Alphabetical list of Composers

[Thespian]

Alphabetical List of Composers and what's being played

Alain Litanies
Albéniz Iberia - Triana; El Puerto; Fête-Dieu à Séville
Anders Hillborg Cold Heat
Arne Rule Britannia (8 mins)
Barber Adagio for strings (8 mins)
Barry Out of Africa - Love Theme (7 mins)
Bartók Piano Concerto No. 1 (24 mins)
Bartók Piano Concerto No. 2 (28 mins)
Bartók Piano Concerto No. 3 (24 mins)
Bartók The Miraculous Mandarin - suite (20 mins)
Bax Symphony No. 2 (39 mins)
Beethoven Missa Solemnis (90 mins)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major (35 mins)
Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C major (27 mins)
Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica' (50 mins)
Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B flat major (34 mins)
Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major (40 mins)
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'Choral' (70 mins)
Beethoven Triple concerto
Berg Der Wein (15 mins)
Berlioz Overture 'Le corsaire' (9 mins)
Bingham The Everlasting Crown
Brahms Academic Festival Overture
Brahms Concerto in A minor for Violin and Cello (Double Concerto) (32 mins)
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor (45 mins)
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major (50 mins)
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 3' in D major (39 mins)
Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor (arr. Schoenberg) (42 mins)
Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor (45 mins)
Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 (40 mins)
Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F major (38 mins)
Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor (42 mins)
Brahms Three Intermezzos, Op. 117 - Nos. 1 & 2 (7 mins)
Brahms Violin Concerto in D major (40 mins)
Bratsch Bi Lovengo (arr. Barley) (3 mins)
Braunfels Fantastic Appearances of a Theme of Hector Berlioz (47 mins)
Brian Symphony No 1 - The Gothic
Bridge Blow out you bugles (5 mins)
Bridge Enter Spring (17 mins)
Bridge Isabella (13 mins)
Bridge Overture 'Rebus' (9 mins)
Bridge There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook (11 mins)
Britten Cantata misericordium (20 mins)
Britten Piano Concerto (35 mins)
Britten Sinfonia da Requiem (20 mins)
Britten Spring Symphony (45 mins)
Britten The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (20 mins)
Britten Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge (25 mins)
Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor (24 mins)
Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B flat major (ed. Nowak) (75 mins)
Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C minor (85 mins)
Castiglioni Inverno in-ver (22 mins)
Chopin Grande Polonaise brillante, Op. 22 (9 mins)
Colin Matthews No Man’s Land (c20 mins)
Copland Fanfare for the Common Man (3 mins)
Debussy Images - Gigues (7 mins)
Debussy Images - Ibéria (20 mins)
Debussy Images - Rondes de printemps (9 mins)
Debussy La Mer (24 mins)
Debussy Prélude à L'après-midi d'un faune (8 mins)
DuOud For Nedim (For Nadia) (arr. Barley) (6 mins)
Dupré Cortège et litanie (6 mins)
Dusapin Morning in Long island
Dvorák Cello Concerto in B minor (40 mins)
Elgar Enigma Variations (28 mins)
Elgar Overture 'Cockaigne (In London Town)' (15 mins)
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major (8 mins)
Elgar There is sweet music (4 mins)
Elgar Violin Concerto (50 mins)
Elliott Carter Flute Concerto (13 mins)
Ennio Morricone Cinema Paradiso - theme (7 mins)
Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain (24 mins)
Faure Pavane (7 mins)
Franck Chorale No. 2 in B minor (14 mins)
Gabriel Prokofiev Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra (21 mins)
Glière Concerto for Coloratura Soprano (14 mins)
Graham Fitkin Cello Concerto (c27 mins)
Grainger Early One Morning (5 mins)
Grainger Green Bushes (9 mins)
Grainger Irish Tune from County Derry (4 mins)
Grainger Mo nighean dubh (My Dark-Haired Maiden) (4 mins)
Grainger Molly on the Shore (5 mins)
Grainger Scotch Strathspey and Reel (9 mins)
Grainger Shallow Brown (8 mins)
Grainger Shepherd's Hey - medley (12 mins)
Grainger Suite 'In a Nutshell' (20 mins)
Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor (30 mins)
Handel Rinaldo (140 mins)
Harrison Birtwistle Concerto for Vioiln and Orchestra (25 mins)
Henri Dutilleux L'arbre des songes (25 mins)
Henri Dutilleux Slava’s Fanfare (4 mins)
Henri Dutilleux 'Tout un monde lointain...' (27 mins)
Herrmann Music from ... (18 mins)
Holst Invocation (10 mins)
Holst The Planets (50 mins)
Honegger Pacific 231 (7 mins)
Honegger Pastorale d'été (8 mins)
J. S. Bach Chorale Prelude 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland', BWV 659 (4 mins)
J. S. Bach Solo violin works (c60 mins)
J.S Bach Chorale Prelude, Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott
Janacek Glagolitic Mass
Janáček Sinfonetta (24 mins)
John Williams Music from..(14 mins)
Jonny Greenwood Norwegian Wood - suite (arr. Robert Ziegler) (10 mins)
Kevin Volans Piano Concerto No. 3 (c30 mins)
Kodály Dances of Galánta (16 mins)
Kodály Duo, Op. 7 (26 mins)
Kodály Háry János - suite (24 mins)
Lewis/Bratsch Django (arr. Barley) (6 mins)
Liszt A Faust Symphony (62 mins)
Liszt Adagio in D flat major, S759 (5 mins)
Liszt Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude (18 mins)
Liszt Dante Symphony (41 mins)
