BBC Proms Season 2011

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2011x01 First Night of the Proms aired Jul 15, 2011

New British music, Brahms, Liszt and a lavish choral work blaze a trail for some of 2011's Proms musical strands. Benjamin Grosvenor made his Proms debut, an... read more

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2011x06 Weber, Brahms & Stravinsky aired Jul 19, 2011

In the first half of his second Prom Myung-Whun Chung pairs works by German Romantics from opposite ends of the 19th century, including the meltingly beautif... read more

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2011x09 Sibelius, Bartók and Janáček aired Jul 21, 2011

Thursday 21 July 7.30pm – c. 9.45pm Royal Albert Hall Piano music Sibelius Scènes historiques - Suite No. 2 (19 mins) Sibelius Symphony No. 7 in C ... read more

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2011x10 Debussy, Ravel & Falla aired Jul 22, 2011

Basque-born Juanjo Mena, recently named Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, makes his Proms debut with this dazzling Franco-Spanish evening. Debussy'... read more

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2011x11 Human Planet Prom aired Jul 23, 2011

Music composed by Nitin Sawhney for the Human Planet television series, and performances by artistst including Ayarkhaan (Sakha Republic), Bibilang Shark-Cal... read more

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2011x13 Verdi – Requiem aired Jul 24, 2011

The ultimate in dramatic intensity, this extraordinary work speaks of heaven and hell, fire and earth, darkness and light in music that is as much theatrical... read more

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2011x14 Mahler – Symphony No. 9 aired Jul 25, 2011

Sir Roger Norrington has chosen Mahler's last completed symphony for his final concerts as Principal Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, a p... read more

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2011x15 Kodály, Bartók & Liszt aired Jul 26, 2011

Vladimir Jurowski's Hungarian Prom kicks off with Kodály's effervescent Dances of Galánta. Bartók's more acerbically ebullient First Piano Concerto will g... read more

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2011x20 Horrible Histories – Free Family Prom aired Jul 30, 2011

Anyone who has split their sides laughing at CBBC's hit television series Horrible Histories now has the chance to see and hear the cast perform some of the ... read more

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2011x21 Strauss, Walton & Prokofiev aired Jul 30, 2011

Strauss at his most passionate (and lascivious!) bookends a concert full of spectacle and panache. At its heart is the patriotic cantata Prokofiev drew fr... read more

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2011x24 Elgar, Grainger & Strauss aired Aug 02, 2011

Tasmin Little and Sir Andrew Davis tackle a favourite concerto which the violinist has only recently felt ready to commit to disc. It is preceded by one o... read more

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2011x25 Grainger aired Aug 02, 2011

Grainger is celebrated in a special Late Night sequence as star Northumbrian smallpiper Kathryn Tickell and friends take a fresh look at the prodigious activ... read more

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2011x26 Debussy, Dutilleux & Ravel aired Aug 03, 2011

Returning to the Proms for the first time since 1988, cellist Lynn Harrell celebrates the 95th-birthday year of Henri Dutilleux with a performance of one of ... read more

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2011x29 Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra plays Mahler aired Aug 05, 2011

Now Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel - known by his own musicians as 'the Dude' - joins his old friends in the Simón Bolívar S... read more

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2011x30 National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain aired Aug 06, 2011

The music of Sergey Prokofiev looms large in this fascinating collaboration between Vladimir Jurowski and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. F... read more

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2011x31 Nigel Kennedy plays Bach aired Aug 06, 2011

When in 2008 Nigel Kennedy came back to the Proms after an absence of 21 years, his Late Night concert with his own quartet followed an early-evening perform... read more

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2011x38 Film Music Prom aired Aug 12, 2011

Assisted by guest star Chloë Hanslip, Keith Lockhart and the BBC Concert Orchestra bring the silver-screen excitement of music associated with the cinema, fr... read more

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2011x39 Spaghetti Western Orchestra aired Aug 12, 2011

The five inventive multitaskers of the Spaghetti Western Orchestra have their own way of presenting film music in concert. Fascinated by the scores of Enn... read more

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2011x40 Comedy Prom - Tim Minchin aired Aug 13, 2011

Musician, actor, comedian and rock 'n' roll superstar Tim Minchin hosts a Proms first - the Comedy Prom. Joined by guests including BBC Two Maestro winner... read more

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2011x47 Brahms – Symphony No. 3 & Piano Concerto No. 1 aired Aug 19, 2011

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe is celebrating its 30th anniversary with two years of Brahms under Bernard Haitink, and brings a pair of concertos and a pair... read more

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2011x48 Brahms & Schumann aired Aug 19, 2011

Angela Hewitt picks up the Brahms thread from the early evening Prom and launches this Late Night Prom that takes in an unjustly neglected score by Brahms's ... read more

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2011x49 Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 4 aired Aug 20, 2011

The Chamber Orchestra of Europe's second pairing of Brahms masterworks opens with a work long central to Emanuel Ax's repertoire which he has recorded with t... read more

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2011x59 Hooray for Hollywood aired Aug 29, 2011

A celebration of the Golden Age of Hollywood film musicals featuring Annalene Beechey, Charles Castronovo, Matthew Ford, Sarah Fox, Caroline O'Connor, Clare ... read more

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2011x67 Beethoven – Missa Solemnis aired Sep 04, 2011

Sir Colin Davis tackles a work whose uncompromising nature makes it as great a challenge as anything in the choral repertoire, whether you regard it as a sta... read more

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2011x72 Philadelphia Orchestra & Janine Jansen aired Sep 08, 2011

One of the world's great orchestras comes to the Proms with a programme of familiar classics that takes in Rachmaninov's bracing swansong, written for Philad... read more

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2011x74 Last Night of the Proms aired Sep 10, 2011

Tradition meets high jinks once again as Edward Gardner conducts his first Last Night of the Proms. For this grandest of grand finales there are two very spe... read more

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