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2012
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First Night of the Proms
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Mark-Anthony Turnage: Canon Fever (3 mins), World Premiere Elgar: Overture 'Cockaigne (In London Town)' (15 mins) Delius: Sea Drift (25 mins) INTERVAL Tippett: Suite for the Birthday .. show full overview
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Handel – Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks
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Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel make their Proms debut in this free Late Night Prom, giving Handel's three Water Music suites and Fireworks Music the big-band, period-instrument .. show full overview
2012x5
Strauss, Saariaho & Sibelius
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R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra (32 mins) R. Strauss: Four Last Songs (22 mins) Kaija Saariaho: Laterna magica (22 mins), UK Premiere Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C major (23 .. show full overview
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Beethoven Cycle – Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
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Daniel Barenboim directs his first Beethoven symphony cycle in London – and becomes the first conductor since Henry Wood in 1942 to survey all nine symphonies in a single Proms season. .. show full overview
2012x10
Beethoven Cycle – Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
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Beethoven - Symphony No. 4 in B flat major (35 mins) Pierre Boulez - Dialogue de l'ombre double (20 mins) INTERVAL Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica' (50 .. show full overview
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Beethoven Cycle – Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8
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Beethoven Symphony No. 8 in F major (25 mins) Pierre Boulez Anthèmes 2 (25 mins) INTERVAL Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major (35 min) Michael Barenboim violin IRCAM live .. show full overview
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Beethoven Cycle – Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
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Daniel Barenboim's complete cycle of Beethoven symphonies reaches its mid-point, as he conducts his ensemble of young Arab and Israeli musicians, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, in a .. show full overview
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Beethoven Cycle – Symphony No. 9, 'Choral'
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Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'Choral' (77 mins) Anna Samuil soprano Waltraud Meier mezzo-soprano René Pape bass National Youth Choir of Great Britain West–Eastern Divan .. show full overview
2012x20
The Wallace and Gromit Prom
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Wallace & Gromit appear in a new Proms adventure, before a screening of A Matter of Loaf and Death – plus classical favourites.
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Vaughan Williams, Ireland, Delius & Walton
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Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (16 mins) Ireland - These Things Shall Be (22 mins) Delius - The Walk to the Paradise Garden (10 mins) Walton - Belshazzar's .. show full overview
2012x26
Bach – Mass in B minor
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Johann Sebastian Bach Mass in B minor (110 mins) Joélle Harvey: soprano Carolyn Sampson: soprano Iestyn Davies: counter-tenor Ed Lyon: tenor Matthew Rose: bass Choir of the .. show full overview
2012x27
Wagner & Bruckner
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Wagner - Siegfried Idyll (18 mins) Interlude Bruckner - Symphony No. 8 in C minor (80 mins) (ed. Nowak, 1955) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Donald Runnicles, Conductor In .. show full overview
2012x29
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
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Varèse - Tuning Up (5 mins) Nico Muhly - Gait (20 mins), BBC Commission, London Premiere Interlude Messiaen - Turangalîla Symphony (77 mins) Anna Meredith - HandsFree (12 .. show full overview
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Bernstein – Mass
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Morten Frank Larsen, Bass-Baritone Julius Foo, Treble Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Pwll Coch, Caerdydd Ysgol Gynradd Gymunedol Gymraeg, Llantrisant Ysgol Gynradd Dolau, Llanharan Ysgol .. show full overview
2012x33
Wagner, Bruckner & MacMillan
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Wagner -Tristan and Isolde – Prelude (Act 1) (9 mins) James MacMillan - Credo (c25 mins), BBC co-commission, World Premiere INTERLUDE Bruckner - Symphony No. 6 in A major (55 .. show full overview
2012x36
Glamorous Night: A Celebration of Ivor Novello
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A celebration of Ivor Novello Remember such time-honoured favourites as 'We'll gather lilacs'? Tonight we acknowledge that patriotic First World War plea to 'keep the home fires .. show full overview
2012x38
National Youth Jazz Orchestra
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From the Royal Albert Hall, Mark Armstrong conducts the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, featuring Britain's best young jazz musicians in a wide-ranging set of jazz favourites. The .. show full overview
2012x45
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra
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Dvorák - Symphony No. 9 in E minor, 'From the New World' (45 mins) Interlude Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man (4 mins) Joan Tower - Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman (3 .. show full overview
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Vaughan Williams – Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6
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Symphony No. 4 in F minor (30 mins) Symphony No. 5 in D major (39 mins) Interlude Symphony No. 6 in E minor (31 mins) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Andrew Manze: .. show full overview
2012x48
Weber, Mahler & Tchaikovsky
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Weber - Der Freischütz – Overture (10 mins) Mahler - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (17 mins) Interlude Tchaikovsky - Manfred (57 mins) Alice Coote - Mezzo-soprano London .. show full overview
2012x49
Gilbert & Sullivan – The Yeomen of the Guard
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Sir Arthur Sullivan The Yeomen of the Guard Leigh Melrose baritone (Lt Sir Richard Cholmondeley) Andrew Kennedy tenor (Colonel Fairfax) Lisa Milne soprano (Elsie Maynard) Victoria .. show full overview
2012x57
Wagner, Berg, R. Strauss & Ravel
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Wagner - Parsifal – Prelude (Act 3) and Good Friday Music (20 mins) Berg - Violin Concerto (25 mins) Bach - Adagio from Violin Sonata in A minor Interlude R. Strauss - Der .. show full overview
2012x61
Howells & Elgar
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Howells - Hymnus Paradisi (44 mins) Interlude Elgar - Symphony No. 1 in A flat major (53 mins) Miah Persson: soprano Andrew Kennedy: tenor BBC Symphony Chorus London Philharmonic .. show full overview
2012x59
John Wilson on Broadway
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A celebration of the Broadway sound with music from Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Frank Loesser and Leonard Bernstein performed by John Wilson. Returning to .. show full overview
2012x75
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra – Haydn & R. Strauss
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Haydn - Symphony No. 104 in D major, 'London' (30 mins) Interlude Richard Strauss - An Alpine Symphony (50 mins) Encore - Johann Strauss - Voices of Spring Vienna Philharmonic .. show full overview
2012x76
Last Night of the Proms 2012
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Part 1: Mark Simpson: sparks (c2 mins), BBC Commission, World Premiere Suk: Towards a New Life (6 mins) Delius: Songs of Farewell (18 mins) Verdi: Un ballo in maschera – ‘Forse la .. show full overview
2012x159
The John Wilson Orchestra does Broadway
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Katie Derham introduces another unforgettable Prom from the BBC archive. This week Katie is joined by soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn to relive her 2012 performance when she joined John .. show full overview

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