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BBC Proms: 2006

31 episodes · first aired Jul 14, 2006

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  1. 1 First Night of the Proms Jul 14, 2006 · 3h Czech maestro Jiri Belohlavek lifts the baton for the first time in his new role as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in order to launch the eight-week long 112th season of the…
  2. 2 Proms on Four Jul 17, 2006 Bruch's Violin Concerto performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
  3. 3 BBC Proms 2006 Jul 19, 2006 The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are guests at a concert to celebrate the monarch's 80th birthday. Children's choirs, the Scots Guards and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform A Little…
  4. 4 BBC Proms 2006 Aug 5, 2006 One of today's greatest interpreters of Sibelius, Colin Davis conducts the composer's tone poem Pohjola's Daughter and his Seventh Symphony. The programme also includes Janacek's tribute…
  5. 5 Mozart at the Proms Aug 9, 2006 Alan Titchmarsh introduces the first of two Proms celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall. Tonight's concert focuses on Mozart the…
  6. 6 BBC Proms 2006 Aug 12, 2006 Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts the European Union Youth Orchestra as they perform Shostakovich's Symphony No 4 before Promenaders at London's Royal Albert Hall. There's also a rendition of…
  7. 7 Mozart at the Proms Aug 16, 2006 Nicola Benedetti introduces the second of two Proms celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall. The composer's orchestral music is the…
  8. 8 BBC Proms 2006 Aug 19, 2006 The Shostakovich centenary continues with Valery Gergiev conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre in the choral Symphony No 13 (Babi Yar), with bass soloist Sergei…
  9. 9 Proms on Four Preview Aug 20, 2006 Highlights of two concerts earlier in the season. Maxim Vengerov plays Mozart's fourth violin concerto with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, and Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the…
  10. 10 Proms on Four Aug 21, 2006 Colin Davis conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a programme featuring his twin passions, Berlioz and Elgar. Berlioz's Overture: Les Francs-Juges and Elgar's Symphony No 2 in E flat…
  11. 11 Proms on Four Aug 22, 2006 Conductor Philippe Jordan makes his Proms debut with the Mahler Youth Orchestra. Featuring Strauss's Don Juan, Chausson's Poeme de l'Amour et de la Mer, sung by Susan Graham, and…
  12. 12 Proms on Four Aug 23, 2006 The London Philharmonic Orchestra play the UK premiere of A Relic of Memory by Mark-Anthony Turnage. Vladimir Jurowski conducts Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 2 with Nikolai Lugansky , and…
  13. 13 Proms on Four Aug 24, 2006 The Minnesota Orchestra and conductor Osmo Vanska visit London to perform Mahler's much-loved Symphony No 5. Also featuring Barber's First Essay for Orchestra, and the UK premiere of Three…
  14. 14 Proms on Four Aug 25, 2006 Magnus Lindberg's Sculpture receives its UK premiere, conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Plus Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, played by Nikolaj…
  15. 15 BBC Proms 2006 Aug 26, 2006 The NDR Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor, Christoph von Dohnanyi, present two neoclassical masterworks: Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin; and the pithy Violin Concerto in F minor…
  16. 16 Proms on Four Aug 27, 2006 New. Mozart's Meistermusik, Symphony No 39 in E flat and Requiem in D minor. Plus poetry with Roger McGough.
  17. 17 Proms on Four Aug 28, 2006 The Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra play Mozart. Ivor Bolton conducts Symphonies No 34 and 38 (Prague). Lars Vogt performs Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, and Veronique Gens sings two arias…
  18. 18 Proms on Four Aug 29, 2006 Hans Werner Henze 's Five Messages for the Queen of Sheba receives its London premiere, followed by Shostakovich's Symphony No 7 (Leningrad). Kurt Masur conducts the Ochestre National de…
  19. 19 Proms on Four Aug 30, 2006 Charles Haziewood conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra. The programme is Ibert's Divertissement, Pauline Malefane singing Weill, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, the premiere of Dai Fujikura 's…
  20. 20 Proms on Four Sep 1, 2006 The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Simon Rattle join the Mozart celebrations with Symphony No 25 in G minor and Symphony No 4 in G minor. Plus three Debussy Preludes and the London…
  21. 21 BBC Proms 2006 Sep 2, 2006 Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic. Tonight's programme opens with Szymanowski's impressionistic Violin Concerto No 1 featuring the brilliant virtuoso Frank Peter Zimmermann as…
  22. 22 Proms on Four Sep 3, 2006 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Matthias Pintscher 's Hérodiade-Fragmente, based on verse by Mallarme. Christoph Eschenbach conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Chorus…
  23. 23 Proms on Four Sep 4, 2006 Two minor-key fifth symphonies by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, both concerning mankind's struggle with fate and the ineluctable triumph of light over darkness. The Philadelphia Orchestra is…
  24. 24 Proms on Four Sep 5, 2006 Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat, featuring Rostropovich protégée Han-Na Chang , and Rachmaninov's lyrical Symphony No 2 in E minor. Tadaaki Otaka conducts the BBC National…
  25. 25 Proms on Four Sep 6, 2006 Bernard Haitink conducts the combined voices of the BBC Symphony and London Symphony Choruses in a performance of Mahler's mighty Symphony No 2 (Resurrection) with the BBC Symphony…
  26. 26 Proms on Four Sep 8, 2006 Conductor Daniele Gatti conducts the Royal Philharmonic in a performance of the last of this season's eight Shostakovich symphonies in celebration of the Russian composer's centenary: the…
  27. 27 Proms on Four Sep 8, 2006 Rounding up the series of Mozart anniversary Proms, Charles Mackerras directs the Orchestra and Choir of the Age of Enlightenment in a performance of Symphony No 35 in D (Haffner), and a…
  28. 28 Last Night of the Proms Sep 9, 2006 Live at London's Royal Albert Hall, Alan Titchmarsh introduces the final concert in the Proms season. In Shostakovich's centenary year, a Russian theme is reflected as baritone Dmitri…
  29. 29 Last Night of the Proms on Four Sep 9, 2006 Soprano Lesley Garrett, violinist Nicola Benedetti, the Ulster Orchestra and the Ulster Youth Choir feature in a live concert from the grounds of Belfast City Hall.
  30. 30 Last Night of the Proms Sep 9, 2006 The pomp and circumstance continues at the Royal Albert Hall as the Proms season reaches its climax. All the traditional rousing, flag-waving tunes will be on offer as the BBC Symphony…
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