BBC Proms S68E41 · Prom 41: Aurora Orchestra

Overview

The Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon contrast Mozart’s graceful Symphony with two much newer pieces: Dobrinka Tabakova’s hurdy-gurdy-inflected Spinning a Yarn and Benedict Mason’s audacious BBC commission, Meld.

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1. 1 1. First Night of the Proms2014-07-18The greatest classical music festival in the world gets underway from the Royal Albert Hall. Katie Derham introduces a performance of Elgar's sublime biblical oratorio, The Kingdo
2. 2 2. Friday Night at the Proms: Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony2014-07-25Following the excitement of the First Night, presenters Petroc Trelawny and world-renowned soprano Danielle de Niese kick off the regular Friday night slot with Beethoven's much-lo
3. 3 3. The Sunday Prom: China Philharmonic Orchestra2014-07-27History in the making at the opening concert in a series of Sunday nights at the BBC Proms with the first ever visit from the China Philharmonic Orchestra. Founded in 2000, the orc
4. 4 4. BBC Proms Masterworks: Bach's St John Passion2014-07-31 · 1h 50mTom Service presents as Russian maestro Valery Gergiev brings the World Orchestra for Peace to the Proms for a performance of Mahler's all-encompassing Sixth Symphony. In celebrati
5. 5 5. Friday Night at the Proms: Mozart's A Major Piano Concerto2014-08-01Samira Ahmed and pianist Nicholas McCarthy present a concert of contrasts, with Mozart's intimate and elegant Piano Concerto no 23 paired with Ravel's sumptuously orchestrated ball
6. 6 6. The Sunday Prom: Richard Strauss Celebration2014-08-03From the Royal Albert Hall, Katie Derham presents a 150th anniversary celebration of the birth of Richard Strauss. The acclaimed Danish soprano Inger Dam-Jensen sings the composer'
7. 7 7. BBC Proms Masterworks: Mozart and Beethoven2014-08-07Tom Service invites us to listen to well-known, definitive masterworks from two of the greatest composers of all time with a fresh ear. Donald Runnicles takes on Beethoven's Fourth
8. 8 8. Friday Night at the Proms: Ravel's Left Hand Piano Concerto2014-08-08In his proms concerto debut, French pianist Alexandre Tharaud performs one of Ravel's last great works, the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Conductor Juanjo Mena also leads the B
9. 9 9. The Sunday Prom: John Tavener Premiere2014-08-10Sir John Tavener, who died in 2013, was one of the country's defining musical voices. His sacred choral music, inspired by his deep Orthodox faith, touches the hearts of millions a
10. 10 10. BBC Proms Masterworks: Strauss and Mahler2014-08-14Tom Service presents as Russian maestro Valery Gergiev brings the World Orchestra for Peace to the Proms for a performance of Mahler's all-encompassing Sixth Symphony. In celebrati
11. 11 11. Friday Night at the Proms: Beethoven's Eroica Symphony2014-08-15The work that changed the course of music forever, Beethoven's epic Eroica Symphony is the culmination of this concert from Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé. Berlioz's swashbuckling ov
12. 12 12. Proms on Four: Battle of the Bands2014-08-17 · 1h 56mJazz singer and broadcaster Clare Teal transports us back to the heady days of the swing band era of the 1930s and 1940s in a recreation of the bands of Count Basie and Duke Elling
13. 14 14. BBC Proms Masterworks: Walton and Sibelius2014-08-21Tom Service reaches the 20th century on his route through Masterworks at the Proms, by way of Jean Sibelius and William Walton. Canadian violinist James Ehnes performs Walton's str
14. 15 15. Friday Night at the Proms: In Memoriam WWI2014-08-22Razia Iqbal and Petroc Trelawny present a special concert drawing together four composers whose lives and music were impacted by WW1. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted
15. 16 16. The Sunday Prom: Elgar's Cello Concerto2014-08-24 · 2h 9mEnglish weekend at the Proms continues with Elgar's autumnal, sepia-toned Cello Concerto, written after the horrors of the First World War. Norwegian virtuoso cellist Truls Mørk jo
16. 17 17. CBeebies Prom2014-08-25Join CBeebies at the Royal Albert Hall for the first ever CBeebies Prom. The BBC Philharmonic, with some of your CBeebies favourites, take you on a musical journey to discover lot
17. 18 18. BBC Proms Masterworks: Stravinsky and Lutoslawski2014-08-28 · 1h 49mTom Service presents as the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain return for their annual Proms performance. Ed Gardner conducts an energetic programme of 20th-century music fe
