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13 JULY – 8 SEPTEMBER 2018 Press Pack
Sir Mark Elder
Youssou Ndour
Joshua Bell Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet Jess Gillam
Miloš Karadaglić
Annelien Van Wauwe Yuja Wang
Sheku Kanneh-Mason Tai Murray Anna Prohaska
Jacob Collier Karina Canellakis
Shiva Feshareki Morris Robinson Daniel Barenboim
The 2018 BBC Proms at a glance The BBC Proms continues to champion
new music and previously unperformed
works with over 40 premieres, including
Radiophonic Workshop collective,
Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire,
who achieved cult status for her electronic
The brainchild of Australia’s leading reggae
and dancehall producer, Mista Savona,
Havana Meets Kingston invites some of
recently rediscovered and newly completed arrangement of the Doctor Who the most influential musicians from
works by Britten and Bernstein. TV theme. Jamaica and Cuba – including original
The 2018 BBC Proms opens spectacularly 100 years since women in the UK were members of the Buena Vista Social Club –
with a contemporary response to the First granted the right to vote, eight BBC There are over 90 debuts this season, The sounds on the streets of New York to fuse Cuban rhythms and melodies with
World War by one of today’s most commissions are given to women composers including the Baltimore Symphony are brought to a Late Night Prom by the deep bass of Jamaican dub.
imaginative and eclectic young composers, never previously commissioned by the BBC, Orchestra and the Orchestre de la Suisse Proms favourite Jules Buckley, as rising
Anna Meredith. A joint commission with as part of the long-running ‘Proms at … Romande in its 100th-birthday year. stars and established artists from across Sir András Schiff completes his two-year
14–18 NOW and Edinburgh International Cadogan Hall’ lunchtime chamber music There are also first visits to the Proms the Big Apple present everything from late-night Bach series with Book 2 of The
Festival, her piece Five Telegrams features series: Caroline Shaw, Eve Risser, Jessica for the Estonian Festival Orchestra and pagan-gospel to feminist rap. Well-Tempered Clavier.
59 Productions
stunning visual projections from 59 Wells, Lisa Illean, Suzanne Farrin, Laura Il Giardino Armonico.
Productions, and draws on the talents of Mvula, Bushra El-Turk and Nina Šenk. Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos are Oud virtuoso Joseph Tawadros – heralded
the BBC Proms Youth Ensemble and the Other highlights from the international heard alongside new musical responses in for his work in reimagining the range of
CONTENTS National Youth Choir of Great Britain. With a further commission for Roxanna orchestral scene include: Kirill Petrenko UK premieres by Uri Caine, Brett Dean, music accessible to his instrument –
Panufnik on the Last Night (alongside with the Berliner Philharmoniker; Anders Hillborg, Olga Neuwirth, Steven presents a concert steeped in Arabic
Centenaries 6–9
Six centenaries will be marked during the Anna Meredith on the First Night), women Sir Antonio Pappano with the Orchestra Mackey and Mark-Anthony Turnage sound-worlds, alongside a world premiere
Late Night Proms 10 season: composers are celebrated at two of the of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome; performed by the Swedish Chamber by Jessica Wells.
• the end of the First World War most high-profile events in the classical and Daniel Barenboim with the Orchestra over two concerts in one day.
More to explore 11 • the birth of Leonard Bernstein music calendar. West–Eastern Divan Orchestra. In the centenary year of Debussy’s death,
• the death of Claude Debussy Since appearing at the Proms in 2016, a French music theme runs through the
Nurturing talent 12–13
• the death of Lili Boulanger Marking 40 years of BBC Young Achieving widespread acclaim in online sensation Jacob Collier has picked summer, including two complete operas,
‘Proms at …’ 14 • the death of Hubert Parry Musician’s contribution to nurturing recent years for their highly original up two Grammy Awards and now returns Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and Ravel’s
• the parliamentary recognition of young talent, a gala concert features interpretations, Teodor Currentzis and to the Proms with a host of special guests. L’enfant et les sortilèges.
International orchestras 15
women’s right to vote 21 alumni, including Nicola Benedetti, MusicAeterna make their Proms debut,
New music 16–17 Michael Collins and Sheku Kanneh-Mason. bringing their radical approach to The Tango Prom sees the Britten Sinfonia Celebrating Folk Music around Britain
The centenary of the birth of Leonard Beethoven in performances of his Second and Pablo Ziegler present a celebration of and Ireland, leading artists including The
Last Night of the Proms 18–19 Bernstein is marked throughout the season ‘Proms at …’ visits the Roundhouse in and Fifth Symphonies. Argentine tango, along with its thriving Unthanks, Sam Lee and Julie Fowlis are
with a series of concerts celebrating all Camden as well as two new exciting variant that took hold in Finland. joined by the BBC Concert Orchestra.
