BBC Proms 2019

Friday 19th July 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 1: First Night of the Proms.

Live from London's Royal Albert Hall, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and choral forces, conducted by Karina Canellakis, in works beginning with a world premiere by Zosha Di Castri marking the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11's mission to the moon. Janácek's monumental Glagolitic Mass, steeped in Moravian rhythms, is also heard alongside Dvorák's fairy-tale tone-poem The Golden Spinning Wheel. Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny. Asmik Grigorian (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo), Ladislav Elgr (tenor), Jan Martiník (bass-baritone), Peter Holder (organ), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Karina Canellakis. Zosha Di Castri: Long Is the Journey - Short Is the Memory (BBC commission: world premiere). Dvorák: The Golden Spinning Wheel. 8.10 Interval. Georgia and Petroc look forward to two months of world-class music-making in the company of guests, and go backstage to chat to some of the performers in tonight's Prom. 8.30 Janácek: Glagolitic Mass.

I was a bit disappointed by the programme this year. The Beeb seems to be trying to boost inclusiveness and diversity - I am too old for change!

I am looking forward to seeing Lise Davidsen singing Strauss songs and Joyce DiDonato in Les Nuits d'Ete, some Strauss and Bruckner orchestral works and Elgar's The Music Makers.

Still some pretty good things there abbott. Have a look at this:

https://www.theartsdesk.com/classical-music-opera/pick-bbc-proms-2019

I'm looking forward to the Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique prom - the only one I can get to living in the North east as I do. I have to rely on the Beeb for other proms.

Tonight:

Prom 2: A Bohemian Rhapsody.

Jakub Hruša conducts the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and violinist Joshua Bell in an all-Czech programme of Dvorak and Smetana. Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Dvorak: Violin Concerto in A minor. 8.00 Interval: An introduction to Smetana's Má Vlast with Czech-born former manager of the BBC World Service John Tusa, recorded earlier this evening at Imperial College Union. 8.25 Smetana: Má Vlast. Joshua Bell (violin), Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, conductor.

>3 antimuzak: You are right, of course, it's just the old curmudgeon coming out in me. Thanks for the link. I certainly would have booked for Benvenuto Cellini and Haitink's swansong had I not been otherwise engaged and there were a couple of concerts at the Cadogan Hall that were on my list but had sold out too quickly for me.

I'm sure the Aurora band's performance will be well worth your trip.

I'm looking forward to it abbot.

Thursday 25th July 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:00 to 21:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 9: Strauss, Brahms & Broström.

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Markus Stenz, with Jeroen Berwaerts and Håkan Hardenberger, in a new double trumpet concerto by Tobias Broström, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Presented by Nicola Heywood-Thomas. R Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche. Tobias Broström: Nigredo: Dark Night of the Soul (concerto for two trumpets and orchestra). 7.50 Interval - Proms Plus Talk: An introduction to the music in tonight's Prom with researcher, writer and presenter Katy Hamilton, presented by Flora Willson, and recorded earlier this evening in the Imperial College Union. Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 68. Jeroen Berwaerts (trumpet), Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Markus Stenz (conductor).

Saturday 27th July 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:15 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)

Prom 12: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.

Mark Wigglesworth leads the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, for which they are joined by Nicola Benedetti, as well as works by Auerbach and Prokofiev. Presented by Katie Derham, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Lera Auerbach: Icarus (London premiere). Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D. Nicola Benedetti (violin). c.8.25 Interval: Katie Derham looks at the work of the NYO and meets some of its players. c.8.50 Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - suite (excerpts). National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, conductor Mark Wigglesworth.

Sunday 28th July 2019
Time: 13:00 to 14:00 (1 hour long)

Proms at Cadogan Hall 1: Voces8.

