BBC Proms [2024]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor

Oliver Vibrans: The Virtuous Circle (interspersed with Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor)

Charles Hazlewood (conductor/co-director)

Kyla Goodey (co-director)

Tom Jackson Greaves (choreographer)

Exploring the idea of the orchestra as the perfect embodiment of teamwork, this innovative performance recasts the classical concert as an immersive experience. Associate Artists of the Bristol Beacon, the Paraorchestra is the UK's only ensemble made up of disabled and non-disabled professional musicians. It performs Mozart's Symphony No. 40 from memory, and on the move, in an array of choreographic formations and combinations, its four movements interspersed with new music from Ivor Novello Award-winner Oliver Vibrans. The Virtuous Circle places the audience at the heart of the action and underlines the democratic nature of the orchestra: no musician is more important than any other, yet each individual has value.

Oliver Vibrans: new work (interspersed with Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor)

Presented by Sarah Walker, live from Bristol Beacon.

Judith Bingham: Unpredictable but Providential (4 mins)

Edward Cowie: Lyrebirds – Dusk – Nocturne (8 mins)

Judith Weir: Madrigal (3 mins)

John Rutter: I my Best-Beloved's am (7 mins)

Lucy Walker: There Will Be Stars (6 mins)

Benjamin Britten: A Shepherd's Carol (4 mins)

Ben Nobuto: BLIP (8 mins)

Xia Leon Sloane: Losing the Lark (5 mins), BBC commission: world premiere

John Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times (26 mins)

John Tavener: Song for Athene (6 mins)

Sofi Jeannin, conductor

Over its 100-year history the BBC Singers – Britain's only full-time professional chamber choir – has performed a vast array of repertoire, in concert and over the airwaves, giving the premieres of countless works. Under Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin, today's virtuosic line-up revives some of these milestones. Song for Athene was written after John Tavener attended the funeral of Athene Hariades, the daughter of a family friend; the piece won a huge international audience when performed at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997. Britten's A Shepherd's Carol is a setting of W. H. Auden, first heard in a 1944 BBC radio programme of new poetry written specially for Christmas Eve. Premiered in 2018, John Pickard's Mass in Troubled Times interweaves words from the Latin Mass with texts from four other languages to piece together the story of a refugee father and daughter fleeing their war-torn country by sea.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Singers at 100 with Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin.

Théodore Akimenko: Angel (Poème-Nocturne) (10 mins)

Jennifer Higdon: Percussion Concerto (24 mins)

5.45 pm

INTERVAL As the Proms come from Bristol, literature expert Joan Passey, from the University of Bristol, looks at some of the hidden histories of the city. Joan Passey is a New Generation Thinker on a scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to share academic research on radio.

Niloufar Nourbakhsh: Knell (4 mins)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor (50 mins)

Evelyn Glennie (percussion)

Kirill Karabits (conductor)

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra – Bristol Beacon's Orchestra in Residence – opens its concert with a little-known gem of Ukrainian music. Feodor Akimenko was born in Kharkiv in 1876, going on to teach Igor Stravinsky before writing his beautiful ‘Poem-Nocturne' Angel in 1912. The BSO's Ukrainian Chief Conductor (and Akimenko aficionado) Kirill Karabits conducts it here as a prelude to American composer Jennifer Higdon's seriously flamboyant Percussion Concerto, played by Evelyn Glennie, and Tchaikovsky's heart-on-sleeve Symphony No. 5. Knell by Iranian composer Niloufar Nourbakhsh offers a glance back to Akimenko's Angel in its momentary, symbolic plea for peace.

Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Edward Elgar: Overture ‘Cockaigne (In London Town)

Gustav Holst: Hammersmith

Charles Villiers Stanford: Songs of Faith Op.97

– ‘To the Soul

– ‘Tears

– ‘Joy, shipmate, joy!

Stanford: ‘The Fairy Lough

c. 8.15pm

INTERVAL: Penny Gore's guest is the historian and journalist Simon Heffer whose books include The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 and Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars. For Radio 3 he has presented series and documentaries about British classical music.

c. 8.35pm

Ralph Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (Symphony No.2)

Christopher Maltman (baritone)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

From Westminster Bridge and the bells of Big Ben to Bloomsbury Square, in his A London Symphony Vaughan Williams depicts the English capital, where horses still trotted through the streets and the countryside could be glimpsed from Marble Arch. Elgar's ‘stout and steaky' picture-postcard scenes of London life join anniversary composer Holst's Hammersmith, commissioned for the BBC Military Band, in saluting the city. Vaughan Williams's teacher Stanford (who died 100 years ago) completes the programme, with a selection of reflective songs performed by leading British baritone Christopher Maltman.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC SO, conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

Presented by Edith Bowman, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Hildur Guðnadóttir: Tár (excerpts)

Volker Bertelmann: All Quiet on the Western Front (excerpts)

Son Lux: Everything Everywhere All at Once (excerpts)

Jerskin Fendrix: Poor Things (excerpts)

Jung Jae-il: Squid Game (excerpts)

Tamar-kali: Shirley (excerpts); The Last Thing He Wanted (excerpts)

Bryce Dessner: Sing Sing (excerpts)

The Echo Society: Postcard from Earth (excerpts)

Jed Kurzel: Monkey Man (excerpts)

Isobel Waller-Bridge: The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse (excerpts)

Colin Stetson: The Menu (excerpts)

Anna Meredith: The End We Start From (excerpts)

Max Richter: On the Nature of Daylight

Robert Ames (conductor)

Edith Bowman (presenter)

Edith Bowman presents 21st-Century Soundtracks, showcasing music from some of the most compelling contemporary film scores including Poor Things, Everything Everywhere All At Once, All Quiet On The Western Front and Tár.

Robert Ames conducts The London Contemporary Orchestra in this Prom dedicated to composers who know no boundaries and whose startlingly evocative music resists categorisation. As a new golden-age of screen composition emerges, join us at BBC Proms 21st-Century Soundtracks this August to celebrate this new avant-garde.

Presented by Kate Molleson, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Duke Ellington: Solitude, Mood Indigo, Sophisticated Lady, Caravan

Mary Lou Williams: Zodiac Suite

c.8.30pm

INTERVAL: Kate Molleson talks to composer, sound artist, writer and broadcaster Robert Worby about Anthony Braxton's boundary-busting music and the composers and performers that have influenced him over the years.

c.8.50pm

Anthony Braxton: Composition no.27 (+46, 59, 63, 146, 147, 151, Language Music)

Ingrid Laubrock (saxophone)

James Fei (saxophone/conductor)

Katherine Young (bassoon/conductor)

Chris Lewis (clarinet/saxophone)

Brandon Lee (trumpet)

Mikaela Bennett (soprano)

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Ilan Volkov and friends celebrate milestones from the past 100 years of American jazz, starting with a sequence honouring the ‘Duke'. Mary Lou Williams's Zodiac Suite from 1945 romps between boogie-woogie and dissonance in its response to astrological signs. The evening culminates in the work of a boundary-crossing visionary. From the south side of Chicago, multi-instrumentalist and self-styled ‘trans-idiomatic composer' Anthony Braxton has established himself as a composer whose imagination recognises no bounds.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC SSO & Ilan Volkov salute Anthony Braxton and Mary Lou Williams.

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

7.30pm

Johann Sebastian Bach: St John Passion

c. 8.20pm

INTERVAL During the interval, Joseph McHardy, harpsichordist, conductor and researcher talks to Hannah French about the musical and cultural background to Bach's St John Passion. What might the soloists, choristers, instrumentalists and the listeners in the Lutheran congregation itself have made of Bach's often theatrical music at the work's first performance in Leipzig on Good Friday, 1724?

Benjamin Bruns (Evangelist)

Christian Immler (Jesus/bass)

Yusuke Watanabe (Pilate)

Carolyn Sampson (soprano)

Alexander Chance (counter-tenor)

Shimon Yoshida (tenor)

Masaaki Suzuki (conductor)

Nobody does Bach quite like the Bach Collegium Japan. The ensemble makes a welcome return to the Proms for the composer's concentrated depiction of Christ's arrest, rendition and execution – the St John Passion. Probing, unsettling, dramatic and beautiful, Bach's work is known as much for its optimism as for its turbulence, its final bars appearing to invite all of us to imagine a brighter future. Specialist soloists led by Benjamin Bruns, Christian Immler and Carolyn Sampson join Masaaki Suzuki and his ensemble for a performance of Bach's masterpiece marking three centuries since it was written.

Live at the BBC Proms: The Bach Collegium Japan with conductor Masaaki Suzuki and star soloists in Bach's St John Passion.

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

Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 version)

c. 8.15pm

INTERVAL: Allyson Devenish looks ahead to the coming week at the BBC Proms. The in-demand musical director and opera coach picks some highlights.

c. 8.35pm

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

Jean-Baptiste Doulcet (piano)

Klaus Mäkelä (conductor)

Few orchestras know Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique better than the Orchestre de Paris - Philharmonie, which performed the work at its very first concert in 1967 and has done so at every significant milestone in its history ever since. Here France's most illustrious orchestra visits the Proms with its renowned Chief Conductor Klaus Mäkelä for a mouth-watering programme that indulges all the beauty, delicacy and emotion of French music while marking another of the most thrilling scores ever to have come out of Paris: Stravinsky's tuneful and mischievous puppet-show ballet, Petrushka.

Live at the BBC Proms: Orchestre de Paris - Philharmonie in Debussy, Stravinsky & Berlioz.

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

7pm

Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Acts 1 & 2

c.8.35pm

INTERVAL: Netia Jones, director and designer of tonight's opera, talks to Andrew McGregor about her approach to Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the influence of the original 1960 production, and the opera's relationship to the Shakespeare play.

c.9pm

Act 3

Iestyn Davies (Oberon)

Lucy Crowe (Tytania)

Daniel Vening (Bottom)

Caspar Singh (Lysander)

James Newby (Demetrius)

Stephanie Wake-Edwards (Hermia)

Camilla Harris (Helena)

Nicholas Crawley (Theseus)

Christine Rice (Hippolyta)

John Savournin (Quince)

Frazer Scott (Snug)

James Way (Flute)

Geoffrey Dolton (Starveling)

Adam Sullivan (Snout)

Jerone Marsh-Reid (Puck)

Philharmonia Orchestra

Douglas Boyd (conductor)

Garsington Opera makes its Proms debut with Britten's most successful operatic export after Peter Grimes. In his night-scented adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Britten leads his audience into a dream world, unravelling the nature of human interaction and love as he goes. Expect a force field of enchantment to fill the Royal Albert Hall in this semi-staged performance from the Philharmonia Orchestra and one of Britain's most distinguished opera companies.

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

6.30pm

Bacewicz: Overture

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35

c.7.20pm

INTERVAL: Shakespeare's 'star-crossed' lovers are the focus of our interval conversation as Martin Handley's guest for the interval is Sophie Duncan, a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and author of a book called Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine. You can hear from Sophie in a Free Thinking episode called Shakespeare's Women available on BBC Sounds.

c.7.40pm

Prokofiev: A Selection of Movements from Romeo and Juliet

Nemanja Radulović (violin)

Jaime Martín (conductor)

Sergey Prokofiev hoped his musical retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet would have ‘immediate appeal yet sound like nothing written before'. Even now, his score delivers on both fronts, showing the composer's gift for melody and his ability to reconcile his music's hard edge with a soft, romantic core. Jaime Martín conducts dramatic highlights from Prokofiev's ballet score after charismatic Franco-Serbian soloist Nemanja Radulović sets off fireworks in the ultimate Romantic violin concerto. And, to begin, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales unleashes the strident energies of Grażyna Bacewicz's thrilling Overture, which quotes the famous ‘V for Victory' motif from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales & conductor Jaime Mart\u00edn

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Presented by Jamie MacDougall, live from the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen.

Songs and arias for voice and lute, devised by and featuring soprano Nardus Williams, classicist and historian Dame Mary Beard and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny.

John Blow: Welcome, welcome, ev'ry guest

Reading, Plato: Palantine Anthology 9:506

John Blow: Venus, daughter of the mighty Jove

Reading, Sappho: Poem 31

Henry Purcell: Beneath a dark and melancholy grove

Reading, Sappho: Fragment 193

Reading, Anonymous: Epitaph of Allia Potestas

Barbara Strozzi: Begli'occhi Op. 2

Reading, Nossis: Palatine Anthology 5:170

Francesca Caccini: O vive rose

Reading, Sappho: Poem 16

Francesca Caccini: Dispiegate, guancie amate

Rachel Stott: So Says Nossis (BBC commission: world premiere)

Interval

Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas – ‘When I am laid in earth' 

Reading, Virgil: Aeneid 4:653-60 (extracts); Aenied 6:469-71

Barbara Strozzi: Mi fa rider, Op. 7

Francesca Caccini: Where I thought my hopes were real

Reading, Anonymous: Palatine Anthology 16:151

Henry Purcell: The Libertine – ‘Nymphs and Shepherds

Reading, Theocritus Idyll 15

Daniel Purcell: When Daphne first her Shepherd saw

Reading, Carloyn Kizer: Semele Recycled

Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre arr. Elizabeth Kenny: Semele - ‘Jupiter avait fait un indiscret serment

Reading, Ovid: Metamorposes 3:280-5

Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, arr. Elizabeth Kenny: Semele: Quel triomphe, quelle victoire

George Frideric Handel, arr. Elizabeth Kenny: Semele - ‘Endless Pleasure

Live at the BBC Proms: Soprano Nardus Williams, Lutenist Elizabeth Kenny & Dame Mary Beard

Presented by Jamie MacDougall, live from the Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen.

Programme to include music by Blow, F. Caccini, Handel and Purcell.

A sequence of songs and arias for voice and lute, devised by and featuring soprano Nardus Williams, classicist and historian Dame Mary Beard and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny. The performance also includes discussion on the themes of women's voices in antiquity and their echoes in later culture.

Live at the BBC Proms: soprano Nardus Williams, lutenist Elizabeth Kenny & Dame Mary Beard

Recorded yesterday at Albert Hall, Nottingham. Presented by Jess Gillam.

Atharv Gupta Celestial Awakening

Jamie Smith Atmos

Reese Carly Manglicmot Una Voce

Avram Harris Ark

Pascal Bachmann Pale Blue Dot

Advaith Jagannath Gaia

Conductor Hugh Brunt

Be first to hear pieces composed by the most recent winners of the BBC Young Composer competition, performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra. Mentored by composers Gavin Higgins and Helen Grime, tonight's composers have been inspired by Luke Jerram's artwork Gaia, an eight-metre-tall replica of the Earth and by soundscapes inspired by the work of academics at UCL East's People and Nature Lab, and the Biome Health Project.

From the Albert Hall, Nottingham. BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Hugh Brunt.

BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Hugh Brunt perform pieces by BBC Young Composer winners. Recorded yesterday at Albert Hall, Nottingham. Presented by Jess Gillam.

