The BBC Proms are renowned for commissioning and performing new pieces every year \u2013 some by already well-established and acclaimed composers; others by exciting new talent. Either way, they represent an exciting chance to hear some works at the start of their performing history.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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BBC Proms premieres 2022<\/h2>\n
Works that have never been performed before, many of which have been commissioned by or in collaboration with the BBC Proms<\/em><\/p>\n
Sally Beamish: Hive (BBC co-commission; world premiere)<\/h3>\n
21 July (Prom 9)<\/strong><\/p>\n
One of the most approachable of English composers, Sally Beamish<\/a><\/strong> (b1956) has written this major orchestral work \u2013 lasting about 23 minutes \u2013 as a vehicle for harpist Catrin Finch, who will perform with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Ariane Matiakh. It was music\u2019s power to tell a story, as revealed by Malcolm Arnold<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s Tam O\u2019Shanter<\/em>, which first inspired Beamish to become a composer. The new piece Hive<\/em>, said by the composer to \u2018depict the dramatic life of a beehive over the year\u2019, naturally includes \u2018the sounds of bees and birdsong\u2019.<\/p>\n
Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Your Servant, Elizabeth (BBC commission; world premiere)<\/h3>\n
22 July (Prom 10)<\/strong><\/p>\n
Specially commissioned to celebrate Elizabeth II\u2019s Platinum Jubilee, Cheryl Frances-Hoad (b1980) has set out to write a piece that will make all sorts of connections: with music written for Queen Elizabeth I over 400 years ago \u2013 most particularly that by William Byrd<\/a><\/strong>; and, most importantly \u2013 says Frances-Hoad \u2013 with \u2018everyone, from the performers to those watching on the telly at home, in a dignified yet joyful and glorious musical tribute to our longest reigning monarch.\u2019 The programme, performed by the BBC Singers and the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth, also includes music by the present Master of the Queen\u2019s Music<\/a><\/strong>, Judith Weir<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n
Jennifer Walshe: The Site of an Investigation (London premiere)<\/h3>\n
28 July (Prom 17)<\/strong><\/p>\n
Dublin-born Jennifer Walshe (b1974) is a former student of fellow Dubliner Kevin Volans. She also pursued composition studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and twenty years ago took her PhD in composition at Northwestern University, Illinois. She has also held positions in Germany, where she has received many commissions.<\/p>\n
Composed in 2018, The Site of an Investigation <\/em>for symphony orchestra and amplified solo voice was premiered in Dublin the following year. Addressing contemporary events and issues as she then saw them \u2013 \u2018the climate emergency, precarity, Mars exploration, AI\u2019 \u2013 it was also completed shortly after the death of her friend, the actor Stephen Swift: the work is dedicated to his memory. A lot has happened since, most notably the pandemic and its effects. Yet it remains a timely piece, and should make a strong impression with conductor Ilan Volkov conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the composer herself delivering its spoken text.<\/p>\n
You may see its 2019 Dublin premiere here:<\/p>\n\n<h3>Nicole Liz\u00e9e:\u00a0Blurr is the Colour of My True Love\u2019s Eyes (BBC co-commission: European premiere)<\/h3>\n29 July (Prom 18)<\/strong><\/p>\nOnce a member of the Montreal indie rock band The Besnard Lakes, Nicole Liz\u00e9e (b1973) is now one of Canada\u2019s leading contemporary composers with works commissioned by such leading ensembles as the Kronos Quartet and the San Francisco Symphony. In a recent interview, she confessed that the figure that has most inspired her is Kate Bush.<\/p>\nLiz\u00e9e\u2019s concerto, Blurr is the Colour of My True Love\u2019s Eyes<\/em>\u00a0will be arriving hot from its premiere in Ottawa last June. Co-commissioned by Canada\u2019s National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) and BBC\u00a0Radio\u00a03, the work is specifically tailored for star percussionist Colin Currie, inspired by his musicianship and his enthusiasm for Liz\u00e9e\u2019s work. Currie himself will perform the work with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alpesh Chauhan.