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Wed 4 Sep 2024
- 18:30
  Prom 59: A French Fantasy – Boulanger, Fauré and Ravel
  Royal Albert Hall
  Stéphane Denève leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in an evening of French music. Works by Lili Boulanger and Ravel frame Fauré’s elegant, consolatory Requiem and his incidental music for Maeterlinck’s Symbolist play Pelleas and Melisande.
  Stéphane Denève leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in an evening of French music. Works by Lili Boulanger and Ravel frame Fauré’s elegant, consolatory Requiem and his incidental music for Maeterlinck’s Symbolist play Pelleas and Melisande.
  Programme
  Lili Boulanger
  Pie Jesu(4 mins)
  Gabriel Fauré
  Requiem(39 mins)
  interval
  Gabriel Fauré
  Pelleas and Melisande – suite(18 mins)
  Lili Boulanger
  Vieille prière bouddhique(7 mins)
  Maurice Ravel
  Daphnis and Chloe – Suite No. 2(18 mins)
  Performers
  Golda Schultz
  soprano
  soprano
  Laurence Kilsby
  tenor
  tenor
  Jacques Imbrailo
  baritone
  baritone
  BBC Symphony Chorus
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Stéphane Denève
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Lili Boulanger
  Gabriel Fauré
  Maurice Ravel
  Part of
  Proms 2024
Mon 9 Sep 2024
- 19:30
  Prom 67: BBC SO plays Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony
  Royal Albert Hall
  Patricia Kopatchinskaja returns to the Proms to perform Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski. We also hear Vaughan Williams’s ‘Greensleeves’ Fantasia and Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony.
  Patricia Kopatchinskaja returns to the Proms to perform Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski. We also hear Vaughan Williams’s ‘Greensleeves’ Fantasia and Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony.
  Programme
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'(4 mins)
  Arnold Schoenberg
  Violin Concerto(32 mins)
  interval
  Dmitry Shostakovich
  Symphony No. 5 in D minor(44 mins)
  Performers
  Patricia Kopatchinskaja
  violin
  violin
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Tarmo Peltokoski
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Arnold Schoenberg
  Dmitry Shostakovich
  Part of
  Proms 2024
Sat 14 Sep 2024
- 19:00
  Prom 73: Last Night of the Proms 2024
  Royal Albert Hall
  The BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Singers are ed by Grammy Award-winning American soprano Angel Blue and one of Britain’s best-loved pianists, Sir Stephen Hough, for the biggest musical party of the year.
  The BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Singers are ed by Grammy Award-winning American soprano Angel Blue and one of Britain’s best-loved pianists, Sir Stephen Hough, for the biggest musical party of the year.
  Programme
  William Walton
  Overture ‘Portsmouth Point’
  Giacomo Puccini
  Gianni Schicchi – ‘O mio babbino caro’
  Madam Butterfly – Humming Chorus(3 mins)
  Tosca – ‘Vissi d’arte’(4 mins)
  Carlos Simon
  Hellfighters’ Blues(7 mins)BBC co-commission: world premiere
  Gabriel Fauré
  Pavane(6 mins)
  Charles Ives
  The Yale–Princeton Football Game(3 mins)
  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  Summer Is Gone(3 mins)
  Grace Williams
  Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes(11 mins)
  Camille Saint‐Saëns
  Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, ‘Egyptian’ – Andante(11 mins)
  interval
  Iain Farrington
  Extra Time(4 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
  Henry Mancini
  The Pink Panther(3 mins)arr Gavin Sutherland
  Sir Stephen Hough
  In His Hands: Two Spirituals(4 mins)
  Ruperto Chapí
  Las hijas del Zebedeo – ‘Al pensar en el dueño de mis amores’ (Carceleras)(5 mins)
  Trad.
  Fantasia on British Sea-Songs(13 mins)arr. Wood, with additional arrangements by Bob Chilcott and Gareth Glyn
  Thomas Arne
  Rule, Britannia!(3 mins)arr. Sargent
  Edward Elgar
  Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and Glory’(8 mins)
  Hubert Parry
  Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)(2 mins)
  Unknown
  Anon.
  The National Anthem (arr. Britten)(2 mins)
  Trad.
  Auld Lang Syne(2 mins)arr. P. Campbell
  Performers
  Angel Blue
  soprano
  soprano
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Sir Stephen Hough
  piano
  piano
  Sakari Oramo
  conductor
  conductor
  BBC Singers
  BBC Symphony Chorus
  Composers
  William Walton
  Giacomo Puccini
  Carlos Simon
  Gabriel Fauré
  Charles Ives
  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  Grace Williams
  Camille Saint‐Saëns
  Iain Farrington
  Henry Mancini
  Sir Stephen Hough
  Ruperto Chapí
  Trad.
  Thomas Arne
  Edward Elgar
  Hubert Parry
  Unknown
  Anon.
  Part of
  Proms 2024 Proms on TV
Thu 26 Sep 2024
- 19:30
  Oramo conducts Mahler
  Barbican, London
  Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s tragic Sixth Symphony: a powerful opening to our new concert season.
  Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s tragic Sixth Symphony: a powerful opening to our new concert season.
  Programme
  Gustav Mahler
  Symphony No. 6 in A minor
  Performers
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Sakari Oramo
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Gustav Mahler
  Part of
  BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus 2024-25 Barbican Season