Hannah Kendall: The Spark Catchers

September 8, 2017

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BBC Proms - S71 - E65

World premiere of BBC commission of Hannah Kendall's The Spark Catchers which takes inspiration from the urgent energy of Lemn Sissay's poem of the same name. (Performance from Prom #62)

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BBC Proms: Season 71 - 34 Episode s

71x15 - Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar
August 18, 2017
Broadcast of Prom 41: Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar Two goliaths of 20th-century music, Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass, recorded the studio album Passages together in 1989. The result was a unique fusion of Hindustani sitar music with American minimalism. Tonight the album is performed live and in full for the first time, with Shankar's daughter Anoushka playing the sitar alongside a dazzling array of Indian soloists and the Britten Sinfonia, conducted by Karen Kamensek.
71x16 - Bach’s St John Passion
August 20, 2017
Broadcast of Prom 49: Bach’s St John Passion In one of a series of Proms performances marking the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, John Butt directs his Dunedin Consort in a complete performance of Bach's powerful St John Passion, with Nicolas Mulroy as the Evangelist and Matthew Brook as Jesus. Reflecting the church setting for which it was written, the performance includes congregational singing from the Proms audience.
71x17 - Charles Mingus Revisited
August 25, 2017
Broadcast of Prom 53: Beneath the Underdog: Charles Mingus Revisited A giant in 20th-century jazz, the legendary composer, bandleader and bass player Charles Mingus is celebrated by conductor Jules Buckley and his Metropole Orkest. Plus a brilliant line-up of soloists, including saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings, trumpeter Christian Scott and singer Kandace Springs, are on the bill.
71x18 - CBSO play Beethoven’s Fifth
August 27, 2017
Broadcast of Prom 50: Beethoven, Stravinsky and Gerald Barry Katie Derham introduces the first of six weekly programmes celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Proms, featuring some of the most memorable concerts from the unrivalled Proms archive. Katie is joined by conductor Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla to mark Beethoven’s 250th birthday year with another chance to see her acclaimed Proms appearance with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 2017. As well as a thrillingly fresh interpretation of Beethoven’s famous Fifth Symphony, the concert also includes his Leonore Overture No 3 and a world premiere by Irish maverick Gerald Barry, performed by tenor Allan Clayton. All this alongside Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major performed by Leila Josefowicz.
71x19 - Big Band Swing with Clare Teal
September 1, 2017
Broadcast of Prom 57: Swing No End Singer and broadcaster Clare Teal heads the charge in this big band spectacular. Travel back in time with this rip-roaring Prom to the 1930s and 1940s and celebrate the irrepressible music of Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Tommy Dorsey, Stan Kenton and more, plus a special tribute to the unassuming giant of the big band world, Mary Lou Williams. Band leaders Guy Barker and Winston Rollins take to the stage alongside their eponymous big bands with help from a myriad of guest artists.
71x20 - Stax with Jools Holland
September 1, 2017
Broadcast of Prom 65: Stax Records: 50 Years of Soul Founded in 1957, Memphis-based Stax Records was synonymous with southern soul - a distinctive blend of funk, gospel and R&B that brought listeners across America together at a time of racial conflict and political unrest. In this Late Night Prom, Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra pay tribute to the pioneering label and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stax/Volt Revue's first tour of the UK, in a concert featuring some of the label's greatest surviving artists. Stax legends Booker T Jones and Sam Moore appear alongside Sir Tom Jones, a longtime fan and interpreter of the Stax songbook. Both Jones and Moore were part of the 1967 tour and join fellow Stax artists William Bell, Steve Cropper and Eddie Floyd in this unique coming-together. They are joined by more fans of the Stax sound in Beverley Knight, James Morrison, Nadia Rose & Sweetie Irie and Ruby Turner.
71x21 - Simon Rattle’s Gurrelieder
September 3, 2017
Broadcast of Prom 46: Schoenberg – Gurrelieder In one of the highlights of this year's Proms season, Sir Simon Rattle brings Schoenberg's colossal Gurrelieder to the Royal Albert Hall, uniting the London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, CBSO Chorus, Orfeo Catala and a stunning line-up of soloists including Eva-Maria Westbroek, Simon O'Neill and speaker Thomas Quasthoff. An epic love story conceived on a Wagnerian scale, it reaches its climax with a truly unforgettable depiction of sunrise.
71x22 - Classical Music of India and Pakistan
September 3, 2017
Broadcast of Prom 55: Classical Music of India and Pakistan To mark the 70th anniversary of independence from British rule and the subsequent Partition of India from Pakistan and Bangladesh, this special late-night Prom celebrates the power of music to heal and unify. Curated by the cultural heritage trust Darbar, it brings together virtuoso soloists and world-leading groups representing the three great traditions of classical music from India and Pakistan. From late evening into the night, the concert takes us from the Hindustani music of north India to the Carnatic music of the south, and leads to an ecstatic climax with devotional Sufi qawwali from Pakistan.
71x23 - Andras Schiff Plays Bach
September 7, 2017