<\/p>\n<h3>Hildur Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir & Sam Slater:\u00a0Battlefield 2042<\/em> (European premiere)<\/em><\/h3>\n1 August (Prom 21)<\/strong><\/p>\nJust to prove there\u2019s something for everyone, the BBC Proms this year offers its first Gaming Prom, subtitled \u2018From 8-Bit to Infinity\u2019. For premiere enthusiasts there\u2019s the chance of hearing Hildur Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir and Sam Slater\u2019s music for the popular first-person shooter game, Battlefield 2042<\/em>, in a Suite arranged for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra by the concert\u2019s conductor, Robert Ames.<\/p>\nIcelandic cellist and composer Hildur Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir (b1982) and sound designer Sam Slater are a well-established team, together creating the Academy Award-winning score for the film Joker<\/em>(2019), and music for the historical miniseries Chernobyl<\/em>. Battlefield 2042 <\/em>was the first project on which they worked together as co-composers: their brief was to avoid the usual heroic symphonic style and create something \u2018disruptive\u2019. All the sounds heard were created using earth, metal, glass, and sand, their sounds stretched and distorted to create musical sounds. If you\u2019re curious to hear how Ames has translated all this into orchestral terms\u2026.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Julian Anderson: Symphony No. 2\u00a0\u2018Prague Panoramas\u2019 (BBC co-commission: London premiere)<\/h3>\n5 August (Prom 26)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nNew works by Julian Anderson (b1967), typically beautifully scored and musically intriguing, have been major highlights in past Proms seasons. Their power is to an extent explained by his blunt statement in an interview published earlier this year: \u2018If I don\u2019t like the music I write myself, who the hell else has a chance to? It is all about communicating.\u2019<\/p>\nInspired by a book of historic, wide-angle photographs of Prague by Josef Sudek that Anderson came across at an exhibition, his Second Symphony\u2019s premiere was long delayed due to the pandemic. Anderson took advantage of the delays, fine-tuning the score before it was finally premiered this past January in Munich. It has since \u2013 appropriately \u2013 been performed in Prague conducted by Semyon Bychkov, who will again conduct the work at this Proms performance.<\/p>\nThe performance on 22 April 2022 by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov:<\/p>\n<iframe title=\""Julian\" anderson:=\"\" symphony=\"\" no.=\"\" prague=\"\" panoramas=\"\" width=\""200"\" height=\""113"\" src=\""https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N26qhnDO5UA?feature=oembed"\" frameborder=\""0"\" allow=\""accelerometer;\" autoplay=\"\" clipboard-write=\"\" encrypted-media=\"\" gyroscope=\"\" picture-in-picture=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>\n<h3>Gavin Higgins: <\/em>Concerto Grosso for Brass Band & Orchestra (BBC Commission: world premiere)<\/h3>\n8 August (Prom 30)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe BBC National Orchestra of Wales, having already premiered Beamish\u2019s Hive<\/em>\u00a0earlier in the season, will be joining forces in this Prom not just with a soloist, but a whole ensemble in the form of the award-winning Tredegar Band. The work is by Gavin Higgins (b1983), a composer whose first music making was as a tenor horn player in his local brass band.<\/p>\nHiggins grew up in a mining community in the Forest of Dean, and his punchy, visceral writing frequently taps into his pit band roots. He describes his Concerto Grosso as \u2018a love letter to that music and those people\u2019.<\/p>\n<h3>Matthew Kaner: Pearl (BBC commission: world premiere)<\/h3>\n10 August (Prom 33)<\/strong><\/p>\nOne can hardly ask for a better solo singer for a new work, or indeed any other work requiring a sensitive response to text, than baritone Roderick Williams, who will be singing the world premiere of Pearl<\/em>\u00a0by British composer Matthew Kaner (b1986). This sets extracts from a medieval English lament, as translated by Simon Armitage. This tells of a man, mourning the death of a young child, who revisits the place where he lost her. There he falls asleep, and dreams of her in the afterlife. As Kaner explains, his work depicts \u2018the protagonist\u2019s earthly mourning, his dream vision and the uncanny yet moving appearance of his daughter in paradise, surrounded by the heavenly choir of all those who have also left this world. It\u2019s an explicitly religious text but I\u2019ve tried to steer the piece towards a universal message of grief and redemption.