: PROMS EXTRA

Turkish novelist Elif Shafak talks about the figure of the djinni in Arabic mythology, who along with humans and angels, make up the three sapient creations of God, according to Islamic tradition. New Generation Thinker Dr Shahida Bari joins the discussion hosted by Ian McMillan.

Recorded earlier this evening as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College.

Franck: Les Djinns

Lalo: Namouna - Suites Nos. 1 and 2 (excerpts)

Saint-Sa뀀ns: Samson and Delilah - Bacchanal

C退dric Tiberghien (piano)

Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth conductor

An all-French programme inspired by the East, from the fragrant Indian gardens of Delibes's Lakm退 and the eroticism of Samson and Delilah, to Corfu with the adventures of Lalo's Namouna.

Oriental demons surface in Les Djinns, complementing the vibrantly coloured music of Java and the Middle East that suffuses Saint-Sa뀀ns's 'Egyptian' Piano Concerto.

An all-French programme of Proms music from Les Siecles and Francois-Xavier Roth.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Beethoven: Overture 'Leonore' No.3

Stravinsky: Violin concerto in D major

c.8.10pm Interval: PROMS EXTRA

Louise Fryer talks to the composer Gerald Barry about his new work. Recorded earlier in the evening at Imperial College.

c.8.30pm: Part 2

Gerald Barry: Canada (BBC commission, world premiere)

Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor

Leila Josefowicz (violin)

Allan Clayton (tenor)

conductor Mirga Gražinyt?-Tyla

The CBSO and Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla explore the theme of political and artistic freedom. Beethoven's Leonore overture No. 3, written for his rescue opera Fidelio, celebrates the triumph of truth over tyranny in music of radiant beauty, while his Fifth Symphony rewrites the rules for the Classical symphony.

In his new work, maverick composer Gerald Barry is inspired by revolutionary events in Canada's history, also setting the text from Fidelio's Prisoners' Chorus; and violinist Leila Josefowicz amps up the drama in the fierce brilliance of Stravinsky's neo-Classical concerto.

Producer Janet Tuppen.

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra perform Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Beyond the Score (devised by Gerard McBurney)

c.20:30 INTERVAL: Proms Extra

New Generation Thinker Sarah Dillon introduces a series of readings about arriving in the USA - from Francis Spufford's recreation of 18th century New York in the award winning Golden Hill, to Kafka's first impressions of the States - she'll explore the wonder and excitement of encountering the New World.

Recorded earlier as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College. Producer: Nicola Holloway

c20:50

Anton퀀n Dvo?ကk: Symphony No 9 in E minor, 'From the New World

Henry Goodman, actor

Rodney Earl Clarke, bass-baritone

Gerard McBurney, creative director

Sir Mark Elder, conductor

Have you ever wondered about the story behind Dvo?ကk's haunting Symphony No. 9, with its yearning Largo and its ebullient, dancing Scherzo? Originally devised by Gerard McBurney and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, this newly remounted Beyond the Score(R) performance combines actors, projections and live musical examples to explore the history of this enduringly popular orchestral classic. In the second half, Sir Mark Elder and the Hall退 give a complete performance of the symphony. A fascinating, dramatic insight into one of the great works of the symphonic repertoire

Producer Clive Portbury.

The Halle Orchestra under Sir Mark Elder in Dvorak's Symphony 'From the New World'.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Presented by Andrew McGregor.

Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee (sitar)

Soumen Nandy (tabla)

Kumaresh Rajagopalan (Carnatic violin)

Jayanthi Kumaresh (Saraswati veena)

Anantha R. Krishnan (mridangam)

Fareed Ayaz, Abu Muhammad Qawwal & Brothers

The Proms marks the 70th anniversary of partition and independence on the Indian subcontinent with a concert curated by Darbar Trust, producers of Darbar Festival, representing the classical music of India and Pakistan. Explore the region's diverse musical culture in performances celebrating three very different traditions. India's great maestro, Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee performs ragas on the iconic sitar from the Hindustani music of North India, while South India's Carnatic music is more strongly melodic, coloured by the distinctive timbres of the Carnatic violin and veena. The Sufi music of Pakistan provides an ecstatic climax to this Late Night Prom, weaving rich, mesmeric tapestries of sound.

Classical music from north and south India, plus qawwali from Pakistan at the Proms.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Martin Handley

Bernstein: On the Waterfront - symphonic suite

Copland: Lincoln Portrait

c.20:25 Interval: PROMS EXTRA

Kathleen Burk, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at UCL, reflects on the character and rhetoric of Abraham Lincoln, the great American president whose 'Gettysburg Address' is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential statements of national purpose and the principles of human equality. She's joined on stage by BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Dr Joanna Cohen from Queen Mary College, London, and presenter Rana Mitter.

Recorded earlier as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College. Producer: Katy Hickman

c20:45

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 in E minor

Charles Dance, narrator

Louis Langr退e, conductor

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut with Music Director Louis Langr退e, bringing works by two celebrated American composers. Bernstein's symphonic suite drawn from his soundtrack to On the Waterfront is a cinematic journey through the docks and slums of post-war New Jersey, telling the story of one man's heroic fight against corruption and intimidation. In a year in which America has inaugurated a new president, Copland's Lincoln Portrait offers a musical homage to another. Lincoln's greatest speeches are set against a stirring orchestral tone-poem: America in music. The climax of the concert is another passionate statement of musical nationalism: Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra perform music by Bernstein, Copland and Tchaikovsky.

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Founded in 1957, Memphis-based Stax Records was synonymous with Southern Soul - a distinctive blend of funk, gospel and R&B that brought listeners across America together at a time of racial conflict and political unrest. From humble beginnings in a garage the label went on to produce some of the greatest soul artists: Otis Redding, Carla Thomas, and Sam and Dave, to mention a few.

Jools Holland and His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra pay tribute to the pioneering label and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stax/Volt Revue's first tour of the UK. In this Late Night Prom some of Stax's greatest surviving artists come to London: Eddie Floyd, Sam Moore, Booker T Jones, Steve Cropper and William Bell. On stage with them is Tom Jones, a longtime fan of the Stax hits which influenced his own style. Joining them will be other guests including Beverley Knight, James Morrison and Ruby Turner.

Tom Jones (singer)

Ruby Turner (singer)

James Morrison (singer)

Beverley Knight (singer)

William Bell (singer)

Eddie Floyd (singer)

Sam Moore (singer)

Booker T Jones (Hammond organ)

Steve Cropper (guitar)

Jools Holland pays tribute to Stax Records with original stars.