Proms 2017 Prom 1: First Night of the Proms - BBC Proms

14 Jul 2017, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Fri 14 Jul 2017 Next Event

Prom 1: First Night of the Proms

19:30 Fri 14 Jul 2017 Royal Albert Hall

The 2017 BBC Proms opens with a dance and a shout. Celebrate John Adams’s 70th birthday with his masterpiece Harmonium. Award-winning pianist Igor Levit is the soloist in Beethoven’s ground-breaking Third Piano Concerto.

Performances & Interviews

03:31

Highlights of the First Night of the Proms 2017

Edward Gardener conducts Igor Levit, BBC Proms Youth Choir, BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC SO.

Aug '17BBC Four

02:08

Beethoven: Ode to Joy – Liszt's transcription (excerpt) (2017)

Award-winning pianist Igor Levit's encore at First Night of the Proms 2017.

Aug '17BBC Four

02:13

Tom Coult: St John’s Dance – excerpt (2017)

World premiere from a rising British composer.

Jul '17BBC Four

Programme

- - Tom Coult
  - St John’s Dance(5 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- - Ludwig van Beethoven
  - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor(36 mins)
- - interval
- - John Adams
  - Harmonium(33 mins)

Performers

Igor Levit
piano
piano
BBC Proms Youth Choir
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner
conductor
conductor

Composers

About This Event

John Adams’s Harmonium is an intricate tapestry of sound, with bright vocal threads and driving brass and percussion rhythms. Marking the composer’s 70th birthday this year, it features the BBC Proms Youth Choir.

Award-winning pianist Igor Levit is the soloist in Beethoven’s groundbreaking Third Piano Concerto, and this year’s First Night opens with the world premiere of St John’s Dance by rising British composer Tom Coult.

Tickets for this concert are now very limited. However we are celebrating John Adams’s 70th birthday for the whole summer. See below for more details.

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Discover the Music

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3