| Orchestra or Band | Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra |
| Set List | 'Auditorium', M Bates,
'Cello Concerto in E Minor', Elgar,
'Taras Bulba', Janacek |
| Performance Notes | In 2021, the BBC Proms returns to the Royal Albert Hall for a summer of live music, as it has done every year since 1941. With 52 concerts over 44 days, featuring 30 orchestras and ensembles and more than 2,000 musicians, this ambitious season promises a celebration of live music on a scale not seen since before the pandemic. From the power of a symphony orchestra to the sheer joy of a single performer on the Halls magnificent organ, this summer we look forward to coming together through music. Every Prom will be live on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds.
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra returns under Chief Conductor Kirill Karabits to recall memories of music past. In Mason Batess evocative Auditorium, the orchestra is possessed by a ghostly Baroque ancestor. Janaceks rhapsodic suite Taras Bulba looks back to Czech folk music in three battle-charged episodes from Gogols novella. The bittersweet, poignant beauty of Elgars Cello Concerto draws on another conflict: the cataclysmic loss and suffering of the First World War.
UK premiere of 'Auditorium', M Bates.
The season was shortened to six, rather than eight, weeks because of the financial risk to the BBC not knowing audience sizes due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
An afternoon (13:00) and an evening (18:00) Prom were held at Cadogan Hall, London. British vocal ensemble the Marian Consort makes its Proms debut with a concert celebrating Renaissance master Josquin des Prez 500 years after his death. In a season of musical borrowings, three of Josquins greatest motets, all drawing on pre-existing material, are paired with three musical homages including the kaleidoscopic Inviolata, integra et casta es by the first published black composer, Vicente Lusitano that each rework Josquins own music for a new age. |
| Related Archival Material | Prospectus (RAHE/1/2021/5),
Programme (RAHE/1/2021/17),
Digital Photographs |