The festival opens with a choir of 450 and two great portraits of the sea: Sakari Oramo conducts Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony and Britten’s Four Sea Interludes as well as the world premiere of Julian Anderson’s Harmony. Pianist Stephen Hough plays Paganini variations by Rachmaninov and by featured composer Lutosławski.
The festival opens with a choir of 450 and two great portraits of the sea: Sakari Oramo conducts Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony and Britten’s Four Sea Interludes as well as the world premiere of Julian Anderson’s Harmony. Pianist Stephen Hough plays Paganini variations by Rachmaninov and by featured composer Lutosławski.
François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles trace the history of French dance music – on period instruments – from the Court of the Sun King at Versailles to the riotous 1913 Paris premiere of Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring.
François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles trace the history of French dance music – on period instruments – from the Court of the Sun King at Versailles to the riotous 1913 Paris premiere of Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring.
Juanjo Mena and the ±«Óãtv Philharmonic present a programme of dance music spanning Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, John McCabe’s Joybox, Ravel’s µþ´Ç±ôé°ù´Ç and Falla’s Spanish ballet The Three-Cornered Hat.
Juanjo Mena and the ±«Óãtv Philharmonic present a programme of dance music spanning Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, John McCabe’s Joybox, Ravel’s µþ´Ç±ôé°ù´Ç and Falla’s Spanish ballet The Three-Cornered Hat.
Two works by Gustav Holst, and two from the Polish composer Witold LutosÅ‚awski. Edward Gardner directs the ±«Óãtv Symphony Orchestra in Holst’s Egdon Heath and The Planets and LutosÅ‚awski’s Symphonic Variations. Louis Lortie is the soloist in LutosÅ‚awski’s Piano Concerto.
Two works by Gustav Holst, and two from the Polish composer Witold LutosÅ‚awski. Edward Gardner directs the ±«Óãtv Symphony Orchestra in Holst’s Egdon Heath and The Planets and LutosÅ‚awski’s Symphonic Variations. Louis Lortie is the soloist in LutosÅ‚awski’s Piano Concerto.
Cerys Matthews, Laura Marling and The Stranglers join London Sinfonietta for an eclectic Late Night Prom including 20th-century classics by Berio, Varèse and Xenakis, plus a live remix mash-up by composer Anna Meredith.
Cerys Matthews, Laura Marling and The Stranglers join London Sinfonietta for an eclectic Late Night Prom including 20th-century classics by Berio, Varèse and Xenakis, plus a live remix mash-up by composer Anna Meredith.
The John Wilson Orchestra returns to the ±«Óãtv Proms with a programme of Golden Age film music from Edward Newman’s ‘Street Scene’ (from How to Marry a Millionnaire) to Erich Korngold’s swashbuckling suite from Robin Hood and Franz Waxman’s A Place in the Sun.
The John Wilson Orchestra returns to the ±«Óãtv Proms with a programme of Golden Age film music from Edward Newman’s ‘Street Scene’ (from How to Marry a Millionnaire) to Erich Korngold’s swashbuckling suite from Robin Hood and Franz Waxman’s A Place in the Sun.
Keith Lockhart conducts the ±«Óãtv Concert Orchestra in Addinsell’s Warsaw Concerto and music by Walton (Battle of Britain), William Alwyn (The True Glory), Leighton Lucas (Ice Cold in Alex) and Richard Rodney Bennett (Lady Caroline Lamb), and a second half filled with the Hollywood superheroes and space travellers.
Keith Lockhart conducts the ±«Óãtv Concert Orchestra in Addinsell’s Warsaw Concerto and music by Walton (Battle of Britain), William Alwyn (The True Glory), Leighton Lucas (Ice Cold in Alex) and Richard Rodney Bennett (Lady Caroline Lamb), and a second half filled with the Hollywood superheroes and space travellers.
±«Óãtv Proms in the Park returns to the Titanic Slipway in Belfast on Saturday, September 7, 2013 as local audiences join the UK-wide celebrations of the world famous Last Night of the Proms.
The Last Night celebrations return to Glasgow Green. Join presenters Jamie MacDougall and Susan Calman in a night featuring an array of musical stars including singing sensation and former Spice Girl Melanie C, leading Scottish traditional violinist John McCusker, Scot soprano Kate Valentine and tenor Nicky Spence.
Marin Alsop becomes the first female conductor of the Last Night of the Proms. Joyce DiDonato and Nigel Kennedy join the ±«Óãtv Symphony Orchestra in a concert that runs from Rossini and Handel arias to a mass singalong, and from Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and rarities by Britten and Bantock to a new opener by Anna Clyne.
Marin Alsop becomes the first female conductor of the Last Night of the Proms. Joyce DiDonato and Nigel Kennedy join the ±«Óãtv Symphony Orchestra in a concert that runs from Rossini and Handel arias to a mass singalong, and from Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and rarities by Britten and Bantock to a new opener by Anna Clyne.
The ±«Óãtv National Orchestra of Wales brings the Proms in the Park to Caerphilly for an evening of spectacular performances featuring West End singing stars John Owen Jones and Sophie Evans.