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Monday - First Night of the BBC Proms 2023

Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Sibelius and Britten, Grieg's Piano Concerto with Paul Lewis, and a new piece by Ukrainian composer Bohdana Frolyak.

Presented by Fiona Talkington, including another chance to hear the First Night of the Proms, as Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Sibelius and Britten, Grieg's Piano Concerto with Paul Lewis, and a new piece by Ukrainian composer Bohdana Frolyak.

Also, throughout the week we'll hear from a concert of baroque arias with the soprano Dorothee Mields and period ensemble Concerto De’ Cavalieri, recorded at the recent Schwetzingen Festival in Germany.

Including:

Walton: Symphony no. 1 in B flat minor, 2nd movement
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner, conductor

Handel: Una schiera di piaceri, from 'Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46'
A Scarlatti: Siamo in contesa la bellezza ed'io, cantata
Dorothee Mields, soprano
Concerto De’ Cavalieri
Marcello de Lisa, director

c. 2.15pm
BBC Proms (first broadcast live on Friday 14th July)
Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny

Sibelius: Finlandia
Bohdana Frolyak: Let There Be Light (BBC commission: world premiere)
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor

Paul Lewis, piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska, conductor

c. 3.10pm
Proms Artist Choice - Paul Lewis
Rachmaninov: Vocalise

Nils Lindberg: Rosetti Suite (Fly Away; Remember; Echo)
WDR Chorus
Stefan Parkman, conductor

c. 3.25pm
BBC Proms (first broadcast live on Friday 14th July)
Presented by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny

Sibelius: Snöfrid
Britten: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska, conductor

c. 4.10pm
Bassani: Per aura breve, per fragil palm, from the oratorio 'La Morte delusa'
JS Bach: Welt, deine Lust ist Last, from 'Komm, du süsse Todesstunde, BWV 161, cantata'
Vivaldi: Transit aetas, volant anni, from 'Juditha Triumphans, RV 644, oratorio'
Perti: Instabilità della vita humana, from 'Cantata morale, op. 1/7 '
Dorothee Mields, soprano
Concerto De’ Cavalieri
Marcello de Lisa, director

Elisabetta Brusa: Firelights
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Solyom, conductor

Glinka: Souvenir d'une nuit d'ete a Madrid (Spanish overture no.2)
BBC Philhamonic
Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

3 hours, 1 minute

Music Played

  • William Walton

    Symphony no.1 in B flat minor (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Georg Frideric Handel

    Una schiera di piaceri, from 'Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46'

    Singer: Dorothee Mields. Ensemble: Concerto de’ Cavalieri. Director: Marcello de Lisa.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Siamo in contesa la bellezza ed'io, cantata

    Singer: Dorothee Mields. Ensemble: Concerto de’ Cavalieri. Director: Marcello de Lisa.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia Op.26

    Choir: BBC Symphony Chorus. Choir: BBC Singers. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
  • Bohdana Frolyak

    Let There Be Light

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Concerto In A Minor Op.16

    Performer: Paul Lewis. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
  • Nils Lindberg

    Rosetti Suite

    Choir: WDR Rundfunkchor Köln. Conductor: Stefan Parkman.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Snofrid Op.29

    Performer: Lesley Manville. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Choir: BBC Symphony Chorus. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
  • Benjamin Britten

    The Young Person'S Guide To The Orchestra Op.34

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dalia Stasevska.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Reveille

    Performer: Leonidas Kavakos. Performer: Enrico Pace.
    • DECCA: 478 9377.
    • Decca.
    • 11.
  • Giovanni Battista Bassani

    Per aura breve, per fragil palm, from the oratorio 'La Morte delusa'

    Singer: Dorothee Mields. Ensemble: Concerto de’ Cavalieri. Director: Marcello de Lisa.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Welt, deine Lust ist Last, from 'Komm, du süsse Todesstunde, BWV 161, cantata'

    Singer: Dorothee Mields. Ensemble: Concerto de’ Cavalieri. Director: Marcello de Lisa.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Transit aetas, volant anni, from 'Juditha Triumphans, RV 644, oratorio'

    Singer: Dorothee Mields. Ensemble: Concerto de’ Cavalieri. Director: Marcello de Lisa.
  • Giacomo Antonio Perti

    Instabilità della vita humana, from 'Cantata morale, op. 1/7 '

    Singer: Dorothee Mields. Ensemble: Concerto de’ Cavalieri. Director: Marcello de Lisa.
  • Elisabetta Brusa

    Firelights

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Stefan Solyom.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Souvenir d'une nuit d'été à Madrid

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • Chandos.
  • Isaac Albéniz

    Castilla (Suite espagnola)

    Performer: Alicia de Larrocha.
    • DECCA.
  • William Byrd

    Mass for 5 voices (Gloria)

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Phoenix Rising.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Mon 17 Jul 2023 14:00