Proms 2011 Repeats [Afternoon Concert]

Distinguished international guests, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra and David Zinman, present top-flight Viennese classics and a post-minimalist work from Sweden.

Anders Hillborg's Cold Heat leavens high-art finesse with the rampaging pulse and flow of street music. Quite a contrast with the autumnal poise of Mozart's final piano concerto, tonight featuring Maria Jo　o Pires, whose Late Night Chopin recital was a highlight of last year's Proms.

Then the orchestra play one of the great pinnacles of Western art music, a work inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution. Beethoven famously struck out the dedication to Napoleon Bonaparte when the latter declared himself Emperor, but the heroic musical drama of the 'Eroica' stands for all time.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Anders Hillborg: Cold Heat (UK premiere)

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K595

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

Maria Jo　o Pires (piano)

Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich

David Zinman (conductor).

David Zinman conducts the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra in Hillborg, Mozart and Beethoven.

A second chance to hear the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France with Myung-Whun Chung directing from the piano in Beethoven's Triple Concerto. He's joined by Gautier and Renaud Capu瀀on. There's also colourful music by Messiaen alongside an exciting new work for large orchestra by Pascal Dusapin.

Pascal Dusapin is one of the most exciting contemporary voices around, combining stylistic experimentation with emotional directness. Dusapin studied briefly with Olivier Messiaen, whose first orchestral work, Les offrandes oubli退es, opens the concert. Rob Cowan presents.

Messiaen: Les offrandes oubli退es

Pascal Dusapin: Morning in Long Island - Concerto No. 1 for large orchestra (BBC co-commission with Radio France; UK Premiere)

Beethoven: Concerto in C major for Violin, Cello & Piano (Triple Concerto)

Renaud Capu瀀on (violin)

Gautier Capu瀀on (cello)

Myung-Whun Chung (conductor/piano).

Music from the fifth concert of the 2011 Proms by Beethoven, Messiaen and Pascal Dusapin.

A second chance to hear a concert from the 2011 BBC Proms

The most influential orchestral work of the 20th century is at the heart of the programme. Stravinsky's Rite caused a scandal at its premiere in 1913 and still sounds sensational nearly 100 years later. Myung-Whun Chung conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in this riot of orchestral colour.

The concert also includes German Romantics from either end of the 19th century, Weber's Oberon overture and Brahms's beautiful Double Concerto, featuring the brothers Capu瀀on as soloists. Brahms's final work for orchestra, the Double Concerto, was in part a gesture of reconciliation towards his friend the violinist Joseph Joachim and makes huge demands on both soloists. Rob Cowan presents.

Weber: Oberon - overture

Brahms: Concerto in A minor for Violin and Cello (Double Concerto)

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Renaud Capu瀀on (violin)

Gautier Capu瀀on (cello)

Myung-Whun Chung (conductor).

Music from the sixth concert of the 2011 Proms, including Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

A Czech programme featuring Dvorak's Cello Concerto and the six symphonic poems of Mက vlast by Smetana.

Dvorကk's Cello Concerto is full of melody and heartfelt sentiment, to which French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras brings both youthful urgency and intimacy to his performance. The work is widely regarded as the finest concerto ever written for the instrument. Nostalgia turns to nationalism with Smetana's Mက vlast - a glorious musical touchstone for 'the resurrection of the Czech nation, its future happiness and glory'. Tom Service presents.

Dvorကk: Cello Concerto in B minor

Smetana: Mက vlast

Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Jiri Belohlကvek (conductor).

From the eighth concert of the 2011 Proms: Dvorak: Cello Concerto. Smetana: Ma vlast.

Juanjo Mena, the new Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, made his Proms debut, at the tenth Prom concert, with a glittering and inventive Franco-Spanish programme. Debussy's three evocative Images are intespersed with equally colourful impressions of Spain by Ravel, while Falla supplies the authentic Spanish experience with his haunting depiction of the sights, sounds and scents of Andalusia and the gardens of the Alhambra in Granada. Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Debussy: Images - Gigues

Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole

Debussy: Images - Rondes de printemps

Ravel: Alborada del gracioso

Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Debussy: Images - Ib退ria

Steven Osborne (piano)

Juanjo Mena (conductor).

Juanjo Mena leads the BBC Philharmonic in music by Debussy, Ravel and Falla.

Verdi's Requiem - his great sacred masterpiece - storms the heavens with a stellar line up of soloists and massed choirs.

The ultimate in dramatic intensity, this extraordinary work speaks of heaven and hell, fire and earth, darkness and light in music that is as much theatrical as devotional. Verdi completed it in 1874, and conducted the premiere himself in Milan.

