BBC Proms [2022]

Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

George Walker: Lilacs

7.50pm - INTERVAL: Dedicated in 1922, the Lincoln Memorial is a neoclassical temple built to honour the 16th president of the United States. Lisa Mullen discovers why America chose to mark the man who led the nation in the civil war and issued the Emancipation Proclamation that freed slaves forever. Michael Goldfarb, Professor Sarah Churchwell and Dr Joanna Cohen discuss how the Lincoln Memorial became the backdrop for the continuing civil rights movement.

Also, we'll hear from Keelan Carew about his Proms highlights in the last week.

8.15pm - Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'Choral

Nicole Cabell (soprano)

Raehann Bryce-Davis (mezzo-soprano)

Zwakele Tshabalala (tenor)

Ryan Speedo Green (bass-baritone)

Chineke! Chorus and Orchestra

Conductor Kevin John Edusei

‘Be embraced, all you millions!' Since the earliest days of the Proms, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has had a special place in each season - and with its climactic choral ‘Ode to Joy', it's one of those works that takes on a new meaning every time it's played. This year, it's performed by Chineke! - Europe's first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra, along with Chineke! Voices. BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Nicole Cabell leads a world-class team of solo singers, and opens the Prom with the haunting Lilacs, the heartfelt song cycle with which George Walker became the first African American composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

Live at BBC Prom 61: Kevin John Edusei conducts Chineke! in George Walker and Beethoven.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Georgia Mann and Tom Service, live from the Royal Albert Hall in London. Georgia and Tom are joined in the box by Flora Willson, expert in 19th-century music and culture, to chat about the powerful work in this evening's concert, and look forward to the eight weeks of exciting music-making ahead.

19.30:

Verdi: Requiem

Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, soprano

Jennifer Johnston, mezzo-soprano

David Junghoon Kim, tenor

Kihwan Sim, bass

BBC Symphony Chorus

Crouch End Festival Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo, conductor

Giuseppe Verdi had a complicated relationship with religion: he asked to be buried with just ‘one priest, one candle, one cross'. But as a born dramatist, he knew how to tell a great story - and his colossal Requiem encompasses death, rebirth and the end of the world itself, in music that simply blazes with passion and power. Now, in the vast spaces of the Royal Albert Hall, Sakari Oramo assembles two choruses, a multinational team of solo singers (including 2021 Cardiff Singer of the World Song Prize winner Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha) and the full forces of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and prepares to raise the roof. A truly spectacular First Night of the 2022 BBC Proms.

There will be no interval.

Live BBC Proms: Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC SO and massed voices in Verdi's Requiem.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Georgia Mann, from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Bliss: Jubilant Fanfare

Handel: Coronation Anthem No.1: Zadok the Priest

Walton: Orb and Sceptre

Elgar: O hearken thou*§

Harris, arr. Manners: The Windsor Dances

Henry VIII: Pastime good companie*

Britten: Courtly Dances from Gloriana

Parry: I was glad

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Interval: David Owen Norris joins Georgia Mann to reflect on music's role in the construction of royalty, how it intersects with our notions about monarchy, and the accompaniment it has provided for ceremonial events over the centuries. Plus Keelan Carew pops in to share a few of his Proms highlights so far.

Ireland: Epic March

Judith Weir: I love all beauteous things

Byrd: O Lord, let thy servant Elizabeth, our Queen

Handel: Water Music (excerpts)

Vaughan Williams: Silence and Music

Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Your Servant, Elizabeth (BBC Commission; first performance)

Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4

Conductor Barry Wordsworth

Chorus master Martin Fitzpatrick

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra & BBC Singers with conductor Barry Wordsworth

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Georgia Mann.

Performers:

Nigel Clarke (from ‘The Baby Club')

Rory Crawford (from ‘Teeny Tiny Creatures')

Andy Day (from ‘Andy's Adventures')

Chantelle Lindsay (from ‘Teeny Tiny Creatures')

Maddie Moate (from ‘Do You Know?')

Puja Panchkoty (from ‘Andy's Adventures')

Kwam退 Ryan, conductor

At the BBC Proms, we believe that music is for all ages - and we know that when it comes to singing, dancing and generally making themselves heard, our youngest audience members are already star performers! Today, join a CBeebies musical ocean adventure for all the family. Take a deep breath and dive underwater in our Royal Albert Hall submarine with its musical crew, the Southbank Sinfonia. JoJo and Gran Gran are onboard with a Gran Gran plan. Andy has his submarine pod at the ready. Become a CBeebies Prommer and search for endangered creatures while collecting sounds and pictures for your very own musical ocean scrapbook.

Live at the BBC Proms: Southbank Sinfonia and Kwame Ryan with a musical ocean adventure.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented live from the Royal Albert Hall by Kate Molleson.

Ethel Smyth: The Wreckers - Semi-staged; sung in French.

Act 1: 18:15

19:25 Interval 1:

During the first interval, Kate Molleson discusses this opera's music with Leah Broad focusing on some of its highlights, the general context in which The Wreckers came into being as well as influences that inspired Ethel Smyth when writing the piece and its reception.

Act 2: 19:45

20:35 Interval 2:

Kate Molleson talks to Joan Passey, an expert on the cultural and literary histories of seascapes and coasts, about the Cornish context of tonight's opera.

Act 3: 21:00

Pascoe.... Philip Horst (bass-baritone)

Lawrence.... James Rutherford (baritone)

Mark.... Rodrigo Porras Garulo (tenor)

Avis.... Lauren Fagan (soprano)

Harvey.... Donovan Singletary (baritone)

Tallan.... Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (tenor)

Jack.... Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo-soprano)

Thirza.... Karis Tucker (mezzo-soprano)

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Robin Ticciati (conductor)

Admired by Mahler and Britten and praised as a ‘masterpiece' by Thomas Beecham, Ethel Smyth's opera The Wreckers - a psychological drama of ‘wrecking, religion and love' - was the pinnacle of the composer's career.

With its sweeping musical soundscapes, passionate central love story and radical interrogation of fear, hypocrisy and mob violence, it's a compelling piece of music-theatre, whose heroine is a mirror of her fascinating, unorthodox creator. Glyndebourne presents the opera for the first time with its original score and French libretto. Robin Ticciati conducts an exciting international cast in this semi staged performance.

Live at the BBC Proms: the Glyndebourne Festival production of Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila

Ethel Smyth: Concerto for Violin and Horn

8.10 pm

Interval: Katy Hamilton joins Andrew McGregor to look forward to the week's forthcoming highlights at the BBC Proms.

8.30pm

Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2 in E minor

Elena Urioste (violin)

Ben Goldscheider (horn)

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Kazuki Yamada

When it comes to conductors, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has a reputation for picking winners, and its new partnership with its Japanese-born Chief Conductor Designate Kazuki Yamada is already generating some serious electricity. ‘Yamada certainly doesn't hold back,' says The Guardian. Expect him to wear his heart very much on his sleeve in Rachmaninov's huge, Romantic epic of a Second Symphony - and to bring all his sincerity and verve to the neglected (but equally impassioned) Concerto for Violin and Horn by BBC Proms-featured composer Ethel Smyth. Soloists Elena Urioste and Ben Goldscheider are a byword for communicative, imaginative playing: a night of big emotions and even bigger tunes, with Glinka's firecracker overture to light the fuse.

Live at the BBC Proms: the CBSO perform music by Glinka, Rachmaninov and Ethel Smyth.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Leonard Bernstein: Candide - overture

George Walker: Variations for Orchestra

Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto

20.10 Interval

Continuing our series looking at cultural innovations which took place in the same year as the founding of the BBC, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough hears how the All England Tennis Club's move to its current home in Wimbledon in 1922 was far from a smooth, uncontroversial process.

20.30

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor

Johan Dalene (violin)

Jordan de Souza (conductor)

All is for the best, in this best of all possible worlds! That's the motto of Leonard Bernstein's Candide, but the swinging trumpets that launch its overture are just one side of the musical American Dream - whether it's the soaring nostalgia of Barber's sunlit Violin Concerto (played by former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Johan Dalene) or the urban energy of George Walker's altogether edgier 1970s classic. And then Jordan de Souza and the BBC Symphony Orchestra spin on a dime and plunge into Tchaikovsky's autobiographical Fourth Symphony: terror, triumph and one man's life-or-death struggle with the force that he called Fate. In other words, the ultimate symphonic thriller.

Live at the BBC Proms: Jordan de Souza conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Carwithen: Bishop Rock

G Williams: Sea Sketches

7.30pm

Interval: Vaughan Williams' Symphony No 1 features settings of two poems by Walt Whitman - Sea Drift and Passage to India. Poet and literary scholar Jack Parlett joins Nicola Heywood-Thomas to share some thoughts about the great American poet and his magnum opus Leaves of Grass.

7.50pm

Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1)

Elizabeth Llewellyn (soprano)

Jacques Imbrailo (baritone)

BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales

BBC Symphony Chorus

Andrew Manze (conductor)

‘Behold, the sea itself!' Vaughan Williams's A Sea Symphony takes the poetry of Walt Whitman and opens the floodgates to a spring tide of inspiration. Andrew Manze's Vaughan Williams recordings have been praised for their ‘rare sensitivity and warmth', and in the composer's 150th-anniversary year, A Sea Symphony gets the deluxe treatment from two of the BBC's great symphonic choruses, plus the operatic voices of soloists Elizabeth Llewellyn and Andrew Foster-Williams. But the concert opens the way Vaughan Williams would have wanted: with a surging musical seascape from his Welsh pupil Grace Williams, and an equally nautical opener by Doreen Carwithen, composed in 1952 and receiving its first Proms performance in this, her centenary year.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC National Orchestra of Wales present sea-inspired works.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Linton Stephens, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Jennifer Walshe: The Site of an Investigation

20.00

Interval: Chain Reaction (1/6)

Georgia Mann and Tom Service take us on the first of six unpredictable musical journeys which connect the last piece in the first half of a Prom to the first piece after the interval. Expect the unexpected in this refreshing interval G&T with Georgia and Tom!

