Joe Hisaishi and Steve Reich

Live at the BBC Proms: Joe Hisaishi and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra play Hisaishi and Steve Reich

Presented by Georgia Mann live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Hisaishi
Symphonic Suite: The Boy and the Heron; The End of the World

Interval: Chris Harding, author of books on Japan including Japan Story, and The Japanese: A history in twenty lives joins Georgia Mann to discuss the music of Joe Hisaishi, and artistic responses to the conflicts which lie behind tonight's concert programme.

Reich
The Desert Music

John Holiday, counter-tenor
BBC Singers
National Youth Voices
Philharmonia Chorus
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Joe Hisaishi, conductor

Celebrated classical and film composer Joe Hisaishi makes his Proms debut conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in his own The End of the World, alongside Steve Reich’s scorched-earth vision of a post-nuclear wasteland The Desert Music