Episodes
| Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bach - Goldberg Variations | 20200910 | A chance to relive a very special late night Prom with the Grammy Award-winning pianist Andrကs Schiff, performing JS Bach's Goldberg Variations live at the Proms in 2015.
Recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London
Bach: 'Goldberg' Variations, BWV 988
Andrကs Schiff, piano
Grammy Award-winning pianist Sir Andrကs Schiff is a titan of the keyboard, bringing his distinctive blend of clarity and authority to repertoire from Bach to Bart k. In this Prom he continues his long association with Bach's music in a performance of the composer's 'Goldberg' Variations - a monumental work composed, according to its title-page, 'for the refreshment of the spirits'. The resulting Aria and variations are a compositional wonder, a sequence of musical miniatures unequalled in all Bach's output.
Andr\u00e1s Schiff performs JS Bach's Goldberg Variations live at the Proms in 2015. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. | |
| Bbc Proms: Monteverdi's Vespers | 20200726 | In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. French period instrument collective Pygmalion make their 2017 Proms debut in Monteverdi's iconic Vespers of 1610. Presented by Kate Molleson. Claudio Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610 Giuseppina Bridelli (soprano) Eva Zacik (mezzo-soprano) Emiliano Gonzalez?Toro (tenor) Magnus Staveland (tenor) Virgile Ancely (bass) Renaud Bres (bass) Geoffroy Buffi耀re (bass) Ensemble Pygmalion Director Rapha뀀l Pichon (From BBC Proms 2017, 31 July) Before there was Bach's Mass in B minor or Beethoven's Missa solemnis there was Monteverdi's Vespers, a choral masterpiece of unprecedented musical scope and audacious beauty. The work's textural extremes, multiple choirs and sonic effects are brought richly to life in this 2017 Proms performance marking the 450th anniversary of the composer's birth. This concert was the Proms debut of award-winning French Baroque ensemble Pygmalion under its director Rapha뀀l Pichon, together with an exciting line-up of young soloists. French period instrument collective Pygmalion perform Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. | |
| Celebrate the jazz music of singer, songwriter, arranger and political activist, Nina Simone | 20190821 | Live at BBC Proms: Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley, with singers Ledisi and Lisa Fischer in a celebration of Nina Simone.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Nina Simone/Trad. arr. Jochen Neuffer: African Mailman/Sinnerman
c. 20:20 Interval Proms Plus
c. 20:40
Ledisi (singer)
Singer, songwriter, arranger and political activist - Nina Simone is a giant of jazz history. She's celebrated here in all her guises in a concert led by Jules Buckley and the Metropole Orkest, featuring titles including Feeling Good' and I Put a Spell on You'.
The jazz giant is celebrated in all her guises in a 2019 Prom led by Jules Buckley The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. | |
| Hollywood Rhapsody Prom | 20200724 | In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. This evening's concert, from 2013, features Proms favourites John Wilson and his orchestra in a celebration of classic Hollywood film scores.
Connecticut-born child prodigy Alfred Newman's Street Scene', from the 1953 classic How to Marry a Millionaire, contrasts with the music of Jewish 退migr退s Erich Korngold, Max Steiner and Franz Waxman, with suites from Korngold's swashbuckling score for Robin Hood, Steiner's nostalgic music for Casablanca and Waxman's brooding score for A Place in the Sun - all of them Academy Award-winners - making for a red-carpet event.
Presented by Georgia Mann
7.30pm
c.8:20pm Interval
c.8:35pm
Venera Gimadieva (soprano)
(From BBC Proms 2013, 26 August)
BBC Proms: John Wilson and his Orchestra perform hits from the Golden Age of Hollywood. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. | |
| Laura Mvula and the Metropole Orkest | 20200903 | In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.
BBC Proms: Award-winning singer-songwriter Laura Mvula made her second Proms appearance in 2014 following her hugely successful debut in the Urban Classic Prom the previous year. The evening showcased Mvula's talents in a new light, featuring the public premiere of Jules Buckley's new orchestral remix of the singer's album Sing to the Moon, with the Netherlands-based Metropole Orchestra making its Proms debut.