Liszt Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke (Mephisto Waltz No. 1) (12 mins)
Liszt Fantasia and Fugue on B-A-C-H (12 mins)
Liszt La notte (12 mins)
Liszt Legend No. 2, 'St Francis of Paola Walking on the Water' (9 mins)
Liszt Mazeppa (17 mins)
Liszt Piano Concerto no 2
Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major (19 mins)
Liszt Prelude, Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen
Liszt Totentanz (15 mins)
Liszt Venezia e Napoli (18 mins)
Mahler Blumine (7 mins)
Mahler Das klagende Lied (original version) (68 mins)
Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D major (55 mins)
Mahler Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection' (85 mins)
Mahler Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor (73 mins)
Mahler Symphony No. 6 in A minor (85 mins)
Mahler Symphony No. 9 (73 mins)
Marc-André Dalbavie Flute Concerto (18 mins)
Matthew Barley Yura (4 mins)
Mendelssohn Elijah (128 mins)
Messiaen Les offrandes oubliees
Michael Berkeley Organ Concerto (20 mins)
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K503 (33 mins)
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K595 (31 mins)
Mozart Requiem in D minor (compl. Süssmayr) (55 mins)
Nielsen Symphony No. 4, 'Inextinguishable' (35 mins)
Parry Jerusalem (orch. Elgar) (4 mins)
Pascal Dusapin String Quartet No. 6, 'Hinterland' (23 mins)
Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky - cantata (40 mins)
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet - selection (50 mins)
Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 in D major, 'Classical' (15 mins)
Prokofiev Symphony No. 4 in C major (revised version,1947) (37 mins)
Prokofiev Symphony No. 5 in B flat major (43 mins)
Purcell Chaconne in G minor (arr. Joby Talbot) (7 mins)
R. Strauss Burleske (20 mins)
R. Strauss Don Juan (17 mins)
R. Strauss Four Last Songs (22 mins)
R. Strauss Salome - Dance of the Seven Veils (12 mins)
R. Strauss Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (15 mins)
Rachmaninov Aleko - Women's and Men's Dances (9 mins)
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (25 mins)
Rachmaninov Spring (17 mins)
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances (36 mins)
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2 in E minor (62 mins)
Rachmaninov The Bells (38 mins)
Rachmaninov Three Russian Songs (14 mins)
Rachmaninov Vocalise (7 mins)
Ravel Alborado del gracioso (8 mins)
Ravel Boléro (15 mins)
Ravel Daphnis and Chloë (50 mins)
Ravel La valse (12 mins)
Ravel Rapsodie espagnole (15 mins)
Ravel Shéhérazade (17 mins)
Reger Chorale Prelude 'Jauchz, Erd, und Himmel, juble hell', Op. 67 No. 15 (3 mins)
Rimsky Korsakov Capriccio espagnol (15 mins)
Robin Holloway Fifth Concerto for Orchestra (c25 mins)
Rodgers Carousel - 'You'll never walk alone' (arr. Jackson) (3 mins)
Rodgers The Sound of Music - 'Climb ev'ry mountain' (arr.Jackson) (4 mins)
Rossini William Tell
Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, 'Egyptian' (27 mins)
Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 in C minor, 'Organ' (36 mins)
Schubert Quintet in C major, D956 (47 mins)
Schumann Introduction and Concert Allegro, Op. 134 (13 mins)
Shostakovich The Age of Gold - suite (16 mins)
Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor (39 mins)
Sibelius Finlandia (8 mins)
Sibelius Scènes historiques - Suite No. 2 (19 mins)
Sibelius Symphony No. 6 in D minor (28 mins)
Sibelius Symphony No. 7 in C major (23 mins)
Simon Holt Centauromachy (20 mins)
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Musica benevolens (c4 mins)
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett Murder on the Orient Express - suite (8 mins)
Smetana Má vlast (72 mins)
Steve Reich Clapping Music (5 mins)
Steve Reich Electric Counterpoint (15 mins)
Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians (55 mins)
Stravinsky Petrushka (1947 version) (34 mins)
Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements (20 mins)
Stravinsky The Firebird (46 mins)
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (33 mins)
Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini (22 mins)
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake (118 mins)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor (42 mins)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 in E minor (45 mins)
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (35 mins)
Thierry Escaich Evocation III (on 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland') (5 mins)
Thierry Escaich Overture in the Baroque Style (improvisation) (c5 mins)
Thierry Escaich Triptych on Themes by Liszt (improvisation) (c15 mins)
Thomas Larcher Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (c25 mins)
Verdi Requiem (86 mins
Victoria Dum complerentur (5 mins)
Victoria Lamentations for Good Friday (15 mins)
Victoria Officium defunctorum (Requiem) (42 mins)
Wagner Götterdämmerung - Immolation Scene (18 mins)
Wagner Lohengrin - Prelude, Act 1 (9 mins)
Wagner The Mastersingers of Nuremberg - overture (10 mins)
Walton Henry V - suite (arr. Muir Mathieson) (21 mins)
Walton Violin Concerto (32 mins)
Weber Der Freischütz (135 mins)
Weber Oberon - overture (9 mins)
Webern Passacaglia, Op. 1 (11 mins)
Weir Stars, Night, Music, Light (p)
Wolfgang Rihm Gesungene Zeit (24 mins)
Zawinul Pursuit of the Woman with the Feathered Hat (arr. Barley) (6 mins)
Zawinul The Peasant (arr. Barley) (10 mins)

[Suffolkcoastal]

Thanks for this Thespian very useful. It highlights for me how little there is of interest, with a few exceptions (the Bax, Brian & Bartok mainly) this seems to be the most uninspiring Proms season that I have known since my interest in classical music began when I was 11 in 1976.

[Roehre]

Thanks thespian, very helpful :ale::ok:

[Panjandrum]

Now if you can just give the Prom number for each work as well....:whistle:

[Panjandrum]

Thanks for this Thespian very useful. It highlights for me how little there is of interest, with a few exceptions (the Bax, Brian & Bartok mainly) this seems to be the most uninspiring Proms season that I have known since my interest in classical music began when I was 11 in 1976.

Good to see Bolero getting an outing at last. Actually, Berg's concert aria, Der Wein should be worth a hearing; depending on the artist of course. :whistle:

[EdgeleyRob]

Surely there is some mistake,Vaughan Williams is missing.

[MrGongGong]

Surely there is some mistake,Vaughan Williams is missing.

Who ?
Never heard of him :laugh:

[antongould]

Surely there is some mistake,Vaughan Williams is missing.

My first thought too - is there some mistake?

[Suffolkcoastal]

This countries greatest symphonist RVW ignored, no Arnold, no Shostakovich symphonies, no Dvorak symphonies, no Schubert symphonies and no Haydn at all!!! In fact not much pre-classical music either, but quite a large selection of good old R3 warhorses :erm:

[Uncle Monty]

This countries greatest symphonist RVW ignored, no Arnold, no Shostakovich symphonies, no Dvorak symphonies, no Schubert symphonies and no Haydn at all!!! In fact not much pre-classical music either, but quite a large selection of good old R3 warhorses :erm:

Yes, this is a very odd list indeed. It's not that I object violently to much of what's included -- there's a fair bit of Bridge, not before time, though not major works -- and who could moan about a good Brahms symphony cycle and some Mahler? OK, Suffolk, you could moan about the Mahler :smiley: -- but the complete absence of many of the finest British composers, esp. RVW of course, has me for one smelling a rodent. If this were Germany and there was nothing by Beethoven or Brahms scheduled, there'd be riots. What is the agenda, or, if that's too strong a word, what's the thinking? What's it all about, Alfie?

[Suffolkcoastal]

I think Uncle Monty the Proms seems to mirror to a reasonable extent some of the 'trends' on R3 in the last few years. The decline in broadcasts of large scale Vaughan Williams works since 2008, a decline in Shostakovich symphony broadcasts and in broadcasts of his music generally, keeping works by Scandinavian composers outside of the 'big three' to a minimum virtually ignoring all American composers apart from a select few and presenting British music in a rather piecemeal fashion. There has been a tendency to offer carrots to British music fans in the last 3 years, just to keep them interested and keeping them eagerly anticipating each season but without really making much more than a basic acknowledgement of British composers. In 2009 we had the Moeran Symphony and the Holst Choral Symphony last year some Parry and this year the Brian & Bax symphonies plus some Bridge. The Planets could do with a rest as could the Enigma Variations for a couple of years ( I love both works btw). Britten has remained just about in favour at the moment and with his centenary coming up in 2013 will probably remain so. It is good though that the Spring Symphony is featuring in the proms, though it isn't amongst my favorite Britten works, I may still listen in as concert performances of the work are fairly infrequent.

[Boilk]

There have been ample Shostakovich symphonies in the past, what I want to know is why has Rioger Wright programmed so much bloody Brahms (12 works)? It's not an anniversary year of any sort, though you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a bicentennial of some sort.

It is however the Liszt bicentennial, but I think a few less than the 14 works of his appearing might have made room for completely missing composers - too many to single out.

Nice to see Niccolò Castiglioni getting a look in, an important and original Italian :ok:

As usual, Bernstein, Barber, Copland, Carter and Reich seems to be the mainstay of American music, which is the usual BBC slap-in-the-face gesture to several hundred younger American composers that the BBC seems never to have heard of. If they did the same with British music we would never hear music by anyone younger than Birtwistle or Maxwell Davies !!! The BBC badly needs to educate itself about American music. And, come to think of it, Eastern European composers.

[MrGongGong]

No Alphabet of composers is complete without Xenakis !

[Uncle Monty]

There has been a tendency to offer carrots to British music fans in the last 3 years, just to keep them interested and keeping them eagerly anticipating each season but without really making much more than a basic acknowledgement of British composers.

Yes, that all sounds right. I hope it's not chauvinist to expect Britain's greatest festival, run by the BBC, and apparently followed all over the world as a showcase for the country's musical culture, to programme our greatest music as well as interesting byways and new works. However, even without playing the national card, what is the carrot-offering designed to achieve? I can just about see programming driven by the likelihood of putting bums on seats ("= success" to the marketing and PR brigade?) but even at that level there's a lot of interesting and/or much-loved work that could do that, but is being ignored -- and seemingly in a way that conceals some attitude that I'm not seeing or understanding.

I'm far less expert on American music than you are, but the dearth of eastern European music is as puzzling as it is disappointing.

These anniversary-driven programmings are pernicious, aren't they? I will admit I enjoyed all the RVW activity in 2008, as I'm sure you did, but there is a price to pay, seemingly. Post anniversarium omne animal triste est, or something like that. Is it just laziness and a tabloid mentality, flitting from headline to headline, always with some angle, when programmers say, "Right, we've done Vaughan Williams, Shostakovich, etc., (with a worrying implication of Thank God that's over), now we needn't do any more for years."?

[Suffolkcoastal]

Carter has actually been marginalised (as has Ives) by the current R3 regime since 2008, the new work in the proms is therefore welcome. Barber, Bernstein & Copland seem only to be represented by a handful of 'popular' works on R3 these days and there inclusion in the proms isn't that common, Barber was treated shamefully in last years proms. Yes some of the younger American composers would be welcome, they are a bit hit and miss, but I'm sure the proms audience would appreciate Hersch and Danielpour for example though the latter isn't that young these days. I would of course rather see Harris, Diamond, Schuman, Piston et al included occasionally.

Your point on the anniversaries and the proms is very true uncle monty, I expect Liszt will all but vanish next year. Having said that even anniversary composers haven't necessarily been well treated by the Proms in recent years, it depends if they are in favour with the controller or not. Holmboe in 2009 nothing, Martinu in 2009 very little, W Schuman in 2010 nothing, Barber in 2010 very little Cherubini in 2010, one tiny overture (there has been more Cherubini broadcast this year already than the whole of last year on R3, methinks someone in R3 may have got their anniversary years mixed up). This year no Hovhaness, one of his works would be ideal Proms material one would have thought.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

This year no Hovhaness, one of his works would be ideal Proms material one would have thought. I had forgotten this was his anniversary year. He really should have been repesented.

[Boilk]

This year no Hovhaness, one of his works would be ideal Proms material one would have thought.

You're right Suffolkcoastal... I'd forgotten about the Hovhaness centenary. There is much top drawer Hovhaness from the 1950s and 60s (concerto for orchestra no.7, symphonies 2, 6, 11, etc). If I recall correctly, when he was Composer of the Week it wasn't the expected CDs, but BBC orchestras no less! He can be ideal Prommers material - unknown, accessible and stylistically a breath of fresh air.

But then if William Schuman was ignored last year, what hope for Hovhaness?

[ucanseetheend]

Not one Shostakovich symphony and of course the representation of great British Composers is lamentable, Think about it , the So called "greatest Music Festival in the world" what garbage

[MrGongGong]

Is Elliot Carters flute concerto really 13 minutes long ?

[Roehre]

Is Elliot Carters flute concerto really 13 minutes long ?

As it dates from 2008 I do think this might be the approximate length of the piece, given Carter's tendency from the last couple of years to create shorter pieces (and who can blame him for that, being 100 and then still composing)

[Brassbandmaestro]

I think it time to withdraw from The Proms!

[3rd Viennese School]

No Mahler 10? I thought they were playing the positive symphonies last year and the negative symphonys this year? ( 1860 and 1911)

3VS

[3rd Viennese School]

Just seen from the list that Prokofiev Symphony no.4 is being played! Never known this to be on the Proms before! It's not my prefered original version, but the revised. Still rare though.

Not a lot of Shoshtakovich this year.

Any new symphonies? Proms used to be good for that.

3VS

[FoxyTheCat]

Not a note of Vaughan Williams in the season and like many others, I initially thought there had been a typing mistake but it's true to form.

"The Greatest Music (=Mahler) Festival in the World" has always been antipathetic to RVW, the 2008 anniversary should have had all 9 symphonies with one or two from visting international orchestras.

It would have been great this year if they could have marked the fact that the Sea Symphony is now in it's 100th year.

Monty raises the possibility of a conspiracy theory against RVW's music at the BBC. The composer, later in life did once refer to the management of the BBC as a "load of Pimps" so perhaps
memories go back a long way at the BBC?

Regards all


FTC

[mercia]

Any new symphonies? Proms used to be good for that.

do composers write symphonies anymore? rather "old hat" as a form isn't it?

[Panjandrum]

Not a note of Vaughan Williams in the season

Not a note of MT which pains me even more.

[ahinton]

do composers write symphonies anymore? rather "old hat" as a form isn't it?
I think that this remark ought to oblige you to buy, at the very least, a hat each for David Matthews, John McCabe and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies; you could even have a swan feather sewn into the last of these...

[ahinton]

Not a note of MT which pains me even more.
Somehow I imagine that you do not mean Mark-Anthony Turnage here...

[Panjandrum]

Somehow I imagine that you do not mean Mark-Anthony Turnage here...

Give you a clue: Sir MT.

[FoxyTheCat]

Tippett was a great composer and his neglect at the Proms is like RVW, a mystery to me.

His book, An autobiography Those Twentieth Century Blues is a fascinating read and he had the humility to state later in life that RVW was a great influence on him.

Recently listened to his 2nd symphony and really enjoyed it.

This begs a question.?

The BBC Proms is funded entirely by the British Tax and Licence fee payer. I include myself in both categories.

That said, like any other nation surely such a publically funded event should be obliged to perform a decent amount of British music.

I would venture to suggest that all future PROMs should have a minimum of 50% British music, can you imagine a Finnish classical music festival without Sibelius, A Danish without Nielsen? I could go on.

The 2011 Proms with no RVW or MT is a disgrace and I for one will not attend any of the programmes for that reason alone.

How can we protest to the BBC ?

Regards all


FTC

[gurnemanz]

Liszt's Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen seems poignantly to sum up the reaction of RVW fans to his reckless exclusion from the Proms programme.

[BarryG]

Well I am just delighted with this years choice of Jazz Calendar by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (not listed but being played Sat 13th August at the Cadogan Hall).
At last after 35years of listening to a treasured LP I will hear this wonderful piece live, thank you BBC Proms.

[french frank]

Well I am just delighted with this years choice of Jazz Calendar by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (not listed but being played Sat 13th August at the Cadogan Hall).
At last after 35years of listening to a treasured LP I will hear this wonderful piece live, thank you BBC Proms.Hello BarryG :smiley:

Looking at the list again, I suspect that it just refers to the evening concerts, not the chamber concerts at CH. We ought to have a separate list for those.

[gainasbass]

Could not agree more and share your frustration FTC. I suppose a petition would be counter-productive?