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A celebration of the 蜜芽传媒 Proms 2021

Get ready for The Proms with a mix of performers, composers, and pieces from the 2021 season.

Get ready for The Proms with a mix of performers, composers, and pieces from the 2021 season.

Featuring exciting artists making their 蜜芽传媒 Proms debut this year, including Icelandic pianist V铆kingur 脫lafsson, guitarist Sean Shibe, The Manchester Collective, John Wilson鈥檚 Sinfonia of London, and jazz saxophonist Nubya Garcia.

With an old Proms favourite from the 蜜芽传媒 Concert Orchestra, Bach's majestic St Matthew Passion which you can hear in full at the 蜜芽传媒 Proms 2021, and the incredible Kanneh-Masons who are performing in this year鈥檚 Family Prom.

Plus, Last Night of the Proms singer Stuart Skelton, and the Monteverdi Choir with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, who is celebrating his 60th year at the 蜜芽传媒 Proms.

And music from two composers with big anniversaries this summer: Igor Stravinsky, 50 years after his death, and Camille Saint-Sa毛ns, 100 years on.

30 minutes

Last on

Fri 25 Jun 2021 19:00
蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Henry Wood

    Jack's the lad [Sailors' hornpipe] (Fantasia on British Sea Songs)

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Philips.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in C minor BWV.847 (Well-tempered Clavier, Bk 1)

    Performer: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • DG.

  • Philip Glass

    String Quartet No 2 'Company' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Manchester Collective.
    • Bedroom Community.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Straussiana

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Korngold - Symphony in F sharp.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.

  • Edward Elgar

    Take me away, and in the lowest deep there let me be (The Dream of Gerontius)

    Singer: Stuart Skelton. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius & Sea Pictures.
    • Chandos.

  • Nubya Garcia

    Once (extract)

    Performer: Nubya Garcia. Performer: Daniel Casimir. Performer: Joe Armon鈥怞ones. Performer: Femi Koleoso.
    • We Out Here.
    • Brownswood Recordings.
    • 5.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness

    Music Arranger: Timothy Walker. Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • An Orkney Wedding.
    • LINN.
    • 8.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella (Overture)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Craft.
    • NAXOS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden (Matthauspassion BWV 244)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Choir: Trinity Boys Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists.
    • SDG.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Finale (Le carnaval des animaux)

    Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Braimah Kanneh-Mason. Performer: Ayla Sahin. Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Toby Hughes. Performer: Mark Simpson. Performer: Alasdair Malloy. Performer: Konya Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Decca 4851156.
    • Decca.

Broadcast

  • Fri 25 Jun 2021 19:00
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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