First Night of the Proms 2021
19:30 Friday 30 July 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Serenade to Music (15 mins)

Francis Poulenc
Organ Concerto
(22 mins)

Sir James MacMillan
When Soft Voices Die
(8 mins)
BBC co-commission with Help Musicians: world première

Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 2 in D major
(43 mins)

Elizabeth Llewellyn soprano
Jess Dandy contralto
Allan Clayton tenor
Michael Mofidian bass-baritone
Daniel Hyde organ
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska conductor


The Golden Age of Broadway
19:30 Saturday 31 July 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Richard Rodgers
South Pacific: Overture

Irving Berlin
There's No Business Like Showbusiness

Annie Get Your Gun

George Gershwin
The Rhythm’s Alright With Me (medley)

Cole Porter, arr. R. Balcombe

Cole Porter
You’re the Top

Anything Goes

Richard Rodgers
My Funny Valentine

Babes in Arms

Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’

Oklahoma!

(When I Marry) Mister Snow

Carousel

Some Enchanted Evening

South Pacific

This Nearly Was Mine

South Pacific

Slaughter on Tenth Avenue

On Your Toes

Frederick Loewe
Gigi

overture

Show Me

My Fair Lady

On the Street Where You Live

My Fair Lady

I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face

My Fair Lady

George Gershwin
Someone to Watch Over Me

Oh, Kay!

Promenade (‘Walking the Dog’)

Shall We Dance

Frank Loesser
Luck Be a Lady

Guys and Dolls

Joey, Joey, Joey

The Most Happy Fella

Jerome Kern
All the Things You Are

Very Warm for May

Cole Porter
You’re Sensational

High Society

The Trolley Song

Meet Me in St Louis

Cole Porter
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

High Society

Louise Dearman
Katie Hall
Nadim Naaman
Jamie Parker
Clarke Peters
BBC Concert Orchestra
Richard Balcombe conductor


Organ Recital
11:45 Sunday 1 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, BWV 552, ‘St Anne’
(15 mins)

Martin Baker
Improvisation on Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in E flat major BWV 552, ‘St Anne'

Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasia in G major, BWV 572 (Pièce d'orgue)
(10 mins)

Martin Baker
Improvisation on Bach’s Fantasia in G major, BWV 572 (Pièce d'orgue)

Johann Sebastian Bach
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
(13 mins)

Martin Baker
Improvisation on English Melodies

Martin Baker organ


An Evening of Mozart with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
20:00 Sunday 1 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 39 in E flat major
(29 mins)

Symphony No. 40 in G minor
(30 mins)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in C major, 'Jupiter'
(31 mins)

Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Maxim Emelyanychev conductor


Michael Collins, Adrian Brendel & Michael McHale Celebrate Zemlinsky
13:00 Monday 2 August 2021
Cadogan Hall

Alexander von Zemlinsky
Clarinet Trio in D minor, Op. 3
(27 mins)

Johannes Brahms
Trio for Piano, Clarinet, and Cello in A minor, Op. 114
(25 mins)

Michael Collins clarinet
Adrian Brendel cello
Michael McHale piano


Michael Collins, Adrian Brendel & Michael McHale Celebrate Zemlinsky
18:00 Monday 2 August 2021
Cadogan Hall

Alexander von Zemlinsky
Clarinet Trio in D minor, Op. 3
(27 mins)

Johannes Brahms
Trio for Piano, Clarinet, and Cello in A minor, Op. 114

Michael Collins clarinet
Adrian Brendel cello
Michael McHale piano


Ryan Bancroft Conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
19:30 Monday 2 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Henry Purcell
Dido and Aeneas – ‘When I am laid in earth’ (Dido’s Lament)
(4 mins)
arr. Stokowski

Elizabeth Ogonek
Cloudline
(15 mins)
(BBC co-commission: world première)

Camille Saint‐Saëns
Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor
(19 mins)

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No 4 in E minor
(39 mins)

Guy Johnston cello
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft conductor


Haydn, Mozart & Beethoven
19:30 Tuesday 3 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 103 in E flat major 'Drumroll'
(27 mins)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K488

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 4 in B flat major
(34 mins)

Elisabeth Brauss piano
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Gernon conductor


