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The Best Episodes of BBC Proms Season 64

Every episode of BBC Proms Season 64 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of BBC Proms Season 64!

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    BBC Proms Season 64 Episode 1 - Mahler's Symphony No 8 - Symphony of a Thousand
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    #1 - Mahler's Symphony No 8 - Symphony of a Thousand

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    Katie Derham introduces a Prom concert from the Royal Albert Hall in London, featuring Mahler's Symphony No 8 - Symphony of a Thousand. The choral symphony for orchestra, massed choirs and eight soloists, launches the 150th-anniversary celebrations of Mahler's birth. Jiri Belohlavek, chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra leads on the podium.

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  2. BBC Proms Season 64 Episode 2 - Bryn Terfel Sings Wagner's Meistersinger
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    #2 - Bryn Terfel Sings Wagner's Meistersinger

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    A special Proms performance of the Welsh National Opera's production of Wagner's midsummer comedy Die Meistersinger. A smash hit when it opened in Cardiff in June 2010, the stellar cast perform a concert staging at the Royal Albert Hall, with Bryn Terfel as the cobbler-poet Hans Sachs and Lothar Koenigs conducting. Wagner enthusiast Stephen Fry is in the presenter's box and Charles Hazlewood is backstage with the cast.

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  3. BBC Proms Season 64 Episode 3 - Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony
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    #3 - Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony

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    Suzy Klein presents from the Royal Albert Hall as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, under their principal conductor Thierry Fischer, perform Prokofiev's audacious First Piano Concerto with soloist Alexander Toradze and Shostakovich's monumental Seventh Symphony, composed in 1941 while Leningrad lay under German siege.

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  4. BBC Proms Season 64 Episode 4 - Beethoven Night with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
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    #4 - Beethoven Night with the BBC Symphony Orchestra

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    Beethoven Night was a regular and popular feature of the Proms from its very first season in 1895. Charles Hazlewood presents as this tradition is recreated by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Jiri Belohlavek, who perform two Beethoven overtures and his First and Fourth Piano Concertos with soloist Paul Lewis.

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  5. BBC Proms Season 64 Episode 5 - Miracle on the Mersey
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    #5 - Miracle on the Mersey

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    The orchestra that has been at the heart of the Liverpool's cultural life for over 160 years, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, comes to the Proms with its trailblazing Principal Conductor Vasily Petrenko. In a programme of Romantically inspired music, the Phil plays two works based on a poem by Byron: Schumann's Manfred overture and Tchaikovsky's Manfred symphony. The brilliant Macedonian pianist Simon Trpceski is the soloist in the ever-popular Piano Concerto No 2 by Rachmaninov.

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  6. BBC Proms Season 64 Episode 6 - Dvorak's New World Symphony with the CBSO
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    #6 - Dvorak's New World Symphony with the CBSO

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    At the Royal Albert Hall, Charles Hazlewood presents as soloist Paul Lewis plays Beethoven piano concerto No. 2 with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under their music director, Andris Nelsons. The programme includes Dvorak's evocative 9th Symphony, From the New World.

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  7. BBC Proms Season 64 Episode 7 - Mark Elder Conducts Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony
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    #7 - Mark Elder Conducts Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony

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    From the Royal Albert Hall and introduced by Suzy Klein, the Australian Youth Orchestra visit the Proms as part of a three-continent international summer tour. Under conductor Mark Elder, they perform an orchestral fantasy by Australian composer Brett Dean, a selection of Mahler songs and Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony.

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  8. BBC Proms Season 64 Episode 8 - Sondheim's Eightieth Birthday Celebration
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    #8 - Sondheim's Eightieth Birthday Celebration

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    Marking the eightieth birthday of one of Broadway's great innovators, the first ever all-Sondheim Prom at the Royal Albert Hall. The concert includes excerpts from hit shows A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods performed by a starry cast of leading figures of the opera and theatre worlds with Bryn Terfel, Maria Friedman, Simon Russell Beale and some special guests. Also on stage is the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by David Charles Abel. Introduced by Katie Derham.

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  9. BBC Proms Season 64 Episode 9 - Mahler's Third Symphony with the BBC SSO
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    #9 - Mahler's Third Symphony with the BBC SSO

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    A celebration of Gustav Mahler's 150th birthday with his monumental Third Symphony, performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under their chief conductor Donald Runnicles.

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  10. BBC Proms Season 64 Episode 10 - Paul Lewis Plays Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto
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    #10 - Paul Lewis Plays Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto

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    Paul Lewis continues his cycle of Beethoven piano concertos with the Hallé and their music director Sir Mark Elder. The programme includes Strauss's popular tone poem Ein Heldenleben.

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  11. BBC Proms Season 64 Episode 11 - World Orchestra for Peace
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    #11 - World Orchestra for Peace

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    Katie Derham introduces a concert of Mahler played by the World Orchestra for Peace with charismatic conductor Valery Gergiev. Conceived by George Solti as an assembly of first rate musicians from around the world to promote peace, the orchestra play Mahler's epic Fifth Symphony, which includes the composer's most famous single movement - the heart-rending Adagietto.

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  12. BBC Proms Season 64 Episode 12 - Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto
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    #12 - Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto

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    A classic archive performance of Beethoven's monumental Fifth Piano Concerto from 1989, with the legendary American pianist Murray Perahia and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner. Introduced by Charles Hazlewood in conversation with pianist Paul Lewis, who is performing a complete cycle of Beethoven Piano Concertos at the 2010.

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  13. BBC Proms Season 64 Episode 13 - Bach Day
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    #13 - Bach Day

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    Prom featuring the music of JS Bach in arrangements for large orchestra, live from the Royal Albert Hall. The concert, given by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andrew Litton, begins with thunderous reinventions by Stokowski and Respighi of Bach's organ works. There are also arrangements of Sheep May Safely Graze, Air on the G String and the popular chorale, Sleepers, Awake! Bach's sonatas for solo violin and for viola da gamba are re-imagined by the young composers Tarik O'Regan and Alissa Firsova. Plus Katie Derham introduces one of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos performed by the English Baroque Soloists directed by John Eliot Gardiner.

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  14. BBC Proms Season 64 Episode 14 - Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony
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    #14 - Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony

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    From the Royal Albert Hall and introduced by Suzy Klein, the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner perform Shostakovich's iconic Fifth Symphony (A Soviet Artist's Reply to Just Criticism) which found huge favour with the Stalinist authorities in the 1930s and has since become internationally established as one of the great popular masterpieces of the 20th century. The programme also includes the Four Sea Interludes from Britten's opera Peter Grimes, and the world premiere of a new violin concerto by young British composer Huw Watkins, performed by Alina Ibragimova.

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  15. BBC Proms Season 64 Episode 15 - The Philharmonia Play Ravel and Arvo Part
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    #15 - The Philharmonia Play Ravel and Arvo Part

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    Introduced by Suzy Klein, the Philharmonia Orchestra under principal conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen bring a characteristically colourful programme to the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, from the scintillating sound world of Ravel's popular Piano Concerto for the Left Hand with soloist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, to Scriabin's ravishing Poem of Ecstasy and the eagerly-anticipated UK premiere of a new symphony by that giant of contemporary music, Arvo Part.

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