18. 19 19. Barenboim Conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at the Proms2014-08-29 · 2h 4mA Proms visit from Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is always an exciting event. The international ensemble's home is Seville and the programme has a strong Spanish
19. 20 20. The Sunday Prom: Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra2014-08-31The Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra make their debut at the festival. Music inspired by the east colours the programme, with the sounds and scents of bazaars and seraglios,
20. 21 21. BBC Proms Masterworks: Mahler and Adams2014-09-04Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Tom Service presents music from multi-award-winning American composer John Adams, alongside Mahler's imaginatively ambitious 1st Symphony. Saxophon
21. 22 22. Friday Night at the Proms: Monteverdi Choir Birthday Prom - Beethoven2014-09-05Samira Ahmed presents a concert celebrating 50 years of the world-famous Monteverdi Choir, founded by conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner. This Prom of Beethoven's mighty Missa Solem
22. 23 23. Late Night Live with Paloma Faith and Guy Barker2014-09-05The Royal Albert Hall shimmers with flamboyance as Paloma Faith takes to the stage in her debut Proms performance. The multi-platinum London-born singer-songwriter is reunited with
23. 24 24. The Sunday Prom: The Cleveland Orchestra2014-09-07Katie Derham is live at the world's biggest classical music festival as the legendary Cleveland Orchestra perform at the BBC Proms. This is a rare chance to hear one of America's b
24. 25 25. BBC Proms Masterworks: Maxwell Davies and Birtwistle2014-08-11A celebration of the 80th birthdays of two of the country's greatest living composers, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sir Harrison Birtwistle, whose works changed forever the landsca
25. 26 26. Friday Night at the Proms: Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto2014-09-12Daniel Hope and Danielle De Niese present a pair of great Romantic blockbusters - Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, featuring soloist Denis Mats
26. 27 27. Last Night of the Proms - Part 12014-09-13Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Katie Derham introduces the final concert of the 2014 Proms season. The programme includes William Walton's Popular Song from Façade and Malcolm A
27. 28 28. Last Night of the Proms - Part 22014-09-13Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Katie Derham introduces the grand finale to the 2014 Proms. Violinist Janine Jansen and baritone Roderick Williams join the combined forces of the
28. 29 29. Kiss Me, Kate at the Proms2014-12-25John Wilson and his orchestra are joined by a spectacular ensemble of singers and dancers from Broadway and the West End for a unique performance of the classic musical Kiss Me, Ka
29. 30 30. War Horse at the Proms2014-08-17A major new musical adaptation of the international hit War Horse, created by the National Theatre for the BBC Proms. Simon Russell Beale presents the unique production at the Roy
30. 31 31. Prom 31: Beethoven's Eroica Symphony2014-08-15 · 1h 36mThe work that changed the course of music forever, Beethoven's epic Eroica Symphony is the culmination of this concert from Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé. Berlioz's swashbuckling ov
31. 32 32. Prom 32: Beethoven, Bruch & WaltonThree masterworks from three different centuries: Beethoven’s First Symphony is all 18th- century poise and wit, Bruch’s First Violin Concerto swoons with 19th-century romance, and
32. 33 33. Prom 33: BBC Proms Masterworks: Stravinsky and Lutoslawski2014-08-28 · 1h 39mTom Service presents as the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain return for their annual Proms performance. Ed Gardner conducts an energetic programme of 20th-century music fe
33. 34 34. Prom 34: R. Strauss, Mozart & NielsenIn the first of two concerts with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Principal Conductor Thomas Søndergård directs the first of two great Scandinavian symphonies. Nielsen’s Fifth
34. 35 35. Prom 35: BBC Proms Masterworks: Walton and Sibelius2014-08-21 · 1h 39mTom Service reaches the 20th century on his route through Masterworks at the Proms, by way of Jean Sibelius and William Walton. Canadian violinist James Ehnes performs Walton's str