Vaughan Williams, Respighi and Mendelssohn
19:30 Wednesday 4 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
(15 mins)

Ottorino Respighi
Concerto gregoriano
(30 mins)

Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 5 in D major, 'Reformation'
(27 mins)

Sayaka Shoji violin
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko conductor


Gražinytė-Tyla Conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
19:30 Thursday 5 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Ruth Gipps
Symphony No. 2 in B major
(21 mins)

Thomas Adès
The Exterminating Angel Symphony
(20 mins)
London première

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 3 in F major
(33 mins)

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Mirga Gražinytė‐Tyla conductor


The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Celebrates Stravinsky
19:30 Friday 6 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Stabat mater
(39 mins)

Igor Stravinsky
Pulcinella
(40 mins)

Carolyn Sampson soprano
Tim Mead counter-tenor
Benjamin Hulett tenor
Simon Shibambu bass-baritone
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins conductor


Nicola Benedetti and the NYOGB
19:30 Saturday 7 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Laura Jurd
CHANT
(8 mins)
London première

Sergei Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor
(26 mins)

Jessie Montgomery
Banner
(8 mins)
London première of chamber-orchestra version

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica'
(47 mins)

Nicola Benedetti violin
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Jonathon Heyward conductor


Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony
19:30 Sunday 8 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Augusta Read Thomas
Dance Foldings
(13 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Charles Ives
Three places in New England (Orchestral Set No. 1)
(19 mins)

Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, 'From the New World'
(43 mins)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft conductor


The Marian Consort Performs Josquin
13:00 Monday 9 August 2021
Cadogan Hall

Josquin des Prez
Praeter rerum seriem
(7 mins)

Sethus Calvisius
Praeter rerum seriem
(7 mins)

Josquin des Prez
Benedicta es, caelorum Regina
(8 mins)

Adriaan Willaert
Benedicta es, caelorum regina
(8 mins)

Josquin des Prez
Inviolata, integra et casta es
(7 mins)

Vicente Lusitano
Inviolata, integra et casta es
(9 mins)

The Marian Consort ensemble
Rory McCleery director


The Marian Consort Performs Josquin
18:00 Monday 9 August 2021
Cadogan Hall

Josquin des Prez
Praeter rerum seriem
(7 mins)

Sethus Calvisius
Praeter rerum seriem
(7 mins)

Josquin des Prez
Benedicta es, caelorum Regina
(8 mins)

Adriaan Willaert
Benedicta es, caelorum regina
(8 mins)

Josquin des Prez
Inviolata, integra et casta es
(7 mins)

Vicente Lusitano
Inviolata, integra et casta es
(9 mins)

The Marian Consort ensemble
Rory McCleery director


Elgar's Cello Concerto
19:30 Monday 9 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Mason Bates
Auditorium
(16 mins)

Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor
(30 mins)

Leos Janáček
Taras Bulba
(23 mins)

Johannes Moser cello
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits conductor


Parallel Universes
19:30 Tuesday 10 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Britta Byström
Parallel Universes
(12 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47
(34 mins)

Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, ‘Rhenish’
(32 mins)

Jennifer Pike violin
BBC Philharmonic
John Storgårds conductor


Stravinsky from Memory
15:30 Wednesday 11 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Sergey Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
(23 mins)

Igor Stravinsky
Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Stravinsky’s ‘The Firebird’ suite
(20 mins)

The Firebird Suite
(31 mins)
(1945)

Pavel Kolesnikov piano
Tom Service presenter
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon conductor/presenter


Stravinsky from Memory
20:00 Wednesday 11 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Sergey Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
(23 mins)

Igor Stravinsky
Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Stravinsky’s ‘The Firebird’ suite
(20 mins)

The Firebird Suite
(31 mins)
(1945)

Pavel Kolesnikov piano
Tom Service presenter
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon conductor/presenter


Vladimir Jurowski & the LPO
19:30 Thursday 12 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Igor Stravinsky
Jeu de cartes
(23 mins)

William Walton
Cello Concerto
(27 mins)

Johann Sebastian Bach
14 ‘Goldberg’ Canons, BWV 1087
(17 mins)
arr F.Goldmann (UK première)

Paul Hindemith
Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'
(28 mins)

Steven Isserlis cello
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski conductor


