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  • Fri 18 Jul 2014

    • 16:30
      Proms Plus In Tune
      Royal College of Music

      Part of
      Proms 2014 Proms Plus
      Proms Plus In Tune
    • 19:30
      Prom 1: First Night of the Proms
      Royal Albert Hall

      The festival opens with Elgar’s biblical oratorio The Kingdom – the beautiful ‘slow movement’ of a planned musical triptych. Celebrated Elgarian Sir Andrew Davis conducts the massed forces of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the BBC National Chorus of Wales. They are joined by a distinguished cast of soloists including Proms regulars Christopher Purves and Catherine Wyn-Rogers.

      The festival opens with Elgar’s biblical oratorio The Kingdom – the beautiful ‘slow movement’ of a planned musical triptych. Celebrated Elgarian Sir Andrew Davis conducts the massed forces of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the BBC National Chorus of Wales. They are joined by a distinguished cast of soloists including Proms regulars Christopher Purves and Catherine Wyn-Rogers.

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      Part of
      Proms 2014 Proms on TV
      Prom 1: First Night of the Proms

  • Sat 19 Jul 2014

  • Sun 20 Jul 2014

  • Mon 21 Jul 2014

    • 13:00
      Proms Chamber Music 1: Les Arts Florissants
      Cadogan Hall

      French Baroque giant Les Arts Florissants launches this season’s Proms Chamber Music concerts at Cadogan Hall with music by Jean-Philippe Rameau, who died 250 years ago. His Pièces de clavecin en concerts sees the composer at his most dramatically vivid and virtuosic, showcasing this ensemble in the first of its two concerts this season.

      French Baroque giant Les Arts Florissants launches this season’s Proms Chamber Music concerts at Cadogan Hall with music by Jean-Philippe Rameau, who died 250 years ago. His Pièces de clavecin en concerts sees the composer at his most dramatically vivid and virtuosic, showcasing this ensemble in the first of its two concerts this season.

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      Part of
      Proms 2014 Piano and organ Proms Chamber Music & Saturday Matinees
      Proms Chamber Music 1: Les Arts Florissants
    • 17:30
      Proms Plus Family
      Royal College of Music

      Join Rachel Leach and professional musicians for a family-friendly introduction to tonight's Prom. Bring your instrument and join in!

      Part of
      Proms 2014 Proms Plus For Families
      Proms Plus Family
    • 19:30
      Prom 5: Beethoven, Dvořák & R.Strauss
      Royal Albert Hall

      Proms favourite Julia Fischer returns as soloist in Dvořák’s earthy, folk-infused violin concerto, joining Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra for David Zinman’s final concert as its Chief Conductor. Strauss’s playful depiction of the prankster Till Eulenspiegel continues the musical journey across Central Europe, and the evening closes among the breathtaking landscapes of Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony.

      Proms favourite Julia Fischer returns as soloist in Dvořák’s earthy, folk-infused violin concerto, joining Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra for David Zinman’s final concert as its Chief Conductor. Strauss’s playful depiction of the prankster Till Eulenspiegel continues the musical journey across Central Europe, and the evening closes among the breathtaking landscapes of Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony.

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      Proms 2014
      Prom 5: Beethoven, Dvořák & R.Strauss

  • Tue 22 Jul 2014

    • 16:45
      Proms Plus Intro
      Royal College of Music

      Part of
      Proms 2014 Proms Plus
      Proms Plus Intro
    • 18:30
      Prom 6: Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier
      Royal Albert Hall

      The Glyndebourne Festival’s annual visit to the Proms continues our Strauss 150th-anniversary celebrations with a semi-staging of his sparkling comic opera Der Rosenkavalier. Conductor Robin Ticciati conjures this gilded fantasy of fin-de-siècle Vienna with the help of an international cast, led by British soprano Kate Royal in her role debut as the Marschallin.

      The Glyndebourne Festival’s annual visit to the Proms continues our Strauss 150th-anniversary celebrations with a semi-staging of his sparkling comic opera Der Rosenkavalier. Conductor Robin Ticciati conjures this gilded fantasy of fin-de-siècle Vienna with the help of an international cast, led by British soprano Kate Royal in her role debut as the Marschallin.

