主播大秀 performing groups
The six 主播大秀 performing groups are the backbone of the Proms. With around 30 performances between them, including the First and Last Nights with the 主播大秀 Symphony Orchestra, the breadth of music-making is vast.
New music is at the heart of their Proms, with major premieres throughout the season. The 主播大秀 Symphony Orchestra performs three 主播大秀 commissions: Endless Forms by Fung Lam (18 July); meld by Benedict Mason (28 July); and Night Songs by Helen Grime (25 August).
Other premieres by the 主播大秀 SO include Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Canon Fever, the first work to be performed in the 2012 season (13 July). The 主播大秀 Scottish Symphony Orchestra premieres Thea Musgrave’s Loch Ness – a Postcard from Scotland, a 主播大秀 commission (5 August); the 主播大秀 Philharmonic gives the premiere of James MacMillan’s 主播大秀 co-commisioned Credo (7 August); while the 主播大秀 Singers perform in the premiere of a major new piece for children, The Angry Planet by Bob Chilcott (5 August), as well as in the premiere of Eric Whitacre’s 主播大秀 commission Higher, Faster, Stronger, part of a Late Night Prom featuring the American composer’s music (29 August).
The 主播大秀 Concert Orchestra gives two Proms firsts this season: a complete performance of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard (19 August) and the Desert Island Discs Prom (3 September).
The 主播大秀 Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Manze, offers a rare opportunity to hear Vaughan Williams’s Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 and 6 all in one concert (16 August).
The 主播大秀 Symphony Orchestra gives 12 performances throughout the season, many of which include choral music. In four Proms, including the First and Last Nights, the orchestra is joined by the 主播大秀 Symphony Chorus, while other collaborators include the newly formed 主播大秀 Proms Youth Choir (1 August), the 主播大秀 Singers, Crouch End Festival Chorus and New London Chamber Choir (12 August), the London Philharmonic Choir (29 August) and the 主播大秀 Singers again for John Adams’s iconic opera Nixon in China (5 September).