8 Aug 2016

Week Two of the Proms

From Music Alive, 12:00 pm on 8 August 2016
BBC Proms 2016

BBC Proms 2016 Photo: BBC Proms

RNZ Concert is bringing you concerts from this year's BBC Proms; just weeks after they have been recorded live in London by the BBC.

You are able to tune into 45 of these Proms at various times on RNZ Concert.

Scroll through our broadcast list below to find out when the concerts will be on air (NZT), and if you're not near a radio, find out all of the different ways you can listen to RNZ or hit the 'Listen Live' button at the top right of your screen.

Mark your diaries with your personal stand-outs:

Monday 8 August, 7pm

Rosa Feola (soprano), Le Cercle de l’Harmonie/Jérémie Rhorer

MOZART: Symphony No 39 in Eb K543
MENDELSSOHN: In felice
MOZART: Ah, lo previdi…Ah, t’invola K272
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 4 in A Op 90, Italian
(recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

Tuesday 9 August, 7pm

Ray Chen (violin), BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra/Andrew Davis

TCHAIKOVSKY: The Tempest Op 18
PAYNE: Of Land, Sea and Sky (BBC commission and world première)
BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Toward the Unknown Region
(recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

Wednesday 10 August, 7pm

Camilla Nylund (soprano), Birgit Remmert (mezzo), Stuart Skelton (tenor), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass), Hallé Choir, Manchester Chamber Choir, BBC Philharmonic/Gianandrea Noseda

BEETHOVEN: Missa Solemnis in D Op 123
(recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

Thursday 11 August, 10am

Julie Fuchs (soprano), Julien Behr (tenor), BBC Singers & Symphony Orchestra/Mark Minkowski

FAURÉ: Shylock
STRAVINSKY: Pulcinella Suite
POULENC: Stabat Mater
(recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

Friday 12 August, 7pm

A Satie Cabaret

Alistair McGowan (actor), Jean Delescluse (vocalist), Alexandre Tharaud (piano)

A cabaret of music and words, celebrating the 150th anniversary of Erik Satie’s birth. (recorded in Cadogan Hall, London by the BBC)

“Alistair McGowan’s Satie was almost too entertaining for the concert’s good.”
- Ivan Hewett

Sunday 14 August, 10am

Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-sorpano), Peter Auty (tenor), James Platt (bass), BBC Singers/David Hill, Richard Pearce (harmonium), Iain Farrington (piano)

ROSSINI: Petite messe solennelle
(recorded at The Chapel, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich by the BBC)

Monday 15 August, 7pm

François Leleux (oboe), Aurora Orchestra/Nicholas Collon

RIHM: Gejagte Form (2002 version)
STRAUSS: Oboe Concerto in D
MOZART: Symphony No 41 in C, Jupiter
(recorded in Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

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