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  • Fri 1 Aug 2014

  • Sat 2 Aug 2014

  • Sun 3 Aug 2014

    • 11:00
      Proms Plus Family Orchestra & Chorus
      Royal College of Music

      Whether you play an instrument or sing, whether you’re a complete novice or an aspiring virtuoso, you're all invited to join our fantastic team of professional musicians to create music inspired by this afternoon's War Horse Prom. Open to ages 7-plus.

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      Proms Plus Family Orchestra & Chorus
    • 14:45
      Proms Plus Intro
      Royal College of Music

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      Proms Plus Intro
    • 16:30
      Prom 22: War Horse Prom
      Royal Albert Hall

      The Proms continues to commemorate the anniversary of the outbreak of First World War, collaborating for the first time with the National Theatre for a concert inspired by Michael Morpurgo’s award-winning play War Horse. Lifesize War Horse puppets join the BBC Concert Orchestra, Gareth Malone and the Military Wives on stage for a performance that explores the music and stories of the Great War.

      The Proms continues to commemorate the anniversary of the outbreak of First World War, collaborating for the first time with the National Theatre for a concert inspired by Michael Morpurgo’s award-winning play War Horse. Lifesize War Horse puppets join the BBC Concert Orchestra, Gareth Malone and the Military Wives on stage for a performance that explores the music and stories of the Great War.

      Programme

          • Summer(11 mins)
          • Two Partsongs, Op.26(5 mins)– The Snow
          • Ave Maria(7 mins)
          • Home they brought her warrior dead(7 mins)
          • Le tombeau de Couperin(10 mins)– excerpts
          • War Horse Suite(25 mins)
          • Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke: III. Jemand erzahlt von seiner Mutter
          • Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke: IV. Da sind sie alle einander nah
          • Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke: XXVI. Der von Langenau ist tief im Feind
          • New War Hymn

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      Prom 22: War Horse Prom
    • 18:15
      Proms Plus Intro
      Royal College of Music

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      Proms Plus Intro
    • 20:00
      Prom 23: Mozart – Requiem
      Royal Albert Hall

      Donald Runnicles and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra are joined by the National Youth Choir of Scotland for a performance of Mozart’s ever-popular Requiem – the composer’s powerful and prescient anticipation of his own death. The concert also features Beethoven’s elegant Fourth Symphony and the London premiere of John McLeod’s The Sun Dances, inspired by a Scottish folk legend.

      Donald Runnicles and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra are joined by the National Youth Choir of Scotland for a performance of Mozart’s ever-popular Requiem – the composer’s powerful and prescient anticipation of his own death. The concert also features Beethoven’s elegant Fourth Symphony and the London premiere of John McLeod’s The Sun Dances, inspired by a Scottish folk legend.

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      Prom 23: Mozart – Requiem

  • Mon 4 Aug 2014

    • 13:00
      Proms Chamber Music 3: R. Strauss & Mozart
      Cadogan Hall

      Richard Strauss was just 20 when he composed his Suite for 13 wind instruments – and steeped in the musical tastes of his horn-player father, who revered Haydn, Beethoven and Mozart above all. Clarinettist Michael Collins and his ensemble London Winds pair Strauss’s youthful work with Mozart’s Serenade in C minor.

      Richard Strauss was just 20 when he composed his Suite for 13 wind instruments – and steeped in the musical tastes of his horn-player father, who revered Haydn, Beethoven and Mozart above all. Clarinettist Michael Collins and his ensemble London Winds pair Strauss’s youthful work with Mozart’s Serenade in C minor.

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      Proms 2014 Proms Chamber Music & Saturday Matinees
      Proms Chamber Music 3: R. Strauss & Mozart
    • 16:45
      Proms Plus Literary
      Royal College of Music

      On the centenary of Britain's entry into the First World War, Baroness Shirley Williams and Colonel Tim Collins introduce an anthology of poetry and prose from 1914.

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      Proms Plus Literary
    • 18:30
      Prom 24: Vaughan Williams & Mahler
      Royal Albert Hall

      Donald Runnicles conducts a programme that looks to the past – a musical meditation on history, death and loss that still speaks powerfully today, 100 years after the start of the First World War. The concert sets Mahler’s bitterly elegiac Ninth Symphony against the ecstatic string writing of Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, a work reimagining an English identity that would so soon find itself under threat.