Three large-scale choirs and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by a Verdi specialist whose recent Cologne recording, which also featured bass Ferruccio Furlanetto, has been much acclaimed. Soloists Marina Poplavskaya and Joseph Calleja both sang alongside Furlanetto in last year's Simon Boccanegra at the Royal Opera House. Presented by Donald Macleod.

Verdi: Requiem

Marina Poplavskaya (soprano)

Mariana Pentcheva (mezzo-soprano)

Joseph Calleja (tenor)

Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass)

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC National Chorus of Wales

London Philharmonic Choir

Semyon Bychkov (conductor).

Louise Fryer presents a Proms performance of Verdi's sacred masterpiece: the Requiem.

Mahler's last completed symphony, and one he never lived to hear, is brought to life in the Royal Albert Hall by Sir Roger Norrington in what was one of his final concerts as Principal Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, a post he has held for 13 years.

The Ninth Symphony was a work written at a time of personal crisis for Mahler, following the death of his daughter Maria, the loss of his job at the Vienna Court Opera and the diagnosis of his own heart disease. Musically, however, while allusions to death abound, ultimately the work fades into peaceful resignation; as Alban Berg described it: 'it expresses an extraordinary love of the earth, of nature, the longing to live in peace, to enjoy it completely to the very heart of one's being, before death comes, as irresistibly it does'.

Presented by Penny Gore

Mahler: Symphony No. 9

Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR)

Sir Roger Norrington (conductor).

Roger Norrington leads the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No 9.

The dynamic Vladimir Jurowksi conducts the London Philharmonic in an all-Hungarian programme, presented by Rob Cowan, including a rare performance of the Goethe-inspired Faust Symphony by Franz Liszt, one of this year's featured composers. The multi award winning pianist, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, plays one of the most technically challenging of all piano concertos, and the programme opens with Kodaly's effervescent dances.

After declaring for years that: 'Anything to do with Goethe is dangerous to handle,' Liszt finally found inspiration for his 'three character portraits' after a visit from the novelist, George Eliot. The symphony concludes with a grandiose setting of the 'Chorus mysticus' unheard at the Proms since 1967.

Kodaly: Dances of Galanta

Bartok: Piano Concerto No.1

Liszt: A Faust Symphony

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

Marco Jentzsch (tenor)

London Philharmonic Choir (men's voices)

London Symphony Chorus (men's voices)

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Vladimir Jurowski (conductor).

Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic in music by Kodaly, Bartok and Liszt.

A second chance to hear a programme from the 2011 BBC Proms featuring French music, performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Principal Conductor Thierry Fischer.

Berlioz's dramatic Corsaire overture and Faur退's elegant Pavane preface the UK premiere of a new quartet concerto by Pascal Dusapin. Stravinsky's blazing Firebird, premiered in Paris for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, completes the programme.

Dusapin (b.1955) is one of the leading composers in France today. His new quartet, written for the Arditti Quartet, uses orchestral forces to expand the territory of the soloists. Dusapin explores the relationship between the orchestra and soloists, with musical ideas migrating from the quartet to the orchestral forces behind.

Berlioz: Overture 'Le corsaire

Faur退: Pavane

Pascal: Dusapin: String Quartet no.6, 'Hinterland' ('Hapax' for string quartet and orchestra)

Stravinsky: The Firebird (complete ballet)

Thierry Fischer (conductor).

Thierry Fischer conducts the BBC NOW in music by Berlioz, Faure, Dusapin and Stravinsky.

Petroc Trelawny presents a typically thought-provoking programme from the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Artist in Association, Oliver Knussen, showcasing pieces rarely heard in the concert hall alongside 20th-century classics.

All the composers are masters of orchestral colour, and each creates a unique and concentrated soundworld. Arthur Honegger's depictions of a steam locomotive and pastoral idyll are followed by Frank Bridge's quietly anguished Shakespearean scene of death by drowning (from Hamlet) and the splintered, wintry fluidity of Italian composer Niccol  Castiglioni.

Soprano Claire Booth (who made her professional debut in the music of Knussen) sings Berg's heady paean to the restorative powers of fermented grape juice. And the concert closes with Debussy's astonishing, inspirational evocation of shifting seas.

Honegger: Pacific 231

Honegger: Pastorale d'退t退

Bridge: There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook

Berg: Der Wein

Castiglioni: Inverno in-ver

Debussy: La Mer

Claire Booth (soprano)

Oliver Knussen (conductor).

