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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms 2007Μύ
Inside the Royal Albert Hall. Picture copyright Chris Christodoulou

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms 2007



Themes: Proms firsts


The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the partnership between the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ and the Proms, which dates from 1927 when the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ took over the season and began to broadcast the concerts.

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Throughout this season the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms is celebrating Proms Firsts, highlighting just a few of the great works introduced to audiences by the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms, many of them now classics of the repertory and performed around the world.

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The union of the Proms, already a national institution and 32-years-old in 1927 and the young Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ (then just five), was farsighted on the parts both of Henry Wood, the Proms' founder-conductor, and John Reith, Director General of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ.

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It was especially brave given that at the time the new concept of broadcasting was regarded as the enemy of live concerts.The synergy between them, however, was perfect: Henry Wood co-founded the Proms with a view to 'truly democratising the message of music' and Lord Reith felt that 'saving' the then financially stricken Proms for the nation was crucial to the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's public service mission to 'entertain, educate and inform'.

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The hopes of both men, and the visions of both organisations, have been richly rewarded over the decades. Regular broadcasts on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 are now joined by more Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Television relays than ever, and a constant online presence, making the most of today's new technologies from big screens to mobile phones, bringing an enormous range of the best classical music – and more – to the widest possible audience.

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Reaching vast numbers is not the only great accomplishment of the partnership. Henry Wood's co-founder Robert Newman set out to 'run nightly concerts and train the public by easy stages … until I have created a public for classical and modern music'. Neither he, nor Henry Wood, was afraid of introducing 'novelties' and the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ has continued to bring the work of new and often challenging voices to the high-profile platform the Proms continues to offer.

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The vision, funding and infrastructure of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ β€“ together with the famous open-mindedness and enthusiasm of Proms audiences – has brought countless masterpieces to a wide public and many more into existence.The 2007 season highlights just a fraction of those introduced during the past eight decades.

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Proms Firsts begins on the opening weekend of the season with two premieres from that historic first Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ season in 1927:Walton's evergreen Portsmouth Point overture, which was given its London premiere, is played on the First Night; and Frank Bridge's miniature classic There is a willow grows aslant a brook, which was given its world premiere is played at the first Proms Saturday Matinee of the season at Cadogan Hall.

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Proms Firsts includes classics that Henry Wood introduced before the war, by Ravel, Sibelius, Delius and Walton, and continues with new works heard during the war by Copland, Barber,Vaughan Williams and Shostakovich.

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From the fertile period after the war there are premieres by Britten, Strauss, Martinu°, Rakhmaninov and Prokofiev, and then the pioneering work of Proms director William Glock in the 1960s is celebrated with works he introduced here by Berio, Ives, Mahler and Varèse.

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The widening scope of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ commissioning for the Proms under Robert Ponsonby is marked with pieces by Hans Werner Henze, Arvo PΓ¤rt and Elizabeth Maconchy, and there is a special concert of new works that the late Sir John Drummond programmed and commissioned, by James MacMillan, Lutospawski and Sir Harrison Birtwistle. And a selection of the successful commissions and premieres of the last decade are also heard again: works by GyΓ¶rgy KurtΓ΅g, HK Gruber, Henri Dutilleux and Judith Weir.

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The tradition of Proms premieres continues apace this year with a sequence of new and recent works from established composers including John Adams, Pierre Boulez, Elliott Carter, Hans Werner Henze,Thea Musgrave and Esa-Pekka Salonen, to more recent talent including Sam Hayden, Peter Wiegold, Rachel Portman and Guto Puw.

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Highlights

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  • Antonio Pappano conducts Berio's Sinfonia, a famous premiere in the William Glock era, in an all-Italian programme (16 July).

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  • Thierry Fischer in his first concert as Principal Conductor of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ NOW revives Henri Dutilleux's moving tribute to the victims of oppression, The Shadows of Time, which made a deep impression at the Proms at its UK premiere in 1998 (20 July).

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  • Roger Muraro makes his Proms debut with Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, a classic 'novelty' which Henry Wood introduced to the UK in 1932 (20 July).

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  • Sir Andrew Davis conducts a selection of quintessentially British Proms Firsts including Delius's Song of Summer, Vaughan Williams's Fifth Symphony and Tippett's Triple Concerto (26 July).