Presented by John Toal from the Ulster Hall in Belfast

Augusta Holmès

Claude Debussy

String Quartet in G minor

INTERVAL (at approx. 1545)

Gabriel Fauré

La bonne chanson (version with piano & string quintet)

Step into fin de siècle Paris, where the poet Verlaine, the painter Monet and the composers Fauré and Debussy would meet at regular soirées. From Verlaine, Fauré took nine poems to set as his exquisite cycle La bonne chanson – a serene depiction of the love Fauré was currently experiencing for Debussy's future wife. Debussy's own String Quartet was finished while Fauré's work was still in progress, and proved one of the composer's first ventures into his new, luxuriant musical world of light, sensuality and fragile beauty. The concert opens with a work by Augusta Holmès, one of the many 19th-century French women composers now being rediscovered. Her intimate song-cycle Les heures contemplates the ‘hours' of the day.

Live at the BBC Proms: from the Ulster Hall in Belfast.

Live at the BBC Proms: from the Ulster Hall in Belfast, the Quatuor Van Kuijk join baritone James Atkinson and pianist Michael Pandya.

INTERVAL (at approx. 1545): Michael Longley's Life of Poetry

In conversation with presenter Olivia O'Leary, Belfast poet Michael Longley, who celebrated his 85th birthday on 27th July 2024, looks back on a life of poetry. He talks about his home town of Belfast, his love of jazz, the group of poets that emerged from Northern Ireland in the 1960s, writing about the Troubles, and a lifetime of poetry. And he reads four poems from his collection Ash Keys: New Selected Poems (Cape Poetry), published to mark his 85th birthday: Elegy for Fats Waller, The Ice-cream Man, Ceasefire and Age. He also reads Bookshops from his collection Angel Hill.

You can hear the whole, five-part series of this conversation in Radio 3's The Essay: https://www.BBC.co.uk/programmes/m0020pnt

Producer: Claire Cunningham

Executive Producer: Regan Hutchins

Michael Longley's Life of Poetry is a Rockfinch production for BBC Radio 3.

PROM: PART 2

Presented by Verity Sharp, live from The Riverfront, Newport

Ernest Bloch: Prélude, B63

Antonín Dvořák: String Quartet No 13 in G major

c. 3.45pm

INTERVAL

c. 4.05pm

original works

Mahan Mirarab, guitar

At Newport for the first time, the Proms hosts a string ensemble from Berlin that is half quartet, half band – and the programme it brings proves the point. The first half sees Bloch's solemn Prelude and one of Dvořák's most astonishing string quartets – a piece charged by Romantic emotions but imbued with Classical order. After the interval the rules go out of the window thanks to the boundless energy of the vision string quartet's collaboration with Mahan Mirarab, the guitarist who combines the sounds of the Middle East with jazz. Expect grooving rhythms, tearaway improvisations and an irresistible fusion of musical worlds.

Live at the BBC Proms: classical and fusion with vision string quartet and Mahan Mirarab.

Presented by Elizabeth Alker.

Carwithen The Men of Sherwood Forest - Overture

Elizabeth Kelly Lace Machine Music (BBC Proms Commission, World Premiere)

Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini *

Prom Interval: Poet Sarah Jackson takes medievalist Daisy Black on a city tour of underground Nottingham

Korngold The Adventures of Robin Hood – Symphonic Suite

Sibelius Symphony No. 3

Clare Hammond (piano)

There's a strong local feel to the first visit by the Proms to one of the country's finest acoustics, the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham. Anna-Maria Helsing leads the BBC Concert Orchestra in music that celebrates the derring-do of local hero Robin Hood, as imagined in film scores by both Erich Korngold and Doreen Carwithen. Nottingham native Clare Hammond takes on Rachmaninov's devilish Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and we hear a brand-new work by composer Elizabeth Kelly, Head of the University of Nottingham's Music Department. All that is rounded off by a symphony of ecological awakening from Helsing's Finnish compatriot Jean Sibelius.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Anna-Maria Helsing, Clare Hammond

Live from Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham. BBC Concert Orchestra and Chief conductor Anna-Maria Helsing with pianist Clare Hammond in music by Sibelius and Rachmaninov.

Following his death earlier this year, Radio 3 reflects on Sir Andrew's presence at the festival, and celebrates his artistry, his relationship with the BBC's orchestras, and among other things his famously good-humoured speeches.

Celebrating Sir Andrew Davis' special relationship with the Proms

Following his death earlier this year, Radio 3 looks back at Sir Andrew Davis relationship with the proms.

With a career which spanned 132 appearances at the Royal Albert Hall, including playing the chamber organ for a performance of Monteverdi's vespers, Sir Andrew Davis clocked-up more First and Last Nights of the Prom that any other conductor in modern times.

Following his death earlier this year, Radio 3 reflects on Sir Andrew's presence at the festival, and celebrates his artistry, his relationship with the BBC's orchestras, his place in the musical firmament of the Proms, and among other things his famously good-humoured speeches.

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Hannah Peel, live from The Glasshouse International Centre for Music.

‘From classical to contemporary and everything in between' is the genre-dissolving focus of Radio 3's Night Tracks, designed for late-night, immersive listening. Tonight, the ethos crosses from studio to stage for a live incarnation.

Live performance comes from the award-winning pianist, composer and singer Hania Rani who performs with the strings of Royal Northern Sinfonia in brand new arrangements of songs from her recent album. Virtuosic percussionist Beibei Wang and composer Hannah Peel bring their unique collaboration of synths, marimbas, Chinese drums, gongs and water percussion to the stage. Electro folk artist Frankie Archer combines Northumbrian fiddle, synths and voice, and players from Royal Northern Sinfonia perform Richard Strauss's luscious sextet from Capriccio.

Live at the BBC Proms from The Glasshouse: Night Tracks Live.

Presented by Tom McKinney, live from The Glasshouse International Centre for Music

INTERVAL: Creatives from the BBC Open Music join Tom McKinney to talk about how the scheme brings together musicians of all genres, styles and backgrounds to develop new skills in collaborative music broadcasting at the BBC. They present stories in sound celebrating the North East; talk to tonight's Proms artists; and tell Tom about how they have curated tonight's late Prom, celebrating musicians who launched their careers through the ground-breaking BBC Music Introducing scheme.

Robert Ames (conductor)

Live at the BBC Proms from The Glasshouse: Grammy Award-nominated Jordan Rakei.

Headlined by tuba player and composer Theon Cross, with support from Newcastle Upon Tyne quintet Knats, this Prom is a celebration of musicians who launched their careers under the ground-breaking BBC Music Introducing scheme, with a particular focus on the North.

This concert has been curated and developed in collaboration with BBC Open Music and The Glasshouse. BBC Open Music brings together creatives and musicians of all genres, styles and backgrounds to develop new skills while exploring collaborations and ideas across orchestral and classical music broadcasting at the BBC.

Presented by Soweto Kinch and Olivia Ter-Berg, live from The Glasshouse International Centre for Music

Theon Cross (tuba)

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Live at the BBC Proms from The Glasshouse: a celebration BBC Music Introducing successes

Live at the BBC Proms from The Glasshouse: a celebration of musicians who launched their careers under the ground-breaking BBC Music Introducing scheme.

Presented by Tom McKinney, live from The Glasshouse International Centre for Music.

Nicola Matteis: Fantasia in A minor for solo violin – Alia Fantasia

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Along the Field – ‘Along the Field as we came by

Anon: Corpus Christi Carol

Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita No. 1 in B minor for solo violin – Sarabande

John Eccles: The Mad Lover Suite 5. Aire

Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew Passion – ‘Erbarme dich, mein Gott

Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Sonata No. 5 in A minor

Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin – Sarabanda

John Dowland: ‘Flow, my tears

William Walton: Touch her soft lips and part

Francois Couperin: Les Baricades Misterieuses

David Gordon: Mysterious Barracudas

Johann Sebastian Bach: English Suite no.3 in G Minor BWV 808 Sarabande

John Bennet: ‘Venus' birds, whose mournful tunes

Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 199, ‘Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut – Aria, ‘Tief gebückt und volle Reue

Daniel Pioro (violin)

Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano)

Clare O'Connell (cello)

David Gordon (harpsichord)

Live at the BBC Proms from The Glasshouse: An exploration of Elizabethan music & folklore.

Live at the BBC Proms from The Glasshouse: A trio of rich talents and curious minds join together for an afternoon exploration into Elizabethan music and folklore.

Presented by Elizabeth Alker, from The Glasshouse International Centre for Music.

Tailleferre: Little Suite

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor

Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G major

Alena Baeva (violin)

Dinis Sousa (conductor)

Orchestras all over the world commissioned symphonies from the pre-eminent Czech composer Antonì?n Dvořà?k. But there was no such commission for one of his most popular, the Symphony No. 8, which he wrote for nobody but himself. For the opening of this weekend-long Proms residency in the North-East, the Gateshead-based Royal Northern Sinfonia brings us the symphony that one conductor described as ‘a work singing of the joy of green pastures'. It's the climax of a programme also featuring the song of fire and ice that is Sibelius's captivating Violin Concerto. The concert opens with the charming and typically French Little Suite by Germaine Tailleferre, the only female member of the group of composers known as ‘Les Six' that emerged in 1920s Paris.

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

Handel arr. Mackerras: Music for the Royal Fireworks – overture

Bruckner: Psalm 150

Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor

c.7.25pm

INTERVAL: Petroc & Georgia are joined live in the Radio 3 box by comedian Alex Horne, creator of BAFTA award-winning TV series Taskmaster and bandleader of comedic band The Horne Section, alongside tonight's star pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason and composer Ben Nobuto whose brand new work Hallelujah Sim. receives its world premiere in just a few minutes time.

c.7.50pm

Ben Nobuto: Hallelujah Sim. (BBC commission: world premiere)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor

Sophie Bevan, soprano

Isata Kanneh ?Mason, piano

Elim Chan, conductor

Beethoven railed against fate in his Symphony No. 5, capturing ideals of fortitude, defiance and bravery in an instant. In her First Night debut, conductor Elim Chan places Beethoven's compelling score at the heart of a celebration that includes fireworks, jubilation and romance. The last comes with Clara Schumann's tender and virtuosic Piano Concerto – performed by a pianist who has championed it tirelessly: Isata Kanneh-Mason, the eldest of the remarkable musical Kanneh-Mason siblings.

Live at the BBC Proms: Bruckner, Clara Schumann, Ben Nobuto & Beethoven launch the season.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Singers, Symphony Chorus & Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Elim Chan, with Sophie Bevan singing Bruckner & Isata Kanneh ?Mason playing Clara Schumann.

Sound, style and fashion met in the disco movement, and in late 1970s New York there was only one place to experience it: Studio 54. Many of the disco hits that electrified the dance floor at the iconic midtown-Manhattan venue borrowed extensively from orchestral traditions. Here the BBC Concert Orchestra returns the favour, lending its power and exuberance to an evening that celebrates a pivotal movement in late 20th-century club culture and the glorious music it produced. With iconic hits from Chic, Gloria Gaynor, Diana Ross, Boney M. and Walter Murphy, get ready for all the glitz, glamour and groove of disco at the Proms!

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

INTERVAL: The Listening Service - Flares and big collars at the ready as Tom Service asks: what makes music D-I-S-C-O? He talks to Chic legend Nile Rodgers – whose career has spanned from early work with The Honeydrippers to Daft Punk via David Bowie – and finds out from tonight's conductor Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser exactly how disco made it to the Royal Albert Hall.

Vanessa Haynes (singer)

Vula Malinga (singer)

Cedric Neal (singer)

Elisabeth Troy (singer)

Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser (conductor)

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

Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Beyond the Night Sky

Ēriks Ešenvalds: Stars

Bob Chilcott: High Flight

Leigh Harline (arr. J. Rutter): Pinocchio – When You Wish Upon a Star

Elton John (arr. J. Ray): The Lion King – Can You Feel the Love Tonight

Oliver Wallace (arr. N. Ashby): Dumbo – ‘When I See an Elephant Fly

Kate Rusby (arr. J. Clements): Underneath the Stars

Gustav Holst: The Evening Watch

Melissa Dunphy: Totality (BBC co-commission: world premiere)

Harold Arlen (arr. J. Clements): I've Got the World on a String

Paul Simon (arr. A. L'Estrange): The Sound of Silence

Bart Howard/Jimmy Van Heusen (arr. A. L'Estrange): Come Fly With Me (to the Moon)

Robert Lowry (arr. B. Morgan): Shall We Gather at the River

Billy Joel (arr. P. Lawson) Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)

Dougie MacLean (arr. B. Morgan): Caledonia

When it comes to ensemble singing, two British groups have rewritten the rule book. United on stage for the first time, The King's Singers and VOCES8 present a Prom that mingles pop classics with classical, showcasing their world-class close-harmony singing. Expect superlative vocal precision and beauty from two of the UK's most thrilling vocal outfits.

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

Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Beyond the Night Sky

Ēriks Ešenvalds: Stars

Bob Chilcott: High Flight

Leigh Harline (arr. J. Rutter): Pinocchio – When You Wish Upon a Star

Elton John (arr. J. Ray): The Lion King – Can You Feel the Love Tonight

Oliver Wallace (arr. N. Ashby): Dumbo – ‘When I See an Elephant Fly

Kate Rusby (arr. J. Clements): Underneath the Stars

Gustav Holst: The Evening Watch

Melissa Dunphy: Totality (BBC co-commission: world premiere)

Harold Arlen (arr. J. Clements): I've Got the World on a String

Paul Simon (arr. A. L'Estrange): The Sound of Silence

Bart Howard/Jimmy Van Heusen (arr. A. L'Estrange): Come Fly With Me (to the Moon)

Robert Lowry (arr. B. Morgan): Shall We Gather at the River

Billy Joel (arr. P. Lawson) Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)

Dougie MacLean (arr. B. Morgan): Caledonia

When it comes to ensemble singing, two British groups have rewritten the rule book. United on stage for the first time, The King's Singers and VOCES8 present a Prom that mingles pop classics with classical, showcasing their world-class close-harmony singing. Expect superlative vocal precision and beauty from two of the UK's most thrilling vocal outfits.

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

MacMillan: Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia

c.7.50pm

INTERVAL: Composer and broadcaster Yshani Perinpanayagam in conversation with Martin Handley, as they take a look at the coming week of Proms concerts & share their respective highlights. We also hear from conductor Mark Elder on his time with the Hallé.

c.8.10pm

Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor

Hallé Children's Choir

Hallé Youth Choir

Hallé Choir

Sir Mark Elder, conductor

The entire Hallè? family visits from Manchester to make history at the Proms, as Sir Mark Elder comes to the end of his last season as Music Director after a quarter of a century in the role. First heard in Cincinnati last year, Sir James MacMillan's Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia is a celebration of music's ability to move the soul, and unites choirs of children and adults with a huge orchestra as it moves from jubilation to serenity. The evening concludes with the symphony that changed Gustav Mahler's creative direction – the great outpouring of defiance, exasperation and all-embracing love that is his Symphony No. 5.