Petroc Trelawny introduces a recital from London's Cadogan Hall by a cappella octet Voces8. From the supple plainchant melodies of Hildegard von Bingen to the sophisticated choral polyphony of Palestrina, Byrd and Lassus, the Proms debut artists return to music's origins to launch a sequence of lunchtime concerts spanning 800 years. Hildegard von Bingen: Spiritus sanctus vivificans. Pérotin: Viderunt omnes. Josquin des Prez: Ave Maria - Virgo serena. Jean Mouton: Nesciens mater virgo virum. De Victoria: Regina coeli (a 8). Jonathan Dove: Vadam et circuibo civitatem. De Lassus: Missa 'Bell'Amfitrit'altera' - Gloria. Palestrina: Magnificat primi toni. Byrd: Sing Joyfully unto God Our Strength. Alexia Sloane: Earthward (BBC commission, world premiere). Orlando Gibbons: O Clap Your Hands Together. Voces8, From Monday 22 July.

Monday 29th July 2019 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 13:02 to 14:00 (58 minutes long)

Proms at Cadogan Hall 2: A Celebration of Barbara Strozzi.

Petroc Trelawny presents a live Proms recital from London's Cadogan Hall in which Mariana Flores, Cappella Mediterranea and Leonardo García Alarcón celebrate the 400th anniversary of the birth of pioneering Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi. Few composers paint human emotion as vividly or with greater insight, wit and poignancy than Barbara Strozzi, whose songs and madrigals stand alongside Monteverdi's as some of the greatest of the age. Argentine soprano Mariana Flores and period-instrument ensemble Cappella Mediterranea celebrate Strozzi's anniversary with a selection of love songs by the composer and her contemporaries, including the arresting Lagrime mie and the touching Che si puo fare. Strozzi: L'amante segreto. Bembo: Ercole amante - Mingannasti in verità. Strozzi: Che si può fare. Bembo: Ercole amante - Volgete altrove il guardo. Strozzi: Sino alla morte. Cavalli: Ercole amante - E vuol dunque Ciprigna. Strozzi: Lagrime mie. Mariana Flores (soprano), Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón, (harpsichord/organ/director).

Monday 29th July 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:15 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)

Prom 14: The Creation.

Sarah Walker presents live from the Royal Albert Hall as Omer Meir Wellber conducts the BBC Philharmonic and BBC Proms Youth Choir in a performance of Haydn's The Creation. Haydn's colourful oratorio returns to the Proms for the first time in a decade. From its opening Representation of Chaos, through the creation of stars, seas and storms, a magnificent musical sunrise and of course every animal from whales to eagles and even a worm, the Creation is one of the great musical dramas, teeming with life and energy. Haydn: The Creation (sung in German) - Part 1. c 8.10 Interval - Proms Plus Talk: The Rev Lucy Winkett and Professor David Wyn Jones discuss Haydn's setting of the Bible in The Creation with presenter Louise Fryer. Haydn: The Creation: Parts 2 and 3. Sarah-Jane Brandon (soprano), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Christoph Pohl (baritone), BBC Proms Youth Choir, BBC Philharmonic, Omer Meir Wellber (conductor).

Tuesday 30th July 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:00 to 21:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 15: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra - 1.

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra perform symphonies by Beethoven and Shostakovich in a concert broadcast live from the Royal Albert Hall. Presented by Ian Skelly. Beethoven: Symphony No 2 in D major. 8.05 Interval: Musicologists Marina Frolova-Walker and Pauline Fairclough discuss Shostakovich and his Symphony No 5 with presenter Flora Willson. Shostakovich: Symphony No 5. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor). One of Europe's greatest orchestras, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, returns to the Proms under Yannick Nézet-Séguin. In the first of two concerts, they pair two contrasting symphonies in a programme that moves from sunshine to bitterness. `This symphony is smiling throughout." wrote Berlioz of Beethoven's Second Symphony - a work in which seemingly sunny moods conceal personal tragedy and loss. Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony was written under the cloud of intense scrutiny and artistic repression following the public criticism of the composer at the hands of Stalin.

Wednesday 31st July 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 17: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra - 2.

