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BBC Proms 2008 guide

Match of the Day's hosts Alan Shearer, Mark Lawrenson, Gary Lineker and Alan Hansen
It's Proms season once again and that means nearly three months of the finest classical and folk music performed by some of the world's best musicians.

However with so much going on it's difficult to know when and where each performance appears in the schedules, so we've prepared a comprehensive guide to each and every performance so that you needn't miss a note of this fantastic season of music! All Proms are broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 throughout the season, and can be heard again online for seven days at www.bbc.co.uk/radio3.

SEPTEMBER

Prom 74: Thursday 11 September, 7:30pm

Matthias Pintscher Hérodiade-Fragmente
Mahler Symphony No 1 Marisol Montalvo (soprano), Orchestre de Paris/Christoph Eschenbach

Prom 75: Friday 12 September, 7:30pm

Wagner Prelude, Act 1: Parsifal
Krzysztof Penderecki Threnody: For the Victims of Hiroshima
Beethoven Elegische Gesang; Symphony No 9 in D minor (Choral) Emma Bell (soprano), Jane Irwin (mezzo), Timothy Robinson (tenor), Iain Paterson (bass), City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, BBC Philharmonic/Gianandrea Noseda

Prom 76: Saturday 13 September, 8:00pm (shown on BBC2 and BBC1)

Beethoven Overture: The Creatures of Prometheus
Wagner Wie Todesahnung Dämmrung…O du, mein holder Abendstern (Tannhaüser)
Puccini Te Deum: Tre sbirri, una carrozza (Tosca)
Beethoven Fantasia in C minor for piano, chorus and orchestra (Choral Fantasy)
Verdi Ehi! Paggio!…L'Onore! Ladri! (Falstaff)
Denza, arr Rimsky-Korsakov Funiculi, Funicula
Trad, arr Chris Hazell Folk Song Medley
Anna Meredith New work (BBC commission: world premiere)
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D
Vaughan Williams Sea Songs
Arne, arr Sargent Rule, Britannia!
Parry, orch Elgar Jerusalem. The National Anthem. Auld Lang Syne Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Hélène Grimaud (piano), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra/Roger Norrington

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PAST PROMS:

Prom 1: Friday 18 July, 8pm

Strauss Festliches Präludium
Mozart Oboe Concerto in C, K314
Strauss Four Last Songs
Messian La Nativité du Seigneur - Dieu parmi Nous (for solo organ)
Beethoven Rondo in B flat for piano and orchestra
Elliott Carter Caténaires for solo piano (UK premiere)
Scribian The Poem of Ecstasy
Karita Mattila (soprano), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Wayne Marshall (organ), Royal College of Music Brass, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Jiri Belohlavek

Prom 2: Saturday 19 July, 6:30pm

Bax The Garden of Fand
Finzi Intimations of Immortality
Elgar Violin Concerto
Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Nigel Kennedy (violin), BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Concert Orchestra/Paul Daniel

Prom 3: Saturday 19 July, 10:00pm

NKQ: Nigel Kennedy Quintet
Nigel Kennedy (electric violin), Tomasz Grzegorski (saxophones), Piotr Wylezol (piano), Adam Kowalewski (double bass/electric bass), Pawel Dobrowolski (percussion), Xantone Blacq (singer)

Prom 4: Sunday 20 July, 3:30pm

Folk Day
Traditional folk songs from Britain and eastern Europe, plus works by Vaughan Williams, Grainger, Berio and Bartok, plus a BBC commmission by Kathryn Tickell. Bella Hardy (singer), Monica Bacelli (mezzo), RNCM Wind Orchestra, London Young Musicians, Folkestra, director Kathryn Tickell, Muzsikas, London Sinfonietta/Martyn Brabbins

Prom 5: Sunday 20 July, 7:30pm

Folk Day Evening Concert
Bella Hardy (singer), Martin Simpson (singer/guitar), Bellowhead

