From Reformation to Syncopation
500 years since the Reformation is marked this week at the BBC Proms.
International Monument to Reformation in Geneva Photo: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists will perform psalm settings by JS Bach’s predecessor Heinrich Schütz, as well as Lutheran cantatas from Bach himself. John Eliot Gardiner (author of the book Music in the Castle of Heaven about his love of Bach’s music) is at the helm.
Ensemble Pygmalion Photo: CC by SA 4.0
And 450 years of Monteverdi himself is noted by the French ensemble Pygmalion making its Proms debut under Raphaël Pichon. Pygmalion takes on Monteverdi’s iconic Vespers of 1610.
Ella Fitzgerald 1962 Photo: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Friday brings us a joint centenary celebration of jazz legends singer Ella Fitzgerald and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie - both of whom were born 100 years ago this year.
Monday 21 August
7.00 Music Alive
BBC Proms 2017
GRIEG: Peer Gynt, excerpts; SIBELIUS: Karelia Suite; Luonnotar; SCHUMANN: Cello Concerto in A minor Op 129; HINDEMITH: Symphony, Mathis der Maler
Lise Davidsen (soprano), Alban Gerhardt (cello), BBC Phil/John Storgards (recorded by the BBC, Royal Albert Hall, London)
Tuesday 22 August
7.00 Music Alive
BBC Proms 2017
SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor D 759, Unfinished; MAHLER: Symphony No 10 in F# minor
BBC Scottish SO/Thomas Dausgaard (recorded by the BBC, Royal Albert Hall, London)
Wednesday 23 August
7.00 Music Alive
BBC Proms 2017
MONTEVERDI: Vespers of 1610
Pygmalion/Raphaël Pichon (recorded by the BBC, Royal Albert Hall, London)
Thursday 24 August
10.00 Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn
BBC Proms 2017
KORNGOLD: The Sea Hawk, Overture; HILLBORG: Sirens; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade
Hannah Holgersson, Ida Falk Winland (sopranos), BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC SO/James Gaffigan (recorded by the BBC, Royal Albert Hall, London)
Friday 25 August
7.00 Music Alive
BBC Proms 2017
BRITTEN: Ballad of Heroes Op 14; ELIAS: Cello Concerto (BBC Commission, première); PURCELL arr Elgar: Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei!; ELGAR: Enigma Variations
Toby Spence (tenor), Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales/Ryan Wigglesworth (recorded by the BBC, Royal Albert Hall, London)
Dianne Reeves Photo: Supplied
Saturday 26 August
7.00 Music Alive
BBC Proms 2017
Ella and Dizzy: a centenary tribute
A joint musical celebration of the legendary jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie
Dianne Reeves (singer), James Morrison (trumpet), BBC Concert Orchestra/John Mauceri (recorded by the BBC, Royal Albert Hall, London)
Sunday 27 August
10.00 BBC Proms 2017
HASSE: Adagio and Fugue in G minor; PLATTI: Cello Concerto in D; VIVALDI: Cello Concerto in A minor; TELEMANN: Divertimento in Bb for strings; BOCCHERINI: Cello Concerto in D G479
Edgar Moreau (cello), Il Pomo d'oro/Maxim Emelyanychev (recorded by the BBC, Cadogan Hall, London)
