Composer: TchaikovskyFestival: BBC Proms| Date | Event | Composers, Works, Performers |
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| Sunday 21-Jul-13 07:30pm |
 Royal Albert Hall, LondonProm 13 BBC Proms |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Sunday 21-Jul-13 07:30pm Prom 13 The UK debut of the newly formed National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America opens with the European premiere of a work by American rising star Sean Shepherd. Joshua Bell joins Valery Gergiev and the orchestra for Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in a bravura programme that concludes with Shostakovich’s monumental 10th Symphony.Tickets £7.50 - £36. Shepherd, Sean (b. 1979), Magiya (BBC co-commission with Carnegie Hall, European première) | ||
| Wednesday 24-Jul-13 07:30pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 16 BBC Proms |
Walton, Film music from Henry V (Touch her soft lips and part; Death of Falstaff) |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Wednesday 24-Jul-13 07:30pm Prom 16 Jac van Steen and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales launch the Proms cycle of Tchaikovsky symphonies with the baleful fanfare of the Fourth. Celebrating his 60th birthday this year, Raphael Wallfisch is the soloist in the Proms premiere of Granville Bantock’s Sapphic Poem, launching the Proms focus on the composer this summer. Rich, lyrical and lushly orchestrated, it is framed by two very different portraits of Sir John Falstaff, by Edward Elgar and William Walton.Tickets £7.50 - £36. Walton, William (1902-1983), Film music from Henry V (Touch her soft lips and part; Death of Falstaff) | ||
| Friday 2-Aug-13 07:30pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 27 BBC Proms |
Sohal, The Cosmic Dance (BBC commission, world première) |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Friday 2-Aug-13 07:30pm Prom 27 The Proms Tchaikovsky symphony cycle continues with the musky melancholy of the Fifth as conductor Peter Oundjian makes his Proms debut. Nikolai Lugansky is the soloist in Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto, notorious for its technical demands yet based around melodic ideas of great simplicity. Punjabi-born British composer Naresh Sohal’s second Proms commission, The Cosmic Dance, examines the idea of creation as interpreted in two very different disciplines: mathematical theory and the ancient texts of the Upanishads and the Rig Veda.Tickets £7.50 - £36. Sohal, Naresh (b. 1939), The Cosmic Dance (BBC commission, world première) | ||
| Monday 5-Aug-13 07:30pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 30 BBC Proms |
Cowie, Earth Music I - The Great Barrier Reef (BBC commission, world première) |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Monday 5-Aug-13 07:30pm Prom 30 Borodin’s overture to Prince Igor opens a programme celebrating the 70th birthday of composer Edward Cowie and the close musical relationship between the BBC Philharmonic, conductor Gianandrea Noseda and pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Bavouzet plays Prokofiev’s brilliant Second Piano Concerto, its orchestral score destroyed in the Russian Revolution and revised by the composer in Paris in 1923. The fragile beauty of the Great Barrier Reef is the subject of Cowie’s Earth Music I, while the ‘Little Russian’ continues the season’s Tchaikovsky symphony cycle.Tickets £7.50 - £36. Cowie, Edward (b. 1943), Earth Music I - The Great Barrier Reef (BBC commission, world première) | ||
| Wednesday 14-Aug-13 07:00pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 42 BBC Proms |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Wednesday 14-Aug-13 07:00pm Prom 42 This summer’s Tchaikovsky symphony cycle continues as Kirill Karabits conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in the dance-infused Third Symphony, written in the summer of 1875 and dubbed the ‘Polish’ following its 1899 London premiere in the Crystal Palace. Leeds International Piano Competition-winner Sunwook Kim makes his Proms debut in Beethoven’s dramatic Piano Concerto No. 3 in a concert that begins with the dazzling brass fanfares and bustling street-life of Brno as translated into music in Janácek’s 1926 Sinfonietta.Tickets £7.50 - £36. | ||
| Saturday 17-Aug-13 03:00pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 46 BBC Proms |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Saturday 17-Aug-13 03:00pm Prom 46 Andris Nelsons conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and soprano Kristïne Opolais in Desdemona’s poignant Willow Song and Ave Maria from Act 3 of Verdi’s 1887 opera Otello and Tatyana’s touching Letter Scene from Tchaikovsky’s 1879 opera Eugene Onegin. Shot through with birdsong and Bohemian dance rhythms, Dvorák’s Eighth Symphony was the last to be completed in the Old World before he left for New York in 1892. A pair of popular Johann Strauss favourites concludes this matinee Prom with Viennese sparkle.Tickets £7.50 - £36. | ||
| Thursday 22-Aug-13 07:00pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 53 BBC Proms |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Thursday 22-Aug-13 07:00pm Prom 53 Charismatic Italian soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci joins the young Canadian Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Music Director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, for Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder, a song-cycle thick with musical references to what would become Tristan and Isolde and written when the composer was infatuated with Mathilde Wesendonck, author of the poems and wife of Wagner’s patron. Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet relates another doomed love, while Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony has a brightness and energy beyond the requirements of Soviet war-time propaganda.Tickets £9.50 - £46. | ||
| Monday 2-Sep-13 07:30pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 68 BBC Proms |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Monday 2-Sep-13 07:30pm Prom 68 Proms debut violinist Baiba Skride joins the Oslo Philharmonic and its new Chief Conductor, Vasily Petrenko, to continue the Proms focus on Polish music in their performance of Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 1, an opulent nocturnal fantasy from a composer enchanted by the sound-worlds and peoples of North Africa and the southern Mediterranean, and inspired by the ‘amorous conflagration’ of Tadeusz Micin´ski’s poem ‘May Night’. Tchaikovsky’s youthful Symphony No. 1, ‘Winter Daydreams’, and Rachmaninov’s nostalgic final work, the Symphonic Dances of 1940, frame the concerto in a programme rich with dreams.Tickets £14 - £57. | ||
| Wednesday 4-Sep-13 07:30pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 71 BBC Proms |
Vaughan Williams, Four Last Songs (orch A Payne, BBC commission, world première) |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Wednesday 4-Sep-13 07:30pm Prom 71 A series of farewells as Osmo Vänskä concludes the season’s focus on Polish music and conducts the premiere of Anthony Payne’s orchestration of Vaughan Williams’s Four Last Songs. BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Ruby Hughes and Jennifer Johnston are the soloists, Hughes singing the three Polish texts of Henryk Górecki’s ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’, Johnston singing ‘Procris’, ‘Menelaus’, ‘Tired’ and ‘Hands, Eyes and Heart’ that make up the Vaughan Williams. Tchaikovsky’s heartfelt ‘Pathétique’ is the penultimate instalment of this summer’s cycle of his symphonies.Tickets £7.50 - £36. Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958), Four Last Songs (orch A Payne, BBC commission, world première) | ||
| Thursday 5-Sep-13 07:00pm |
Royal Albert Hall, London Prom 72 BBC Proms |
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| Royal Albert Hall, London, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, United Kingdom Thursday 5-Sep-13 07:00pm Prom 72 Tchaikovsky’s Manfred depicts the death of a tormented Faustian hero with supernatural gifts and a guilty secret. Chinese-American conductor Xian Zhang directs the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi in the Byronic epic that closes the season’s Tchaikovsky symphony cycle, and also in a selection of Verdi’s operatic overtures and arias featuring last year’s star of the Last Night of the Proms, the Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja.Tickets £14 - £57. | ||
