Tchaikovsky Symphonies
Throughout the course of the festival, a wide range of orchestras and conductors will give the complete symphony cycle of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. This will include, as well as the six numbered works, a performance of Manfred given by the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi under Xian Zhang (5 September), while a further highlight will be Joshua Bell’s rendition of the Violin Concerto (21 July).
Symphony No. 4
BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Jac van Steen
24 July
Symphony No. 5
Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Peter Oundjian
2 August
Symphony No. 2, ‘Little Russian’
BBC Philharmonic/Gianandrea Noseda
5 August
Symphony No. 3, ‘Polish’
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Kirill Karabits
14 August
Symphony No. 1, ‘Winter Daydreams’
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko
2 September
Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä
4 September
Manfred
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi/Xian Zhang
5 September
Further Tchaikovsky at the Proms
Violin Concerto
Joshua Bell (violin), National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America/Valery Gergiev
21 July
Eugene Onegin – Polonaise and Letter Scene
Kristıne Opolais (soprano) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons
Matinee 17 August
Fantasy-Overture ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra/Yannick Nézet-Séguin
22 August
