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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)



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