Summer Festivals

Penny Gore presents great BBC Prom concerts by BBC orchestras: the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Wagner and Strauss and Ulster Orchestra with Beethoven and Clara Schumann.

In a Prom from 2018 the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and their Chief Conductor are joined by Swedish soprano Malin Byström for Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs and by the National Youth Chamber Choir and London Voices for the UK premiere of Per Nørgård's Symphony No 3.

Then, recorded at last year's Proms, the Ulster Orchestra and their outgoing Chief Conductor Rafael Payare perform Russian music, Beethoven's First Symphony and a Proms premiere: Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto, with Radio 3 New Generation Artist Mariam Batsashvili as soloist.

2.00pm
Wagner: Parsifal – Prelude to Act 1
Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs
with Malin Byström (soprano)
Per Nørgård: Symphony No 3 (UK premiere)
London Voices
The National Youth Chamber Choir
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Thomas Dausgaard

3.25pm
Beethoven: Symphony No 1 in C major, Op. 21
Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7 (Proms premiere)
Sofia Gubaidulina: Fairytale Poem
Shostakovich: Symphony No 1 in F minor, Op. 10
Mariam Batsashvili (piano)
Ulster Orchestra
Conductor Rafael Payare