Martyn Brabbins & the BBC Symphony Orchestra
19:30 Friday 13 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Anthony Payne
Spring’s Shining Wake
(18 mins)

Hector Berlioz
Les nuits d'été
(31 mins)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 6 in F major, ‘Pastoral’
(39 mins)

Martyn Brabbins conductor
Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano
BBC Symphony Orchestra


Víkingur Ólafsson Plays Bach and Mozart
19:30 Saturday 14 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No 1 in D major, 'Classical'
(14 mins)

Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056
(11 mins)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K 491
(31 mins)

Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No 9 in E flat major
(27 mins)

Víkingur Ólafsson piano
Philharmonia Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali conductor


Abel Selaocoe: Africa Meets Europe
19:00 Sunday 15 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Abel Selaocoe
Qhawe
(8 mins)
arr. Ian Gardiner

Hlokomela

arr. Ian Gardiner

Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Les boréades – ‘Entrée d’Abaris’
(7 mins)

Giovanni Sollima
L. B. Files
(21 mins)

Sidiki Dembélé
Shaka
(5 mins)
arr. Ian Gardiner

Abel Selaocoe
As You Are
(6 mins)
arr. Benjamin Woodgates

Lerato
(4 mins)
arr. Benjamin Woodgates

Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Les Indes galantes – ‘La fête des fleurs’
(7 mins)

Abel Selaocoe
Ka bohaleng
(5 mins)

Abel Selaocoe cello/voice
Simo Lagnawi guembri
Chesaba
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Clark Rundell conductor


The Marmen Quartet Plays Haydn and Simpson
13:00 Monday 16 August 2021
Cadogan Hall

Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in D major, Op. 64 No. 5, ‘The Lark’
(20 mins)

Robert Simpson
String Quartet No. 1
(25 mins)

Marmen Quartet


The Marmen Quartet Plays Haydn and Simpson
18:00 Monday 16 August 2021
Cadogan Hall

Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in D major, Op. 64 No. 5, ‘The Lark’
(20 mins)

Robert Simpson
String Quartet No. 1
(25 mins)

Marmen Quartet ensemble


To Soothe the Aching Heart
19:30 Monday 16 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Francesca Caccini
La liberazione di Ruggiero – suite
(5 mins)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio – ‘Abscheulicher! … Komm, Hoffnung, lass den letzten Stern’
(7 mins)

Fidelio – Gott! welch Dunkel hier! … In des Lebens Frühlingstagen
(11 mins)

Fidelio – ‘O namenlose Freude!’
(3 mins)

Christoph Willibald Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice – ‘Che farò senza Euridice?’
(5 mins)

Giacomo Puccini
La bohème – ‘Che gelida manina’
(5 mins)

La bohème – ‘Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì’
(6 mins)

La bohème – ‘O soave fanciulla’
(5 mins)

Georges Bizet
Carmen – Prelude
(4 mins)

Carmen – ‘La fleur que tu m’avais jetée’
(4 mins)

George Frideric Handel
Rodelinda – ‘Io t'abbraccio’
(7 mins)

Engelbert Humperdinck
Hansel and Gretel – ‘Der kleine Sandmann bin ich’
(5 mins)

Hansel and Gretel – ‘Abends, will ich schlafen gehn’
(6 mins)

Hansel and Gretel – Dream Pantomime
(3 mins)

Leos Janáček
Jenůfa – closing scene
(5 mins)

Sally Matthews soprano
Natalya Romaniw soprano
Nardus Williams soprano
Christine Rice mezzo-soprano
Nicky Spence tenor
Freddie De Tommaso tenor
BBC Philharmonic
Ben Glassberg conductor


Manchester Collective
19:30 Tuesday 17 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 40
(9 mins)

Edmund Finnis
The Centre is Everywhere
(13 mins)

Julius Eastman
The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc
(21 mins)

Dobrinka Tabakova
Suite in Old Style, ‘The Court Jester Amareu’
(19 mins)

Joseph Horovitz
Jazz Harpsichord Concerto
(15 mins)

Mahan Esfahani harpsichord
Manchester Collective
Rakhi Singh violin/director


Nubya Garcia
19:30 Wednesday 18 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Nubya Garcia saxophone


