We have another great
summer of music to look forward to when the 121st season of the BBC
Proms opens on 17th July 2015 www.bbc.co.uk/proms
Once again the breadth of music and artists appearing is
impressive. Sakari Oramo will conduct the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in
the First Night of the Proms with a
programme that includes Nielsen’s Maskarade,
Gary Carpenter’s Dadaville, a BBC
commission receiving its world premiere, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor with Lars Vogt, Sibelius’ Belshazzar's Feast – suite and Walton’s
great choral work Belshazzar's Feast
featuring baritone Christopher Maltman.
Celebrating Nielsen’s 150th anniversary, his
music will feature in a further six concerts during the season. Sibelius, whose
150th anniversary also falls this year will feature in a further
five concerts including all of his symphonies spread over three successive
concerts conducted by Thomas Dausgard, Ilan Volkov and Osmo Vanska.
Whilst the BBC’s own orchestras and choirs will, as usual be
the backbone of the Proms, joining the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, BBC
National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra will be visiting overseas orchestras such as
the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Baroque Orchestra
Ghent, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, SWR Symphony Orchestra, Bergen
Philharmonic Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony
Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic
Orchestra and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Other British orchestras and bands appearing include the
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Aurora Orchestra, English Baroque
Soloists, Guy Barker Big Band, Winston Rollins Big Band, Halle Orchestra,
London Symphony Orchestra, Heritage Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra of
Great Britain, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestre Revolutionnaire
et Romantique, John Wilson Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, London
Sinfonietta, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the English Concert and the
London Philharmonic Orchestra.
There are many great choirs appearing including the
Cardinall’s Musick, the Monteverdi Choir, Stilo Antico and many more. Ensembles
appearing include Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Royal Northern Sinfonia
Winds, the Apollon Musagete Quartet, the Emerson String Quartet and the
Benedetti-Elschenbroich-Grynyuk Trio to name just a handful.
Opera is represented by Glyndebourne Festival Opera with
Mozart’s The Abduction from Seraglio.
Grange Park Opera will be performing the popular Broadway classic Fiddler on the Roof.
The range of music is vast with BBC commissions and premier
performances. Special events include a Ten
Pieces Prom bringing the first year of the BBC’s Ten Pieces project to a
close, a Life Story Prom presented by
David Attenborough, A Sondheim Cabaret,
Story of Swing and a number of Late
Night Proms in conjunction with BBC Asian Network, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 6
Music, BBC Radio 1XTRA.
The Last Night of the
Proms on Saturday 12th September 2015 promises to be another
great evening with pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, soprano Danielle de Niese, tenor
Jonas Kaufmann and the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop.
There will of course be Proms
in the Park at Hyde Park, London, Glasgow Green, Singleton Park, Swansea
and Titanic Slipways, Belfast.
I have not been able to do more than scratch the surface of
all the concerts taking place so please go to the BBC Proms website for full
details http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms and,
indeed to book your tickets. The BBC Proms website is a mine of information
including much archive material. All Proms concerts can be heard live on BBC
Radio 3 www.bbc.co.uk/radio3
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