BBC Symphony Orchestra under Oliver Knussen in Honegger, Berg, Castiglioni and Debussy.

A Prom full of orchestral spectacle and panache. The centrepiece is Prokofiev's patriotic cantata based on music he wrote for Eisenstein's film about the epic struggles of the medieval Russian hero, Alexander Nevsky. Richard Strauss's hero, Don Juan, is less bloodthirsty but every bit as colourful, while Salome is one of Strauss's most seductive heroines. Violinist Midori joins the CBSO and Andris Nelsons for Walton's Concerto - a dramatic and lyrical work that makes huge technical demands on the soloist.

Presented by Rob Cowan

R.Strauss: Don Juan

Walton:Violin Concerto

Prokofiev:Alexander Nevsky - cantata

R.Strauss: Salome - Dance of the Seven Veils

Midori (violin)

Nadezhda Serdiuk (mezzo-soprano)

CBSO Chorus

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Andris Nelsons (conductor).

Andris Nelsons conducts the CBSO in music by Strauss, Walton and Prokofiev.

Exploring the sound world of Rachmaninov, three contrasting short works are framed by his cantata, Spring, which he composed in 1902 just after his famous Second Piano Concerto, and the evocative choral symphony, The Bells, composed a decade later.

The Russian text of Spring tells of a man who harbours murderous thoughts towards his unfaithful wife during the winter, but is released from his anger and frustration by the return of spring. For The Bells, Rachmaninov turned to a Russian translation of poems by Edgar Allan Poe, and the work's four movements mirror the human life span from birth to death through the 'Silver Sleigh Bells', 'Mellow Wedding Bells', 'Loud Alarum Bells' and 'Mournful Iron Bells'.

Rachmaninov: Spring

Rachmaninov: Aleko - Women's and Men's Dances

Rachmaninov: Three Russian Songs

Rachmaninov: Vocalise

Rachmaninov: The Bells

Svetla Vassileva (soprano)

Misha Didyk (tenor)

Alexei Tanovitski (bass)

Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre

BBC Philharmonic

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).

Gianandrea Noseda conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Rachmaninov.

Energy and Romantic drive characterise the music of Prom 23, with the BBC Philharmonic, conductor Gianandrea Noseda and pianist Stephen Hough. Beethoven's exhilarating Fourth Symphony is the perfect curtain-raiser to Saint-Sa뀀ns's sparkling Fifth Piano Concerto, with its colourful reminiscences of his foreign travels. Continuing this season's anniversary exploration of Liszt's major works, there's his turbulent Dante Symphony, bringing to vivid musical life the dark world of the Inferno and Purgatorio sections of the Italian Renaissance poet's Divine Comedy.

Presented by Martin Handley

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major

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

Liszt: Dante Symphony

Stephen Hough (piano)

Julia Doyle (soprano)

CBSO Chorus (women's voices)

Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).

Gianandrea Noseda conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Beethoven, Saint-Saens and Liszt.

Louise Fryer presents Tasmin Little perform Elgar's great Violin Concerto with Sir Andrew Davis and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. And to mark the 50th anniversary of Grainger's death, his In a Nutshell Suite receives a first outing at the Proms.

The Violin Concerto is preceded by the BBC Singers performing one of Elgar's most radical part-songs, notated in two keys simultaneously in a manner which might be said to parallel the incorrigible experiments of the Australian composer Percy Grainger. Grainger's orchestral suite reaches its grand finale - called the Gum Suckers' March - by way of some unpredictable and darkly complex invention. And to round off the Prom there's music by Richard Strauss: once considered dangerously radical itself, his perky symphonic poem documents the adventures of a purely mythical rascal.

Elgar: There is sweet music

Elgar: Violin Concerto in B minor

Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry

Grainger:Suite 'In a Nutshell

R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

Tasmin Little (violin)

Sir Andrew Davis (conductor).

Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Elgar, Grainger and Strauss.

Proms Repeat: the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs the world premiere of Robin Holloway's fifth concerto. Renowned Strauss conductor Donald Runnicles is joined by international soprano Hillevi Martinpelto for the beautifully reflective Four Last Songs.

Robin Holloway's Fifth Concerto for Orchestra challenges him to write on a smaller scale than previously, and this BBC commission contains some of his most opaque counterpoint and most varied orchestral textures. He describes the piece as like Manhattan, 'when Sprawl is impossible, you must build upwards instead'. The premiere of Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs was given in the Royal Albert Hall in 1950, just after the composer's death. They were his last completed works, and are full of calmness and acceptance. Brahms then journeys away from contemplation to revel in triumph and joy by the end of his masterful Second Symphony.

