1 FRIDAY 13 JULY
7.30pm – c9.50pm
WALTON Overture Portsmouth Point
ELGAR Cello Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 ‘Choral’
Paul Watkins cello
Maria Haan soprano
Patricia Bardon mezzo-soprano
Paul Groves tenor
René Pape bass
Philharmonia Chorus
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jirí Belohlávek conductor
2 SATURDAY 14 JULY
7.30pm – c10.10pm
MUSIC FROM
GREAT BRITISH FILMS
WALTON Battle of Britain – Battle In The Air
LAMBERT Anna Karenina – Suite
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 49th Parallel – Prelude
ADLER Genevieve – Waltz
MAURICE JARRE Lawrence of Arabia – Theme
EASDALE The Red Shoes – Suite
ARNOLD Bridge on the River Kwai – March
IRELAND The Overlanders – March – Scorched Earth
SIR RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT Love Theme from ‘Yanks’
ERIC ROGERS Carry On – Medley
PATRICK DOYLE Much Ado About
Nothing – Overture
DEBBIE WISEMAN Wilde – Suite
JOHN WILLIAMS Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – Harry’s Wondrous
World
COATES March ‘The Dam Busters’ plus works by ADDISON, JOHN POWELL/HARRY
GREGSON WILLIAMS, FENTON and STEPHEN WARBECK
Richard E. Grant narrator/presenter
Lord Attenborough guest speaker
Philip Achille harmonica
Cynthia Millar ondes martenot
Maida Vale Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Wilson conductor
3 SUNDAY 15 JULY
7.00pm – c9.40pm
CAMPRA Messe de requiem
RAMEAU Music from Zaïs, Dardanus, Les fêtes d’Hébé &
Les Boréades; Dances from Platée & Hippolyte et Aricie*; Music
from Castor et Pollux, Naïs & Les Boréades
Julia Doyle and Katharine Fuge sopranos
Anders Dahlin, Marc Molomot
and Nicholas Mulroy tenors
Lawrence Wallington and Matthew Brook basses
Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble*
Dances for All*
Rosemary Nalden director*
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Compagnie Roussat-Ludbek
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor
4 MONDAY 16 JULY
7.30pm – c9.40pm
BERIO Sinfonia
ROSSINI Stabat mater
Emma Bell soprano
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano
Lawrence Brownlee tenor
Ildar Abdrazakov bass
Swingle Singers
Chorus and Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome
Antonio Pappano conductor
5 TUESDAY 17 JULY
7.00pm – c9.05pm
SAM HAYDEN Substratum
BERNSTEIN Symphony No. 2, ‘The Age of Anxiety’
IVES Symphony No. 4
Orli Shaham and Ralph van Raat piano
London Philharmonic Choir
BBC Symphony Orchestra
David Robertson conductor
6 TUESDAY 17 JULY
10.15pm – c11.30pm
STRIGGIO Ecce beatam lucem
LASSUS Motet and Magnificat, ‘Aurora lucis rutilat’
STRIGGIO Mass ‘Ecco sì beato giorno’ in 40 and 60 parts*
TALLIS Spem in alium
Gary Cooper organ
Timothy Roberts harpsichord
BBC Singers
Tallis Scholars
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
Peter Phillips and Davitt Moroney* conductors
7 WEDNESDAY 18 JULY
7.30pm – c9.55pm
TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 7
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestre National de France
Kurt Masur conductor
8 THURSDAY 19 JULY
7.30pm – c10.00pm
ARVO PÄRT Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
RAKHMANINOV Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
GLIÈRE Symphony No. 3, ‘Ilya Murometz’
Nelson Goerner piano
BBC Philharmonic
Vassily Sinaisky conductor
9 FRIDAY 20 JULY
7.30pm – c9.40pm
HENRI DUTILLEUX
The Shadows of Time
RAVEL Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
Roger Muraro piano
Choristers from Eton College
Chapel Choir
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer conductor
10 SATURDAY 21 JULY
11.00am – c1.00pm
BLUE PETER PROM – JAMBOREE!
