BBC Proms Season 2013

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2013x01 First Night of the Proms aired Jul 12, 2013

The 119th Proms season opens with a choir of 450 and two great portraits of the sea: Sakari Oramo conducts Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony and Britten’s Fo... read more

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2013x02 Doctor Who at the Proms aired Jul 13, 2013

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the iconic and much-loved BBC series, this special event at the Royal Albert Hall features Murray Gold's popular music fo... read more

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2013x04 Les Siècles – The Rite of Spring aired Jul 14, 2013

François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles trace the history of French dance music – on period instruments – from the Court of the Sun King at Versailles to the ri... read more

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2013x05 Bamberg Symphony Orchestra aired Jul 15, 2013

Jonathan Nott conducts the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, whose Adagietto is a tender tribute to his wife, Alma. The Arditti Quartet ... read more

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2013x06 David Matthews, Rachmaninov & Nielsen aired Jul 16, 2013

Inspired by daybreak on the Kent coast, David Matthews’s A Vision of the Sea opens the BBC Philharmonic’s Prom with Juanjo Mena. Nobuyuki Tsujii is the soloi... read more

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2013x08 Britten, Lutoslawski & Thomas Adès aired Jul 17, 2013

Thomas Adès conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Christianne Stotijn and Simon Keenlyside in the world premiere of his Totentanz, a work inspired by a mural ... read more

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2013x10 Mozart, Schumann & Rachmaninov aired Jul 19, 2013

Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome, in Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony and Mozart’s elegant ‘Haffner’ Symphony. J... read more

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2013x12 Viva Verdi! aired Jul 20, 2013

Sir Antonio Pappano, the Orchestra and Chorus of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome, and soprano Maria Agresta celebrate Verdi’s bicentenary with the Four Sa... read more

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2013x13 National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America aired Jul 21, 2013

The newly formed National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America makes its Proms debut under the baton of Valery Gergiev in Sean Shepherd’s Magiya a... read more

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2013x17 The Apotheosis of the Dance aired Jul 25, 2013

Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic present a programme of dance music spanning Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, John McCabe’s Joybox, Ravel’s Boléro and Falla... read more

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2013x19 Wagner – Tristan and Isolde aired Jul 27, 2013

Semyon Bychkov and the BBC Symphony Orchestra interrupt the Ring cycle to explore Wagner’s intoxicating tragedy Tristan and Isolde, a turning point in the hi... read more

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2013x21 Colin Matthews, Prokofiev & Shostakovich aired Jul 29, 2013

The UK premiere of Colin Matthews’s Turning Point opens the BBC National Orchestra of Wales’s first Prom with Thomas Søndergård. Daniel Hope plays Prokofiev’... read more

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2013x23 Mozart, Schumann & Sibelius aired Jul 30, 2013

The Mahler Chamber Orchestra returns to the BBC Proms with conductor Daniel Harding. Paul Lewis is the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25, its play of... read more

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2013x28 J. Strauss II, James MacMillan & Beethoven aired Aug 03, 2013

Vadim Repin plays James MacMillan’s Violin Concerto with Donald Runnicles and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Threaded with reels and old laments, MacMi... read more

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2013x33 Beethoven, Berlioz aired Aug 08, 2013

Mitsuko Uchida plays Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor, Mariss Jansons. The opium-fuelled i... read more

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2013x34 Vivaldi – The Four Seasons aired Aug 08, 2013

Hail, ice, thunder, rain … and the bark of a dog on a sunny afternoon. Iconoclastic violinist Nigel Kennedy plays Vivaldi’s endlessly fascinating set of conc... read more

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2013x36 Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts Bach airdate unknown

A late-night feast of sinfonias, arias and chorales as Sir John Eliot Gardiner, 70 this year, conducts the singers and players of the Monteverdi Choir and En... read more

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2013x37 Urban Classic Prom aired Aug 10, 2013

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1Xtra and BBC Radio 3, Jules Buckley leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a collision of Fazer, Henze, Laura Mvula, M... read more

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2013x38 Free Prom – Beethoven's Ninth Symphony aired Aug 11, 2013

Vasily Petrenko conducts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and young singers from across the British Isles in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Vaughan... read more

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2013x50 New Music At The Proms aired Aug 18, 2013

Brand new sounds from the Proms in Tom Service's modern music series. Tom is joined by Southbank classical music supremo Gillian Moore to discuss a selection... read more

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2013x51 Tippett, Britten & Elgar aired Aug 20, 2013

The Fanfare No. 5 from Tippett’s The Mask of Time opens tonight's survey of 20th-century greats with the London Symphony Orchestra and Ian Bostridge, from Ti... read more

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2013x53 Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Prokofiev aired Aug 22, 2013

Anna Caterina Antonacci sings Wagner’s Wesendonck-Lieder with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Rotterdam Philharmonic, a mini Tristan and Isolde. Tchaikovsky’s f... read more

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2013x54 Nigel Kennedy at the Proms aired Aug 23, 2013

At the Royal Albert Hall, Clemency Burton-Hill introduces violinist Nigel Kennedy, who returns to the Proms to give his distinctive version of Vivaldi's Four... read more

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2013x56 Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester aired Aug 24, 2013

The pan-European Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester returns to the BBC Proms with conductor Philippe Jordan and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet in a programme of Wagn... read more

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2013x59 Hollywood Rhapsody Prom aired Aug 26, 2013

At the Royal Albert Hall, Katie Derham introduces the ever-popular John Wilson and his orchestra in a celebration of the music of Hollywood. Bernard Herrmann... read more

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2013x65 Film Music Prom aired Aug 31, 2013

Keith Lockhart conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in Addinsell’s Warsaw Concerto and music by Walton (Battle of Britain), William Alwyn (The True Glory), Lei... read more

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2013x67 Arvo Pärt, Britten, Berlioz & Saint-Saëns aired Sep 01, 2013

Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten opens Paavo Järvi’s performance with the Orchestre de Paris. Janine Jansen is the soloist in Britten’s Violin... read more

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2013x72 Verdi & Tchaikovsky aired Sep 05, 2013

Xian Zhang directs the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi in Tchaikovsky’s symphonic drama Manfred and the overtures to La forza del destino and La... read more

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2013x75 Last Night of the Proms (Part 1) aired Sep 07, 2013

Marin Alsop becomes the first female conductor of the Last Night of the Proms. Joyce DiDonato and Nigel Kennedy join the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a concert ... read more

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2013x76 Last Night of the Proms (Part 2) aired Sep 07, 2013

Marin Alsop becomes the first female conductor of the Last Night of the Proms. Joyce DiDonato and Nigel Kennedy join the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a concert ... read more

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2013x77 Last Night From Around The UK aired Sep 20, 2013

Josie D'Arby and Zeb Soanes present highlights from the Last Night of the Proms celebrations around the UK, giving a flavour of the individual nations' uniqu... read more

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