 Oud player Khyam Allami features in the first Proms' BBC Radio 3 World Routes Academy Photo © Fiacha O'Dubhda BBC Proms - Week FourWhen: 8 - 14 Aug 2010 (annual) Where: Royal Albert Hall Opening Hours: Various; free pre-concert events before all Proms at the Royal College of Music Rating:  Phone: 0845 401 5040 (from UK only) Web site: BBC Proms Website Ending with a spectacular Bach Day, the BBC Proms' fourth week at the Royal Albert Hall welcomes orchestras from Berlin and Copenhagen. The new World Routes Academy brings together Iraqi guitarist Ilham Al Madfai and Damascus-born oud player Khyam Allami. Don't miss this fantastic festival, with the cheapest tickets in town. With places guaranteed for those that queue on the day (as long as you queue early enough and are happy to stand) for only £5 - with even cheaper weekend Proms passes - the Proms are the best value concerts (classical or not) anywhere in the world.
Prom 30: Sunday 8 August at 4pm: Daniel-Lesur: Le cantique des cantiques Takemitsu: Garden Rain & Signals from Heaven (conducted by Andrew Crowley) Stephen Montague: Wilful Chants (BBC commission, world première) Poulenc: Figure humaine Brass, percussion and voices come together in this matinée with the BBC Symphony Chorus, conducted by Stephen Jackson with soloists from Trinity College of Music Chamber Choir and London Brass
Prom 31 Sunday 8 August at 7.30pm Messiaen: Un sourire Mozart: Piano Concerto No 17 in G K453 with Louis Lortie Parry: Elegy for Brahms Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor BBC Symphony Orchestra welcomes back to the Proms conductor laureate Sir Andrew Davis
Prom 32: Monday 9 August at 7pm Tchaikovsky: Fantasy Overture Romeo and Juliette Janácek: Taras Bulba Berlioz: Harold in Italy with violist Maxim Rysanov Sir Colin Davis brings the European Union Youth Orchestra back to the Proms
Prom 33: Monday 9 August Late Night at 10pm BBC Radio 3 World Routes Academy First recipient of the World Routes Academy scholarship, Damascas-born oud player Khyam Allami and his mentor, Iraqi guitarist and vocalist Ilham Al Madfai are joined by percussionists Faisal Ghazi, Omar Ahmed Majeed & Saro Kevorkian (drum kit), Anwar Abo Daoud (joza), Suhad Najm Abdullah (qanun), Nicola Barakat (electric bass) and Robert Michel (guitar) for an innovative night of world music fusion
Prom 34: Tuesday 10 August at 7.30pm Schreker: Nachtstück from Der ferne Klang Korngold: Violin Concerto with Leonidas Kavakos Mahler: Symphony No 7 Ingo Metzmacher returns, for the first time with his new orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Prom 35: Wednesday 11 August at 7pm Ligeti: Night, Morning and Lux aeterna Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto with Henning Kraggerud Langgaard: Music of the Spheres with soprano Inger Dam-Jensen Sibelius: Symphony No 5 Thomas Dausgaard brings his Danish National Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Danish National Vocal Ensemble & Concert Choir for the UK première of Langgaard's mystical Music of the Spheres, composed at the same time as Sibelius was working on his mighty Fifth Symphony
Prom 36: Thursday 12 August at 7.30pm Berlioz: Overture Le corsaire Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor with Nelson Friere Roussel: Symphony No 3 Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé - Suite No 2 Lionel Bringuier conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Prom 37: Friday 13 August at 7.30pm Verdi: Overture: La forza del destino Dallapiccola: Partita with soprano Sarah Tynan Bruch: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor with James Ehnest Schumann: Symphony No 4 in D minor (1851 version) Gianandrea Noseda conducts his BBC Philharmonic
Saturday 14 August: Bach Day Following Sir John Eliot Gardiner's performances of the complete Brandenburg Concertos over at the Cadogan Hall earlier today, the focus swings back to the Royal Albert Hall for two concerts
Prom 38: at 5pm David Briggs plays the Hall's famous Willis organ in original and arranged Bach J S Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582 and Chorale prelude on Wachet auf, rüft uns die Stimme BWV 645 J S Bach arr Stainton B Taylor: Aria Schafe können sicher weiden from Cantata No 208 J S Bach arr Virgil Fox: Chorale Komm, susser Tod BWV 478 J S Bach arr David Briggs: Orchestral Suite No 3 in D BWV 1068
Prom 39: at 7.30pm Orchestral transcriptions of Bach from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andrew Litton J S Bach orch Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565 J S Bach orch Henry Wood: Prelude & Finale from "Suite No 6" Tarik O'Regan: Latent Manifest (BBC commission, world première) Walton: The Wise Virgins Suite Grainger: Blithe Bells J S Bach arr Sargent: Air from Orchestral Suite No 3 in D BWV 1068 Alissa Firsova: Bach Allegro (BBC commission, world première) J S Bach arr Bantock: Wachet auf, ruft uns due Stimme BWV 645 J S Bach arr Respighi: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582 | |