Modern Music at the BBC Proms 2012


Here's a list of the music written by living composers at the BBC Proms this year.  Note: some composers on here are dead but its great to hear their modern music being played.  It doesn't cover all the Proms - just the ones that might be termed "classical" - this distinction is mine and might be arbitrary 


Mark-Anthony Turnage - Canon Fever (3 mins)

John Adams - City Noir (34 mins)

Kaija Saariaho - Laterna magica (22 mins)

Fung Lam - Endless Forms (c9 mins)

Pierre Boulez - Dérive 2 (45 mins)

Pierre Boulez - Dialogue de l'ombre double (20 mins)

Julian Philips - Sorowfull Songes (c10 mins)
Steve Martland - Street Songs – selection (22 mins)

Pierre Boulez - Mémoriale ('… explosante-fixe …' Originel) (8 mins)
Pierre Boulez - Messagesquisse (8 mins)

Pierre Boulez - Anthèmes 2 (25 mins)

Omar Souleyman - I'll Prevent the Hunters from Hunting You (La sidounak sayyada) (arr. Jacob Garchik) (4 mins)
Sofia Gubaidulina - String Quartet No. 4 (12 mins)
Ben Johnston - String Quartet No. 4, 'Amazing Grace' (11 mins)
Nicole Lizée - The Golden Age of the Radiophonic Workshop (Fibre-Optic Flowers) (c10 mins)
Traditional - Tusen tankar (A Thousand Thoughts) transcr. Ljova, arr. Kronos Quartet (5 mins)
Aleksandra Vrebalov - … hold me, neighbor, in this storm … (22 mins)
Clint Mansell - Death is the Road to Awe (9 mins)

Hugh Wood - Concerto for Piano (30 mins)

Pierre Boulez - Le marteau sans maître (35 mins)

Langgaard - Symphony No. 11, ‘Ixion’ (5 mins)
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen - Incontri (14)

John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Charlotte Bray - At the Speed of Stillness (c10 mins)

Oliver Knussen - Symphony No. 2 (17 mins)

Zimmermann - Nobody knows de trouble I see (15 mins)

Elaine Agnew - Dark Hedges (c12 mins)

Nico Muhly - Gait (20 mins)
Anna Meredith - HandsFree (12 mins)


  • Bob Chilcott - The Angry Planet (c45 mins)Ben Parry - Flame (4 mins)
Thea Musgrave - Loch Ness – a Postcard from Scotland (c10 mins)

James MacMillan - Credo (c25 mins)

Richard Dubugnon - Battlefield Concerto (27 mins)

Per Nørgård - Symphony No. 7 (27 mins)

Michael Finnissy - Piano Concerto No. 2 (13 mins)
Brian Ferneyhough - Prometheus (23 mins)
Sir Harrison Birtwistle - Gigue Machine (12 mins)
Brian Elias - Electra Mourns (c17 mins)

Gavin Higgins - Der Aufstand (c10 mins)
Martin Ellerby - Paris Sketches (14 mins)
Lucas - Chorale and Variations (7 mins)
John Pickard - Wildfire (12 mins)
Gavin Bryars - After the Underworlds (c6 mins)
George Benjamin - Altitude (8 mins)
Derek Bourgeois - Blitz (12 mins)

Olga Neuwirth - Remnants of Songs ... an Amphigory (20 mins)

Jonathan Harvey - Mortuos plango, vivos voco (9 mins)
Louis Andriessen - De snelheid (18 mins)

Joan Tower - Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman (3 mins)

Christian Marclay - Baggage (c5 mins)

Alexander Goehr - … a musical offering (J.S.B. 1985) … (15 mins)
Oliver Knussen - Ophelia Dances (7 mins)
Oliver Knussen - Ophelia's Last Dance (10 mins)
Simon Bainbridge - The Garden of Earthly Delights (c35 mins)

Hugh Wood - String Quartet No. 4 (24 mins)

Emily Howard - Calculus of the Nervous System (15 mins)

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies - Symphony No.9 (25 mins)

Alexander Goehr - Metamorphosis/Dance (19 mins)
Oliver Knussen - Symphony No. 3 (15 mins)
Helen Grime - Night Songs (c5 mins)

Lutosławski - Symphony No. 3 (35 mins)

John Adams - Nixon in China (180 mins)

Mark Simpson - sparks (c2 mins)
John Williams - Olympic Fanfare and Theme (5 mins)

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