      Donald Runnicles conducts a programme that looks to the past – a musical meditation on history, death and loss that still speaks powerfully today, 100 years after the start of the First World War. The concert sets Mahler’s bitterly elegiac Ninth Symphony against the ecstatic string writing of Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, a work reimagining an English identity that would so soon find itself under threat.

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      Prom 24: Vaughan Williams & Mahler
    • 21:15
      Prom 25: The Tallis Scholars sing Tavener
      Royal Albert Hall

      Spiritual in a secular age, combining musical simplicity and generous radiance, John Tavener captured the public imagination like few others. The other-worldly atmosphere of a Late Night Prom frames a musical tribute to the English composer by the Tallis Scholars, leading the audience into the exact anniversary of Britain’s declaration of entering the First World War, at 11.00pm, in contemplative calm.

      Spiritual in a secular age, combining musical simplicity and generous radiance, John Tavener captured the public imagination like few others. The other-worldly atmosphere of a Late Night Prom frames a musical tribute to the English composer by the Tallis Scholars, leading the audience into the exact anniversary of Britain’s declaration of entering the First World War, at 11.00pm, in contemplative calm.

      Programme

          • Ikon of Light(41 mins)
          • Requiem Fragments(25 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
          • The Lamb

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      Prom 25: The Tallis Scholars sing Tavener

  • Tue 5 Aug 2014

    • 17:45
      Proms Plus Literary
      Royal College of Music

      Part of
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      Proms Plus Literary
    • 19:30
      Prom 26: Shostakovich & Berio
      Royal Albert Hall

      This concert from the European Union Youth Orchestra opens with Berio’s 20th-century classic, Sinfonia – a witty, whistle-stop tour through centuries of Western culture, from Bach to The Beatles. Shostakovich’s embattled Fourth Symphony attempts to reconcile the same conflicts and contradictions as Berio, but finds only Babel and madness, in one of the composer’s most confrontational works.

      This concert from the European Union Youth Orchestra opens with Berio’s 20th-century classic, Sinfonia – a witty, whistle-stop tour through centuries of Western culture, from Bach to The Beatles. Shostakovich’s embattled Fourth Symphony attempts to reconcile the same conflicts and contradictions as Berio, but finds only Babel and madness, in one of the composer’s most confrontational works.

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      Prom 26: Shostakovich & Berio

  • Wed 6 Aug 2014

    • 17:15
      Proms Plus Intro
      Royal College of Music

      Part of
      Proms 2014 Proms Plus
      Proms Plus Intro
    • 19:00
      Prom 27: Wagner, Elgar & Mathias
      Royal Albert Hall

      The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Mark Wigglesworth perform the exuberantly rhythmic overture to Wagner’s early comedy Das Liebesverbot and Elgar’s richly orchestrated First Symphony – a work itself steeped in the Germanic tradition. Exciting young British violinist Matthew Trusler joins the orchestra as soloist for Mathias’s neglected Violin Concerto – a virtuosic celebration of song and dance.

      The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Mark Wigglesworth perform the exuberantly rhythmic overture to Wagner’s early comedy Das Liebesverbot and Elgar’s richly orchestrated First Symphony – a work itself steeped in the Germanic tradition. Exciting young British violinist Matthew Trusler joins the orchestra as soloist for Mathias’s neglected Violin Concerto – a virtuosic celebration of song and dance.

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      Prom 27: Wagner, Elgar & Mathias

  • Thu 7 Aug 2014

  • Fri 8 Aug 2014

  • Sat 9 Aug 2014

  • Sun 10 Aug 2014

    • 11:00
      Inspire Day: Contemporary Composition
      Royal College of Music

      Join composer Fraser Trainer and professional musicians to explore new approaches to contemporary composition. Open to young composers aged 12 to 18 years old.

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      Inspire Day: Contemporary Composition
    • 13:00
      Proms Plus Family Orchestra & Chorus
      Royal College of Music

      Whether you play an instrument or sing, whether you’re a complete novice or an aspiring virtuoso, you're all invited to join our fantastic team of professional musicians to create music inspired by this afternoon's Matinee Prom. Open to ages 7-plus.

