BBC Proms 2019

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This year, the programme was released early in the day, so I've been looking through it at work. There's quite a lot of interest, so some choices to be made in the months ahead.

Must-Haves

• Prom 21 - a Sunday morning entertainment on the RAH Organ, including Sabre Dance, "the" Toccata and Fugue, and Danse macarbre; of topical interest, Olivier Latry is the organist of Notre Dame


• Prom 40 - How much damage can Stephen Hough do to Queen Victoria's piano?


• Prom 56 - a Henry Wood tribute


• Prom 68 - Wagner Night (also mysteriously includes some Weber and Franck)

Of Interest

• Prom 2 - Smetana's Ma vlast


• Prom 4 -John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine is something of a cursed work at the Proms, this time matched with Holst's The Planets


• Prom 8 - an evening of dance music, even if it does include Debussy


• Prom 12 - The NYO perform Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and excerpts from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet


• Cadogan Hall 2 - The Fourth Choir have made me remember the name of Barbara Strozzi


• Prom 14 - Haydn's The Creation


• Prom 15 - Beethoven 2 and Shostakovich 10, performed by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra


• Prom 18 - Das Lied von der Erde and other light classics


• Prom 20 - Pekka Kuusisto with a Sibelius programme will be popular


• Prom 22 - Rachmaninov's The Isle of the Dead and Shostakovich 11


• Prom 28 - Takemitsu, Rachmaninov, Borodin


• Prom 29/30 - John Wilson with music from classic Warner Brothers films


• Prom 31 - Brahms's St Anthony Variations and Bruckner 4


• Prom 34 - Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1 and Lutoslawski's Concerto for Orchestra; Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan will be popular


• Prom 39 - Nothing we can't hum there: Fingal's Cave and Pictures at an Exhibition


• Prom 41 - Jurowski conducts the LPO in an all-Russian programme


• Prom 42 - early works by a selection of composers


• Prom 43 - Beethoven 9, because ... Brexit


• Prom 47 - the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra with Bach and Bruckner


• Prom 60 - the Haitink dilemma with the Vienna Phil, Beethoven and Bruckner


• Prom 61 - or the second Vienna Phil concert


• Prom 65 - Mozart arias, Beethoven 7


• Prom 67 - Mussorgsky, Judith Weir, Sibelius


• Prom 69 - music from Smetana's The Bartered Bride, and Shostakovich 8


• Prom 71 - All four Bach orchestral suites


• Prom 72 - The obligatory Symphony fantastique, given a twist by the Aurora Orchestra, who play from memory


• Prom 74 - Beethoven Night (also includes Bach and Handel)

Other notables

• The First Night of the Proms - featuring inter alia Janáček's Glagolitic Mass


• Prom 13 - all the Messiaen you can eat


• Cadogan Hall 3 - Purcell and others


• Prom 23 - excerpts from Swan Lake


• Prom 26 - Mozart's Requiem


• Prom 27 - Late night sci-fi film music


• Prom 37 - A Berlioz oratorio


• Proms at ... Holy Sepulchre


• Prom 44 - Sir Simon Rattle with some Varese


• Prom 50 - Orchestre de Paris with Beethoven 6


• Prom 51 - The Magic Flute


• Prom 55 - Handel's Jeptha


• Prom 59 - Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini


• Prom 62 - I heard an interesting snippet from Canzionere Grecanico Salentino on this evening's In Tune


• Prom 66 - John Luther Adams (not to be confused with any other John Adams)


• A decent programme for The Last Night of the Proms