Broadcast of Prom 73: Sir András Schiff performs Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier After his extraordinary performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations at the 2015 Proms, world-renowned pianist Sir Andras Schiff returns to the Royal Albert Hall for another solo Bach recital. He performs Book One of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, a cycle that he will complete next year with Book Two. Almost three centuries after Bach composed his two sequences of preludes and fugues in all 24 keys, 'the 48' remains a touchstone for all great pianists.
71x24 - Dvořák and Bartók
September 8, 2017
Broadcast of Prom 70: Missy Mazzoli, Bartók and Dvořák Bartok's sparkling Second Piano Concerto and Dvorak's Eighth Symphony are in the spotlight as American pianist Jeremy Denk joins conductor Karina Canellakis and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The concert opens with Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) by young American composer Missy Mazzoli, music 'in the shape of the solar system'.
71x25 - Chineke! Orchestra with Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Jeanine De Bique
September 8, 2017
Broadcast of Prom 62: Chineke! The UK’s first majority BME orchestra, Chineke!, makes its Proms debut. 2016 BBC Young Musician winner, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, is the soloist, and the concert also includes works by composers George Walker and Hannah Kendall.
71x26 - Last Night of the Proms - Part One
September 9, 2017
The BBC Proms 2017 season comes to a close with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and their Finnish chief conductor Sakari Oramo leading proceedings live from London's Royal Albert Hall. Soprano superstar Nina Stemme performs music from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, the BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC Singers mark 100 years of Finnish independence with a performance of Sibelius's glorious Finlandia and Kodaly's Budavari Te Deum is performed by soprano Lucy Crowe, mezzo Christine Rice, tenor Ben Johnson and bass John Relyea. Also on the programme is the world premiere of Finnish composer Lotta Wennakoski's Flounce, as well as a performance of Malcolm Sargent's An Impression on a Windy Day. Presented by Katie Derham.
71x27 - Last Night of the Proms - Part Two
September 9, 2017
The Last Night of the Proms celebrations continue live from the Royal Albert Hall in London. John Adams's seventieth birthday is marked with the London premiere of his exhilarating Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance, and solo star soprano Nina Stemme performs Weill's Surabaya Johnny and The Saga of Jenny, followed by Gershwin's The Lorelei. The programme takes a trip around the UK with Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs, with contributions from the Proms in the Park events in Swansea, Glasgow and Belfast, before the BBC Proms 2017 is brought to a rousing close with Rule Britannia, Land of Hope and Glory and Jerusalem. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and BBC Singers are conducted by Sakari Oramo. Presented by Katie Derham.
71x51 - Proms Extra: Episode 1
July 22, 2017
Katie Derham returns with the magazine show Proms Extra to review the opening week of Proms 2017 with her special guests. This week's review includes Elgar's Second Symphony conducted by Daniel Barenboim and a trip to the movies courtesy of the iconic John Williams.
71x52 - Proms Extra: Episode 2
July 29, 2017
Join Katie Derham as she looks back at the week's events from the Proms, with conductors Xian Zhang, Jules Buckley and violinist Tai Murray. This programme focuses on Walton's Facade from the Malcolm Sargent Prom and celebrates the genius of Scott Walker. Plus there is Chord of the Week with David Owen Norris.
71x53 - Proms Extra: Episode 3
August 5, 2017
Katie Derham presents the companion guide to the Proms. Tonight's show has the tenor Stuart Skelton, soprano Ailish Tynan and gospel conductor and composer Ken Burton discussing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, and a Proms centenary tribute to Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie.
71x54 - Proms Extra: Episode 4
August 12, 2017
Proms Extra continues to explore the Proms season as it passes the halfway mark. Katie Derham is joined by harpist Catrin Finch and singer Julian Ovenden, and the show turns the spotlight on the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and their performance of Thomas Ades's Polaris, John Wilson Orchestra's Oklahoma! and David Owen Norris returns with Chord of the Week.
71x55 - Proms Extra: Episode 5
August 19, 2017
Katie Derham is joined in the studio by baritone Roderick Williams and composer Hannah Kendall. Music featured comes from Rachmaninov's Second Symphony, Aurora Orchestra's performance of Beethoven's Eroica and the Ravi Shankar/Philip Glass collaboration Passages.
71x56 - Proms Extra: Episode 6
August 26, 2017
Katie Derham reviews the sixth full week of Proms activity in this penulitimate episode of Proms Extra. She is joined by jazz saxophonist Soweto Kinch and conductor John Butt to discuss Bach's St John Passion, performed in week five of the Proms by John Butt's Dunedin Consort, and the Charles Mingus Prom, featuring Kandace Springs, Shabaka Hutchings and Christian Scott. David Owen Norris offers another Chord of the Week.
71x57 - Proms Extra: Episode 7
September 10, 2017
Katie Derham presents the final Proms Extra for the Proms season. On this show, she is joined by percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, star saxophonist Jess Gillam and acclaimed pianist Stephen Hough as they cast an eye over Stravinsky's Violin Concerto, The Big Band Prom and the Jools Holland Stax Prom.