\u2019<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Missy Mazzoli: Violin Concerto \u2018Procession\u2019 (European premiere)<\/h3>\n14 August (Prom 38)<\/strong><\/p>\nIn a recent interview, the American composer Missy Mazzoli (b1980) outlined her creative credo: \u2018With each work, I endeavour to provide a new language for thoughts and feelings we suppress in everyday life, a recognition of the vulnerable and terrifying parts of ourselves. I also want to provide space in which we can process the overwhelming nature of the world.\u2019<\/p>\nHer Violin Concerto, \u2018Procession\u2019, is her response to the on-going pandemic \u2013 an evocation of the \u2018spells, incantations, processions and ecstatic dances\u2019 that were the \u2018medieval healing rites developed during pandemics\u2019. Jennifer Koh will be the soloist, with the Philharmonic conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali.<\/p>\n<h3>Mark-Anthony Turnage: Time Flies (BBC co-commission: UK premiere)<\/h3>\n15 August (Prom 39)<\/strong><\/p>\nInvited to the Tokyo Olympics, but unable to attend due to a global travel ban, Mark-Anthony Turnage (b1960) responded three years ago with this jazz-inspired work. But rather than something light-hearted, you should expect something gritty and emotionally affecting. In a recent interview, Turnage confessed that his new work was inspired by his Pentecostal upbringing: \u2018Being told every day of your childhood you were going to burn for eternity unless you repented your sinful ways tends to breed fear and a deep dread. I still have apocalyptic nightmares. They fuel my music, which tends to be pretty pessimistic.\u2019<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Thomas Ad\u00e8s:\u00a0<\/strong>M\u00e4rchent\u00e4nze (UK premiere)<\/h3>\n26 August (Prom 52)<\/strong><\/p>\nThe pastoral strains of Vaughan Williams\u2019s The Lark Ascending<\/em> may seem an unlikely companion to a new work by Thomas Ad\u00e8s (b1971), a composer of usually splintering style. But here is a new violin work, M\u00e4rchent\u00e4nze \u2013 \u2018dances from fairytale\u2019 \u2013 a four-movement suite which might be a surprising fit: like the Vaughan Williams, it was originally scored for violin and piano (in 2020); and \u2013 surprisingly unlike <Lark Ascending>[itals] but characteristic of Vaughan Williams \u2013 it includes a folksong; and which includes in its third movement, \u2018A Skylark for Jane\u2019, what the composer describes as \u2018an outpouring of birdsong\u2019. You may compare and contrast as violinist Pekka Kuusisto performs both these works\u2026<\/p>\n<h3> Errollyn Wallen: Lady Super Spy Adventurer (world premiere)<\/strong><\/h3>\n29 August (Proms at Birmingham)<\/strong><\/p>\nAt just four minutes \u2013 and as the final item of a programme whose heart is 15 minutes of Lieder, Op. 4 by the formidable Dame Ethel Smyth \u2013 this promises to be relatively short and sweet. Errollyn Wallen (b1958) herself explains that \u2018I had an imaginary cartoon character in mind\u2019; otherwise, she leaves the song to explain itself. It will be performed by mezzo-soprano Claire Barnett-Jones, winner of the Audience Prize at last year\u2019s BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, with Simon Lepper at the piano.<\/p>\n<h3> Public Service Broadcasting:\u00a0This New Noise (BBC commission: world premiere)<\/strong><\/h3>\n30 August (Prom 58)<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nBack in 2019, cult \u2018retro-futurists\u2019 Public Service Broadcasting brought dancing astronauts and a Sputnik into the Albert Hall in their The Race to Space<\/em>. The BBC loved it enough to invite them back this year to help celebrate a century of (appropriately) public-service broadcasting. This New Nois<\/em>e, we are promised, is to be \u2018a joyously eclectic, album-length celebration of 100 years of BBC Radio, backed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra\u2019.