Live at the BBC Proms: the Halle\u0301 and Sir Mark Elder in Mahler's Fifth Symphony.

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

MacMillan: Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia

c.7.50pm

INTERVAL: Composer and broadcaster Yshani Perinpanayagam in conversation with Martin Handley, as they take a look at the coming week of Proms concerts & share their respective highlights. We also hear from conductor Mark Elder on his time with the Hallé.

c.8.10pm

Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor

Hallé Children's Choir

Hallé Youth Choir

Hallé Choir

Sir Mark Elder, conductor

The entire Hallè? family visits from Manchester to make history at the Proms, as Sir Mark Elder comes to the end of his last season as Music Director after a quarter of a century in the role. First heard in Cincinnati last year, Sir James MacMillan's Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia is a celebration of music's ability to move the soul, and unites choirs of children and adults with a huge orchestra as it moves from jubilation to serenity. The evening concludes with the symphony that changed Gustav Mahler's creative direction – the great outpouring of defiance, exasperation and all-embracing love that is his Symphony No. 5.

Live at the BBC Proms: the Halle\u0301 and Sir Mark Elder in Mahler's Fifth Symphony.

Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

7.30pm

Schoenberg: Pelleas and Mellisande, Op 5

c.8.20pm

INTERVAL: Penny is joined in the Radio 3 box by Professor Sarah Peverley from the University of Liverpool, an expert on the Middle Ages and mythical creatures who is writing a book The Mermaid's Tale: A Cultural History of Mermaids. Sarah is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and having been chosen as a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, she has contributed to Free Thinking and Radio 3's The Essay.

c.8.40pm

Zemlinsky: The Mermaid

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

At a concert in Vienna on 25 January 1905, two new, contrastingly impactful orchestral works were heard for the first time. In his response to Maurice Maeterlinck's drama on the doomed love between Pelleas and Melisande, Arnold Schoenberg (born 150 years ago) pushes a colossal symphony orchestra to its limits. But Alexander Zemlinsky wasn't going to let Schoenberg (also his brother-in-law) steal the show, and wore his broken heart on his sleeve in his orchestral response to the well-known Hans Christian Andersen story The Little Mermaid. Ryan Bancroft marshals his BBC National Orchestra of Wales in two monumental tearjerkers that share far more than a birthday.

Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC NOW and Ryan Bancroft perform Zemlinsky and Schoenberg.

Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

7.30pm

Schoenberg: Pelleas and Mellisande, Op 5

c.8.20pm

INTERVAL: Penny is joined in the Radio 3 box by Professor Sarah Peverley from the University of Liverpool, an expert on the Middle Ages and mythical creatures who is writing a book The Mermaid's Tale: A Cultural History of Mermaids. Sarah is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and having been chosen as a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, she has contributed to Free Thinking and Radio 3's The Essay.

c.8.40pm

Zemlinsky: The Mermaid

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

At a concert in Vienna on 25 January 1905, two new, contrastingly impactful orchestral works were heard for the first time. In his response to Maurice Maeterlinck's drama on the doomed love between Pelleas and Melisande, Arnold Schoenberg (born 150 years ago) pushes a colossal symphony orchestra to its limits. But Alexander Zemlinsky wasn't going to let Schoenberg (also his brother-in-law) steal the show, and wore his broken heart on his sleeve in his orchestral response to the well-known Hans Christian Andersen story The Little Mermaid. Ryan Bancroft marshals his BBC National Orchestra of Wales in two monumental tearjerkers that share far more than a birthday.

Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC NOW and Ryan Bancroft perform Zemlinsky and Schoenberg.

Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

7pm

Verdi: Requiem

Latonia Moore (soprano)

Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)

SeokJong Baek (tenor)

Soloman Howard (bass)

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Giuseppe Verdi was moved to write his Requiem by the death of friends and colleagues. The result was a high-octane work whose expression of grief, faith and judgement drew such dramatic music from its composer that some thought it profane. First performed 150 years ago, and given its British premiere at the Royal Albert Hall the following year, it is one of music's most vivid masterpieces. Following his Prom with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales last night (see Prom 5), Ryan Bancroft returns this time with two choirs, lending suitably large forces for this powerful setting of the Latin Mass for the Dead.

Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales with Ryan Bancroft.

Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

7pm

Verdi: Requiem

Latonia Moore (soprano)

Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)

SeokJong Baek (tenor)

Soloman Howard (bass)

Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Giuseppe Verdi was moved to write his Requiem by the death of friends and colleagues. The result was a high-octane work whose expression of grief, faith and judgement drew such dramatic music from its composer that some thought it profane. First performed 150 years ago, and given its British premiere at the Royal Albert Hall the following year, it is one of music's most vivid masterpieces. Following his Prom with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales last night (see Prom 5), Ryan Bancroft returns this time with two choirs, lending suitably large forces for this powerful setting of the Latin Mass for the Dead.

Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales with Ryan Bancroft.

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

L'incoronazione di Poppea – ‘E pur io torno qui

Voglio di vita uscir

Marini

Per ogni sorte di strumenti musicale, Op. 22 – Passacaglia

Caccini

Le nuove musiche – ‘Amarilli, mia bella

Frescobaldi

Arie musicali, Book I – ‘Così mi disprezzate

Kerll

Sonata for two violins and continuo in F major

Cantate, ariette e duetti, Op. 2 – ‘L'amante consolato

Pompeo Magno – ‘Incomprensibil nume

Pallavicino

Demetrio – Sinfonia

Netti

La Filli – ‘Misero core

La Filli – ‘Sì, sì, sì, scioglia sì

La Filli – ‘Dolcissime catene

Sartorio

Antonino e Pompeiano – ‘La certezza di sua fede

L'Adamiro – ‘Quanto più la donna invecchia

L'Adamiro – ‘Son vecchia, pazienza

Jarzębski

Canzoni e concerti – Tamburetta

Moratelli

La faretra smarrita – ‘Lungi dai nostri cor

Jakub Józef Orliński, counter-tenor

Multi-skilled, golden-voiced counter-tenor Jakub Jò?zef Orliǹ?ski joins regular collaborators Il Pomo d'Oro for a journey through the music of the early Baroque, which he believes is ‘beyond its times ... still relevant, still alive, vibrant, touching, engaging and entertaining'. Featuring costume, light and movement, this Late Night Prom draws on operas, cantatas, sonatas and songs, moving from the beautiful to the bawdy and back again.

There will be no interval

Live at the BBC Proms: Jakub J\u00f3zef Orli\u0144ski joins the ensemble Il Pomo d'Oro.

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

L'incoronazione di Poppea – ‘E pur io torno qui

Voglio di vita uscir

Marini

Per ogni sorte di strumenti musicale, Op. 22 – Passacaglia

Caccini

Le nuove musiche – ‘Amarilli, mia bella

Frescobaldi

Arie musicali, Book I – ‘Così mi disprezzate

Kerll

Sonata for two violins and continuo in F major

Cantate, ariette e duetti, Op. 2 – ‘L'amante consolato

Pompeo Magno – ‘Incomprensibil nume

Pallavicino

Demetrio – Sinfonia

Netti

La Filli – ‘Misero core

La Filli – ‘Sì, sì, sì, scioglia sì

La Filli – ‘Dolcissime catene

Sartorio

Antonino e Pompeiano – ‘La certezza di sua fede

L'Adamiro – ‘Quanto più la donna invecchia

L'Adamiro – ‘Son vecchia, pazienza

Jarzębski

Canzoni e concerti – Tamburetta

Moratelli

La faretra smarrita – ‘Lungi dai nostri cor

Jakub Józef Orliński, counter-tenor

Multi-skilled, golden-voiced counter-tenor Jakub Jò?zef Orliǹ?ski joins regular collaborators Il Pomo d'Oro for a journey through the music of the early Baroque, which he believes is ‘beyond its times ... still relevant, still alive, vibrant, touching, engaging and entertaining'. Featuring costume, light and movement, this Late Night Prom draws on operas, cantatas, sonatas and songs, moving from the beautiful to the bawdy and back again.

There will be no interval

Live at the BBC Proms: Jakub J\u00f3zef Orli\u0144ski joins the ensemble Il Pomo d'Oro.

Presented by Elizabeth Alker.

There has never been an artist quite like Nick Drake, one of the great poets of the folk-rock movement. Fifty years on from his death at the age of just 26, the British singer-songwriter has found a new, cross-generational audience – many of them beguiled by his fragility and fatalism, his music's mingling of the outwardly simple and the inwardly complex. For this tribute Prom, Jules Buckley brings together a selection of artists to join the BBC Symphony Orchestra for a unique celebration, with songs including ‘River Man', ‘Cello Song', ‘Time Has Told Me' and ‘Northern Sky'.

INTERVAL: John Wilson, presenter of the TV and radio interview series This Cultural Life, joins Radio 3 presenter Elizabeth Alker to discuss the words and music of Nick Drake.

Olive Chaney (vocals/piano/guitar)

Marika Hackman (vocals/guitar)

BC Camplight (vocals/guitar)

Scott Matthew (vocals/guitar)

The Unthanks

Jules Buckley (conductor)

Presented by Elizabeth Alker.

There has never been an artist quite like Nick Drake, one of the great poets of the folk-rock movement. Fifty years on from his death at the age of just 26, the British singer-songwriter has found a new, cross-generational audience – many of them beguiled by his fragility and fatalism, his music's mingling of the outwardly simple and the inwardly complex. For this tribute Prom, Jules Buckley brings together a selection of artists to join the BBC Symphony Orchestra for a unique celebration, with songs including ‘River Man', ‘Cello Song', ‘Time Has Told Me' and ‘Northern Sky'.

INTERVAL: John Wilson, presenter of the TV and radio interview series This Cultural Life, joins Radio 3 presenter Elizabeth Alker to discuss the words and music of Nick Drake.

Olive Chaney (vocals/piano/guitar)

Marika Hackman (vocals/guitar)

BC Camplight (vocals/guitar)

Scott Matthew (vocals/guitar)

The Unthanks

Jules Buckley (conductor)

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

Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3

c.8.15pm

INTERVAL: In conversation with Andrew McGregor, Gillian Moore explores how Arnold Schoenberg's roots in the Austro-German musical tradition fed directly into his later revolutionary compositional technique.

c.8.25pm

Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht

Gustav Mahler: Kindertotenlieder

Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano

Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

Both Gustav Mahler and Friedrich Rückert lost children. When Mahler came to set Rückert's grief-stricken poems on the subject as his five Kindertotenlieder, he did so with music that appears emotionally stunned and radiantly consolatory. Leading international mezzo-soprano Alice Coote lends her glowing voice to these devastating songs, after Ryan Wigglesworth conducts his BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a symphony by Brahms that is both menacing and mellifluous. At the heart of the programme is Schoenberg's sumptuous tone-poem Verklärte Nacht (‘Transfigured Night'), filled with crepuscular angst and decadent late-Romantic harmony.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC SSO and Ryan Wigglesworth plus mezzo-soprano Alice Coote.

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

Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3

c.8.15pm

INTERVAL: In conversation with Andrew McGregor, Gillian Moore explores how Arnold Schoenberg's roots in the Austro-German musical tradition fed directly into his later revolutionary compositional technique.

c.8.25pm

Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht

Gustav Mahler: Kindertotenlieder

Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano

Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

Both Gustav Mahler and Friedrich Rückert lost children. When Mahler came to set Rückert's grief-stricken poems on the subject as his five Kindertotenlieder, he did so with music that appears emotionally stunned and radiantly consolatory. Leading international mezzo-soprano Alice Coote lends her glowing voice to these devastating songs, after Ryan Wigglesworth conducts his BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a symphony by Brahms that is both menacing and mellifluous. At the heart of the programme is Schoenberg's sumptuous tone-poem Verklärte Nacht (‘Transfigured Night'), filled with crepuscular angst and decadent late-Romantic harmony.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC SSO and Ryan Wigglesworth plus mezzo-soprano Alice Coote.

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

Benjamin Britten: Gloriana, Symphonic Suite

Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Cello Concerto, ‘Earth, Sea, Air

c.8.15pm

INTERVAL: The score for Elgar's Second Symphony is headed by a quotation from a poem by Shelley “Rarely, rarely comest thou spirit of delight ?. To talk more about Percy Bysshe Shelley, Andrew McGregor is joined by Professor John Mullan, Lord Northcliffe Chair of Modern English Literature at University College London. A regular guest on the radio programme In Our Time, his many books include Lives of the Great Romantics by Their Contemporaries: Shelley.

c.8.35pm

Edward Elgar: Symphony No. 2 in E flat major

Laura van der Heijden, cello

Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

Ryan Wigglesworth's feast of English music opens with Britten's suite of ‘best bits' from his 1953 Coronation opera Gloriana, all about the fraught relationship between Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex. Cheryl Frances-Hoad's new climate change-themed Cello Concerto – premiered last year in Glasgow by tonight's forces – takes inspiration from three disparate aspects of the natural world. Elgar's Symphony No. 2 is considered by many to be the best ever written in England. ‘I have put my soul into it,' said the composer of this captivating journey, whose thrusting outward energy conceals deep inner poignancy.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC SSO and Ryan Wigglesworth with cellist Laura van der Heijden.

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

3pm

Adam Walters: River of Freedom – ‘Hello

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Othello – Dance

Dai Wei: The Dancing Moonlight

Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons – Winter

Bill Withers/Skip Scarborough: Lovely Day arr. I. Farrington

Camille Saint ?Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals – Aquarium

Sarah Freestone: Medley of CBeebies Theme Tunes

Manuel de Falla: El amor brujo – Song of the Will-o'-the-Wisp

Sarah Class: When the Rains Come

Leia Zhu (violin)

Andy Day (from ‘Andy's Adventures')

Dodge T. Dog (from 'CBeebies House')

Ashley Joseph (from 'Jojo & Gran Gran')

Maddie Moate (from ‘Do You Know?')

Puja Panchkoty (from ‘Andy's Adventures')

Rhys Stephenson (from 'CBeebies House')

Kwamé Ryan (conductor)

Join Duggee, Bluey, the Octonauts and lots more of your CBeebies friends to celebrate the natural world in music and song at the spectacular Wildlife Jamboree.

Andy Day, Ashley Joseph, Maddie Moate, Puja Panchkoty and Rhys Stephenson are planning the most unusual animal choir. With Dodge T Dog in charge of invitations, there will be plenty of fun and maybe a wildlife muddle or two.

Joining them on stage will be the Southbank Sinfonia, the CBeebies East London Schools' Choir and the BBC Singers all led by conductor Kwamé Ryan.

Live at the BBC Proms: Kwame Ryan leads the Southbank Sinfonia.