20.20

Brahms: A German Requiem

Jennifer Walshe, voice

Elena Tsallagova, soprano

Shenyang, bass-baritone

National Youth Choir of Great Britain

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov, conductor

Be here now, they say - but in 2022, and a world in which threats come as fast as wonders, why would you even want to? The Site of an Investigation is Jennifer Walshe's one-woman response. It's a massive, multilayered symphonic deep-dive into social media, algorithm madness, streaming playlists and micropollutants - all in search of a very personal path into the open. Conductor Ilan Volkov never takes the obvious perspective and, after the interval, he conducts Brahms's heartfelt A German Requiem: a service of consolation from a composer without conventional religious faith, but with a limitless depth of compassion. An answer, of sorts? Decide for yourself -

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC SSO and Ilan Volkov perform A German Requiem by Brahms.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Nicole Liz退e: Blurr is the Colour of My True Love's Eyes (BBC co-commission: European premiere)

Bruckner: String Quintet in F major - Adagio, arr. Skrowaczewski

20:15

Interval: the meaning of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony in Stalin's Soviet times - and its echoes in today's world.

20:35

Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 in D minor

Colin Currie, percussion

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

Music and politics don't mix, or so we're told. But Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony was written in direct response to an attack on the composer from Stalin himself, and the stakes - in 1930s Russia - could hardly have been higher. That's the history; its legacy is a shattering musical testament of humanity against oppression. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is led by its young Associate Conductor Alpesh Chauhan. First, a vision of pure beauty from Anton Bruckner, before Colin Currie (‘the world's finest and most daring percussionist' - The Spectator) takes the spotlight in a new concerto by Nicole Liz退e: the Canadian sonic magician who lists MTV, Alexander McQueen, early video games and thrash metal among her influences.

Live BBC Proms: the BBC SSO and Alpesh Chauhan perform Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall.

Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Respighi: Fountains of Rome

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Georgia Mann discusses the historical context and cultural background to Puccini's Il Tabarro with Alexandra Wilson, Professor of Music and Cultural History at Oxford Brookes University.

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Puccini: Il Tabarro (Concert performance; sung in Italian)

Lucio Gallo - Michele, a barge-owner (baritone)

Natalya Romaniw - Giorgetta, Michele's wife (soprano)

Adam Smith - Luigi, a stevedore (tenor)

Annunziata Vestri - La Frugola, Talpa's wife (mezzo-soprano)

Alasdair Elliott - 'Tinca,' a stevedore (tenor)

Simon Shibambu - 'Talpa,' a stevedore (bass)

Shengzhi Ren - Song Seller (tenor)

Laura Lolita Perešivana (soprano) & Ryan Vaughan Davies (tenor) - Two Lovers

Philharmonia Voices

Hall退 Orchestra

Sir Mark Elder (conductor)

Sir Mark Elder and the Hall退 bring Puccini's atmospheric Parisian tragedy Il Tabarro to the Proms - a score that swirls and throbs with the energy of the River Seine.

Natalya Romaniw stars as the unhappily married Giorgetta, whose affair is the catalyst for murder. Two orchestral favourites set the watery scene: Respighi's Fountains of Rome - by turns glistening in the sunlight and swathed in dawn mist - and the irrepressible musical antics of Dukas's The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Live at the BBC Proms: Sir Mark Elder conducts the Halle in Puccini's opera Il Tabarro.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Georgia Mann, live at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Valentin Silvestrov: Symphony No. 7

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor

Beethoven: ‘Abscheulicher! - Komm, Hoffnung, lass den letzten Stern

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor

Anna Fedorova (piano)

Liudmyla Monastyrska (soprano)

Keri-Lynn Wilson (conductor)

The newly formed Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, made up of Ukrainian musicians - some from Ukraine's major cities, some now displaced as refugees, and others who play in European orchestras - is a special late addition to this year's Proms. Under Canadian-Ukrainian conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson the orchestra is a symbol of the remarkable resolve and determination shown by the people of Ukraine during the dark months of conflict - but also a beacon of hope for peace. They celebrate Ukraine's leading living composer, Valentin Silvestrov, who escaped Kyiv with his daughter and granddaughter in March. ‘It is now clear how little we appreciate the times when peace reigns,' he has since said, ‘and how fragile civilisation is.' His deeply reflective Symphony No. 7 from 2003 complements Chopin's ravishing Piano Concerto No. 2. And, after music from Beethoven's great ‘rescue' opera, Fidelio, with its themes of false imprisonment and hard-won freedom, Brahms's final symphony offers tragic turbulence soothed by moments of defiant joy.

Live at the BBC Proms: Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Andrew McGregor, live at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Huw Watkins: Flute Concerto

Bax: Tintagel

c.19.30:

Interval: Andrew McGregor is joined by Professor Fiona Stafford to reflect on how poets have constructed, expressed and represented what it means to be English, from the Tudor contemporaries of Thomas Tallis, via the Romantics, to the 20th century.

c.19:50:

Walton: Partita for Orchestra

Elgar: ‘Enigma' Variations

Adam Walker, flute

John Wilson, conductor

British conductor John Wilson has long been a Proms favourite, but last year's debut appearance of his new super-orchestra the Sinfonia of London caused a sensation. ‘Astonishing,' wrote The Times. For The Spectator, this was ‘an orchestra so thrillingly alive with the sheer glory of it all that hearing them play felt like being a teenager in love'. Now Wilson and the Sinfonia are back, in an all-British programme that pairs much-loved classics by Elgar and Vaughan-Williams with Walton's kaleidoscopic Partita, Bax's stirring musical seascape and Huw Watkins's spirited Flute Concerto, played by its dedicatee Adam Walker.

Live at the BBC Proms: John Wilson conducts Sinfonia of London, with flautist Adam Walker.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Harrison Birtwistle: Sonance Severance 2000

Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major

Iannis Xenakis: Jonchaies

20.15

Interval: Gillian Moore joins Ian Skelly to look ahead to the week's forthcoming highlights at the BBC Proms.

20.35

Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Tom Borrow (piano)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Iannis Xenakis contemplated reeds in the wind; Stravinsky pictured a Russia before the dawn of civilisation. But Nature is unstoppable, and both composers unleashed forces beyond the imagination: riotous, explosive masterpieces from opposite ends of the 20th century, using supersized orchestras to redefine the limits of music itself. In Xenakis's centenary year, Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Symphony Orchestra reap the whirlwind that grew from Stravinsky's storm. Ravel's gorgeous, jazz-influenced Piano Concerto appears like an oasis of calm before Jonchaies and The Rite of Spring - though with the ‘astonishing' (according to Bachtrack) BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Tom Borrow as soloist, it should be every bit as gripping. And to begin a summons by the late, much missed Harrison Birtwistle.

Live at the BBC Proms: Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Louise Blain and Steffan Powell, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Matt ROGERS (AKA gameshow outpatient)/Tim Follin, arr. Matt Rogers: Loading Chronos

(BBC Commission: world premiere)

Koji KONDO, arr. Nic Raine: The Legend of Zelda

CHAINES: Tribute to Pok退mon, Ecco, and Secret of Mana

Original compositions by Junichi Masuda, Hiroki Kikuta, Spencer Nilsen, Attila Dobos, Andrကs Magyari, David Javelosa and Andy Armer

Nobuo UEMATSU, arr. Andrew Skeet Final Fantasy VIII: Liberi Fatali

Kow OTANI, arr. Tomomichi Takeoka: Shadow of the Colossus Suite

Yoko SHIMOMURA, Hikaru UTADA, orch. Kaoru Wada: Kingdom Hearts

Austin WINTORY: Excerpts from Traveller - A Journey Symphony

Hildur GUЀNADӀTTIR & Sam SLATER, arr. Robert Ames: Selections from Battlefield 2042 (European Premiere)

Jessica CURRY, arr. Jim Fowler I Have Begun My Ascent/ The Leaving (from ‘Dear Esther'/ ‘So Let Us Melt')

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Robert Ames, conductor

In the first ever Gaming Prom, an electronically expanded Royal Philharmonic Orchestra explores the musical universe of gaming: from the classic console titles of the 1980s to the European concert premiere of a suite from Battlefield 2042.

Live BBC Proms: the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra explore the musical world of gaming.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Tom Service and Nicholas Collon, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Xenakis: O-Mega

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor

8.20pm

Interval

Chain Reaction: Georgia Mann and Tom Service take us on the second of six unpredictable musical journeys which connect the last piece in the first half of a Prom to the first piece after the interval. Expect the unexpected in this refreshing interval G&T with Georgia and Tom!

8.40pm

Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor

Henry Baldwin (percussion)

Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)

Nicholas Collon (conductor)

Flawless.' 'Stunnning.' 'An absolute tour de force.' Under founder-conductor Nicholas Collon, the Aurora Orchestra's recent Proms performances from memory have knocked the critics sideways - and the partnerships gets ever more visceral, insightful and daring. Tonight they toast the anniversary of Iannis Xenakis and explore Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto with Patricia Kopatchinskaja - one of the rare soloists whose brilliance, intuition and uninhibited theatricality can match their own. After the interval, Radio 3 presenter Tom Service lifts the bonnet on Beethoven's Fifth Symphony: stripping genius back to basics before handing over to Collon and Aurora for a full performance, from memory. Sonic rewilding, from the ultimate orchestral adventurers.

Live at the BBC Proms: Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon with Patricia Kopatchinskaja.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Caroline Shaw: Entr'acte

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64

7.45pm

Interval: Continuing our series of features looking at cultural life in 1922, John Gallagher gets a taste of what and how we were eating a hundred years ago. From health fads, to Virginia Woolf having a premonition of the microwave, John is joined by food historians Annie Gray and Elsa Richardson.

8.05pm

Mahler: Symphony No 4 in G major

Clara-Jumi Kang (violin)

Miah Persson (soprano)

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Mahler pictured his Fourth Symphony unfolding under skies that ‘shine eternally blue' - and from the sleighbells with which it opens to its final, childlike vision of heaven, it is outwardly the happiest symphony he ever wrote. But he knew that life is more complicated than that, and in a Prom that begins with Caroline Shaw's contemporary take on the music of the 18th century, and stars the ‘compelling' Clara-Jumi Kang in Mendelssohn's bittersweet Violin Concerto, there's always something more, hidden just below the surface. Soprano Miah Persson makes Mahler's vision shine, and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales shows the full scope of its blossoming relationship with Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC NOW, Ryan Bancroft, Clara-Jumi Kang and Miah Persson.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Tom McKinney, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Kalevi Aho: Eight Seasons (Concerto for Theremin and Chamber Orchestra)

8.05 Interval: Following the London premier of Kalevi Aho's work The Eight Seasons, which is inspired by the way Finland's native Sami people divide up the year, in the interval Tom McKinney will be joined by Kenneth Steven, a poet and nature writer who has immersed himself in the world of the Sami.

