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BBC Proms: 2014

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75 episodes · first aired Jul 18, 2014

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  1. 1 First Night of the Proms Jul 18, 2014 The greatest classical music festival in the world gets underway from the Royal Albert Hall. Katie Derham introduces a performance of Elgar's sublime biblical oratorio, The Kingdom, a…
  2. 2 Friday Night at the Proms: Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony Jul 25, 2014 Following the excitement of the First Night, presenters Petroc Trelawny and world-renowned soprano Danielle de Niese kick off the regular Friday night slot with Beethoven's much-loved 6th…
  3. 3 The Sunday Prom: China Philharmonic Orchestra Jul 27, 2014 History in the making at the opening concert in a series of Sunday nights at the BBC Proms with the first ever visit from the China Philharmonic Orchestra. Founded in 2000, the orchestra…
  4. 4 BBC Proms Masterworks: Bach's St John Passion Jul 31, 2014 · 1h 50m Tom Service presents as Russian maestro Valery Gergiev brings the World Orchestra for Peace to the Proms for a performance of Mahler's all-encompassing Sixth Symphony. In celebration of…
  5. 5 Friday Night at the Proms: Mozart's A Major Piano Concerto Aug 1, 2014 Samira Ahmed and pianist Nicholas McCarthy present a concert of contrasts, with Mozart's intimate and elegant Piano Concerto no 23 paired with Ravel's sumptuously orchestrated ballet…
  6. 6 The Sunday Prom: Richard Strauss Celebration Aug 3, 2014 From the Royal Albert Hall, Katie Derham presents a 150th anniversary celebration of the birth of Richard Strauss. The acclaimed Danish soprano Inger Dam-Jensen sings the composer's…
  7. 7 BBC Proms Masterworks: Mozart and Beethoven Aug 7, 2014 Tom Service invites us to listen to well-known, definitive masterworks from two of the greatest composers of all time with a fresh ear. Donald Runnicles takes on Beethoven's Fourth…
  8. 8 Friday Night at the Proms: Ravel's Left Hand Piano Concerto Aug 8, 2014 In his proms concerto debut, French pianist Alexandre Tharaud performs one of Ravel's last great works, the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Conductor Juanjo Mena also leads the BBC…
  9. 9 The Sunday Prom: John Tavener Premiere Aug 10, 2014 Sir John Tavener, who died in 2013, was one of the country's defining musical voices. His sacred choral music, inspired by his deep Orthodox faith, touches the hearts of millions and has…
  10. 10 BBC Proms Masterworks: Strauss and Mahler Aug 14, 2014 Tom Service presents as Russian maestro Valery Gergiev brings the World Orchestra for Peace to the Proms for a performance of Mahler's all-encompassing Sixth Symphony. In celebration of…
  11. 11 Friday Night at the Proms: Beethoven's Eroica Symphony Aug 15, 2014 The work that changed the course of music forever, Beethoven's epic Eroica Symphony is the culmination of this concert from Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé. Berlioz's swashbuckling overture…
  12. 12 Proms on Four: Battle of the Bands Aug 17, 2014 · 1h 56m Jazz singer and broadcaster Clare Teal transports us back to the heady days of the swing band era of the 1930s and 1940s in a recreation of the bands of Count Basie and Duke Ellington…
  13. 14 BBC Proms Masterworks: Walton and Sibelius Aug 21, 2014 Tom Service reaches the 20th century on his route through Masterworks at the Proms, by way of Jean Sibelius and William Walton. Canadian violinist James Ehnes performs Walton's striking…
  14. 15 Friday Night at the Proms: In Memoriam WWI Aug 22, 2014 Razia Iqbal and Petroc Trelawny present a special concert drawing together four composers whose lives and music were impacted by WW1. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by…
  15. 16 The Sunday Prom: Elgar's Cello Concerto Aug 24, 2014 · 2h 9m English weekend at the Proms continues with Elgar's autumnal, sepia-toned Cello Concerto, written after the horrors of the First World War. Norwegian virtuoso cellist Truls Mørk joins the…
  16. 17 CBeebies Prom Aug 25, 2014 Join CBeebies at the Royal Albert Hall for the first ever CBeebies Prom. The BBC Philharmonic, with some of your CBeebies favourites, take you on a musical journey to discover lots of…
  17. 18 BBC Proms Masterworks: Stravinsky and Lutoslawski Aug 28, 2014 · 1h 49m Tom Service presents as the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain return for their annual Proms performance. Ed Gardner conducts an energetic programme of 20th-century music featuring…
  18. 19 Barenboim Conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at the Proms Aug 29, 2014 · 2h 4m A Proms visit from Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is always an exciting event. The international ensemble's home is Seville and the programme has a strong Spanish flavour…
