BBC Philharmonic at the Proms
BBC Philharmonic at the Proms Calendar
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Mon 16 Jul 2018
- 19:30Royal Albert Hall
Juanjo Mena conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Shostakovich’s barnstorming ‘Leningrad’ Symphony – a powerful tribute to the Soviet victims of WWII. Clarinettist Mark Simpson is the soloist in Magnus Lindberg’s ferociously virtuosic Clarinet Concerto.
Juanjo Mena conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Shostakovich’s barnstorming ‘Leningrad’ Symphony – a powerful tribute to the Soviet victims of WWII. Clarinettist Mark Simpson is the soloist in Magnus Lindberg’s ferociously virtuosic Clarinet Concerto.
Programme
- Clarinet Concerto(25 mins)
- interval
- Symphony No 7 in C major, 'Leningrad'(75 mins)
Performers
- Mark Simpsonclarinet
- Juanjo Menaconductor
Composers
Also part ofProms 2018
Tue 24 Jul 2018
- 19:30Royal Albert Hall
A concert of defiantly brilliant, genre-bending works pairs Sibelius’s enigmatic Seventh Symphony with Bern Alois Zimmermann’s Symphony in One Movement. Soprano Elizabeth Watts and pianist Louis Lortie join the BBC Philharmonic for music by Schubert.
A concert of defiantly brilliant, genre-bending works pairs Sibelius’s enigmatic Seventh Symphony with Bern Alois Zimmermann’s Symphony in One Movement. Soprano Elizabeth Watts and pianist Louis Lortie join the BBC Philharmonic for music by Schubert.
Programme
- The Mastersingers of Nuremberg – Prelude to Act 1(10 mins)
- Die junge Nonne
- Gretchen am Spinnrade
- Lied der Mignon
- Erlkönig
- Symphony in One Movement(15 mins)
- interval
- Fantasy in C major, D760, 'Wanderer' (orch. Liszt)(22 mins)
- Symphony No. 7 in C major(22 mins)
Performers
- Elizabeth Wattssoprano
- Louis Lortiepiano
- John Storgårdsconductor
Also part ofProms 2018
Wed 25 Jul 2018
- 19:30Royal Albert Hall
A concert of darkness and light opens with the world premiere of Tansy Davies’s 9/11-inspired What Did We See? and closes with Brahms’s sunny Second Symphony. Paul Lewis joins Ben Gernon and the BBC Philharmonic for Beethoven’s 'Emperor' Concerto.
A concert of darkness and light opens with the world premiere of Tansy Davies’s 9/11-inspired What Did We See? and closes with Brahms’s sunny Second Symphony. Paul Lewis joins Ben Gernon and the BBC Philharmonic for Beethoven’s 'Emperor' Concerto.
Programme
- What Did We See? (orchestral suite from 'Between Worlds')BBC commission: world premiere
- Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, ‘Emperor’(38 mins)
- interval
- Symphony No. 2 in D major(42 mins)
Performers
- Paul Lewispiano
- Ben Gernonconductor