David Pickard 20
aspects of his life as composer, conductor venues: Lincoln Drill Hall and Alexandra The Aurora Orchestra’s Proms visits are
Alan Davey 21 and educator. Highlights include concert Palace in North London for the first official always a highlight of the season – less a Grammy Award-winning Senegalese singer Sir Andrew Davis marks 130 appearances
performances of two of his most famous concert in its Victorian Theatre as its concert than a musical event. This year Youssou Ndour makes his Proms debut at the Proms by conducting the Last
Francesca Kemp 22 stage-works – West Side Story and On £26m refurbishment nears completion. Nicholas Collon and the orchestra tackle with his band Le Super Étoile de Dakar. Night for the 12th time. He will be joined
Broadcasting the Proms 23 the Town – and a tribute to his televised their boldest challenge yet – performing by Canadian baritone Gerald Finley
presentations, which brought classical Following the success of the first ever Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony from Sir John Eliot Gardiner continues his making his Last Night of the Proms debut
Artist photos (pages 2–3), clockwise from top left: music to generations of new audiences. Relaxed Prom in 2017, this year sees the memory. multi-season Berlioz project with a alongside 2016 BBC Young Musician
Christian Ruvolo (Van Wauwe); Lisa Marie Mazzuco (Bell);
Muriel Steiner (Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet); return of the concert format designed to programme devoted to the composer, finalist and saxophonist Jess Gillam.
Chris Christodoulou/BBC (Elder); Youri Lenquette (Ndour);
Chris Christodoulou (Barenboim); Lawrence Brownlee (Robinson);
be open to all, with the Bournemouth The London Contemporary Orchestra featuring Joyce DiDonato and the
Harald Hoffmann (Prohaska); Julia Wesely (Murray); Benjamin Ealovega (Shiva);
Retts Wood (Collier); Ian Douglas (Wang); Andy Earl (Karadaglić);
Symphony Orchestra and its disabled-led presents a late-night sonic exploration Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.
Kaupo Kikkas (Gillam); Todd Rosenberg (Canellakis) ensemble BSO Resound. featuring composers from the BBC
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Centenaries LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Marking 100 years since the birth of one
of the most influential musicians of the
20th century, the BBC Proms surveys the
A number of threads running through the season hold connections to the remarkable year of 1918. work and legacy of Leonard Bernstein as
composer, conductor and educator.
FIRST WORLD WAR & Ode to Death (27 July): Written by Holst Proms at … Roundhouse
REMEMBRANCE to mourn friends lost at war, this piece George Benjamin directs the London Candide – overture (6 August)
100 years since the end of the First World sets a passage from Walt Whitman’s 1865 Sinfonietta in a First World War centenary The Minnesota Orchestra and conductor
War, the Proms revisits this key period elegy, ‘When lilacs last in the dooryard concert. Along with four world premieres, Osmo Vänskä lead an all-American
in modern history with an exploration of bloom’d’. there will be works by Stravinsky, programme with Bernstein’s Candide
the composers and writers who came to Messiaen and Ives (21 July). overture, Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in
document it, and invites contemporary Britten F major and Ives’s Symphony No. 2,
composers to offer their reflections on the Sinfonia da Requiem (21 July): A piece Proms at … Lincoln Drill Hall a work premiered by Bernstein in 1951.
legacy of the ‘Great War’. whose three movements (‘Lacrymosa’, The Hebrides Ensemble perform
‘Dies irae’ and ‘Requiem aeternam’) call to Stravinsky’s 1918 The Soldier’s Tale, as Symphony No. 1, ‘Jeremiah’ (10 August)
Hubert Parry takes centre-stage as a mind the fallen soldiers and the composer’s the theme of war comes to this unique out- Sir Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra
composer who died in 1918, after leaving lifelong anti-war politics is performed by of-London setting (4 August). of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome,
an indelible imprint on the British classical the World Orchestra for Peace. perform Bernstein’s first symphony
music tradition. The works of Parry’s Requiems (Brahms, Verdi & Britten) Jeremiah, alongside works by Haydn and
remarkable pupils including Holst, Vaughan Williams The Mass for the dead comes to the Proms Mahler – two composers who greatly
CBS Photography
Vaughan Williams and Frank Bridge are The Lark Ascending (27 July): This in three iterations (7 August, 30 August & inspired him.
explored through the lens of his legacy. elegiac piece for solo violin and orchestra 6 September), reflecting three of the many
Leonard Bernstein
was composed in 1914 but received its nations affected by the First World War: West Side Story (11 August)
Anna Meredith premiere in 1921 owing to the disruption Germany (Brahms), Italy (Verdi) and the John Wilson and his eponymous orchestra
Five Telegrams (13 July): A joint of the First World War. United Kingdom (Britten). give two concert performances of arguably
commission with 14–18 NOW and the the greatest musical of the 20th century. The Sound of an Orchestra (26 August) Proms at … Cadogan Hall 7 (27 August)
Edinburgh International Festival, this Pastoral Symphony (27 July): Completed Two unique ‘Proms at … Cadogan Hall’ In a tribute to Leonard Bernstein’s A lunchtime chamber music concert
contemporary response, with music by in 1921, the third of Vaughan Williams’s lunchtime chamber music concerts are On the Town (25 August) televised presentations, which brought explores Bernstein’s chamber works,
Anna Meredith, will explore forms of symphonies has come to be held as a also devoted to Parry and his pupils On what would have been Bernstein’s classical music to generations of new including the UK premiere of Conch
communication used during this time of commemoration of the war dead and a including Vaughan Williams and Holst. 100th birthday, John Wilson leads the audiences, the Proms pays homage to his Town. The concert also features the world
conflict and will feature specially created meditation on the beauty of peace. • P@CH 4 sees Dame Sarah Connolly London Symphony Orchestra in a concert pioneering work. With creative direction premiere of a BBC commission by Bushra
visual projections, producing a unique, perform a programme of works by performance of Bernstein’s 1944 musical from Gerard McBurney and projection El-Turk written in response to Bernstein’s
multi-sensory experience. Dona nobis pacem (12 August): Written composers associated with the Royal On the Town. design by Mike Tutaj, conductor Joshua vocal recipe settings La bonne cuisine.