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin plays Sibelius and Richard Strauss and are joined by violinist Gil Shaham in Prokofiev. Live from the Royal Albert Hall. Presented by Ian Skelly. Sibelius: Symphony No 1 in E minor. 8.10 Interval: Proms Plus talk: Journalist and string-instrument expert Ariane Todes and Russian music expert and critic David Nice explore Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No 2 and the Russian school of violin-playing. 8.30 Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor. Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier - suite. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gil Shaham (violin), conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Thursday 1st August 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 18: Mahler & Britten.

Edward Gardner is on the podium as the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Mahler's Das Lied von Erde, with pianist Leif Ove Andsnes joining them in part one for Britten's Piano Concerto. Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Britten: Piano Concerto, Op 13 (revised version, 1945). 8.05 Interval: Proms Plus Talk. Hannah French and former Proms Controller Nicholas Kenyon discuss Henry Wood's relationship with 20th-century music in the second of three events celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Proms founder-conductor's birth. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde. Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Claudia Mahnke (mezzo), Stuart Skelton (tenor), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Edward Gardner.

Friday 2nd August 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 19: Strauss, Schumann & MacMillan.

Live at BBC Proms: BBC SSO & Thomas Dausgaard with pianist Alexander Melnikov. Schumann's Piano Concerto and James MacMillan's The Confession of Isobel Gowdie. Live from the Royal Albert Hall. Presented by Kate Molleson. Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra. 8.05 Interval; Proms Plus: Composer Sir James MacMillan, 60 this year, discusses The Confession of Isobel Gowdie and talks about his inspiration and ideas. Recorded earlier at Imperial College Union. 8.30 Part 2 Schumann: Piano Concerto. James MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie. Alexander Melnikov (piano). BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (conductor). 'I always wanted a great bravura piece by him,' wrote Clara Schumann of her husband. Her hope was answered in Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto - a work whose broad, symphonic scope explores and tests the relationship between soloist and orchestra. Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov joins the BBC Scottish SO and its Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard for a programme that also includes the sweeping drama of Strauss's tone-poem Also sprach Zarathustra, with its memorable opening sunrise (heard on the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey) and the violence and compassion of Sir James MacMillan's early masterpiece The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, inspired by the execution of a 17th-century 'witch' and premiered at the Proms in 1990.

Saturday 3rd August 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 20: Pekka Kuusisto and the BBC SSO.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard perform Sibelius's Violin Concerto, with soloist Pekka Kuusisto, and his Fifth Symphony, with both halves of the concert starting off with Finnish folk music. Presented by Kate Molleson, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Trad: Finnish Folk Music. Sibelius: Violin Concerto. 8.15 Interval - Proms Plus Talk: Kate Molleson talks to Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Leah Brand about the music in tonight's concert. 8.35 Trad: Finnish Folk Music. Sibelius: Symphony No 5 (original version, 1915). Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Taito Hoffrén (singer), Ilona Korhonen (singer), Minna-Liisa Tammela (singer), Vilma Timonen (kantele), Timo Alakotila (harmonium), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Thomas Dausgaard.

Sunday 4th August 2019
Time: 11:00 to 12:30 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)

Prom 21: Olivier Latry.

A live concert at the Royal Albert Hall by organist Olivier Latry, featuring works by Bach, de Falla, Beethoven, Liszt, Saint-Saens, Gigout, Khachaturian and Widor. Presented by Kate Molleson. Aram Khachaturian: Gayane - Sabre Dance (transcr Kiviniemi). Manuel de Falla: El amor brujo - Ritual fire dance (transcr Latry). Beethoven: Adagio in F major (for mechanical clock). JS Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565. Eugène Gigout: Air célèbre de la Pentecôte. Liszt: Prelude and Fugue on the name Bach, S 260. Charles?Marie Widor: Bach's Memento - No. 4: Marche du veilleur de nuit. Saint?Saëns: Danse macabre (arr Lemare). Olivier Latry (organ). Celebrated French organist Olivier Latry returns to the Proms for the first time in over a decade for a programme centred around transcriptions and arrangements for the `King of Instruments". The organist of Paris's Notre-Dame Cathedral roams through 250 years of music in a wide-ranging recital programme that stretches from Bach to Falla. There's a rhythmic charge to the recital, which includes virtuosic transcriptions of Khachaturian's frenzied Sabre Dance, Falla's hypnotic Ritual Fire Dance and Saint-Saëns's devilish Danse macabre, as well as Bach's dramatic Toccata and Fugue in D minor, and Bach arrangements by French organist-composers Widor and Gigout.