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Philip Glass: No more, you petty spirits (BBC co-commission: world premiere)<\/h3>\n3 September (Proms and the ENO at Printworks, London)<\/strong><\/p>\n\u2018Glass Handel\u2019 sounds almost as if it\u2019s meant to be a pun. It\u2019s in fact a straightforward if slightly unusual pairing of the great and beloved Baroque composer with the pioneering minimalist of our time. \u2018No more, you petty spirits\u2019 has been specially written to fit this programme of music by those two composers, and as such is written for countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo with a suitable selection of instruments \u2013 including harpsichord \u2013 played by musicians of the English National Orchestra directed by Karen Kamensek. Also participating will be George Condo doing live painting, and nature beatboxer\/vocal sound designer Jason Singh.<\/p>\n<h3> Marius Neset: Geyser (BBC commission: world premiere)<\/strong><\/h3>\n3 September (Prom 63)<\/strong><\/p>\nMaking his Proms debut, Norwegian jazz saxophonist and composer Marius Neset (b1985) is clearly hoping to make more than a splash with his new work, which \u2013 lasting 65 minutes \u2013 takes up a whole Late Night Prom. On his own website, Neset says: \u2018I\u2019m very inspired by people like Frank Zappa, Django Bates, Pat Metheny and Wayne Shorter where the music and the playing is one.\u2019 Add to that mix Mahler and Messiaen, and you may have some idea what to expect. Neset and his quintet will join forces with the London Sinfonietta and conductor Geoffrey Patterson.<\/p>\n<h3>Betsy Jolas: bTunes (world premiere)<\/h3>\n5 September (Prom 66)<\/strong><\/p>\nFranco-American composer Betsy Jolas (b1926) is a former pupil of no less than Darius Milhaud and Olivier Messiaen, and for a while was the latter\u2019s assistant at the Paris Conservatoire. Though her musical style has always been \u2018advanced\u2019, she has expressed the desire to \u2018write beautiful music\u2019 and is admired by conductors including Simon Rattle and Kent Nagano. bTunes <\/em>is a piano concerto \u2013 not the first by Jolas, though she tends to conceal works she writes in that genre with quirky titles, such as <Stances>[itals] composed in 1978. Her latest is in the form of a suite, and she says \u2018reflects the way most people listen to music today \u2013 through playlists\u2019. It has been written specifically for the soloist at this Prom, Nicolas Hodges, who will perform with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Karina Kanellakis.<\/p>\n<h3>James B Wilson: 1922 (BBC commission: world premiere)<\/h3>\n10 September (Last Night of the Proms)<\/strong><\/p>\nFollowing This New Noise <\/em>by Public Service Broadcasting (30 August), here\u2019s an alternative celebration of the BBC \u2013 specifically its first broadcast a century ago. James B Wilson (the \u2018B\u2019 is to distinguish him from the Irish composer James Wilson, who coincidentally was born in 1922, whereas our JBW was born in 1990) studied at the Royal Academy of Music under the colourful Gary Carpenter (some people may remember Carpenter\u2019s \u2018star turn\u2019 early in his career in the original version of The Wicker Man<\/em>, as well as taking lessons with Maxwell Davies. Wilson\u2019s other influences range from Benjamin Britten to the films of David Lynch. Among his many distinctive collaborations, with such musicians and ensembles as the pianist Benjamin Grosvenor and Genesis16, perhaps the most outstanding is being the first composer to be commissioned to write a piece for the Chineke! Orchestra; the resulting piece, The Green Fuse<\/em>, being premiered at The Cheltenham Festival.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By BBC Music Magazine Published: Friday, 15 July 2022 at 12:00 am The BBC Proms are renowned for commissioning and performing new pieces every year \u2013 some by already well-established and acclaimed composers; others by exciting new talent. 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BBC Proms premieres 2022<\/h2>\nWorks that have never been performed before, many of which have been commissioned by or in collaboration with the BBC Proms<\/em><\/p>\n

BBC Proms premieres 2022<\/h2>\n
Works that have never been performed before, many of which have been commissioned by or in collaboration with the BBC Proms<\/em><\/p>\n