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      Proms Plus Family Orchestra & Chorus
    • 16:00
      Prom 32: Beethoven, Bruch & Walton
      Royal Albert Hall

      Three masterworks from three different centuries: Beethoven’s First Symphony is all 18th- century poise and wit, Bruch’s First Violin Concerto swoons with 19th-century romance, and Walton’s Henry V celebrates the golden age of 20th-century film music. Sir Neville Marriner is joined by Joshua Bell, the Music Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, who appears here both as conductor (Beethoven) and soloist (Bruch).

      Three masterworks from three different centuries: Beethoven’s First Symphony is all 18th- century poise and wit, Bruch’s First Violin Concerto swoons with 19th-century romance, and Walton’s Henry V celebrates the golden age of 20th-century film music. Sir Neville Marriner is joined by Joshua Bell, the Music Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, who appears here both as conductor (Beethoven) and soloist (Bruch).

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      Prom 32: Beethoven, Bruch & Walton
    • 17:45
      Proms Plus Family
      Royal College of Music

      Join Natasha Zielazinski, Detta Danford and professional musicians for a family-friendly introduction to tonight’s Prom. Bring your instrument and join in!

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      Proms Plus Family
    • 19:45
      Prom 33: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
      Royal Albert Hall

      The NYOGB presents a fiery and virtuosic programme of 20th-century orchestral masterpieces, conducted by Proms favourite Edward Gardner. BBC New Generation Artist Louis Schwizgebel takes the lead in Prokofiev’s youthful First Piano Concerto, which brims with the same audacious energy that pulses through Stravinsky’s vividly colourful ballet Petrushka. Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra closes the evening with still more primary-coloured, folkloric brilliance and drama.

      The NYOGB presents a fiery and virtuosic programme of 20th-century orchestral masterpieces, conducted by Proms favourite Edward Gardner. BBC New Generation Artist Louis Schwizgebel takes the lead in Prokofiev’s youthful First Piano Concerto, which brims with the same audacious energy that pulses through Stravinsky’s vividly colourful ballet Petrushka. Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra closes the evening with still more primary-coloured, folkloric brilliance and drama.

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      Prom 33: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

  • Mon 11 Aug 2014

    • 13:00
      Proms Chamber Music 4: Prokofiev & Schubert
      Cadogan Hall

      Before her solo appearance at the Last Night of the Proms, Dutch violinist Janine Jansen joins with pianist Itamar Golan and with conductor Sakari Oramo (making his Proms debut as a violinist). Two lyrical works by Prokofiev are paired with Schubert’s sublime Fantasie from almost a century earlier.

      Before her solo appearance at the Last Night of the Proms, Dutch violinist Janine Jansen joins with pianist Itamar Golan and with conductor Sakari Oramo (making his Proms debut as a violinist). Two lyrical works by Prokofiev are paired with Schubert’s sublime Fantasie from almost a century earlier.

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      Proms Chamber Music 4: Prokofiev & Schubert
    • 17:45
      Proms Plus Literary
      Royal College of Music

      National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke and the painter Peter Blake celebrates the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas.

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      Proms Plus Literary
    • 19:30
      Prom 34: R. Strauss, Mozart & Nielsen
      Royal Albert Hall

      In the first of two concerts with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Principal Conductor Thomas Søndergård directs the first of two great Scandinavian symphonies. Nielsen’s Fifth Symphony explores a bleakness that is also at the core of Strauss’s great tone-poem Tod und Verklärung. The ‘complicated nonsense’ of Strauss’s youthful Burleske and Mozart’s sunny Rondo in A major complete the concert, both featuring pianist Franceso Piemontesi.

      In the first of two concerts with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Principal Conductor Thomas Søndergård directs the first of two great Scandinavian symphonies. Nielsen’s Fifth Symphony explores a bleakness that is also at the core of Strauss’s great tone-poem Tod und Verklärung. The ‘complicated nonsense’ of Strauss’s youthful Burleske and Mozart’s sunny Rondo in A major complete the concert, both featuring pianist Franceso Piemontesi.