Kaija Saariaho: Vista

Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No.15

Carolina Eyck (theremin)

John Storgards (conductor)

Imagine pulling music out of thin air. Two living Finnish masters do just that today: Kaija Saariaho felt that ‘new music was flowing into my mind' as she drove by night along the coast of California. Kalevi Aho, meanwhile, turned to the eight seasons of Lapland's Sကmi culture in his extraordinary concerto for the theremin. ‘The soloist is like a magician, a weaver of spells,' he says - ‘producing music without touching the instrument at all.' Shostakovich's Symphony No. 15 inhabits a much darker world, but there'll be mystery too, as well as humour, when John Storg倀rds conducts the enigmatic final symphony of one of the 20th century's supreme musical chroniclers.

Live at the BBC Proms: John Storgards conducts music by Shostakovich, Aho and Saariaho.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Katie Derham, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Julian Anderson: Symphony No. 2, ‘Prague Panoramas' [BBC co-commission: world premiere of complete symphony]

Bohuslav Martin?: Concerto for Two Pianos

8.25

Interval: Nigel Simeone discusses the music in tonight's concert. And Keelan Carew drops in to chat about a couple of his Proms highlights from the last week.

8.45

Sergey Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

Katia and Marielle Lab耀que (pianos)

Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

Distance and enchantment: whenever Julian Anderson creates a new work, we're in for a musical experience that ruffles through memories as it ravishes the ears. His keenly awaited Second Symphony takes its cue from old photographs of Prague: a city dear to conductor Semyon Bychkov, and to the exiled Czech composer Bohuslav Martin?, whose exuberant double concerto falls into the hands of sisters Katia and Marielle Lab耀que. As for Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances - well, it's been described as a secret ballet score, a concerto for orchestra and a symphony by any other name. But every note glows with the sorrow of exile, and the undimmed energy of a composer whose inspiration burned fiercer than ever in this last, bittersweet masterpiece.

Live BBC Proms: the BBC SO and Semyon Bychkov perform Rachmaninov, Anderson and Martinu.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Linton Stephens, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Danny Elfman: Wunderkammer

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (orch. Grof退)

c.8.20pm

Interval: Ahead of the performance of Ravel's score for the ballet Daphnis et Chlo退, classicist Natalie Haynes joins Linton Stephens to shed some light on the source from which its drawn -Greek writer Longus's novel from the 2nd century CE - and other works that owe a debt to this ancient text from Shakespeare's comedies to The Princess Bride.

c.8.40pm

Ravel: Daphnis et Chlo退

Simone Dinnerstein (piano)

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Andrew Gourlay (conductor)

‘I think and feel in sounds,' said Maurice Ravel. So, when he wrote his ballet Daphnis et Chlo退, he created a sumptuous musical panorama in which you can hear every drop of dew, every flurry of birdsong and every ray of glittering light. Sounds thrilling? Now hear it performed by the ‘world's greatest orchestra of teenagers' - playing with an energy and joy that make even the Royal Albert Hall feel a bit on the small side. The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain's annual Prom is always a highlight of the season, and tonight its 150-plus players are working on a cinematic scale: Simone Dinnerstein performs Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, and there's a spectacular, specially commissioned opener from Hollywood legend Danny Elfman.

Live BBC Proms: the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain perform Gershwin and Ravel.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Tom Service, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Mozart:

The Marriage of Figaro - overture

Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor

c.3.40pm

Interval: Tom Service talks to Leif Ove Andsnes about his love of Mozart.

c.4pm

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano / director

When Mozart composed his piano concertos, he had a very specific performer in mind - himself. For Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, that's part of the appeal. ‘When you realise how quickly Mozart developed during the early years of the 1780s it makes you ask: why did this happen? What was going on?' Tonight, this endlessly engaging, multi-award-winning pianist puts himself in Mozart's shoes, as he plays two contrasting masterworks from 1785: the tempestuous and tender Concerto No. 20, and the sunny, gloriously playful Concerto No. 22. Throughout, he'll direct the Mahler Chamber Orchestra from the keyboard, just as Mozart would have done. Expect eloquence, insight and (because this is Mozart, after all) lots and lots of fun.

Live at the BBC Proms: Leif Ove Andsnes directs the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Tom Service, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Mozart:

Symphony No. 38 in D major, ‘Prague

Die Zufriedenheit

Der Zauberer

Das Veilchen

Concert Aria ‘Ch'io mi scordi di te?

c.8.15pm

Interval: Mozart specialist Tim Jones chats to Tom Service about Mozart's music from 1786 and why this was such a momentous year in his creative output.

c.8.35pm

Masonic Funeral Music

Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor

Christiane Karg, soprano

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano / director

Mozart aimed to please. He created arias that were ‘perfectly tailored' to their singer's voice, and rituals of solemn grandeur for his fellow Freemasons. And for his superfans in the music-loving city of Prague, he wrote a symphony designed to knock them backwards with its daring, its energy and its sheer theatrical flair. In this second of three Mozart Momentum concerts at the Proms, Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes zooms in on the year 1786, and finds Amadeus at the absolute peak of his game. Soprano Christiane Karg is one of the supreme Mozart interpreters of our time; and Andsnes takes the place of the composer, directing Mozart's tragic C minor Piano Concerto - some say his greatest - from the piano.

Live BBC Proms: Leif Ove Andsnes, Christiane Karg with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Tiana Major9

Cashh

Sian Eleri (onstage presenter)

Celebrating the BBC's centenary year, the Proms partners with Radio 1 Relax for a late-night wind-down featuring visionary hip-hop and rap artist Kojey Radical, singer-songwriter Poppy Ajudha, with Tiana Major9 and Cashh, accompanied by the 12 Ensemble.

Presented by Radio 1's Chillest Show host Sian Eleri, who appears onstage to introduce a stripped-back set of collaborations and explorations.

Live BBC Proms: Radio 1 Relax, with Kojey Radical, Poppy Ajudha and the 12 Ensemble.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Gavin Higgins: Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra (BBC commission: world premiere)

7.40pm

Interval: music critic Fiona Maddocks joins Nicola at the Radio 3 box to look forward to the week's forthcoming highlights at the BBC Proms.

8pm

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op 14

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

‘Convinced that his love is spurned, the artist poisons himself with opium - ' Hector Berlioz never did anything by halves, and in his Symphonie fantastique a doomed love story becomes a no-holds-barred phantasmagoria: a fabulous, wide-eyed fantasy of severed heads, demonic orgies and unrequited love, written in the grip of an obsession and scored in technicolour for a supersized orchestra. Ryan Bancroft unleashes the full power of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and goes even larger with the world premiere of Gavin Higgins's new Concerto Grosso celebrating the British brass band tradition. A full symphony orchestra collides with the multi-award winning Tredegar Band (stars of the movie Pride) - and sends sparks hurtling.

Live BBC Proms: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ryan Bancroft and the Tredegar Band.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Richard Wagner: Tannh䀀user - Overture; Venusberg Music

c. 19:25 Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs

c. 19:55 Gustav Mahler: Blumine

c. 20:05 Robert Schumann: Symphony No 4 in D minor

Louise Alder (soprano)

Daniele Rustioni (conductor)

There's an ‘electric buzz in Belfast', according to at least one critic, and the combined energy of the Ulster Orchestra and its dynamic Chief Conductor Daniele Rustioni illuminates everything they play together. Tonight, it's all about Austro-German Romanticism at its most ardent: whether Schumann's punchy but poetic Fourth Symphony, the dreams of a young Gustav Mahler, or Wagner's thrillingly sensual opera of unleashed love, lust and creativity. Louise Alder is the soloist in Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs, and The Times called her ‘a terrific talent, combining a big, lustrous voice with flawless intonation and keen intelligence'. This young British star could have been born to sing Strauss's lovely (and much-loved) final songs.

There will be no interval.

Live at the BBC Proms: Daniele Rustioni conducts the Ulster Orchestra and Louise Alder.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Richard Strauss, arr. Andrew Austin: Vienna Philharmonic Fanfare

Hector Berlioz, arr. Geoffrey Brand: Overture ‘Le corsaire

Vaughan Williams, arr. Paul Hindmarsh: Rhosymedre

Vaughan Williams, transcr. Phillip Littlemore : Variations for brass band

Mario Ruiz Armengol, arr. Michael Pilley: Brassmen's Holiday

Philip Wilby: Euphonium Concerto - Dance (Zeibekikos)

Various Artists, arr. Andrew Austin: Judy Garland Tribute

Elmer Bernstein, arr. Malcolm Bennett: MBC-7: Elmer Bernstein Tribute

Corey Taylor, Jim Root, arr. Paul Saggers: The Devil in I

Jimmy Webb, arr. Alan Catherall: MacArthur Park

Yu-Han Yang, euphonium

Ian Porthouse, conductor

The British brass band tradition is one of the marvels of the musical world. With an unbroken history stretching back nearly 150 years, the Tredegar Band is a true virtuoso ensemble, and from its base in Blaenau Gwent it found a worldwide audience in 2014 when it appeared in the Bafta-winning film Pride. The band's second Prom this season celebrates the sheer breadth (and brilliance) of their artistry. ‘We're aiming to cover the history of brass band music in about an hour!' says Music Director Ian Porthouse, and this late-night showcase includes brass classics from Richard Strauss to Phillip Wilby as well as tributes - in their anniversary years - to Vaughan Williams, Elmer Bernstein and Judy Garland.

Live at the Proms: Ian Porthouse conducts the Tredegar Band.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Georgia Mann, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Richard Strauss: Death and Transfiguration

Matthew Kaner: Pearl [BBC commission: world premiere]

20.15 Interval:

In the interval Georgia Mann is joined by the poet Philip Gross, to hear about how poets and writers have used the imagery of the planets from the 17th century to the present day, including readings of Philip's own works Sky Space, and Moon O.

20. 35

Gustav Holst: The Planets

Roderick Williams (baritone)

BBC Symphony Chorus

Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

In the years around the First World War, Richard Strauss and Gustav Holst both pushed at the outer limits of what an orchestra could do - with results that still startle the ears. But there's more to Death and Transfiguration than soaring heroics, and Holst's The Planets begins with great tunes and glittering colours before wandering into other-worldly, distant regions. Ryan Wigglesworth brings a composer's ear to two works that make a perfect frame for Matthew Kaner's haunting new commission Pearl - in which an ancient lament (a medieval poem translated by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage) unlocks human emotions that cross centuries - and maybe travel even further than that. It's specially tailored to the glowing voice and peerless communicative skill of British baritone Roderick Williams with the BBC Symphony Chorus.

