Performances of Caroline Shaw at BBC Music
(See all works in BBC Music by Caroline Shaw)Sat 9 Aug 2025
- 19:00Royal Albert Hall
Britain’s most talented teenagers present a concert of intergalactic musical giants: The National Youth Orchestra and Dalia Stasevska perform Holst’s The Planets alongside music from John Williams’s mighty Star Wars soundtracks
Britain’s most talented teenagers present a concert of intergalactic musical giants: The National Youth Orchestra and Dalia Stasevska perform Holst’s The Planets alongside music from John Williams’s mighty Star Wars soundtracks
Programme
- Star Wars – suite(25 mins)
- The Observatory(14 mins)
- interval
- The Planets(51 mins)
Performers
- Dalia Stasevskaconductor
Composers
Sun 10 Aug 2025
- 11:00Royal Albert Hall
A chance to hear some of the music of last night’s Prom – including excerpts from Holst’s awe-inspiring The Planets and music from John Williams’s mighty Star Wars soundtracks – in a more relaxed and family-friendly environment
A chance to hear some of the music of last night’s Prom – including excerpts from Holst’s awe-inspiring The Planets and music from John Williams’s mighty Star Wars soundtracks – in a more relaxed and family-friendly environment
Programme
- Star Wars(15 mins)excerpts
- The Observatory(5 mins)excerpt
- The Planets(27 mins)Mars; Venus; Mercury; Jupiter
Performers
- Tess Jacksonconductor
- Linton Stephenspresenter
Composers
Sun 31 Aug 2025
- 19:30Royal Albert Hall
Pekka Kuusisto brings the strings of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra to the Proms with singer and composer Katarina Barruk, performing songs that combine the traditional and the modern
Pekka Kuusisto brings the strings of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra to the Proms with singer and composer Katarina Barruk, performing songs that combine the traditional and the modern
Programme
- songs based on the joik indigenous song-type from Sábmie
- Divertimento on ‘Sellinger’s Round’(6 mins)
- String Quartet No. 3, ‘Mishima’ – Blood Oath (fifth movement)(3 mins)
- Weroon Weroon(5 mins)UK premiere
- Chorale Prelude ‘O Mensch, bewein’ dein’ Sünde gross’, BWV 622 (arr. Reger)(6 mins)
- Plan & Elevation – The Beech Tree (fifth movement)(3 mins)
- interval
- Fratres(9 mins)
- Chamber Symphony (String Quartet No. 8, arr. R. Barshai)(24 mins)
Performers
- Katarina Barrukvocals
- Arnljot Nordvikguitar
- Christer Jørgensendrums
- Pekka Kuusistoviolin/director
Part ofProms 2025
Thu 26 Feb 2026
- 19:30Milton Court Concert Hall
The BBC Singers join the strings from the BBC Concert Orchestra, organist Iain Farrington and Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin for an emotive programme of music to touch the very heavens.
The BBC Singers join the strings from the BBC Concert Orchestra, organist Iain Farrington and Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin for an emotive programme of music to touch the very heavens.
Programme
- Who are these angels?
- To the Hands
- My Guardian Angel
- Die erste Elegie
- interval
- Hymnus Paradisiorch. Iain Farrington
Performers
- Iain Farringtonorgan
- Strings of the BBC Concert Orchestraensemble
- Sofi Jeanninconductor
Part ofBBC Singers 2025-26
