BBC Proms 2008: new repertoire and special offers
(July 2008)
The world's largest classical music festival — the 2008 BBC Proms — runs from Friday 18 July to 13 September, with 76 concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall. The Boosey & Hawkes catalogue is much in evidence throughout the season, from Richard Strauss's Festival Prelude opening the First Night to Elgar's Pomp & Circumstance March No.1 on the Last Night.Every Prom will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, and available globally as free online Listen on Demand on the BBC iPlayer for 7 days.
Special Offers
The Boosey & Hawkes Online Shop has a series of weekly Special Offers on scores and CDs linked to the BBC Proms concerts, providing ideal companions for your listening.
New Repertoire at the Proms
18 July 8.00 pm (First Night)
Elliott Carter
Caténaires (UK premiere)
Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano
2008 is the 100th anniversary year of Elliott Carter, and the Proms celebrations at the Proms are launched with this virtuosic piano miniature written for Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Visit the Carter Centenary website at www.carter100.com.
27 July 11.00 am (Dr Who Prom)
Mark-Anthony Turnage
The Torino Scale (UK premiere)
BBC Philharmonic/Stephen Bell
This family concert, travelling across space and time, includes Turnage's short orchestral work, part of his Asteroids Suite. The Torino Scale measures the risk of of asteroids and comets colliding with the Earth.
28 July 7.30 pm
Elliott Carter
Oboe Concerto
Nicholas Daniel/BBC Symphony Orchestra/David Robertson
Elliott Carter wrote his Oboe Concerto in 1987 for Heinz Holliger, and it has been eagerly taken up by soloists around the world. There is a baroque flavour to the work's scoring, with soloist, concertante group and orchestra.
18 August 7.30 pm
Elliott Carter
Soundings (UK premiere)
Nicolas Hodges piano/BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Ilan Volkov
Soundings is one of Carter's most recent concerto-style works, and has been performed in the USA, Germany and Austria since its premiere in 2005 by Daniel Barenboim.
22 August 7.00 pm
Schubert arr. Detlev Glanert
Das Lied im Grünen
Angelika Kirchschlager/Gürzenich Orchestra/Markus Stenz
One of four Schubert song arrangements in orchestrations by contemporary composers, commissioned by the BBC for the 2008 Proms.
27 August 10.00 pm
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Cantus Arcticus [published by Fennica Gehrman]
London Sinfonietta/David Atherton
Rautavaara's most widely performed work, a "concerto for birds and orchestra", is heard at the Proms in celebration of the composer's 80th birthday. Birdsong recorded on tape combines with delicate chamber orchestra scoring.
30 August 7.30 pm
Magnus Lindberg
Seht die Sonne (UK premiere)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Lindberg's starting point for this richly coloured orchestral work was the sunrise at the end of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, and the work explores the tipping point from late-Romanticism to modernism.
8 September 7.30 pm
Mark-Anthony Turnage
Chicago Remains (European premiere)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Bernard Haitink
Turnage's orchestral work, written for tonight's performers, is a response to Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems and to the American city's fabled ability to reinvent itself. It was premiered in Chicago last October and the Prom performance is the work's European premiere.
For everything you need to know about this year's season, including booking information, downloads, competitions, message boards and to get the latest Proms news, visit the BBC's own Proms website.
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