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          • Death and Transfiguration(26 mins)
          • Burleske(22 mins)
            • interval
            • Rondo in A major for piano and orchestra, K386(9 mins)
            • Piano Sonata No 6 in D major, K 284(3 mins)Variation No. 11 (encore)
            • Symphony No 5(36 mins)

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        Prom 34: R. Strauss, Mozart & Nielsen

    • Tue 12 Aug 2014

    • Wed 13 Aug 2014

      • 16:45
        Proms Plus Intro
        Royal College of Music

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        Proms Plus Intro
      • 18:30
        Prom 36: Vaughan Williams & Alwyn
        Royal Albert Hall

        The dreamy pastoralism of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending contrasts with the jaunty vigour of the composer’s overture The Wasps in this all-English Prom. Job continues this season’s thread of great 20th-century ballet scores, while William Alwyn’s First Symphony adds to the evening’s nostalgia with the endless melody of its slow movement. Janine Jansen joins Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra as soloist.

        The dreamy pastoralism of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending contrasts with the jaunty vigour of the composer’s overture The Wasps in this all-English Prom. Job continues this season’s thread of great 20th-century ballet scores, while William Alwyn’s First Symphony adds to the evening’s nostalgia with the endless melody of its slow movement. Janine Jansen joins Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra as soloist.

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        Prom 36: Vaughan Williams & Alwyn
      • 22:15
        Prom 37: Steve Reich
        Royal Albert Hall

        Surrender to the pulsing rhythms and repetitions of Minimalism’s founding father, Steve Reich, performed by the BBC Singers and contemporary specialists the Endymion Ensemble. Relive the early experimentation of It’s Gonna Rain with its hypnotic layers of spoken sound, while The Desert Music offers a hypnotising meditation on fragments of William Carlos Williams’s poetry.

        Surrender to the pulsing rhythms and repetitions of Minimalism’s founding father, Steve Reich, performed by the BBC Singers and contemporary specialists the Endymion Ensemble. Relive the early experimentation of It’s Gonna Rain with its hypnotic layers of spoken sound, while The Desert Music offers a hypnotising meditation on fragments of William Carlos Williams’s poetry.

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            • It's Gonna Rain(17 mins)
            • The Desert Music (chamber version)(48 mins)

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        Prom 37: Steve Reich

    • Thu 14 Aug 2014

    • Fri 15 Aug 2014

    • Sat 16 Aug 2014

    • Sun 17 Aug 2014

      • 14:00
        Proms Plus Sing
        Royal College of Music

        Join Mary King and members of the BBC Singers to sing excerpts from Britten’s War Requiem. Open to ages 16-plus.

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        Proms Plus Sing
      • 17:45
        Proms Plus Literary
        Royal College of Music

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        Proms Plus Literary
      • 19:30
        Prom 42: Lest We Forget
        Royal Albert Hall

        Baritone Roderick Williams joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in music inspired by the First World War. Butterworth’s setting from Housman’s A Shropshire Lad depicts a world on the brink of collapse, while Vaughan Williams’s Pastoral Symphony is a curdled vision of war-ravaged France. Both Rudi Stephan and Frederick Kelly were killed in the conflict, the latter leaving behind the exquisite Elegy for strings, the former the more muscular Music for Orchestra (1912).

        Baritone Roderick Williams joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in music inspired by the First World War. Butterworth’s setting from Housman’s A Shropshire Lad depicts a world on the brink of collapse, while Vaughan Williams’s Pastoral Symphony is a curdled vision of war-ravaged France. Both Rudi Stephan and Frederick Kelly were killed in the conflict, the latter leaving behind the exquisite Elegy for strings, the former the more muscular Music for Orchestra (1912).

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        Prom 42: Lest We Forget

    • Mon 18 Aug 2014

    • Tue 19 Aug 2014

    • Wed 20 Aug 2014

      • 11:30
        Inspire Day: Arranging
        Royal College of Music

        Join composer, conductor and arranger Jules Buckley to find out more about arranging popular music. Open to young composers aged 12 to 18.

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        Inspire Day: Arranging
      • 14:30
        Inspire Day: Arranging
        Royal College of Music

        Join composer, conductor and arranger Jules Buckley to find out more about arranging popular music. Open to young composers aged 12 to 18.

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        Inspire Day: Arranging
      • 17:00
        Proms Plus Inspire
        Royal College of Music

        The Aurora Orchestra, under Nicholas Collon, performs the winning entries from this year’s BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers’ Competition.