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

3pm

Dance from 'Othello' - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Malambo from 'Estancia' - Alberto Ginestera

Winter from 'The Four Seasons' - Vivaldi

Lovely Day - Bill Withers, arr. I Farrington

Ritual Fire Dance from 'El amor brujo' - Manuel de Falla

CBeebies Medley arr Sara Freestone

When the Rains Come - Sarah Class

Hello - traditional song, arr Adam Walters

Leia Zhu (violin)

Andy Day (from ‘Andy's Adventures')

Dodge T. Dog (from 'CBeebies House')

Chantelle Lindsay (from ‘Teeny Tiny Creatures')

Maddie Moate (from ‘Do You Know?')

Puja Panchkoty (from ‘Andy's Adventures')

Rhys Stephenson (from 'CBeebies House')

Kwamé Ryan (conductor)

Join Duggee, Bluey, the Octonauts and lots more of your CBeebies friends to celebrate the natural world in music and song at the spectacular Wildlife Jamboree.

Andy Day, Chantelle Lindsay, Maddie Moate, Puja Panchkoty and Rhys Stephenson are planning the most unusual animal choir. With Dodge T Dog in charge of invitations, there will be plenty of fun and maybe a wildlife muddle or two.

Joining them on stage will be the Southbank Sinfonia, the CBeebies East London Schools' Choir and the BBC Singers, all led by conductor Kwamé Ryan.

Live at the BBC Proms: Kwame Ryan leads the Southbank Sinfonia.

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

3pm

Dance from 'Othello' - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Malambo from 'Estancia' - Alberto Ginestera

Winter from 'The Four Seasons' - Vivaldi

Lovely Day - Bill Withers, arr. I Farrington

Ritual Fire Dance from 'El amor brujo' - Manuel de Falla

CBeebies Medley arr Sara Freestone

When the Rains Come - Sarah Class

Hello - traditional song, arr Adam Walters

Leia Zhu (violin)

Andy Day (from ‘Andy's Adventures')

Dodge T. Dog (from 'CBeebies House')

Chantelle Lindsay (from ‘Teeny Tiny Creatures')

Maddie Moate (from ‘Do You Know?')

Puja Panchkoty (from ‘Andy's Adventures')

Rhys Stephenson (from 'CBeebies House')

Southbank Sinfonia

Kwamé Ryan (conductor)

Join Duggee, Bluey, the Octonauts and lots more of your CBeebies friends to celebrate the natural world in music and song at the spectacular Wildlife Jamboree.

Andy Day, Chantelle Lindsay, Maddie Moate, Puja Panchkoty and Rhys Stephenson are planning the most unusual animal choir. With Dodge T Dog in charge of invitations, there will be plenty of fun and maybe a wildlife muddle or two.

Joining them on stage will be Sinfonia Smith Square, the CBeebies East London Schools' Choir and the BBC Singers, all led by conductor Kwamé Ryan.

Live at the BBC Proms: Kwame Ryan conducts Sinfonia Smith Square.

The BBC Concert Orchestra and Guy Barker are joined by a starry line-up of singers for a celebration of one of the most iconic voices of the 20th century. Sarah Vaughan, born 100 years ago, spanned a range of genres, working with great musicians from Dizzy Gillespie to Michael Tilson Thomas. Her unparalleled vocal technique, which married operatic grandeur with the coolness of jazz, left audiences spellbound. The Proms presents an evening of songs made famous by Vaughan, including ‘Mean to Me', ‘If You Could See Me Now' and ‘Body and Soul'.

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

Tadd Dameron – If you Could See Me Now

Jerome Kern – Nobody Else but Me

Fred Ahlert – Mean Me

George Kelly/Sid Wyche/Mayme Watts – Don't Be on the Outside

Johnny Green – Body and Soul

Thad Jones/Sarah Vaughan – Sassy's Blues

Mann Curtis/Al Hoffman/Walter Kent – I'm Gonna Live Till I Die

Vincent Youmans – Great Day

Barry Mann – Just a Little Lovin' (Early in the Morning)

Billy Eckstine – Rhythm in a Riff

Antonio Carlos Jobim – Double Rainbow

Dizzy Gillespie – Interlude (A Night in Tunisia)

INTERVAL: Singer Claire Martin with a selection of Sarah Vaughan's greatest - and lesser-known - recordings

CHERISE (singer)

Lucy-Anne Daniels (singer)

Marisha Wallace (singer)

Lizz Wright (singer)

Clarke Peters (presenter)

Guy Barker (conductor)

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Guy Barker with singers CHERISE, Lucy-Anne Daniels, Marisha Wallace, Lizz Wright and presenter Clarke Peters.

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

Erkki-Sven Tüür: Aditus

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, ‘Emperor

c. 8.25pm

INTERVAL: Tom Service is joined by writer & broadcaster Katy Hamilton to look ahead to highlights at the BBC Proms during the coming week.

c.8.45pm

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 1 in C minor (1877 Linz version, ed. Nowak)

Yunchan Lim (piano)

Paavo Järvi (conductor)

In 2022 Yunchan Lim became the youngest ever winner of the Van Cliburn Competition, America's most distinguished contest for outstanding pianists. He makes his Proms debut tonight with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi, performing Beethoven's final piano concerto, the ‘Emperor', a work of heroism and virtuosity in which the soloist brings order to a world of sound and fury. The dashing final chapter of Bruckner's Symphony No. 1 proved enough to herald a major symphonic career, but the programme opens at an opposite extreme, with Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür's Aditus (‘entrance' or ‘approach'), a sizzling opener of existential, expressionistic drama.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paavo J\u00e4rvi.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paavo Järvi, in Bruckner's Symphony No. 1. Yunchan Lim joins for Beethoven's great 'Emperor' Piano Concerto.

INTERVAL: Tom Service is joined by writer and broadcaster Katy Hamilton to look ahead to highlights at the BBC Proms during the coming week.

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

Anna Clyne: The Gorgeous Nothings

c. 8.00pm

INTERVAL: The Listening Service - It made Pierre Boulez want to vomit, Francis Poulenc thought it was atrocious and Igor Stravinsky said all you needed to write it was enough manuscript paper. But its composer wrote all 80 minutes of it as a love song, and a hymn to joy. Tom Service asks 'just what is Olivier Messiaen's epic Turangalila Symphony, premiered in 1949 by Leonard Bernstein and the Boston Symphony Orchestra; why did it divide opinion so much, and what does it mean today? ?

c.8.20pm

Olivier Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony

The Swingles

Steven Osborne (piano)

Cynthia Millar (ondes Martinot)

Nicholas Collon (conductor)

The composer and critic Virgin Thomson described Oliver Messiaen's music as 'convulsive, ecstatic, cataclysmic, terrifying and unreal'. All converge in the most vibrant and unignorable symphony of the 20th century: Messiaen's 'Turangalîla Symphony'. Nicholas Collon and the BBC Philharmonic are joined by pianist Steven Osborne and ondes Martinot virtuoso Cynthia Millar to perform a work that opens up the heavens even as it brings down the house, after the tantalising prospect of a world premiere by Anna Clyne. The BBC Philharmonic is joined by The Swingles for 'The Gorgeous Nothings', written specially for the Proms; the composer's response to the 'spellbinding wordsmithery' of American poet Emily Dickinson, scored for orchestra, amplified voices and real-time electronic processing.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Nicholas Collon and joined by The Swingles for the world premiere of Anna Clyne's The Gorgeous Nothings.

The composer and critic Virgil Thomson described Oliver Messiaen's music as 'convulsive, ecstatic, cataclysmic, terrifying and unreal'. All converge in the most vibrant and unignorable symphony of the 20th century: Messiaen's 'Turangalîla Symphony'. Nicholas Collon and the BBC Philharmonic are joined by pianist Steven Osborne and ondes Martinot virtuoso Cynthia Millar to perform a work that opens up the heavens even as it brings down the house, after the tantalising prospect of a world premiere by Anna Clyne. The BBC Philharmonic is joined by The Swingles for 'The Gorgeous Nothings', written specially for the Proms; the composer's response to the 'spellbinding wordsmithery' of American poet Emily Dickinson, scored for orchestra, amplified voices and real-time electronic processing.

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

Cassandra Miller: 'I can not love without trembling' for viola and orchestra

c. 8.00pm

INTERVAL: Tom McKinney is joined by expert on Russian culture Rosamund Bartlett to explore the history and context of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

c. 8.20pm

Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No.4 in C minor

Lawrence Power (viola)

John Storgards (conductor)

As their acclaimed Shostakovich recording series continues, the BBC Philharmonic and Chief Conductor John Storgards bring one of the composer's boldest symphonies to the Proms. The Fourth, a bleak and ferociously powerful work, was withdrawn before its planned premiere for fear of reprisal from Joseph Stalin, who had recently denounced Shostakovich's opera 'Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District'. Before the interval we hear Canadian composer Cassandra Miller's new work for viola and orchestra titled 'I cannot love without trembling' and written for leading player Lawrence Power.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Philharmonic with their Chief Conductor, John Storgards.

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

Charles Ives: Three Places in New England

Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major

c.8.20 pm

INTERVAL: Debussy's Nocturnes is based upon selections from Poèmes anciens et romanesques by the French symbolist poet Henri de Régnier while Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini draws on the Italian noblewoman depicted in Dante's Divine Comedy. To shed light on these literary texts, Tom Service is joined by Dr Julia Hartley, a Lecturer in Comparative Literature in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker.

c.8.50pm

Claude Debussy: Nocturnes

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini

Denis Kozhukhin (piano)

Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

Tchaikovsky was no stranger to unhappiness in love, and his symphonic fantasy Francesca da Rimini allows us to eavesdrop on his pain in heart-rending autobiographical detail as the composer retells Dante's tale of a noblewoman's infidelity and subsequent casting into Hell. For their Prom, Vasily Petrenko and his Royal Philharmonic Orchestra plunge us deep into Tchaikovsky's signature emotional turmoil after moonlit Debussy, Charles Ives's own foray into American Impressionism and Ravel's enthralling, jazz-inspired Piano Concerto under the fingers of the ferociously talented Denis Kozhukhin.

Live at the BBC Proms: Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Tchaikovsky, Ives and Debussy, and Denis Kozhukhin plays Ravel Piano Concerto in G major.

Ten years on from its original release, the album's autobiographical tracks on the theme of unrequited love are reimagined with full orchestral support. In tracks such as ‘Stay With Me', ‘Lay Me Down' and other songs from Sam Smith's later work, expect the singer's unmatched voice and raw honesty to feature front and centre.

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

Part 1 – debut solo album In the Lonely Hour

INTERVAL

Part 2 – greatest hits

Sam Smith (singer)

Ruth O'Mahony Brady (piano)

Ben Thomas (guitar)

Steve Pearce (bass)

Ralph Salmins (drums)

Simon Hale (conductor)

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Simon Hale with Sam Smith.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Simon Hale with singer Sam Smith performing their seminal debut solo album In the Lonely Hour.

INTERVAL - Linton Stephens speaks to Sam Smith about performing with the BBC Concert Orchestra, and is joined by drag queen and singer Divina de Campo to discuss the links between queer pop and opera.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, presented by Martin Handley

Jonathan Harvey: Tranquil Abiding

Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor

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INTERVAL: Writer Kate Kennedy joins Martin to explore some of Holst's lesser-known works

c. 8.40pm

Gustav Holst: The Cloud Messenger

Jess Dandy (contralto)

Senja Rummukainen (cello)

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Deeply in love and enlightened by Sanskrit literature, Gustav Holst embarked upon what many consider his true masterpiece. The Cloud Messenger recounts an ancient tale in which a man sends a message of love to his distant wife via a passing cloud. It drew from the composer a rich and passionate work charting love's trials and rewards. This performance, marking 150 years since Holst's birth, comes after Elgar's ever-popular, bittersweet Cello Concerto - with soloist Senja Rummukainen making her Proms debut - and the gentle exhalations of Jonathan Harvey's Tranquil Abiding, inspired by Buddhist meditation.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC SO conducted by Sakari Oramo with Senja Rummukainen.

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

Trad. (Serbian arr. H. Baker, T. Fetherstonhaugh & S. Kanneh-Mason): Ajde Jano

Trad. (arr. H. Baker & S. Parkin) Scarborough Fair

Johannes Brahms (arr. H. Baker): Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor

Hungarian Dance No. 2 in D minor

Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor

Béla Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances

Burt Bacharach (arr. H. Baker & S. Kanneh-Mason): I Say a Little Prayer

Bob Marley (arr. Kanneh-Masons & H. Baker): Redemption Song

Laura Mvula (arr. H. Baker): Sing to the Moon

Antonín Dvořák (arr. Harry Baker): Rusalka – ‘Song to the Moon

Antônio Carlos Jobim (arr. S. Assad & H. Baker): The Girl From Ipanema

Astor Piazzolla (arr. H. Baker): Libertango

Stevie Wonder (arr. H. Baker): I Wish

Nile Rodgers/Bernard Edwards (arr. H. Baker & S. Kanneh-Mason) Good Times

Braimah Kanneh-Mason (violin)

Sheku Kanneh ?Mason (cello)

Plínio Fernandes (guitar)

Tom Fetherstonhaugh (conductor)

A concert of folk songs, dances, prayers and incantations, featuring brothers Braimah and Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the captivating Brazilian guitarist Plì?nio Fernandes. The dynamic Fantasia Orchestra makes its Proms debut under its founder, Tom Fetherstonhaugh.

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

Wynton Marsalis: Herald, Holler and Hallelujah! (UK premiere)

Aaron Copland: Billy the Kid – suite

Samuel Barber: Adagio for strings

George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (orch. Grofé)

c. 8.05pm

INTERVAL: Composer, theatre director, lyricist and translator Jeremy Sams picks some plums from the week ahead at the Royal Albert Hall and shares his highlights with Ian Skelly.

c. 8.25pm

Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question

John Adams: Harmonielehre

John Wilson (conductor)

John Adams once dreamt of an oil tanker rising out of San Francisco Bay, soaring into the sky like a rocket. That dream prompted Harmonielehre, a luscious, churning score that fuses Minimalism and Wagnerism. The work concludes a programme of scintillating American classics from John Wilson and his all-star orchestra – including Copland's ballet on the folk hero Billy the Kid, haunting pieces by Barber and Ives, Gershwin's jazz-infused Rhapsody in Blue (100 years old this year) and jazz living legend Wynton Marsalis's brassy, swingy Herald, Holler and Hallelujah!

Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

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INTERVAL: Pianist and Busoni expert Karl Lutchmayer paints a picture of who Busoni was and the influences that shaped his music. He also explores the story of the piano concerto, and Busoni's piano music, at the Proms, from John Ogdon to Peter Donohoe.

c.8.25pm

Busoni: Piano Concerto

Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Edward Gardner, conductor

Ready for something completely different? Marking the centenary of the composer's death, Ferruccio Busoni's gargantuan Piano Concerto is perhaps better described as a symphony in five movements, capped by a male chorus. Woven through Busoni's bizarrely wonderful and utterly engrossing score is one of the most challenging piano parts ever committed to paper – tackled tonight by British star pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. Before it, Edward Gardner and his London Philharmonic forces whet the appetite with the snap, crackle and pop of Rachmaninov's riveting Symphonic Dances.