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      • Kate Royal
        soprano (Marschallin)
        soprano (Marschallin)
      • Tara Erraught
        mezzo-soprano (Octavian )
        mezzo-soprano (Octavian )
      • Franz Hawlata
        bass (Baron Ochs)
        bass (Baron Ochs)
      • Louise Alder
        soprano (Sophie), Proms debut artist
        soprano (Sophie), Proms debut artist
      • Michael Kraus
        baritone (Herr von Faninal), Proms debut artist
        baritone (Herr von Faninal), Proms debut artist
      • Miranda Keys
        soprano (Marianne)
        soprano (Marianne)
      • Christopher Gillett
        tenor (Valzacchi)
        tenor (Valzacchi)
      • Helene Schneiderman
        mezzo-soprano (Annina), Proms debut artist
        mezzo-soprano (Annina), Proms debut artist
      • Gwynne Howell
        bass (Notary)
        bass (Notary)
      • Andrej Dunaev
        tenor (Italian Singer), Proms debut artist
        tenor (Italian Singer), Proms debut artist
      • Robert Wörle
        tenor (Innkeeper), Proms debut artist
        tenor (Innkeeper), Proms debut artist
      • Scott Conner
        bass (Police Inspector), Proms debut artist
        bass (Police Inspector), Proms debut artist
      • Glyndebourne Festival Opera
      • London Philharmonic Orchestra
      • Robin Ticciati
        conductor
        conductor
      • Sarah Fahie
        stage director
        stage director
      • Daniel Francis-Swaby
        singer (Mohammed, servant to the Marschallin)
        singer (Mohammed, servant to the Marschallin)
      • Trevor Eliot Bowes
        singer (Footman to the Marschallin / Boots)
        singer (Footman to the Marschallin / Boots)
      • Niel Joubert
        singer (Footman to the Marschallin / Waiter)
        singer (Footman to the Marschallin / Waiter)
      • Nicholas Morris
        singer (Footman to the Marschallin / Waiter)
        singer (Footman to the Marschallin / Waiter)
      • David Shaw
        singer (Footman to the Marschallin / Waiter)
        singer (Footman to the Marschallin / Waiter)
      • Paul Hopwood
        singer (Major-Domo to the Marschallin)
        singer (Major-Domo to the Marschallin)
      • Jacquelyn Parker
        singer (Noble Widow)
        singer (Noble Widow)
      • Louise Kemeny
        singer (Noble Orphan)
        singer (Noble Orphan)
      • Bethan Langford
        singer (Noble Orphan)
        singer (Noble Orphan)
      • Lucie Spickova
        singer (Noble Orphan)
        singer (Noble Orphan)
      • Magdalena Molendowska
        singer (Milliner)
        singer (Milliner)
      • Joshua Owen Mills
        singer (Animal Seller)
        singer (Animal Seller)
      • Marian De Graef
        singer (Hairdresser)
        singer (Hairdresser)
      • Osman Mos
        singer (Hairdresser's Assistant)
        singer (Hairdresser's Assistant)
      • Joseph Bader
        singer (Leopold)
        singer (Leopold)
      • Alun Rhys-Jenkins
        singer (Major-Domo to Faninal)
        singer (Major-Domo to Faninal)
      • Andrew Davies
        singer (Waiter)
        singer (Waiter)
      • Danielle Meehan
        singer (Maid)
        singer (Maid)
      • Suzy King
        singer (Couturier)
        singer (Couturier)
      • Richard Dyball
        singer (Clerk/Conductor)
        singer (Clerk/Conductor)
      • Chloe Dowell
        dancer
        dancer
      • Caitlin Fretwell Walsh
        dancer
        dancer
      • Graham Bass
        singer (Baron Ochs's Child)
        singer (Baron Ochs's Child)
      • Gabriel Crozier
        singer (Baron Ochs's Child)
        singer (Baron Ochs's Child)
      • Charles Davies
        singer (Baron Ochs's Child)
        singer (Baron Ochs's Child)
      • Harry Lees
        singer (Baron Ochs's Child)
        singer (Baron Ochs's Child)
      • William Stone
        singer (Baron Ochs's Child)
        singer (Baron Ochs's Child)
      • Ben Withnell
        singer (Baron Ochs's Child)
        singer (Baron Ochs's Child)