in 1936, this cantata is a plea for peace College of Music, where Parry was a Weilerstein and the Royal Philharmonic
Holst and takes its inspiration from four key former Director Orchestra’s ‘The Sound of an Orchestra’ Slava! (A Political Overture) & Symphony
The Planets (13 July): Paired with Anna texts: liturgical passages from the Mass, presents a vivid tapestry of words, No. 2, ‘The Age of Anxiety’ (27 August)
• P@CH 6 sees the BBC Singers deliver
Meredith’s new work, The Planets received three poems by Walt Whitman, a political projections and music. Marin Alsop, a student of Bernstein, and
a programme around the theme of
its premiere in 1918, the year the ‘Great speech and sections of the Bible. the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conclude
endings with a beautiful selection of
War’ came to an end. our bank-holiday Bernstein birthday weekend
English part-songs
with the orchestra’s debut at the Proms.
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY OTHER FRENCH WORKS INCLUDE WOMEN ARE GRANTED
The Proms marks 100 years since the • Fauré Pavane (14 July) THE VOTE
death of the composer whom some • Saint-Saëns The Carnival of the Animals A key historical moment in 1918, and in
consider to be the ‘Godfather’ of modern – excerpts (15 July) the expansion of universal suffrage, was
music. Exploring Debussy’s role in shaping • Messiaen Turangalîla Symphony Parliament’s decision to give the right
the 20th-century canon, the Proms features (18 July) to vote to women over 30 who either
a range of repertoire by his contemporary • French organ works (22 July) owned land themselves or were married
Ravel, as well as his own work alongside • Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto No. 3 to men with property. In recognition
other French composers. Six Proms feature (12 August) of the suffrage movement eight women
works by Debussy himself: • Berlioz Harold in Italy; vocal works composers never previously commissioned
(5 September) by the BBC have new works performed
• Pelléas et Mélisande (17 July) • Milhaud Scaramouche (8 September) across the eight ‘Proms at … Cadogan
• La damoiselle élue (26 July) Hall’ lunchtime chamber music concerts:
• La mer (4 August) LILI BOULANGER
• Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune; The Proms commemorates the tragically • Caroline Shaw (16 July)
Nocturnes (15 August) short life of Lili Boulanger, the first • Eve Risser (23 July)
• Jeux (16 August) woman composer to win the Prix de • Jessica Wells (30 July)
• Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp Rome, but too often overshadowed by her • Lisa Illean (6 August)
(3 September) older sister Nadia, by exploring her music. • Suzanne Farrin (13 August)
• Laura Mvula (20 August)
RAVEL • D’un matin de printemps; D’un soir • Bushra El-Turk (27 August)
• Daphnis and Chloe (14 July) triste (20 July) • Nina Šenk (3 September) Laura Mvula
• Tzigane (15 July) • Pour les funérailles d’un soldat
• Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (12 August) The Proms also features other notable
(4 August) • Psalm 130, ‘Du fond de l’abîme’ women who have contributed to classical
• Boléro (15 August) (15 August) music over the past 100 years, including
• Mother Goose; Shéhérazade; L’enfant et • Nocturne for violin and piano; Trois suffragette Ethel Smyth, Morfydd Owen,
les sortilèges (18 August) morceaux for piano (3 September) in the centenary year of her death, and
• La valse (31 August) Thea Musgrave, who celebrates her 90th
• Introduction and Allegro (3 September) birthday this year.
This season we mark 100 years since the Two orchestras celebrating their 100th
death of the composer Hubert Parry, anniversaries in 2018 and performing at
whose hymn Jerusalem is not only one the Proms are:
of his best-loved compositions, but • Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
was adopted as a rallying cry by the (16 August)
Sylvain Gripoix
suffragettes and is still sung annually at • Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
the Last Night of the Proms. (28 August) Thea Musgrave Eve Risser
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Late Night Proms More to explore
Nine Late Night Proms offer an eclectic range of musical styles that reflects Jacob Collier and Friends (19 July) Joseph Tawadros (30 July) On the Town (25 August)
the more intimate setting of these ‘after-hours’ events. Following his debut at 2016’s Quincy Cairo-born oud virtuoso Joseph Tawadros On what would have been Bernstein’s
Jones Prom, the multi-talented Grammy – heralded for his work in reimagining the 100th birthday, John Wilson leads the
Award-winner Jacob Collier headlines range of music accessible to his instrument London Symphony Orchestra and a line-
1. Pioneers of Sound (23 July) 4. Inside Shostakovich (6 August) his own Prom featuring friends such as – presents the third in the ‘Proms at … up of musical theatre stars in a concert
The London Contemporary Orchestra Continuing their survey of symphonies Sam Amidon and Take 6. Audiences can Cadogan Hall’ series, bringing a concert performance of his debut work as a
presents an evening of post-war electronic played from memory, the Aurora expect a mix of musical styles from folk to steeped in Arabic sound-worlds, alongside Broadway composer.
music with the help of experimental Orchestra under Nicholas Collon perform neo-soul. This multi-instrumentalist will a world premiere by Jessica Wells.
