BBC Proms

BBC Proms Calendar

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Fri 19 Jul 1985
- 19:15
  Prom 01 - First Night of the Proms 1985
  Royal Albert Hall
  Programme
  George Frideric Handel
  Messiah - Performed in the arrangement by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Performers
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  John Pritchard
  conductor
  conductor
  Anthony Rolfe Johnson
  tenor
  tenor
  Julia Varady
  soprano
  soprano
  Marilyn Horne
  mezzo-soprano
  mezzo-soprano
  Samuel Ramey
  bass
  bass
  BBC Singers (1924-34, Wireless Chorus; 1935-8, 1942-3, 1946-72, BBC Chorus)
  Composers
  George Frideric Handel
  Part of
  Proms 1985
Sat 20 Jul 1985
- 19:00
  Prom 02
  Royal Albert Hall
  Programme
  Maurice Ravel
  Le tombeau de Couperin
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Symphony No 4 in A major 'Italian'
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Violin Concerto in D major
  Performers
  Salvatore Accardo
  conductorviolin/director
  conductorviolin/director
  Chamber Orchestra of Europe
  Composers
  Maurice Ravel
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Part of
  Proms 1985
- 21:45
  Prom 03
  Royal Albert Hall
  Programme
  Domenico Scarlatti
  Stabat Mater in C minor
  Heinrich Schütz
  Musicalische Exequien, SWV 279-281, Op 7Proms premiere
  Performers
  Monteverdi Choir
  Sir John Eliot Gardiner
  conductor
  conductor
  English Baroque Soloists (pre-1977, Monteverdi Orchestra)
  Composers
  Domenico Scarlatti
  Heinrich Schütz
  Part of
  Proms 1985
Sun 21 Jul 1985
- 19:30
  Prom 04
  Royal Albert Hall
  Programme
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  Cantata No. 50, 'Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft', BWV 50
  Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4
  Cantata No. 55, 'Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht', BWV 55
  Ascension Oratorio
  Performers
  Stephen Varcoe
  baritone
  baritone
  Michael Chance
  counter-tenor
  counter-tenor
  Anthony Rolfe Johnson
  tenor
  tenor
  Patrizia Kwella
  soprano
  soprano
  Monteverdi Choir
  Sir John Eliot Gardiner
  conductor
  conductor
  English Baroque Soloists (pre-1977, Monteverdi Orchestra)
  Composers
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  Part of
  Proms 1985
Mon 22 Jul 1985
- 19:30
  Prom 05
  Royal Albert Hall
  Programme
  Roger Sessions
  When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'dEuropean premiere
  Gustav Mahler
  Symphony No 1 in D major 'Titan' (with 'Blumine' movement)
  Performers
  David Wilson‐Johnson
  baritone
  baritone
  Sarah Walker
  mezzo-soprano
  mezzo-soprano
  Alison Hargan
  soprano
  soprano
  BBC Singers
  BBC Symphony Chorus
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  John Pritchard
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Roger Sessions
  Gustav Mahler
  Part of
  Proms 1985
Tue 23 Jul 1985
- 19:30
  Prom 06
  Royal Albert Hall
  Programme
  Igor Stravinsky
  Symphony in C
  Franz Liszt
  Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Symphony No. 4 in F minor
  Performers
  Sir Stephen Hough
  piano
  piano
  Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
  conductor
  conductor
  Hallé (pre-2003, Hallé Orchestra)
  Composers
  Igor Stravinsky
  Franz Liszt
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Part of
  Proms 1985
Wed 24 Jul 1985
- 19:30
  Prom 07
  Royal Albert Hall
  Programme
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Masonic Funeral Music
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major
  Dmitry Shostakovich
  Symphony No 8 in C minor
  Performers
  Yefim Bronfman
  piano
  piano
  Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
  Rudolf Barshai
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Dmitry Shostakovich
  Part of
  Proms 1985
Thu 25 Jul 1985
- 19:30
  Prom 08
  Royal Albert Hall
  Programme
  Charles Ives
  Symphony No 4
  Gustav Holst
  The Planets
  Performers
  Simon Joly
  associate conductor
  associate conductor
  Raymond Holden
  associate conductor
  associate conductor
  John Alley
  piano
  piano
  BBC Singers
  BBC Symphony Chorus (pre-1932, National Chorus; 1933-4, BBC Chorus; 1935-77, BBC Choral Society) (women's voices)
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  John Pritchard
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Charles Ives
  Gustav Holst
  Part of
  Proms 1985
Fri 26 Jul 1985
- 19:30
  Prom 09
  Royal Albert Hall
  Programme
  York Höller
  Resonance UK premiere
  Luciano Berio
  Corale UK premiere
  Elliott Carter
  Penthode World premiere
  Pierre Boulez
  Éclat/Multiples
  Performers
  Maryvonne le Dizès
  violin
  violin
  Pierre Boulez
  conductor
  conductor
  Ensemble Intercontemporain
  Ensemble Orchestral de Paris
  Composers
  York Höller
  Luciano Berio
  Elliott Carter
  Pierre Boulez
  Part of
  Proms 1985
Sat 27 Jul 1985
- 19:30
  Prom 10
  Royal Albert Hall
  Programme
  Joseph Haydn
  Symphony No. 39 in G minor