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

Live at the BBC Proms: Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances and Busoni's Piano Concerto performed by pianist Benjamin Grosvenor and conductor Edward Gardner.

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

Purcell: The Fairy Queen

Paulina Francisco (soprano)

Georgia Burashko (mezzo-soprano)

Rebecca Leggett (mezzo-soprano)

Juliette Mey (mezzo-soprano)

Rodrigo Carreto (tenor)

Ilja Aksionov (tenor)

Hugo Herman-Wilson (baritone)

Benjamin Schilperoort (bass-baritone)

Samuel Florimond, Anahi Passi, Alary-Youra Ravin, Timothée Zig, Baptiste Coppin, Daniel Saad (dancers)

Compagnie KÄFIG

Paul Agnew (conductor)

Mourad Merzouki (choreographer/stage director)

After critically acclaimed runs in New York, Paris and around the world, Mourad Merzouki's staging of Purcell's The Fairy Queen comes to the Proms. Expression and spontaneity characterise both Merzouki's hip hop-derived dance, Paul Agnew's musical direction and Purcell's 1692 composition, a series of allegorical celebrations of young love based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. (For two other major musical responses to the play, see Proms 36 & 68.) Goblins and elves meet street dance as Paul Agnew makes his Proms conducting debut and soloists from Le Jardin des Voix (the vocal academy run by Les Arts Florissants) and dancers from Merzouki's troupe combine in this moving and imaginative meeting of genres.

There will be one interval: Professor Nandini Das won the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for her study of the Indian Mughal Court. She's also an expert in Early Modern England and joins Tom Service to discuss Shakespeare, and the tradition of masque dramas which Purcell's Fairy Queen draws upon.

Live at the BBC Proms: Paul Agnew directs Les Arts Florissants in Purcell: The Fairy Queen

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

There will be one interval: Professor Nandini Das won the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding for her study of the Indian Mughal Court. She's also an expert in Early Modern England and joins Andrew McGregor to discuss Shakespeare, and the tradition of masque dramas which Purcell's Fairy Queen draws upon.

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

Schumann: Genoveva - overture

Sibelius: Pohjola's Daughter

Hans Abrahamsen: Horn Concerto

c. 8.15pm

INTERVAL - The Listening Service: Following tonight's performance of the new Hans Abrahamsen Horn Concerto, Tom Service looks back on the role of the French horn in classical music. The instrument has long held a special place in composers' affections and has played an important role in establishing a sound world for 19th-century Romantic sensibilities. Just think of Schumann's supercharged Konzertstuck for four horns, or the central role the horn plays in Wagner's epic Ring - and in the orchestra of Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Strauss and Mahler. Tom Service unwinds this 12-foot metal tube to learn more about its distinctive qualities with the help of natural horn virtuoso Anneke Scott.

c. 8.35pm

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4 in F minor

Stefan Dohr (horn)

Few composers captured life's struggles as vividly as Tchaikovsky. ‘This is Fate,' wrote the composer in 1877 as he grappled with the opening notes of his Symphony No. 4. ‘It hangs above your head like the sword of Damocles.' By the symphony's final pages, Tchaikovsky had wrested hope from despair. John Storgårds conducts his BBC Philharmonic in this full-blooded symphony, after the delicate, white luminosity of Hans Abrahamsen's Horn Concerto and the brusque drama of Sibelius's symphonic fantasia Pohjola's Daughter, based on a tale from Finnish folk epic the Kalevala, in which the ancient bard Väinämöinen attempts to woo the beautiful Daughter of the North. The Prom opens with Schumann's much-overlooked dramatic overture for his opera on the medieval legend of St Genevieve of Brabant, Genoveva.

Live at the BBC Proms: John Storg\u00e5rds and the BBC Philharmonic.

Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC Philharmonic and John Storgårds in Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony. They are joined by Stefan Dohr for Hans Abrahamsen's glowing Horn Concerto.

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

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major

c. 8.20pm

INTERVAL: As an upbeat to Sarah Gibson's 'warp & weft' Leah Broad, author of 'Quartet: How Four Women Changed The Musical World' talks to Georgia Mann about some of the choices women composers have made and the resulting impact on their careers.

c. 8.40pm

Sarah Gibson: warp and weft

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor

Tobias Feldmann (violin)

Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

For Brahms, composing music was a quest to balance head and heart. The composer's final symphony is the most exquisite example of that mission, a piece as radiant as poetry and as perfect as a mathematical equation. In tonight's Prom Brahms's work of Apollonian perfection is balanced by the outpouring of joy that is Beethoven's Violin Concerto, plus Sarah Gibson's warp & weft, inspired by the work of Canadian artist Miriam Schapiro. Tobias Feldmann makes his Proms debut for this concert with the BBC Philharmonic under Anja Bihlmaier.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Philharmonic and conductor Anja Bihlmaier.

INTERVAL: Before Sarah Gibson's ‘warp & weft', and after her untimely death last month at the age of 38, Georgia Mann talks to Leah Broad about Sarah's work and the legacy of women composers.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, presented by Andrew McGregor.

Kaija Saariaho: Mirage (12 mins)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat major ‘Jeunehomme' K271

c. 6.45pm

INTERVAL: To discuss Alpine tourism, Andrew McGregor is joined by Dr Seán Williams, a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker who has made programmes for BBC Radio 3 about a murder in Trieste in the 1760s, the idea of luxury, the rise and fall of the hairdresser. Seán is a Senior Lecturer in German and European Cultural History in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sheffield.

c. 7.05pm

Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony

Silja Aalto (soprano)

Anssi Karttunen (cello)

Seong-Jin Cho (piano)

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

When the 14-year-old Richard Strauss got caught in a storm, lost in the mist, soaked by the rain or blistered by the sun while out mountaineering, his response was to sit at the piano and improvise a musical description of the experience. That sowed the seeds for a work born 35 years later: An Alpine Symphony. This spectacular symphony, which calls for an orchestra of 130 musicians – including wind machine, thunder machine, cowbells, organ and offstage brass – will surely raise the roof of the Royal Albert Hall. But only after Mozart – at his most charming in the Piano Concerto No. 9 – and the late Kaija Saariaho's Mirage, a hypnotic snapshot of womanhood for soprano, cello and orchestra.

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

Heiner Goebbels: Songs of Wars I Have Seen

Chloe Rooke (conductor)

In 2007 new-music ensemble the London Sinfonietta and period-instrument outfit the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment together gave the first performance of Heiner Goebbels's Songs of Wars I Have Seen, commissioned by the Southbank Centre to mark the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall. Seventeen years later, the two orchestras are reunited under fast-rising conductor Chloe Rooke for a London revival of this landmark setting of wartime diary entries by Gertrude Stein, a work that manages to prove harrowing, poignant and consoling all at once, and whose visions of war have scarcely been more relevant.

Live at the BBC Proms: London Sinfonietta & OAE perform Heiner Goebbels' unique work.

Live at the BBC Proms: The London Sinfonietta & the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment revive the extraordinary work written for them to mark the reopening of the RFH in 2007.

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

Richard Wagner (arr. Lemare): Tannhäuser Overture

Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542

Cécile Chaminade (arr. J. Scott): Six Concert È?tudes, Op. 35 – Autumn

Jules Grison: Toccata in F major

Charles Ives: Variations on ‘America

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (arr. J. Scott): Overture '1812

Jonathan Scott tames the mighty mechanical beast that is the Royal Albert Hall organ for this mid-morning recital that promises to show everything the 9,999-pipe instrument can do – bells and whistles included. This Prom journeys from supersized Bach and Edwin Lemare's spectacular arrangement of Wagner's Tannhäuser overture to the eccentricity of Charles Ives and the peaceful rapture of Scott's own arrangement of Cè?cilie Chaminade's ‘Autumn'. Another of the organist's own arrangements, that of Tchaikovsky's ‘1812' Overture, will almost literally pull out all the stops, and quite possibly bring the house down.

Live at the BBC Proms: Jonathan Scott – Organ Recital. Music by Wagner, JS Bach, Cécile Chaminade, Jules Grison, Charles Ives and Tchaikovsky.

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

Wagner: The Flying Dutchman – overture

Missy Mazzoli: Orpheus Undone

Dani Howard: As One (BBC co-commission: world premiere)*

c.8.20pm

INTERVAL: Katie talks to members of the NYO about performing in the orchestra, and working with composers Missy Mazzoli and Dani Howard. We also hear a specially selected playlist, selected by members of the NYO.

c.8.40pm

Mahler: Symphony No 1 in D major

Musicians from NYO Inspire

Alexandre Bloch (conductor)

*Tess Jackson (conductor)

Gustav Mahler poured his life into his symphonies, right from the very beginning. His Symphony No. 1 takes us through the wonder of nature and the pain of anguish. Simple tunes and folksy rhythms drive the work from despair to hope to blazing triumph. Performing the symphony is The National Youth Orchestra, comprising some of Britain's most talented young players. They also bring with them Missy Mazzoli's reflection on time, Orpheus Undone, Wagner's most storm-tossed overture and a new work by the orchestra's Resident Artist Dani Howard, written in celebration of the NYO Inspire scheme.

Live at the BBC Proms: The National Youth Orchestra performs Mahler's Symphony No 1.

Dani Howard: Three, Four AND... (BBC co-commission: world premiere)*

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

Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major

c. 8.20 pm

INTERVAL: Mariam Said joins presenter Ian Skelly to describe her late husband's role in co-founding the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, and discuss how the momentum of the initiative led to the inauguration of the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin. We hear, too, Daniel Barenboim's recollections about the original impetus behind the Orchestra's launch, plus current members of the ensemble share how the ideals enshrined in the orchestra's DNA remain more relevant than ever.

c.8.50pm

Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major, ‘Great

Anne ?Sophie Mutter (violin)

Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

In 1999, young Arab and Israeli musicians came together for the groundbreaking creative and social experiment that was the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra. A quarter of a century later, the ideals of listening, respect and mutual understanding enshrined in this ensemble are underlined like never before. For this timely Prom, the orchestra and its co-founder Daniel Barenboim bring with them Brahms's consolatory Violin Concerto featuring soloist Anne-Sophie Mutter and the monolithic, momentum-fuelled symphony by Schubert that deservedly acquired the nickname ‘Great'.

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

G Williams: Concert Overture

Karl Jenkins: Stravaganza

c.8.05pm

INTERVAL

c.8.25pm

Farrenc: Overture No 1, Op 23

Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A major, Op 92

Jess Gillam (saxophone)

Nil Venditti (conductor)

With his Symphony No. 7 Beethoven permanently realigned Western music's fundamental relationship with rhythm. In the process he created some of the most compelling music of his age. Young Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti places this momentous symphonic dance alongside music by a composer from the generation after Beethoven, one who picked up the master's baton and ran with it: Louise Farrenc. The first half spotlights two Welsh composers born less than 40 years apart. Grace Williams's jaunty Concert Overture, written in her mid-twenties, came ‘highly recommended' after its entry in a Daily Telegraph competition in 1932–3. And Sir Karl Jenkins, one of the most popular composers of our time, wrote his Stravaganza especially for tonight's soloist, Jess Gillam.

Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Nil Venditti plus Jess Gillam

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Nil Venditti perform Grace Williams, Beethoven and Farrenc. Jess Gillam is the soloist for Karl Jenkins's Stravaganza.

Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Nil Venditti perform Grace Williams, Beethoven and Farrenc. Jess Gillam is the soloist for Karl Jenkins' Stravaganza.

INTERVAL: Writer and broadcaster Nigel Simeone joins Sarah Walker to discuss his choice pick of Proms for the week ahead, with music from Grace Williams, Mendelssohn and Duke Ellington.

Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Nil Venditti and Jess Gillam.

Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Edward Elgar: Overture ‘Cockaigne (In London Town)

Gustav Holst: Hammersmith

Charles Villiers Stanford: Songs of Faith Op.97

– ‘To the Soul

– ‘Tears

– ‘Joy, shipmate, joy!

Stanford: ‘The Fairy Lough

c. 8.15pm

INTERVAL: Penny Gore's guest is the historian and journalist Simon Heffer whose books include The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 and Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars. For Radio 3 he has presented series and documentaries about British classical music.

c. 8.35pm

Ralph Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (Symphony No.2)

Christopher Maltman (baritone)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

From Westminster Bridge and the bells of Big Ben to Bloomsbury Square, in his A London Symphony Vaughan Williams depicts the English capital, where horses still trotted through the streets and the countryside could be glimpsed from Marble Arch. Elgar's ‘stout and steaky' picture-postcard scenes of London life join anniversary composer Holst's Hammersmith, commissioned for the BBC Military Band, in saluting the city. Vaughan Williams's teacher Stanford (who died 100 years ago) completes the programme, with a selection of reflective songs performed by leading British baritone Christopher Maltman.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC SO, conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

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

Volker Bertelmann: All Quiet on the Western Front (excerpts)

The Echo Society: Postcard from Earth (excerpts)

Hildur Guðnadóttir: Tár (excerpts)

Anna Meredith: The End We Start From (excerpts)

Son Lux: Everything Everywhere All at Once (excerpts)

Colin Stetson: The Menu (excerpts)

Tamar-kali: Shirley (excerpts)

The Last Thing He Wanted (excerpts)

Robert Ames (conductor)

Edith Bowman (presenter)

Welcome to the freshest sounds in cinema and TV. A new generation of composers for the screen is emerging, who know no boundaries and whose startlingly evocative music resists categorisation. The London Contemporary Orchestra comes to the Proms for a deep dive into the hypnotic world of contemporary soundtracks.

Presented by Kate Molleson, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Duke Ellington: Solitude, Mood Indigo, Sophisticated Lady, Caravan

Mary Lou Williams: Zodiac Suite

c.8.30pm

INTERVAL: Anthony Braxton talks to Kate Molleson about his boundary-busting music and the composers and performers that have influenced him over the years.

c.8.50pm

Anthony Braxton: Composition No. 27 (+46, 151, LM)

Anthony Braxton (saxophone)

James Fei (saxophone/conductor)

Katherine Young (bassoon/conductor)

Chris Lewis (clarinet/saxophone)

Brandon Lee (trumpet)

Mikaela Bennett (soprano)

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Ilan Volkov and friends celebrate milestones from the past 100 years of American jazz, starting with a sequence honouring the ‘Duke'. Mary Lou Williams's Zodiac Suite from 1945 romps between boogie-woogie and dissonance in its response to astrological signs. The evening culminates in the work of a boundary-crossing visionary. From the south side of Chicago, multi-instrumentalist and self-styled ‘trans-idiomatic composer' Anthony Braxton has established himself as a musician whose imagination recognises no bounds.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC SSO & Ilan Volkov salute Anthony Braxton and Mary Lou Williams.

