Prom 1: First Night of the Proms

17 Jul 2015, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Fri 17 Jul 2015 Next Event

19:30 Fri 17 Jul 2015 Royal Albert Hall

Sakari Oramo conducts this year’s opening concert, in a programme that includes Walton’s pithy choral masterpiece 'Belshazzar’s Feast' and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 with soloist Lars Vogt. Broadcast live on BBC Two on Friday 17 July.

Programme

- - Carl Nielsen
  - Maskarade(5 mins)overture
- - Gary Carpenter
  - Dadaville(6 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  - Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor(31 mins)
- - interval
- - Jean Sibelius
  - Belshazzar's Feast Suite(16 mins)
- - William Walton
  - Belshazzar’s Feast(34 mins)

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About this event

Two Nordic anniversaries launch this year’s BBC Proms: Denmark’s Carl Nielsen and Finland’s Jean Sibelius both celebrate their 150th-birthday years. Two exotic musical retellings of the story of the Babylonian king Belshazzar include the first of this summer’s feast of choral works. Celebrated German pianist Lars Vogt is soloist in the first of six late great Mozart piano concertos, and British composer Gary Carpenter spearheads the 32 premieres this season – a musical taste of things to come.