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Tue 5 Sep 2017
- 19:30
  Prom 70: Missy Mazzoli, Bartók and Dvořák
  Royal Albert Hall
  American pianist Jeremy Denk s Karina Canellakis and the BBC SO for Bartók’s ferociously brilliant Second Piano Concerto – a contrast to the pastoral beauty of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8. The concert opens with Missy Mazzoli’s mesmeric Sinfonia.
  American pianist Jeremy Denk s Karina Canellakis and the BBC SO for Bartók’s ferociously brilliant Second Piano Concerto – a contrast to the pastoral beauty of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8. The concert opens with Missy Mazzoli’s mesmeric Sinfonia.
  Programme
  Missy Mazzoli
  Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)(12 mins)European premiere of orchestral version
  Béla Bartók
  Piano Concerto No 2(30 mins)
  interval
  Antonín Dvořák
  Symphony No. 8 in G major(36 mins)
  Performers
  Jeremy Denk
  piano
  piano
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Karina Canellakis
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Missy Mazzoli
  Béla Bartók
  Antonín Dvořák
  Part of
  Proms 2017 Proms on TV
Sat 9 Sep 2017
- 19:15
  Prom 75: Last Night of the Proms
  Royal Albert Hall
  Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra weave together many of this season’s strands with music by John Adams, Sibelius and Malcolm Sargent. Nina Stemme leads the end-of-season festivities, ed by the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Chorus.
  Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra weave together many of this season’s strands with music by John Adams, Sibelius and Malcolm Sargent. Nina Stemme leads the end-of-season festivities, ed by the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Chorus.
  Programme
  Lotta Wennäkoski
  Flounce(5 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
  Zoltán Kodály
  Budavári Te Deum(21 mins)
  Malcolm Sargent
  An Impression on a Windy Day(7 mins)
  Jean Sibelius
  Finlandia(8 mins)(choral version)
  Richard Wagner
  Tristan and Isolde – Prelude and Liebestod(17 mins)
  interval
  John Adams
  Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance(5 mins)London premiere
  Kurt Weill
  Happy End(5 mins)'Surabaya Johnny'
  Lady in the Dark(5 mins)arr. Olov Helge - 'The Saga of Jenny'
  George Gershwin
  Pardon My English(3 mins)orch. Paul Bateman, arr. James Holmes
  Fantasia on British Sea-Songs(18 mins)(arr. Wood)
  Thomas Arne
  Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent)(5 mins)
  Edward Elgar
  Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and Glory’(8 mins)
  Hubert Parry
  Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)(3 mins)
  Unknown
  The National Anthem (arr. Bliss)(3 mins)
  Trad.
  Auld Lang Syne(2 mins)arr C.T. Davie
  Performers
  Nina Stemme
  soprano
  soprano
  Lucy Crowe
  soprano
  soprano
  Christine Rice
  mezzo-soprano
  mezzo-soprano
  Ben Johnson
  tenor
  tenor
  John Relyea
  bass
  bass
  BBC Singers
  BBC Symphony Chorus
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Sakari Oramo
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Lotta Wennäkoski
  Zoltán Kodály
  Malcolm Sargent
  Jean Sibelius
  Richard Wagner
  John Adams
  Kurt Weill
  George Gershwin
  Thomas Arne
  Edward Elgar
  Hubert Parry
  Unknown
  Trad.
  Part of
  Proms 2017 Proms on TV Classical for Starters 2018-19
Wed 27 Sep 2017
- 19:30
  Sibelius Symphonies: Symphony No.5
  Barbican, London
  Richard Strauss imagining a man’s dying moments, Alban Berg lamenting a teenage girl and Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony spreading its giant wings.
  Richard Strauss imagining a man’s dying moments, Alban Berg lamenting a teenage girl and Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony spreading its giant wings.
  Programme
  Richard Strauss
  Death and Transfiguration
  Alban Berg
  Violin Concerto
  Jean Sibelius
  Symphony No. 5 in E flat major
  Performers
  Alina Pogostkina
  violin
  violin
  Sakari Oramo
  conductor
  conductor
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Composers
  Richard Strauss
  Alban Berg
  Jean Sibelius
  Part of
  BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2017-18 Season Sibelius Symphonies