Presented by Kate Molleson, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Mel Bonis: Salomé

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Concerto

c.8.05

INTERVAL:

c.8.25

Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music

Anthony McGill (clarinet)

NYCOS Chamber Choir

Gemma New (conductor)

In the summer of 1826 Felix Mendelssohn stumbled upon a German translation of A Midsummer Night's Dream made by August Wilhelm Schlegel. Spellbound, the 17-year-old composer wrote an orchestral overture for the play and, another 17 years later, augmented it with yet more scene-setting music – the most enchanting and characterful he would write. Gemma New joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for Mendelssohn's musical retelling of Shakespeare's story performed with extracts from the play for dramatic context – after equally colourful musical storytelling from forgotten French late-Romantic composer Mel Bonis and the heavenly sounds of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC SSO and Gemma New with clarinettist Anthony McGill.

INTERVAL: British pianist and composer David Owen Norris joins Kate Molleson to discuss Mendelssohn's early encounter with Shakespeare's prose and the ensuing creative journey which resulted in his incidental music to one of the bard's best-known stories.

Moyo Akandé (actor)

Ewan Black (actor)

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

7.30pm

Benjamin Britten: War Requiem

Natalya Romaniw (soprano)

Allan Clayton (tenor)

Will Liverman (baritone)

Tiffin Boys' Choir

BBC Symphony Chorus

London Symphony Chorus

Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor)

Sir Antonio Pappano and his London Symphony Orchestra are joined by three choirs and three outstanding vocal soloists for a work of hope that emerged from the ashes of destruction. Benjamin Britten was moved by the bombing of Coventry during the Second World War to write his monumental War Requiem, a work that pits contrasting musical ensembles against one another as the chilling innocence of boys' voices meets the outspoken, acerbic protests of soldiers and massed choirs expressing suffering and deliverance. Never has this tense, angry and cautiously optimistic work seemed more relevant since its first performance 62 years ago.

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

Paul Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice (12 mins)

Francisco Coll: Cello Concerto BBC co-commission: UK premiere (24 mins)

11.40

INTERVAL Cultural historian Rosamund Bartlett talks to Linton Stephens about the figure of the Firebird in Russian folklore. With its 'golden feathers and eyes like oriental crystal,' this magical, glowing bird from a faraway land was often seen as prophetic, a blessing and a harbinger of doom to its captor. But in Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is portrayed in an altogether more positive light.

12.00

Giacomo Puccini: Preludio sinfonico (12 mins)

Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird – suite (1945 version) (31 mins)

Sol Gabetta (cello)

Tianyi Lu (conductor)

Stravinsky showed his true colours in The Firebird. In this coruscating ballet music he unleashed for the first time the vivid colours that would captivate generations of theatre-goers. He had the perfect subject matter in the compelling story of the young Prince Ivan outwitting the evil sorcerer Kashchey and freeing the 13 enchanted Princesses with the help of the magical Firebird. Tianyi Lu also conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Puccini's effortlessly lyrical Preludio sinfonico, Dukas's retelling of The Sorcerer's Apprentice tale and a new Cello Concerto by Francisco Coll, powered by dances ranging from the tango to the waltz.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tianyi Lu performs Stravinsky's dazzling Firebird. And Sol Gabetta is the soloist in Francisco Coll's Cello Concerto.

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

Busoni: Comedy Overture

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major

c. 8.20pm

INTERVAL: In conversation with Petroc Trelawny, Leah Broad picks her Proms highlights for the upcoming week and outlines the work and life of Avril Coleridge-Taylor.

c. 8.40pm

Avril Coleridge-Taylor: A Sussex Landscape

Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor

Hot-property conductor Daniele Rustioni brings his Ulster Orchestra to London for a Prom concluding with Dvořà?k's stirring Symphony No. 7, in which dark clouds and bright sunshine jostle for supremacy throughout a melody-fuelled, rhythm-buoyed journey that ends in triumph. Francesco Piemontesi joins the orchestra for the most poetic of Beethoven's piano concertos, while there's comedy from centenary composer Busoni and an English musical landscape by Avril Coleridge-Taylor that proves more dramatic than serene.

Live at the BBC Proms: the Ulster Orchestra and conductor Daniele Rustioni with pianist Francesco Piemontesi and music by Dvořák, Beethoven, Busoni and Avril Coleridge-Taylor.

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

Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro – overture

Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E flat major

c. 8.10pm

INTERVAL: The Listening Service - Mozart and The Enlightenment

Tom Service considers the ways in which Mozart's music may have been shaped by the social and rational thinking of the ‘Enlightenment' philosophies of his day. Ideas which grappled with concepts of liberty, natural law and tolerance and put the human condition centre stage. Tom draws on examples of Mozart's music from both stage and concert hall and his guest expert is opera producer and historian Nicholas Till.

c. 8.30pm

Mozart: Don Giovanni – overture

Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C major, ‘Jupiter

Clara-Jumi Kang (violin)

Timothy Ridout (viola)

Riccardo Minasi (conductor)

The divine and the human appear to co-exist in Mozart's music. This celebration of the composer's enduring genius brings ‘peak' Mozart to the Royal Albert Hall, culminating in the continuous stream of liberated musical joy that is his final symphony, the ‘Jupiter'. Before that, Riccardo Minasi conducts his dynamic Ensemble Resonanz – Resident Ensemble at Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie – in a pair of Mozart's most thrilling overtures alongside the achingly beautiful Sinfonia concertante, a double concerto for violin and viola that offers the warmest of musical embraces.

Live at the BBC Proms: Ensemble Resonanz conducted by Riccardo Minasi.

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

A musical and dramatic exploration of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (40 mins)

c. 8.10pm INTERVAL Chamber music recordings featuring members of the all-star Aurora Orchestra.

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

Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (soprano)

Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo-soprano)

Brenden Gunnell (tenor)

Christopher Purves (baritone)

Nicholas Collon (conductor)

Rhiannon May (actor)

Thomas Simper (actor/BSL interpreter)

James Bonas (stage director)

Beethoven's final symphony is also his most powerful – a manifesto for social change, political upheaval and the limitless possibilities of human artistic expression. Mark the 200th anniversary of the monumental Ninth Symphony with a signature memorised presentation and performance from the Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon, in collaboration with the BBC Singers, National Youth Choir of Great Britain, actor Rhiannon May and actor/BSL-interpreter Thomas Simper. This Prom is a bold, brilliant take on Beethoven's symphonic journey from brutality to the uplifting embrace of love.

Live at the BBC Proms: Aurora Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Collon in Beethoven's Ninth.

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

Maurice Ravel: Mother Goose – suite

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major

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INTERVAL: Christine Riding is Director of Collections and Research at the National Gallery in London, which is celebrating its bicentenary this year. She joins presenter Ian Skelly to reflect on paintings in the gallery's collection and the links between art and music.

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Augusta Holmès: Ludus pro patria – ‘La nuit et l'amour

Modest Mussorgsky (orch. Henry Wood): Pictures at an Exhibition

Paul Lewis (piano)

Kazuki Yamada (conductor)

The pictures Modest Mussorgsky saw at an exhibition in 1874 were fantastical and surreal – uniting objects and animals, poetic atmosphere and architectural precision. The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's Prom under Kazuki Yamada presents a rare opportunity to hear the music those images inspired in Mussorgsky in the picturesque orchestration by Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood, which pre-dates Ravel's by seven years. Ravel fans can revel in the enchanted world of his fairy-tale ballet Mother Goose. In addition, there's Mozart's probing final piano concerto and a welcome outing for Augusta Holmès's hypnotic interlude ‘La nuit et l'amour'.

Live at the BBC Proms: Kazuki Yamada conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Ravel and Mussorgsky, and Paul Lewis plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat.

Maurice Ravel: Mother Goose – suite (16 mins)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major (32 mins)

Augusta Holmès: Ludus pro patria – ‘La nuit et l'amour' (6 mins)

Modest Mussorgsky (orch. Henry Wood): Pictures at an Exhibition (30 mins)

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

Lili Boulanger: D'un soir triste

Claude Debussy: La mer

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INTERVAL: The French music historian Caroline Potter joins Martin Handley to explore how Parisian creative life informed the musical voices of Boulanger, Debussy and Ravel, and how the French capital seduced Prokofiev.

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Sergey Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major

Maurice Ravel: La valse

Lahav Shani (piano/conductor)

Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto isn't just a surefire showpiece that paints a vivid picture of its creator's acerbic spirit, it's also a treacherously difficult work conceived for Prokofiev's own extraordinary pianistic prowess. Bringing his Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra to the Proms, Lahav Shani goes all-in: playing the concerto while directing it at the same time. This feat of musical derring-do is apt for a concert packed with game-changing masterpieces from the first decades of the 20th century, including Debussy's symphonic seascape La mer. It culminates in the waltz to end all waltzes: Ravel's compelling, nightmarish piece of orchestral theatre, La valse.

Live at the BBC Proms: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Lahav Shani

Live at the BBC Proms: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra perform early 20th-century classics by Lili Boulanger, Debussy, Prokofiev and Ravel. Lahav Shani is conductor and pianist.

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

Julius Eastman: Symphony No. 2, ‘The Faithful Friend: The Lover Friend's Love for the Beloved' UK premiere

Gustav Mahler: Rückert-Liede

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INTERVAL: Daniel Grimley - author of a prize-winning biography on Sibelius - talks to Ian Skelly about the way in which Sibelius's music was influenced by his native landscape and the way in which the music has in turn influenced our own perceptions of Finland.

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Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major

Jamie Barton (mezzo-soprano)

Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

One day in 1983, the troubled American composer Julius Eastman presented his ex-boyfriend with a rolled-up score – that of his Symphony No. 2. The music, which wasn't seen again or performed until 2018, tells of their love and its disintegration in an orchestral language all of its own – part drone piece, part thematic symphony. The BBC Symphony Orchestra's Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska follows this remarkable work with Gustav Mahler's songs on love, loneliness and withdrawal, sung by the inimitable Jamie Barton, and Sibelius's most awe-inspiring symphony, the Fifth – his testament to nature's capacity to embolden and console.

Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC Symphony Orchestra in Eastman, Sibelius and Mahler.

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

Sibelius: The Wood Nymph

Lara Poe: Laulut maaseudulta (Songs from the Countryside) - BBC commission world premiere

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INTERVAL: The Listening Service - Gustav Holst: Everything but The Planets

Remembered by many as the man who wrote The Planets suite, Holst was much more than that. From the Hymn of Jesus to Beni Mora, Tom Service and conductor Sakari Oramo discuss the English composer's life and works, proving there is more to explore than just his cosmic-inspired masterpiece.

Holst: The Planets

Anu Komsi (soprano)

Royal College of Music Chamber Choir

Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Some phenomena only music can depict. From an age before space travel, Gustav Holst's orchestral suite evoking the astrological associations of the planets represents one of classical music's most extraordinary acts of imagination. Before heading into space, we are lured into the wilderness courtesy of music from conductor Sakari Oramo's home country of Finland. The looping repetitions of Sibelius's The Wood Nymph lead us shaman-like into a seductive woodland, while Lara Poe's brand-new work for soprano and orchestra channels haunting Nordic cow-calling traditions. Student musicians from Helsinki and London unite for a Prom all about music's conjuring power.

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

Prom Interval: Matthew Sweet, presenter of BBC Radio 3's Sound of Cinema and Radio 4's Free Thinking programmes, joins presenter Georgia Mann to talk all things Doctor Who. Matthew has written Doctor Who audio dramas and presented a Free Thinking episode about the Daleks.

Aida Garifullina (soprano)

Alistair King (conductor)

Doctor Who makes its much-anticipated return to the Proms with a brand-new show celebrating the latest adventures of the Doctor. Showcasing Murray Gold's epic music for the series performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Prom features sequences from the series on big screens, spectacular lighting and a host of special guest appearances – and, yes, there will be monsters! A concert like no other in all of space and time ...

Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Alistair King.

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

Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor

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INTERVAL: Head of Music at the Barbican Centre in London, Helen Wallace, joins presenter Andrew McGregor to share her selection of highlights from the week ahead at the Royal Albert Hall.

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Josef Suk: Symphony No. 2, ‘Asrael

Anastasia Kobekina (cello)

Jakub Hrůša (conductor)

When the great Czech composer Antonín Dvořák died, his protégé and son-in-law Josef Suk wrote three movements of a symphony in his mentor's memory. Then tragedy struck again: Suk's wife, Dvořák's own daughter, died too. Added to the long-breathed, lyrical symphony Suk had written came two new movements: a furious scherzo and a transcendental statement of acceptance, finding peace in the beauty and renewal of the natural world. Celebrating the Year of Czech Music, the Republic's flagship orchestra visits the Proms for a concert that combines Suk's monumental symphony of grief with the gorgeous Cello Concerto by his beloved father-in-law.

Live at the BBC Proms: Czech Philharmonic conducted by Jakub Hr\u016f\u0161a

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

Vítězslava Kaprálová: Military Sinfonietta (15 mins)

Dvořák: Piano Concerto in G minor (40 mins)

c 7.35pm INTERVAL

In conversation with Andrew McGregor, Nigel Simeone explores how Leos JanáĀ?ek's musical roots, political ideas and a romantic obsession led to some of the most extraordinary music of the early 20th century.

JanáĀ?ek: Glagolitic Mass (41 mins)

Mao Fujita (piano)

Corinne Winters (soprano)

Bella Adamova (mezzo-soprano)

David Butt Philip (tenor)

Brindley Sherratt (bass)

Christian Schmitt (organ)

The City of Prague Philharmonic Choir

Jakub Hrůša (conductor)

For their second consecutive night at the Proms, Jakub Hrůša and the Czech Philharmonic bring to life the blazing fanfares, raw outcries and hushed humility of Leoš JanáĀ?ek's unparalleled Glagolitic Mass. Inspiration for the work struck the composer in a misty wood. ‘Its moist scent was the incense,' he wrote. ‘I felt a cathedral grow out of the giant expanse of woods ... Now I hear the voice of each arch-priest in the tenor solo, a maiden angel in the soprano – and in the choir I hear our people.' Experience the power of JanáĀ?ek's galvanising work alongside two other Czech masterpieces, Dvořák's fiendish Piano Concerto and a first Proms performance for the Military Sinfonietta by the tragically short-lived Vítězslava Kaprálová, a sometime pupil of Bohuslav Martinů.

Live at the BBC Proms: Czech Philharmonic, conductor Jakub Hr\u016f\u0161a and pianist Mao Fujita.

Presented by Lopa Kothari, live from the Royal Albert Hall

Tinariwen

All the way from northern Mali, Tinariwen come to London for a Late Night Prom in celebration of their pioneering and distinctive sound. Esteemed exponents of the so-called ‘desert blues', this collective of Tuareg musicians from the Sahara region of their homeland combine traditional Tuareg and African music with elements of Western rock and jazz, earning themselves a worldwide reputation and a Praetorius Music Prize.