Presented by Martin Handley

BBC Scottish SO under Donald Runnicles in works by Robin Holloway, Strauss and Brahms.

Formed from pupils of Venezuela's El Sistema programme, an initiative that offers every child a free musical education, the players have been performing together since childhood, and have lit up concert halls around the world with their technical skill, passion and deep musicality - as their concert master violinist Alejandro Carreno says: 'for us this isn't a job, not even a concert, for us music is all of life'. Under the baton of fellow El Sistema alumnus, Gustavo Dudamel they team up with the young singers of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and distinguished soloists to perform a colossus of the repertoire. Written for vast forces, Mahler's Second Symphony takes a journey from the graveside, asks the question 'is there life after death?' and ends with a triumphant promise of eternal life. It's a work Alejandro Carreno and all the orchestra love, 'Mahler's music is so descriptive, the atmosphere it creates is like that of an opera. We hugely enjoy playing his music.

Presented by Donald Macleod

Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Simon Bolivar SO in Mahler's epic Resurrection Symphony.

Proms Repeat: the National Orchestra of Great Britain is joined by an equally youthful soloist - Benjamin Grosvenor, who turned 19 in July: he plays the Piano Concerto by another young prodigy, Benjamin Britten. Russian-born conductor Vladimir Jurowski conducts the NYOGB in music from one of the greatest and best-loved of all Russian ballets: Sergey Prokofiev's take on Shakespeare's teenage lovers Romeo and Juliet. And the concert starts bang up to date, with a piece by Prokofiev's grandson, Gabriel Prokofiev - a concerto created for the astonishing turntables virtuoso DJ Switch. The NYOGB's annual appearance at the BBC Proms is always a highlight of the season.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in music by G Prokofiev, Britten and Prokofiev.

Proms Repeat: Christian Tetzlaff plays Brahms' great Violin Concerto, with Edward Gardner conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra. And four top soloists and the BBC Singers join for the orchestra for the original version of Mahler's rarely-heard Das klagende Lied.

Featured artist Christian Tetzlaff has played many of the great violin concertos but this is his first Proms performance of the big-boned, technically demanding work by Brahms, all of whose concertos can be heard during this Proms season.

With his early Das klagende Lied, Mahler hit upon his own unique style. This performance includes 'Waldm䀀rchen', the emotive first panel dealing with the quest of brother knights for a flower that will win a queen's hand but leads to sibling murder. The score of this original three-part version of the work resurfaced as recently as 1969.

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Christian Tetzlaff and BBC SO in Brahms's Violin Concerto and Mahler's Das klagende Lied.

Proms Repeat: the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra return to the Proms for the first time since 2004, this year with their new Chief Conductor, Sakari Oramo.

First in the programme is Sibelius's magical Sixth Symphony, which the composer claimed would offer the public 'pure cold water' rather than the 'cocktails' composed by his contemporaries. The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra perform a contrasting symphony at the end of their Prom: Nielsen's extrovert Fourth Symphony, which emerged from the dark days of the First World War.

Between these two symphonies, the critically-acclaimed young German-Japanese pianist, Alice Sara Ott, makes her Proms debut playing the ever popular Piano Concerto in A minor by Grieg.

Presented by Katie Derham

Sakari Oramo conducts the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic in Sibelius, Grieg and Nielsen.

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Kirill Karabits perform three colourful scores, two of them with connections to Karabits's Ukrainian homeland.

The concert begins with a swashbuckling tone-poem by Liszt telling the story of a legendary Ukrainian, Mazeppa, and it ends with Rachmaninov's most famous (and most lyrical) symphony. Between them comes a real novelty - a melody-filled concerto for wordless soprano and orchestra by Ukrainian-born composer Reinhold Gli耀re. The effervescent Irish soprano Ailish Tynan takes the extraordinary solo part.

Kirill Karabits has been Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra for two seasons now and their relationship is blossoming into something rather special.

Liszt: Mazeppa

Gli耀re: Concerto for Coloratura Soprano

Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 in E minor

Ailish Tynan (soprano)

Kirill Karabits (conductor).

Kirill Karabits conducts the Bournemouth SO in works by Liszt, Gliere and Rachmaninov.

Chief Guest Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky, continues his exploration of less-frequented corners of the repertoire, proceeding from an invigorating British concert-opener to an uncommon yet inescapably familiar concerto.