71x61 - Beethoven: Overture ‘Leonore’ No.3
August 27, 2017
The CBSO perform Beethoven's dramatic overture, celebrating the triumph of truth over tyranny in music of radiant beauty. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts. (performance from Prom #50)
71x62 - Gerald Barry: Canada
August 27, 2017
Tenor Allan Clayton is the soloist in the world premiere of Gerald Barry's new work, inspired by revolutionary events in Canada’s history. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts the CBSO. (performance from Prom #50)
71x63 - Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D major
August 27, 2017
Violinist Leila Josefowicz performs Stravinsky's fiercely brilliant neo-Classical concerto, with the CBSO and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla. (Performance from Prom #50)
71x64 - David Popper: Hungarian Rhapsody, Op. 68
September 8, 2017
Sheku Kanneh-Masson performs an arrangement of the Hungarian Rhapsody by the 19th-Century Bohemian cellist and composer David Popper. (Performance from Prom #62)
71x65 - Hannah Kendall: The Spark Catchers
September 8, 2017
World premiere of BBC commission of Hannah Kendall's The Spark Catchers which takes inspiration from the urgent energy of Lemn Sissay's poem of the same name. (Performance from Prom #62)
71x66 - Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol, Op 34
September 8, 2017
Rimsky-Korsakov's popular 'Capriccio on Spanish Themes' is based on five lively and exuberant Spanish folk tunes. (Performance from Prom #62)
71x67 - Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
September 8, 2017
The European premiere of Missy Mazzoli's mesmeric Sinfonia - music 'in the shape of the solar system' that weaves and coils itself in a sequence of pulsing loops.
71x101 - Proms in the Park - Live from Glasgow
September 9, 2017
Live from Glasgow Green, Jamie MacDougall introduces the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and a host of guests as part of the UK-wide Last Night of the Proms celebrations. Conducted by Stephen Bell, the BBC SSO is joined by a host of award-winning guest performers, including Scottish folk singer and Capercaillie lead vocalist Karen Matheson, jazz singer and BBC Radio 2 presenter Clare Teal, Irish soprano Ailish Tynan and comedian Jason Manford, plus traditional trio Charlie Stewart, Josie Duncan and Pablo Lafuente. Expect fireworks, musical and otherwise, on a night of fantastic music.
71x102 - Proms in the Park - Live from Swansea
September 9, 2017
Josie d'Arby and Tim Rhys-Evans present the first half of BBC Proms in the Park live from Singleton Park, Swansea. In an evening celebrating the music of film and TV, they are joined by soul singer Mica Paris, who pays homage to jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald (in what would have been her centenary year), Olivier award winner and West End star Rebecca Trehearn and BBC Young Musician 2016 finalist, saxophonist Jess Gillam. They perform with the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, conducted by Gavin Sutherland.
71x103 - Proms in the Park - Swansea Highlights
September 10, 2017
BBC Proms in the Park returns to Singleton Park, Swansea, with a show that features some of film and TV's greatest hits, plus all of the best of the traditional 'Last Night' celebrations. Soul singer Mica Paris tops the bill and pays homage to jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald. The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales are also joined on stage by Olivier Award winner and West End star Rebecca Trehearn and 2016 BBC Young Musician finalist, saxophonist Jess Gillam. Highlights presented by Josie d'Arby and Tim Rhys-Evans.
71x104 - The Last Night of the Proms from Around the UK
September 17, 2017
The traditional Last Night, Proms in the Park celebrations from venues around the UK. Gethin Jones and YolanDa Brown present a stellar mix of classical and contemporary performances, including internationally acclaimed percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and legend of the flute Sir James Galway in Castle Coole, Enniskillen; rising star saxophonist Jess Gillam and soul diva Mica Paris from Swansea's Singleton Park; big band aficionado Clare Teal and Jason Manford in Glasgow Green; while opera superstar Sir Bryn Terfel and the sensational sounds of 60s icon Ray Davies draw the crowds to London's Hyde Park. All accompanied of course, by the BBC's acclaimed orchestras.
71x105 - Proms in the Park - Co Fermanagh Highlights
September 24, 2017
This year's extravaganza from Castle Coole, Co Fermanagh, features a stellar line-up including Sir James and Lady Jeanne Galway, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Adrian Dunbar, Ruthie Henshall and Anuna.
71x106 - Proms in the Park - Highlights from Glasgow 2017
September 25, 2017
Filmed live from Glasgow Green in September, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra celebrates the Last Night of the Proms with world class musical entertainment. Conducted by Stephen Bell, the BBC SSO is joined by a host of musical talent, including Scottish folk singer and Capercaillie lead vocalist Karen Matheson, award-winning jazz singer and BBC Radio 2 presenter Clare Teal, Irish soprano Ailish Tynan as well as comedian and West End musical star Jason Manford. Actor Tom Urie ticks off a bucket list ambition to sing with an orchestra as he tackles the momentous Nessun Dorma. The evening is presented by tenor and BBC Radio Scotland presenter Jamie MacDougall.
71x107 - Proms in the Park: Hyde Park
September 9, 2017
Join in the Last night of the Proms celebrations in Hyde Park, hosted by Michael Ball, with Proms in the Park favourites the BBC Concert Orchestra under the baton of Richard Balcombe, and special guest Sir Bryn Terfel, headlined by Sir Ray Davies.

