Proms 2022: Fiona Maddocks’s pick of this year’s festival

Proms 5 and Promenade 6
BBC Philharmonic
(18 & 19 July) Omer Meir Wellber conducts two Proms: the primary with Cassandra Miller’s new Viola Concerto performed by Lawrence Energy, the second with the fourth symphonies of Vaughan Williams and Tippett.

Promenade 14
Metropolis of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
(25 July) Ben Goldscheider and Elena Urioste star in Ethel Smyth’s Concerto for Horn and Violin with the CBSO and their conductor designate, Kazuki Yamada.

Promenade 19a
Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra
(31 July) The newly fashioned orchestra performs works by the Ukrainian Valentin Silvestrov, plus Chopin, Beethoven and Brahms.

Proms at Bristol
(1 Aug) Considered one of eight across-the-country chamber music Proms: violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cédric Tiberghien play César Franck’s Violin Sonata at St George’s Bristol.

Promenade 30 and Promenade 32
The Tredegar Band
(8 & 9 Aug) The Tredegar Band joins the BBC Nationwide Orchestra of Wales for celebrations of the brass band custom with a brand new work by Gavin Higgins and an unmissable late-night Promenade.

Yuja Wang.
Yuja Wang. Photograph: Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Photos

Promenade 35
Yuja Wang
(12 Aug) The Oslo Philharmonic and its new chief conductor, Klaus Mäkelä, play Richard Strauss and Sibelius. The dazzling pianist Yuja Wang, left, joins them for Liszt’s Piano Concerto No 1.

Promenade 55
Organ recital: Nathan Laube
(28 Aug) Hear the Royal Albert Corridor’s “Father Willis” organ thunder and roar in Wagner, Franck, Alkan and Liszt within the Chicago-born virtuoso’s recital.

Promenade 56
The South African Jazz Songbook
(28 Aug) An excellent lineup consists of Metropole Orkest, Soweto Kinch on saxophones and tuba participant Theon Cross.

Philip Glass and Handel
(3 Sept)Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo with English Nationwide Opera, beatboxer Jason Singh and painter George Apartment at Printworks London: must be on the very least intriguing.

Kirill Petrenko.
Kirill Petrenko. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters

Promenade 62 and Promenade 65
Berliner Philharmoniker
(3 & 4 Sept)The Proms are nonetheless the place to come across epic works by the world’s most interesting musicians. The Berliners and conductor Kirill Petrenko carry out Mahler’s Seventh, then Schnittke’s Viola Concerto (soloist Tabea Zimmermann) and Shostakovich’s Symphony No 10.

  • Normal reserving for the 2022 Proms opens at 9am on Saturday 21 Might; click on right here for extra particulars

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