The BBC Singers & Shiva Feshareki
19:30 Thursday 19 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Josquin des Prez
Qui habitat in adiutorio altissimi (a 24)
(6 mins)

Thomas Tallis
Loquebantur variis linguis
(4 mins)

Ken Burton
Many Are the Wonders
(5 mins)

Hildegard von Bingen
O viridissima virga
(4 mins)

Clément Janequin
Le chant des oiseaux
(2 mins)

Bernard Hughes
Birdchant
(5 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Igor Stravinsky
Tres sacrae cantiones – Illumina nos
(3 mins)

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Je sens en moy une flamme nouvelle
(2 mins)

Nico Muhly
A New Flame (after Sweelinck)
(8 mins)
BBC commission: world première

William Byrd
Ave verum corpus
(4 mins)

Roderick Williams
Ave verum corpus Re-imagined
(6 mins)

Shiva Feshareki
Aetherworld
(12 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Shiva Feshareki turntables/immersive electronics
Liam Byrne viola da gamba
Tom Rogerson synthesisers
Delia Stevens percussion
BBC Singers
Sofi Jeannin conductor


Mozart’s Requiem
19:30 Friday 20 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Hippolyte et Aricie
(1 mins)
Bruit de tonnerre

Hippolyte et Aricie
(2 mins)
Ritornello

Dardanus – Tambourins I & II
(3 mins)

Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Castor et Pollux
(5 mins)
‘Tristes apprêts’

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Symphony No. 2 in D major
(12 mins)

Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Dardanus, RCT 35 : Acte IV, Scène 1. "Lieux funestes"
(6 mins)

Platée
(2 mins)
Orage

Les Indes Galantes, Suites d’orchestre: Entrée les Sauvages: III. Chaconne (à deux clavecins)
(6 mins)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem in D minor (compl. Süssmayr)
(48 mins)

Samantha Clarke soprano
Claudia Huckle contralto
Nick Pritchard tenor
The National Youth Chamber Choir
Britten Sinfonia
David Bates conductor


Moses Sumney Meets Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra
19:30 Saturday 21 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Moses Sumney singer
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jules Buckley conductor


Sir Simon Rattle Conducts the London Symphony Orchestra
19:30 Sunday 22 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Igor Stravinsky
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
(12 mins)

Symphony in C
(28 mins)

Symphony in Three Movements
(22 mins)

London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle conductor


The Sound of Argentina
13:00 Monday 23 August 2021
Cadogan Hall

Astor Piazzolla
Histoire du tango
(20 mins)

Ariel Ramírez
Alfonsina y el mar
(5 mins)
transcr. Shibe

Gringa chaqueña
(5 mins)
transcr. Shibe

Juana Azurduy
(3 mins)
transcr. Shibe

Dorotea, la cautiva
(5 mins)
transcr. Shibe

Antiguos dueños de las flechas
(5 mins)
transcr. Shibe

Wallis Giunta mezzo-soprano
Adam Walker flute
Sean Shibe guitars


The Sound of Argentina
18:00 Monday 23 August 2021
Cadogan Hall

Astor Piazzolla
Histoire du tango
(20 mins)

Ariel Ramírez
Alfonsina y el mar
(5 mins)
transcr. Shibe

Gringa chaqueña
(5 mins)
transcr. Shibe

Juana Azurduy
(3 mins)
transcr. Shibe

Dorotea, la cautiva
(5 mins)
transcr. Shibe

Antiguos dueños de las flechas
(5 mins)
transcr. Shibe

Wallis Giunta mezzo-soprano
Adam Walker flute
Sean Shibe guitars


Catrin Finch + Seckou Keita
19:30 Monday 23 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Catrin Finch harp
Seckou Keita kora


Chineke! Orchestra
19:30 Tuesday 24 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast – overture
(11 mins)

Fela Sowande
African Suite
(23 mins)

Florence Price
Piano Concerto in One Movement
(20 mins)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Symphony in A minor
(35 mins)

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason piano
Chineke! Orchestra
Kalena Bovell conductor


Eight Seasons
15:30 Wednesday 25 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons
(37 mins)

Astor Piazzolla
The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
(27 mins)
(arr. Leonid Desyatnikov)

Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Joshua Bell director/violin


Eight Seasons
20:00 Wednesday 25 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons
(37 mins)

Astor Piazzolla
The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
(27 mins)
(arr. Leonid Desyatnikov)

Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Joshua Bell director/violin


George Lewis & Beethoven
19:30 Thursday 26 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

George Lewis
Minds in Flux
(30 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Ludwig van Beethoven
Concert aria ‘Ah! perfido’
(13 mins)

Symphony No. 2 in D major
(32 mins)

Lucy Crowe soprano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov conductor


Charlotte Bray, Walton & Arnold
19:30 Friday 27 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall

John Foulds
Le cabaret (Overture to a French Comedy)
(5 mins)
UK première

William Walton
Viola Concerto
(27 mins)

Charlotte Bray
Where Icebergs Dance Away
(4 mins)

Malcolm Arnold
Symphony No. 5
(30 mins)

Timothy Ridout viola
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor


Bartók Roots
19:30 Saturday 28 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Béla Bartók
Violin Concerto No. 2
(36 mins)

Béla Bartók
Suite No. 2
(34 mins)

Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin
Folktone
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard conductor


Family Prom
14:30 Sunday 29 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Daniel Kidane
New work

BBC commission: world première

Camille Saint‐Saëns
The Carnival of the Animals
(39 mins)
with new narration by Michael Morpurgo

Aminata Kanneh-Mason violin
Braimah Kanneh-Mason violin
Ayla Sahin violin
Timothy Ridout viola
Mariatu Kanneh-Mason cello
Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
Toby Hughes double bass
Adam Walker flute
Mark Simpson clarinet
Isata Kanneh-Mason piano
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason piano
Konya Kanneh-Mason piano
Alasdair Malloy glass harmonica
Michael Morpurgo narrator


Family Prom
19:00 Sunday 29 August 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Daniel Kidane
New Work

BBC commission: world première

Camille Saint‐Saëns
The Carnival of the Animals
(39 mins)
with new narration by Michael Morpurgo

Aminata Kanneh-Mason violin
Braimah Kanneh-Mason violin
Ayla Sahin violin
Timothy Ridout viola
Mariatu Kanneh-Mason cello
Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
Toby Hughes double bass
Adam Walker flute
Mark Simpson clarinet
Isata Kanneh-Mason piano
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason piano
Konya Kanneh-Mason piano
Alasdair Malloy glass harmonica
Adrian Spillett percussion
Michael Morpurgo narrator


French Fancies
13:00 Monday 30 August 2021
Cadogan Hall

Camille Saint‐Saëns
Oboe Sonata
(11 mins)

Ruth Gipps
Sea-Shore Suite
(6 mins)

Henri Dutilleux
Oboe Sonata
(10 mins)

Francis Poulenc
Oboe Sonata
(11 mins)

Eugène Bozza
Fantaisie pastorale
(6 mins)

François Leleux oboe
Eric Le Sage piano


French Fancies
18:00 Monday 30 August 2021
Cadogan Hall

Camille Saint‐Saëns
Oboe Sonata
(11 mins)

Ruth Gipps
Sea-Shore Suite
(6 mins)

Henri Dutilleux
Oboe Sonata
(10 mins)

Francis Poulenc
Oboe Sonata
(11 mins)

Eugène Bozza
Fantaisie pastorale
(6 mins)

François Leleux oboe
Eric Le Sage piano


Sir George Benjamin Conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra
19:30 Monday 30 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Oliver Knussen
The Way to Castle Yonder
(8 mins)

Henry Purcell
Three Consorts (1680)
(11 mins)
transcr. Benjamin; world première

Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G major
(23 mins)

Sir George Benjamin
Concerto for Orchestra
(18 mins)
BBC co-commission with Mahler Chamber Orchestra: world première

Pierre‐Laurent Aimard piano
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Sir George Benjamin conductor


Wagner’s Tristan & Isolde
17:00 Tuesday 31 August 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Richard Wagner
Tristan and Isolde

Simon O’Neill Tristan
Miina-Liisa Värelä Isolde
Karen Cargill Brangäne
Shenyang Kurwenal
John Relyea King Mark
Neal Cooper Melot
Stuart Jackson Shepherd/Young Sailor
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Robin Ticciati conductor