Programme includes: COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man
Blue Peter Theme (new version)
GRIEG ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ from Peer Gynt
JOHN WILLIAMS: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – Harry’s Wondrous
World
PROKOFIEV ‘The Montagues and the Capulets’ from Romeo and Juliet
JONATHAN DOVE Run to the Edge
BERNSTEIN ‘Mambo’ from West Side Story
STRAVINSKY: Greeting Prelude (after C. F. Summy’s Happy Birthday to You)
ELGAR Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 in D major (‘Land of Hope
and Glory’)
Peter Duncan presenter
Gemma Hunt presenter
Connie Fisher singer
New London Children’s Choir
Southend Boys’ and Girls’ Choirs
Bollywood Brass Band
Honey Kalaria & Honey’s Dance Academy
BBC Philharmonic
Tecwyn Evans conductor
11SATURDAY 21 JULY
7.00pm – c8.50pm
DEBUSSY Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
SAINT-SAËNS Cello Concerto No. 1
FAURÉ Cantique de Jean Racine; Requiem
Steven Isserlis cello
William Dutton treble
Russell Braun baritone
National Youth Choir of Wales
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer conductor
12 SUNDAY 22 JULY
11.00am – c1.00pm
BLUE PETER PROM – JAMBOREE!
A second opportunity for families to enjoy the world-famous Blue Peter Prom.
See Prom 10 for details.
13 SUNDAY 22 JULY
7.30pm – c9.20pm
BRETT DEAN Vexations and Devotions
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7
Gondwana Voices
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
David Robertson conductor
14 MONDAY 23 JULY
7.00pm – c9.45pm
HAYDNThe Seasons (sung in German)
Sally Matthews soprano
James Gilchrist tenor
Jonathan Lemalu bass-baritone
Handel and Haydn Society of Boston
Sir Roger Norrington conductor
15 TUESDAY 24 JULY
7.00pm – c.10.05pm
VERDI Macbeth (1865 revision with final scene from original 1847 version)
(semi-staged; sung in Italian)
Sylvie Valayre Lady Macbeth
Andrzej Dobber Macbeth
Stanislav Shvets Banquo
Peter Auty Macduff
Bryan Griffin Malcolm
Richard Mosley-Evans
Doctor/Servant/Herald
Svetlana Sozdateleva Lady-in-waiting
Glyndebourne Chorus
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Geoffrey Dolton director
Vladimir Jurowski conductor
16 WEDNESDAY 25 JULY
7.00pm – c9.00pm
BEETHOVEN Overture ‘Leonore’ No. 3
BARBERViolin Concerto
COPLAND Symphony No. 3
James Ehnes volin
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conductor
17 WEDNESDAY 25 JULY
10.00pm – c11.15pm
HUMMEL Alma virgo
SCHUBERT Mass in E flat major, D950
Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano
Mark Padmore tenor
James Gilchrist tenor
Matthew Rose bass
Collegium Musicum 90
Richard Hickox conductor
18 THURSDAY 26 JULY
7.30pm – c9.25pm
DELIUS A Song of Summer
TIPPETT Triple Concerto
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 5
Daniel Hope violin
Philip Dukes viola
Christian Poltéra cello
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis conductor
19 FRIDAY 27 JULY
7.30pm – c9.30pm
R. STRAUSS Macbeth
BRITTEN Our Hunting Fathers
NIELSEN Symphony No. 4, ‘The Inextinguishable’
Lisa Milne soprano
Hallé
Mark Elder conductor
20 SATURDAY 28 JULY
2.00pm – c5.30pm
JUDITH BINGHAM Fanfare ‘Ziggurat’
MONTEVERDI Orfeo – Toccata
G.GABRIELI Sonata pian’ e forte
GRILLO Canzon Terza, from Sacri concentus ac symphoniae
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Overture ‘Henry V’
HANS WERNER HENZE Ragtimes and Habaneras
HEATONToccata ‘Oh The Blessed Lord’
PHILIP WILBY ... Dove Descending
ELGAR Severn Suite
MUSORGSKY, arr. Elgar Howarth
Pictures at an Exhibition
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Black Dyke Mills Band
Musicians from Uzbekistan
Musicians from the Royal
Northern College of Music
Members of the BBC Philharmonic
Allan Withington, Nicholas Childs and Håkan Hardenberger conductors
21 SATURDAY 28 JULY
7.30pm – c9.35pm
JUDITH BINGHAM Fanfare ‘Ziggurat’
SCHUMANN Konzertstück
HK GRUBER Aerial†
PETER WIEGOLD He is armoured without*
JANÁCEK Sinfonietta
David Pyatt, Michael Thompson,
Martin Owen and Cormac Ó hAodáin horns
Håkan Hardenberger trumpet
The Fanfare Trumpets of the Band of the Coldstream Guards
Musicians from Uzbekistan
Massed brass players from RNCM, Salford University, London and South East
