Ian Russell
Director
BBC Proms (1947)
2010
The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and in recent years has explored an innovative series of Proms around the UK with concerts in all four nations. Its aim: to bring the best in classical music to the widest possible audience, which remains true to founder-conductor Henry Wood’s original vision in 1895. Whether you are a classical connoisseur or think classical music isn’t for you, there is something for everyone in the eight-week stretch of concerts.
Released Sept. 13, 1947
Episode 180 min
None+
Genres: Music
Keywords: tmdb.classical-music, imdb.classical-music, imdb.orchestra, imdb.live-performance, tmdb.concert-film
Network: BBC Television
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S64E1 - First Night -Mahler Symphony no 8 in E Flat major
Mahler Symphony No. 8 in E flat major
'Symphony of a Thousand' (82 mins)
Mardi Byers: soprano
Twyla Robinson: soprano
Malin Christensson: soprano
Stephanie Blythe: mezzo-soprano
Kelley O'Connor: mezzo-soprano
Stefan Vinke: tenor
Hanno Müller-Brachmann: bass-baritone
Tomasz Konieczny: bass
Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral
Choristers of Westminster Abbey
Choristers of Westminster Cathedral
BBC Symphony Chorus
Crouch End Festival Chorus
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jirí Belohlávek conductor
July 16, 2010, midnight
S64E2 - Wagner - Die Meistersinger
Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
An Opera in Three Acts
Concert staging, sung in German
Bryn Terfel: Hans Sachs
Raymond Very: Walther von Stoltzing
Amanda Roocroft: Eva
Christopher Purves: Beckmesser
Andrew Tortise: David
Anna Burford: Magdalene
David Soar: Nightwatchman
Brindley Sherratt: Pogner
Simon Thorpe: Kothner
David Stout: Nachtigall
Paul Hodges: Schwartz
Rhys Meirion: Zorn
Andrew Rees: Eisslinger
Stephen Rooke: Moser
Arwel Huw Morgan: Foltz
Geraint Dodd: Vogelgesang
Owen Webb: Ortel
Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Lothar Koenigs conductor
July 17, 2010, midnight
S64E4 - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic - Manfred
Schumann - Manfred, Op 115 (orch. Gustav Mahler)
Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
Tchaikovsky - Manfred
July 19, 2010, midnight
S64E8 - Britten-Prokofiev-Shostakovich
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat major Alexander Toradze, piano Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C major, 'Leningrad' BBC National Orchestra of Wales Thierry Fischer conductor
July 22, 2010, midnight
S64E10 - Doctor Who at the Proms
Doctor Who returns to the Proms with a new show hosted by the stars of the series - Karen Gillan (aka the Doctor's companion Amy Pond), Arthur Darvill (aka Rory Williams) and featuring a special guest appearance by Matt Smith (aka the Doctor).
The concert features Murray Gold's music for the television series, including his latest re-imagining of Ron Grainier's classic theme tune performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the London Philharmonic Choir, soloists Yamit Mamo and Mark Chambers, and conducted by Ben Foster.
With exclusive behind-the-scenes access, specially-edited sequences from the most recent series, a host of monsters laying siege to the Royal Albert Hall and a new scene written especially for the Proms by Steven Moffat and featuring the Time Lord himself, this is an intergalactic musical adventure like no other.
July 24, 2010, midnight
S64E18 - Dean-Mahler-Shostakovich
Brett Dean: Amphitheatre (London premiere) (10 mins) Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn – selection (23 mins) Ekaterina Gubanova mezzo-soprano Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor (50 mins) The Australian Youth Orchestra Sir Mark Elder conductor
July 29, 2010, midnight
S64E19 - Prom 19 - Sondheim at 80
Marking the 80th birthday of one of Broadway's great innovators, this first ever all-Sondheim Prom draws together leading figures of the opera and theatre worlds, plus some further special guests.
