Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini features pianist Juan Pérez Floristán. China’s Shanghai Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut with an East-meets-West concert including music by Qigang Chen and Rachmaninov’s exhilarating Symphonic Dances. Edward Gardner conducts musicians from the Juilliard and Royal Academy of Music. Join Robert Macfarlane for a special family-friendly workshop taking you and your children into the world of spell-writing and The Lost Words. Henry Wood Novelties: UK premiere, 1930from 'Somethnig Special', 'Justin's House' and 'Gigglebiz'from 'Somethnig Special', 'Justin's House' and 'Gigglebiz'from 'Somethnig Special', 'Justin's House' and 'Gigglebiz'from 'Somethnig Special', 'Justin's House' and 'Gigglebiz'Orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music and the Juilliard SchoolBBC co-commission with Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de Granada, Orchestre de Paris and Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker: UK premiereHenry Wood Novelties: UK premiere (Suite No. Among the soundtracks featured are those for Alien: Covenant, Gravity, Moon and Interstellar. Programme Schedule 2019/2020 . 1), 1913Nigredo: Dark Night of the Soul (concerto for two trumpets and orchestra)BBC co-commission with Malmö Symphony Orchestra: UK premiere(revised version, 1945) Pagan dances meet the music of the spheres. A ghostly ferryman transports departed souls in Rachmaninov’s Isle of the Dead, while Shostakovich’s bitterly passionate Symphony No. Maxime Pascal conducts Berlioz’s vividly dramatic oratorio (including the much-loved ‘Shepherds’ Farewell’) which follows the Holy Family as they flee into Egypt. ... Marina performing in 2019. In the Name of the Earth is a musical meditation on nature, which will immerse the audience in the sound of more than 600 singers. Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra perform a programme of Austro-German orchestral classics with Bruckner’s ‘Romantic’ Symphony at its heart. Mark Wigglesworth conducts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, with Nicola Benedetti as soloist. Bright with sleigh bells and wonder, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony glances back to Classical models, while Glanert takes Brahms into the 21st century in his lyrical Weites Land.
Baroque-music collective Solomon’s Knot makes its Proms debut with a late-night, all-Bach concert of cantatas, including the richly scored 'Es erhub sich ein Streit', and 'Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg'.
Sheku Kanneh-Mason joins the CBSO for Elgar’s passionate Cello Concerto. Tracing a thrilling journey from doubt to triumph, Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. Musicologist Marina Frolova-Walker and cultural historian Pauline Fairclough discuss Shostakovich and his Symphony No. Backstage at the Royal Albert Hall. Belfast’s Ulster Orchestra and its dynamic music director Rafael Payare present the Proms premiere of Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto, a mellow, good-humoured work paired here with two lively first symphonies by Beethoven and Shostakovich. Leonidas Kavakos is the soloist. Strauss’s exuberant tone-poem Till Eulenspiegel and Brahms’s turbulent First Symphony are joined by a thrilling new double concerto by Tobias Broström. Before that, the urban landscape of Varèse’s Amériques – a portrait of the modern city in sound – meets Koechlin’s sonic jungle. 147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben', BWV 147 – Chorale 'Jesus bleibet meine Freude' (transcr. One of Scotland’s most loved musical events, BBC Scotland’s Proms in the Park returns to Glasgow Green.
BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Aris String Quartet make their Proms debut with Haydn’s ebullient ‘Sunrise’ Quartet. 2, performed here by Seong-Jin Cho. South-Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son is the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.
Soprano Mariana Flores and Cappella Mediterranea celebrate the 400th anniversary of pioneering Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi. Charismatic American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton joins Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus to lead the musical celebrations that bring the world’s greatest classical music festival to a spectacular close. The ‘wild and colourful beauty’ of Arizona inspired one of the 20th century’s most striking works – a sprawling sonic meditation in which birdsong mingles with desert winds.
What Victorians Did For Fun - historians Kathryn Hughes and Lee Jackson discuss 19th century entertainment. Mozart’s Requiem – the composer’s final work, left unfinished at his early death – completes the programme. The group is joined by The Multi-Story Orchestra. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.2 takes a different Ukrainian folk melody as theme for each movement, while a gruesome Czech legend provides the starting point for Janáček’s atmospheric The Fiddler’s Child. 4 and Bruckner’s Symphony No. Described as ‘the undisputed queen of African music’, three-time Grammy Award-winner Angélique Kidjo makes her Proms debut with her nine-piece band in late-night tribute to the celebrated salsa songstress Celia Cruz. 8 against the meticulous detail of Bach’s organ works, including the popular chorale ‘Wachet auf’. 7 – the composer’s heartfelt tribute to his mentor Wagner. Dance and song run through this concert by Constantinos Carydis and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
Sol Gabetta is the soloist. The London Contemporary orchestra’s Late Night Prom puts a futuristic spin on the best sci-fi music for film and television. Elgar’s ‘Enigma’ Variations provides both model and inspiration for a new set of variations by 14 living composers premiered here to mark conductor Martyn Brabbins’s 60th birthday. Rosamund Bartlett and Philip Bullock discuss Tchaikovsky and the Russian folk tradition.
Poet Malika Booker joins host and The Verb presenter Ian McMillan and director of the Poetry Society Judith Palmer to judge this year’s BBC Proms Poetry competition and hear the winning entries.