35. 36 36. Prom 36: Vaughan Williams & AlwynThe dreamy pastoralism of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending contrasts with the jaunty vigour of the composer’s overture The Wasps in this all-English Prom. Job continues this s
36. 37 37. Prom 37: Steve ReichSurrender to the pulsing rhythms and repetitions of Minimalism’s founding father, Steve Reich, performed by the BBC Singers and contemporary specialists the Endymion Ensemble. Reli
37. 38 38. Prom 38: Sibelius, Bridge & Sir Peter Maxwell DaviesSibelius’s slowly shifting structures and emotive musical language, showcased here in his Second Symphony, are echoed and evolved in Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s Fifth Symphony. John
38. 39 39. Prom 39: R. Strauss, Rameau, Mozart and Bernard RandsRameau’s opera Les Indes galantes and Strauss’s tone-poem Ein Heldenleben were notorious flops at their premieres, yet both are now recognised as peaks of their genre. The BBC Scot
39. 40 40. Prom 40: Bernard Haitink and the London Symphony OrchestraColoured by sleigh-bells and charming melodies, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony is the centrepiece of this Prom by Bernard Haitink and the London Symphony Orchestra. They pair Mahler’s mi
40. 41 41. Prom 41: Aurora OrchestraThe Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon contrast Mozart’s graceful Symphony with two much newer pieces: Dobrinka Tabakova’s hurdy-gurdy-inflected Spinning a Yarn and Benedict Maso
41. 42 42. Prom 42: In Memoriam WWI2014-08-22 · 1h 41mRazia Iqbal and Petroc Trelawny present a special concert drawing together four composers whose lives and music were impacted by WW1. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted
42. 43 43. Prom 43: Rachmaninov, Stravinsky & TchaikovskyAn all-Russian programme from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Edward Gardner opens with the buzzing energy of Stravinsky’s Scherzo fantastique and end in the cannon-fire of Tchaikov
43. 44 44. Prom 44: Elgar's Cello Concerto2014-08-24English weekend at the Proms continues with Elgar's autumnal, sepia-toned Cello Concerto, written after the horrors of the First World War. Norwegian virtuoso cellist Truls Mørk jo
44. 45 45. Prom 45: Late Night with… Laura MvulaBrit Award- and Mercury-nominated singer-songwriter Laura Mvula returns to the BBC Proms for an intimate Late Night Prom – a cabaret-style evening of music that couches Mvula’s tal
45. 46 46. Prom 46: Barenboim Conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at the Proms2014-08-29 · 1h 25mA Proms visit from Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is always an exciting event. The international ensemble's home is Seville and the programme has a strong Spanish
46. 47 47. Prom 47: Britten – War RequiemWilfred Owen’s shattering verse sits at the heart of Britten’s War Requiem – that great pacifist outpouring of horror and sorrow. Performed here in this First World War centenary y
47. 48 48. Prom 48: Classical TectonicsThe Iceland Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut with works by two homegrown composers, both inspired by Iceland’s geology. The slow-growing, primal force of Leifs’s Geysir is
48. 49 49. Prom 49: Russian Fairy TalesIce-maidens, pirates and princesses form the cast of this fairy-tale concert. The BBC Symphony Orchestra is joined by soprano Anu Komsi to perform Szymanowski’s atmospheric Songs o
49. 50 50. Prom 50: Dvořák, Beethoven & JanáčekCellist Alisa Weilerstein returns to the Proms with one of the great Romantic concertos – Dvořák’s Cello Concerto. Jiří Bělohlávek leads the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Beethov
50. 51 51. Prom 51: Free Prom – Dvořák, Grieg, Bax & Bill WhelanThis year’s Free Prom is a Bank Holiday matinee from the Ulster Orchestra, bursting with dance rhythms and colour. A selection of Dvořák’s rustic Slavonic Dances opens the concert,
51. 52 52. Prom 52: Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival OrchestraThe Bank Holiday weekend celebrations continue with Proms favourites the Budapest Festival Orchestra and a programme of orchestral showpieces from the Habsburg Empire. Viennese-sty
52. 53 53. Prom 53: Brahms NightThe second of two concerts from Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra reinstates the Proms tradition of composer nights with an evening dedicated to the music of Brahms.