Prom 6: Monday 21 July, 7:30pm

Messian L'Ascension (for organ); Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum Saint-Saens Symphony No 3 in C minor (Organ) Olivier Latry (organ), French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra/Myung-Whun Chung

Prom 7: Tuesday 22 July, 7:00pm

Rossini Overture: William Tell
Haydn Cello Concerto No 1 in C
Elgar Symphony No 1 in A flat
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR)/Roger Norrington

Prom 8: Tuesday 22 July, 10:00pm

Obrecht Missa (Malheur Me Bat)
Ockeghem Malheur Me Bat
Josquin Des Prez Missa (Malheur Me Bat) Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips

Prom 9: Wednesday 23 July, 7:00pm

Mendelssohn Overture: Ruy Blas; Symphony No 4 in A (Italian)
Brahms Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat; Symphony No 2 in D Lars Vogt (piano), BBCSO/Jiri Belohlavek

Prom 10: Thursday 24 July, 7:30pm

Bax In Memoriam (first public performance)
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor
Vaughn Williams Symphony No 4 Yevgeny Sudbin (piano), BBC Philharmonic/Yan Pascal Tortelier

Prom 11: Friday 25 July, 7:30pm

Debussy Nocturnes
Simon Holt Troubled Light (BBC commission: world premiere)
Musgorsky, orch Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition Cantamus Girls' Choir, BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Thierry Fischer

Prom 12: Saturday 26 July, 7:00pm

Musorgsky, arr Shebalin A Night on the Bare Mountain (Sorochintsy Fair version, 1880)
Musogorsky Coronation Scene, Boris's Monologue, Death Scene (Boris Godunov)
Thomas Adès Tevot
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 1
Borodin Polovtsian Dances 7, 8 and 17
John Tomlinson (bass), Louis Lortie (piano), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/Thomas Adès

Prom 13: Sunday 27 July, 1:00am

Doctor Who Prom
A family concert featuring music by Murray Gold, Copland, Holst, Prokofiev, Mark-Anthony Turnage and Wagner. Freema Agyeman (presenter), London Philharmonic Choir, BBC Philharmonic/Stephen Bell and Ben Foster

Prom 14: Sunday 27 July, 7:00pm

Messiaen
La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ Denes Varjon (piano), Adam Walker (flute), Julian Bliss (clarinet), Sonia Wieder- Atherton (cello), Colin Currie (xylorimba), Adrian Spillett (marimba), Richard Benjafield (vibraphone), Philharmonia Voices, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales/Thierry Fischer

Prom 15: Monday 28 July, 7:30pm

Beethoven Grosse Fuge
Elliott Carter Oboe Concerto
Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor Nicholas Daniel (oboe), BBCSO/David Robertson

Prom 16: Tuesday 29 July, 7:30pm

Butterworth Orchestral Rhapsody: A Shropshire Lad
Vaughn Williams Symphony No 8
Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor
Strauss Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Janine Jansen (violin), Hallé/Mark Elder

Prom 17: Wednesday 30 July, 7:00pm

World Music Celebration Mayra Andrade, Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara, Bassekou Kouyate, Sa Dingding, Son de la Frontera

JULY

Prom 18: Thursday 31 July, 7:00pm

Monteverdi The Coronation of Poppaea (semi-staged: sung in Italian) Sonya Yoncheva (Fortune), Simona Mihai (Virtue), Amy Freston (Cupid), Iestyn Davies (Otho), Alice Coote (Nero), Danielle de Niese (Poppaea), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Arnalta), Tamara Mumford (Octavia), Marie Arnet (Drusilla), Paolo Battaglia (Seneca), Trevor Scheunemann (Mercury/Consul), Patrick Schramm (Lictor/Consul/Friend), Dominique Visse (Nurse/Friend), Claire Ormshaw (Lady-in-Waiting), Lucia Cirillo (Page), Andrew Tortise (Lucan/Tribune/ Friend), Peter Gijsbertsen (Liberto/ Tribune), Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Emmanuelle Haïm

AUGUST

Prom 19: Friday 1 August, 8:00pm

Kenneth Hesketh Graven Image (world premiere: BBC/RLPO co-commission)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 in G
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances Paul Lewis (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko

Prom 20: Saturday 2 August, 6:00pm

Stockhausen Gruppen; Cosmic Pulses (for electronics) (UK premiere); Harmonies, for solo trumpet (amplified) (BBC commission: world premiere); Kontakte; Gruppen (repeat) Marco Blaauw (trumpet), Nicolas Hodges (piano), Colin Currie (percussion), BBCSO/David Robertson, Pascal Rophé and Ludovic Morlot

Prom 21: Saturday 2 August, 10:15pm

Stockhausen Stimmung Theatre of Voices, director Paul Hillier

Prom 22: Sunday 3 August, 4:00pm

Jeanne Demessieux Te Deum
Messiaen Verset pour la Fête de la Dédicace
Marcel Dupre Symphony for Organ No 2, Op 26
Naji Hakim Pange Lingua
Messiaen Prélude for organ. Plus improvisation Wayne Marshall (organ)

Prom 23: Sunday 3 August, 7:30pm

Beethoven Symphony No 1 in C
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde Karen Cargill (mezzo), Johan Botha (tenor), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Donald Runnicles

Prom 24: Monday 4 August, 7:30pm

Bach, orch Henry Wood Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565
Smyth Concerto for violin, horn and orchestra
Rachmaninov, orch Henry Wood Prelude in C sharp minor
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 in E minor Richard Watkins (horn), Tasmin Little (violin), BBC Scottish SO/Stefan Solyom

Prom 25: Tuesday 5 August, 7:00pm

Wagenaar Overture: Cyrano de Bergerac
Dvorak Symphony No 6 in D
Brahms Violin Concerto in D Julia Fischer (violin), Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra/Yakov Kreizberg

Prom 26: Tuesday 5 August, 10:15pm

Poulenc Chansons Françaises, Op 130 (selection)
John McCabe Scenes in America deserta. French Renaissance madrigals. Victorian part-songs. English folk songs. The King's Singers

Prom 27: Wednesday 6 August, 7:30pm

Messiaen L'Ascension (for orchestra)
Stravinsky Violin Concerto
George Benjamin Ringed by the Flat Horizon
Ravel Pavane pour une Infante Défunte; Boléro Carolin Widmann (violin), BBCSO/George Benjamin

Prom 28: Thursday 7 August, 7:30pm

Ferguson Overture for an Occasion
Stanford Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor
Smetana Vltava (Ma Vlast)
Dvorak Symphony No 8 in G Finghin Collins (piano), Ulster Orchestra/Kenneth Montgomery

Prom 29: Friday 8 August, 7:00pm

Chen Yi Olympic Fire (BBC commission: world premiere)
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Vaughn Williams Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus; Symphony No 6 Olga Kern (piano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Leonard Slatkin

Prom 30: Friday 8 August, 10:00pm

Michael Torke Javelin
John Adams The Chairman Dances
Bernstein Mass (Three Meditations)
Ellington Harlem Han-Na Chang (cello), BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Kristjan Jarvi

Prom 31: Saturday 9 August, 7:00pm

Gershwin Strike Up the Band
Gershwin, arr Jason Yarde My Man's Gone Now (Porgy and Bess) (BBC commission: world premiere)
Jason Yarde Rhythm and Other Fascinations (BBC commission: world premiere)
Stravinsky Ebony Concerto
Bernstein Preludes, Fugues and Riffs
Gwilym Simcock Progressions for piano and orchestra (BBC commission: world premiere)
Gershwin An American in Paris Gwilym Simcock (piano), Phil Donkin (bass), Martin France (drums), Michael Collins (clarinet), Jason Yarde (saxophone), BBC Concert Orchestra/Charles Hazlewood

Prom 32: Sunday 10 August, 4:00pm

Messiaen Messe de la Pentecöte for solo organ
Manchicourt Missa (Veni Sancte Spiritus) James O'Donnell (organ), BBC Singers/Andrew Carwood