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      Part of
      Proms 2014
      Prom 6: Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier

  • Wed 23 Jul 2014

    • 16:45
      Proms Plus Literary
      Royal College of Music

      The award-winning poet and librettist Michael Symmons Roberts and musician, priest and broadcaster Richard Coles discuss the literary works which inspired the composer John Tavener from George Herbert and John Donne to William Blake.

      Part of
      Proms 2014 Proms Plus
      Proms Plus Literary
    • 18:30
      Prom 7: Shostakovich, Bartók & Tavener
      Royal Albert Hall

      Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony – a violent portrait of the horrors of Stalin’s Russia – is the centrepiece of this concert from Jiří Bělohlávek and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. They are joined by German violinist Isabelle Faust for the passionate nationalism of Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto, and the concert opens with the first of two posthumous premieres this season by John Tavener.

      Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony – a violent portrait of the horrors of Stalin’s Russia – is the centrepiece of this concert from Jiří Bělohlávek and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. They are joined by German violinist Isabelle Faust for the passionate nationalism of Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto, and the concert opens with the first of two posthumous premieres this season by John Tavener.

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      Proms 2014
      Prom 7: Shostakovich, Bartók & Tavener
    • 22:15
      Prom 8: Pet Shop Boys
      Royal Albert Hall

      Better known as the electro-pop duo the Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe make their Proms debut here as composers. The world premiere of their large-scale work A Man from the Future, inspired by code-breaker Alan Turing, sits alongside new orchestral arrangements of favourite Pet Shop Boys songs.

      Better known as the electro-pop duo the Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe make their Proms debut here as composers. The world premiere of their large-scale work A Man from the Future, inspired by code-breaker Alan Turing, sits alongside new orchestral arrangements of favourite Pet Shop Boys songs.

      Programme

          • Overture to 'Performance' (arr. R. Niles)(8 mins)
          • Four Songs in A minor (orch. A. Badalamenti)(20 mins)('Vocal', 'Love is a Catastrophe', 'Later Tonight', 'Rent')
          • A Man from the Future (orch. S. Helbig)(45 mins)world premiere

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      Part of
      Proms 2014 Jazz and Popular Late Night Proms
      Prom 8: Pet Shop Boys

  • Thu 24 Jul 2014

  • Fri 25 Jul 2014

    • 17:45
      Proms Plus Portrait
      Royal College of Music

      Part of
      Proms 2014 Proms Plus
      Proms Plus Portrait
    • 19:30
      Prom 10: Elgar, Walton, Moeran & David Horne
      Royal Albert Hall

      A concert of 20th-century English music explores musical friendships. Walton’s Hindemith Variations pay homage to a beloved colleague; Elgar’s 'Enigma' Variations paint evocative portraits of family and friends. Tasmin Little joins the BBC Philharmonic for Moeran’s rarely heard Violin Concerto, and English music comes right up to date with David Horne’s Daedalus in Flight.

      A concert of 20th-century English music explores musical friendships. Walton’s Hindemith Variations pay homage to a beloved colleague; Elgar’s 'Enigma' Variations paint evocative portraits of family and friends. Tasmin Little joins the BBC Philharmonic for Moeran’s rarely heard Violin Concerto, and English music comes right up to date with David Horne’s Daedalus in Flight.

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      Part of
      Proms 2014
      Prom 10: Elgar, Walton, Moeran & David Horne

  • Sat 26 Jul 2014

    • 11:00
      Prom 11: CBeebies Prom
      Royal Albert Hall

      Following the sell-out success of 2013’s Doctor Who Prom, this year parents are invited to join their children for the first ever CBeebies Prom. Take a journey through the history of classical music with some of your favourite CBeebies characters, in an adventure that combines live music from the BBC Philharmonic and video action on screens around the Royal Albert Hall.

