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Back up to: 91Èȱ¬ Proms

1. Sergei Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances (Prom 12)

   Rachmaninov's last composition, an orchestral suite in three movements, completed in 1940
2. Roxanna Panufnik: Songs of Darkness, Dreams of Light (Last Night of the Proms)

   Songs of Darkness, Dreams of Light draws on complementary religious traditions.
3. Robert Schumann: Symphony No 4 in D minor (original 1841 version) (Prom 8)

   Revised in 1851. This 1841 version was the one greatly preferred by Johannes Brahms.
4. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region (Prom 1)

   Vaughan Williams's atmospheric setting of Walt Whitman.
5. Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (Prom 17)

   The Lark Ascending depicts a skylark singing an impossibly beautiful song.
6. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Pastoral Symphony (No. 3) (Prom 17)

   The 'Pastoral' landscape refers to the blasted terrain of the First World War.
7. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem (Prom 41)

   Grant Us Peace', the work is in six movements and includes texts by Walt Whitman.
8. Pablo de Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen (Prom 55)

   The 'Gypsy airs', in 'Zigeunerweisen' are based on the tunes of Hungarian Gypsies.
9. Musicals at Proms in Hyde Park

   The Greatest Showman, Bat Out Of Hell and West End classics on Last Night Of The Proms
10. Morfydd Owen: Nocturne (Prom 8)

    Born at South Wales in 1891, she won a silver medal for composition, for her Nocturne.
11. Modest Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain (orch. Rimsky-Korsakov) (Prom 28)

    St. John witnesses a nocturnal witches' Sabbath. But at sunrise, the witches vanish.
12. Maurice Ravel: Tzigane (Prom 3)

    Tzigane is French for ‘Gypsy’ but Eastern European, Jewish and Scottish influences abound
13. Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade (Prom 48)

    A setting of three poems by Tristan Klingsor from his collection called Shéhérazade.
14. Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (Prom 28)

    The concerto was commissioned by a pianist who lost an arm in the First World War.
15. Maurice Ravel: Mother Goose (ballet) (Prom 48)

    Inspired by the fairy tales of Charles Perrault.
16. Maurice Ravel: L'enfant et les sortilèges (Prom 48)

    The Child and the Spells', music by Ravel to a libretto by Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette.
17. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major, 'Emperor' (Prom 15)

    The 'Emperor' was dedicated to Archduke Rudolf. It premiered in Leipzig, Germany, in 1811
18. Lili Boulanger: Pour les funérailles d'un soldat (Prom 41)

    For the funeral of a soldier', her first extant choral piece written when she was just 19
19. Lili Boulanger: D’un matin de printemps & D’un soir triste (Prom 8)

    "Of a Spring Morning" & "Of a sad evening".
20. Leonard Bernstein: Symphony No 2 'The Age of Anxiety' (Prom 60)

    ‘The Age of Anxiety’ – a musical quest for faith in a broken, post-war world.
21. Johannes Brahms: Symphony No 2 in D major (Prom 15)

    Brahms’s sunny Second Symphony, whose lyrical pastoral spirit echoes Beethoven's sixth.
22. Johannes Brahms: Symphony No 1 in C minor (Prom 55)

    Darkness and drama give way to an ending of transcendent musical triumph.
23. Johannes Brahms: A German Requiem (Prom 33)

    The Requiem was written as a tribute to his mother and designed to comfort the grieving.
24. Jean Sibelius: Symphony No 5 in E flat major (Prom 42)

    Commissioned by the Finnish government to celebrate Sibelius' 50th birthday.
25. Iain Farrington: Gershwinicity (Prom 3)

    Gershwinicity is a fantasia based on five Gershwin songs. 91Èȱ¬ commision, world premiere.
26. Hubert Parry: Symphony No. 5 in B minor (Prom 17)

    Parry’s stirring Fifth Symphony in this centenary celebration of Hubert Parry.
27. Hubert Parry: Hear my words, ye people (Prom 17)

    Set to biblical texts, the anthem was designed to be sung by two thousand singers.
28. Hubert Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens (Last Night of the Proms)

    This is Parry's ecstatic setting for chorus of Milton's ode, At a solemn Musick.
29. Headphone mix of Holst's The Planets

    Listen on headphones for the full spatial effect.
30. György Ligeti: Lontano (Prom 28)

    Ligeti’s Lontano summons the ‘dream worlds of childhood’.

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