BBC Proms S60E09 · Proms on Four Preview

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Highlights of two concerts earlier in the season. Maxim Vengerov plays Mozart's fourth violin concerto with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, and Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, with Francois-Frederic Guy. Charles Hazlewood presents.

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1. 1 1. First Night of the Proms2006-07-14 · 3h 0mCzech maestro Jiri Belohlavek lifts the baton for the first time in his new role as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in order to launch the eight-week long 112th seaso
2. 2 2. Proms on Four2006-07-17Bruch's Violin Concerto performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
3. 3 3. BBC Proms 20062006-07-19The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are guests at a concert to celebrate the monarch's 80th birthday. Children's choirs, the Scots Guards and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform A L
4. 4 4. BBC Proms 20062006-08-05One of today's greatest interpreters of Sibelius, Colin Davis conducts the composer's tone poem Pohjola's Daughter and his Seventh Symphony. The programme also includes Janacek's t
5. 5 5. Mozart at the Proms2006-08-09Alan Titchmarsh introduces the first of two Proms celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall. Tonight's concert focuses on Mozart
6. 6 6. BBC Proms 20062006-08-12Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts the European Union Youth Orchestra as they perform Shostakovich's Symphony No 4 before Promenaders at London's Royal Albert Hall. There's also a renditi
7. 7 7. Mozart at the Proms2006-08-16Nicola Benedetti introduces the second of two Proms celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall. The composer's orchestral music is
8. 8 8. BBC Proms 20062006-08-19The Shostakovich centenary continues with Valery Gergiev conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre in the choral Symphony No 13 (Babi Yar), with bass soloist Ser
9. 9 9. Proms on Four Preview2006-08-20Highlights of two concerts earlier in the season. Maxim Vengerov plays Mozart's fourth violin concerto with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, and Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts t
10. 10 10. Proms on Four2006-08-21Colin Davis conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a programme featuring his twin passions, Berlioz and Elgar. Berlioz's Overture: Les Francs-Juges and Elgar's Symphony No 2 in
11. 11 11. Proms on Four2006-08-22Conductor Philippe Jordan makes his Proms debut with the Mahler Youth Orchestra. Featuring Strauss's Don Juan, Chausson's Poeme de l'Amour et de la Mer, sung by Susan Graham, and S
12. 12 12. Proms on Four2006-08-23The London Philharmonic Orchestra play the UK premiere of A Relic of Memory by Mark-Anthony Turnage. Vladimir Jurowski conducts Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 2 with Nikolai Lugansk
13. 13 13. Proms on Four2006-08-24The Minnesota Orchestra and conductor Osmo Vanska visit London to perform Mahler's much-loved Symphony No 5. Also featuring Barber's First Essay for Orchestra, and the UK premiere
14. 14 14. Proms on Four2006-08-25Magnus Lindberg's Sculpture receives its UK premiere, conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Plus Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, played by Nik
15. 15 15. BBC Proms 20062006-08-26The NDR Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor, Christoph von Dohnanyi, present two neoclassical masterworks: Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin; and the pithy Violin Concerto in F
16. 16 16. Proms on Four2006-08-27New. Mozart's Meistermusik, Symphony No 39 in E flat and Requiem in D minor. Plus poetry with Roger McGough.
17. 17 17. Proms on Four2006-08-28The Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra play Mozart. Ivor Bolton conducts Symphonies No 34 and 38 (Prague). Lars Vogt performs Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, and Veronique Gens sings tw
18. 18 18. Proms on Four2006-08-29Hans Werner Henze 's Five Messages for the Queen of Sheba receives its London premiere, followed by Shostakovich's Symphony No 7 (Leningrad). Kurt Masur conducts the Ochestre Nati
19. 19 19. Proms on Four2006-08-30Charles Haziewood conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra. The programme is Ibert's Divertissement, Pauline Malefane singing Weill, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, the premiere of Dai Fuji
20. 20 20. Proms on Four2006-09-01The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Simon Rattle join the Mozart celebrations with Symphony No 25 in G minor and Symphony No 4 in G minor. Plus three Debussy Preludes and the Lon
21. 21 21. BBC Proms 20062006-09-02Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic. Tonight's programme opens with Szymanowski's impressionistic Violin Concerto No 1 featuring the brilliant virtuoso Frank Peter Zimmer
22. 22 22. Proms on Four2006-09-03Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Matthias Pintscher 's Hérodiade-Fragmente, based on verse by Mallarme. Christoph Eschenbach conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra and the BBC Symphony
23. 23 23. Proms on Four2006-09-04Two minor-key fifth symphonies by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, both concerning mankind's struggle with fate and the ineluctable triumph of light over darkness. The Philadelphia Orche
24. 24 24. Proms on Four2006-09-05Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat, featuring Rostropovich protégée Han-Na Chang , and Rachmaninov's lyrical Symphony No 2 in E minor. Tadaaki Otaka conducts the BBC Nati
25. 25 25. Proms on Four2006-09-06Bernard Haitink conducts the combined voices of the BBC Symphony and London Symphony Choruses in a performance of Mahler's mighty Symphony No 2 (Resurrection) with the BBC Symphony
26. 26 26. Proms on Four2006-09-08Conductor Daniele Gatti conducts the Royal Philharmonic in a performance of the last of this season's eight Shostakovich symphonies in celebration of the Russian composer's centena
27. 27 27. Proms on Four2006-09-08Rounding up the series of Mozart anniversary Proms, Charles Mackerras directs the Orchestra and Choir of the Age of Enlightenment in a performance of Symphony No 35 in D (Haffner),
28. 28 28. Last Night of the Proms2006-09-09Live at London's Royal Albert Hall, Alan Titchmarsh introduces the final concert in the Proms season. In Shostakovich's centenary year, a Russian theme is reflected as baritone Dmi
29. 29 29. Last Night of the Proms on Four2006-09-09Soprano Lesley Garrett, violinist Nicola Benedetti, the Ulster Orchestra and the Ulster Youth Choir feature in a live concert from the grounds of Belfast City Hall.
30. 30 30. Last Night of the Proms2006-09-09The pomp and circumstance continues at the Royal Albert Hall as the Proms season reaches its climax. All the traditional rousing, flag-waving tunes will be on offer as the BBC Sym
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