  19. 20 The Sunday Prom: Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra Aug 31, 2014 The Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra make their debut at the festival. Music inspired by the east colours the programme, with the sounds and scents of bazaars and seraglios, as well…
  20. 21 BBC Proms Masterworks: Mahler and Adams Sep 4, 2014 Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Tom Service presents music from multi-award-winning American composer John Adams, alongside Mahler's imaginatively ambitious 1st Symphony. Saxophonist…
  21. 22 Friday Night at the Proms: Monteverdi Choir Birthday Prom - Beethoven Sep 5, 2014 Samira Ahmed presents a concert celebrating 50 years of the world-famous Monteverdi Choir, founded by conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner. This Prom of Beethoven's mighty Missa Solemnis also…
  22. 23 Late Night Live with Paloma Faith and Guy Barker Sep 5, 2014 The Royal Albert Hall shimmers with flamboyance as Paloma Faith takes to the stage in her debut Proms performance. The multi-platinum London-born singer-songwriter is reunited with…
  23. 24 The Sunday Prom: The Cleveland Orchestra Sep 7, 2014 Katie Derham is live at the world's biggest classical music festival as the legendary Cleveland Orchestra perform at the BBC Proms. This is a rare chance to hear one of America's best…
  24. 25 BBC Proms Masterworks: Maxwell Davies and Birtwistle Aug 11, 2014 A celebration of the 80th birthdays of two of the country's greatest living composers, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sir Harrison Birtwistle, whose works changed forever the landscape of…
  25. 26 Friday Night at the Proms: Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto Sep 12, 2014 Daniel Hope and Danielle De Niese present a pair of great Romantic blockbusters - Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, featuring soloist Denis Matsuev. The…
  26. 27 Last Night of the Proms - Part 1 Sep 13, 2014 Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Katie Derham introduces the final concert of the 2014 Proms season. The programme includes William Walton's Popular Song from Façade and Malcolm Arnold's…
  27. 28 Last Night of the Proms - Part 2 Sep 13, 2014 Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Katie Derham introduces the grand finale to the 2014 Proms. Violinist Janine Jansen and baritone Roderick Williams join the combined forces of the BBC…
  28. 29 Kiss Me, Kate at the Proms Dec 25, 2014 John Wilson and his orchestra are joined by a spectacular ensemble of singers and dancers from Broadway and the West End for a unique performance of the classic musical Kiss Me, Kate. Hits…
  29. 30 War Horse at the Proms Aug 17, 2014 A major new musical adaptation of the international hit War Horse, created by the National Theatre for the BBC Proms. Simon Russell Beale presents the unique production at the Royal Albert…
  30. 31 Prom 31: Beethoven's Eroica Symphony Aug 15, 2014 · 1h 36m The work that changed the course of music forever, Beethoven's epic Eroica Symphony is the culmination of this concert from Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé. Berlioz's swashbuckling overture…
  31. 32 Prom 32: Beethoven, Bruch & Walton Three masterworks from three different centuries: Beethoven’s First Symphony is all 18th- century poise and wit, Bruch’s First Violin Concerto swoons with 19th-century romance, and…
  32. 33 Prom 33: BBC Proms Masterworks: Stravinsky and Lutoslawski Aug 28, 2014 · 1h 39m Tom Service presents as the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain return for their annual Proms performance. Ed Gardner conducts an energetic programme of 20th-century music featuring…
  33. 34 Prom 34: R. Strauss, Mozart & Nielsen In the first of two concerts with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Principal Conductor Thomas Søndergård directs the first of two great Scandinavian symphonies. Nielsen’s Fifth…
  34. 35 Prom 35: BBC Proms Masterworks: Walton and Sibelius Aug 21, 2014 · 1h 39m Tom Service reaches the 20th century on his route through Masterworks at the Proms, by way of Jean Sibelius and William Walton. Canadian violinist James Ehnes performs Walton's striking…
  35. 36 Prom 36: Vaughan Williams & Alwyn The dreamy pastoralism of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending contrasts with the jaunty vigour of the composer’s overture The Wasps in this all-English Prom. Job continues this season’s…
  36. 37 Prom 37: Steve Reich Surrender to the pulsing rhythms and repetitions of Minimalism’s founding father, Steve Reich, performed by the BBC Singers and contemporary specialists the Endymion Ensemble. Relive the…
  37. 38 Prom 38: Sibelius, Bridge & Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Sibelius’s slowly shifting structures and emotive musical language, showcased here in his Second Symphony, are echoed and evolved in Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s Fifth Symphony. John…