Sir John Eliot Gardiner Conducts the Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists
19:30 Wednesday 1 September 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

George Frideric Handel
Donna, che in ciel
(30 mins)

Johann Sebastian Bach
Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4
(22 mins)

George Frideric Handel
Dixit Dominus
(31 mins)

Ann Hallenberg mezzo-soprano
English Baroque Soloists
Monteverdi Choir
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor


20th-Century British Film Music
19:30 Thursday 2 September 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Doreen Carwithen
The Men of Sherwood Forest - overture
(4 mins)
arr. Philip Lane

Malcolm Arnold
Hobson’s Choice – concert suite
(17 mins)
arr. C. Palmer

Alan Rawsthorne
The Cruel Sea
(5 mins)
Main titles and nocturne

William Walton
Escape Me Never – suite
(10 mins)

Elisabeth Lutyens
The Skull – excerpts
(5 mins)

William Alwyn
Odd Man Out
(17 mins)
Police Chase; Nemesis

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Three Portraits from ‘The England of Elizabeth’
(17 mins)
arr. Muir Mathieson

Malcolm Arnold
The Belles of St Trinian’s – comedy suite
(8 mins)
arr. C. Palmer

BBC Concert Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey conductor


Semyon Bychkov Conducts the BBC SO & Kirill Gerstein
19:30 Friday 3 September 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture ‘Coriolan’
(8 mins)

Robert Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor
(31 mins)

Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 3 in A minor, 'Scottish'
(40 mins)

Kirill Gerstein piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov conductor


Organ Recital
11:45 Saturday 4 September 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542
(12 mins)

Charles‐Marie Widor
Symphony No. 5 – Allegro vivace (1st mvt)
(10 mins)

Camille Saint‐Saëns
Rêverie du soir (from ‘Suite algérienne’)
(6 mins)
arr. A. Guilmant

Fantaisie No. 1 in E flat major
(6 mins)

Franz Liszt
Fantasia and Fugue on 'Ad nos, ad salutarem undam'
(30 mins)

Thomas Trotter organ


John Wilson Conducts the Sinfonia of London
19:30 Saturday 4 September 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Johann Strauss II
Die Fledermaus – overture
(8 mins)

Alban Berg
Seven Early Songs
(18 mins)

Maurice Ravel
La valse
(12 mins)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Symphony in F sharp
(45 mins)

Miah Persson soprano
Sinfonia of London
John Wilson conductor


Sheku Kanneh-Mason Plays Dvořák’s Cello Concerto
19:30 Sunday 5 September 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Grace-Evangeline Mason
The Imagined Forest
(12 mins)
BBC co-commission with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra: world première

Antonín Dvořák
Cello Concerto in B minor
(40 mins)

Richard Strauss
Don Juan
(17 mins)

Paul Hindemith
Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
(21 mins)

Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Domingo Hindoyan conductor


Pauline Viardot and Her Circle
13:00 Monday 6 September 2021
Cadogan Hall

Pauline Viardot
Canzonetta de concert
(4 mins)

Johannes Brahms
Fünf Lieder, Op. 94 – No.4: Sapphische Ode
(2 mins)

Sieben Lieder, Op. 48 – No. 1: Der Gang zum Liebchen
(2 mins)

Clara Schumann
Volkslied
(3 mins)

Lorelei
(3 mins)

Franz Liszt
Vergiftet sind meine Lieder
(1 mins)

Comment, disaient-ils
(2 mins)

Pauline Viardot
Six chansons du XVe siècle – No. 1: ‘Aimez-moi’
(3 mins)

María Malibrán
La voix qui dit: je t’aime
(2 mins)

Giacomo Meyerbeer
Le prophète – ‘Donnez pour une pauvre âme’
(6 mins)

Pauline Viardot
Le dernier sorcier – ‘Coulez, gouttes fines’ (Chanson de la pluie)
(3 mins)

Gabriel Fauré
La chanson du pêcheur (Lamento)
(3 mins)

Pauline Viardot
The Tit
(2 mins)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
My genius, my angel, my friend
(2 mins)

12 Romances, Op. 60 – No. 10: ‘At the window, in the shadow ‘
(2 mins)

Pauline Viardot
Zalotna (La coquette)
(3 mins)