      Following the sell-out success of 2013’s Doctor Who Prom, this year parents are invited to join their children for the first ever CBeebies Prom. Take a journey through the history of classical music with some of your favourite CBeebies characters, in an adventure that combines live music from the BBC Philharmonic and video action on screens around the Royal Albert Hall.

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      • Ben Faulks
        presenter
        presenter
      • Chris Jarvis
        presenter
        presenter
      • Gemma Hunt
        presenter
        presenter
      • Steven Kynman
        presenter
        presenter
      • BBC Philharmonic
      • Stephen Bell
        conductor
        conductor

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      Part of
      Proms 2014
      Prom 11: CBeebies Prom
    • 14:00
      Proms Plus Sing
      Royal College of Music

      Join Mary King and members of the BBC Singers to sing extracts from Bach's St John Passion. Open to ages 16-plus.

      Part of
      Proms 2014 For singers Proms Plus
      Proms Plus Sing
    • 18:15
      Proms Plus Intro
      Royal College of Music

      Part of
      Proms 2014 Proms Plus
      Proms Plus Intro
    • 20:00
      Prom 12: Bach – St John Passion
      Royal Albert Hall

      Few classical works have the urgency and dramatic immediacy of Bach’s St John Passion. Here it is vividly realised by a cast led by tenor James Gilchrist. The finest Evangelist of his generation, Gilchrist sings the role at the Proms for the first time, under conductor Sir Roger Norrington, 80 this year.

      Few classical works have the urgency and dramatic immediacy of Bach’s St John Passion. Here it is vividly realised by a cast led by tenor James Gilchrist. The finest Evangelist of his generation, Gilchrist sings the role at the Proms for the first time, under conductor Sir Roger Norrington, 80 this year.

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      Part of
      Proms 2014
      Prom 12: Bach – St John Passion
    • 22:15
      Proms Plus Late
      Royal Albert Hall

      Part of
      Proms 2014 Proms Plus
      Proms Plus Late

  • Sun 27 Jul 2014

    • 11:00
      Prom 13: CBeebies Prom
      Royal Albert Hall

      Following the sell-out success of 2013’s Doctor Who Prom, this year parents are invited to join their children for the first ever CBeebies Prom. Take a journey through the history of classical music with some of your favourite CBeebies characters, in an adventure that combines live music from the BBC Philharmonic and video action on screens around the Royal Albert Hall.

      Following the sell-out success of 2013’s Doctor Who Prom, this year parents are invited to join their children for the first ever CBeebies Prom. Take a journey through the history of classical music with some of your favourite CBeebies characters, in an adventure that combines live music from the BBC Philharmonic and video action on screens around the Royal Albert Hall.

      Programme

      Performers

      • Chris Jarvis
        presenter
        presenter
      • Gemma Hunt
        presenter
        presenter
      • Ben Faulks
        presenter
        presenter
      • BBC Philharmonic
      • Stephen Bell
        conductor
        conductor
      • Steven Kynman
        presenter
        presenter

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      Part of
      Proms 2014
      Prom 13: CBeebies Prom
    • 17:45
      Proms Plus Intro
      Royal College of Music

      Part of
      Proms 2014 Proms Plus
      Proms Plus Intro
    • 19:30
      Prom 14: Duruflé, Ravel and Simon Holt
      Royal Albert Hall

      The lilt of the waltz pulses through the first half of this programme – first in Ravel’s modernist reimagining in Valses nobles et sentimentales, and then in his witty La valse. French music takes a sacred turn after the interval with Duruflé’s Requiem, and elsewhere Swiss flute virtuoso Emmanuel Pahud premieres Simon Holt’s concerto Morpheus Wakes.

      The lilt of the waltz pulses through the first half of this programme – first in Ravel’s modernist reimagining in Valses nobles et sentimentales, and then in his witty La valse. French music takes a sacred turn after the interval with Duruflé’s Requiem, and elsewhere Swiss flute virtuoso Emmanuel Pahud premieres Simon Holt’s concerto Morpheus Wakes.