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  • H K Gruber's wild and wacky trumpet concerto Aerial returns to form part of Brass Day, performed by the original soloist, HΓ¥kan Hardenberger, who played it here to great acclaim in 1999 (28 July).

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  • Edgard VarΓ¨se's Ecuatorial, premiered in 1966, epitomises the Glock era, when many European composers were introduced to the UK for the first time (31 July).

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  • GyΓ¶rgy KurtΓ΅g's powerful and enigmatic score Stele has been taken up by many orchestras since its UK premiere at the Proms in 1996 – here Ilan Volkov conducts the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra (1 August).

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  • Mark Elder conducts Shostakovich Symphony No. 7, one of the most famous wartime Proms premieres given just two months after the score was smuggled out of the Soviet Union (4 August).

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  • Lawrence Power is the soloist in Walton's Viola Concerto, one of the earliest world premieres during the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ era (9 August).

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  • The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales perform Rakhmaninov's Symphonic Dances, introduced in 1954 and one of the few premieres given by Malcolm Sargent (9 August).

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  • Tribute to former Proms director Sir John Drummond with Birtwistle's notorious Panic and James MacMillan's Veni, veni Emmanuel (one of the most successful Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ commissions of all time, with more than 400 performances worldwide) from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra (16 August).

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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Orchestras

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The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's four symphony orchestras all give special concerts with their chief conductors, dominated by Proms Firsts, many of which have become classics.

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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales/Thierry Fischer Dutilleux, Ravel 20 Jul (Prom 9)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Davis Delius,Tippett,Vaughan Williams 26 Jul (Prom 18)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Ilan Volkov Sibelius, Britten,VarΓ¨se 31 Jul (Prom 24)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic/
Gianandrea Noseda
Britten, Mahler 07 Aug (Prom 33)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins MacMillan, Lutospawski, Birtwistle 16 Aug (Prom 44)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra/JiΕ™Γ­ BΔ•lohlΓ΅vek Britten, MartinΕ―, Prokofiev 26 Aug (Prom 56)

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Other Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ orchestra concerts feature individual Proms Firsts programmed alongside works that are new this season:

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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra/
David Robertson
Ives; Sam Hayden 17 Jul
(Prom 5)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic/
AndrΓ© de Ridder, Peter Wiegold
Gruber; Peter Wiegold 28 Jul
(Prom 21)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales/David Atherton Walton, Rakhmaninov; Guto Puw 09 Aug
(Prom 36)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra/
Oliver Knussen
Knussen; Hans Werner Henze 17 Aug
(Prom 45)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra/
John Adams
Copland; John Adams 21 Aug
(Prom 50)

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Visiting Orchestras

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Major visiting and UK orchestras contribute to the celebration of Proms Firsts:

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Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome/Antonio Pappano Berio 16 Jul
(Prom 4)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop Barber, Copland 25 Jul
(Prom 16)
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain/Mark Elder Shostakovich 04 Aug
(Prom 29)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Gatti R Strauss 05 Aug
(Prom 31)
London Symphony Orchestra/Valery Gergiev Prokofiev 28 Aug
(Prom 59)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Mariss Jansons Honegger 30 Aug
(Prom 62)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim °­΄Η»εΓ΅±τ²β 04 Sep
(Prom 68)

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Proms firsts in 2007 season

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WP = World premiere UKP = UK premiere LP = London premiere