L. Mvula: Like the Morning Dew
Laura Mvula (singer)
(From BBC Proms 2014, 19 August)
Singer-songwriter Laura Mvula with the Metropole Orkest. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. | |
| Multi-talented guitarist and composer Jonny Greenwood curates his own Prom | 20200717 | 20190910 (R3) | Live at BBC Proms: Composer Jonny Greenwood joins Proms Youth Ensemble, BBC NOW, Daniel Pioro, Katherine Tinker and conductor Hugh Brunt to perform works by Greenwood and others.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Biber: Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas No.16 - Passacaglia in G minor
Daniel Pioro (violin)
Jonny Greenwood's talents range from being lead guitarist of Radiohead to writing award-winning film scores. Here he curates a Late Night Prom culminating in the world premiere of his Horror vacui, which explores characteristics of electronically created music and transfers them into the acoustic arena.
The programme includes Biber's almost Bachian Passacaglia for solo violin and Minimalist master Steve Reich's radiantly throbbing Pulse.
The Radiohead guitarist celebrates minimalism and more at the 2019 Proms The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
| Nils Frahm And A Winged Victory For The Sullen | 20200730 | In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. For this late night Prom first broadcast in 2015, 6Music's Mary Anne Hobbs presents performance featuring the influential German composer-performer Nils Frahm and the American duo A Winged Victory for the Sullen. Royal Albert Hall, London Presented by Mary Anne Hobbs Nils Frahm (piano/keyboards) Members of Wayne McGregor Random Dance London Brass Nils Frahm and the American duo A Winged Victory for the Sullen are musicians who explore the borderlands of classical music. All made their Proms debut in 2015. Mary Anne's interest in these artists was piqued when she noticed the seismic effect their music had whenever she played it on her 6Music weekend breakfast show. 6Music's Mary Anne Hobbs presents a special Late Night Prom from 2015. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. | |
| Paul Hillier's Theatre of Voices perform Stockhausen's Stimmung | 20200820 | BBC Proms: Theatre of Voices and Paul Hillier had already released a magnificent recording of Stimmung a year before this Prom (one which lends even more enchantment to this extraordinary work', according to The Guardian). But this hypnotic piece for six singers and six microphones' takes on a unique atmosphere when performed live - as in this 2008 Prom.
Stockhausen: Stimmung (Copenhagen version)
Original performance from 2nd August 2008 presented by Louise Fryer.
In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.
Among many influences that Stockhausen acknowledged when composing the work was a month spent wondering among Mexico ruins. The Theatre of Voices - as adept in music of the Middle Ages as in new music - have made something of a specialty of Stimmung, and Hillier's long association with the piece includes his participation as one of the singers at a Prom performance 30 years ago.
Theatre of Voices perform Stockhausen\u2019s Stimmung for 'six singers and six microphones'. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. | |
| Pioneers Of Sound | 20200806 | In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. Tonight's concert takes a recent glance back to a Prom from just a few years ago, celebrating some of the great pioneers in electronic music. Daphne Oram's visionary Still Point fills the Royal Albert Hall for the first time in the premiere of a revised realisation. Composed in 1949 - almost a decade before Oram co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop - the piece is thought to be the first to combine a live orchestra with live electronic manipulations, here played via turntables. Still Point forms the centrepiece of a late-night sonic exploration that features works by Delia Derbyshire - another Radiophonic Workshop pioneer, who achieved cult status for her electronic arrangement of the Doctor Who TV theme - as well as new works inspired by the Radiophonic legacy. Presented by Kate Molleson Delia Derbyshire: The Delian Mode CHAINES: Knockturning (world premiere of new arrangement for orchestra) Laurie Spiegel: Only Night Thoughts (world premiere) Suzanne Ciani: Improvisation on Four Sequences Daphne Oram: Still Point (world premiere of revised version) Shiva Feshareki (turntables/electronics) James Bulley (live mix/electronics) Suzanne Ciani (synthesiser) CHAINES (live electronics) London Contemporary Orchestra Robert Ames (conductor) (From the BBC Proms 2018, 23 July) The London Contemporary Orchestra pays tribute to the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. | |
| Rachmaninov \u2013 All-Night Vigil (Vespers) | 20200830 | In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.
