The BBC Proms are back with a bang although in a very different format to usual. The 8 weeklong 2020 season will feature musical greats from the past and the present – both from the archive and remarkable live performances.
Wise Music Classical works once again feature heavily in this year’s Proms, and these are some of the highlights that are not to be missed!
- The world premiere of John Tavener’s landmark work The Protecting Veil by Stephen Isserlis
- Judith Weir’s woman.life.song, written for Jessye Norman
- Helen Grime: Near Midnight (London premiere) with Sir Mark Elder conducting the Hallé Orchestra
- Vasily Petrenko conducting the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in Nico Muhly’s Gait
- Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic performing The Firebird
- A live performance of Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915
21 July
The Protecting Veil (world premiere)
John Tavener
Steven Isserlis (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Oliver Knussen
(From BBC Proms, 4 September 1989)
27 July
Flute Sonata
Martinů
Sonatine
Dutilleux
Emmanuel Pahud (flute) and Eric Le Sage (piano)
(From BBC Proms 2011, 22 August)
30th July
Sea Pictures, Op. 37
Elgar
Near Midnight (London premiere)
Helen Grime
Hallé / Sir Mark Elder
(From BBC Proms 2014, 9 August)
30th July
A Winged Victory for the Sullen
Nils Frahm (piano/keyboards) / Members of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance / London Brass
(Late night Prom 2015)
5 August
Violin Concerto
Barber
James Ehnes (violin)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Marin Alsop
(From the BBC Proms 2007, 25 July)
7 August
The Firebird
Stravinsky
Berlin Philharmonic / Sir Simon Rattle
(From the BBC Proms, 5 September 2014)
11 August
Gait (BBC commission: London premiere)
Nico Muhly
Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot)
Joanna MacGregor (piano)
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain / Vassily Petrenko
(From BBC Proms 2012, 4 August)
14 August
Violin Concerto in D major
Stravinsky
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
(From BBC Proms 2017, 21 August)
16 August
Gentle sleep
Nico Muhly
Stile Antico
(From the BBC Proms, 15 August 2016)
30 August
Night Fantasies
Elliott Carter
Catalogue d’oiseaux – No 8: L’alouette lulu
Messiaen
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
(From BBC Proms, 21 July 2008)
30 August
Concerto in E flat major, ‘Dumbarton Oaks’
Stravinsky
woman.life.song
Judith Weir
Jessye Norman (soprano)
Helen Tunstall (harp)
Mark Markham (piano)
London Sinfonietta / David Robertson
(From BBC Proms 2000, 6 August)
8 September
Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Samual Barber
Natalya Romaniw (soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Ryan Bancroft
11 September
Sonata for cello & piano
Samual Barber
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)
Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano)