composer and turntablist Shiva Feshareki. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9. perform alongside Jules Buckley and his Relaxed Prom (27 August)
The evening is inspired by BBC Radiophonic Metropole Orkest. Folk Music around Britain and Ireland Presented by the Bournemouth Symphony
Workshop pioneers including co-founder 5. New York: Sound of a City (8 August) (3 August) Orchestra and its disabled-led ensemble
Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire, a Celebrating the music of New York, the Ten Pieces Proms (29 July) Celebrating the folk music scene in Britain BSO Resound, this Relaxed Prom will
composer who achieved cult status for her Heritage Orchestra and conductor Jules The success of the BBC’s Ten Pieces project and Ireland, leading artists such as Sam explore Bernstein’s Fancy Free – Three
realisation of the Doctor Who TV theme. Buckley present their take on the sounds is phenomenal: it has already reached more Lee, Julie Fowlis and The Unthanks are Dance Variations. In partnership with the
of NYC today. With a line-up of both than 4 million young people, not to mention joined by the BBC Concert Orchestra. RAH Education & Outreach team, this
2. Havana Meets Kingston (31 July) rising stars and established acts, audiences winning a BAFTA, and it continues to matinee performance offers an informal
The sound-worlds of traditional and can expect everything from disco-punk to bring classical music to huge numbers of West Side Story (11 August) environment for all, including family
contemporary Cuba and Jamaica come feminist rap. schoolchildren and adults across the UK. In the year marking Leonard Bernstein’s members of all ages, children and adults
together in a Late Night Prom, the These two Proms will bring to life music centenary, the work for which he is surely with autism, sensory and communication
Ash Kingston
brainchild of Australia’s leading reggae 6. National Youth Jazz Orchestra by Kerry Andrew, Copland, Stravinsky best known is performed by the John Wilson impairments and learning disabilities,
serpentwithfeet
and dancehall producer Jake Savona (aka (16 August) and Tchaikovsky, among others. Orchestra in a pair of show-stopping as well as individuals who are Deaf or
Mista Savona). Featuring the best artists As the Proms continues to explore Leonard concert performances not to be missed. hearing impaired, blind and partially
from both islands, including original Bernstein’s legacy, Mark Armstrong sighted, or living with dementia.
members of the Buena Vista Social Club, and guest conductor Guy Barker lead 8. Youssou Ndour (31 August – please note
the event brings roots reggae, dub and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra in a this is a change of date from the published Tango Prom (4 September)
dancehall together with salsa and rumba. programme including the original jazz- Guide) In a night of Latin passion and high kicks,
band version of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Grammy Award-winning Senegalese singer the roof of the Royal Albert Hall promises
3. Anna Prohaska and Il Giardino Armonico Blue – performed with pianist Benjamin Youssou Ndour makes his Proms debut to be raised with an exploration of Latin-
(2 August) Grosvenor. with his band Le Super Étoile de Dakar. American tango from its origins in the bars
Austrian soprano Anna Prohaska joins of 1880s Buenos Aires, through to Ástor
Italy’s leading early music ensemble, 7. Sir András Schiff – J. S. Bach’s The 9. Before the Ending of the Day (6 September) Piazzolla’s Nuevo Tango that emerged in
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Il Giardino Armonico, in their debut at Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (29 August) An intimate Late Night Prom with the the 1950s, via the Finnish tango tradition.
the Proms, for a programme that celebrates Concluding a two-year project, Sir Tallis Scholars weaves a programme
two great queens of myth and legend, Dido András Schiff returns with a late-night inspired by the Christian office of Compline,
and Cleopatra, and the Baroque composers performance of Book 2 of J. S. Bach’s The the final service of the church day.
Craig Mackay
who created music inspired by them. Well-Tempered Clavier.
James Rose Julie Fowlis
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Nurturing talent
PARTICIPATORY EVENTS
• The Proms Scratch Orchestra
(27 August) offers an opportunity
for adults (16+) of mixed ability to
Passionate about bringing new audiences to classical music and identifying and nurturing emerging talent, the BBC Proms sit side by side with the BBC Concert
continues to make youth music-making and youth audiences a major focus of the season. Orchestra in a workshop on
Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony,
conducted by Marin Alsop.
BBC Proms Youth Ensemble (13 July) Ten Pieces Proms (29 July) National Youth Jazz Orchestra (16 August)
The First Night of the Proms sees the The Ten Pieces Children’s Choir will this In a Late Night Prom, led by Mark • Two Proms Family Orchestra and
BBC Proms Youth Ensemble and National year see over 400 children from across the Armstrong and Guy Barker, the National Chorus events during the season see
Youth Choir of Great Britain assemble to London area invited to perform in the two Youth Jazz Orchestra perform the original partnerships with Haringey Music
premiere Anna Meredith’s Five Telegrams. Ten Pieces Proms. These Proms also feature jazz-band version of Gershwin’s Rhapsody Hub and a virtual school responsible
The Proms Youth Ensemble offers talented a partnership with London Music Masters, in Blue with pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. for looked-after children, focused
young instrumentalists opportunities to a grass-roots music-education project, and around the Brandenburg Concertos
participate in innovative performances collaborations with English Pen, an arts BBC Proms Inspire (22 August) project (5 August) and the ‘Proms
alongside professional musicians. charity that works with young people from Celebrating its 20th birthday, the BBC at … Alexandra Palace’ concert
BBC/Pete Dadds
asylum-seeker and refugee backgrounds. Proms Inspire scheme returns to provide
(1 September). These events offer
BBC Young Musician 40th Anniversary There will also be a nationwide call out for a forum to discover and nurture the UK’s
introductions to classical music and Ten Pieces Prom 2017
(15 July) children to submit their own interpretations aspiring young composers aged 12 to
are aimed at children aged 7 and over.