This Late Night Prom is a chance to relive the Latvian Radio Choir performing a work hailed as the greatest musical achievement of the Russian Orthodox Church'. Rachmaninov's All-Night Vigil (Vespers) is also one of the loveliest works of any faith - a profoundly moving statement of belief and the last major work the composer completed before he left Russia.
Sung unaccompanied, the Vigil is a choral tour de force, pushing the singers to the limits of both range and dynamics. The effect is strikingly dramatic, encompassing the ecstatic choral celebration of the Resurrection Hymn Today salvation has come' and the infinite tenderness of the Ave Maria'.
Presented by Kate Molleson
Sergey Rachmaninov: All-Night Vigil (Vespers)
Latvian Radio Choir
(From the BBC Proms 2017, 13 August)
The Latvian Radio Choir performs Rachmaninov's masterpiece at the Royal Albert Hall The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. | |
| Relax and unwind to a curated live concert of classical music | 20190813 | Live at BBC Proms: music to calm the mind and nourish the soul, with radiant choral sounds and heavenly strings from Tenebrae, 12 Ensemble, Martin James Bartlett, Soumik Datta and Cormac Byrne. Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London Presented by Andrew McGregor
Eriks Esenvalds: Stars
Tenebrae (director, Nigel Short)
In the spirit of Radio 3's popular In Tune Mixtape - joining together an eclectic range of classical and contemporary sounds - we present a live, late-night wind-down, exploring the fringes of Minimalism and meditative listening. With radiant choral sounds and heavenly strings plus guest soloists, the Royal Albert Hall transforms into a vast ambient resonator. Pieces by the godfathers of Holy Minimalism', Arvo Part and Peteris Vasks, emerge out of the sublime classicism of JS Bach and Schubert, in a Prom to calm the mind and nourish the soul.
Escape and fall asleep with a revived concert from the 2019 Proms The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. | |
| Stax: A Soul Celebration | 20170915 | 20200830 (R2) | Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra are joined by Stax legends Booker T. Jones, William Bell, Eddie Floyd, Steve Cropper and Sam Moore with special guests Sir Tom Jones, Beverley Knight, James Morrison and Ruby Turner - All assemble at this late night BBC programme to celebrate The Sound of Soul: Stax Records. Performing tracks such as '(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay', 'Soul Man' (marking 50 years since its release) and 'Private Number', they come together to pay tribute to the Memphis-based record label, founded in 1957 and synonymous with Southern Soul - a distinctive blend of funk, gospel and R & B championed by the likes of Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas and the Staple Singers. Jools also talks to Deanie Parker, a remarkable woman who was the second ever Stax employee and who remains with the company today. As such she has a unique perspective on the label, having herself been a Stax artist, songwriter, producer, publicist, executive and cheerleader. Jools Holland and guests celebrate The Sound of Soul: Stax Records - at the BBC Proms. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |
| The Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio play Brahms's First Piano Trio | 20200809 | In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.
When not performing as a soloist, violinist Nicola Benedetti appears frequently as a chamber musician - most often with the trio she co-founded with pianist Alexei Grynyuk and cellist Leonard Elschenbroich. Here the three musicians pair Brahms's first and stormiest piano trio - its darkness belying the work's major key - with music composed in 2013 by American-born composer Arlene Sierra. Inspired by the migration patterns of butterflies, her Butterflies Remember a Mountain is a work of pointillist detail and shimmering harmonies, painted in a sequence of delicate textural gestures.
Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
Brahms: Piano Trio No 1 in B major
Nicola Benedetti (violin)
(From BBC Proms 7 September 2015)
The Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio perform works by Brahms and Arlene Sierra. The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. | |
| The Grammy award winning Angelique Kidjo with her tribute to salsa and African music | 20190730 | Live at BBC Proms: Ang退lique Kidjo, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, presented by Lopa Kothari.
Described as the undisputed queen of African music', three-time Grammy Award-winner Ang退lique Kidjo makes her Proms debut with her nine-piece band in late-night tribute to the celebrated salsa songstress Celia Cruz.
From the 2019 BBC Proms. enjoy a vibrant and fun evening of music The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations. |