England
BBC Philharmonic
Peter Wiegold* conductor
André de Ridder† conductor
Sir Charles Mackerras conductor
22 SUNDAY 29 JULY
6.30pm – c8.35pm
FAURÉ Shylock – excerpts
BERLIOZ Les nuits d’été
BIZET L’Arlésienne – incidental music
Anne Sofie von Otter mezzo-soprano
Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble
Marc Minkowski conductor
23 MONDAY 30 JULY
7.30pm – c9.45pm
RAVEL Le tombeau de Couperin
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN Piano Concerto
BERLIOZ Romeo and Juliet – excerpts
Yefim Bronfman piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
24 TUESDAY 31 JULY
7.00pm – c9.10pm
SIBELIUS Tapiola
BRITTEN Piano Concerto (1945 revised version)
VARÈSE Ecuatorial
DEBUSSY La mer
Steven Osborne piano
Tenebrae (men’s voices)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov conductor
25 TUESDAY 31 JULY
10.00pm – c11.20pm
PIERRE BOULEZ Dérive 2 (1988/2006)
SIR HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
Neruda Madrigales
BBC Singers
London Sinfonietta
Susanna Mälkki conductor
26 WEDNESDAY 1 AUGUST
7.30pm – c9.45pm
GYÖRGY KURTÁG Stele
MAHLER Symphony No. 9
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov conductor
27 THURSDAY 2 AUGUST
7.00pm – c9.10pm
DEBUSSY Printemps
PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2
DAVID MATTHEWS Symphony No. 6
RAVEL La valse
Janine Jansen violin
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen conductor
28 FRIDAY 3 AUGUST
7.30pm – c9.40pm
STRAVINSKY Scherzo fantastique
MAGNUS LINDBERG Clarinet Concerto
RAKHMANINOV Symphony No. 2
Kari Kriikku clarinet
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov conductor
29 SATURDAY 4 AUGUST
6.30pm – c8.45pm
AARON JAY KERNIS New Era Dance
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 1
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 7 ‘Leningrad’
Alexander Kobrin piano
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Mark Elder conductor
30 SUNDAY 5 AUGUST
4.00pm – c5.30pm
ELGAR Four Choral Songs, Op. 53;
Sonata in G major for organ – finale; Give unto the Lord
BRAHMS Four Songs, Op. 17
REUBKE Organ Sonata in C minor on Psalm 94 – finale
SIR RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT Four Poems of Thomas Campion
GRIEG Four Psalms, Op. 74 – Nos 1 & 2 (sung in Norwegian)
Iain Farrington organ
Sioned Williams harp
Nicholas Korth & Christopher Larkin harp
Thorbjørn Gulbrandsøy baritone
BBC Symphony Chorus
Stephen Jackson conductor
31 SUNDAY 5 AUGUST
7.30pm – c9.40pm
BRAHMSVariations on the
St Anthony Chorale
ELGAR Enigma Variations
R. STRAUSS Oboe Concerto;
Der Rosenkavalier – Suite
Alexei Ogrintchouk oboe
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Daniele Gatti conductor
32 MONDAY 6 AUGUST
7.30pm – c9.50pm
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8
BERG Seven Early Songs; An Leukon (arr. C. Gordon)
KORNGOLD Die Kathrin – ‘Ich soll ihn niemals, niemals mehr sehn’; Das Wunder
der Heliane – ‘Ich ging zu ihm’
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2
Renée Fleming soprano
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda conductor
33 TUESDAY 7 AUGUST
7.00pm – c9.10pm
BRITTEN Sinfonia da Requiem
MAHLER compl. D. Cooke
Symphony No. 10
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda conductor
34 TUESDAY 7 AUGUST
10.00pm – c11.25pm
BACH Cantata No. 78, ‘Jesu, der
du meine Seele’; Cantata No. 179,
‘Siehe zu, dass deine Gottesfurcht
nicht Heuchelei sei’; Cantata No. 200,
‘Bekennen will ich seinen Namen’ – aria;
Mass in G major, BWV 236
Carolyn Sampson soprano
Robin Blaze counter-tenor
Gerd Türk tenor
Peter Kooy bass
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki conductor
35 WEDNESDAY 8 AUGUST
7.30pm – c10.00pm
JOHN DANKWORTH Shakespeare and All That Jazz – excerpts;The Million
Dollar Collection – excerpts;The Blues Ain’t (lyrics by Duncan Lamont)
ELLINGTON Such Sweet Thunder
STRAYHORN Take the A Train (new arrangement by John Dankworth)
Cleo Laine singer
Soweto Kinch and Tommy Smith saxophones
Guy Barker trumpet
John Dankworth Quintet
BBC Big Band
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Dankworth musical director
36 THURSDAY 9 AUGUST
7.00pm – c8.55pm
GUTO PUW ... onyt agiraf y drws ...
