Performances of LYR at BBC Music

Fri 8 Aug 2025

• 21:00

  100 Years of the Shipping Forecast (Belfast)

  Ulster Hall

  The Proms celebrates the centenary of the Shipping Forecast with presenters from Radio 4’s Continuity team, music inspired by the oceans and the elements, and a new work by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and his group LYR

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  The Proms celebrates the centenary of the Shipping Forecast with presenters from Radio 4’s Continuity team, music inspired by the oceans and the elements, and a new work by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and his group LYR

  Programme

  • • • Ronald Binge
      • Sailing By(3 mins)
    • • Benjamin Britten
      • Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’ – Storm(5 mins)
    • • María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir
      • Oceans(9 mins)
    • • Trad.
      • Pórt na bPúcaí(5 mins)arr. Neil Martin
    • • LYR
      • YonderlandBBC commission: world premiere
    • • Anna Clyne
      • Restless Oceans(4 mins)
    • • Maurice Ravel
      • Miroirs – Une barque sur l’océan(8 mins)
    • • Malcolm Arnold
      • The Padstow Lifeboat(5 mins)

  Performers

  • Caroline Nicholls

    presenter
    presenter
  • Al Ryan

    presenter
    presenter
  • LYR
  • Ulster Orchestra
  • Chloé van Soeterstède

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Ronald Binge
  • Benjamin Britten
  • María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir
  • Trad.
  • LYR
  • Anna Clyne
  • Maurice Ravel
  • Malcolm Arnold

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  Part of

  Proms 2025 Proms Across the UK