Live at the BBC Proms: Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Tom McKinney live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Anna Thorvaldsdottir: ARCHORA (20') (BBC co-commission: world premiere)

Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto (27')

20:30

Interval: The journalist and critic Andrew Mellor joins Tom McKinney to explore the music for Sibelius

Jean Sibelius: Symphony No.2 (43')

Kian Soltani (cello)

Three composers, three landscapes. Elgar wrote his Cello Concerto in the woodlands of Sussex; for many listeners, its autumnal colours evoke emotions too deep for words. From his home in Finland, Sibelius created a symphony that has the grandeur and inevitability of a great river - though some have heard it as a stirring song of national awakening. And elemental forces are the very bedrock of Anna Thorvaldsdottir's inspiration. The BBC Philharmonic, under Eva Ollikainen - a Finnish conductor with close links to Iceland - teams up with charismatic soloist Kian Soltani in Elgar's hugely popular concerto, and gives the world premiere of a newly forged orchestral work by Iceland-born Anna Thorvaldsdottir, for whom composition is ‘a natural part of my life'.

Broadcast on BBC Four on Sunday 14 August

Live BBC Proms: Eva Ollikainen conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Sibelius's Symphony No 2.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Sibelius: Tapiola

Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major

8.15 pm

INTERVAL: Continuing our series of features looking at cultural life in 1922, John Gallagher considers what the expansion of free time in the 1920s meant for leisure and the things people did for fun. From a new craze for body building to that distinctive figure of the 20th century, the hobbyist, John is joined by historian Elsa Richardson and literary scholar Jon Day. Plus we'll hear from our BBC Sounds Champion Keelan Carew about his Proms highlights from the past week.

Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

Yuja Wang (piano)

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

Klaus M䀀kel䀀 (conductor)

No prizes for identifying the real hero of Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben. With its swashbuckling self-confidence and self-mocking humour, this ‘Hero's Life' is very much the world according to Richard Strauss - an exuberant, off-the-scale showpiece for the Oslo Philharmonic, making its first Proms appearance under its recently appointed and widely acclaimed Chief Conductor Klaus Mak뀀l䀀. Joining them, in Liszt's First Piano Concerto, is the phenomenal Yuja Wang, who's said that she ‘feels like a rock star' when playing at the Proms. Sibelius's awe-inspiring panorama of the Finnish forests opens a high-octane evening with one of Europe's great orchestras, and two of the most talked-about classical musicians in the world today.

Live BBC Proms: Yuja Wang plays Liszt's First Piano Concerto with the Oslo Philharmonic.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

PART 1

B退la Bart　k: The Miraculous Mandarin - suite

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3 in C major

c. 20:25 INTERVAL: Chain Reaction (3/6)

Georgia Mann and Tom Service take us on another unpredictable musical journey as they explore Chain Reaction, connecting the last piece in the first half of this Prom to the first piece after the interval - it's quite a refreshing interval G&T with Georgia and Tom!

c. 20:45 PART 2

Hannah Eisendle: Heliosis (UK premiere)

Dvo?ကk: Symphony No 7 in D minor

Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)

Marin Alsop (conductor)

Viennese orchestral playing is a byword for excellence, rooted in generations of tradition. But under its distinguished (and adventurous) American Music Director Marin Alsop, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra takes that tradition as a starting point to look outwards - to explore. Bart　k's blood-curdling ballet suite prepares the way for Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto: energising, unsentimental brilliance, brought to life by former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor. And then, two very different facets of the Central European tradition: the windswept drama and dancing Bohemian melodies of Dvo?ကk's magnificent Seventh Symphony, and the UK premiere of Heliosis - written specially for Alsop and the Vienna RSO by a young Viennese composer with a flair for drama.

Live at the BBC Proms: Marin Alsop conducts the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

PART 2

Hannah Eisendle: Heliosis (UK premiere)

Dvo?ကk: Symphony No 7 in D minor

Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)

Marin Alsop (conductor)

Viennese orchestral playing is a byword for excellence, rooted in generations of tradition. But under its distinguished (and adventurous) American Music Director Marin Alsop, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra takes that tradition as a starting point to look outwards - to explore. Bart　k's blood-curdling ballet suite prepares the way for Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto: energising, unsentimental brilliance, brought to life by former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor. And then, two very different facets of the Central European tradition: the windswept drama and dancing Bohemian melodies of Dvo?ကk's magnificent Seventh Symphony, and the UK premiere of Heliosis - written specially for Alsop and the Vienna RSO by a young Viennese composer with a flair for drama.

Live at the BBC Proms: Marin Alsop conducts the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Linton Stephens, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Haydn: Symphony No. 6 in D major, ‘Le matin

Vaughan Williams: Oboe Concerto

Kaija Saariaho: Vers toi qui es si loin (London premiere)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major

Nicholas Daniel, oboe

Maria W?oszczowska, violin

Dinis Sousa, conductor

From sunrise to high noon: this matinee concert from the Tyneside-based Royal Northern Sinfonia under its Principal Conductor Dinis Sousa begins with the sun rising over Haydn's joyous early symphony. It ends with Beethoven cutting loose in sheer, unbuckled glee, in the rollercoaster finale of his brightest symphony. In between, the skies just gets brighter and more beautiful, as oboist Nicholas Daniel takes the solo spot in Vaughan Williams's playful, pastoral Oboe Concerto - another anniversary salute to this great British master. Then violinist Maria Maria W?oszczowska is the soloist in Kaija Saariaho's ravishing Vers toi qui es si loin - a wordless love song, adapted from the acclaimed opera L'amour de loin by one of today's true sonic magicians.

Live at the BBC Proms: Dinis Sousa conducts the Royal Northern Sinfonia.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Albert Hall, London.

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (suite)

Missy Mazzoli: Violin Concerto (Procession)

8.15 pm

INTERVAL: Poet Hannah Lowe, whose collection of sonnets The Kids won the Costa Book Award for Poetry in 2021, joins Martin Handley before the performance of excerpts from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet to explore how poets from Shakespeare to the present day have written about love.

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)

Jennifer Koh (violin)

Santtu-Matias Rouvali (conductor)

Enchantment, potions, and deep emotions suddenly transforming into passionate music. And it's not just the star-crossed lovers of Prokofiev's great Shakespearean ballet score. Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake is a story of love blossoming under the shadow of a dark magic. Missy Mazzoli's new Violin Concerto, ‘Procession', meanwhile, casts the soloist (in the composer's words) ‘as a soothsayer, sorcerer, healer and pied piper', playing music that begins with medieval charms and ends by reaching for the sky. It's played tonight by its dedicatee Jennifer Koh, with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Santtu Matias-Rouvali, at the end of his first (critically acclaimed) season as Music Director.

Live at the BBC Proms: Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Mark-Anthony Turnage: Time Flies [BBC co-commission: UK premiere]

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Tuba Concerto

8.10 pm

Interval

Nigel Simeone joins Andrew McGregor to look forward to the week's forthcoming highlights at the BBC Proms.

8.30 pm

Edward Elgar: Symphony No. 1 in A flat major

Constantin Hartwig (tuba)

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

A muffled drum, a quiet march - and the melody for which a nation had been waiting. From first hesitant notes to heaven-storming conclusion, Elgar's First Symphony is more than just a landmark in British music: it's the autobiography of a creative spirit, passionate, troubled and profoundly moving. BBC Symphony Orchestra Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo has loved the music of Elgar for decades, and it's a thrilling contrast to the playfulness and poetry of Vaughan Williams's Tuba Concerto, played by rising international brass star Constantin Hartwig. Meanwhile, what's a composer to do when he's invited to the Tokyo Olympics during a global travel ban? Mark-Anthony Turnage lets his music do the globetrotting in his jazz-inspired Time Flies.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Katie Derham, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Jule Styne Don't Rain On My Parade

Jalacy Hawkins I Put A Spell On You

Mack Gordon/Harry Warren At Last

Billy Davis/Berry Gordy/Gwen Gordy All I Could Do Was Cry

Walter Donaldson Love Me or Leave Me

Bernie Benjamin/Horace Ott/Sol Marcus Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

Anthony Newley/Leslie Bricusse Feeling Good

8.15pm Interval:

During the interval, Katy Derham talks to Kevin le Gendre about the life and art of Cynthia Erivo.

Francis Lai Where do I begin

Carolo Donida I (Who Have Nothing)

Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler Stormy Weather

Ewan MacColl First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Piere Louiguy La vie en Rose

Jaques Brel Ne Me Quitte Pas

Carolyn Franklin Ain't No Way

Cynthia Erivo Glowing Up

Cynthia Erivo You're Not Here

Jim Weatherly Midnight Train To Georgia

Prince Nothing Compares 2 U

Cynthia Erivo (singer)

Edwin Outwater (conductor)

Cynthia Erivo is a creative phenomenon: a London-born, Tony, Grammy and Emmy award-winning actress, singer, songwriter and producer, whose career has taken her from her childhood in South London to the West End and Broadway, and whose recordings have also thrilled audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. Tonight, backed by the BBC Concert Orchestra she salutes the legendary female voices that have shown her the way: artists such as Nina Simone, Shirley Bassey, Billie Holiday and Gladys Knight. ‘I wanted to pay homage to them,' she says. ‘Women who have influenced my sound, the music I've listened to, and the way I tell my story.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra and Edwin Outwater with singer Cynthia Erivo.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Copland: Appalachian Spring - suite

George Walker: Trombone Concerto

c.8.15

INTERVAL: In the BBC's centenary year, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough takes a closer look at another cultural landmark from 1922 - Robert Flaherty's ground-breaking documentary film Nanook of the North. Film historian Roswitha Skare and journalist Luke Dormehl explain why this study of life in the Arctic has proved to be both controversial and influential.

c.8.35

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major

Peter Moore, trombone

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Vasily Petrenko, conductor

Moscow, 1945: when Sergey Prokofiev stepped up to conduct the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, he was interrupted by the sound of an artillery barrage. Forged in a time of war and tyranny, Prokofiev said that the symphony embodied ‘the greatness of the human spirit', and for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's Music Director, Vasily Petrenko, it's one of the supreme 20th-century masterpieces. Tonight, he sets it in a strikingly original context - alongside the primary colours and all-American optimism of Copland's Appalachian Spring, and the bold, swinging postwar rhythms of George Walker's Trombone Concerto. Peter Moore (‘magical' - The Times) is the soloist in this striking contribution to our season-long focus on instruments that don't always get their due.