WALTON Viola Concerto
RAKHMANINOV Symphonic Dances
Lawrence Power viola
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
David Atherton conductor
37 FRIDAY 10 AUGUST
9.00pm – c11.30pm
AN EVENING WITH NITIN SAWHNEY AND FRIENDS
Nitin Sawhney piano/guitar
Anoushka Shankar sitar
Ian Burdge cello
Karlos Edwards drums
Ashwin Srinivasan flute
Aref Durvesh tabla
Fink, Ola, Natacha Atlas, Reena
Bhardwaj,Tina Grace and
Imogen Heap vocals
Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi
Cherkaoui dancers/choreographers
London Undersound Symphony Orchestra
Stephen Hussey conductor
38 SATURDAY 11 AUGUST
6.30pm – c8.30pm
BRAHMS Tragic Overture; Symphony No. 3
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5
European Union Youth Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis conductor
39 SUNDAY 12 AUGUST
4.00pm – c10.20pm
WAGNER Götterdämmerung (sung in German)
Christine Brewer Brünnhilde
Stig Andersen Siegfried
Sir John Tomlinson Hagen
Alan Held Gunther
Gweneth-Ann Jeffers Gutrune
Gordon Hawkins Alberich
Karen Cargill Waltraute
Andrea Baker First Norn
Natascha Petrinsky Second Norn
Miranda Keys Third Norn
Katherine Broderick Woglinde
Anna Stéphany Wellgunde
Liora Grodnikaite Flosshilde
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles conductor
40 MONDAY 13 AUGUST
7.30pm – c9.40pm
WEBER Oberon – Overture
MAHLER Des Knaben Wunderhorn – selection
BRAHMS, arr. Schoenberg Piano Quartet in G minor
Matthias Goerne baritone
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Paavo Järvi conductor
41 TUESDAY 14 AUGUST
7.30pm – c9.25pm
STRAVINSKY Petrushka (1947 version)
BERNSTEIN On the Town – Three Dance Episodes
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue (with additional improvisation)
(orch. Grofé/double wind version)
Marcus Roberts piano
Marcus Roberts Trio
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Robert Spano conductor
42 WEDNESDAY15 AUGUST
7.30pm – c10.00pm
SIBELIUS The Tempest – complete incidental music (sung in Finnish); Songs with
orchestra; Symphony No. 7
Helena Juntunen soprano
Lilli Paasikivi mezzo-soprano
Juha Hostikka tenor
Petri Lehto tenor
Ville Rusanen baritone
Dominante
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä conductor
43 THURSDAY 16 AUGUST
7.00pm – c9.00pm
GRIEG, orch.Halvorsen Funeral
March for Rikard Nordraak
GRIEG Piano Concerto in A minor
WALTON Symphony No. 1
Boris Berezovsky piano
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Litton conductor
44 THURSDAY 16 AUGUST
10.15pm – c11.30pm
JAMES MACMILLAN Veni, veni,
Emmanuel
LUTOSLAWSKI Chantefleurs et Chantefables
SIR HARRISON BIRTWISTLE Panic
Colin Currie percussion
Solveig Kringelborn soprano
Martin Robertson saxophone
Peter Erskine drums
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martin Brabbins conductor
45 FRIDAY 17 AUGUST
7.30pm – c9.30pm
SCHOENBERG Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16
OLIVER KNUSSEN Violin Concerto
HANS WERNER HENZE Sebastian im Traum
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring
Leila Josefowicz volin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen conductor
46 SATURDAY 18 AUGUST
6.30pm – c9.00pm
ELGAR The Apostles
Amanda Roocroft soprano
Catherine Wyn-Rogers mezzo-soprano
Anthony Dean Griffey tenor
Alan Opie baritone
James Rutherford bass-baritone
Peter Rose bass
City of Birmingham
Symphony Chorus
City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor
47 SATURDAY 18 AUGUST
10.15pm – c11.30pm
PIAZZOLLA Tangazo
BENJAMIN YUSUPOV Viola Tango Rock Concerto
Maxim Vengerov viola/electric
violin/tango dancer
Christiane Palha tango dancer
London Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Yusupov conductor
48 SUNDAY 19 AUGUST
6.30pm – c8.45pm
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 10
BERNSTEIN West Side Story – Symphonic Dances
