Performances of Steve Reich at BBC Proms

Thu 14 Aug 2025

• 19:30

  Joe Hisaishi and Steve Reich

  Royal Albert Hall

  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

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  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

  Programme

  • • • Joe Hisaishi
      • Symphonic Suite: The Boy and the Heron for piano and orchestra(15 mins)European premiere
      • The End of the World(36 mins)2015 version
    • • interval
    • • Steve Reich
      • The Desert Music(48 mins)

  Performers

  • John Holiday

    counter-tenor
    counter-tenor
  • BBC Singers
  • National Youth Voices
  • Philharmonia Chorus
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Joe Hisaishi

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Joe Hisaishi
  • Steve Reich

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  Part of

  Proms 2025 Discovery at the Proms