Inspired by the fact that Bach and Beethoven arranged their own violin concertos for the keyboard, Dejan Lazi? has done the same for the Brahms with engagingly idiomatic results.

Julian Lloyd Webber is an ardent champion of Holst's Invocation. The concert ends with the masterpiece that put Elgar's name on the world's musical map, with his affectionate sketches of 'friends pictured within' - a firm favourite that retains its own aura of mystery.

Presented by Martin Handley

Bridge: Overture, 'Rebus

Brahms arr. Lazi?: 'Piano Concerto No.3' in D major (after Violin Concerto) (UK Premiere)

Holst: Invocation

Elgar: Enigma Variations

Dejan Lazi? (piano)

Julian Lloyd-Webber (cello)

Vassily Sinaisky (conductor).

Vassily Sinaisky conducts the BBC Philharmonic in works by Bridge, Brahms, Holst, Elgar.

Mark Wigglesworth conducts a recreation of an all-Britten concert originally conducted in 1963 by the composer, but with a contemporary twist provided by Joby Talbot, revisiting Britten's great hero Purcell. For Britten, the Spring Symphony represented 'the reawakening of the earth and life', while the Cantata Misericordium tells the Biblical story of the Good Samaritan.

Presented by Christopher Cook

Purcell, Arr. Joby Talbot: Chacony in G Minor (BBC commission; World Premiere)

Britten: Cantata Misericordium

Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem

Britten: Spring Symphony

Amanda Roocroft (soprano)

Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano)

Alan Oke (tenor)

Leigh Melrose (baritone)

Trinity Boys Choir

BBC Singers

BBC Symphony Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Mark Wigglesworth (conductor).

A Prom in which Mark Wigglesworth conducts the BBC SO and soloists in Purcell and Britten.

Andrew Litton and the RPO perform a programme by composers who have something, or someone, in common: Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Serge Koussevitzky. Copland's Fanfare was later incorporated into his Third Symphony, written for the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, which also commissioned Bart　k at a time when he found himself in grave financial difficulty. Yuja Wang makes her Proms debut in his fiendishly difficult Concerto No 2. Koussevitzky also championed Barber's music in the 1940s, and the original version of Prokofiev's Fourth Symphony was commissioned for the BSO's 50th anniversary and premiered under him.

Presented by Martin Handley

Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man

Bax: Symphony No. 2

Barber: Adagio for Strings

Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 4 (revised version, 1947)

Yuja Wang (piano)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Andrew Litton (conductor).

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in works by Copland, Bax, Barber, Bartok and Prokofiev.

The relationship between London's Philharmonia Orchestra and Principal Conductor and Artistic Director Esa-Pekka Salonen has deepened and matured in the three seasons that they've been together. They bring the fruits of this relationship to the Proms in this all-Russian programme, including Shostakovich's 1st Violin Concerto with former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Lisa Batiashvili as soloist.

The concert begins with a four-movement suite taken from the first ballet score that Shostakovich wrote - The Age of Gold. The ballet itself was a failure - unlike the other dance work represented in this evening's concert, Petrushka. It is one of the great 20th-century ballets and its story of a puppet who comes to life elicited a colourful, masterly and hugely influential score from the young Stravinsky. The final music on the programme is by one of Stravinsky's heroes, Tchaikovsky. His special brand of passion, energy and lyricism is a perfect match for the story of Francesca da Rimini - the heroine of a murderous tale from Dante's Divine Comedy.

Presented by Katie Derham

Shostakovich: The Age of Gold - Suite

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor

Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 version)

Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini

Lisa Batiashvili (violin)

Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor).

Philharmonia under Esa-Pekka Salonen in Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky.

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, and in this concert, conductor Bernard Haitink, focuses on the expressive musical world of Brahms.

The Third Symphony is generally upbeat, but the energy of the final movement floats away to a quiet and elusive end. The First Piano Concerto is bound up with Brahms's intense friendship with Robert Schumann and his wife Clara, and his sense of loss at Schumann's tragic downward spiral into madness. Emanuel Ax is the soloist, a pianist renowned for his sensitive interpretations, and he rejoins the orchestra for more Brahms tomorrow.

Haitink, a distinguished interpreter of Brahms, admires the COE's ability to play together like chamber musicians.

Presented by Martin Handley

Emanuel Ax (piano) and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in an all-Brahms Proms concert.

Proms Repeat: Bernard Haitink conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and pianist Emanuel Ax in music by Brahms.

In their second concert of Brahms's masterworks at this year's Proms, they open with a work long central to Emanuel Ax's repertoire. Brahms's Second Piano Concerto is on a grand Romantic scale and makes huge technical demands on the soloist.

