Summer Festivals

Fiona Talkington presents great Prom concerts from recent years by BBC orchestras and choirs - today the BBC Singers in Palestrina and Judith Weir and Ulster Orchestra in Tchaikovsky. Venezuelan Rafael Payare makes his 2016 Proms debut as Principal Conductor and Music Director of the Ulster Orchestra with Tchaikovsky's Fifth and a brand-new work by Professor of Composition at Queens University, Belfast, Piers Hellawell, plus Haydn with the cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan, who was then a BBC New Generation Artist. Plus a 2017 Prom at Southwark Cathedral with Palestrina from BBC Singers and their then chief conductor, David Hill, who are joined by the Nash Ensemble for another world premiere by Master of the Queen's Music Judith Weir.

Piers Hellawell: Wild Flow (world premiere)
Haydn: Cello Concerto No 1 in C major
with Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5
Ulster Orchestra
Conductor Rafael Payare

Proms at… Southwark Cathedral
Palestrina: Motet 'Confitebor tibi, Domine'; Missa 'Confitebor tibi'
Judith Weir: In the Land of Uz (BBC commission: world premiere)
with Adrian Thompson (tenor), Stephen Farr (organ) and Nash Ensemble
BBC Singers
Conductor David Hill