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        Proms Plus Inspire
      • 19:30
        Prom 46: Daniel Barenboim and the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra
        Royal Albert Hall

        The West–Eastern Divan Orchestra returns with Daniel Barenboim for a Spanish-themed evening. We open outside Seville in Mozart’s breathless Figaro overture, before drifting into dreams with Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole. Dreams give way to dance in Ravel’s Boléro and his Pavane pour une infante défunte. Also included are two works composed for the orchestra – Kareem Roustom’s Ramal and Ayal Adler’s Resonating Sounds – both exploring the musical junctions of East and West.

        The West–Eastern Divan Orchestra returns with Daniel Barenboim for a Spanish-themed evening. We open outside Seville in Mozart’s breathless Figaro overture, before drifting into dreams with Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole. Dreams give way to dance in Ravel’s Boléro and his Pavane pour une infante défunte. Also included are two works composed for the orchestra – Kareem Roustom’s Ramal and Ayal Adler’s Resonating Sounds – both exploring the musical junctions of East and West.

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        Prom 46: Daniel Barenboim and the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra

    • Thu 21 Aug 2014

      • 17:45
        Proms Plus Literary
        Royal College of Music

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        Proms Plus Literary
      • 19:30
        Prom 47: Britten – War Requiem
        Royal Albert Hall

        Wilfred Owen’s shattering verse sits at the heart of Britten’s War Requiem – that great pacifist outpouring of horror and sorrow. Performed here in this First World War centenary year by the same orchestra which premiered it in 1962, in this performance the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Andris Nelsons are joined by the BBC Proms Youth Choir.

        Wilfred Owen’s shattering verse sits at the heart of Britten’s War Requiem – that great pacifist outpouring of horror and sorrow. Performed here in this First World War centenary year by the same orchestra which premiered it in 1962, in this performance the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Andris Nelsons are joined by the BBC Proms Youth Choir.

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        Prom 47: Britten – War Requiem

    • Fri 22 Aug 2014

    • Sat 23 Aug 2014

    • Sun 24 Aug 2014

    • Mon 25 Aug 2014

      • 11:30
        Proms Plus Family Orchestra & Chorus
        Royal College of Music

        Whether you play an instrument or sing, whether you’re a complete novice or an aspiring virtuoso, you're all invited to join our fantastic team of professional musicians to create music inspired by this afternoon's Free Prom. Open to ages 7-plus.

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        Proms Plus Family Orchestra & Chorus
      • 13:00
        Proms Chamber Music 6: Schubert, Mahler & R. Strauss
        Cadogan Hall

        Pianist Louis Schwizgebel and the dynamic Royal String Quartet are the key players in a concert that culminates in Richard Strauss's richly nostalgic Metamorphosen, heard in an intimate arrangement for string septet. Alongside it are Mahler's contemplative Piano Quartet movement and Mozart's elegantly poised Piano Sonata in D major, K311.

        Pianist Louis Schwizgebel and the dynamic Royal String Quartet are the key players in a concert that culminates in Richard Strauss's richly nostalgic Metamorphosen, heard in an intimate arrangement for string septet. Alongside it are Mahler's contemplative Piano Quartet movement and Mozart's elegantly poised Piano Sonata in D major, K311.

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        Proms Chamber Music 6: Schubert, Mahler & R. Strauss
      • 15:00
        Prom 51: Free Prom – Dvořák, Grieg, Bax & Bill Whelan
        Royal Albert Hall

        This year’s Free Prom is a Bank Holiday matinee from the Ulster Orchestra, bursting with dance rhythms and colour. A selection of Dvořák’s rustic Slavonic Dances opens the concert, and Grieg’s piano concerto with its jaunty dance-themed finale continues the mood. The evening ends in the orchestra’s musical heartland with Bax’s tone-poem Roscatha and Bill Whelan’s new Riverdance suite – adapted from his music for the ever-popular stage show.

        This year’s Free Prom is a Bank Holiday matinee from the Ulster Orchestra, bursting with dance rhythms and colour. A selection of Dvořák’s rustic Slavonic Dances opens the concert, and Grieg’s piano concerto with its jaunty dance-themed finale continues the mood. The evening ends in the orchestra’s musical heartland with Bax’s tone-poem Roscatha and Bill Whelan’s new Riverdance suite – adapted from his music for the ever-popular stage show.