After the interval, the composer's astonishing final symphony, where the balance between expressiveness and structural control is most perfectly maintained.

Presented by Louise Fryer

Bernard Haitink, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and pianist Emanuel Ax perform Brahms.

Proms Repeat: a performance of Mozart's tragic masterpiece which was composed in the final months of his life and left unfinished at his death. Also on the programme is the young Benjamin Britten's tribute to his teacher, Frank Bridge, and a new work by Colin Matthews which arose out of what the composer describes as an obsession with the First World War. The work sets texts from the poet, Christopher Reid's Airs and Ditties of No Man's Land which have as their scenario the image of the corpses of two soldiers hanging on the barbed wire of no-man's-land. As they do so, scraps of song, memories and reflections pass through their minds. Stephen Layton conducts Polyphony, the group that he founded in 1986, along with the City of London Sinfonia of which he is now the Principal Conductor.

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Stephen Layton conducts Mozart's Requiem, plus music by Britten and Colin Matthews.

Proms Repeat: Wagner, Liszt and Brahms's First Symphony from Thomas Dausgaard and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, plus the world premiere of Kevin Volans's Piano Concerto for soloist Barry Douglas.

After the familiar strains of Wagner's rousing overture there's a real rarity: Liszt's La notte is an extended version of a piano piece from the Ann退es de p耀lerinage to which the composer added a middle section recalling his Hungarian roots. A late work that he wanted played at his own funeral, it is new to the Proms. So too is Kevin Volans's concerto, hot off the press and written for tonight's soloist. Expect the unexpected from a creative figure born in South Africa but now resident in Ireland whose output resists compartmentalisation.

The long shadow of Ludwig van Beethoven inhibited Brahms's early attempts at symphonic writing but he surpassed all expectations with the magnificence of his First Symphony.

Presented by Penny Gore

Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg - Overture

Liszt: La Notte

Kevin Volans: Piano Concerto No. 3 (BBC Commission; World premiere)

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor

Barry Douglas (piano)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor).

A Prom in which Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC SO in Wagner, Liszt, Volans and Brahms.

Proms Repeat: Valery Gergiev and his London Symphony Orchestra feature pairings of works by Prokofiev and Dutilleux. Prokofiev is represented by two very contrasted symphonies, the 1st and the 5th, and Dutilleux by a fanfare that he composed for Rostropovich to conduct and a concerto that he wrote for the great American violinist Isaac Stern to play.

Gergiev always has something special to say about Prokofiev and the very different worlds of the Haydn-inspired 1st Symphony (the 'Classical') and the wartime 5th (written in a single month in 1944) are bound to bring out the best in him. Orchestra and conductor are joined by the virtuoso Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos for Dutilleux's nocturnal concerto, whose title translates as 'The Tree of Dreams'. Dutilleux celebrated his 95th birthday earlier this year and his music celebrates what he calls 'the joy of sound'. That joy is certainly apparent in the short fanfare that he composed for Mstislav Rostropovich's 70th birthday, whose spatial arrangement of instruments should suit the Royal Albert Hall perfectly.

Presented by Suzy Klein

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D major, 'Classical

Henri Dutilleux: L'arbre des songes

Henri Dutilleux: Slava's Fanfare

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major

Leonidas Kavakos (violin)

Valery Gergiev (conductor).

Valery Gergiev leads the London Symphony Orchestra in music by Prokofiev and Dutilleux.

Sir Colin Davis conducts an orchestra of brilliant young musicians in a programme which ranges from Stravinsky's so-called 'war symphony' via the heady orientalism of Ravel to the dramatic Fate motif of Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony. The leading American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham joins them for Ravel's vision of the Orient, which is by turns sensuous, voluptuous and erotic. Presented by Louise Fryer

Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements

Ravel: Sh退h退razade

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor

Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)

Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester

Sir Colin Davis (conductor).

Colin Davis leads the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in Stravinsky, Ravel and Tchaikovsky.

Mendelssohn's oratorio on the Biblical story of the prophet Elijah has been a favourite with English audiences for over 150 years. Conductor Paul McCreesh breathes new life into it in this performance with period instruments, a raft of enthusiastic choirs and a starry line-up of soloists.

Mendelssohn wrote Elijah for the 1846 Birmingham Festival and clearly set out to create a work in the tradition of his revered Baroque predecessors, Bach and Handel. Opinions have differed as to whether he succeeded, with some people finding Elijah full of Victorian sentimentality. Given Paul McCreesh's track record in earlier music, this is the perfect opportunity to hear the work afresh, free of accrued conventions.

