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Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Sibelius's epic 'Kullervo' Symphony in a classic performance from 1992. Sir Colin Davis conducts the London Symphony Orchestra with soloists Soile Isokoski and Jorma Hynninen. Show more

Omnibus

André Previn: Who Needs a Conductor?

Duration: 54 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One LondonLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Available for 6 months

André Previn debunks many of the conventional myths that surround conducting, exposing the foibles, prejudices, insecurities and backstage dramas that the general public knows little of. Show more

Bernstein on Mahler

The Little Drummer Boy

Duration: 1 hour, 24 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Leonard Bernstein celebrates the 125th anniversary of the birth of composer Gustav Mahler with a musical essay that explores the roots of Mahler's inspiration. Show more

BBC Proms

2019

Rattle conducts Belshazzar's Feast

Duration: 1 hour, 32 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

The London Symphony Orchestra, LSO Chorus, Orfeó Català and the Orfeó Català Youth Choir, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, perform works by Koechlin, Varèse and Walton's cantata, Belshazzar's Feast. Show more

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Documentary exploring a unique musical collaboration between American jazz legend Wynton Marsalis and Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti. Show more

Contributors

Production Company:
Swan Films
Producer:
Chris Eley
Director:
Chris Eley
Executive Producer:
Neil Crombie
Executive Producer:
Joe Evans
Participant:
Nicola Benedetti
Participant:
Wynton Marsalis
Participant:
Jonathan Kelly
Conductor:
James Gaffigan
Narrator:
Eve Best

BBC Proms

2023

Sir Simon Rattle at the Proms

Duration: 1 hour, 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Classical Music Channel

Available for 5 weeks

History is made tonight at the Proms as Sir Simon Rattle takes to the Royal Albert Hall stage for his final UK performance as music director of the London Symphony Orchestra. Show more

BBC Proms

2017

Simon Rattle's Gurrelieder

Duration: 2 hours

First broadcast: on BBC Four HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Sir Simon Rattle brings Schoenberg's Gurrelieder to the Royal Albert Hall. An epic love story conceived on a Wagnerian scale, it reaches its climax with a depiction of sunrise. Show more

BBC Proms

2021

Simon Rattle and the LSO

Duration: 1 hour, 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra return to the Proms with an evening celebrating one of the trailblazers of 20th-century music, Igor Stravinsky. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Clive Myrie
Interviewed Guest:
Jonathan Cross
Producer:
Cat Dixon

BBC Proms

2022

Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO

Duration: 1 hour, 40 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

In a deeply personal programme, Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Second Symphony, 'Resurrection', and Sir Harrison Birtwistle's Donum Simoni MMXVIII. Show more

BBC Proms

2020

Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO

Duration: 1 hour, 40 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO with a programme of unmissable music featuring star pianist Mitsuko Uchida playing Beethoven, works by Elgar and Vaughan Williams, and a new composition by Thomas Adès. Show more

BBC Proms

2018

Rattle Conducts Ravel

Duration: 2 hours

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

The LSO led by Sir Simon Rattle perform works by Maurice Ravel, including the one-act opera The Child and the Spells, the ballet score Mother Goose and the song cycle Sheherazade. Show more

BBC Proms

2018

Bernstein On the Town

Duration: 2 hours, 20 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

John Wilson and the London Symphony Orchestra present the hit Broadway musical On the Town live from the Royal Albert Hall. Katie Derham presents. Show more

BBC Proms

2016

Haitink Conducts Mahler

Duration: 1 hour, 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Bernard Haitink marks the 50th anniversary year of his first appearance at the Proms with Mahler's 3rd symphony, a powerful and expansive musical vision of nature. Show more