Thursday 24 July - Sunday 10 August 2014
Live on Stage!
Our glittering summer family treat based on the award-winning picture book by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, featuring live music, puppetry, plenty of audience participation and...
Friday 25 July 2014, 7.30pm
Featuring Todd Gordon & the Back to Basie Orchestra
Todd Gordon, one of Britain's top jazz and swing singers along with his 17-piece, award-winning Back to Basie big band showcase many of Sinatra's most popular songs.
Monday 28 July 2014, 1.00pm
C.P.E. Bach
This year marks the 300th anniversary of C.P.E. Bach, second son of J.S. Bach and the most musically rebellious of the younger Bachs. When Mozart wrote, ‘Bach is the father, we...
Saturday 2 August 2014, 3.00pm
Armonia Atenea – Greek Myths
The first Greek orchestra ever to appear at the Proms presents a programme appropriately inspired by Greek myths. Furies rage, sons defy their fathers and heroines bewail their...
Monday 4 August 2014, 1.00pm
R. Strauss & Mozart
Richard Strauss was just 20 when he composed his Suite – and steeped in the conservative musical traditions of his horn-player father, who revered Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven...
Saturday 9 August 2014, 3.00pm
Lapland Chamber Orchestra & Håkan Hardenberger
John Storgårds directs his Lapland Chamber Orchestra – the most northerly professional orchestra in the EU – making its Proms debut.
Contemporary music forms a key role in...
Monday 11 August 2014, 1.00pm
Prokofiev & Schubert
Dutch violinist Janine Jansen performs as a chamber musician alongside pianist Itamar Golan and violinist-turned-conductor Sakari Oramo. Although a familiar face on the podium,...
Thursday 14 August 2014, 12.00pm
Out to Lunch 2014
The multi-award winning artist sings from her acclaimed CD 'A Thousand Kisses Deep', new arrangements of Leonard Cohen songs to celebrate the Canadian poet on his 80th birthday....
Saturday 16 August 2014, 7.30pm
Angela Brownridge in an all-Chopin programme: a variety of works which show this greatest composer for the piano at the height of his powers.
'One of the finest Chopin...
Monday 18 August 2014, 1.00pm
R. Strauss & Wolf Songs
Mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and pianist Julius Drake perform a programme of German songs including Strauss's Eight Poems from 'Letzte Blätter' – some of the very earliest and...
Tuesday 19 August 2014, 12.00pm
Out to Lunch 2014
Contemporary London blues band with foot-thumping songs, featuring Paul Pacifico on harmonica and Chris Newland on guitar.
Wednesday 20 August - Saturday 23 August 2014
A 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Music of Cole Porter
Featuring the best from classic shows such as Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate & High Society, starring Maria Friedman, Jenna Russell, Graham Bickley & Clive Rowe, with the Royal...
Thursday 21 August 2014, 12.00pm
Currently a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, saxophonist and composer Trish Clowes’ music explores a fascinating hinterland between jazz and contemporary classical music,...
Monday 25 August 2014, 1.00pm
Mozart, Mahler, R. Strauss
BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Louis Schwizgebel made his concerto debut at the Proms earlier this season and now returns for a programme of chamber music.
He is joined by...
Tuesday 26 August 2014, 12.00pm
Fusing elements of European folk, jazz and classical traditions, trumpeter Laura Jurd and her quartet create a unique and distinctive soundworld, from rocking out full steam to...
