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The ever-amazing BBC Proms begin next week. This year's schedule is particularly piano-centric, and includes two significant cycles - the Beethoven and the Prokofiev concertos. Below is a listing of all the concerts that feature a pianist in one way or another.

You can, as usual, listen to all of them on BBC Radio 3 online, and I believe each will remain available online for 30 days after first being broadcast. The Radio 3 website is http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3


Fri 17 Jul 2015
Prom 1: First Night of the Proms

Carl Nielsen 1865–1931
Maskarade overture (5 mins)

Gary Carpenter b.1951
Dadaville
BBC commission: world premiere (6 mins)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor Concerto for Piano No. 20 in D minor, K 466 (31 mins)

Jean Sibelius 1865–1957
Belshazzar's Feast – suite (16 mins)

William Walton 1902–1983
Belshazzar's Feast (34 mins)

Christopher Maltman baritone
BBC Singers
BBC National Chorus of Wales
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor
Lars Vogt piano


Thu 23 Jul
Prom 9: Beethoven Piano Concertos

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major (33 mins)

Igor Stravinsky 1882–1971
Apollon musagète (30 mins)

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major (33 mins)

Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Leif Ove Andsnes piano/director


Fri 24 Jul
Prom 10: Beethoven Piano Concertos

Igor Stravinsky 1882–1971
Concerto in E flat major 'Dumbarton Oaks' (16 mins)

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor (36 mins)

Arnold Schoenberg 1874–1951
Friede auf Erden Friede auf Erden, Op 13 (a cappella version) (10 mins)
BBC Singers
David Hill conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827
Fantasia in C minor for piano, chorus and orchestra, Op 80 (20 mins)
BBC Singers

Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Leif Ove Andsnes piano/director
David Hill conductor


Sun 26 Jul
Prom 12: Beethoven Piano Concertos

Igor Stravinsky 1882–1971
Octet (16 mins)

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major (29 mins)

Concerto for Piano No. 5 in E flat major 'Emperor', Op 73 (38 mins)

Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Leif Ove Andsnes piano/director


Tue 28 Jul
Prom 14: Prokofiev – the piano concertos

Sergey Prokofiev 1891–1953
Concerto for Piano No. 1 in D flat major, Op 10 (16 mins)
Daniil Trifonov piano

Concerto for Piano No. 2 in G minor, Op 16 (30 mins)
Sergei Babayan piano

Concerto for Piano No. 3 in C major (27 mins)
Daniil Trifonov piano

Piano Concerto No. 4 in B flat major (25 mins)
Alexei Volodin piano

Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major (23 mins)
Sergei Babayan piano

London Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev conductor


Fri 31 Jul
Prom 18: Katia and Marielle Labèque

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791
Concerto for two pianos in E flat major, K365 (24 mins)

Dmitry Shostakovich 1906–1975
Symphony No. 7 in C major, 'Leningrad' Symphony No. 7 in C major, 'Leningrad', Op 60 (73 mins)

Katia Labèque piano
Marielle Labèque piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov conductor


Sun 2 Aug
Prom 22: Aurora Orchestra

Brett Dean b.1961
Pastoral Symphony (15 mins)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791
Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major, K537 'Coronation' (32 mins)

Anna Meredith b.1978
Smatter Hauler
BBC commission: world premiere

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827
Symphony No. 6 in F major 'Pastoral' Symphony No. 6 in F major 'Pastoral', Op 68 (40 mins)

Francesco Piemontesi piano
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon conductor


Fri 7 Aug
Prom 29: Stravinsky, Messiaen & Ravel

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791
Idomeneo – ballet music Idomeneo, rè di Creta, Ballet Music, K 367 (24 mins)

Maurice Ravel 1875–1937
Piano Concerto in G major Concerto for Piano in G Major (23 mins)

Olivier Messiaen 1908–1992
Un oiseau des arbres de Vie (Oiseau tui) (orch. C. Dingle)
unique performance with kind permission of the Fondation Olivier Messiaen: world premiere (4 mins)

Maurice Ravel 1875–1937
Miroirs – Oiseaux tristes (arr. C. Matthews)

Igor Stravinsky 1882–1971
Symphony in Three Movements (22 mins)

Maurice Ravel 1875–1937
La valse (11 mins)

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano
BBC Philharmonic
Nicholas Collon conductor