Ema Nikolovska mezzo-soprano
Malcolm Martineau piano


Pauline Viardot and Her Circle
18:00 Monday 6 September 2021
Cadogan Hall

Pauline Viardot
Canzonetta de concert
(4 mins)

Johannes Brahms
Fünf Lieder, Op. 94 – No.4: Sapphische Ode
(2 mins)

Sieben Lieder, Op. 48 – No. 1: Der Gang zum Liebchen
(2 mins)

Clara Schumann
Volkslied
(3 mins)

Lorelei
(3 mins)

Franz Liszt
Vergiftet sind meine Lieder
(1 mins)

Comment, disaient-ils
(2 mins)

Pauline Viardot
Six chansons du XVe siècle – No. 1: ‘Aimez-moi’
(3 mins)

María Malibrán
La voix qui dit: je t’aime
(2 mins)

Manuel García
Es corredor
(2 mins)

Giacomo Meyerbeer
Le prophète – ‘Donnez pour une pauvre âme’
(6 mins)

Pauline Viardot
Le dernier sorcier – ‘Coulez, gouttes fines’ (Chanson de la pluie)
(3 mins)

Gabriel Fauré
La chanson du pêcheur (Lamento)
(3 mins)

Pauline Viardot
The Tit
(2 mins)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
My genius, my angel, my friend
(2 mins)

Pauline Viardot
On Georgian hills
(2 mins)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
12 Romances, Op. 60 – No. 10: ‘At the window, in the shadow ‘
(2 mins)

Pauline Viardot
Zalotna (La coquette)
(3 mins)

Ema Nikolovska mezzo-soprano
Malcolm Martineau piano


BBC Concert Orchestra & James McVinnie
19:30 Monday 6 September 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Philip Glass
Mad Rush
(11 mins)

Einojuhani Rautavaara
Cantus arcticus
(18 mins)

Judith Weir
Still, Glowing
(4 mins)

Arvo Pärt
Festina lente
(6 mins)

Jóhann Jóhannsson
Good Night, Day
(4 mins)

Olivier Messiaen
Livre du Saint Sacrement – La joie de la grâce
(7 mins)

Jóhann Jóhannsson
A Sparrow Alighted Upon Our Shoulder
(3 mins)

Samy Moussa
A Globe Itself Infolding
(11 mins)
UK première

BBC Concert Orchestra
James McVinnie organ
Anna-Maria Helsing conductor


Benjamin Grosvenor Performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4
19:30 Tuesday 7 September 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Unsuk Chin
Subito con forza
(5 mins)
BBC co-commission: UK première

Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 4 in G major
(34 mins)
(cadenzas: Saint-Saëns)

Camille Saint‐Saëns
Symphony No. 3 in C minor, 'Organ'
(36 mins)

Benjamin Grosvenor piano
Anna Lapwood organ
Hallé
Sir Mark Elder conductor


Proms Festival Orchestra conducted by Mark Wigglesworth
19:30 Wednesday 8 September 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Dmitry Shostakovich
Festive Overture, Op 96
(7 mins)

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor
(68 mins)

Mark Wigglesworth conductor


Bach’s St Matthew Passion
19:00 Thursday 9 September 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Johann Sebastian Bach
St Matthew Passion
(157 mins)
(sung in German)

Louise Alder soprano
Iestyn Davies counter-tenor
Stuart Jackson Evangelist
Hugo Hymas tenor
Roderick Williams baritone
Matthew Rose Christ
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen harpsichord/director


Pavel Kolesnikov plays Bach's Goldberg Variations
19:30 Friday 10 September 2021
Royal Albert Hall

Johann Sebastian Bach
Goldberg Variations
(85 mins)

Pavel Kolesnikov piano


Last Night of the Proms 2021
19:30 Saturday 11 September 2021 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Gity Razaz
Mother
(5 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
(17 mins)
Trad. arr. Henry Wood

Thomas Arne
Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent)
(4 mins)

Edward Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, 'Land of Hope and Glory'
(8 mins)

Hubert Parry
Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)
(2 mins)

Unknown
The National Anthem (arr. Britten)
(3 mins)

Auld lang syne

Stuart Skelton tenor
Ksenija Sidorova accordion
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor