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SymphonyCast takes us to the BBC Proms in August, First Night of the Proms 8/5 @ 8pm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3wN8hzmHWtRCWCTWWbb8Lhy/proms-2022-your-guide-through-the-season

Every year listeners inquire about out musical journey to the BBC Proms. You'll hear programs from the Proms throughout August and September.

8/5 First night of the PROMS BBC Proms Verdi: Requiem (Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, s; Jennifer Johnson, ms; Freddie De Tommaso, t; Kihwan Sim, bs-bar; BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Crouch End Festival Chorus; Sakari, Oramo, cond)

8/12 BBC Proms #8 Johannsson: The Miners’ Hymns – They Being Dead Yet Speaketh Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 Gildur Guanadottir: The Fact of the Matter Tchaikovsky: Fantasy-Overture Romeo and Juliet (Alexander Gavrylyuk, p; BBC Symphony Orchestra & Singers; Dalia Stasevska, cond)

8/19 BBC Proms #9 Ravel: Sheherazade – ouverture de feerie Sally Beamish: Hive Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (Catrin Finch, hp; BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Ariane Matiakh, cond)

8/26 BBC Proms #27 Elfman: Wunderkammer Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe (Simone Dinnerstein, p; The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain; Andrew Gourlay, cond)

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