BBC Proms 2021

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The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

BBC Proms: Proms at Christmas 2021: Charlotte Bray, Walton and Arnold

Charlotte Bray, Walton and Arnold

Proms at Christmas 2021

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Another chance to hear Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the 2021 BBC Proms.

Another chance to hear the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sakari Oramo, perform Charlotte Bray, Foulds, Arnold. Timothy Ridout is the soloist in Walton's Viola Concerto.

Another chance to hear The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo from the 2021 BBC Proms, in music by Charlotte Bray, Foulds, Arnold, and Timothy Ridout is the soloist in Walton's Viola Concerto.


Presented by Martin Handley at the Royal Albert Hall


John Foulds: Le cabaret (Overture to a French Comedy)
William Walton: Viola Concerto


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Paul Harris, co-author of 'Malcolm Arnold: Rogue Genius' talks to Martin Handley about the music and turbulent life of this most misunderstood of British composers, whose reputation took a dive after the 1950s. 

Charlotte Bray: Where Icebergs Dance Away (UK premiere)
Malcolm Arnold: Symphony No. 5

Timothy Ridout (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra 
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

A world away from centenary composer Malcolm Arnold’s reputation for light music and film scores, the Fifth Symphony is a richly layered work full of irony, pain and loss. An opening musical ‘garden of memories’ pays affectionate homage to departed friends, while the scherzo flirts with jazz and the finale offers a tantalising glimpse of heaven before snatching it cruelly away. BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Timothy Ridout is the soloist in Walton’s poetic Viola Concerto, which was given its world premiere at the Proms in 1929. Global warming is the stimulus behind Charlotte Bray’s Where Icebergs Dance Away, which draws on the work of American artist Zaria Forman.

BBC Proms: Proms at Christmas 2021

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Another chance to hear a selection of BBC Proms concerts over the festive period.

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