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BBC Proms 2021

1antimuzak
jul 30, 2021, 1:48 am

Friday 30th July 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

First Night of the Proms 2021.

Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny present the opening night of the event live from the Royal Albert Hall, with Dalia Stasevska conducting the BBC SO and Singers and organist Daniel Hyde in Vaughan Williams, Poulenc and Sibelius's Second Symphony. Dalia Stasevska leads a First Night featuring Vaughan Williams's ravishing Serenade to Music - written to celebrate Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood's 50 years on the podium and premiered by him at his jubilee concert in the Royal Albert Hall in 1938. James MacMillan offers a new companion piece to the Serenade and Poulenc's Organ Concerto is a piquant foil, showcasing the instrument in a vivid play of light and shade. Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music. Poulenc: Organ Concerto. Interval: Georgia and Petroc look ahead to six weeks of exciting live music-making at the Proms and chat to Tasmin Little about her highlights of the season. MacMillan: When Soft Voices Die. (BBC co-commission with Help Musicians: world premiere). Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D. Elizabeth Llewellyn (soprano), Jess Dandy (contralto), Allan Clayton (tenor), Michael Mofidian (bass-baritone), Daniel Hyde (organ). BBC Singers. BBC Symphony Orchestra. Dalia Stasevska (conductor).
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2antimuzak
aug 2, 2021, 1:49 am

Monday 2nd August 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Elim Chan Conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Nicola Heywood Thomas presents live from the Royal Albert Hall, with Ryan Bancroft conducting the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Saint-Saëns's Cello Concerto No 1, with soloist Guy Johnston, and Brahms's Fourth Symphony. Musical borrowings, reworkings and reinventions run through this season's Proms. The invisible thread linking tonight's concert really begins with Bach. A lilting chaconne from his Cantata No 150 underpins the finale of Brahms' Symphony No 4, and the latter's elegant synthesis of heart and head is itself the inspiration for American composer Elizabeth Ogonek's Cloudline, a lyrical homage to ancient musical forms and techniques. The chaconne's repeating patterns are echoed elsewhere in the circling bass line of Purcell's powerful Lament from Dido and Aeneas. Cellist Guy Johnston is the soloist in anniversary-composer Saint-Saëns's Cello Concerto No 1, which she first played at the age of 12. Purcell, arr. Stokowski: When I Am Laid in Earth (Dido's Lament); c 7.35 Elizabeth Ogonek: Cloudline (BBC co-commission: world premiere); c 7.50 Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor, Op 33; c 8.10 Interval: Katy Hamilton talks to Nicola Heywood Thomas about tonight's programme and looks forward to highlights of the week ahead. c 8.35 Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor, Op 98. Guy Johnston (cello), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ryan Bancroft (conductor).
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3kleh
Bewerkt: aug 3, 2021, 4:16 am

See also series BBC Proms 2021

4antimuzak
aug 4, 2021, 1:49 am

Thank you!

Wednesday 4th August 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Vaughan Williams, Respighi and Mendelssohn.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko with Japanese violinist Sayaka Shoji in Respighi's vivacious Concerto gregoriano, live at BBC Proms. Presented by Martin Handley, from the Royal Albert Hall. Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. c 7.45 Respighi: Concerto gregoriano. c 8.15 Live Interval. Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch discusses the role of music in the Reformation and how the English tradition differs from the Continental. c8.40 Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in D major, Reformation. Sayaka Shoji (violin), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor).
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5antimuzak
aug 5, 2021, 1:49 am

Thursday 5th August 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Grazinyte-Tyla Conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

Live at BBC Proms: Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla conducts the CBSO in symphonies by Ruth Gipps and Brahms, and the London premiere of Thomas Adès's The Exterminating Angel Symphony, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Presented by Georgia Mann. Ruth Gipps: Symphony No. 2 in B. Thomas Adès: The Exterminating Angel Symphony. 8.15 pm Interval - Thomas Adès on the story behind The Exterminating Angel Symphony plus a discussion on the impact conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla has had on the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. 8.40pm Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla (conductor). The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Music Director. Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla champion the music of a too-long neglected composer. A pupil of Vaughan Williams, Ruth Gipps started her career as an oboist with what was then the City of Birmingham Orchestra in 1944, before becoming established as a composer. Her Symphony No. 2 takes a wide-screen, cinematic view of the Second World War, embracing exhilaration, anxiety and, finally, ecstatic rejoicing. Conflict of a very different kind runs through The Exterminating Angel Symphony by Thomas Ades (50 this year), inspired by Louis Bunuel's Surrealist film. Brahms's Third Symphony strikes a more autumnal tone, inspired by a visit to the River Rhine in 1883. The critic Eduard Hanslick pronounced it 'artistically the most nearly perfect' of the composer's symphonies to date.
(Live)

6antimuzak
aug 7, 2021, 1:40 am

Saturday 7th August 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Nicola Benedetti and the NYOGB.