Sun 9 Aug
Prom 32: Eric Whitacre and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Jonathan Newman b.1972
Blow It Up, Start Again
European premiere (4 mins)

Eric Whitacre b.1970
The River Cam (12 mins)
Leonard Elschenbroich cello

Cloudburst (9 mins)

George Gershwin 1898–1937
Rhapsody in Blue (orch. Grofé) (16 mins)

Aaron Copland 1900–1990
Quiet City (9 mins)

Eric Whitacre b.1970
Equus (9 mins)
BBC Singers

Deep Field
BBC co-commission: European premiere (20 mins)

Martin James Bartlett piano
Leonard Elschenbroich cello
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Eric Whitacre conductor


Mon 10 Aug
Proms Chamber Music 4: Dame Evelyn Glennie

Keiko Abe b.1937
Prism Rhapsody (15 mins)

Evelyn Glennie & Philip Sheppard
Orologeria aureola (5 mins)

Bertram Wee b.1992
Dithyrambs
world premiere (7 mins)

John Psathas b.1966
View from Olympus
world premiere of this version (23 mins)

Evelyn Glennie percussion
Philip Smith piano


Wed 12 Aug
Prom 36: Pierre Boulez, Ravel & Stravinsky

Pierre Boulez b.1925
Figures – Doubles – Prismes (22 mins)
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Maurice Ravel 1875–1937
Frontispice (arr. P. Boulez) (2 mins)

Concerto for Piano in D major for the Left Hand (19 mins)

Igor Stravinsky 1882–1971
The Firebird (L' oiseau de feu) (46 mins)

Marc-André Hamelin piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
François-Xavier Roth conductor


Thu 13 Aug
Prom 38: Messiaen – Turangalîla Symphony

John Foulds 1880–1939
Three Mantras Three Mantras, Op 61b (26 mins)

Olivier Messiaen 1908–1992
Turangalîla Symphony (75 mins)

Steven Osborne piano
Valérie Hartmann-Claverie ondes martenot
London Symphony Chorus (women's voices)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena conductor


Tue 18 Aug
Prom 44: West–Eastern Divan Orchestra and Daniel Barenboim

Arnold Schoenberg 1874–1951
Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op 9 (22 mins)

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827
Concerto in C major for violin, cello and piano (Triple Concerto) (35 mins)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840–1893
Symphony No. 4 in F minor (43 mins)

Guy Braunstein violin
Kian Soltani cello
West–Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim conductor, piano/conductor


Wed 19 Aug
Prom 45: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Charles Dutoit

Claude Debussy 1862–1918
Petite suite (orch. Henri Büsser) (13 mins)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791
Concerto for Piano No. 22 in E flat major, K482 (36 mins)

Dmitry Shostakovich 1906–1975
Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op 141 (44 mins)

Elisabeth Leonskaja piano
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Dutoit conductor


Sat 22 Aug
Prom 50: Bach – Goldberg Variations

J. S. Bach 1685–1750
'Goldberg' Variations (71 mins)
András Schiff piano


Mon 24 Aug
Proms Chamber Music 6: Jeremy Denk

Béla Bartók 1881–1945
Piano Sonata (13 mins)

Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin 1871–1915
Piano Sonata No. 9, 'Black Mass' (10 mins)

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 (25 mins)

Jeremy Denk piano


Prom 53: Bartók – The Miraculous Mandarin; Shostakovich – Orango

Béla Bartók 1881–1945
The Miraculous Mandarin, Sz 73, Op 19 (complete ballet) (32 mins)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791
Concerto for Piano No. 24 in C minor, K491 (29 mins)

Dmitry Shostakovich 1906–1975
Orango – Prologue (orch. G. McBurney) (32 mins)

Natalia Pavlova - Susanna
Natalia Yakimova - Renée
Alexander Shagun - Armand Fleury
Alexander Trofimov - Paul Mâche
Vladimir Babokin - Foreigner 1
Oleg Losev - Foreigner 2
Dmitry Koleushko - Zoologist
Ivan Novoselov - Orango
Leo Elhardt - Voice from the Crowd
Denis Beganski - Master of Ceremonies
Yuri Yevchuk - Veselchak
Philharmonia Voices
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Irina Brown stage director
David Fray piano


Fri 28 Aug
Prom 57: Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Bernard Haitink

Franz Schubert 1797–1828
Overture in C major 'In the Italian Style', D 591 (9 mins)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K488 Concerto for Piano No. 23 in A major, K 488 (26 mins)

