Oud player Khyam Allami features in the first Proms' BBC Radio 3 World Routes Academy

Photo © Fiacha O'Dubhda

BBC Proms - Week Four

When: 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

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.

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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