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      Part of
      Proms 2014
      Prom 14: Duruflé, Ravel and Simon Holt

  • Mon 28 Jul 2014

    • 13:00
      Proms Chamber Music 2: C. P. E. Bach
      Cadogan Hall

      Baroque violinist Rachel Podger is joined by hand-picked musical friends to explore the contrasts and contradictions of C. P. E. Bach, who celebrates his 300th anniversary this year. The composer’s Sonata in C minor in particular offers an extraordinary musical portrait of the most musically rebellious of the younger Bachs.

      Baroque violinist Rachel Podger is joined by hand-picked musical friends to explore the contrasts and contradictions of C. P. E. Bach, who celebrates his 300th anniversary this year. The composer’s Sonata in C minor in particular offers an extraordinary musical portrait of the most musically rebellious of the younger Bachs.

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          • Trio Sonata in A major(13 mins)
          • Violin Sonata in C minor(17 mins)
          • Keyboard Sonata in E minor ('Kenner und Liebhaber' Collection No. 5), Wq 59/1(8 mins)
          • Trio Sonata in C minor, 'Sanguineus and Melancholicus'(14 mins)

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      Part of
      Proms 2014 Proms Chamber Music & Saturday Matinees
      Proms Chamber Music 2: C. P. E. Bach
    • 17:30
      Proms Plus Family
      Royal College of Music

      Join professional musicians for a family-friendly introduction to tonight's Prom. Bring your instrument and join in!

      Part of
      Proms 2014 Proms Plus For Families
      Proms Plus Family
    • 19:30
      Prom 15: Mozart, Ravel & Jonathan Dove
      Royal Albert Hall

      Turbulent mythical love meets poised Classical elegance in a concert from the BBC Symphony Orchestra that sets Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 alongside Ravel’s sensuous ballet score Daphnis and Chloe. Launching us far beyond either Mozart’s Vienna or Ravel’s Paris, Jonathan Dove’s new orchestral work Gaia Theory explores the idea of life on our planet evolving alongside the environment.

      Turbulent mythical love meets poised Classical elegance in a concert from the BBC Symphony Orchestra that sets Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 alongside Ravel’s sensuous ballet score Daphnis and Chloe. Launching us far beyond either Mozart’s Vienna or Ravel’s Paris, Jonathan Dove’s new orchestral work Gaia Theory explores the idea of life on our planet evolving alongside the environment.

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      Part of
      Proms 2014 Piano and organ Proms on TV For Families
      Prom 15: Mozart, Ravel & Jonathan Dove

  • Tue 29 Jul 2014

  • Wed 30 Jul 2014

  • Thu 31 Jul 2014

    • 17:45
      Proms Plus Intro
      Royal College of Music

      Part of
      Proms 2014 Proms Plus
      Proms Plus Intro
    • 19:30
      Prom 19: R. Strauss & Elgar
      Royal Albert Hall

      Two rarely heard masterpieces continue our 150th-anniversary celebrations of Richard Strauss: the mighty Festival Prelude and the Deutsche Motette (practically a concerto for choir). We move to more familiar musical territory with Strauss’s Four Last Songs, whose late-Romantic nostalgia is shared by Elgar’s Second Symphony.

      Two rarely heard masterpieces continue our 150th-anniversary celebrations of Richard Strauss: the mighty Festival Prelude and the Deutsche Motette (practically a concerto for choir). We move to more familiar musical territory with Strauss’s Four Last Songs, whose late-Romantic nostalgia is shared by Elgar’s Second Symphony.

      Programme

          • Festival Prelude.(11 mins)
          • Deutsche Motet(19 mins)
          • Four Last Songs(24 mins)
            • interval
            • Symphony No. 2 in E flat major(57 mins)

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        Part of
        Proms 2014 Proms on TV
        Prom 19: R. Strauss & Elgar

    • Fri 1 Aug 2014