Prom 33: Sunday 10 August, 7:30pm

Sibelius Night Ride and Sunrise
Michael Berkeley Slow Dawn (new version: world premiere)
Stuart Macrae Gaudete (BBC commission: world premiere)
Elgar Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma) Susanna Andersson (soprano), BBCSO/Edward Gardner

Prom 34: Monday 11 August, 7:30pm

Rachmaninov Symphony No 1 in D minor
Puccini Il Tabarro (concert performance: sung in Italian) Barbara Frittoli (Giorgetta), Miro Dvorsky (Luigi), Lado Ataneli (Michele), Jane Henschel (La Frugola), Barry Banks (Il Tinca), Alastair Miles (Il Talpa), Allan Clayton (Ballad seller), Katherine Broderick, Edgaras Montvidas (Young lovers), BBC Singers, BBC Philharmonic/Gianandrea Noseda

Prom 35: Tuesday 12 August, 7:00pm

Elgar Overture: In the South (Alassio)
Vaughn Williams Piano Concerto
Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade Ashley Wass (piano), BBC Philharmonic/Vassily Sinaisky

Prom 36: Tuesday 12 August, 10:15pm

Rachmaninov All-Night Vigil (Vespers) Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Paul Hillier

Prom 37: Wednesday 13 August, 7:30pm

Ravel La Valse
Anders Hillborg Clarinet Concerto (Peacock Tales) (UK premiere)
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Martin Fröst (clarinet), Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Gustavo Dudamel

Prom 38: Thursday 14 August, 7:00pm

Haydn Sinfonia concertante in B flat for oboe, bassoon, violin and cello
Schonenberg Variations for Orchestra, Op 31
Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim

Prom 39: Thursday 14 August, 10:15pm

Pierre Boulez Mémoriale ("…Explosante-fixe…" Originel)
Stravinsky L'Histoire du Soldat Patrice Chéreau (narrator), Members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim

Prom 40: Friday 15 August, 7:30pm

Janacek Sinfonietta; Capriccio; Glagolitic Mass (original version, reconstr Paul Wingfield) Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet (soprano), Anna Stéphany (mezzo), Simon O'Neill (tenor), Peter Fried (bass), Simon Preston (organ), BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus/Pierre Boulez

Prom 41: Saturday 16 August, 6:30pm

Handel Belshazzar Paul Groves (Belshazzar), Rosemary Joshua (Nitocris), Bejun Mehta (Cyrus), Iestyn Davies (Daniel), Robert Gleadow (Gobrias), Choir of the Enlightenment, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Charles Mackerras

Prom 42: Sunday 17 August, 4:00pm

Messiaen Apparition de l'Eglise Eternelle; La Nativité du Seigneur Jennifer Bate (organ)

Prom 43: Sunday 17 August, 7:30pm

Mozart Symphony No 34 in C, K338
Vaughn Williams Flos Campi
Nigel Osborne Flute Concerto
Beethoven Mass in C
Sharon Bezaly (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Rebecca Evans (soprano), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo), Thomas Walker (tenor), Matthew Rose (bass), BBC Singers, City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox

Prom 44: Monday 18 August, 7:30pm

Elliott Carter Soundings (UK premiere)
Prokofiev
Symphony-Concerto
Beethoven Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral) Nicolas Hodges (piano), Alban Gerhardt (cello), BBC Scottish SO/Ilan Volkov

Prom 45: Tuesday 19 August, 7:00pm

Jonathan Harvey Tombeau de Messiaen
Messiaen Concert à Quatre
Harvey Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco; Speakings (BBC co-commission: world premiere)
Varese Poème Electronique; Déserts Cédric Tiberghien (piano), Emily Beynon (flute), Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe), Danjulo Ishizaka (cello), BBC Scottish SO/Ilan Volkov