Bryn Terfel – a magnetic Sweeney Todd, as he proved at the Royal Festival Hall in 2007 – leads a starry cast, joined by aspiring young performers supported by the BBC Performing Arts Fund. On the bill are excerpts from the horror-opera Sweeney Todd, the Ingmar Bergman-inspired A Little Night Music and the fairy-tale compendium of Into the Woods, as well as excerpts from Company, Pacific Overtures and Sunday in the Park with George.
July 30, 2010, midnight
S64E24 - Mahler Symphony No.3 in D minor
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minor (100 mins)
Karen Cargill: mezzo-soprano
Edinburgh Festival Chorus (women's voices)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra Junior Chorus
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles conductor
Sung in German, Fixed subtitles in English, commentary in English
Aug. 4, 2010, midnight
S64E26 - Mahler Symphony No.5 in C-Sharp minor(Gergiev)
Mahler Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor World Orchestra for Peace Valery Gergiev conductor
Aug. 5, 2010, midnight
S64E29 - National Youth Orchestra
Paul Dukas - L' apprenti sorcier
Julian Anderson - Fantasias
Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique, Op 14
Aug. 7, 2010, midnight
S64E36 - Chopin-Ravel
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor Encore - Gluck, transcribed Sgambati: Excerpt from Orfeo et Eurydice Nelson Freire: piano Ravel: Daphnis and Chloë – Suite No. 2 BBC Symphony Orchestra Lionel Bringuier conductor Katy Derham, Hostess
Aug. 12, 2010, midnight
S64E37 - Verdi-Dallapiccola-Bruch-Schumann
Verdi: La forza del destino – overture (8 mins)
Dallapiccola Partita (27 mins)
Sarah Tynan: soprano
Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor (25 mins)
James Ehnes: violin
Encore - Paganini: Caprice 16
Schumann Symphony No. 4 in D minor (revised version) (38 mins)
BBC Philharmonic
Gianandrea Noseda conductor
Vocals with fixed English subtitles
Commentary in English
Interval cut
Aug. 13, 2010, midnight
S64E39 - J.S. Bach
J. S. Bach, orch. Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (10 mins)
J. S. Bach, orch. Henry Wood: 'Suite No. 6' - Prelude; Finale (6 mins)
Tarik O'Regan: Latent Manifest (5 mins)
(BBC commission: world premiere)
Walton: The Wise Virgins – suite (21 mins)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Litton conductor
During interval: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, recorded earlier in the day
English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor
Grainger: Blithe Bells (4 mins)
J. S. Bach, arr. Sargent: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 - Air (6 mins)
Alissa Firsova: Bach Allegro (5 mins)
(BBC commission: world premiere)
J. S. Bach, arr. Bantock: Chorale Prelude 'Wachet auf, ruft uns due Stimme', BWV 645 (5 mins)
J. S. Bach, arr. Respighi: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582 (13 mins)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Litton conductor
Commentary in English
Aug. 14, 2010, midnight
S64E42 - In memoriam Benjamin Britten
Arvo Pärt: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten (7 mins)
Britten: Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes' (17 mins)
Huw Watkins: Violin Concerto
(BBC commission: world premiere) (20 mins)
Alina Ibragimova: violin
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor (50 mins)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor
Aug. 17, 2010, midnight
S64E46 - The Philharmonia Orchestra
The Philharmonia Orchestra play Mosolov's The Foundry, Pärt's Symphony No. 4 "Los Angeles", Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand & Scriabin's The Poem of Ecstasy.
