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Proms 2020 Live Events

Sat 12 Sep 2020
- 20:00
  Last Night of the Proms
  Royal Albert Hall
  The Last Night of the Proms, featuring South-African soprano Golda Schultz with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under its Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska. Watch on BBC One at 8.00pm.
  The Last Night of the Proms, featuring South-African soprano Golda Schultz with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under its Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska. Watch on BBC One at 8.00pm.
  Programme
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  The Marriage of Figaro – overture‘Deh vieni, non tardar’
  Richard Strauss
  Morgen!
  Andrea Tarrodi
  Solus(BBC commission: world premiere)
  Stephen Sondheim
  A Little Night Music – Night Waltz‘The Glamorous Life’
  Jean Sibelius
  Impromptu for strings
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  The Lark Ascending
  Errollyn Wallen
  Jerusalem - Our clouded hills(4 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
  Henry Wood
  Fantasia on British Sea-Songsi. The Saucy Arethusa ii. Tom Bowling iii. Jack’s the Lad iv. Sequence of sea songs from around the UK v. See, the conqu’ring hero comes vi. Rule, Britannia!
  Edward Elgar
  Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and Glory’arr. Anne Dudley
  Richard Rodgers
  Carousel – 'You'll never walk alone'
  Hubert Parry
  Jerusalem(3 mins)
  Unknown
  The National Anthem (arr. Britten)
  Performers
  Golda Schultz
  soprano
  soprano
  Nicola Benedetti
  violin
  violin
  BBC Singers
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Dalia Stasevska
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Richard Strauss
  Andrea Tarrodi
  Stephen Sondheim
  Jean Sibelius
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Errollyn Wallen
  Henry Wood
  Edward Elgar
  Richard Rodgers
  Hubert Parry
  Unknown
Fri 11 Sep 2020
- 19:30
  Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Isata Kanneh-Mason
  Royal Albert Hall
  Star British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason perform a specially recorded recital of Beethoven, Barber, Bridge and Rachmaninov. Watch on BBC Four at 8.00pm.
  Star British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason perform a specially recorded recital of Beethoven, Barber, Bridge and Rachmaninov. Watch on BBC Four at 8.00pm.
  Programme
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 102 No. 1(15 mins)
  Samuel Barber
  Cello Sonata(20 mins)
  Frank Bridge
  Mélodie(5 mins)
  Sergey Rachmaninov
  Cello Sonata in G minor(25 mins)
  Performers
  Sheku Kanneh‐Mason
  cello
  cello
  Isata Kanneh‐Mason
  piano
  piano
  Composers
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Samuel Barber
  Frank Bridge
  Sergey Rachmaninov
Thu 10 Sep 2020
- 19:30
  Beethoven from Memory
  Royal Albert Hall
  Radio 3’s Tom Service and Aurora Orchestra Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon introduce Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and British composer Richard Ayres’s new work that explores the effects of hearing loss. Watch on BBC Four at 8.00pm
  Radio 3’s Tom Service and Aurora Orchestra Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon introduce Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and British composer Richard Ayres’s new work that explores the effects of hearing loss. Watch on BBC Four at 8.00pm
  Programme
  Richard Ayres
  No. 52 (Three pieces about Ludwig van Beethoven, dreaming, hearing loss, and saying goodbye)(20 mins)BBC co-commission: world premiere
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Symphony No. 7 in A major(36 mins)
  Performers
  Tom Service
  presenter
  presenter
  Aurora Orchestra
  Nicholas Collon
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Richard Ayres
  Ludwig van Beethoven
Wed 9 Sep 2020
- 19:30
  Paavo Järvi conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra
  Royal Albert Hall
  Benjamin Grosvenor performs Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Paavo Järvi, bookended by Ravel’s neo-Baroque masterpiece Le tombeau de Couperin and Mozart’s titanic Symphony No. 41. Watch on iPlayer at 7.30pm
  Benjamin Grosvenor performs Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Paavo Järvi, bookended by Ravel’s neo-Baroque masterpiece Le tombeau de Couperin and Mozart’s titanic Symphony No. 41. Watch on iPlayer at 7.30pm
  Programme
  Maurice Ravel
  Le tombeau de Couperin(17 mins)
  Dmitry Shostakovich
  Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings (Piano Concerto No. 1)(21 mins)
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Symphony No. 41 in C major, ‘Jupiter’(31 mins)
  Performers
  Paavo Järvi
  conductor
  conductor
  Benjamin Grosvenor
  piano
  piano
  Jason Evans
  Trumpet
  Trumpet
  Philharmonia Orchestra
  Composers
  Maurice Ravel
  Dmitry Shostakovich
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tue 8 Sep 2020
- 19:30
  Proms at ... Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
  Hoddinott Hall
  A mostly American Prom taking in the influences of jazz and popular music alongside iconic classic works by Barber and Copland respectively evoking a balmy Tennessee night and Pennsylvanian pioneer settlers. Watch on BBC iPlayer at 7.30pm.
  A mostly American Prom taking in the influences of jazz and popular music alongside iconic classic works by Barber and Copland respectively evoking a balmy Tennessee night and Pennsylvanian pioneer settlers. Watch on BBC iPlayer at 7.30pm.
  Programme
  Bohuslav Martinů
  Jazz Suite(11 mins)
  John Adams
  Chamber Symphony(22 mins)
  Gavin Higgins
  Rough Voices(8 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
  Samuel Barber
  Knoxville: Summer of 1915(16 mins)
  Aaron Copland
  Appalachian Spring(23 mins)
  Performers
  Natalya Romaniw
  soprano
  soprano
  BBC National Orchestra of Wales
  Ryan Bancroft
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Bohuslav Martinů
  John Adams
  Gavin Higgins
  Samuel Barber
  Aaron Copland

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