The programme for the 122nd
season of the BBC Proms www.bbc.co.uk/proms has been announced. Running from 15th July
to 10th September the season, that has a strong Russian flavour, will consist
of more than 90 concerts beginning on the First Night with Tchaikovsky’s Romeo
and Juliet Overture, Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor and Prokofiev’s Cantata
Alexander Nevsky.
One notable highlight will be bass-baritone Bryn Terfel who appears
in the title role of Mussorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov with Sir Antonio Pappano
conducting the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Among the soloists in Tchaikovsky’s
concertos are Pekka Kuusisto in the Violin Concerto and Kirill Gerstein and
Pavel Kolesnikov in the First and Second Piano Concertos respectively.
Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, will be performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony
Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard.
In the year of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro www.rio2016.com there is also a Latin American focus with
Marin Alsop bringing the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra to the Proms in a
concert that features the Brazilian composers Marlos Nobre and Heitor along
with Grieg and Rachmaninov. Later the São Paulo Jazz Symphony joins Marin Alsop
and the city’s symphony orchestra for a Late Night Prom exploring Brazilian
popular music.
Cello concertos performances during year's Proms will
include Sol Gabetta playing Elgar’s Cello Concerto, Alban Gerhardt in Dvořák’s
Concerto and Truls Mørk with Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1. Cellists Paul
Watkins, Steven Isserlis and former BBC Young Musician Guy Johnston perform
world premieres by Huw Watkins, Thomas Adès and Charlotte Bray and Leonard
Elschenbroich plays a new work by Colin Matthews.
The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death features highly
with performances of works influenced by his plays, including Mendelssohn’s A
Midsummer Night’s Dream and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. There is also a
special day of Shakespeare-themed works by Purcell, Blow and Locke at
Shakespeare’s Globe, performed by Arcangelo, as well as film music from
Bernstein’s West Side Story to Walton’s Richard III, performed by Keith
Lockhart and the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Conductor, Bernard Haitink celebrates the 50th
anniversary of his first concert at the Proms with Mahler’s Third Symphony with
the London Symphony Orchestra and mezzo soprano, Sarah Connolly.
There will be a Gospel Prom celebrating the rich legacy of
gospel music with a wide range of performers including the London Community
Gospel Choir and the John Wilson Orchestra returns to celebrate the music of
George Gershwin.
Among the visiting orchestras, conductors and soloists will
be Martha Argerich performing Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim and Simon Rattle conducting
the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in Brahms’s Second and Mahler’s Seventh
symphonies.
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's new music
director, conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla makes her Proms debut with the
orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony and Sakari Oramo, chief conductor of
the BBC Symphony Orchestra, will conduct this year’s Last Night of the Proms
where he will be joined by tenor Juan Diego Flórez.
On 29th July there will be a late night Prom
paying tribute to the rock and pop legend David Bowie, who died at the age of
69 in January this year and whose influence was felt in every field of the
arts.
There will be a large number of Proms Extra events at both the
Royal Albert Hall and the Imperial College Union as well as concerts from Cadogan
Hall, London, The Chapel, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich and the Roundhouse,
Camden, London.
As usual each BBC Prom will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3
with many also televised on BBC Four www.bbc.co.uk/events/r938q9/series/rd4wrz
.
Don’t forget that there will last night celebrations with Proms
in the Park 2016 at London’s Hyde Park, Parc Eirias, Colwyn Bay, Wales and
Titanic Slipway, Belfast, Northern Ireland http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3vsb5Jn0sqpCdsGKsZXSqQ6/proms-in-the-park-2016
Take a look at the BBC Proms website to see full details of
all that is happening www.bbc.co.uk/proms
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