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            • Slavonic Dance in C major, Op 46, No 1(5 mins)
            • 8 Slavonic Dances, Op 72 - No 2 in E minor(6 mins)
            • Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op. 46 No. 8(5 mins)
            • Piano Concerto in A minor(28 mins)
            • Lyric PiecesTo the Spring, Op. 43 No. 6 (encore)
              • interval
              • Roscatha(11 mins)
              • Riverdance: A Symphonic Suite(25 mins)UK premiere

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          Prom 51: Free Prom – Dvořák, Grieg, Bax & Bill Whelan
        • 17:45
          Proms Plus Intro
          Royal College of Music

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        • 19:30
          Prom 52: Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra
          Royal Albert Hall

          The Bank Holiday weekend celebrations continue with Proms favourites the Budapest Festival Orchestra and a programme of orchestral showpieces from the Habsburg Empire. Viennese-style Strauss dances are matched by Brahms’s colourful Hungarian Dances and Kodály’s sweeping Dances of Galánta, balanced by the crisp Classical textures of a Mozart March. At the centre is Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’ Symphony.

          The Bank Holiday weekend celebrations continue with Proms favourites the Budapest Festival Orchestra and a programme of orchestral showpieces from the Habsburg Empire. Viennese-style Strauss dances are matched by Brahms’s colourful Hungarian Dances and Kodály’s sweeping Dances of Galánta, balanced by the crisp Classical textures of a Mozart March. At the centre is Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’ Symphony.

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          Prom 52: Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra

      • Tue 26 Aug 2014

        • 17:15
          Proms Plus Intro
          Royal College of Music

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          Proms Plus Intro
        • 19:00
          Prom 53: Brahms Night
          Royal Albert Hall

          The second of two concerts from Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra reinstates the Proms tradition of composer nights with an evening dedicated to the music of Brahms. His intimate, autumnal Third Symphony gives way to the nobility and stature of the Fourth – a heavyweight symphony with one of the loveliest slow movements the composer ever wrote.

          The second of two concerts from Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra reinstates the Proms tradition of composer nights with an evening dedicated to the music of Brahms. His intimate, autumnal Third Symphony gives way to the nobility and stature of the Fourth – a heavyweight symphony with one of the loveliest slow movements the composer ever wrote.

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        • 22:15
          Prom 54: Beethoven – Missa solemnis
          Royal Albert Hall

          Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the Monteverdi Choir returns to the Proms under Sir John Eliot Gardiner for one of the greatest choral works of the repertoire – Beethoven’s mighty Missa solemnis. Join them on this tumultuous spiritual journey in music that defies simple resolution.

          Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the Monteverdi Choir returns to the Proms under Sir John Eliot Gardiner for one of the greatest choral works of the repertoire – Beethoven’s mighty Missa solemnis. Join them on this tumultuous spiritual journey in music that defies simple resolution.

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          Prom 54: Beethoven – Missa solemnis

      • Wed 27 Aug 2014

        • 17:45
          Proms Plus Intro
          Royal College of Music

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        • 19:30
          Prom 55: Tchaikovsky, Debussy & Unsuk Chin
          Royal Albert Hall

          Myung-Whun Chung directs the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, making its Proms debut this year. Unsuk Chin’s sheng concerto evokes the sounds of South Korea and is an extended sonic game between soloist and orchestra. Framing this is the sensuous richness of Debussy’s La mer and Tchaikovsky’s final symphony, with its elusive and emotional narrative.

          Myung-Whun Chung directs the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, making its Proms debut this year. Unsuk Chin’s sheng concerto evokes the sounds of South Korea and is an extended sonic game between soloist and orchestra. Framing this is the sensuous richness of Debussy’s La mer and Tchaikovsky’s final symphony, with its elusive and emotional narrative.

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      • Thu 28 Aug 2014

        • 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!