Mendelssohn: Elijah

Rosemary Joshua (soprano)

Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)

Robert Murray (tenor)

Simon Keenlyside (baritone)

Taplow Youth Choir

Ulster Youth Chamber Choir

Chetham's Chamber Choir

North East Youth Chorale

Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir

Gabrieli Consort & Players

Paul McCreesh (conductor).

Paul McCreesh conducts the Gabrieli Consort and Players in Mendelssohn's Elijah.

The young French pianist, David Fray, makes his Proms debut playing a grandly imposing Mozart concerto, and Jaap Van Zweden conducts Bruckner's Eighth Symphony - a momentous musical journey from darkness to life.

Conductor Jaap van Zweden was the youngest ever concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and in that role played almost all the Bruckner symphonies under some of the greatest Bruckner interpreters. Now the conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, he has been recording his own critically-acclaimed cycle of the Bruckner symphonies.

Presented by Tom Service

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K503

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor

David Fray (piano)

Jaap van Zweden (conductor).

Jaap van Zweden conducts the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic in Mozart and Bruckner.

Proms featured artist Yo-Yo Ma takes centre stage with a new work conceived especially for him by British composer Graham Fitkin. Then the BBC SO's Principal Guest Conductor, David Robertson, directs the traditional annual Proms performance of Beethoven's Ninth, perhaps the richest, most provocative statement in the symphonic canon. An impressive team of soloists joins massed choruses to project the finale's optimistic vision of hard-won triumph over adversity.

Presented by Martin Handley

Graham Fitkin: Cello Concerto

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

Christine Brewer (soprano)

Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)

Toby Spence (tenor)

Iain Paterson (bass-baritone)

BBC Symphony Chorus

Philharmonia Chorus

BBC Symphony Orchestra

David Robertson (conductor).

BBC SO under David Robertson in a new work by Graham Fitkin and Beethoven's Symphony No 9.

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and its conductor-for-life Zubin Mehta bring a colourful programme to the Proms. They are joined by Gil Shaham for Bruch's ever-popular 1st Violin Concerto. They end their concert in Spain, seen through both native and Russian eyes.

The Israel Philharmonic is 75 years old this year and Bombay-born Zubin Mehta has been the orchestra's Music Director for the last 40 of those years.

The concert's second half certainly falls into this category, with pieces by Albeniz describing scenes from his native Spain. They were originally written for piano and have now been given glittering orchestral colours. The sparkle continues with Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Spanish Caprice', based on Spanish folksong and with the orchestra evoking the sounds of guitars and rustic revelry.

Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1

Albeniz: Iberia - Fꀀte-Dieu

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Principal Guest Conductor Jac van Steen bring two dazzling concertos to the Proms. Canadian pianist Marc-Andr退 Hamelin displays his virtuosity in Rachmaninov's ever popular Rhapsody, and Proms featured organist David Goode plays Michael Berkeley's demanding concerto, which receives its London premiere. The programme includes two musical pictures: Elgar's Edwardian soundscape of Old London Town, and Kodကly's suite Hကry Jကnos, which brings to life the unlikely exploits of an old Hungarian hero.

Michael Berkeley had the cavernous space of Westminster cathedral in mind with his organ concerto: he was a choirboy there. A central theme is of fire, a force that cleanses and obliterates all in its path. The Royal Albert Hall, with its immense Henry Willis organ and generous acoustic proves an ideal venue. A sense of ritual and religious theatre also comes from offstage trumpets, high in the gallery. Soloist David Goode has already delighted promenaders twice this season, in Janacek's Glagolitic Mass and Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony. An exceptional talent, he remains undaunted by the challenges of the concerto.

Marc-Andr退 Hamelin has won great critical acclaim for his 'jaw dropping technique' and 'probing musicianship'. He's been a tireless advocate of less familiar concertos. Here he brings his formidable talents to bear on a great favourite of the piano repertoire. Rachmaninov's Rhapsody is one of the most brilliant works for piano and orchestra, though with an underlying sense of devilry.

Elgar: Overture Cockaigne (In London Town)

Michael Berkeley: Organ Concerto (London premiere)

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini

Kodကly: Hကry Jကnos - suite

Marc-Andr退 Hamelin (piano)

David Goode (organ)

Jac van Steen (conductor).

Jac van Steen conducts the BBC NOW in music by Elgar, M Berkeley, Rachmaninov and Kodaly.