53. 54 54. Prom 54: Monteverdi Choir Birthday Prom - Beethoven2014-09-05 · 1h 39mSamira Ahmed presents a concert celebrating 50 years of the world-famous Monteverdi Choir, founded by conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner. This Prom of Beethoven's mighty Missa Solem
54. 55 55. Prom 55: Tchaikovsky, Debussy & Unsuk ChinMyung-Whun Chung directs the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, making its Proms debut this year. Unsuk Chin’s sheng concerto evokes the sounds of South Korea and is an extended sonic g
55. 56 56. Prom 56: Holst – The PlanetsMasterpieces from Schoenberg, Holst and Scriabin offer three very different portraits of 20th-century music in this concert by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurows
56. 57 57. Prom 57: Mahler – Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’In a symphony that took over six years to complete, Mahler wrestles with the essential questions of humanity. Birth, death and the fragile stages between are the subject of this gr
57. 58 58. Prom 58: Strauss – SalomeIn Richard Strauss’s 150th-anniversary year the Proms presents a double bill of his two great tragedies. On consecutive nights his heroines Salome and Elektra meet their bloody end
58. 59 59. Prom 59: Strauss – ElektraElektra – Strauss’s brutal and ferociously powerful retelling of the Greek revenge myth – continues this weekend’s opera double bill. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Semyon Bychkov
59. 60 60. Prom 60: Roman HolidayPlunge into a joyous carnival maelstrom with Berlioz’s giddy Roman Carnival overture. The Italian theme continues with Respighi’s Roman trilogy – a vivid picture of life in the Ete
60. 61 61. Prom 61: Rachmaninov, Glinka & Zhou LongThe Singapore Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut, bringing Pulitzer Prize-winning Chinese composer Zhou Long’s piano concerto Postures – a work fusing Western forms and Easte
61. 62 62. Prom 62: Beethoven, Berlioz & DvořákSymphonies from Beethoven and Dvořák bookend an emotive programme from Sir Roger Norrington and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. At its core is the wistful 'Romeo Alone’ sec
62. 63 63. Prom 63: BBC Proms Masterworks: Mahler and Adams2014-09-04 · 2h 9mLive from the Royal Albert Hall, Tom Service presents music from multi-award-winning American composer John Adams, alongside Mahler's imaginatively ambitious 1st Symphony. Saxophon
63. 64 64. Prom 64: Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner PhilharmonikerLast at the Proms in 2012, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker return for an all-Russian programme inspired by dance. Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances embraces jazz, pla
64. 65 65. Prom 65: Late Night Live with Paloma Faith and Guy Barker2014-09-05 · 1h 18mThe Royal Albert Hall shimmers with flamboyance as Paloma Faith takes to the stage in her debut Proms performance. The multi-platinum London-born singer-songwriter is reunited with
65. 66 66. Prom 66: Bach – St Matthew PassionSir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker present Peter Sellars’s staging of Bach’s St Matthew Passion for the first time in the UK. It’s a work that confronts suffering and
66. 67 67. Prom 67: Friday Night at the Proms: Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto2014-09-12 · 1h 41mDaniel Hope and Danielle De Niese present a pair of great Romantic blockbusters - Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, featuring soloist Denis Mats
67. 68 68. Prom 68: The Sunday Prom: The Cleveland Orchestra2014-09-07 · 1h 57mKatie Derham is live at the world's biggest classical music festival as the legendary Cleveland Orchestra perform at the BBC Proms. This is a rare chance to hear one of America's b
68. 69 69. Prom 69: Cleveland OrchestraCompleting this year’s cycle of Brahms symphonies, the Cleveland Orchestra returns with the composer’s Symphony No. 2 – an open-hearted score of great warmth and appeal. By contras
69. 70 70. Prom 70: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Birthday ConcertOn Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s 80th birthday, the Proms pays tribute in a concert of works selected by the composer himself. The concert overture Ebb of Winter captures the rugged b
70. 71 71. Prom 71: AmericanaIt’s American Night at the Proms. We travel through history, from traditional folk songs and dances in Copland’s Appalachian Spring, through the contemplative Quiet City to Chris B
71. 72 72. Prom 72: English MusicAn evening of 20th-century English music that looks beyond pastoral stereotypes. The nostalgic idyll of Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’ is soon abandoned for the brut
72. 73 73. Prom 73: Leipzig Gewandhaus OrchestraMahler’s epic, unorthodox Third Symphony unfolds over six movements, painting a musical portrait with choir and orchestra of nature’s very essence. American conductor Alan Gilbert
73. 74 74. Prom 74: Late Night with… Rufus WainwrightJoined by the instrumentalists of the Britten Sinfonia, Canadian-American, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright performs a spectacular set, taking over the Royal Alb
74. 75 75. Prom 75: Beethoven – Symphony No. 9A highlight of every Proms season, this year Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 returns to its traditional slot on the penultimate night. Alan Gilbert and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
75. 76 76. Proms 76: Last Night of the PromsSakari Oramo directs his first Last Night of the Proms, joined by powerhouse Dutch violinist Janine Jansen. Richard Strauss' anniversary is marked with the first Proms performance