Episodes
| Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Prom 01: First Night Of The Proms | 20160717 | Another chance to hear Friday's First Night of the Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo. Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta makes her Proms debut in Elgar's hauntingly lyrical Cello Concerto, the first in a series of works this season throwing a spotlight on the instrument. Russian mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina joins for the cantata Prokofiev fashioned from the score for his friend Sergey Eisenstein's patriotic film Alexander Nevsky. The concert begins with Tchaikovsky's ravishing 'Romeo and Juliet' overture, launching another of this season's themes, marking 400 years since the death of Shakespeare. Presented by Petroc Trelawny and Clemency Burton-Hill from the Royal Albert Hall, London Tchaikovsky: Fantasy Overture 'Romeo and Juliet Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor Prokofiev: Cantata 'Alexander Nevsky Sol Gabetta, cello Olga Borodina, mezzo-soprano BBC National Chorus of Wales BBC Symphony Chorus Sakari Oramo, conductor. BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo in Tchaikovsky, Elgar and Prokofiev. Broadcasts of concerts from the 2016 season of the BBC Proms |
| Prom 27: Helen Grime, Tchaikovsky And Stravinsky | 20160814 | BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard with violinist Pekka Kuusisto perform Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and Stravinsky's Petrushka. Presented by Tom Service from the Royal Albert Hall, London Helen Grime: Two Eardley Pictures (I - Catterline in Winter) Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major Stravinsky: Petrushka Pekka Kuusisto (violin) Thomas Dausgaard (conductor) This Prom marks the first instalment of all three of Stravinsky's landmark ballets for the Ballet Russes company, all performed this weekend by Scottish orchestras. In the vivid folk tale of a puppet springing to life, Stravinsky had the starting point for his stylistic breakthrough, Petrushka, a ballet that would depict Russia with 'quick tempos, smells of Russian food, sweat and glistening leather boots'. The first part of a BBC commission from Scottish composer Helen Grime - a two-part work whose complementary second 'Picture' can be heard in Prom 30 - prefaces this concert's arrival in Russia via all the despair, passion and determination of Tchaikovsky's heart-rending Violin Concerto. First broadcast live, 5th August 2016. From Proms 2016, the BBC SSO performs music by Helen Grime, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky. Broadcasts of concerts from the 2016 season of the BBC Proms |
| Prom 39: Haydn, Charlotte Bray And Mahler | 20160828 | The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo at the BBC Proms in Mahler's 5th Symphony, Haydn's Symphony No 34 and Charlotte Bray's Falling in the Fire, with cellist Guy Johnston. Presented by Petroc Trelawny from the Royal Albert Hall in London Haydn: Symphony No 34 in D minor Charlotte Bray: Falling in the Fire (BBC commission: world premiere) Mahler: Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor Guy Johnston, cello Sakari Oramo (conductor) The latest in the series of Proms cello concertos is a powerful new work from Charlotte Bray, an expression of 'moral outrage' at the destruction of the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria, last summer, after which 'everything changed' in the composer's compositional outlook. Similarly, something changed in Mahler when he came to write his Fifth Symphony. Not only had he survived a haemorrhage that had nearly killed him, but he had also met and fallen in love with Alma Schindler, for whom the Fifth Symphony's ardent Adagietto is a love song. Before that, Haydn's Symphony No 34 makes its first appearance at the Proms. [First broadcast 14/08/2016]. Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Haydn, Charlotte Bray and Mahler. Broadcasts of concerts from the 2016 season of the BBC Proms |