Franz Schubert 1797–1828
Symphony No. 9 in C major 'Great', D 944 (51 mins)

Maria João Pires piano
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Bernard Haitink conductor


Sun 30 Aug
Prom 60: Mahler – Symphony No. 1

Arnold Schoenberg 1874–1951
Theme and Variations, Op. 43b (13 mins)

Henry Cowell 1897–1965
Piano Concerto (15 mins)

Gustav Mahler 1860–1911
Symphony No. 1 in D major (56 mins)

Jeremy Denk piano
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas conductor


Mon 31 Aug
Proms Chamber Music 7: Shostakovich Quintet

Samuel Barber 1910–1981
String Quartet, Op. 11 (8 mins)

Claude Debussy 1862–1918
Préludes Book 2 (7 mins)

Dmitry Shostakovich 1906–1975
Piano Quintet (35 mins)

Elisabeth Leonskaja piano
Emerson String Quartet


Prom 61: San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas

Charles Ives 1874–1954
Symphony: New England Holidays
Decoration Day (10 mins)

Béla Bartók 1881–1945
Piano Concerto No. 2 (28 mins)

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica' Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica', Op 55 (52 mins)

Yuja Wang piano
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas conductor


Wed 2 Sep
Prom 63: Messiaen, Mozart & Bruckner

Olivier Messiaen 1908–1992
Hymne (12 mins)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K595 (32 mins)

Anton Bruckner 1824–1896
Symphony No. 7 in E major (65 mins)

Igor Levit piano
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Peter Oundjian conductor, Proms debut artist


Fri 4 Sep
Prom 66: Beethoven, Schoenberg & Shostakovich

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827
Fidelio – overture (7 mins)

Arnold Schoenberg 1874–1951
Piano Concerto Concerto for Piano, Op 42 (20 mins)

Dmitry Shostakovich 1906–1975
Symphony No. 8 in C minor Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op 65 (64 mins)

Mitsuko Uchida piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski conductor


Mon 7 Sep
Proms Chamber Music 8: Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio

Johannes Brahms 1833–1897
Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8 (39 mins)

Arlene Sierra b.1970
Butterflies Remember a Mountain (11 mins)

Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio


Prom 70: Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov & Rimsky-Korsakov

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840–1893
Francesca da Rimini (18 mins)

Sergey Rachmaninov 1873–1943
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Concerto for Piano No. 2 in C minor, Op 18 (35 mins)

Rimsky-Korsakov 1844–1908
Scheherazade Scheherazade, Op 35 (42 mins)

Nikolai Lugansky piano
St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Yuri Temirkanov conductor


Wed 9 Sep
Prom 72: Nielsen & Ives

Carl Nielsen 1865–1931
Springtime on Funen Springtime on Funen, FS96, Op 42 (19 mins)

Concerto for Violin, FS61, Op 33 (35 mins)

Joseph Philbrick Webster 1819–1875
In the Sweet By and By (3 mins)

Charles Zeuner 1795–1857
Ye Christian Heralds (2 mins)

Simeon B. Marsh 1798–1875
Jesus, Lover of My Soul (3 mins)

Lowell Mason 1792–1872
Nearer, My God, to Thee (4 mins)

Charles Ives 1874–1954
Symphony No. 4 (34 mins)


Henning Kraggerud violin
Malin Christensson soprano
Ben Johnson tenor
Neal Davies bass-baritone
William Wolfram piano
Tiffin Boys' Choir
Tiffin Girls' Choir
BBC Singers
Crouch End Festival Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton conductor


Sat 12 Sep
Prom 76: Last Night of the Proms 2015

Eleanor Alberga b.1949
Arise, Athena!
BBC commission: world premiere (3 mins)

Dmitry Shostakovich 1906–1975
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major Concerto for Piano No. 2 in F major, Op 102 (20 mins)

Arvo Pärt b.1935
Credo (12 mins)

Richard Strauss 1864–1949
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (16 mins)

Giacomo Puccini 1858–1924
Tosca
Recondita armonia (3 mins)

Manon Lescaut
Donna non vidi mai (3 mins)

Turandot
Nessun dorma (3 mins)

James P. Johnson 1894–1955
Victory Stride (4 mins)

Aaron Copland 1900–1990
Old American Songs
'I bought me a cat' (3 mins)