  38. 39 Prom 39: R. Strauss, Rameau, Mozart and Bernard Rands Rameau’s opera Les Indes galantes and Strauss’s tone-poem Ein Heldenleben were notorious flops at their premieres, yet both are now recognised as peaks of their genre. The BBC Scottish…
  39. 40 Prom 40: Bernard Haitink and the London Symphony Orchestra Coloured by sleigh-bells and charming melodies, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony is the centrepiece of this Prom by Bernard Haitink and the London Symphony Orchestra. They pair Mahler’s mighty…
  40. 41 Prom 41: Aurora Orchestra The Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon contrast Mozart’s graceful Symphony with two much newer pieces: Dobrinka Tabakova’s hurdy-gurdy-inflected Spinning a Yarn and Benedict Mason’s…
  41. 42 Prom 42: In Memoriam WWI Aug 22, 2014 · 1h 41m Razia Iqbal and Petroc Trelawny present a special concert drawing together four composers whose lives and music were impacted by WW1. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by…
  42. 43 Prom 43: Rachmaninov, Stravinsky & Tchaikovsky An all-Russian programme from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Edward Gardner opens with the buzzing energy of Stravinsky’s Scherzo fantastique and end in the cannon-fire of Tchaikovsky’s…
  43. 44 Prom 44: Elgar's Cello Concerto Aug 24, 2014 English weekend at the Proms continues with Elgar's autumnal, sepia-toned Cello Concerto, written after the horrors of the First World War. Norwegian virtuoso cellist Truls Mørk joins the…
  44. 45 Prom 45: Late Night with… Laura Mvula Brit Award- and Mercury-nominated singer-songwriter Laura Mvula returns to the BBC Proms for an intimate Late Night Prom – a cabaret-style evening of music that couches Mvula’s talents in…
  45. 46 Prom 46: Barenboim Conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at the Proms Aug 29, 2014 · 1h 25m A Proms visit from Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is always an exciting event. The international ensemble's home is Seville and the programme has a strong Spanish flavour…
  46. 47 Prom 47: Britten – War Requiem Wilfred Owen’s shattering verse sits at the heart of Britten’s War Requiem – that great pacifist outpouring of horror and sorrow. Performed here in this First World War centenary year by…
  47. 48 Prom 48: Classical Tectonics The Iceland Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut with works by two homegrown composers, both inspired by Iceland’s geology. The slow-growing, primal force of Leifs’s Geysir is balanced…
  48. 49 Prom 49: Russian Fairy Tales Ice-maidens, pirates and princesses form the cast of this fairy-tale concert. The BBC Symphony Orchestra is joined by soprano Anu Komsi to perform Szymanowski’s atmospheric Songs of a…
  49. 50 Prom 50: Dvořák, Beethoven & Janáček Cellist Alisa Weilerstein returns to the Proms with one of the great Romantic concertos – Dvořák’s Cello Concerto. Jiří Bělohlávek leads the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Beethoven’s…
  50. 51 Prom 51: Free Prom – Dvořák, Grieg, Bax & Bill Whelan This year’s Free Prom is a Bank Holiday matinee from the Ulster Orchestra, bursting with dance rhythms and colour. A selection of Dvořák’s rustic Slavonic Dances opens the concert, and…
  51. 52 Prom 52: Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra The Bank Holiday weekend celebrations continue with Proms favourites the Budapest Festival Orchestra and a programme of orchestral showpieces from the Habsburg Empire. Viennese-style…
  52. 53 Prom 53: Brahms Night The second of two concerts from Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra reinstates the Proms tradition of composer nights with an evening dedicated to the music of Brahms. His…
  53. 54 Prom 54: Monteverdi Choir Birthday Prom - Beethoven Sep 5, 2014 · 1h 39m Samira Ahmed presents a concert celebrating 50 years of the world-famous Monteverdi Choir, founded by conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner. This Prom of Beethoven's mighty Missa Solemnis also…
  54. 55 Prom 55: Tchaikovsky, Debussy & Unsuk Chin Myung-Whun Chung directs the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, making its Proms debut this year. Unsuk Chin’s sheng concerto evokes the sounds of South Korea and is an extended sonic game…
  55. 56 Prom 56: Holst – The Planets Masterpieces from Schoenberg, Holst and Scriabin offer three very different portraits of 20th-century music in this concert by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski. Big…
  56. 57 Prom 57: Mahler – Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’ In a symphony that took over six years to complete, Mahler wrestles with the essential questions of humanity. Birth, death and the fragile stages between are the subject of this grand…