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Piano Concerto No 12 in A major, K 414
  Daniel Jones
  Dance FantasyProms premiere
  Paul Hindemith
  Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'
  Performers
  Hans Leygraf
  piano
  piano
  Erich Bergel
  conductor
  conductor
  BBC National Orchestra of Wales (pre-1993, BBC Welsh SO)
  Composers
  Joseph Haydn
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Daniel Jones
  Paul Hindemith
  Part of
  Proms 1985
Sun 28 Jul 1985
- 19:30
  Prom 11
  Royal Albert Hall
  Programme
  Gustav Mahler
  Symphony No. 2 in C minor, ‘Resurrection’
  Performers
  Claudio Abbado
  conductor
  conductor
  Karita Mattila
  soprano
  soprano
  Christa Ludwig
  mezzo-soprano
  mezzo-soprano
  European Union Youth Orchestra (before 1995 European Community YO)
  London Symphony Chorus (pre-1976, London Symphony Orchestra Chorus)
  Vienna Youth Choir
  BBC Symphony Chorus (pre-1932, National Chorus; 1933-4, BBC Chorus; 1935-77, BBC Choral Society)
  Composers
  Gustav Mahler
  Part of
  Proms 1985
Mon 29 Jul 1985
- 19:00
  Prom 12
  Royal Albert Hall
  Programme
  Olivier Messiaen
  Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
  Iannis Xenakis
  AïsUK premiere
  Steve Reich
  The Desert MusicUK premiere
  Performers
  James Holland
  percussion
  percussion
  Spyros Sakkas
  baritone
  baritone
  BBC Singers
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Peter Eötvös
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Olivier Messiaen
  Iannis Xenakis
  Steve Reich
  Part of
  Proms 1985
- 22:00
  Prom 13
  Royal Albert Hall
  Programme
  Pérotin
  Viderunt omnes Proms premiere
  Anon.
  Plainsong Propers for the Feast of the Blessed Virgin MaryNo. 1 Introit 'Gaudeamus omnes in Domino'
  Guillaume de Machaut
  Messe de Nostre DameNo. 1 Kyrie
  Messe de Nostre DameNo. 2 Gloria
  Anon.
  Plainsong Propers for the Feast of the Blessed Virgin MaryNo. 2 Gradual 'Benedicta et venerabilis es, virgo Maria'
  Guillaume de Machaut
  Messe de Nostre DameNo. 3 Credo
  Anon.
  Plainsong Propers for the Feast of the Blessed Virgin MaryNo. 3 Offertory 'Felix namque es, sancta virgo Maria'
  Guillaume de Machaut
  Messe de Nostre DameNo. 4 Sanctus
  Messe de Nostre DameNo. 5 Benedictus
  Messe de Nostre DameNo. 6 Agnus Dei
  Anon.
  Plainsong Propers for the Feast of the Blessed Virgin MaryNo. 4 Communion 'Beata viscera Mariae virginis'
  Guillaume de Machaut
  Messe de Nostre DameNo. 7 Ite missa est
  Performers
  Hilliard Ensemble
  Composers
  Pérotin
  Anon.
  Guillaume de Machaut
  Part of
  Proms 1985
Tue 30 Jul 1985
- 19:30
  Prom 14
  Royal Albert Hall
  Programme
  Richard Strauss
  Serenade in E flat major, Op 7
  Arnold Schoenberg
  Pierrot lunaire
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Serenade in B flat major 'Gran Partita', K 361
  Performers
  Sarah Walker
  reciter
  reciter
  Lionel Friend
  conductor
  conductor
  Nash Ensemble
  Composers
  Richard Strauss
  Arnold Schoenberg
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Part of
  Proms 1985
Wed 31 Jul 1985
- 19:30
  Prom 15
  Royal Albert Hall
  Programme
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
  Anthony Payne
  The Spirit's Harvest World premiere
  Alan Rawsthorne
  Piano Concerto No. 2
  Edward Elgar
  In the South (Alassio)
  Performers
  John Ogdon
  piano
  piano
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Elgar Howarth
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Anthony Payne
  Alan Rawsthorne
  Edward Elgar
  Part of
  Proms 1985
Thu 1 Aug 1985
- 19:30
  Prom 16
  Royal Albert Hall
  Programme
  Edward Elgar
  Overture ‘Cockaigne (In London Town)’
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Violin Concerto in E minor
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, ‘Eroica’
  Performers
  György Pauk
  violin
  violin
  Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  James Loughran
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Edward Elgar
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Part of
  Proms 1985

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Sat 20 Jul 1985

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Sun 21 Jul 1985

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Mon 22 Jul 1985

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Tue 23 Jul 1985

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Wed 24 Jul 1985

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Thu 25 Jul 1985

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Fri 26 Jul 1985

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Sat 27 Jul 1985

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Sun 28 Jul 1985

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Mon 29 Jul 1985

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Tue 30 Jul 1985

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Wed 31 Jul 1985

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Thu 1 Aug 1985

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