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          Proms 2014 Proms Plus For Families
          Proms Plus Family
        • 19:30
          Prom 56: Holst – The Planets
          Royal Albert Hall

          Masterpieces from Schoenberg, Holst and Scriabin offer three very different portraits of 20th-century music in this concert by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski. Big tunes and vivid characterisation make Holst’s The Planets a perennial favourite, while Scriabin’s Prometheus is an eccentric musical experiment. Premiered at the Proms in 1912, Schoenberg’s Five Orchestral Pieces took tonality to a new limit.

          Masterpieces from Schoenberg, Holst and Scriabin offer three very different portraits of 20th-century music in this concert by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski. Big tunes and vivid characterisation make Holst’s The Planets a perennial favourite, while Scriabin’s Prometheus is an eccentric musical experiment. Premiered at the Proms in 1912, Schoenberg’s Five Orchestral Pieces took tonality to a new limit.

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          Proms 2014
          Prom 56: Holst – The Planets

      • Fri 29 Aug 2014

      • Sat 30 Aug 2014

        • 10:30
          Inspire Day: Writing for Solo Instrument
          Royal College of Music

          Join composer Judith Weir to explore techniques for writing for solo instruments. Open to young composers aged 12 to 18 years old.

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          Proms 2014
          Inspire Day: Writing for Solo Instrument
        • 14:30
          Inspire Day: Writing for Solo Instrument
          Royal College of Music

          Join composer Judith Weir to learn new techniques for writing for solo instruments. Open to young composers aged 12 to 18 years old.

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          Proms 2014
          Inspire Day: Writing for Solo Instrument
        • 15:00
          Proms Saturday Matinee 3: A Portrait of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
          Cadogan Hall

          Celebrating his 80th birthday this year, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is one of the greats of contemporary British music. A programme chosen by Davies himself ranges from the sleek chamber textures of A Mirror of Whitening Light to the music-drama of Revelation and Fall. London Sinfonietta Principal Cellist Timothy Gill is the soloist in Linguae ignis’s writhing plainchant melodies.

          Celebrating his 80th birthday this year, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is one of the greats of contemporary British music. A programme chosen by Davies himself ranges from the sleek chamber textures of A Mirror of Whitening Light to the music-drama of Revelation and Fall. London Sinfonietta Principal Cellist Timothy Gill is the soloist in Linguae ignis’s writhing plainchant melodies.

          Programme

              • Linguae ignis(12 mins)
              • Revelation and Fall(26 mins)
              • A Mirror of Whitening Light(21 mins)

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          Part of
          Proms 2014 Proms Chamber Music & Saturday Matinees
          Proms Saturday Matinee 3: A Portrait of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
        • 17:45
          Proms Plus Intro
          Royal College of Music

          Part of
          Proms 2014 Proms Plus
          Proms Plus Intro
        • 19:30
          Prom 58: Strauss – Salome
          Royal Albert Hall

          In Richard Strauss’s 150th-anniversary year the Proms presents a double bill of his two great tragedies. On consecutive nights his heroines Salome and Elektra meet their bloody ends in the Royal Albert Hall. Donald Runnicles brings his Deutsche Oper forces to the Proms for Salome. Star soprano Nina Stemme leads the cast as the troubled princess.

          In Richard Strauss’s 150th-anniversary year the Proms presents a double bill of his two great tragedies. On consecutive nights his heroines Salome and Elektra meet their bloody ends in the Royal Albert Hall. Donald Runnicles brings his Deutsche Oper forces to the Proms for Salome. Star soprano Nina Stemme leads the cast as the troubled princess.