Live at the Proms: Prom 40: Vasily Petrenko conducts the RPO in Copland and Prokofiev.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Ravel: La valse

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1

8.20 Interval: Daniel Grimley talks to Martin Handley about the music of Nielsen.

8.40 Part 2

Nielsen: Symphony No. 3, ‘Sinfonia espansiva

Behzod Abduraimov (piano)

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)

Benjamin Appl (baritone)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

‘Sizzling' was how The Guardian described the playing of pianist Behzod Abduraimov. For The Arts Desk, meanwhile, he's a ‘rare and enchanting musician': the ideal performer, in other words, for a masterwork as witty, as joyful and as impulsive as Beethoven's sunlit First Piano Concerto. That's the burst of light and joy at the heart of this concert from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under its Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard, but there's no letting up after the interval, as Dausgaard conducts a symphony he's made his own: Nielsen's ebullient Sinfonia espansiva. Ravel's La valse sets things spinning: a sumptuous, sinister evocation of an era - and a culture - waltzing ever closer to the abyss.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Thomas Dausgaard.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Sibelius: Symphony No. 7

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4

c. 8.30 Interval

Chain Reaction: Georgia Mann and Tom Service take us on the fourth of six unpredictable musical journeys which connect the last piece in the first half of a Prom to the first piece after the interval. Expect the unexpected in this refreshing interval G&T with Georgia and Tom!

8.50 Part 2

Nielsen: Symphony No. 4, ‘The Inextinguishable

Jan Lisiecki (piano)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

‘Music is life - and like it, inextinguishable.' Two giants of the symphony take the 20th century head-on, with shattering results. Sibelius seems to concentrate all the forces of air, earth and water in a Seventh Symphony that feels like it could have been wrought from the elements themselves. Nielsen confronted the brutality of the First World War in music that absolutely refuses to lie down and die - crowned by a life-or-death duel for two sets of drums. An epic evening from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under its Danish-born Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard: Beethoven's lyrical Fourth Piano Concerto will form the eye of the storm, with Jan Lisiecki as soloist.

Live at the BBC Proms: Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Part 2

Nielsen: Symphony No. 4, ‘The Inextinguishable

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

‘Music is life - and like it, inextinguishable.' Two giants of the symphony take the 20th century head-on, with shattering results. Sibelius seems to concentrate all the forces of air, earth and water in a Seventh Symphony that feels like it could have been wrought from the elements themselves. Nielsen confronted the brutality of the First World War in music that absolutely refuses to lie down and die - crowned by a life-or-death duel for two sets of drums. An epic evening from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under its Danish-born Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard: Beethoven's lyrical Fourth Piano Concerto will form the eye of the storm, with Jan Lisiecki as soloist.

Live at the BBC Proms: Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Hannah French live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Handel: Solomon

19.00 Act I

20:00 Interval: Suzanne Aspden talks to Hannah French about Handel's Solomon.

20:20 Act II & III

Iestyn Davies - Solomon

Anna Dennis - Solomon's Queen/First Harlot

Benjamin Hulett - Zadok

Ashley Riches - A Levite

Wallis Giunta - Queen of Sheba/Second Harlot

Sofi Jeannin - conductor

‘Thy harmony's divine, great king

All, all obey the artist's string.

And now, illustrious prince, receive

Such tribute as my realm can give.

A musician as monarch: what could be more perfect? Handel's Solomon (1749) is a celebration of a nation (and a genius) at the height of its confidence, and with its libretto by Moses Mendes, this lavish oratorio is the gloriously tuneful product of a diverse and fast-changing society. Iestyn Davies - arguably Britain's finest living counter-tenor - lavishes all his eloquence and dramatic power on the title-role, as the period instruments of The English Concert, and the BBC Singers under their Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin, bring Handel's vision to majestic life.

Live BBC Proms: the BBC Singers and The English Concert with conductor Sofi Jeannin.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Claude Debussy: Nocturnes

20.05

Interval: The music historian Leah Broad joins Petroc Trelawny to explore Smyth's choral writing.

20.25

Ethel Smyth: Mass in D major

Nardus Williams (soprano)

Bethan Langford (mezzo-soprano)

Robert Murray (tenor)

Božidar Smiljani? (bass-baritone)

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Ethel Smyth wasn't especially religious: the text and images of the Catholic Mass simply thrilled her. ‘What words! What words!' she exclaimed, and her monumental Mass in D major is one of the crowning glories of the British choral tradition. Following their widely admired 2019 recording (‘fiercely committed, highly persuasive' - BBC Music Magazine) Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra give the first Proms performance since the composer's own lifetime, with rising operatic star Nardus Williams heading an impressive quartet of soloists. Debussy's Nocturnes begin the evening in a very different, but no less beautiful world - blurring the edges of sound itself to create music that seems to glow in the dark.

Live at the BBC Proms: Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Lopa Kothari, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Raga Lalit

Amaan Ali Bangash sarod

Ayaan Ali Bangash sarod

Sanju Sahai, tabla

Pirashanna Thevarajah, mridangam

Raga Mia ki Todi

Raga Bhairavi

Amjad Ali Khan sarod

Raga Anand Bhairav

Described by Songlines magazine as ‘one of the 20th century's great masters of the sarod', Amjad Ali Khan is an artist with a mission to communicate. ‘Since my childhood, I always wanted my instrument, the sarod, to be able to express the entire range of human emotions - to sing, shout, whisper and cry,' he says, and over a career spanning six decades few living exponents have given a more expressive voice to the ancient stringed instrument at the heart of Indian classical music. He's joined today by his sons Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash - both leading virtuosos in their own right - as well as outstanding performers on the tabla and mridangam.

Live at the BBC Proms: Sarod master Amjad Ali Khan, accompanied by tabla and mridangam.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Felix Mendelssohn: Overture ‘The Hebrides' (‘Fingal's Cave')

c. 19:45 Anton퀀n Dvo?ကk: Violin Concerto in A minor

c. 20:20

Interval: Music Director and film composer Jeremy Sams joins Martin Handley to look ahead to the week's forthcoming highlights at the BBC Proms.

c. 20:45 Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major

Augustin Hadelich (violin)

Cristian M?celaru (conductor)

The composers of the Romantic generation saw the world differently, and they heard it differently, too. A stormy voyage off the Scottish coast set music playing in Mendelssohn's head: music that grew into the overture The Hebrides. Brahms launches his Third Symphony in heroic style - but brings it to a close in the most radiant of sunset glows. Dvo?ကk, meanwhile, fused classical forms with Czech folklore and his own deeply poetic spirit to create a violin concerto that dances as joyfully as it sings. Grammy Award-winner Augustin Hadelich is its champion tonight, as the Proms welcomes the Cologne-based WDR Symphony Orchestra and its energetic Chief Conductor Cristian M?celaru.

Live at the BBC Proms: Cristian M\u0103celaru conducts the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Interval:

Joe Boyd is a celebrated record and film producer among whose credits is Amazing Grace, the compelling documentary film of two legendary 1972 Aretha Franklin gospel performances. In conversation with Ian Skelly, Joe puts the Queen of Soul's life and music in context.

Jules Buckley Orchestra

Jules Buckley (conductor)

In her 80th-anniversary year - and 50 years since the release of her album Young, Gifted and Black - the Proms pays tribute to the ‘Queen of Soul', Aretha Franklin. A singer, songwriter, pianist and one of the best-selling recording artists of all time, whose song ‘Respect' became an anthem of the American Civil Rights Movement, Franklin is remembered in a unique Prom featuring a collection of her greatest hits with a dynamic orchestral backing.

Live at the BBC Proms: a tribute to one of the best-selling recording artists of all time.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Webern: Passacaglia, Op. 1

Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6 (revised version, 1928)

Debussy, arr. Brett Dean: Ariettes oubli退es

8.15:

Interval: Composer and violist Brett Dean, and Chief conductor and Artistic Director Alexander Briger join Petroc Trelawny to explore the impetus behind the Australian World Orchestra's inception, and discovers the energy that has driven its music making since Alexander Briger's inaugural concert 11 years ago.

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major

Siobhan Stagg, soprano

Zubin Mehta, conductor

Australian musicians play in most of the world's leading orchestras, from the Berlin Philharmonic to our own BBC orchestras. The Australian World Orchestra gathers many of them together, back home in Australia, to create a classical supergroup unlike anything on earth: the result, says conductor Zubin Mehta, ‘is one of the top ten orchestras in the world'. But hearing is believing and tonight Mehta - a household name - conducts the AWO in its Proms debut, performing music that ranges from the multicoloured expressionism of Anton Webern, to the rolling, sunlit slopes of Brahms's expansive Second Symphony. Plus jewel-like miniatures by Debussy, exquisitely reworked by another great Australian musical export, Brett Dean.

Live from the BBC Proms: Zubin Mehta conducts the Australian World Orchestra.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Andrew McGregor, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Harrison Birtwistle: Donum Simoni MMXVIII

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, ‘Resurrection

Louise Alder (soprano)

Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)

CBSO Chorus

London Symphony Chorus

Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

The end has come, and in the silence after the Last Trumpet, a solitary bird is the only sound heard on Earth. The ambition of Gustav Mahler's 'Resurrection' Symphony staggers the imagination - an emotional odyssey on a cosmic scale that embraces tenderness, rage, dark humour and - yes - the end of the world itself. Sir Simon Rattle was still a teenager when he conducted his first performance of Mahler's Second Symphony, and it's been a personal touchstone at every stage of his career. Now, as he prepares to step down as Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra, he pairs it with a short (but very personal) tribute from the late Harrison Birtwistle, one of Britain's most distinguished recent composers.

Live from the BBC Proms: Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Hannah French, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Johann Sebastian Bach (orch. Anton Webern): Musical Offering - Ricercar a 6

James MacMillan: Viola Concerto

c8.15

INTERVAL: Hannah French is joined by broadcaster and violinist Tasmin Little to talk about tonight's Prom and look ahead to some highlights during the forthcoming week.