Sunday 4th August 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:45 (2 hours and 15 minutes long)

Prom 22: Rachmaninov and Shostakovich.

The BBC Philharmonic with Chief Guest Conductor John Storgards in Rachmaninov, Shostakovich's Symphony No.11 and the world premiere of Outi Tarkiainen's Midnight Sun Variations. Live from the Royal Albert Hall. Presented by Sarah Walker. Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead. Outi Tarkiainen: Midnight Sun Variations (world premiere, BBC co-commission). 8.10 Interval: Proms Plus - The myths and landscapes of the Nordic lands are discussed by Nicole Schmidt, creator of the podcast Mythos, which explores world folk lore and fairy tales, and New Generation Thinkers Leah Broad and Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough. Shostakovich: Symphony No 11, The Year 1905. BBC Philharmonic, John Storgards (conductor). Death and darkness encounter light and new life in this Prom given by the BBC Philharmonic with its Chief Guest Conductor John Storgards. Two Russian classics brood on death and loss; Rachmaninov's atmospheric The Isle of the Dead conjures a dark scene - a ghostly ferryman transport the souls of the dead to rest - while Shostakovich's bitterly passionate Eleventh Symphony takes inspiration from the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1905. But light and hope appear in the world premiere of Outi Tarkiainen's Midnight Sun Variations, a celebration of rebirth in the perpetual day of an Arctic summer.

Monday 5th August 2019 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 13:02 to 14:00 (58 minutes long)

Proms at Cadogan Hall 3: The English Concert.

Petroc Trelawny presents a live concert from London's Cadogan Hall, with Kristian Bezuidenhout directing the English Concert from the keyboard in a Baroque journey around Europe in the company of Purcell, Jacquet de La Guerre and Handel. Purcell: The Virtuous Wife - overture; The Fairy Queen - Hornpipe; The Virtuous Wife - Second Music: First Act Tune; The Indian Queen - Rondeau; Chacony in G minor. Marchand: Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 - Allemande. Jacquet de La Guerre: Violin Sonata in D minor. Telemann: Sonata in A minor, TWV, 43:a 5. Handel: Trio Sonata in G, Op 5 No 4. The English Concert, Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord/director).

Monday 5th August 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 23: Swan Lake.

Sarah Walker presents a live concert from the Royal Albert Hall, with Ben Gernon conducting the BBC Philharmonic in pieces by Arnold, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky. The programme opens with Malcolm Arnold's dramatic Peterloo Overture in the 200th anniversary year of the massacre at St Peter's Fields in Manchester. Excerpts from Swan Lake, the first of Tchaikovsky's great ballet scores, include the colourful sequence of national dances and the heartbreaking final scene in which Odette and her beloved Siegfried are united for ever in death, breaking the spell of the sorcerer Rothbart. Russian virtuoso Alxander Gavrylyuk returns following his Proms debut in 2017 as soloist in Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, with its famous lyrical 18th Variation. Arnold: Peterloo Overture. Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. 8.10 Interval: Proms Plus. Sacha Dench of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust talks about the birds that have become symbolic of love, beauty, and mystery with dance critic Sarah Crompton. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (excerpts). Alexander Gavrylyuk (piano), BBC Philharmonic Ben Gernon (conductor).