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Walton: Overture 'Portsmouth Point' 1927 LP 13 Jul
(Prom 1)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ SO/BΔ•lohlΓ΅vek
Bridge: There is a willow grows aslant a brook 1927 WP 14 Jul
(PSM 1)
Britten Sinfonia/Shelley
Sibelius: Tapiola 1928 UKP 31 Jul
(Prom 24)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish SO/Volkov
Walton: Viola Concerto 1929 WP 09 Aug
(Prom 36)
Lawrence Power (viola); Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales/Atherton
Delius: A Song of Summer 1931 WP 26 Jul
(Prom 18)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ SO/A. Davis
Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand 1932 UKP 20 Jul
(Prom 9)
Roger Muraro (piano); Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales/Thierry Fischer
°­΄Η»εΓ΅±τ²β: Dances of GalΓ΅nta 1934 UKP 04 Sep
(Prom 68)
Vienna PO/Barenboim
Britten: Piano Concerto 1938 WP 31 Jul
(Prom 24)
Steven Osborne (piano); Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish SO/Volkov
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem 1942 UKP 07 Aug
(Prom 33)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic/Noseda
Copland: Billy the Kid – Suite 1942 UKP 21 Aug
(Prom 50)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ SO/Adams
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 1942 UKP 04 Aug
(Prom 29)
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain/Mark Elder
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 1943 WP 26 Jul
(Prom 18)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ SO/A. Davis
Barber: Violin Concerto 1944 UKP 25 Jul
(Prom 16)
James Ehnes (violin); Bournemouth SO/Also
Britten: Four Sea Interludes 1945 LP 26 Aug
(Prom 56)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ SO/BΔ•lohlΓ΅vek
R. Strauss: Oboe Concerto 1946 UKP 05 Aug
(Prom 31)
Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe); Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Gatti
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 1946 UKP 26 Aug
(Prom 56)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ SO/BΔ•lohlΓ΅vek
Honegger: Symphony No. 3, 'Symphonie liturgique' 1949 UKP 30 Aug
(Prom 62)
Bavarian Radio SO/Jansons
Rakhmaninov: Symphonic Dances 1954 UKP 09 Aug
(Prom 36)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales/Atherton
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 1955 UKP 28 Aug
(Prom 59)
Alexander Toradze (piano); London Symphony Orchestra/Gergiev
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7 1955 LP 28 Aug
(Prom 59)
London Symphony Orchestra/Gergiev
Copland: Symphony No. 3 1956 UKP 25 Jul
(Prom 16)
Bournemouth SO/Alsop
MartinuΒ°: Piano Concerto No. 4, 'Incantation' 1957 UKP 26 Aug (Prom 56) Ivo Kahanek
(piano); Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ SO/BΔ•lohlΓ΅vek
Brahms (arr. Schoenberg): Piano Quartet in G minor 1962 UKP 13 Aug
(Prom 40)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony/Paavo Järvi
Mahler (compl. D. Cooke): Symphony No. 10 1964 WP 07 Aug
(Prom 33)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic/Noseda
Ives: Symphony No. 4 (complete) 1966 UKP 17 Jul
(Prom 5)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ SO/Robertson
Varèse: Ecuatorial 1966 UKP 31 Jul
(Prom 24)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish SO/Volkov
Berio: Sinfonia 1969 UKP 16 Jul
(Prom 4)
Swingle Singers; Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome/Pappano
Henze: Ragtimes and Habaneras 1975 WP 28 Jul
(Prom 20)
Grimethorpe Colliery Band/Withington
Pärt: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten 1979 UKP 19 Jul
(Prom 8)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic/Sinaisky
Tippett: Triple Concerto 1980 WP 26 Jul
(Prom 18)
Daniel Hope (violin); Philip Dukes (viola); Christian PoltΓ©ra (cello); Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ SO/A. Davis
Maconchy: Music for Strings 1983 WP 04 Aug
(PSM 2)
Scottish Ensemble/Morton
Lutospawski: Chantefleurs et Chantefables 1991 WP 16 Aug
(Prom 44)
Solveig Kringelborn (soprano); Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish SO/Brabbins
MacMillan:Veni, veni Emmanuel 1992 WP 16 Aug
(Prom 44)
Colin Currie (percussion); Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish SO/Brabbins
Birtwistle: Panic 1995 WP 16 Aug
(Prom 44)
Martin Robertson (alto saxophone); Peter Erskine (drums); Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish SO/Brabbins
KurtΓ΅g: Stele 1996 UKP 01 Aug
(Prom 26)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish SO/Volkov
Dutilleux:The Shadows of Time 1998 UKP 20 Jul
(Prom 9)
Choristers from Eton College Chapel Choir; Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales/Thierry Fischer
HK Gruber: Aerial 1999 WP 28 Jul
(Prom 21)
HΓ¥kan Hardenberger (trumpet); Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic/de Ridder
Knussen: Violin Concerto 2003 LP 17 Aug
(Prom 45)
Leila Josefowicz (violin); Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ SO/Knussen
Weir: The Voice of Desire 2003 WP 16 Jul
(PCM 1)
Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano); Graham Johnson (piano)


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