8.40

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.6

Lawrence Power (viola)

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

They want me to write differently', said Anton Bruckner. 'Certainly I could, but I must not.' And from its quiet opening pulse to its towering finish, it's hard to imagine his mighty Sixth Symphony unfolding any other way: one man's utterly individual voyage towards heaven, expressed in music of quiet wonder and mountainous grandeur. Tonight its the climax of an evening that begins with Webern's jewel-like setting of Bruckner's great hero Bach, and continues with James MacMillan's Viola Concerto, with soloist and dedicatee, Lawrence Power.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Philharmonic with Juanjo Mena and Lawrence Power.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Trad. Plainsong ‘Salve Regina

Tavener: A Hymn to the Mother of God

Tallis: Spem in alium

MacMillan: Miserere

Tye: Missa ‘Euge bone' - Agnus Dei

Gorecki: Totus tuus

Sheppard: Missa ‘Cantate' - Agnus Dei

MacMillan: Vidi aquam

Byrd: Diliges Dominum

Harry Christophers, conductor

Now in its fifth decade, Harry Christophers's chamber choir The Sixteen is one of the enduring wonders of the choral scene, its precision and effortlessly expressive singing touching audiences all over the world. This late-night meditation in the Royal Albert Hall centres on Tallis's extraordinary Spem in alium - the magnificent 40-voice motet that's one of the supreme achievements of the English musical Renaissance. Around it, like planets in orbit, The Sixteen weaves a sequence of choral music that criss-crosses a millennium, extending from medieval plainsong to the 21st century, and works - such as Sir James MacMillan's Miserere - that were created specially for The Sixteen's sublimely beautiful sound.

There will be no interval.

Live at the BBC Proms: The Sixteen and Harry Christophers perform Tallis's Spem in alium.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Edouard Lalo: Le roi d'Ys - overture

Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major

20.25

Interval - Chain Reaction: Georgia Mann and Tom Service take us on another unpredictable musical journey in this series connecting the last piece in the first half of a Prom to the first piece after the interval. Enjoy our very refreshing interval G&T with Georgia and Tom!

20.45

Cesar Franck: Symphony in D minor

Daniel Lozakovich (violin)

Fabien Gabel (conductor)

Cesar Franck's only symphony caused shockwaves when it was premiered in Paris in 1889 - with one critic insisting it wasn't even a symphony at all! Grand, gothic, and blazing with melodies that won't let you go, this mightiest of Belgian symphonies is a real passion for conductor Fabian Gabel, and in Franck's 200th-anniversary year he pairs it with another red-blooded (but neglected) belle-epoque jewel - Lalo's overture to Le roi d'Ys. The young Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovich, meanwhile, has been called ‘an exceptional talent', and Brahms's big, songful concerto is perfectly suited to his radiant sound and effortlessly poetic way with Romantic music. ‘It's transcendental,' he says. ‘You have to live the piece rather than just play it.

Live at the BBC Proms: Fabien Gabel conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

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C退sar Franck: Symphony in D minor

Daniel Lozakovich (violin)

Fabien Gabel (conductor)

C退sar Franck's only symphony caused shockwaves when it was premiered in Paris in 1889 - with one critic insisting it wasn't even a symphony at all! Grand, gothic, and blazing with melodies that won't let you go, this mightiest of Belgian symphonies is a real passion for conductor Fabian Gabel, and in Franck's 200th-anniversary year he pairs it with another red-blooded (but neglected) belle-退poque jewel - Lalo's overture to Le roi d'Ys. The young Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovich, meanwhile, has been called ‘an exceptional talent', and Brahms's big, songful concerto is perfectly suited to his radiant sound and effortlessly poetic way with Romantic music. ‘It's transcendental,' he says. ‘You have to live the piece rather than just play it.

Live at the BBC Proms: Fabien Gabel conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Katie Derham, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Debussy: La mer

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

8.10 pm

INTERVAL: John Gallagher explores trends in gardening and attitudes towards outdoor life in the '20s.

And BBC Sounds Champion Keelan Carew drops in to tell Katie about his Proms highlights from the last few days.

Thomas Ad耀s: M䀀rchent䀀nze

Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major

Pekka Kuusisto (violin)

Nicholas Collon (conductor)

‘Saw sixteen swans,' wrote Jean Sibelius. ‘One of the greatest experiences in life. Oh god, what beauty!' That dazzling vision became the mighty theme that crowns his Fifth Symphony and tonight it's the climax of a whole evening of music inspired by nature, performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra - whether Debussy's luminous musical seascape, or Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending. ‘I grew up with the idea that playing the violin was about being spontaneous,' says soloist Pekka Kuusisto, and together with conductor Nicholas Collon, he'll give the UK premiere of an enchanting new piece by Thomas Ad耀s, as well as bringing fresh air to Vaughan Williams's much-loved Lark.

Live at the BBC Proms: Nicholas Collon conducts the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny, with Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin live on stage at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Murray Gold/Jeremy Holland-Smith: Life Story, Overture

Sarah Class/Elizabeth Purnell: Africa, Giraffe Fight

Ben Salisbury/Elizabeth Purnell: The Life of Mammals

George Fenton: The Blue Planet, Sardine Run

Nitin Sawhney/Ben Palmer: Wonders of the Monsoon

George Fenton: Planet Earth, Snow Geese

Barnaby Taylor/Ed Watkins: Nature's Great Events

Murray Gold/Jeremy Holland-Smith: Life Story, Puffer Fish

Interval: Petroc Trelawny explores how the planet's changing climate reflects in the soundscapes we both live in and creatively respond to, as well as the agency music has to affect change.

Hans Zimmer/Camila Cabello: Take Me Back Home, from Frozen Planet II

Hans Zimmer/Jacob Shea/Jasha Klebe/David Fleming/Iain Farrington: Earth Symphony

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ben Palmer, conductor

AURORA, singer

Over a century of public service broadcasting, the BBC has forged a global reputation for its coverage of the planet we call home - from the oceans and mountains to rivers, glaciers, deserts and the infinite wonders of life on Earth itself. Tonight, the Proms hosts a stunning audiovisual celebration of the BBC's world-famous Natural History Unit, from David Attenborough's pioneering early adventures through to the landmark series of the 21st century. Expect breathtaking images, natural sounds, spoken words and music by composers including Hans Zimmer and George Fenton, performed live in the spectacular surroundings of the Royal Albert Hall by Ben Palmer and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Live at the BBC Proms: a celebration of the BBC Natural History Unit and its work.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Wagner: Tannh䀀user - Grand March (transcr. W. J. Westbrook & Nathan Laube)

Franck: Grande pi耀ce symphonique

Alkan: 11 Grands pr退ludes - No. 10: Scherzando

Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor (transcr. Nathan Laube)

Nathan Laube, organ

When the Royal Albert Hall's ‘Father' Willis organ thunders into action, the air itself seems to shake. It's the musical soul of this great building and, with its 9,999 pipes, it's the second largest organ in the UK. No Proms season is complete without a chance to hear it in full, majestic, flight, and this year the honour goes to the superb Chicago-born organist Nathan Laube. He's pulling out all the stops (almost literally!) with a programme of showpieces and transcriptions from the peaks of the Victorian organ repertoire - as well as his own transcription of Liszt's B minor Piano Sonata. It's a tour de force on the piano; on the organ - well, come and hear for yourself.

Live BBC Proms: Nathan Laube gives an organ recital of Wagner, Franck, Alkan and Liszt.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Sarah Walker, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Interval: Sarah's joined by Kevin Le Gendre to discuss the programme in the wider context of South African Jazz.

The South African Jazz Songbook

Siyabonga Mthembu (vocals)

ESKA (vocals)

Soweto Kinch (saxophones)

Theon Cross (tuba)

Marcus Wyatt (conductor)

‘I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement', said Hugh Masekela, the late, great 'father of South African jazz' - ‘I think everybody goes into music loving it.' Tonight's Prom showcases the most dynamic sounds in contemporary South African jazz, including those of Cry Freedom's Jonas Gwangwa, genre-crossing composer Abdullah Ibrahim, Dudu Pukwana and Johnny Dyani of The Blue Notes, and saxophonist Winston Mankunku. Singer Siyabonga Mthembu makes a special appearance, together with Mercury Prize-nominated ESKA, double MOBO Award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch and tuba sensation Theon Cross. Plus, if there's one group that's absolutely guaranteed to set the Proms on fire, it's Metropole Orkest - the globetrotting, genre-defying ensemble behind recent Proms tributes to Nina Simone, Charles Mingus and Quincy Jones.

Live from the BBC Proms: Marcus Wyatt conducts Metropole Orkest.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Hannah French live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Bach: Mass in B minor

Rachel Redmond and Mary Bevan (sopranos)

Iestyn Davies (countertenor)

Guy Cutting (tenor)

Matthew Brook (bass)

Choir of the Age of Enlightenment

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

John Butt (conductor)

Choral music offers few loftier spiritual or artistic challenges than Bach's Mass in B minor - but then, few living performers are better equipped to tackle it than Baroque music specialist and scholar John Butt, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. ‘If any piece of classical music can be considered universal, I think it's the Mass in B minor,' says Butt. ‘It goes down so well across a wide range of cultures.' Five exceptional soloists (including counter-tenor Iestyn Davies and soprano Mary Bevan) join Butt and the OAE as they drive to the emotional core of this sublime music - and lay bare the passionate, profoundly devoted heart of the man who wrote it.

There will be no interval.

Live BBC Proms: John Butt leads the OAE and five exceptional soloists in Bach's Mass.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Elizabeth Alker, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Public Service Broadcasting: This New Noise (BBC commission: world premiere)

Jules Buckley (conductor)

Archive footage, soundscapes, dancing astronauts and a flashing, blinking Sputnik right here in the Royal Albert Hall - when cult ‘retro-futurists' Public Service Broadcasting brought The Race to Space to the Proms in 2019, it's safe to say that the results were out of this world. So in the year that the BBC celebrates a century of - well, public-service broadcasting - it makes perfect sense to invite them back with This New Noise: a joyously eclectic, album-length celebration of 100 years of BBC Radio, backed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and delivered with all the wit and showmanship of a band on an ongoing mission to ‘teach the lessons of the past through the music of the future'.

1. Ripples in the Ether (Towards the Infinite)

2. This New Noise

3. An Unusual Man

4. A Cello Sings in Daventry [ft. Seth Lakeman]

5. Broadcasting House

6. The Microphone (The Fleet is Lit Up)

7. A Candle Which Will Not Be Put Out

8. What of the Future? (In Touch with the Infinite)

Live BBC Proms: Public Service Broadcasting and the BBC SO, conducted by Jules Buckley.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Martin Handley, live at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius

Allan Clayton, tenor

Jamie Barton, mezzo-soprano

James Platt, bass

Hall退 Choir

London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra

Edward Gardner, conductor

‘This is the best of me,' wrote Elgar on the score of The Dream of Gerontius, and some would say that he never wrote anything greater. Gerontius lies dying - anguished and afraid. But he's about to witness wonders beyond any human imagination, and in a great performance this epic, transcendently beautiful drama of a lonely soul's journey towards eternity can move listeners to tears. ‘The chemistry was exactly right,' wrote The Guardian about a previous performance by Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus; and with soloists of the calibre of Allan Clayton and Jamie Barton, this is one of those pieces that could have been made for the Royal Albert Hall.