Tuesday 6th August 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 21:30 (2 hours long)

Prom 25: Tchaikovsky, Sibelius & Weinberg.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and principal guest conductor Dalia Stasevska in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 6. Plus, Weinberg's Cello Concerto with soloist Sol Gabetta. Live from the Royal Albert Hall. Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Cello Concerto. 8.10 Interval: Proms Plus Talk. Shahidha Bari presents readings of Tchaikovsky's letters, many of which were suppressed because of what they revealed about his sexuality. She is joined by composer Rolf Hind. Recorded earlier at Beit Hall, Imperial College. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 in B minor, Pathétique. Sol Gabetta (cello), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska (conductor). Dalia Stasevska makes her Proms debut as the BBC Symphony Orchestra's newly appointed Principal Guest Conductor. Cellist Sol Gabetta joins them to celebrate the centenary of one of the 20th century's great unsung heroes, Mieczyslaw Weinberg, whose Cello Concerto - premiered by Rostropovich in 1957, a decade after it was written - deserves a place alongside those of his great friend and colleague Shostakovich. The programme also includes Tchaikovsky's much-loved 'Pathétique' Symphony, with its thrilling Scherzo, and Sibelius's suite Karelia a stirring celebration of Finland's proud history.

Saturday 10th August 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:00 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 31: Brahms, Bruckner and Strauss.

Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the Philharmonia with soprano Lise Davidsen, in music by Brahms, Strauss and Bruckner. Presented by Ian Skelly, live from the Royal Albert Hall. Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. Brahms: Variations on the St Anthony Chorale. Strauss: Four Songs, Op 27 (Lise Davidsen (soprano). 8.15 Interval: Proms Plus Talk. William Mival and Stephen Johnson discuss Bruckner's symphonic techniques, with Flora Willson. 8.35 Bruckner: Symphony No 4 in E flat 'Romantic' (1878-80 version, ed Nowak).

Sunday 11th August 2019
Time: 11:00 to 13:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 32: An Alpine Symphony.

The National Youth Orchestra of the USA with Sir Antonio Pappano and mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato: Berlioz's Les nuits d'été and Strauss's Alpine Symphony. Live from the Royal Albert Hall. Presented by Andrew McGregor. Benjamin Beckman: New work. Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op 7. 11.35am Interval: Andrew McGregor looks at the work of the NYO USA and meets some of its players. Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony. Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Brass of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, The National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America, Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Celebrated American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato is reunited with regular collaborator Sir Antonio Pappano to mark the 150th anniversary of Berlioz's death with a performance of the composer's sumptuous orchestral song-cycle Les nuits d'été - a musical journey from springtime love to cruellest loss. The National Youth Orchestra of the USA undertakes a journey of quite a different kind in Strauss's monumental An Alpine Symphony, whose vast orchestral forces and massive soundscapes conjure up the craggy drama of the Bavarian Alps. The concert opens with a new work, by Benjamin Beckman, one of the NYO-USA's two Apprentice Composers.

Sunday 11th August 2019 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 13:30 to 14:30 (1 hour long)

Proms at Cadogan Hall 3: The English Concert.

Petroc Trelawny presents a concert from London's Cadogan Hall, with Kristian Bezuidenhout directing the English Concert from the keyboard in a Baroque journey around Europe in the company of Purcell, Jacquet de La Guerre and Handel. Purcell: The Virtuous Wife - overture; The Fairy Queen - Hornpipe; The Virtuous Wife - Second Music: First Act Tune; The Indian Queen - Rondeau; Chacony. Marchand: Pièces de clavecin, Book 1 - Allemande. Jacquet de La Guerre: Violin Sonata in D minor. Telemann: Sonata in A minor, TWV, 43:a 5. Handel: Trio Sonata in G, Op 5 No 4. The English Concert, Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord/director). First broadcast on Monday 5 August.

Sunday 11th August 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 20:00 to 22:15 (2 hours and 15 minutes long)