Aug. 20, 2010, midnight
S64E49 - A Celebration of Rogers & Hammerstein
Oklahoma: excerpts (13 mins) Carousel: excerpts (26 mins) South Pacific: excerpts (17 mins) The King and I: (arr. Edward B. Powell) Overture (6 mins) Flower Drum Song: excerpts (11 mins) The Sound of Music: excerpts (12 mins) Cast includes: Kim Criswell Sierra Boggess Anna-Jane Casey Julian Ovenden Rod Gilfry Maida Vale Singers John Wilson Orchestra John Wilson conductor
Aug. 22, 2010, midnight
S64E54 - Turnage-Barber-Sibelius
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Hammered Out
(BBC co-commission with LA Philharmonic: world premiere) (c15 mins)
Barber: Violin Concerto (25 mins)
Encore: J. S. Bach: Gavotte en rondeau from Violin Partita 3
Gil Shaham: violin
Sibelius Symphony: No. 2 in D major (40 mins)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
David Robertson conductor
Commentary in English
Aug. 26, 2010, midnight
S64E55 - Jamie Cullum & The Heritage Orchestra
Aug. 27, 2010, midnight
S64E62 - Hindemith-Mahler-Bruckner
Hindemith: Symphony 'Mathis der Maler' (27 mins) Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (17 mins) Christian Gerhaher: baritone Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D minor (65 mins) Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester Herbert Blomstedt conductor Commentary in English, vocals with fixed English subtitles Interval cut
Aug. 31, 2010, midnight
S64E63 - Rameau-Canteloube-Matalon
Rameau: Dardanus – suite (18 mins) Canteloube: Songs from the Auvergne – selection (25 mins): Pastourelle Deux Bourrées: N'ai pas iéu de mio Une jionto pastouro Té, l'co té! Bailero Malurous qu'o uno fenno Anna Caterina Antonacci: soprano Martin Matalon: Lignes de fuite UK premiere) (18 mins) Mussorgsky, arr. Henry Wood: Pictures at an Exhibition (30 mins) BBC National Orchestra of Wales François-Xavier Roth conductor
Sept. 1, 2010, midnight
S64E66 - Simon Rattle & Berliner Philharmoniker
Wagner - Parsifal
R. Strauss - Vier Letzte Lieder
Schoenberg - Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16
Webern - Six Pieces, Op 6
Berg - Three Pieces, Op 6
Sept. 4, 2010, midnight
S64E69 - Royal Scottish National Orchestra
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra and its French-born Music Director, Stéphane Denève, join Paul Lewis as he rounds off his cycle of the five Beethoven piano concertos with the last and most proudly majestic of them all.
Taking up this afternoon's Italian theme, they play spectacular orchestral showpieces by Berlioz and Respighi, inspired respectively by Rome's lively street life and its imperial past; while, cementing Celtic connections, they introduce a recent symphonic suite drawn from the Scottish composer James MacMillan's opera The Sacrifice, inspired by the medieval folk tales of The Mabinogion and premiered to great acclaim by Welsh National Opera in 2007.
* Berlioz Overture 'Roman Carnival' (9 mins)
* Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 'Emperor' (38 mins)
* interval
* James Macmillan The Sacrifice – Three Interludes
(London premiere) (15 mins)
* Respighi Pines of Rome (23 mins)
* Paul Lewis piano
* Royal Scottish National Orchestra
* Stéphane Denève conductor
Sept. 6, 2010, midnight
S64E76 - Last Night of The Proms
Tradition meets high jinks as Jiří Bělohlávek conducts his second Last Night, while the spirit of Henry Wood presides, as always, over the grand finale of the Proms. Renée Fleming lends her lustrous soprano to music by Strauss, Dvořák and Smetana. Former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Maxim Rysanov gives Tchaikovsky's popular cello variations a new voice, and loyal Prommers can spot the last traces of the season's Wood, Parry, Wagner, Rodgers and Hammerstein and opera themes.
A festive new piece by Jonathan Dove opens the evening; a contemporary hornpipe forms an upbeat to anniversary composer Arne's Rule, Britannia!; and audiences around the UK can join the Royal Albert Hall crowd in singing along to excerpts from Lohengrin and Carousel in a climax to the BBC's opera season
Sept. 11, 2010, midnight
Network: BBC Television
Episode Runtime: 180 min.
Season Runtime: 180 min.
Released: Sept. 13, 1947
Last Air Date: Nov. 8, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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