The prestigious BBC Young Musician of No Place Like - one of this year’s Ten 18. An Inspire Day on 22 August will
competition this year marks 40 years of Pieces. Their creative responses will be give participants the chance to attend • Proms Learning Come and Sing events
commitment to youth music. The Proms featured throughout the two Proms. workshops with leading composers, aim to develop audiences who enjoy
celebrates this anniversary with a concert while winners of this year’s competition singing and want to explore choral
dedicated to the competition, inviting 21 National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and a number of last year’s winners will repertoire by incorporating it into
alumni to perform with the BBC Concert (4 August) have their pieces performed by Aurora wider projects as an accessible entry
Orchestra. Artists include Sheku Kanneh- George Benjamin makes the second of two Orchestra and Christopher Stark at a point to classical music and group
Mason, Nicola Benedetti and Freddy conducting appearances at the Proms this special Inspire Concert at the BBC’s Radio performance.
Kempf. year. Under his baton, the National Youth Theatre, broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Orchestra of Great Britain will perform
BBC Proms Youth Choir (21 July) his own Dance Figures of 2004, Ligeti’s BBC Proms Poetry Competition (3 September)
Alongside young singers from Birmingham Lontano, Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the The BBC Proms partners with the Poetry KEY INITIATIVES
and Aberdeen who comprise the BBC Proms Left Hand and Debussy’s La mer. Society once more for the Proms Poetry • Tickets are half-price for anyone aged
Youth Choir, the BBC Proms Youth Choir Competition: a linked free event will see 18 or under (except for the Last Night
Academy, a week-long residency at The Sage West Side Story Chorus (11 August) winners from each category (12- to of the Proms).
Gateshead, will see young people from across A top-flight cast for West Side Story will 18-year-olds, and 19-plus) invited to
the North East receive tutelage from the be joined by an ensemble of students from read their poems on stage at Imperial • An increased number of matinee and
BBC Singers, Grace Rossiter and Simon leading London theatre schools, ArtsEd College Union. weekend performances means it’s
Halsey, as they prepare for their Proms and Mountview. easier to fit in a Prom around your
Simon Jay Price
performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony family timetable.
BBC Proms Inspire
and a new work by Ēriks E≈envalds.
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Proms at … International orchestras
Following the launch of the ‘Proms at …’ series in 2016, the BBC Proms continues to bring audiences to new Some of the world’s best-known orchestras and leading conductors grace the Royal Albert Hall this summer:
locations beyond the Royal Alber t Hall, matching music to three different venues this year – two in London and
one in Lincoln – as well as continuing the long-running series of Monday-lunchtime chamber music performances
as par t of the ‘Proms at … Cadogan Hall’ series.
Proms at … Roundhouse (21 July) Proms at … Lincoln Drill Hall (4 August) Proms at … Alexandra Palace (1 September)
The Proms returns to Camden’s Roundhouse Venturing out of London for the second Proms audiences will gain a first glimpse
with a programme of 20th- and 21st- year in a row, the Proms travels to of the Victorian Theatre at Alexandra
century works. Composer-conductor Lincoln’s Drill Hall for two performances Palace – which has remained dark since
George Benjamin directs the London of Stravinsky’s 1918 music-theatre piece the 1950s – before its restoration is fully
Sinfonietta – celebrating its 50th anniversary The Soldier’s Tale. The Hebrides Ensemble completed. With a performance of Gilbert
this year – in a concert marking 100 years and conductor William Conway tell the and Sullivan’s one-act operetta Trial by
since the end of the First World War. theatrical tale of a soldier who sells his Jury, written in 1875, the same year that
Alongside premieres (co-commissioned by soul to the devil against the backdrop the Theatre was originally built, the BBC
14–18 NOW and the London Sinfonietta) of a venue designed for the Fourth Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra under
by Luca Francesconi, Georg Friedrich Haas, Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment, Jane Glover and a cast led by Neal Davies,
Hannah Kendall and Isabel Mundry, the who in August 1914 were mobilised at Mary Bevan and Sam Furness, breathe life
programme features Stravinsky’s the Drill Hall before being deployed to back into this Victorian ‘People’s Palace’.
Musacchio & Ianniello
Symphonies of Wind Instruments (his the Western Front.
Adriane White
Mark Allan
homage to Debussy), Messiaen’s Et exspecto
Sir Antonio Pappano Marin Alsop Jules Buckley
resurrectionem mortuorum and Charles
Ives’s The Unanswered Question.
• Metropole Orkest/Jules Buckley • Orchestra of the Academy of Santa • Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/
(19 July) Cecilia, Rome/Sir Antonio Pappano Edward Gardner (21 August)
• World Orchestra for Peace/ (10 August) • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/
Donald Runnicles (21 July) • Estonian Festival Orchestra/Paavo Järvi Marin Alsop (27 August)
• MusicAeterna/Teodor Currentzis (13 August) • Berliner Philharmoniker/Kirill Petrenko
(28 July) • West–Eastern Divan Orchestra/ (1 & 2 September)
• Il Giardino Armonico/ Daniel Barenboim (14 August) • Boston Symphony Orchestra/
Giovanni Antonini (2 August) • Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/ Andris Nelsons (2 & 3 September)
• Swedish Chamber Orchestra/ Jonathan Nott (16 August) • Orchestre Révolutionnaire et
Thomas Dausgaard (5 August) • European Union Youth Orchestra/ Romantique/Sir John Eliot Gardiner
• Minnesota Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä Gianandrea Noseda (19 August) (5 September)
John Williams
(6 August) • Budapest Festival Orchestra/Iván Fischer
The Roundhouse Lincoln Drill Hall Alexandra Palace Theatre
(22 & 23 August)
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New music
Continuing its support of new music, the BBC Proms presents 41 premieres, including 27 world premieres and 14 UK or London premieres.