Prom 46: Wednesday 20 August, 7:00pm

Tchaikovsky The Sleeping Beauty London Symphony Orchestra/Valery Gergiev

Prom 47: Thursday 21 August, 7:30pm

Dvorak Slavonic Dances, Op 46
Janacek Osud (concert performance, sung in Czech) Stefan Margita (Zivny), Amanda Roocroft (Mila), Rosalind Plowright (Mila's mother), Ales Briscein (Dr Suda/Hrazda), Ales Jenis (Lhotsky/ Verva), Ailish Tynan (Miss Stuhla), Martina Bauerova (Miss Pacovska/ Souckova), George Longworth (Doubek as child), BBC Singers, BBCSO/Jiri Belohlavek

Prom 48: Friday 22 August, 7:00pm

Mahler Symphony No 5
Stockhausen Punkte (1952/1962/ 1993)
Schubert, orch David Matthews Ständchen, D920b
Schubert, orch Manfred Trojahn, Bei Dir allein, D866/2
Schubert, orch Colin Matthews, Nacht und Traüme, D827
Schubert, orch Detlev Glanert Das Lied im Grünen, D917 (BBC commissions: world premieres)
Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 3 Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo), Apollo Voices, Gürzenich Orchestra/Markus Stenz

Prom 49: Saturday 23 August, 6:30pm (shown at 7:30pm on BBC2)

Varese Amériques
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor
Copland Symphony No 3 Boris Berezovsky (piano), National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain/Antonio Pappano

Prom 50: Sunday 24 August, 4:00pm

Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565; Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel Hoch, BWV769; Prelude and Fugue in E flat major: St Anne, BWV552; Vater unser im Himmelreich, BWV682; Aus tiefer Not, BWV687; Duetto II in F, BWV803 Simon Preston (organ)

Prom 51: Sunday 24 August, 7:00pm (shown at 7:30pm on BBC4)

Bach St John Passion (in German) Mark Padmore (Evangelist), Peter Harvey (Christus), Katharine Fuge (soprano), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Jeremy Budd (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner

Prom 52: Sunday 24 August, 10:00pm

Bach Cello Suites: No 1 in G, BWV1007; No 2 in D minor BWV1008; No 3 in C, BWV1009 Jian Wang (cello)

Prom 53: Monday 25 August, 7:00pm (shown at 7:30pm on BBC4)

Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor RPO/Daniele Gatti

Prom 54: Tuesday 26 August, 7:30pm (recorded for showing on BBC2)

Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Job: a Masque for Dancing; Serenade to Music; Symphony No 9 Sarah Tynan, Elizabeth Atherton, Sophie Bevan, Rachel Nicholls (sopranos), Allison Cook, Louise Poole, Julia Riley, Catherine Hopper (mezzos), Ed Lyon, Joshua Ellicot, Peter Wedd, Nicholas Sharratt (tenors), Mark Stone, Darren Jeffrey, George von Bergen, Tim Mirfin (basses), BBCSO/Andrew Davis

Prom 55: Wednesday 27 August, 7:00pm

Debussy Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Peter Eotovos Seven (UK premiere)
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Ravel Shéhérazade; Suite No 2: Daphnis et Chloé Akiko Suwanai (violin), Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Philharmonia Orchestra/Peter Eotvos

Prom 56: Wednesday 27 August, 10:00pm

Einojuhani Rautavaara Cantus Arcticus (concerto for birds and orchestra - with taped birdsong)
John Tavener Cantus Mysticus (UK premiere); The Whale Patricia Rozario (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), Mark van de Wiel (clarinet), London Sinfonietta and Chorus/David Atherton

Prom 57: Thursday 28 August, 7:30pm

Steven Stucky Rhapsodies (BBC/NYPO co-commission: world premiere)
Gershwin Piano Concerto in F
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), New York Philharmonic Orchestra/Lorin Maazel

Prom 58: Friday 29 August, 7:30pm

Ravel Suite: Mother Goose
Bartok Suite: The Miraculous Mandarin
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4 in F minor New York Philharmonic Orchestra/Lorin Maazel

Prom 59: Saturday 30 August, 7:30pm

Magnus Lindberg Seht die Sonne (UK premiere)
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor
Sibelius Symphony No 1 Nikolai Lugansky (piano), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/Jukka-Pekka Saraste