Live at the BBC Proms: the collective of Tuareg musicians from the Sahara region of Mali

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

Georges Bizet: Carmen

(semi-staged; sung in French with English surtitles)

During the interval Sarah Lenton talks to Martin Handley about Bizet's Carmen - its background and its influence.

Rihab Chaieb (Carmen)

Evan LeRoy Johnson (Don José)

Lukasz Goliński (Escamillo)

Janai Brugger (Micaëla)

Dingle Yandell (Zuniga)

Thomas Mole (Moralès)

Elisabeth Boudreault (Frasquita)

Kezia Bienek (Mercédès)

Loïc Félix (Le Dancaïre)

François Piolino (Le Remendado)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera makes its traditional visit to the Proms with that most red-blooded of red-blooded operas, Carmen. Bizet's musical tale of a Gypsy factory-worker who seduces a military corporal before discarding him for the more glamorous toreador has all the ingredients of a tightly sprung operatic drama. Anja Bihlmaier conducts Glyndebourne's fine cast and chorus, along with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Live at the BBC Proms: Anja Bihlmaier conducts the LPO, mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb takes the title role and tenor Evan LeRoy Johnson plays her hot-blooded toreador lover Don José.

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

Igor Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements

Steve Reich: Jacob's Ladder* (BBC co-commission: UK premiere)

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INTERVAL: With a career spanning 132 appearances at the Royal Albert Hall, Sir Andrew Davis clocked-up more First and Last Nights of the Prom than any other conductor in modern times. Ian Skelly reflects on Sir Andrew's presence at the festival, his famously good-humoured speeches, and among other things his place in the Proms' musical firmament.

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Michael Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage – Ritual Dances

Edward Elgar: ‘Enigma' Variations

Synergy Vocals*

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Sir Andrew Davis (1944–2024), the celebrated British conductor famed for delighting audiences at the BBC Proms with his sparkling wit and exquisite musicianship, is remembered in this Prom from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins. The centrepiece of the concert is Reich's Jacob's Ladder, the composer's ‘dream of ascending and descending a ladder between heaven and earth' that was deemed ‘energetic, meditative, light, graceful and refreshing' when premiered in New York last spring. The second half will now include the ‘Ritual Dances' from Tippet's opera The Midsummer Marriage and Elgar's ‘Enigma' Variations, two pieces close to Sir Andrew Davis's heart.

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

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INTERVAL: The pianist and writer David Owen Norris joins Hannah French to talk about the development of the piano trio in Vienna.

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Beethoven: Piano Trio in B flat major ‘Archduke', Op. 97

Emanuel Ax (piano)

Leonidas Kavakos (violin)

Yo ?Yo Ma (cello)

Three stellar soloists come together to form a classical supergroup. Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma have enjoyed a partnership stretching back a decade and now they lavish their vast gifts and experience on a programme of chamber music. Together they perform Brahms's Piano Trio No. 2 in C major alongside some of Beethoven's best-loved chamber music repertoire: his Op. 97 piano trio, nicknamed ‘Archduke'.

Live at the BBC Proms: Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma play Brahms and Beethoven

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

Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor

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INTERVAL: The Listening Service

Tom Service examines the cultural significance of Smetana's six-part orchestral masterpiece, exploring the poetry and politics of a piece deeply embedded in the Czech national consciousness. Combining countryside and folklore, myth and majesty, Ma Vlast is a Romantic symphonic work par excellence, but Tom considers the reasons it remains such a powerful and important piece today.

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Bedrich Smetana: Má vlast

Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)

Kirill Petrenko (conductor)

The first of the Berliner Philharmoniker's two Proms this season comprises a pair of musical love letters. One is to a person: Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto was written for his wife Clara (whose own concerto is performed on the First Night). It's a work whose supple and sensual music offers touching insights into one of the most passionate musical romances of the 19th century. The other was written to a country. In Má vlast Bedřich Smetana – one of this year's Czech anniversary composers, born 200 years ago – transferred all his love for his Bohemian homeland into a majestic sequence of six symphonic poems: pictures of his country's landscape and history. With the exceptional pianist Víkingur Ólafsson for company, Kirill Petrenko conducts his illustrious orchestra in music that comes straight from the heart.

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

Anton Bruckner:

Os justi

Locus iste

Christus factus est

Symphony No. 5 in B flat major

Owain Park (conductor)

Kirill Petrenko (conductor)

Poor, homesick and misunderstood, Anton Bruckner plunged into despair during the winter of 1875. From the depths of his anguish came astonishing proof of his triumph of will: the composer's spirited Symphony No. 5. For their second night at the BBC Proms, Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmoniker fill the Royal Albert Hall with a work designed on no less grand a scale. Here the sternness and warmth of the composer's four movements make for a majestic whole, concluding with one of the most overwhelming denouements in all music. Before it, the BBC Singers, celebrating its centenary this year, offers the most sublime of palate cleansers: three of Bruckner's most radiant motets, inspiring testaments to the faith that kept his creative flame alive.

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

Mancini Charade (Main Title)

Mancini Peter Gunn Theme

Mancini Baby Elephant Walk

Mancini Days of Wine and Roses

Mancini Moon River

Mancini Pink Panther Theme

Mancini Raindrops in Rio

Mancini Lujon

Quincy Jones Soul Bossa Nova

Quincy Jones Blues in the Night

Esquival Mucha Muchacha

Les Baxter Quiet Village

Bacharach Alfie

Martin Denny Misirilou

INTERVAL: As part of tonight's celebration of the music of Henry Mancini, Katie Derham is joined by his daughter Monica Mancini and son-in-law Gregg Field, both jazz musicians, to talk about Mancini's music and legacy.

Laurie Johnson The Avengers

Roberto Delgado Hawaii 5-0

Bacharach The Look of Love

Herb Alpert Casino Royale

Herb Alpert Spanish Flea

Herb Alpert A Taste of Honey

Legrand The Windmills of Your Mind

Mancini Party Poop

Mancini Hong Kong Fireworks

Les Baxter Shooting Star

Herb Alpert This Guy's in Love with you

Les Baxter Saturday Night on Saturn

Esquival Whatchamacalit

Bacharach What's New Pussycat

Andy Williams Music to Watch Girls By

Les Reed / Gordon Mills It's Not Unusual

Singers: Oliver Tompsett (singer)

Rachel John (singer)

Monica Mancini (singer)

Liz Swain (soprano)

Johanna Marshall (alto)

Freddie Benedict (tenor)

Kevin Fox (bass)

Henry Mancini was more than one of the greatest composers in the history of film music. He was also one of the most versatile musicians of his or any time. Marking a century since the flautist, composer and conductor's birth in Ohio, Edwin Outwater and the BBC Concert Orchestra celebrate the man and his music in styles ranging from jazz to light classical and film music. Among the classics are the slinky ‘Lujon' and themes from The Pink Panther and Peter Gunn, joined by gems from the lounge music and space-age pop genres Mancini helped inspire, including easy-going tracks by Burt Bacharach, Les Baxter and Juan García Esquivel.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Edwin Outwater celebrating Mancini

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Edwin Outwater and guests celebrate the centenary of composer Henry Mancini and his contemporaries.

The BBC Concert Orchestra with conductor Edwin Outwater and special guests celebrate the centenary of composer Henry Mancini and his contemporaries.

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

Henry Mancini: Charade – main title

The Pink Panther – Theme

Harold Arlen: Blues in the Night

Henry Mancini: Rain Drops in Rio

Juan García Esquivel: Mucha Muchacha

Burt Bacharach: Alfie

Nicholas Roubanis: Misirlou

Laurie Johnson: The Shake

Morton Stevens: Hawaii Five-O

Burt Bacharach: The Look of Love

Julius Wechter: Spanish Flea

Bobby Scott/Ric Marlow: A Taste of Honey

Michel Legrand: The Windmills of Your Mind

Henry Mancini: Party Poop

Burt Bacharach: This Guy's in Love With You

Juan García Esquivel: Whatchamacallit

Burt Bacharach: What's New Pussycat?

Sid Ramin: Music to Watch Girls By

Monica Mancini - guest vocalist

Rachel John - vocalist

Oliver Tompsett - vocalist

Freddie Benedict, Kevin Fox, Johanna Marshall, Liz Swain - backing vocals

Edwin Outwater - conductor

The BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Edwin Outwater celebrate Mancini.

The BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Edwin Outwater and guests celebrate the centenary of composer Henry Mancini and his contemporaries.

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

Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 version)

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INTERVAL: Allyson Devenish looks ahead to the coming week at the BBC Proms. The in-demand musical director and opera coach picks some highlights.

c. 8.35pm

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

Jean-Baptiste Doulcet (piano)

Klaus Mäkelä (conductor)

Few orchestras know Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique better than the Orchestre de Paris, which performed the work at its very first concert in 1967 and has done so at every significant milestone in its history ever since. Here France's most illustrious orchestra visits the Proms with its renowned Chief Conductor Klaus Mäkelä for a mouth-watering programme that indulges all the beauty, delicacy and emotion of French music while marking another of the most thrilling scores ever to have come out of Paris: Stravinsky's tuneful and mischievous puppet-show ballet, Petrushka.

Live at the BBC Proms: The Orchestre de Paris performs Debussy, Stravinsky and Berlioz.

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

Lili Boulanger: Pie Jesu

Gabriel Fauré: Requiem

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INTERVAL: In conversation with Ian Skelly, Jeremy Sams puts Fauré's music for Pelléas et Mélisande in the context of the composer's life and times.

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Gabriel Fauré: Pelleas and Melisande – suite

Lili Boulanger: Vieille prière bouddhique

Maurice Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe – Suite No. 2

Golda Schultz (soprano)

Laurence Kilsby (tenor)

Thomas Mole (baritone)

BBC Symphony Chorus

Stéphane Denève (conductor)

The twin peaks of tonight's all-French programme are two masterpieces from Gabriel Fauré and Maurice Ravel, beginning with the former's consolatory Requiem, a work whose clean lines, pure vocal textures and elegant orchestrations appear to propose a new philosophy of religion. Prepare for temperatures to rise with the sensual awakenings and sultry dances of Ravel's suite for the ballet Daphnis and Chloe, evoking an ancient world of pastoral delights. Two prayers by Lili Boulanger, who died tragically young at 24, and Fauré's incidental music written for a London production of Maeterlinck's Symbolist play Pelleas and Melisande complete the evening.

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stephane Den\u00e8ve.

Jacques Imbrailo (baritone)

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

Eric Whitacre: Eternity in an Hour, BBC co-commission: world premiere

Christopher Glynn, piano

Lesjamusic, electronics

Eric Whitacre, conductor/electronics

William Blake's great poem pitting childlike wonder and naivety against adult maturity and experience, Auguries of Innocence, contains the resonant line ‘eternity in an hour'. Eric Whitacre, whose apparently weightless music is often said to stop time, takes that line as the title for his Proms commission, receiving its world premiere at this Late Night Prom. Expect shimmering beauty and heavenly harmonies as Whitacre himself conducts the BBC Singers and an ensemble of strings, piano and electronics.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Singers and conductor Eric Whitacre perform Eternity in an Hour

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

Thomas Ad耀s: Aquifer (UK premiere)

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INTERVAL: The Listening Service

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Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, ‘Romantic

Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

Sir Simon Rattle makes his first Proms appearance as the new Chief Conductor of one of Germany's leading ensembles, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. After a highly anticipated new work written for the orchestra by long-time Rattle collaborator Thomas Ad耀s, we conclude our Bruckner 200th-anniversary celebrations. Few scores convey Anton Bruckner's distinctive combination of mystery and warmth like his Symphony No. 4, the so-called ‘Romantic' symphony that has proved his most enduringly popular.

Live at the BBC Proms: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Simon Rattle with Bruckner 4.

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

8pm

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor

Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

‘None of his works came as directly from his inmost heart as this.' So said Mahler's wife Alma of her husband's Symphony No. 6, a score of such terrifying and ominous power that it came to spook even the composer himself. Across the symphony's four movements we hear Mahler grappling with his own demise – clinging hopelessly to love, light and the beauty of life. For their second consecutive night at the Proms, Sir Simon Rattle and his Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra take on Mahler's gargantuan and grippingly intense work.

Live at the BBC Proms: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Simon Rattle perform Mahler 6

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

Parry: Coronation Anthem 'I Was Glad

Stanford: Three Motets, Op. 38

Balfour Gardiner: Evening Hymn

William Henry Harris: Faire is the heaven

Ireland: Greater love hath no man

Stanford: When Mary thro' the garden went; The Guest; To a Tree (from Eight Partsongs, Op. 127)

Elgar: Give unto the Lord

Simon Johnson (organ)

Conductor Harry Christophers

One of Britain's best-loved choirs, The Sixteen – under Harry Christophers – returns to the Proms on Choral Day for some of the most serene and spiritual choral works written in England during the Victorian period – music in line with this ensemble's singular combination of style and beauty, blend and expression.

There will be no interval.

Live at the BBC Proms: Harry Christophers conducts The Sixteen in English music from the time of Queen Vicroria, to launch Proms Choral Day

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

Jacob Collier: World O World (8 mins)

Erroll Garner arr Stoddart: Misty (5 mins)

Woody Guthrie arr. B. Morgan: This Land Is Your Land (5 mins)

John Rosamond Johnson arr. R. Carter: Lift Every Voice and Sing (6 mins)

Trad. arr. C. Dent: He's Got the Whole World in His Hands (5 mins)

Trad. arr D.E. Dillar: Didn' it rain (3 mins)

Jason Max Ferdinand Singers

Jason Max Ferdinand (conductor)

John Stoddart (piano)

Live at the BBC Proms: Jason Max Ferdinand and Singers in Erroll Garner and Jacob Collier

Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Handel arr. Mozart: Messiah (sung in English)

INTERVAL: Harpsichordist, conductor and researcher Joseph McHardy talks to Penny Gore about the impact of Handel's Messiah at home and abroad.

Nardus Williams (soprano)

Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano)

Benjamin Hulett (tenor)

Ashley Riches (bass)

Fourth Choir

Jason Max Ferdinand Singers

LYC Chamber Choir

Bath Minerva Choir

Philharmonia Chorus

Voices of the River's Edge

John Butt (conductor)

Our Proms Choral Day culminates with one of music's everlasting masterpieces, Handel's Messiah. The choral movements are where this work's most exciting, most joyous and most explosive music is to be found. ‘I did think I did see all Heaven before me,' wrote the composer as he finished this musical reflection on faith, one that still brings audiences to their feet nearly three centuries after it was written. Heard here in Mozart's thrilling arrangement, Messiah is delivered by massed choirs and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under early music specialist John Butt.