71x15 - Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar

71x16 - Bach’s St John Passion

71x17 - Charles Mingus Revisited

71x18 - CBSO play Beethoven’s Fifth

71x19 - Big Band Swing with Clare Teal

71x20 - Stax with Jools Holland

71x21 - Simon Rattle’s Gurrelieder

71x22 - Classical Music of India and Pakistan

71x23 - Andras Schiff Plays Bach

71x24 - Dvořák and Bartók

71x25 - Chineke! Orchestra with Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Jeanine De Bique

71x26 - Last Night of the Proms - Part One

71x27 - Last Night of the Proms - Part Two

71x51 - Proms Extra: Episode 1

71x52 - Proms Extra: Episode 2

71x53 - Proms Extra: Episode 3

71x54 - Proms Extra: Episode 4

71x55 - Proms Extra: Episode 5

71x56 - Proms Extra: Episode 6

71x57 - Proms Extra: Episode 7

71x61 - Beethoven: Overture ‘Leonore’ No.3

71x62 - Gerald Barry: Canada

71x63 - Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D major

71x64 - David Popper: Hungarian Rhapsody, Op. 68

71x65 - Hannah Kendall: The Spark Catchers

71x66 - Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol, Op 34

71x67 - Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)

71x101 - Proms in the Park - Live from Glasgow

71x102 - Proms in the Park - Live from Swansea

71x103 - Proms in the Park - Swansea Highlights

71x104 - The Last Night of the Proms from Around the UK

71x105 - Proms in the Park - Co Fermanagh Highlights

71x106 - Proms in the Park - Highlights from Glasgow 2017

71x107 - Proms in the Park: Hyde Park

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