Prom 33: Mahler, Schubert & Glanert.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Semyon Bychkov explore Austro-German music. Soprano Christina Gansch is the soloist in Mahler's Symphony No 4. Live from the Royal Albert Hall. Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Detlev Glanert: Weites Land (Musik mit Brahms for orchestra) - UK Premiere. Schubert: Einsamkeit for soprano and orchestra (orch D Glanert). 8.00 Interval: Proms Plus. Before the Mahler symphony which includes a song presenting a child's view of heaven, this discussion hears about children's concepts of innocence and experience. With New Generation Thinker Emma Butcher and Patrice Lawrence, award-winning writer of the young adult novel Orangeboy. Presented by New Generation Thinker Lisa Mullen. Mahler: Symphony No 4 in G major. Christina Gansch (soprano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov (conductor). Semyon Bychkov traces the evolution and genealogy of Austro-German music in a fascinating Prom featuring three works from three different centuries. Schubert's influence on Mahler is clear from the weary loveliness and fretful anxiety of Einsamkeit (Loneliness), heard here in an elegant orchestration by contemporary composer Detlev Glanert. Mahler's Fourth Symphony, bright with sleigh bells and innocent wonder, glances back to Classical models from the vantage point of fin-de-siècle Vienna, while Glanert takes Brahms's Fourth Symphony into the 21st century in his lyrical Weites Land (Open Land).

Monday 12th August 2019 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 13:02 to 14:00 (58 minutes long)

Proms at Cadogan Hall 4: Aris Quartet.

A live recital from London's Cadogan Hall, with the Aris Quartet performing Haydn's Sunrise quartet and youthful works by Schubert and Sirmen. Praised for their suppleness of sound, BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Aris Quartet make their Proms debut with Haydn's ebullient Sunrise quartet - nicknamed for the beautiful climbing phrase with which it opens. This late, great work is paired with two youthful pieces in Schubert's quietly innovative String Quartet No 1, and String Quartet No. 5 by Maddalena Laura Sirmen (born Lombardini), an 18th-century violin virtuoso and pupil of Tartini, whose career was a defiant exception in a male-dominated profession. Schubert: String Quartet No 1. Sirmen: String Quartet No 5 in F minor. Haydn: String Quartet in B flat - Sunrise. Aris Quartet.

Monday 12th August 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:30 to 22:15 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)

Prom 34: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.

Kate Molleson presents live from the Royal Albert Hall as Daniel Barenboim conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and pianist Martha Argerich in pieces by Schubert, Tchaikovsky and Lutoslawski. Barenboim and his orchestra return to the Proms with a programme of emotion and sensation. Argentine pianist Martha Argerich is the soloist in Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1 - an outpouring of Romantic intensity sustained from the arresting opening chords right through to the thrilling finale. Polish folk dances pulse through Lutos?awski's vibrant Concerto for Orchestra, with its echoes of Stravinsky and Bartok, and Its bracing rhythmic energy and reticent beauty offer the perfect foil to the melodic richness of Tchaikovsky's concerto. Schubert: Symphony No 8 in B minor - Unfinished. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor. 8.30 Interval - Proms Plus Talk: Adrian Thomas and Nicholas Reyland discuss the Concerto for Orchestra, the work that established Lutoslawski as a major composer in 1950s Poland. Andrew McGregor presents. Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra. Martha Argerich (piano), West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim (conductor).

Tuesday 13th August 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:00 to 21:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

Prom 35: Enigma Variations.
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra celebrates conductor Martyn Brabbins's 60th birthday today in music by Vaughan Williams, Brahms and Elgar's Enigma Variations. Live from the Royal Albert Hall. Presented by Kate Molleson. Various Composers: Pictured Within - Birthday Variations for MCB (BBC commission, world premiere). Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music. c.7.50pm Interval: Pianist and broadcaster David Owen Norris and scholar Kate Kennedy explore the connections between Brahms, Elgar and Vaughan Williams, composers featured in tonight's concert. c.8.20pm Brahms: Song of Destiny. Elgar: Enigma Variations. Nadine Benjamin (soprano), Idunnu Münch (mezzo-soprano), William Morgan (tenor), David Ireland (bass-baritone), English National Opera Chorus, BBC Singers, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor). Elgar's Enigma Variations is the inspiration for a new work commissioned from 14 living composers as a special birthday tribute to conductor Martyn Brabbins, who turns 60 today. Elgar's original set also features, as do Vaughan Williams's exquisite Serenade to Music and Brahms' Little Requiem, the Song of Destiny.