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BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Calendar

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Tue 3 Aug 2021
- 19:30
  Haydn, Mozart & Beethoven
  Royal Albert Hall
  Led by conductor Ben Gernon, this BBC Philharmonic Prom explores music by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
  Led by conductor Ben Gernon, this BBC Philharmonic Prom explores music by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
  Programme
  interval
  Joseph Haydn
  Symphony No. 103 in E flat major 'Drumroll'(31 mins)
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major(27 mins)
  interval
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Symphony No. 4 in B flat major(34 mins)
  Performers
  Elisabeth Brauss
  piano
  piano
  BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  Ben Gernon
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Joseph Haydn
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Part of
  Proms 2021
Tue 10 Aug 2021
- 19:30
  Parallel Universes
  Royal Albert Hall
  Sibelius’s great Romantic Violin Concerto lies at the heart of a Prom also featuring a new commission from Britta Byström inspired by Cosmologist Max Tegmark’s notion of a ‘hierarchical multiverse’.
  Sibelius’s great Romantic Violin Concerto lies at the heart of a Prom also featuring a new commission from Britta Byström inspired by Cosmologist Max Tegmark’s notion of a ‘hierarchical multiverse’.
  Programme
  Britta Byström
  Parallel Universes(12 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
  Jean Sibelius
  Violin Concerto in D minor(34 mins)
  interval
  Robert Schumann
  Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, ‘Rhenish’(32 mins)
  Performers
  Liza Ferschtman
  violin
  violin
  BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  John Storgårds
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Britta Byström
  Jean Sibelius
  Robert Schumann
  Part of
  Proms 2021
Mon 16 Aug 2021
- 19:30
  A Night at the Opera
  Royal Albert Hall
  Pack your tissues for a night rich in emotion and drama. Conductor Ben Glassberg and the BBC Philharmonic are ed by a host of British opera stars in an evening of opera excerpts on themes of separation and reconciliation.
  Pack your tissues for a night rich in emotion and drama. Conductor Ben Glassberg and the BBC Philharmonic are ed by a host of British opera stars in an evening of opera excerpts on themes of separation and reconciliation.
  Programme
  sca Caccini
  La liberazione di Ruggiero – suite(5 mins)Sinfonia – Danza infernale – Ballo a cavallo
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Fidelio – ‘Abscheulicher! … Komm, Hoffnung, lass den letzten Stern’(7 mins)
  Fidelio – Gott! welch Dunkel hier! … In des Lebens Frühlingstagen(11 mins)
  Fidelio – ‘O namenlose Freude!’(3 mins)
  Christoph Willibald Gluck
  Orfeo ed Euridice – ‘Che farò senza Euridice?’(5 mins)
  Giacomo Puccini
  La bohème – ‘Che gelida manina’(5 mins)
  La bohème – ‘Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì’(6 mins)
  La bohème – ‘O soave fanciulla’(5 mins)
  interval
  Georges Bizet
  Carmen – Prelude(4 mins)
  Carmen – ‘La fleur que tu m’avais jetée’(4 mins)
  George Frideric Handel
  Rodelinda – ‘Io t'abbraccio’(7 mins)
  Engelbert Humperdinck
  Hansel and Gretel – ‘Der kleine Sandmann bin ich’(5 mins)
  Hansel and Gretel – ‘Abends, will ich schlafen gehn’(6 mins)
  Hansel and Gretel – Dream Pantomime(3 mins)
  Leos Janáček
  Jenůfa – closing scene(5 mins)
  Performers
  Sally Matthews
  soprano
  soprano
  Natalya Romaniw
  soprano
  soprano
  Nardus Williams
  soprano
  soprano
  Christine Rice
  mezzo-soprano
  mezzo-soprano
  Nicky Spence
  tenor
  tenor
  Freddie De Tommaso
  tenor
  tenor
  BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  Ben Glassberg
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  sca Caccini
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Christoph Willibald Gluck
  Giacomo Puccini
  Georges Bizet
  George Frideric Handel
  Engelbert Humperdinck
  Leos Janáček
  Part of
  Proms 2021 Proms on TV