Live at the BBC Proms: Edward Gardner conducts the London Philharmonic in Elgar.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Tom McKinney live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.4 in F minor (30')

Interval:

During the interval, Tom McKinney talks to composer William Mival about the significance of the two symphonies in tonight's Prom.

Michael Tippett: Symphony No.4 (33')

British music: it isn't always what you think. Written as Europe lurched towards the war, Vaughan Williams's volcanic Fourth Symphony is a might cry of protest and rage, expressed in music that burns itself into the soul. A generation later in the Cold War, Michael Tippett began his final symphony with the most primal of sounds - a human breath. This isn't so much a symphony as a whole life, in all its rapture, its chaos and its teeming, tumultuous beauty.

BBC Philharmonic

Andrew Davis (conductor)

Live at the BBC Proms: Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Philharmonic.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Georgia Mann live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Lars Møller Indian Skies

Debussy arr. Arthur Luck Clair de Lune

Nina Simone arr. Sam Hyken Sinnerman (from Miss Simone Suite)

Sarah Jenkins Music and Meditation

Max de Wardener Payesh

Ravel Laideronette, Imperatrice des Pagodes from Ma Mere L'Oye

8.15pm INTERVAL: Georgia Mann is joined live by the Open Music Trainees as they realise their dreams.

Katherine Priddy arr. Pippa Murphy The Summer Has Flown

Ginastera Estancia: No. 4 Malambo

Bill Withers arr. Sam Hyken Lovely Day

Lars Møller Indian Skies Original - reprise

Kala Ramnath (violin & vocals)

Gurdain Rayatt (tabla)

Katherine Priddy (vocals)

Ruth Mariner creative director

Alex Groves sound designer

From moonlight and fairy tales to soul fusion and a riot of South American rhythm, the first ever Dream Prom weaves a vivid tapestry reflecting the ideas of dreams, memories and the healing power of music. These are the musical stories collected from and shaped by this year's BBC Open Music trainees - 30 talented young creatives selected from over 1,300 applicants, and reflecting a wide array of national heritage and social background. Merged into a seamless whole by specially created sound design, this is a journey through songs heard in the womb, music that brings us together, the sounds that keep us true to our beliefs and the ones that join us along the path of discovering who we truly are.

Live BBC Proms: Kwame Ryan conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra and violinist Kala Ramnath.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E minor

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Kirill Petrenko (conductor)

Some would call the Berliner Philharmoniker the finest orchestra in the world, but one thing's for certain: whenever it visits the Proms under its Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko, it's always a night to remember. In the first of two concerts in the 2022 BBC Proms, the orchestra performs just one work: the symphony that Mahler called his ‘song of the night'. Every Mahler symphony is an emotional journey; but this one sweeps from an overcast Alpine lake through love songs, nightmares and nocturnal marches to an ear-splitting finish along with jangling cowbells and laced with pitch-black humour. Expect grandeur, beauty and piercing insight from one of the 21st century's most acclaimed musical partnerships.

Live from the BBC Proms: Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Mahler.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Tom Service, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Marius Neset: Geyser (BBC commission: world premiere)

Marius Neset (saxophones)

Ivo Neame (piano)

Jim Hart (vibraphone/marimba/percussion)

Conor Chaplin (double bass)

Anton Eger (drums)

Geoffrey Paterson (conductor)

Geyser: forces from the core of the Earth heat water to boiling point, and then blast it high into the Northern sky in an unstoppable eruption of steam, spray and sound. Born in Bergen, Norway, saxophonist and composer Marius Neset knows all about the power of nature. And with influences as varied as Frank Zappa, Pat Metheny, Gustav Mahler and Olivier Messiaen, he knows all about the energy that results when elemental creative forces collide, too. In his Proms debut, a young virtuoso who's been praised for his ‘voracious reinvention of jazz' runs his own quintet, full-speed, into London's crack new-music ensemble the London Sinfonietta.

Live at the BBC Proms: Norwegian saxophonist and composer Marius Neset's new work Geyser.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Katie Derham, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111

Sir Andrကs Schiff piano

Beethoven's piano sonatas, says Sir Andrကs Schiff, ‘have lost none of their relevance and freshness'. In Schiff's hands, every new encounter with these great but deeply human works - the so-called ‘New Testament' of the piano repertoire - reveals new depths of character and meaning. According to The Guardian, his interpretations of the late sonatas, in particular, ‘sweep all before them', and that's what he'll be playing today: Beethoven's final trilogy of sonatas, music of wild imagination, profound tenderness and sudden, piercing beauty.

Live at the BBC Proms: Sir Andr\u00e1s Schiff plays Beethoven - the final three piano sonatas.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Schnittke: Viola Concerto

20:10: Interval: Tasmin Little joins Martin Handley to look ahead to the week's forthcoming highlights at the BBC Proms.

Bruckner Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic

Tabea Zimmermann, viola

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Daniel Harding, conductor

In their second and final concert at the 2022 BBC Proms, the Berliner Philharmoniker and Daniel Harding play Bruckner's Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic'. First, they support Tabea Zimmermann - whose playing is, in the words of The Strad, of ‘breathtaking beauty' - as she rediscovers a Cold War classic: the intense melancholy and sardonic humour of the Viola Concerto, written in 1985 by the Russian dissident composer Alfred Schnittke. It couldn't find more committed champions.

The Berlin Philharmonic and Daniel Harding perform Bruckner's Symphony No 4, 'Romantic'.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Ludwig van Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus - overture

Betsy Jolas: bTunes [BBC co-commission: world premiere]

7.55 pm

Interval: Ian Skelly talks to Robert Samuels about Mahler's First Symphony.

8.15pm

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major

Nicolas Hodges (piano)

Karina Canellakis (conductor)

Imagine if silence had a sound. That's what the young Gustav Mahler tried to evoke in the massive stillness that opens his First Symphony - a whole world emerging into life, and a young artist walking out to find triumph, tragedy and (of course) love. But youth is a state of mind: expect surprises (and sounds) like you've never heard when the revered Franco-American composer Betsy Jolas riffs on the 21st-century listening culture of playlists and downloads in her inventive new concerto for pianist Nicolas Hodges. Karina Canellakis (hailed by The Times for her ‘freshly minted' interpretations) conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra - and few living conductors are better equipped to channel fire from the gods in Beethoven's Olympian overture.

Live at the BBC Proms: Karina Canellakis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Thomas Ad耀s: Three-Piece Suite from 'Powder Her Face' (Suite No. 1)

Wynton Marsalis: Violin Concerto

8.30 pm

INTERVAL: Created in a natural landscape feature, a conclave hillside, the Hollywood Bowl had already hosted religious services before its stage arrived. In 1922 the Los Angeles Philharmonic played its first season of open air concerts inaugurating a music venue. Lisa Mullen hears how the amphitheatre has hosted some of the greats of classical and popular music from Felix and Leonard Slatkin to Ella Fitzgerald, The Beatles and James Taylor. Michael Goldfarb and Mark Glancy discuss the emergence of a cultural landmark.

Britten: Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes

Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from 'West Side Story

Nicola Benedetti (violin)

Thomas Sønderg倀rd (conductor)

Nicola Benedetti - now, she really can play,' says the American composer, trumpeter and all-round jazz legend Wynton Marsalis, and after Benedetti gave the world premiere of the concerto that he composed for her in 2015, The Guardian wrote of her 'sparky performance'. Thomas Sønderg倀rd and The Royal Scottish National Orchestra gives its Proms premiere tonight: the big, generous heart of a concert with a spring in its step, that opens with Thomas Ad耀s's wonderfully sleazy Powder her Face suite and ends amid the headstrong urban energy of West Side Story. In between comes a blast of fresh sea air from Benjamin Britten.

Live from the BBC Proms: Thomas S\u00f8nderg\u00e5rd conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Hannah French, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Beethoven: Missa solemnis

Lucy Crowe (soprano)

Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano)

Giovanni Sala (tenor)

William Thomas (bass)

Monteverdi Choir

Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner

‘From the heart - may it go straight to the heart.' Ludwig van Beethoven worked for half a decade on his Missa solemnis, and it's infinitely more than just one of the mightiest and most ambitious Mass settings since Bach. The Missa solemnis is the supreme spiritual testament of one of the greatest creative artists who ever lived: an intimate self-portrait of a human soul, profoundly beautiful and almost unbearably moving. This performance is a labour of love for Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Few living conductors can match his experience as an interpreter of Classical and Romantic choral music, and with the period instruments of the Orchestre R退volutionnaire et Romantique, Beethoven's inspiration will glow with a special richness and warmth.

Live at the BBC Proms: John Eliot Gardiner and his Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Hannah French live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Purcell Dido and Aeneas

Dido.... Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)

Aeneas.... James Newby (baritone)

Belinda.... Gemma Summerfield (soprano)

Sorceress.... Madeleine Shaw (mezzo)

Second Woman.... Nardus Williams (soprano)

Sailor..... Nicky Spence (tenor)

Spirit.... Tim Mead (counter-tenor)

First Witch.....Helen Charlston

Second Witch.....Martha McLorinan

La Nuova Musica Choir

David Bates harpsichord/conductor

Abandoned by her lover, Dido must choose between death or a life without love. Her painful decision is powerfully dramatised in some of the most emotive music of the Baroque period, including Dido's famous lament, When I am laid in earth.

Period instrument ensemble La Nuova Musica makes its Proms debut under Artistic Director David Bates, who made his own Proms debut last year conducting Mozart's Requiem. They are joined by an exciting cast led by mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and former Kathleen Ferrier Prize winner and Radio 3 New Generation Artist James Newby in the title roles.

Live at the BBC Proms: La Nuova Musica and David Bates perform Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

7.00pm

Ravel: Sh退h退razade - ouverture de f退erie

Sally Beamish: Hive (BBC co-commission: world premiere)

7.50pm

Interval: Following Sally Beamish's work Hive, commissioned for this year's Proms, in the interval Nicola Heywood-Thomas will be joined by biologist Lars Chittka - author of the new book 'The Mind of a Bee' - whose work investigates the sensory experience of bee.