Live at the BBC Proms: John Butt conducts a host of choirs in Handel's Messiah.

Handel arr. Mozart: Messiah, Part 1 (sung in English)

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Handel arr. Mozart: Messiah, Parts 2 and 3 (sung in English)

Gavin Carr (chorus master)

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

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite, arr. Ellington & Strayhorn, arr. and adapted J. Tyzik

Stewart Goodyear: Callaloo – Caribbean Suite for piano and orchestra

c.8.25pm

INTERVAL: Pianist and academic Dr. Samantha Ege speaks to Georgia about the works in tonight's programme and the work of the Chineke! Orchestra.

c.8.45pm

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, ‘Pathétique

Stewart Goodyear (piano)

Andrew Grams (conductor)

Britain's only orchestra of Black and ethnically diverse musicians returns to the Proms with music that celebrates its own heritage as well as universal dreams and aspirations. Stewart Goodyear is the soloist in his own vibrant celebration of Caribbean music, Callaloo, while Duke Ellington's jazzed-up take on Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker turns waltz into swing and Sugar Plum into heady rum. Conductor Andrew Grams ends with the most emotionally intense and musically robust symphony Tchaikovsky ever wrote, his heartbreakingly autobiographical ‘Pathétique'.

Live at the BBC Proms: Chineke! conducted by Andrew Grams perform Tchaikovsky 6.

Pianist and academic Dr. Samantha Ege speaks to Georgia about the works in tonight's programme and the work of the Chineke! Orchestra. And we hear from Stewart Goodyear about his Caribbean Suite.

Presented by Kate Molleson, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on 'Greensleeves' (4 mins)

Arnold Schoenberg: Violin Concerto (32 mins)

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INTERVAL: Kate Molleson is joined by composer and broadcaster Yshani Perinpanayagam to look ahead to highlights in the final week of BBC Proms 2024.

c.8.30pm

Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor (44 mins)

Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Tarmo Peltokoski (conductor)

One fast-rising star and one firmly established. The inimitable Patricia Kopatchinskaja returns to the festival for this concert with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the latest conducting sensation to have emerged from Finland, Tarmo Peltokoski. After soothing Vaughan Williams and stimulating Schoenberg, we hear Shostakovich's symphonic bid to save his own life in the face of Stalin's wrath. The composer's Symphony No. 5 is his most enduring of all, a spiritual battle in which he disguises protest as praise, creating his most bracing and powerful music in the process.

Live at the BBC Proms: conducted by Tarmo Peltokoski with Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)

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

7pm

Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Acts 1 & 2

c.8.35pm

INTERVAL: Netia Jones, director and designer of tonight's opera, talks to Andrew McGregor about her approach to Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the influence of the original 1960 production, and the opera's relationship to the Shakespeare play.

c.9pm

Act 3

Iestyn Davies (Oberon)

Lucy Crowe (Tytania)

Richard Burkhard (Bottom)

Caspar Singh (Lysander)

James Newby (Demetrius)

Stephanie Wake-Edwards (Hermia)

Camilla Harris (Helena)

Nicholas Crawley (Theseus)

Christine Rice (Hippolyta)

John Savournin (Quince)

Frazer Scott (Snug)

James Way (Flute)

Geoffrey Dolton (Starveling)

Adam Sullivan (Snout)

Jerone Marsh-Reid (Puck)

Philharmonia Orchestra

Douglas Boyd (conductor)

Garsington Opera makes its Proms debut with Britten's most successful operatic export after Peter Grimes. In his night-scented adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Britten leads his audience into a dream world, unravelling the nature of human interaction and love as he goes. Expect a force field of enchantment to fill the Royal Albert Hall in this semi-staged performance from the Philharmonia Orchestra and one of Britain's most distinguished opera companies.

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

Florence + The Machine: Lungs

Jules Buckley Orchestra

Jules Buckley (conductor)

‘As grand and mysterious as the Big Bang itself' concluded Pitchfork when Florence Welch – aka Florence + The Machine – released her debut album 15 years ago, a year after attracting the attention of BBC Music Introducing. The BRIT Award-winning Lungs immediately announced Florence as an artist of huge courage, theatricality and vocal abilities – earning her a place on BBC Radio 1's prestigious ‘Sound of ...' list. For her Proms debut, she joins Jules Buckley and his Orchestra for a celebration of Lungs, and of the compelling poetry and music of this singular artist in whom the darkly gothic meets all that glistens.

Live at the BBC Proms: Florence + The Machine joins Jules Buckley and his Orchestra.

Live at the BBC Proms: Florence + The Machine joins Jules Buckley and his Orchestra for a fresh take on the BRIT Award-winning Lungs.

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

7.30pm

Bacewicz: Overture

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35

c.8.20pm

Interval

c.8.40pm

Prokofiev: A Selection of Movements from Romeo and Juliet

Nemanja Radulović (violin)

Jaime Martín (conductor)

Sergey Prokofiev hoped his musical retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet would have ‘immediate appeal yet sound like nothing written before'. Even now, his score delivers on both fronts, showing the composer's gift for melody and his ability to reconcile his music's hard edge with a soft, romantic core. Jaime Martín conducts dramatic highlights from Prokofiev's ballet score after charismatic Franco-Serbian soloist Nemanja Radulović sets off fireworks in the ultimate Romantic violin concerto. And, to begin, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales unleashes the strident energies of Grażyna Bacewicz's thrilling Overture, which quotes the famous ‘V for Victory' motif from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Jaime Mart\u00edn.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Jaime Martín perform Bacewicz and Prokofiev. Nemanja Radulović is soloist in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.

Live at the BBC Proms: The BBC National Orchestra of Wales & conductor Jaime Martín perform Bacewicz and Prokofiev. Nemanja Radulović is soloist in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.

INTERVAL: Shakespeare's 'star-crossed' lovers are the focus of our interval conversation as Martin Handley's guest for the interval is Sophie Duncan, a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and author of a book called Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine. You can hear from Sophie in a Free Thinking episode called Shakespeare's Women available on BBC Sounds.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, presented by Tom Service

Ravel: Miroirs - No 2 Oiseaux tristes; No 3 Un barque sur l'oceán; No 4 Alborada del gracioso

Liszt: Years of Pilgrimage, Second Year: Italy

Seong-Jin Cho (piano)

Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho performs a recital of solo piano works by Ravel and Liszt.

Sir András Schiff, the advertised pianist, has had to withdraw owing to a broken leg. The BBC Proms is grateful to Seong-Jin Cho for appearing at short notice.

There will be no interval

Live at the BBC Proms: Seong-Jin Cho performs Liszt's Years of Pilgrimage (Second Year: Italy), and movements from Ravel's Miroirs.

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, presented by Tom Service.

Bach: The Art of Fugue

András Schiff (piano)

Sir András Schiff's Bach performances have provided some spellbinding evenings at the Proms in recent years. Tonight the great Hungarian-born British pianist, known for interpretations of the utmost grace and intimacy, turns to Bach's encyclopedia of the art of weaving independent musical voices around a single theme. Bach didn't specify which instrument (or instruments) should play The Art of Fugue but with Schiff on a fine modern piano its rigorous logic and exuberant expression are sure to balance majesty and humility. He is joined for one of the ‘mirror' fugues by his former pupil and current assistant at Berlin's Barenboim–Said Akademie, Schaghajegh Nosrati.

There will be no interval.

Live at the BBC Proms: Andr\u00e1s Schiff performs Bach's The Art of Fugue.

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

Mozart: Symphony No. 1 in E flat major, K16

Louise Farrenc: Symphony No. 3 in G minor

c. 8.25pm

INTERVAL: Join Tom Service as he delves into the ground-breaking significance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, “Eroica ?. Discover how this symphony transformed the course of music history with its bold innovations and powerful emotional depth, marking a turning point in Beethoven's career and in the evolution of classical music.

c. 8.45pm

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

Conductor Antonello Manacorda

Longer, louder and more arresting than any music that had gone before it, Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony left audiences dumbfounded at its first performance in 1805. Over two centuries later, its ideals of liberty, endurance and fortitude remain undimmed. Played on the period instruments of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Beethoven's pivotal symphony will appear fresh-minted under Antonello Manacorda. He begins with a perky little number by the 8-year-old Mozart and continues with the intensity, power and momentum of the Symphony No. 3 by 19th-century France's compositional trailblazer, Louise Farrenc.

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

William Walton: Overture ‘Portsmouth Point

Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi – ‘O mio babbino caro'; Madam Butterfly – Humming Chorus; Tosca – ‘Vissi d'arte

Carlos Simon: Hellfighters' Blues (BBC co-commission: world premiere)

Gabriel Fauré: Pavane

Charles Ives: The Yale–Princeton Football Game

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Summer Is Gone

Grace Williams: Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes

Camille Saint ?Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, ‘Egyptian', 2nd movement Andante

c.8.35pm INTERVAL: Georgia Mann & Petroc Trelawny are joined live in the Radio 3 box by the comedian, musician, actress and presenter Rachel Parris and the composer, arranger and saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi.

c. 9pm

Iain Farrington: Extra Time (BBC commission: world premiere)

Henry Mancini arr Gavin Sutherland: The Pink Panther

Sir Stephen Hough: In His Hands: Two Spirituals

Ruperto Chapí: Las hijas del Zebedeo – ‘Al pensar en el dueño de mis amores' (Carceleras)

Trad. arr. Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs

Thomas Arne arr. Sargent: Rule, Britannia!

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

Hubert Parry orch. Elgar: Jerusalem

Anon arr. Britten: The National Anthem

Trad. arr. P. Campbell: Auld Lang Syne

Angel Blue (soprano)

Sir Stephen Hough (piano)

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

The stars gather for an end-of-season party like no other. Joining the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC Singers are Grammy Award-winning American soprano Angel Blue and one of Britain's best-loved pianists, Sir Stephen Hough. Sakari Oramo returns to the podium for the world's biggest classical music party.

Live at the BBC Proms: the season closes with star soloists Angel Blue & Sir Stephen Hough

Live at the BBC Proms: the season closes with Angel Blue and Sir Stephen Hough joining the BBC BBC Singers, Symphony Chorus and Symphony Orchestra with conductor Sakari Oramo.

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Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Hannah Peel, live from The Glasshouse International Centre for Music.

‘From classical to contemporary and everything in between' is the genre-dissolving focus of Radio 3's Night Tracks, designed for late-night, immersive listening. Tonight, the ethos crosses from studio to stage for a live incarnation.

Live performance comes from the award-winning pianist, composer and singer Hania Rani who performs with the strings of Royal Northern Sinfonia in brand new arrangements of songs from her recent album. Virtuosic percussionist Beibei Wang and composer Hannah Peel bring their unique collaboration of synths, marimbas, Chinese drums, gongs and water percussion to the stage. Electro folk artist Frankie Archer combines Northumbrian fiddle, synths and voice, and players from Royal Northern Sinfonia perform Richard Strauss's luscious sextet from Capriccio.

Live at the BBC Proms from The Glasshouse: Night Tracks Live.

Live at the BBC Proms from The Glasshouse: Grammy Award-nominated multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, producer and songwriter Jordan Rakei makes his Proms debut in collaboration with the Royal Northern Sinfonia conducted by Robert Ames. Hear tracks from his new album The Loop, plus other titles from his back catalogue – for the first time, live in an exhilarating orchestral performance.

Presented by Tom McKinney, live from The Glasshouse International Centre for Music

INTERVAL: Creatives from the BBC Open Music join Tom McKinney to talk about how the scheme brings together musicians of all genres, styles and backgrounds to develop new skills in collaborative music broadcasting at the BBC. They present stories in sound celebrating the North East; talk to tonight's Proms artists; and tell Tom about how they have curated tonight's late Prom, celebrating musicians who launched their careers through the ground-breaking BBC Music Introducing scheme.

Robert Ames (conductor)

Live at the BBC Proms from The Glasshouse: Grammy Award-nominated Jordan Rakei.

Live at the BBC Proms from The Glasshouse: Headlined by tuba player and composer Theon Cross, this Prom is a celebration of musicians who launched their careers under the ground-breaking BBC Music Introducing scheme – with a particular focus on the North. This concert has been curated and developed in collaboration with BBC Open Music and The Glasshouse. BBC Open Music brings together creatives and musicians of all genres, styles and backgrounds to develop new skills while exploring collaborations and ideas across orchestral and classical music broadcasting at the BBC.

Presented by Soweto Kinch, live from The Glasshouse International Centre for Music

Theon Cross (tuba)

Live at the BBC Proms from The Glasshouse: celebrating BBC Music Introducing successes.

Live at the BBC Proms from The Glasshouse: a celebration of musicians who launched their careers under the groundbreaking BBC Music Introducing scheme.

BBC Proms from The Glasshouse: Dinis Sousa conducts the Royal Northern Sinfonia in music by Tailleferre, Sibelius & Dvorak.

Presented by Elizabeth Alker, from The Glasshouse International Centre for Music.

Tailleferre: Little Suite

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor

Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G major

Alena Baeva (violin)

Dinis Sousa (conductor)

Orchestras all over the world commissioned symphonies from the pre-eminent Czech composer Antonì?n Dvořà?k. But there was no such commission for one of his most popular, the Symphony No. 8, which he wrote for nobody but himself. For the opening of this weekend-long Proms residency in the North-East, the Gateshead-based Royal Northern Sinfonia brings us the symphony that one conductor described as ‘a work singing of the joy of green pastures'. It's the climax of a programme also featuring the song of fire and ice that is Sibelius's captivating Violin Concerto. The concert opens with the charming and typically French Little Suite by Germaine Tailleferre, the only female member of the group of composers known as ‘Les Six' that emerged in 1920s Paris.

Presented by Tom McKinney, live from The Glasshouse International Centre for Music.

Nicola Matteis: Fantasia in A minor for solo violin – Alia Fantasia

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Along the Field – ‘Along the Field as we came by

Anon: Corpus Christi Carol

Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita No. 1 in B minor for solo violin – Sarabande

John Eccles: The Mad Lover Suite 5. Aire

Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew Passion – ‘Erbarme dich, mein Gott

Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Sonata No. 5 in A minor

Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin – Sarabanda

John Dowland: ‘Flow, my tears

William Walton: Touch her soft lips and part

Francois Couperin: Les Baricades Misterieuses

David Gordon: Mysterious Barracudas

Johann Sebastian Bach: English Suite no.3 in G Minor BWV 808 Sarabande

John Bennet: ‘Venus' birds, whose mournful tunes

Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 199, ‘Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut – Aria, ‘Tief gebückt und volle Reue

Daniel Pioro (violin)

Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano)

Clare O'Connell (cello)

David Gordon (harpsichord)

Live at the BBC Proms from The Glasshouse: An exploration of Elizabethan music & folklore.

Live at the BBC Proms from The Glasshouse: A trio of rich talents and curious minds join together for an afternoon exploration into Elizabethan music and folklore.

Proms from Gateshead Glasshouse.