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What’s on on the BBC Proms this week?


The complete programme for this week’s Proms:

Tuesday 26 July

7.30pm • Royal Albert Corridor

Britta Byström: Parallel Universes (BBC fee: world premiere)
Bernstein: Candide – overture
Walker: Variations for Orchestra
Barber: Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor

Johan Dalene (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Jordan de Souza

Wednesday 27 July

7pm • Royal Albert Corridor

Carwithen: Bishop Rock
G. Williams: Sea Sketches
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1)

Elizabeth Llewellyn (soprano)
Andrew Foster-Williams (bass-baritone)
BBC Symphony Refrain
BBC Nationwide Refrain of Wales
BBC Nationwide Orchestra of Wales/Andrew Manze

This Promenade will probably be broadcast on BBC 4 on Friday 29 July.

Thursday 28 July

7.30pm • Royal Albert Corridor

Jennifer Walshe: The Website of an Investigation (London premiere)
Brahms: A German Requiem

Jennifer Walshe (voice)
Elena Tsallagova (soprano)
Shenyang (bass-baritone)
Nationwide Youth Choir of Nice Britain
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Ilan Volkov

Friday 29 July

7.30pm • Royal Albert Corridor

Bruckner, arr. Skrowaczewski: String Quintet in F main – Adagio
Nicole Lizée: Blurr Is the Color of My True Love’s Eyes (BBC co-commission: European premiere)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor

Colin Currie (percussion)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Alpesh Chauhan

Percussionist Colin Currie | Photograph: Linda Nylind

Saturday 30 July

4pm • Battersea Arts Centre
Proms At: Battersea

BBC Younger Composer

A showcase of latest commissions specifically written by current winners of the BBC Younger Composer competitors, together with Chelsea Becker, Isaac Bristow, Maddy Chassar-Hesketh, Will Everitt, Theo Kendall, Daniel Liu and Jenna Stewart.

BBC Live performance Orchestra/Alice Farnham

7.30pm • Royal Albert Corridor

Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Respighi: Fountains of Rome
Puccini: Il tabarro (live performance efficiency; sung in Italian, with English surtitles)

George Gagnidze (Michele)
Natalya Romaniw (Giorgetta)
Ivan Gyngazov (Luigi)
Daniela Barcellona (La Frugola)
Alasdair Elliott (‘Tinca’)
Simon Shibambu (‘Talpa’)
Jung Soo Yun (Ballad-Vendor)
RCM Opera Refrain
Hallé/Sir Mark Elder

This Promenade will probably be recorded for broadcast on BBC 4 on Sunday 31 July.

Sunday 31 July

11am • Royal Albert Corridor

Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra

Introduced collectively by the Metropolitan Opera, New York, and the Polish Nationwide Opera, the brand-new Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra orchestra led by Canadian-Ukrainian conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson consists of lately refugeed Ukrainian musicians, Ukrainian members of European orchestras and a few of the prime musicians of Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Odesa and elsewhere in Ukraine.

Valentin Silvestrov: Symphony No. 7
Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor
Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio – ‘Abscheulicher! … Komm, Hoffnung, lass den letzten Stern’
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor

Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra/Keri-Lynn Wilson

Members of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra

7.30pm • Royal Albert Corridor

Xenakis: Jonchaies
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G main
Stravinsky: The Ceremony of Spring

Tom Borrow (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins

Monday 1 August

1.00pm • St George’s Bristol
Proms At: Bristol

Brian: Legend
Ysaÿe: Poème élégiaque
Franck: Violin Sonata in A significant

Alina Ibragimova (violin)
Cédric Tiberghien (piano)

7.30pm • Royal Albert Corridor
Gaming Promenade: From 8-Bit to Infinity

Programme to incorporate:
Hildur Guðnadóttir/Sam Slater, arr. Robert Ames: Battlefield 2042 – suite (European premiere)
Jessica Curry: Expensive Esther – I Have Begun My Ascent

and excerpts from:
Yoko Shimomura: Kingdom Hearts
Kow Otani: Shadow of the Colossus

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Robert Ames

This Promenade will probably be recorded for broadcast on BBC 4 on Friday 5 August.

How are you going to take heed to this week’s BBC Proms?

All Proms will probably be broadcast stay on BBC Radio 3.

The place can I discover out precisely which BBC Proms are being televised this 12 months?

Discover extra particulars on this 12 months’s BBC Proms TV schedule right here.

How do you purchase tickets for this week’s Proms?

If you wish to attend the live shows in individual, we clarify find out how to purchase tickets for the BBC Proms right here.

Discover out extra in regards to the premiere performances scheduled for this 12 months’s BBC Proms.

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