8.10pm

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op 35

Catrin Finch (harp)

Ariane Matiakh (conductor)

For composers in the 19th century, the pages of the One Thousand and One Nights were a portal to a new imaginative world: a place where fantastic stories and exotic images inspired sounds more sensuous, more colourful and more magical than anything that had been heard before. Ravel and Rimsky-Korsakov both drew inspiration from the tales of the beautiful Scheherazade, and both created music that lets a full symphony orchestra weave pure enchantment: a glorious showcase for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and its charismatic French guest conductor Ariane Matiakh. Sally Beamish, meanwhile, finds stories closer to home, in a beehive-inspired premiere for ‘Queen of Harps' Catrin Finch.

Live BBC Proms: Ariane Matiakh, the BBC NOW and harpist Catrin Finch in a world premiere.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Hannah French, live from Printworks London

George Frideric Handel: Tolomeo, re d'Egitto - ‘Inumano fratel - Stille amare

Philip Glass: Songs from Liquid Days - ‘Liquid Days

Handel: Flavio - ‘Rompo i lacci

Glass: Cymbeline - ‘No more, you petty spirits

Handel: Rinaldo - ‘Lascia ch'io pianga

Glass: Monsters of Grace - ‘In the Arc of Your Mallet

Handel: Rodelinda - ‘Vivi, tiranno

Glass: The Fall of the House of Usher - ‘How all living things breathe

Handel: Amadigi di Gaula - ‘Pena tiranna

Glass: 1000 Airplanes on the Roof - ‘The Encounter

Interspersed with specially commissioned soundscapes by Jason Singh

Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor

The English National Opera Orchestra

Karen Kamensek, conductor

Live at the BBC Proms: Anthony Roth Costanzo in Handel and Glass at Printworks London.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Jess Gillam, live from Battersea Arts Centre, London.

Lower Juniors (12 - 14 years)

Isaac Bristow: 7.01

Theo Kendall: Not For The Pictures

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Upper Juniors (15 - 16 years)

Maddy Chassar-Hesketh: A Thought on Futures

Will Everitt: Triptych on 100 Years

Seniors (17 - 18 years)

Chelsea Becker: Retrospection

Jenna Stewart: Unchanging Purpose

Plus 2020 winner

Daniel Liu: Fanfares

New music has always been at the heart of the BBC's mission, and composers ranging from Mahler to Missy Mazzoli have all received UK and world premieres at the Proms. Since 1998 BBC Young Composer has brought together young composers aged 12 to 18 to explore new ways of creating music as well as opportunities to share it, and today Alice Farnham and the BBC Concert Orchestra perform freshly minted orchestral works by some of the brightest (and newest) talents to emerge from the scheme. Be among the first to hear the next generation of British composers: with music by Chelsea Becker, Isaac Bristow, Maddy Chassar-Hesketh, Will Everitt, Theo Kendall, Daniel Liu and Jenna Stewart.

Live BBC Proms: Alice Farnham conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra at Battersea Arts Centre.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny, live from Battersea Arts Centre, London.

Mozart:

Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

Matthew Truscott (violin)

Joel Hunter (viola)

Frank-Michael Guthmann (cello)

The music of friends: for pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, performing with the musicians of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra is first and foremost about ‘partnership, a companionship'. Together, they've explored the music of Beethoven; now they turn to Mozart and in this lunchtime recital at Battersea Arts Centre they pare it down to basics - Andsnes, three MCO players and some of the loveliest chamber music ever created: the Piano Trio, K502, and the warm-hearted Piano Quartet, K493. This is music that Mozart conceived to be played at home, intimate without being inhibited, and playful without being flashy. Just inspiration, wit and melodies that speak straight to the heart.

Live at the BBC Proms: Leif Ove Andsnes and Mahler Chamber Orchestra members play Mozart.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny, live from Birmingham's Bradshaw Hall.

Joseph Horovitz: Lady Macbeth - a scena

Ethel Smyth: Lieder, Op. 4

Rebecca Clarke: The Seal Man

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Four Last Songs

Errollyn Wallen: Lady Super Spy Adventurer

The sheer wealth and beauty of English poetry has been a continual inspiration to British composers. Since winning the Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021 mezzo-soprano Claire Barnett-Jones has become one of the most sought-after voices on both the operatic stage and the concert platform - with one critic writing that she ‘stole the stage at every movement' in English National Opera's recent The Cunning Little Vixen. Today, with pianist Simon Lepper, she celebrates the songs of 2022 Proms featured composers Vaughan Williams and Ethel Smyth, brings all her theatrical flair to a Shakespeare sketch by the late Joseph Horovitz, and sings something entirely new from Proms favourite Errollyn Wallen.

Music by Horovitz, Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Vaughan Williams and Errollyn Wallen.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas, live from St. George's Bristol.

Havergal Brian: Legend

Eug耀ne Ysaÿe: Po耀me 退l退giaque

C退sar Franck: Violin Sonata in A major

Alina Ibragimova, violin

C退dric Tiberghien, piano

‘Both of these players have the potential to conquer the world,' wrote The Times soon after violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist C退dric Tiberghien - then both BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists - first played together in 2007. 15 years on, they're being described as ‘today's partnership of choice for violin and piano repertory' and this lunchtime concert from the elegant surroundings of St George's Bristol shows why. From the brooding passion of Ysaÿe's Po耀me to the high drama and soaring melodies of C退sar Franck's much-loved Sonata - as well as an anniversary tribute to British maverick Havergal Brian, who died 50 years ago - this is a concert that demands emotional commitment and fearless virtuosity. Ibragimova and Tiberghien will supply them in abundance.

Live at the BBC Proms: Alina Ibragimova and Cedric Tiberghien perform Romantic showpieces.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff.

Gy怀rgy Ligeti: Bagatelles 12

Carl Nielsen: Wind Quintet 27

Igor Stravinsky, arr. David M.A.P. Palmquist: Suite no 2 6

‘These young players are just the best there is,' says Sir James Galway. No chairs, no music stands, playing from memory, and with every performance exuberantly choreographed, the five members of Carion Wind Quintet make all their performances fresh and unique. In this lunchtime concert at Cardiff's Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, their programme centres around Nielsen's Wind Quintet, a mesmerising kaleidoscope of colours that's deservedly become a cornerstone of wind repertory. There are some ingenious games courtesy of Gy怀rgy Ligeti to begin with; an arrangement by their horn player David Palmquist of Stravinsky's Suite no 2 which exploits the contrasting characters of the wind instruments provides a sparkling finale.

Live at the BBC Proms: Carion Wind Quintet play works by Ligeti, Nielsen and Stravinsky.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Petroc Trewlawny, live from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow.

Haydn: Piano Trio in G minor, Hob XV:19???

Smyth: Piano Trio in D minor

Live at the BBC Proms: Trio Gaspard perform piano trios by Haydn and Smyth.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny live from Liverpool's St George's Hall.

Doreen Carwithen: String Quartet No.2

Brahms: String Quartet in A minor, Op.51 No.2

Dudok Quartet of Amsterdam

We're living in a new golden age of string quartet playing, and the Dudok Quartet of Amsterdam is in its vanguard - four superb young players who believe chamber music is an act of friendship, and that anything this good deserves to be shared. Never afraid to explore beyond the standard repertoire, today the Dudok's champion Doreen Carwithen's windswept Second Quartet of 1950, alongside one of the gentle giants of the 19th-century repertoire: the big-hearted masterpiece that Brahms wrote as a gift for his great friend, the Hungarian violinist Joseph Joachim. With interpreters as imaginative as these, it'll sound more vibrant than ever in the magnificent surroundings of Liverpool's St George's Hall.

Live at the BBC Proms: the Dudok String Quartet of Amsterdam play Carwithen and Brahms.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Elizabeth Alker, live from the Sage Gateshead.

1930:

John Adams Shaker Loops

Judith Weir Indelible Miraculous, a poem by Julia Darling (world premiere)

Spell Songs Thrift (Dig In, Dig In)

Spell Songs Acorn

Spell Songs Little Astronaut

Spell Songs Moth

Traditional Water of Tyne

2020:

Interval: Elizabeth Alker hears the rehearsal stories of the Voices from the River's Edge Choir. This brand new chorus is made up of 85 young people from across the North East who've given up evenings and weekends to sing together. Their grassroots story is a real-life reminder of the ancient link between the classical, contemporary and folk music performed in this concert.

2040:

Dvo?ကk Symphony No. 9 in E minor, ‘From the New World

Dini Sousa (conductor)

For John Adams, driving rhythms and clean textures were a path to the musical future, with a surprising link to the idealism of America's frontier past. Dvo?ကk meant his Ninth Symphony as a salute to his American hosts, and yet every note glows with passionate longing for his home, far away in rural Bohemia. The common thread is folklore, and in this Prom from Sage Gateshead, Dinis Sousa and Royal Northern Sinfonia collaborate with the choir Voices of the River's Edge and Karine Polwart, Rachel Newton and Jim Molyneux from the folk ensemble Spell Songs. A world premiere from Master of the Queen's music Judith Weir completes the programme.

Live at the Proms at Sage Gateshead: Dinis Sousa conducts music with folk connections.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas, live from Hall for Cornwall, Truro.

Domenico Scarlatti: Piano Sonata in G major, K13

Domenico Scarlatti: Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, K247

Domenico Scarlatti: Piano Sonata in C minor, K22

Franz Liszt: Transcendental ɀtudes - No. 3: Paysage

Franz Liszt: Transcendental ɀtudes - No. 4: Mazeppa

Franz Liszt: Transcendental ɀtudes - No. 5: Feux follets

Fr退d退ric Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35

Alim Beisembayev (piano)

‘The most valuable commodity is a real musical personality,' wrote Andrew Clements of The Guardian, reporting on the 2021 Leeds International Piano Competition. ‘To judge from the final, Beisembayev certainly has that.' Since his victory at Leeds, this young piano virtuoso from Kazakhstan has seen his career take off, with critics applauding his ‘high-powered' playing. In this, his Proms debut, he tackles three cornerstones of the keyboard repertoire: the vivacity and wit of Scarlatti's sonatas, the high-Romantic drama of Chopin's expansive Second Sonata and - like a sudden volley of fireworks at the heart of the recital - three of Liszt's spectacular Transcendental ɀtudes.

Live at the BBC Proms: pianist Alim Beisembayev plays Chopin, Liszt and Scarlatti.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

Presented by Linton Stephens, live from the Waterfront Hall Studio, Belfast.

Xenakis: Allegro molto; Akea

Messiaen: Pi耀ce pour piano et quatuor