  57. 58 Prom 58: Strauss – Salome In Richard Strauss’s 150th-anniversary year the Proms presents a double bill of his two great tragedies. On consecutive nights his heroines Salome and Elektra meet their bloody ends in the…
  58. 59 Prom 59: Strauss – Elektra Elektra – Strauss’s brutal and ferociously powerful retelling of the Greek revenge myth – continues this weekend’s opera double bill. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Semyon Bychkov are…
  59. 60 Prom 60: Roman Holiday Plunge into a joyous carnival maelstrom with Berlioz’s giddy Roman Carnival overture. The Italian theme continues with Respighi’s Roman trilogy – a vivid picture of life in the Eternal…
  60. 61 Prom 61: Rachmaninov, Glinka & Zhou Long The Singapore Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut, bringing Pulitzer Prize-winning Chinese composer Zhou Long’s piano concerto Postures – a work fusing Western forms and Eastern…
  61. 62 Prom 62: Beethoven, Berlioz & Dvořák Symphonies from Beethoven and Dvořák bookend an emotive programme from Sir Roger Norrington and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. At its core is the wistful 'Romeo Alone’ section of…
  62. 63 Prom 63: BBC Proms Masterworks: Mahler and Adams Sep 4, 2014 · 2h 9m Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Tom Service presents music from multi-award-winning American composer John Adams, alongside Mahler's imaginatively ambitious 1st Symphony. Saxophonist…
  63. 64 Prom 64: Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker Last at the Proms in 2012, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker return for an all-Russian programme inspired by dance. Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances embraces jazz, plainchant…
  64. 65 Prom 65: Late Night Live with Paloma Faith and Guy Barker Sep 5, 2014 · 1h 18m The Royal Albert Hall shimmers with flamboyance as Paloma Faith takes to the stage in her debut Proms performance. The multi-platinum London-born singer-songwriter is reunited with…
  65. 66 Prom 66: Bach – St Matthew Passion Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker present Peter Sellars’s staging of Bach’s St Matthew Passion for the first time in the UK. It’s a work that confronts suffering and torture…
  66. 67 Prom 67: Friday Night at the Proms: Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto Sep 12, 2014 · 1h 41m Daniel Hope and Danielle De Niese present a pair of great Romantic blockbusters - Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, featuring soloist Denis Matsuev. The…
  67. 68 Prom 68: The Sunday Prom: The Cleveland Orchestra Sep 7, 2014 · 1h 57m Katie Derham is live at the world's biggest classical music festival as the legendary Cleveland Orchestra perform at the BBC Proms. This is a rare chance to hear one of America's best…
  68. 69 Prom 69: Cleveland Orchestra Completing this year’s cycle of Brahms symphonies, the Cleveland Orchestra returns with the composer’s Symphony No. 2 – an open-hearted score of great warmth and appeal. By contrast…
  69. 70 Prom 70: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Birthday Concert On Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s 80th birthday, the Proms pays tribute in a concert of works selected by the composer himself. The concert overture Ebb of Winter captures the rugged beauty of…
  70. 71 Prom 71: Americana It’s American Night at the Proms. We travel through history, from traditional folk songs and dances in Copland’s Appalachian Spring, through the contemplative Quiet City to Chris Brubeck’s…
  71. 72 Prom 72: English Music An evening of 20th-century English music that looks beyond pastoral stereotypes. The nostalgic idyll of Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’ is soon abandoned for the brutality of…
  72. 73 Prom 73: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Mahler’s epic, unorthodox Third Symphony unfolds over six movements, painting a musical portrait with choir and orchestra of nature’s very essence. American conductor Alan Gilbert returns…
  73. 74 Prom 74: Late Night with… Rufus Wainwright Joined by the instrumentalists of the Britten Sinfonia, Canadian-American, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright performs a spectacular set, taking over the Royal Albert Hall…
  74. 75 Prom 75: Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 A highlight of every Proms season, this year Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 returns to its traditional slot on the penultimate night. Alan Gilbert and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra are…
  75. 76 Proms 76: Last Night of the Proms Sakari Oramo directs his first Last Night of the Proms, joined by powerhouse Dutch violinist Janine Jansen. Richard Strauss' anniversary is marked with the first Proms performance of the…