          Programme

          Performers

          • Burkhard Ulrich
            tenor (Herod), Proms debut artist
            tenor (Herod), Proms debut artist
          • Doris Soffel
            mezzo-soprano (Herodias)
            mezzo-soprano (Herodias)
          • Nina Stemme
            soprano (Salome)
            soprano (Salome)
          • Samuel Youn
            baritone (Jokanaan), Proms debut artist
            baritone (Jokanaan), Proms debut artist
          • Thomas Blondelle
            tenor (Narraboth)
            tenor (Narraboth)
          • Ronnita Miller
            mezzo-soprano (Herodias's Page), Proms debut artist
            mezzo-soprano (Herodias's Page), Proms debut artist
          • Paul Kaufmann
            tenor (1st Jew), Proms debut artist
            tenor (1st Jew), Proms debut artist
          • Gideon Poppe
            tenor (2nd Jew), Proms debut artist
            tenor (2nd Jew), Proms debut artist
          • Jörg Schörner
            tenor (3rd Jew), Proms debut artist
            tenor (3rd Jew), Proms debut artist
          • Clemens Bieber
            tenor (4th Jew), Proms debut artist
            tenor (4th Jew), Proms debut artist
          • Andrew Harris
            bass (5th Jew), Proms debut artist
            bass (5th Jew), Proms debut artist
          • Noel Bouley
            bass-baritone (1st Narazene), Proms debut artist
            bass-baritone (1st Narazene), Proms debut artist
          • Carlton Ford
            baritone (2nd Nazarene), Proms debut artist
            baritone (2nd Nazarene), Proms debut artist
          • Marko Mimica
            bass-baritone (1st Soldier), Proms debut artist
            bass-baritone (1st Soldier), Proms debut artist
          • Tobias Kehrer
            bass (2nd Soldier), Proms debut artist
            bass (2nd Soldier), Proms debut artist
          • Seth Carico
            bass-baritone (Cappadocian), Proms debut artist
            bass-baritone (Cappadocian), Proms debut artist
          • Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
          • Donald Runnicles
            conductor
            conductor
          • Justin Way
            stage director
            stage director

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          Proms 2014
          Prom 58: Strauss – Salome
        • 21:35
          Proms Plus Late
          Royal Albert Hall

          Part of
          Proms 2014 Proms Plus
          Proms Plus Late

      • Sun 31 Aug 2014

        • 17:45
          Proms Plus Intro
          Royal College of Music

          Part of
          Proms 2014 Proms Plus
          Proms Plus Intro
        • 19:30
          Prom 59: Strauss – Elektra
          Royal Albert Hall

          Elektra – Strauss’s brutal and ferociously powerful retelling of the Greek revenge myth – continues this weekend’s opera double bill. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Semyon Bychkov are joined by an international cast of soloists, led by American soprano Christine Goerke, with Danish baritone Johan Reuter as her beloved brother Orestes.

          Elektra – Strauss’s brutal and ferociously powerful retelling of the Greek revenge myth – continues this weekend’s opera double bill. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Semyon Bychkov are joined by an international cast of soloists, led by American soprano Christine Goerke, with Danish baritone Johan Reuter as her beloved brother Orestes.

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          Prom 59: Strauss – Elektra

      • Mon 1 Sep 2014

        • 13:00
          Proms Chamber Music 7: Benjamin Grosvenor
          Cadogan Hall

          The young British pianist performs a programme with a dance theme pulsing through it. Chopin’s stately Ballade No. 1 gives way to the dizzying virtuosity of Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales, before the waltz returns, transfigured, in Liszt’s Waltz from ‘Faust’. Mompou’s Paisajes transports us to Barcelona, and Grosvenor also premieres a new work by Judith Weir.

          The young British pianist performs a programme with a dance theme pulsing through it. Chopin’s stately Ballade No. 1 gives way to the dizzying virtuosity of Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales, before the waltz returns, transfigured, in Liszt’s Waltz from ‘Faust’. Mompou’s Paisajes transports us to Barcelona, and Grosvenor also premieres a new work by Judith Weir.

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          Part of
          Proms 2014 Piano and organ Proms Chamber Music & Saturday Matinees
          Proms Chamber Music 7: Benjamin Grosvenor
        • 17:45
          Proms Plus Intro
          Royal College of Music

          Part of
          Proms 2014 Proms Plus
          Proms Plus Intro
        • 19:30
          Prom 60: Roman Holiday
          Royal Albert Hall

          Plunge into a joyous carnival maelstrom with Berlioz’s giddy Roman Carnival overture. The Italian theme continues with Respighi’s Roman trilogy – a vivid picture of life in the Eternal City. Danny Driver joins the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Charles Dutoit in Walton’s Sinfonia concertante – a piano concerto in all but name.

          Plunge into a joyous carnival maelstrom with Berlioz’s giddy Roman Carnival overture. The Italian theme continues with Respighi’s Roman trilogy – a vivid picture of life in the Eternal City. Danny Driver joins the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Charles Dutoit in Walton’s Sinfonia concertante – a piano concerto in all but name.

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          Proms 2014
          Prom 60: Roman Holiday