Edvard Grieg 1843–1907
Peer Gynt, Op 23
Morning (4 mins)

Morton Gould 1913–1996
Boogie Woogie Etude (2 mins)

Franz Lehár 1870–1948
The Land of Smiles
'Dein ist mein ganzes Herz' (4 mins)

Richard Rodgers 1902–1979
The Sound of Music
medley (6 mins)

Henry Wood 1869–1944
Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
Jack's the Lad (Hornpipe); Home, Sweet Home (6 mins)

Thomas Arne 1710–1778
Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent) (5 mins)

Edward Elgar 1857–1934
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major ('Land of Hope and Glory') (8 mins)

Hubert Parry 1848–1918
Jerusalem (orch. Elgar) (3 mins)

Traditional
The National Anthem (arr. Britten) (3 mins)

Auld Lang Syne (arr. Cedric Thorpe Davie) (2 mins)

Benjamin Grosvenor piano
Danielle de Niese soprano
Jonas Kaufmann tenor
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conductor

cool stuff

is Mozart sprinkled here and there to ease the sour bitter taste of the atonalists? are these rebels classical by now? They must be, most of the repertoire comes from them. It seems they replaced most of the romantics, specially early ones. They keep pushing their dissonant WW noises down our ears for all these years and most people just prefer to listen to jazz or rock instead...

Will these concerts be broadcast live on the BBC? And if so will they be available live in the US?

All Proms concerts are broadcast live on www.bbc.co.uk/radio3, then available to listen on replay for the next 30 days (at least) on BBC iPlayer.

To check whether you can receive it where you live, click on to the website - if you can listen to what's on Radio 3 now (Arvo Pärt's choral music is on right now), you can listen to the Proms concerts live.

To check whether you can receive BBC iPlayer, try www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060bs99 - if you get Rach 3 (played by Alexei Volodin) you can get iPlayer anytime. (If you get Tchaik 3, something's wrong..... ).

Ah! I can! I just assumed things like this were blocked, but I guess that's just major sporting events on TV. Thank you!

I think all of their TV is blocked. Unfortunately for us non-Brits, there are a number of television broadcasts from the Proms that won't be (legally) available outside of the UK. But, OTOH, some of them do have a way of eventually turning up on YouTube.

Here is a link the the Proms webpage, where the entire schedule and various related things can be found.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms

Also, FWIW, my way of navigating the Radio 3 material that is being held available for the 30 days is through their by-the-week schedule -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/programmes/schedules/this_week

I always feel like I should be sending some sort of donation in, given how much I mooch off of the British taxpayers yearly come Proms time.

I'm sure good ol' Auntie Beeb (as the Brits fondly - or unkindly - like to call it) would welcome donations with open arms .

They've just been told that, as well as having their budget slashed, they're going to have to fund pensioners' free TV licenses themselves very soon (traditionally, all pensioners get their TV licenses free - i.e. paid for by the taxpayer - which is absurd, as many pensioners are actually very wealthy.....). So, a TV station will have to close.

As for Radio 3, the envy of classical enthusiasts around the world , who knows? It's the least popular BBC radio station by far, only listened to by a tiny minority of the British population (the cognoscenti ), and it's still around only because the BBC is publicly funded, and is supposed to be a public service corporation which is not dictated by market forces.....

Thanks for the list, wr. That looks like a great lineup!

Lots to look forward to here. Lugansky playing Rach 2 and the Prokofiev piano concerto night in particular.

The striking collection of music in Denk's solo recital has me intrigued. (On the other hand, having him play the Cowell concerto with the SF Symphony in their concert seems like a waste, unless he can convince me it's a better piece than other performances of it I've heard would indicate.)

And the Andsnes Beethoven cycle - normally, I'm just not all that interested in hearing yet another good performance of these warhorses anymore. I've reached an age where I've heard most of the core repertoire played so many times by so many great pianists that it takes something really unusual to grab my interest. Well, earlier this year I was listening to BBC Radio 3's CD Review show and a movement of Andsnes' recent set of these concertos was played, and it just bowled me right over. He has managed to do the very difficult trick of somehow making extremely familiar music sound like it is completely fresh, ink still wet. If his live performances are anything like that recording, they will be a major treat.

It's always a treat for me to hear Andsnes play. He's one of those pianists that I know I'm going to enjoy whatever he's playing.
I was a little bit disappointed with Lars Vogt's Mozart on the opening night.