Andrew McGregor presents live from the Royal Albert Hall as Nicola Benedetti teams up the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain for a concert featuring Beethoven's Eroica. Rising star Jonathon Heyward conducts the talented teenagers in one of the all-time symphonic greats. Propelling the symphony into the Romantic age, Eroica is a celebration of scope and drama, a musical depiction of heroism that surges with pioneering spirit. Nicola Benedetti is the soloist in Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No 2 with its song-like slow movement - a work whose sardonic wit is balanced by a new lyricism that would come to dominate the composer's later works. The Prom also includes a new NYOGB commission by British composer, jazz trumpeter and former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Laura Jurd. Laura Jurd: CHANT (London premiere); Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor. 8.05 Interval. Andrew McGregor is joined by former NYO member Lloyd Coleman, some of its current members and digital artist in residence and composer Jessie Montgomery. 8.30 Jessie Montgomery: Banner (London premiere of chamber orchestra version); Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat - Eroica. Nicola Benedetti (violin), National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Jonathon Heyward (conductor).
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7antimuzak
aug 9, 2021, 1:52 am

Monday 9th August 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Elgar's Cello Concerto.

Martin Handley presents live from the Royal Albert Hall, with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra performing Elgar, Janacek and a world premiere of Mason Bates' Auditorium. The orchestra returns under chief conductor Kirill Karabits to recall memories of music past. In Mason Bates's evocative Auditorium, the orchestra is `possessed" by a ghostly Baroque ancestor. Janacek's rhapsodic suite Taras Bulba looks back to Czech folk music in three battle-charged episodes from Gogol's novella, and the bittersweet, poignant beauty of Elgar's Cello Concerto draws on another conflict - the cataclysmic loss and suffering of the First World War. Mason Bates: Auditorium (UK premiere); Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor. 8.15: Interval. Janacek: Taras Bulba. Johannes Moser (cello), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits (conductor).
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8antimuzak
aug 11, 2021, 1:47 am

Wednesday 11th August 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 22:00 (2 hours long)

Stravinsky from Memory.

The Aurora Orchestra returns to the Proms for Stravinsky's colourful The Firebird suite, joined by Pavel Kolesnikov for Rachmaninov's popular Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Presented by Tom Service, from the Royal Albert Hall. Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. 8.25 Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Stravinsky's 'The Firebird' suite. 8.45 Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite. Pavel Kolesnikov (piano), Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon (conductor/presenter).
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9comsat38
aug 11, 2021, 3:20 pm

Another sad and tired Prom season; unimaginative programming and the usual dumbing down. OK, there was a piece by James MacMillan and I suppose Sibelius counts as 20th century music.

10kleh
aug 12, 2021, 6:44 pm

>9 comsat38: I don't think it's a bad programme considering this year's constraints, and the necessity to adapt to fast changing conditions and availability. The absence of the large international orchestras is a big hole to fill. In addition to MacMillan, we have so far had new works from Ogonek, Thomas, and Byström.

My main gripe is the lack of promming season tickets. Without season tickets, it almost twice as expensive as usual to attend, and very few of the regulars are doing so each evening.

11antimuzak
aug 14, 2021, 1:57 am

The Aurora Prom yesterday was excellent and has not been the only one.

Today:

Saturday 14th August 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Vikingur Olafsson Plays Bach and Mozart.

Ian Skelly presents live from the Royal Albert Hall as Vikingur Olafsson performs Prokofiev, Bach, Mozart and Shostakovich with the Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Paavo Jarvi. Award-winning Icelandic pianist Olafsson makes his much-anticipated Proms debut as soloist in both Bach's Keyboard Concerto in F minor, whose energised outer movements frame a ravishing central Adagio, and Mozart's pioneering Piano Concerto K491, a rare minor-key work, whose stormy, richly orchestrated music climaxes in a relentless dance. The Philharmonia Orchestra and Jarvi frame the concert with Prokofiev's playful Classical symphony, with its clever juxtaposition of traditional forms and contemporary colours, and the more loaded irony of Shostakovich's compact Symphony No 9. Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 in D - Classical; Bach: Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056. 8:00 Interval. Ian Skelly talks to tonight's soloist Vikingur Olafsson and is joined by Tasmin Little to discuss tonight's Prom. Mozart: Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K 491; Shostakovich: Symphony No 9 in E flat. Vikingur Olafsson (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi (conductor).
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12yolana
aug 14, 2021, 7:13 am

>10 kleh: it still looks like a bargain from here in the states. I’ve only been a few concerts once while visiting a friend in London and was I was astounded at how affordable it was. Hope to go again if the world ever returns to normal.