Sir Colin Davis tackles Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, the work which the composer considered to be his supreme achievement in music. The London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and London Philharmonic Choir scale the heights and depths and they are joined by soloists, soprano Helena Juntunen, mezzo Sarah Connolly, tenor Paul Groves, and bass Matthew Rose.

The Missa Solemnis seems to skirt the boundaries of whether it is music made for the concert hall or the church. 'My chief aim was to awaken and permanently instill religious feelings not only into the singers but also into the listeners,' Beethoven himself wrote of the work.

Presented by Andrew McGregor

Beethoven: MIssa Solemnis

Helena Juntunen (soprano)

Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)

Paul Groves (tenor)

Matthew Rose (bass)

London Symphony Chorus and London Philharmonic Choir

Sir Colin Davis (conductor).

Colin Davis conducts the LSO and Chorus in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra visits the Proms with its Music Director Manfred Honeck, bringing favourites by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. First on the programme though is a concert rarity: a flamboyant orchestral work by Walther Braunfels, whose career was knocked off course in Nazi Germany. Although profoundly influenced by Wagner he was also a huge admirer of Berlioz, as is evident in this work. Beethoven's Fourth Piano concerto, played by H退l耀ne Grimaud, shows the intimate as well as the dramatic side of the composer. Tchaikovsky's triumphant symphony concludes the programme.

Presented by Suzy Klein

Braunfels: Fantastic Appearances of a Theme of Hector Berlioz

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor

H退l耀ne Grimaud (piano)

Manfred Honeck (conductor).

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck in Braunfels, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky.

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with its Music Director Manfred Honeck for Mahler's turbulent Fifth Symphony as the main work. Written whilst he was recuperating from a sudden life-threatening illness, it is full of nostalgia. The famous Adagietto leads into a wonderfully transformative final movement. Before this the orchestra are joined by the celebrated German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter for 'Time Chant' - a never ending aria by her compatriot, Wolfgang Rihm. Wagner's ethereal Prelude to Lohengrin opens the programme.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Wagner: Lohengrin (Prelude, Act 1)

Wolfgang Rihm: Gesungene Zeit

Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor

Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)

Manfred Honeck (conductor).

Manfred Honeck conducts the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in Wagner, Rihm and Mahler.

A second chance to hear the opening concert of the 2011 Proms, featuring works by Brahms and Liszt performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and a starry line-up of soloists - all under the baton of Jiri Belohlavek.

On the programme of this year's opening concert, a new work by leading British composer Judith Weir (a short choral and orchestral fanfare based on the four words of the title: Stars, Night, Music and Light), Brahms's festive overture and Liszt's virtuosic concerto performed by young British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. Plus Belohlavek also leads the orchestra, chorus and soloists in Janacek's extraordinary celebration of Slavic culture. Petroc Trelawny presents.

Judith Weir: Stars, Night, Music and Light (BBC commission; world premiere)

Brahms: Academic Festival Overture

Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major

Janacek: Glagolitic Mass

Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)

Hibla Gerzmava (soprano)

Dagmar Peckova (mezzo-soprano)

Stefan Vinke (tenor)

Jan Martin퀀k (bass)

David Goode (organ)

BBC Singers

BBC Symphony Chorus

Jiri Belohlavek (conductor).

Music from the opening concert of the 2011 BBC Proms, by Weir, Brahms, Liszt and Janacek.

A second chance to hear Havergal Brian's epic Gothic Symphony from the 2011 BBC Proms. Two BBC orchestras, four brass bands, six choruses, four youth choruses and four star soloists join together to perform this English 'Symphony of a Thousand'.

According to conductor Martyn Brabbins Brian's symphony is one of the biggest classical undertakings ever mounted - '...a fantastic sonic spectacle, Gothic in the sense of architecture, detail, grandeur and mystery'. Written in 1920, it's only been performed in concert five times since. The Gothic Symphony won a place in the Guinness Book of Records for being the longest symphony, requiring the largest forces. This is a rare chance to hear a unique and massive work, and not to be missed.

Tom Service presents.

Brian: Symphony No. 1 in D minor, 'The Gothic

Susan Gritton (soprano)

Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano)

Peter Auty (tenor)

Alastair Miles (bass)

CBSO Youth Chorus

Eltham College Boys' Choir

Southend Boys' and Girls' Choirs

Bach Choir

BBC National Chorus of Wales

Brighton Festival Chorus

C䀀r Caerdydd

Huddersfield Choral Society

London Symphony Chorus

BBC Concert Orchestra

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

Penny Gore presents a Proms performance of Havergal Brian's epic Gothic Symphony.