AUGUST

Prom 60: Sunday 31 August, 4:00pm (shown at 7:00pm on BBC4)

Mozart Piano Sonata No 13 in B flat, K333
Rachmaninov Preludes (selection)
Debussy Preludes (selection)
Schubert Fantasia in F minor, D940*
Chopin Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op 22; Waltzes (selection)
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 (transcr Horowitz), S244 Lang Lang (piano; with *Marc Yu, piano)

Prom 61: Sunday 31 August, 8:00pm

Verdi Requiem Violeta Urmana (soprano), Olga Borodina (mezzo), Joseph Calleja (tenor), Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (bass), BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, Crouch End Festival Chorus/Jiri Belohlavek

Prom 62: Monday 1 September, 7:00pm (shown at 7:30pm on BBC4. Violin Concerto also recorded for showing on BBC2)

Beethoven Violin Concerto in D
Sibelius Symphony No 2 Nikolaj Znaider (violin), Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra/Colin Davis

Prom 63: Monday 1 September, 10:00pm

Motets and chansons by French Renaissance composers interspersed with Indian ragas
Messiaen Cinq Rechants. Trad Indian night ragas Nishat Khan (sitar), Rashid Mustafa Thirakwa (tabla), Emmanuel Masongsong (tanpura), BBC Singers/David Hill

Prom 64: Tuesday 2 September, 7:30pm

Wagner Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
Messiaen Turangalila Symphony Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Tristan Murail (ondes martenot), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Simon Rattle

Prom 65: Wednesday 3 September, 7:30pm (recorded for showing on BBC4)

Brahms Symphony No 3 in F
Shostakovich Symphony No 10 Berlin PO/Simon Rattle

Prom 66: Thursday 4 September, 7:00pm

Grace Williams Sea Sketches
Elgar Sea Pictures
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathétique) Christine Rice (mezzo), BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Tadaaki Otaka

Prom 67: Thursday 4 September, 10:00pm

Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time Martin Fröst (clarinet), Andrew Marwood (violin), Matthew Barley (cello), Thomas Larcher (piano)

Prom 68: Friday 5 September, 7:30pm

Rimsky-Korsakov Kashchey the Immortal (concert performance; sung in Russian)
Stravinsky The Firebird (complete) Vyacheslav Voynarovsky (Kashchey), Tatiana Monogarova (Princess), Pavel Baransky (Ivan Korolevich), Elena Manistina (Kascheyevna), Mikhail Petrenko (Storm Knight), BBC Singers, LPO/Vladimir Jurowski

Prom 69: Saturday 6 September, 7:30pm

Rousell Bacchus and Ariane: Suite No 2
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor
Thea Musgrave Rainbow
Debussy La Mer Stephen Hough (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Stéphane Denève

Prom 70: Sunday 7 September, 4:00pm

Messiaen Saint Francis of Assisi (concert performance: sung in French) Rod Gilfrey (Saint Francis), Heidi Grant Murphy (Angel), Hubert Delamboye (Leper), Henk Neven (Br Leo), Charles Workman (Br Masseo), Donald Kaasch (Br Elias), Armand Arapian (Br Bernard), Jan Willem Baljet (Br Sylvester), André Morsch (Br Rufus), Netherlands Opera and Chorus, Hague Philharmonic Orchestra/Ingo Metzmacher

Prom 71: Monday 8 September, 7:30pm (shown on BBC4)

Mark-Anthonu Turnage Chicago Remains (European premiere)
Mahler Symphony No 6 Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Bernard Haitink

Prom 72: Tuesday 9 September, 7:30pm

Mozart Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K491
Shostakovich Symphony No 4 Murray Perahia (piano), Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Bernard Haitink

Prom 73: Wednesday 10 September, 6:30pm

Vaughan Williams Sinfonia Antartica (Symphony No 7)
Xenakis Pleiades
Holst Suite: The Planets Elizabeth Watts (soprano), 4-Mality, O Duo, Holst Singers, BBCSO/Martyn Brabbins
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