• A nna Meredith/59 Productions • Georg Friedrich Haas Concerto grosso • M aurice Ravel, orch. Yan Maresz
Five Telegrams No. 1 Violin Sonata in G major
13 July, BBC co-commission: 30 July, UK premiere 16 August, UK premiere of this
world premiere • Joby Talbot Guitar Concerto orchestration
• David Bruce Sidechaining 2 August, BBC commission: world • Philip Venables/Béla Bartók Venables
15 July, BBC commission: world premiere premiere Plays Bartók
• Iain Farrington Gershwinicity • Mark-Anthony Turnage Maya 17 August, BBC commission: world
15 July, BBC commission: world premiere 5 August, UK premiere premiere
• Ben Foster Fantasia on the Young • Anders Hilborg Bach Materia • Agata Zubel Fireworks
Musician Theme 5 August, UK premiere 19 August, UK premiere
15 July, BBC commission: world premiere • Uri Caine Hamsa • Laura Mvula The Virgin of Montserrat
Ben McDonnell
• Caroline Shaw Second Essay: Echo; 5 August, UK premiere 20 August, BBC commission: world
Bushra El-Turk
Third Essay: Ruby • Olga Neuwirth Aello – ballet premiere
16 July, BBC co-commission: mécanomorphe • Per Nørgård Symphony No. 3
world premiere 5 August, UK premiere 20 August, UK premiere
• Luca Francesconi New work • Brett Dean Approach – Prelude to a Canon • Rolf Wallin Violin Concerto
21 July, world premiere 5 August, UK premiere 21 August, world premiere
• Georg Friedrich Haas, New work • Steven Mackey Triceros • Leonard Bernstein Conch Town
21 July, world premiere 5 August, UK premiere 27 August, UK premiere
• Hannah Kendall New work • Lisa Illean Sleeplessness … Sails • Bushra El-Turk Crème Brûlée on a Tree
21 July, world premiere 6 August, BBC commission: world 27 August, BBC commission: world
• Isabel Mundry New work premiere premiere
21 July, world premiere • Benjamin Britten A Sweet Lullaby • Alexander Campkin New work
• Ēriks Ešenvalds Shadow 6 August, world premiere 27 August, London premiere
21 July, BBC commission: world premiere • Benjamin Britten Somnus • Iain Bell Aurora
• Eve Risser Furakèla 6 August, world premiere 29 August, BBC co-commission:
23 July, BBC commission: world premiere • Simon Holt Quadriga world premiere
• Andrew Norman New work 13 August, world premiere • Nina Šenk Baca
23 July, UK premiere • Suzanne Farrin New work 3 September, BBC commission: world
• Daphne Oram Still Point 13 August, BBC commission: world premiere
23 July, world premiere of revised version premiere • Roxanna Panufnik Songs of Darkness,
• Tansy Davies What Did We See? • David Robert Coleman Looking for Dreams of Light
Chris Alexander
25 July, BBC commission: world premiere Palestine 8 September, BBC commission: world
Philip Gatward
• Jessica Wells Rhapsody for solo oud 14 August, London premiere premiere
Hannah Kendall Mark-Anthony Turnage
30 July, BBC commission: world premiere
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Gerald Finley
Last Night of the Proms
On Saturday 8 September, Sir Andrew PROMS IN THE PARK
Davis, the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Proms in the Park celebrations take centre-
Conductor Laureate, leads the orchestra, stage across the UK as all four nations
the audience in the Royal Albert Hall and contribute to the Last Night of the Proms
those celebrating across the UK in a on Saturday 8 September. In London,
rousing finale to round-off eight weeks of Belfast, Glasgow and Colwyn Bay, the
extraordinary music-making. This marks BBC Concert Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra,
Sir Andrew’s 130th performance at the BBC BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and
Proms, 11 of which have been at the Last BBC National Orchestra of Wales provide
Night. Gerald Finley and Jess Gillam are the accompaniment to performances from
the star soloists for this evening, which well-loved musical stars.
Dario Acosta Photography
includes the music of Elgar, Parry and
Sim Canetty Clark
Stanford, as well as a new work by
Kaupo Kikkas
Jess Gillam
Roxanna Panufnik, who receives the
Sir Andrew Davis
coveted Last Night BBC commission.