13antimuzak
aug 15, 2021, 1:48 am

Thats public service broadcasting for you Yolana, funded by the general population via the TV licence fee - and why the Torys hate it.

14antimuzak
aug 17, 2021, 1:48 am

Tuesday 17th August 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Manchester Collective.

Fresh from the release of its debut recording, the dynamic Manchester Collective makes its Proms debut alongside genre-defying harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Presented by Elizabeth Alker. Gorecki: Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 40. Edmund Finnis: The Centre is Everywhere. Julius Eastman: The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc. 8.15 Interval: Elizabeth Alker is joined by the Lancashire born music journalist and radio presenter Stuart Maconie to discuss genre crossing, music and silence. Dobrinka Tabakova: Suite in Old Style, 'The Court Jester Amareu'. Joseph Horovitz: Jazz Harpsichord Concerto. Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord), Manchester Collective, Rakhi Singh (violin/director).
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15antimuzak
aug 22, 2021, 1:45 am

Sunday 22nd August 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)

Simon Rattle Conducts the London Symphony Orchestra.

Martin Handley presents live from the Royal Albert Hall as Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in three, concise symphonic masterworks by Stravinsky. The programme follows the composer's view of the symphony from the experimental, colour-blocked ritual of the Symphonies of Wind Instruments, through the transitional Symphony in C - reflecting both the composer's European past and his American future - to arrive at the bold Symphony in Three Movements. Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments; Symphony in C; Symphony in Three Movements. London Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor).
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16antimuzak
aug 24, 2021, 1:54 am

Tuesday 24th August 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Chineke! Orchestra.

Chineke! Orchestra, Britain's only majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra, in Florence Price's Piano Concerto and Coleridge-Taylor's Symphony. With conductor Kalena Bovell and pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason. Presented by Petroc Trelawny, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha's Wedding Feast - overture. Sowande: African Suite. Price: Piano Concerto in One Movement. c 8.30 Interval. Catherine Carr joins Petroc to talk about the range of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's musical output, from chamber music to opera. c 8.55 Coleridge-Taylor: Symphony in A minor. Chineke! Orchestra, Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (piano), Kalena Bovell (conductor).
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17kleh
aug 25, 2021, 3:42 am

A shame that you have omitted The BBC Singers and Shiva Feshareki on Thursday 19th. August.
I found it the most enthralling prom of the season.

18antimuzak
aug 27, 2021, 1:49 am

Thanks for the recommendation kleh, much appreciated.

I don't list all of the programmes on Radio 3 - my listings are given because of my indeosycratic interests and what appears to be important or of high quality (to me!). I'm also away at times or too busy to list programmes. But, by all means, post your own recommendations if you wish to do this - it doesn't have to be left to me!

19antimuzak
aug 29, 2021, 1:54 am

Sunday 29th August 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:00 to 20:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)

Family Prom - Animal Magic.

Georgia Mann presents a family concert live from the Royal Albert Hall, with the Kanneh-Mason siblings and friends celebrating animal magic with Saint-Saëns's zoological fantasy The Carnival of the Animals, with new narration by Michael Morpurgo. The author joins the seven talented siblings and starry musical friends for this special family Prom, where Saint-Saëns's much-loved musical menagerie packed with braying donkeys, energetic kangaroos, a serene swan and an aquarium of glinting fish gets a fresh update with witty new poems by Morpurgo. Daniel Kidane: New work (BBC commission: world premiere); Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals. Michael Morpurgo (narrator), Aminata Kanneh-Mason, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Ayla Sahin (violins), Timothy Ridout (viola), Mariatu Kanneh-Mason, Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cellos), Toby Hughes (double bass), Adam Walker (flute), Mark Simpson (clarinet), Isata Kanneh-Mason, Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, Konya Kanneh-Mason (pianos), Alasdair Malloy (glass harmonica), Adrian Spillet (percussion).
(Live)

