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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2025 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season - Prom 36: Joe Hisaishi and Steve Reich
Performance Date14 August 2025
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersJohn Holiday - vocals
Orchestra or BandRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra
ChoirsBBC Singers,
National Youth Voices,
Philharmonia Chorus
ConductorsJoe Hisaishi
Set List'Symphonic Suite:The Boy and the Heron for piano and orchestra', Joe Hisaishi (European premiere),
'The End of the World ', Joe Hisaishi

INTERVAL

'The Desert Music', Steve Reich
Performance NotesCelebrated classical and film composer Joe Hisaishi makes his Proms debut conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in two large-scale works exploring themes of destruction and loss. The cinematic soundscapes of Hisaishi’s own The End of the World, reflecting the ‘anxiety and chaos’ after the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, are set against the restless electric pulse and shimmer of Steve Reich’s The Desert Music, which questions humankind’s future in the post-nuclear-weapon era.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2025/30),
Programme (RAHE/1/2025/
Ticket Prices£9 - £115 (Promming tickets £8)
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work13506BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2025 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Season72
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/24477Holiday; John (fl. 2020s); American opera singer
DS/UK/41Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO); 1946-; British orchestra
DS/UK/958British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Singers; 1924-; British chamber choir
DS/UK/24478National Youth Voices (fl. 2020s)
DS/UK/3536Philharmonia Chorus; 1957-; English choir
DS/UK/24384Hisaishi; Joe (6 December 1950); Japanese composer, musical director, conductor and pianist
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