Pick of the Proms 2013







Prom 1 - Stephen Hough/BBCSO/Oramo
12 July
Julian Anderson - Harmony (c4 mins)
Britten - Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes' (17 mins)
Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (23 mins)
Lutosławski - Variations on a Theme by Paganini (8 mins)
Vaughan Williams - A Sea Symphony (66 mins)

Prom 6 - Nobuyuki Tsujii/BBCPO/Mena
16 July
David Matthews - A Vision of the Sea (c20 mins)
Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (35 mins)
Nielsen - Symphony No. 4, 'Inextinguishable' (36 mins) 

Prom 8 - BBCSO/Ades
17 July
Britten - Sinfonia da Requiem (20 mins)
Lutosławski - Concerto for Cello (24 mins)
Thomas Adès - Totentanz (c45 mins)

Prom 11 - Ex Cathedra/Skidmore
19 July 10:15pm
STOCKHAUSEN
Gesang der Jünglinge (14 mins)
Mittwoch aus 'Licht' – Welt-Parlament (40 mins)

Prom 14 - Wagner: Das Rheingold - Staatskapelle Berlin/Barenboim 22 July 7:00pm

Prom 15 - Die Walküre - Staatskapelle Berlin/Barenboim 23 July 5:00pm

Prom 17- Clara Mouriz/BBCPO/Mena
25 July
John McCabe - Joybox (c7 mins)
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7 in A major (40 mins)
Falla - The Three-Cornered Hat (35 mins)
Ravel - Boléro (15 mins) 

Prom 18 - Wagner: Siegfried - Staatskapelle Berlin/Barenboim 26 July 5:00pm

Prom 19 -  Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - BBCSO/Bychkov 27 July 5:00pm

Prom 20 - Wagner: Gotterdammerung -  - Staatskapelle Berlin/Barenboim - 28 July 4:30pm

Prom 26 - Peter Serkin/BBCSO/Knussen
1 Aug
Henze - Barcarola (20 mins)
Stravinsky - Concerto for piano and wind instruments (19 mins)
Stravinsky - Movements (10 mins)
Tippett - Symphony No. 2 (32 mins) 

Proms Saturday Matinee 2: S Connelly/Britten Sinfonia/Sian Edwards
3 Aug 3pm
Britten - Prelude and Fugue (10 mins)
Holst - St Paul's Suite (13 mins)
Berkeley - Four Poems of St Teresa of Avila (14 mins)
Tippett - Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli (19 mins)
Britten - Phaedra (15 mins)

Proms Chamber Music 4: tenThing
5 Aug 1pm
Grieg - Holberg Suite (3 mins)
Grieg - Lyric Pieces (2 mins)
Grieg - 19 Norwegian Folk Songs (2 mins)
Grieg - Lyric Pieces (4 mins)
Diana Burrell - Blaze (10 mins)
Weill - The Threepenny Opera – suite (18 mins)
Piazzolla - Oblivion (3 mins)
Bizet - Carmen – Suite No. 2 (6 mins) 

Prom 38: Free Prom – NYO/Petrenko
11 Aug
Vaughan Williams - Toward the Unknown Region (11 mins)
Mark-Anthony Turnage - Frieze (15 mins)
Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'Choral' (70 mins) 

Prom 39: Nishat Khan/BBCNOW/Atherton
12 Aug
Holst - Indra (12 mins)
Nishat Khan - The Gate of the Moon (Sitar Concerto No. 1) (40 mins)
Vaughan Williams - A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2) (45 mins) 

Prom 48: Tine Thing Helseth/Marco Blaaw/BBCSSO/Pintscher
18 Aug
Ravel - Rapsodie espagnole (15 mins)
Matthias Pintscher - Chute d'étoiles (20 mins)
Stravinsky - The Firebird (46 mins) 

Prom 49: Stephen Hough/SCO/Ticcati
19 Aug 7pm
Berlioz - Overture 'King Lear' (16 mins)
Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor (21 mins)
Bach - The Art of Fugue – Canon and Fugue (orch. G. Benjamin) (8 mins)
Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica' (50 mins) 

Prom 50: Frederic Rzewski/BBCSSO/Volkov
19 Aug 10:15pm
John White - Chord-Breaking Machine (10 mins)
Gerald Barry - No other people. (12 mins)
Frederic Rzewski - Piano Concerto (20 mins)
Feldman - Coptic Light (28 mins) 


Prom 52: Lisa Batiashvili/BBCSO/Oramo
21 Aug
Param Vir - Cave of Luminous Mind (20 mins)
Sibelius - Violin Concerto in D minor (33 mins)
Bantock - Celtic Symphony (20 mins)
Elgar - 'Enigma' Variations (28 mins) 

Prom 55: Alexander Melnikov/Warsaw PO/Wit
23 Aug
Lutosławski - Concerto for Orchestra (30 mins)
Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major (19 mins)
Panufnik - Tragic Overture (9 mins)
Panufnik - Lullaby (8 mins)
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 6 in B minor (35 mins) 

Proms Saturday Matinee 4: Ben Johnson/ECO/Paul Watkins
24 Aug 3pm
Purcell - Chacony (arr. Britten) (7 mins)
Lutosławski - Paroles tissées (15 mins)
Britten - Serenade for tenor, horn and strings (25 mins) 

Prom 57: Wagner: Parsifal - The Halle/Elder - 25 Aug 4:30pm

Prom 63: Midori/Philharmonia/Salonen
29 Aug
Mozart - Der Schauspieldirektor - Overture (4 mins)
Peter Eötvös - DoReMi (21 mins)
Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 in E major (70 mins) 

Prom 68: Baiba Skride/Oslo PO/Petrenko
2 Sept
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 1 in G minor 'Winter Daydreams' (44 mins)
Szymanowski - Violin Concerto No. 1 (24 mins)
Rachmaninov - Symphonic Dances (36 mins) 

Prom 71: Ruby Hughes, Jennifer Johnston/BBCSO/Vanska
4 Sept
Górecki - Symphony No. 3, 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' (60 mins)
Vaughan Williams - (orch. A. Payne) Four Last Songs (c12 mins)
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 in B minor, 'Pathétique' (48 mins)

Prom 73: Imogen Cooper and Paul Lewis
5 Sept 10:15pm
Schubert - Piano Sonata in C minor, D958 (33 mins)
Schubert - Piano Sonata in C major, D812, 'Grand Duo' (39 mins)


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