18 Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms 19DAVID PICKARD ALAN DAVEY I am delighted that two key and highly scheme or championing performers through
Director, BBC Proms Controller of BBC Radio 3, BBC successful innovations from last year’s Radio 3’s New Generation Artists
Proms, BBC Orchestras and Choirs season, supporting live and home audiences, programme, we are proud of the role we
I
’m delighted to launch the 2018 BBC will feature again this year. The Relaxed play as a station for new and emerging
D
Proms, featuring more than 90 concerts avid Pickard, the Proms team and Prom will be accompanied by an audio talent, offering the chance for music-makers
over 58 days and spotlighting a whole I are very proud of the broad and description available through headsets for of the future to hone their art, collaborate
range of exciting debut artists alongside exciting range of concerts we have the blind and partially sighted live audience with peers and learn from some of the
Proms regulars. With 41 premieres, packed into eight weeks of music-making and across BBC Radio 3’s broadcast coverage. world’s leading musicians, as they work to
BBC/Thane Bruckland
nine Late Night Proms and three venues at the 2018 BBC Proms. The Proms is a Additionally, a binaural audio stream will grow classical music for the years to come.
outside of the Royal Albert Hall for the world treasure and its mission, to bring enable radio listeners to experience the
‘Proms at …’ series, this great festival the best of classical music to the widest concerts as if they were present in the Hall. The Proms’ ability to attract artists from
remains as committed as ever to founder- possible audience, is as relevant today These recent advancements in BBC Radio 3’s across the globe ensures it remains a focal
conductor Henry Wood’s aim of bringing classical music over the past 100 years – orchestra as never before. Both of these as it was in Henry Wood’s time. There’s multiplatform offering speaks to our point for international music-making
the best of classical music to the widest in particular Lili Boulanger who died in projects have particular resonance something for everyone to enjoy, whether commitment to mirroring the Proms’ ambition throughout the year. To ensure that this
possible audience. 1918 at the tragically young age of 24. in a year in which we celebrate what in the Royal Albert Hall or listening at to reach all audiences, without restriction. ambition is carried forward, BBC Radio 3
Bringing the story right up to date, each of would have been Bernstein’s 100th home as every note will once again be reflects its involvement in this flagship
Bookending the season are the iconic our ‘Proms at … Cadogan Hall’ chamber birthday – a composer, conductor and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and online, Aside from our work broadcasting this festival by sharing in the rich tapestry of
First and Last Nights of the Proms – concerts will feature a world premiere by educator who worked throughout his with much of the season also available on world-class season, we ensure that we also concerts and events that take place outside
both featuring new commissions that a woman who has never previously been life to increase access to the arts. BBC Television. International audiences play our part in nurturing home-grown and of it. Thus, across its schedules, we
commemorate the 100th anniversary of the commissioned by the BBC. I particularly can also enjoy the Proms this summer via international talent that come to be placed broadcast live performances from up and
end of the First World War, one of many relish the prospect of Bushra El-Turk’s From new visitors such as the recently the European Broadcasting Union and centre-stage annually at the Proms. Be it in down the UK daily, often even venturing
themes this summer connected to the Crème Brûlée on a Tree – her response to formed Estonian Festival Orchestra to BBC World Service. broadcasting of works by aspiring overseas to bring the best of music to our
remarkable year of 1918. The First Night the challenge of setting a recipe to music as old favourites including the Berliner composers through the BBC Proms Inspire audiences. Central to this is the broadcast
sees a groundbreaking new BBC co- a counterpart to Leonard Bernstein’s witty Philharmoniker and Boston Symphony of concerts from the BBC Orchestras and
commission, by Anna Meredith, collaborating recipe setting La bonne cuisine. Orchestra, we welcome orchestras from Choirs who will once again provide the
with visual artists 59 Productions: around the globe this summer. Elsewhere, backbone to this year’s season, as they
Five Telegrams will feature Anna’s music Many of the UK’s most exciting composers in one night we go from London-inspired partake in over 30 Proms.
alongside spectacular visual projections, have come through the BBC Proms Inspire symphonies by Haydn and Vaughan
and also provides a starring role for the Competition and audiences should look Williams to a Late Night Prom in which We’re delighted we can be a part of the
Proms Youth Ensemble. Meanwhile, out for our 2004 winner, Shiva Feshareki, dancehall producer Mista Savona fuses Proms’ extraordinary story once again
Roxanna Panufnik’s new work for the who makes her Proms debut as turntablist the sound-worlds of traditional and this year. So whether listening at home,
Last Night, Songs of Darkness, Dreams with the London Contemporary Orchestra. contemporary Cuba and Jamaica. On watching on TV, absorbing the content
of Light, puts the BBC Singers and BBC This scheme is just one of the many entry another, we hear folk music from around online, or witnessing the magic at the
Symphony Chorus in the spotlight. points that the Proms offers to classical Britain and Ireland before travelling to Proms’ various 2018 venues, BBC Radio 3
music, both as creators and audience Lincoln’s Drill Hall the following day for will be there to document every breath-
In a year that sees the 100th anniversary members. The second Relaxed Prom – led Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale. taking moment, and promises to guide
of women being granted the vote in the by Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and audiences on their onward journey when
UK, it is fitting that this year’s Proms its disabled-led ensemble BSO Resound I hope you agree that the range of music the curtain falls on the ‘Last Night’. Long
Sim Canetty-Clarke
begin and end with major new works by – will offer an informal environment for and the quality of the performers are greater may we continue to take the spirit of
woman composers. We also look at some all, while a tribute to Bernstein’s Young than ever and, as always, BBC Radio 3 will summer that the Proms represent and
other women who have contributed to People’s Concerts will rebuild the classical be broadcasting every single note. keep the sun shining all year through.
20 Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms 21FRANCESCA KEMP
Executive Producer, BBC Proms on Television
Broadcasting the Proms
ON RADIO ON TV • Bernstein’s On The Town BBC Four
Every note of the BBC Proms will be • The First Night of the Proms on BBC (Saturday 25 August)
A
s ever, BBC TV will offer a full broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and Two (Friday 13 July) • Broadcasts every Friday and Sunday
summer of Proms broadcasts available for 30 days online at • The Last Night of the Proms on BBC throughout the season on BBC Four (see
in 2018, with regular weekend bbc.co.uk/proms. Two/BBC One (Saturday 8 September) below)
concerts on BBC Four, the home of TV
classical music, while over on BBC Four Friday BBC Four Sunday
BBC Two, Katie Derham’s magazine show 15 July PROM 3
Proms Extra returns for a sixth season. BBC YOUNG MUSICIAN 40th ANNIVERSARY
BBC Concert Orchestra/Andrew Gourlay
The First and Last Night will be shown
20 July PROM 7 22 July PROM 8
as usual across BBC Two and BBC One. JACOB COLLIER & FRIENDS SCHUMANN & LILI BOULANGER
Metropole Orkest/Jules Buckley BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Thomas Søndergård
All these broadcasts, alongside additional
performances from across the festival, will 27 July PROM 17 29 July PROM 12
ENGLISH ELEGY SHOSTAKOVICH & RACHMANINOV
be available to watch and catch up on Parry, Vaughan Williams & Holst BBC Symphony Orchestra/Karina Canellakis
BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales/Martyn Brabbins
BBC iPlayer.
PROM 13
PIONEERS OF SOUND
Visionaries of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
At least two full concerts will be broadcast London Contemporary Orchestra/Robert Ames
Felix Kemp
each weekend on BBC Four, celebrating 3 August PROM 27 5 August PROM 15
the full breadth of the 2018 Proms season. FOLK MUSIC AROUND BRITAIN & IRELAND TANSY DAVIES & BEETHOVEN
Featuring guests Julie Fowlis, Sam Lee & The Unthanks BBC Philharmonic/Ben Gernon
On Sunday nights we’ll show one of BBC Concert Orchestra/Stephen Bell
PROM 23
the season’s standout classical concerts occasional series of Late Night Proms gems by some extraordinary and neglected HAVANA MEETS KINGSTON
featuring the world’s greatest repertoire broadcasts, including Sir András Schiff female composers of the Classical and Mista Savona and special guests
performed by international artists and playing solo Bach, the iconic Youssou Romantic periods. Televised Proms will 10 August PROM 33 12 August PROM 28
BRAHMS’S REQUIEM NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA
Britain’s leading orchestras, including Sir Ndour and his group, Le Super Étoile feature works by 20th-century and living BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus/Richard Farnes National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain/George Benjamin
Simon Rattle and the London Symphony de Dakar, pioneering electronic music composers, including Anna Meredith, PROM 35
NEW YORK: SOUND OF A CITY
Orchestra, and all five BBC orchestras. from the legends of the BBC Radiophonic Tansy Davies, Roxanna Panufnik, Daphne Heritage Orchestra/Jules Buckley
Friday evenings will include a wider spread Workshop and Jules Buckley’s exploration Oram, Delia Derbyshire, Lili Boulanger 17 August PROM 42 19 August PROM 50
GRIEG’S PIANO CONCERTO MOZART & MAHLER
of Proms events, from Iván Fischer’s of the sounds emerging from contemporary and Thea Musgrave, and we’ll be filming Estonian Festival Orchestra/Paavo Järvi BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Dausgaard
programme inspired by Hungarian Gypsy New York. The Relaxed Prom featuring more performances from across the wider Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)
music, to concerts celebrating tango, UK the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra festival for BBC iPlayer, including music 24 August PROM 55 26 August PROM 48
HUNGARIAN GYPSY FOLK MUSIC RATTLE CONDUCTS RAVEL
folk music and jazz, and Marin Alsop’s and their disabled-led ensemble BSO by Laura Mvula and Agata Zubel. Budapest Festival Orchestra/Iván Fischer London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus/Sir Simon Rattle
Bernstein to Khatia Buniatishvili playing Resound will be available to watch online. 31 August PROM 60 2 September PROM 41
ALSOP CONDUCTS BERNSTEIN ELGAR’S CELLO CONCERTO
Grieg’s Piano Concerto. To celebrate With over 16 million people in the UK Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop BBC Symphony Orchestra/Edward Gardner
Leonard Bernstein’s centenary we’re This year BBC TV will make a particular population watching the Proms on TV PROM 63 Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF PLAYS BACH
showing his musical On the Town on what commitment to celebrating women in last year, we hope to build on this success
7 September PROM 70
would have been the composer’s 100th music across and beyond the festival. BBC and make an unforgettable summer for TANGO PROM
birthday, conducted by John Wilson, Two’s Proms Extra will create a new series audiences outside of the Hall. Britten Sinfonia/Clark Rundell
PROM 53
live on BBC Four. We’ll also have an of chamber performances featuring short Youssou Ndour & Le Super Étoile de Dakar
22 Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms Full information available at bbc.co.uk/proms 23For further information, publicity photos or press tickets relating to the BBC Proms 2018, please contact: Camilla Dervan Communications Manager, BBC Proms camilla.dervan@bbc.co.uk / 07921 648262 Anna Hughes Publicist, BBC Proms anna.hughes@bbc.co.uk / 07921 648896 Roni Newman Assistant Publicist, BBC Proms roni.newman@bbc.co.uk / 07809 597853
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