Latin American works including music by Revueltas and Ginastera
Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela
Gustavo Dudamel conductor
49 MONDAY 20 AUGUST
7.30pm – c9.25pm
THOMAS ADÈS Powder Her Face – Suite
BARTÓK Duke Bluebeard’s Castle (sung in Hungarian)
Charlotte Hellekant Judith
Falk Struckmann Duke Bluebeard
BBC Philharmonia Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi conductor
50 TUESDAY 21 AUGUST
7.30pm – c9.35pm
COPLAND Billy the Kid – Suite
JOHN ADAMS Century Rolls; Doctor Atomic Symphony
Olli Mustonen piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Adams conductor
51 WEDNESDAY 22 AUGUST
7.30pm – c9.15pm
MAHLER Symphony No. 3
Anna Larsson mezzo-soprano
Trinity Boys’ Choir
London Symphony Chorus (women’s voices)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado conductor
52 THURSDAY 23 AUGUST
7.30pm – c9.45pm
HANDEL Concerto a due cori in F major
HWV 333; Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne – ‘Eternal source of light
divine’; Acis and Galatea – ‘Love sounds th’alarm’; L’Allegro, il Penseroso
ed il Moderato – ‘As steals the morn’;Acis and Galatea – ‘Happy we!’; Music
for the Royal Fireworks
PURCELL, arr. Catherine Mackintosh Sett of Favourite Airs, Fantasies and
Dances
TELEMANN Suite in G minor,
TWV 55: g8
Kate Royal soprano
Ian Bostridge tenor
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Rachel Podger and Gottfried von der Goltz violin/director
53 FRIDAY 24 AUGUST
7.00pm – c8.35pm
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 8 (1890 Nowak edition)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink conductor
54 FRIDAY 24 AUGUST
10.00pm – c11.25pm
HAYDN Symphony No.102
LIGETI Études for solo piano – selection
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano/conductor
55 SATURDAY 25 AUGUST
6.30pm – c8.50pm
WAGNER Parsifal – Prelude to Act 1 and Good Friday Music;Tristan und Isolde –
Prelude and Liebestod
DEBUSSY Three Nocturnes
DEBUSSY, orch. Rudolf Escher
Six épigraphes antiques Tenebrae (women’s voices)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink conductor
56 SUNDAY 26 AUGUST
7.30pm – c9.25pm
BRITTEN Peter Grimes – Four Sea Interludes
MARTINU° Piano Concerto No. 4, ‘Incantation’
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5
Ivo Kahanek piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jirí Belohlávek conductor
57 MONDAY 27 AUGUST
3.00pm – c4.00pm
RACHEL PORTMAN/OWEN
SHEERS The Water Diviner’s Tale
Helen Williams soprano
Frances Bourne mezzo-soprano
Robert Burt tenor
Riccardo Simonetti baritone
Paul Reeves bass
Youth Choirs of Berkshire, Bromley and Hertfordshire
BBC Concert Orchestra
Denni Sayers director
David Charles Abell conductor
58 MONDAY 27 AUGUST
8.00pm – c10.00pm
AN EVENING WITH MICHAEL BALL
Michael Ball singer
BBC Concert Orchestra
Callum McLeod conductor
59 TUESDAY 28 AUGUST
7.30pm – c9.55pm
TCHAIKOVSKY Fantasy Overtures
‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘Hamlet’
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 2; Symphony No. 7
Alexander Toradze piano
London Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev conductor
60 WEDNESDAY 29 AUGUST
7.00pm – c9.00pm
R. STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2
Bavarian Radio
Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons conductor
61 WEDNESDAY 29 AUGUST
10.00pm – c11.15pm
OLIVER KNUSSEN Ophelia Dances; Requiem – Songs for Sue
WEBERN Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10
JULIAN ANDERSON Book of Hours
Claire Booth soprano
Birmingham Contemporary
Music Group
Oliver Knussen conductor
62 THURSDAY 30 AUGUST
7.30pm – c9.45pm
HONEGGER Symphony No. 3, ‘Symphonie liturgique’
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 ‘Choral’
Krassimira Stoyanova soprano
Lioba Braun mezzo-soprano
Michael Schade tenor
Michael Volle bass
Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons conductor
63 FRIDAY 31 AUGUST
7.30pm – c9.20pm
THEA MUSGRAVE Two’s Company
MAHLER Symphony No. 1
Nicholas Daniel oboe
Dame Evelyn Glennie percussion
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jirí Belohlávek conductor
64 SATURDAY 1 SEPTEMBER
6.30pm – c8.35pm
IVES Symphony No. 3,‘The Camp Meeting’
R. STRAUSS Salome – finale scene
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
Deborah Voigt soprano
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas conductor
65 SUNDAY 2 SEPTEMBER
7.00pm – c8.30pm
MAHLER Symphony No. 7
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas conductor
66 MONDAY 3 SEPTEMBER
7.00pm – c9.15pm
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 5
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 4, ‘Romantic’
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim conductor
67 MONDAY 3 SEPTEMBER
10.15pm – c11.30pm
BRITTEN Hymn to St Cecilia
BUXTEHUDE Praeludium in A minor, BuxWV 153; Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott
BuxWV 199; Puer natus in Bethlehem, BuxWV 217; Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV
161; Canzonetta in G major, BuxWV 171;Vater unser im Himmelreich, BuxWV 219;
Praeludium in G minor, BuxWV 149
D. SCARLATTI Stabat mater
John Scott and Daniel Hyde organ
BBC Singers
David Hill conductor
68 TUESDAY 4 SEPTEMBER
7.30pm – c9.20pm
BARTÓK Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
LIGETI Atmosphères
ENESCU Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
KODÁLY Dances of Galánta
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim conductor
69 WEDNESDAY 5 SEPTEMBER
7.30pm – c9.45pm
BEETHOVEN Overture ‘Coriolan’; Violin Concerto in D major
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4
Sergey Khachatryan violin
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly conductor
70 THURSDAY 6 SEPTEMBER
7.00pm – c9.40pm
BERLIOZ The Damnation of Faust (sung in French)
Yvonne Naef mezzo-soprano
Marcello Giordani tenor
José Van Dam bass-baritone
Patrick Carfizzi bass
Finchley Children’s Music Group
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Boston Symphony Orchestra
James Levine conductor
71 FRIDAY 7 SEPTEMBER
7.30pm – c9.45pm
ELLIOTT CARTERThree Illusions for Orchestra
BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra
BRAHMS Symphony No.1
Boston Symphony Orchestra
James Levine conductor
72 SATURDAY 8 SEPTEMBER
7.30pm – c10.40pm
THE LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS 2007
DVORÁK Overture ‘Othello’
RAKHMANINOV Vocalise (orch. Rakhmaninov arr. Joshua Bell)
RAVEL Tzigane
THOMAS ADÈS The Storm (Opening Scene from ‘The Tempest’)
ELGAR The Spirit of England – The Fourth of August; Pomp and Circumstances
March No. 1 (‘Land of Hope and Glory’)
BELLINI La sonnambula – scene from Act 2
FUCÍK Entrance of the Gladiators
LEHÁR Giuditta – ‘Meine Lippen sie küssen so heiss’
PONCE, arr. Heifetz Estrellita
R. STRAUSS Morgen
HENRY WOOD Fantasia on British Sea-Songs (with additional numbers arr. Bob
Chilcott)
PARRY, orch. Elgar Jerusalem
The National Anthem
Anna Netrebko soprano
Andrew Kennedy tenor
Joshua Bell violin
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jirí Belohlávek conductor
SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER
Hyde Park, London
Events sponsored by NS&I
Gates open 4.00pm; entertainment on stage from 5.30pm
The inimitable Sir Terry Wogan hosts the celebrations in Hyde Park, where a
host of international stars will be accompanied by Proms in the Park
favourites, the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Carl Davis.
This year’s line up includes...
LESLEY GARRETT, JUAN DIEGO FLÓREZ & MARK SIMPSON
ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY, TONY HADLEY, RYANDAN, CHICO & T-REXTASY
Broadcast live on BBC Radio 2
Highlights on BBC ONE and BBC TWO.