20antimuzak
aug 30, 2021, 1:52 am

Monday 30th August 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

George Benjamin Conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

Penny Gore presents live from the Royal Albert Hall as George Benjamin conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Knussen and Purcell and the premiere of his Concerto for Orchestra, with Pierre-Laurent Aimard joining for Ravel's Piano Concerto. When the 20-year-old Benjamin's Ringed by the Flat Horizon was performed at the Proms in 1980, it marked an arrival for a precociously talented young composer. Now established as one of the greats of his generation, he returns to conduct regular collaborators the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard in a concert featuring Ravel's jazz-infused Piano Concerto, an operatic pot-pourri by his friend Oliver Knussen, the world premiere of his own Concerto for Orchestra and his new reworkings of fantasias by Purcell. Knussen: The Way to Castle Yonder; Purcell: Three Consorts transcr. Benjamin (world premiere); Ravel: Piano Concerto in G; George Benjamin: Concerto for Orchestra (world premiere - BBC co-commission with Mahler Chamber Orchestra). Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Mahler Chamber Orchestra, George Benjamin (conductor).
(Live)

21antimuzak
aug 31, 2021, 1:50 am

Tuesday 31st August 2021 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 17:00 to 22:15 (5 hours and 15 minutes long)

Wagner: Tristan & Isolde.

Glyndebourne Opera's production of Wagner's Tristan & Isolde, with the London Philharmonic conducted by Robin Ticciati, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Andrew McGregor presents. A story about longing and yearning, about an unresolved and unresolvable love, expressed in music that famously denies resolution until its very final bars, the opera still exerts the same fascination today. Glyndebourne Music Director Robin Ticciati conducts an international cast in a concert performance marking 60 years of the company's appearances at the Proms. 5.00: Act 1. 6.25: Interval: 6.50: Act 2. 8.10: Interval: Andrew McGregor is joined by Natasha Walter to discuss Wagner's women. 8.35: Act 3. Simon O'Neill (Tristan: tenor), Miina-Liisa Värelä (Isolde: soprano), Karen Cargill (Brangäne: mezzo-soprano), Shen Yang (Kurwenal: baritone), John Relyea (King Mark: bass), Neal Cooper (Melot: tenor), Stuart Jackson (Shepherd/Young Sailor: tenor), Glyndebourne Festival Opera, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Robin Ticciati (conductor).
(Live)

22antimuzak
sep 1, 2021, 1:51 am

Wednesday 1st September 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Sir John Eliot Gardiner Conducts the Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists.

Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists in music by Bach and Handel, including Dixit Dominus. Live from the Royal Albert Hall, presented by Hannah French. Gardiner makes his 60th Proms appearance directing his own Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Handel's vividly theatrical Dixit Dominus - a concerto for choir that blazes with virtuosity and colour. It's paired with Bach's Easter cantata Christ lag in Todes Banden - a fiery, dramatic setting of Luther's popular hymn. Mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg is the soloist in the young Handel's cantata of praise to the Virgin Mary, Donna, che in ciel, containing music the composer later borrowed for his opera Agrippina. Handel: Cantata 'Donna, che in ciel'. Bach: Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4825 Interval: Handel expert Suzanne Aspden talks to Hannah French about how Handel's time in Italy shaped his work and the exchange of musical ideas between composers in the 18th century. 8.45 Handel: Dixit Dominus. Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano), English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).
(Live)

23kleh
sep 2, 2021, 7:09 pm

>18 antimuzak: As it's such a good opportunity to get to know unfamiliar works, I just try to attend as many of the concerts as possible. I frequently find that unanticipated pieces are revelations, and become new favourites.

24kleh
sep 2, 2021, 7:30 pm

>21 antimuzak: I usually stand in the Arena, but bought a cheap Circle seat for this, rather than stand for the five hours. But there was such low audience attendance, that the Royal Albert Hall upgraded us to fill the Centre Stalls, the ideal location to experience the semi-staging.

A heroic performance from Neal Cooper, who stepped in and sang the role of Tristan from memory at the side of the stage in Act 3, after Simon O'Neill had lost his voice.

25antimuzak
sep 3, 2021, 1:54 am

Many thanks for the review Kleh, much appreciated. Living in North East England as I do it is not easy to get to the Proms but I usually manage one or two visits a year, standing in the arena. Not last year or this year however.

This evening:

Friday 3rd September 2021 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Semyon Bychkov Conducts the BBC SO & Kirill Gerstein.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov perform Tchaikovsky, and are joined by Kirill Gerstein in Rachmaninov's virtuosic Piano Concerto No.3. Live from the Royal Albert Hall. Presented by Ian Skelly. Beethoven: Overture 'Coriolan' Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor. 20.05 Interval. Ian Skelly takes an oblique view of the music in tonight's programme. 20.25 Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 in A minor, 'Scottish'(40 mins). Kirill Gerstein (piano). BBC Symphony Orchestra. Semyon Bychkov (conductor). Russian-American pianist Kirill Gerstein returns to the Proms following his thrilling 2017 performance of Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto, rekindling his partnership with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the holder of the orchestra's Günter Wand Conducting Chair, Semyon Bychkov.
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