Tue 21 Jul 2026

• 18:00

  Also sprach Zarathustra

  Royal Albert Hall

  John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra perform Strauss’s monumental tone-poem alongside Betsy Jolas’s evocative Tales of a Summer Sea. Sueye Park joins them for Sibelius’s Nordic-tinged Violin Concerto

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  John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra perform Strauss’s monumental tone-poem alongside Betsy Jolas’s evocative Tales of a Summer Sea. Sueye Park joins them for Sibelius’s Nordic-tinged Violin Concerto

  Programme

  • • • Betsy Jolas
      • Tales of a Summer Sea(15 mins)UK premiere
    • • Jean Sibelius
      • Violin Concerto in D minor(35 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Richard Strauss
      • Also sprach Zarathustra(33 mins)

  Performers

  • Sueye Park

    violin
    violin
  • BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • John Storgårds

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Betsy Jolas
  • Jean Sibelius
  • Richard Strauss

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  Classical for starters Proms on TV

  
• 22:15

  Late Night Baroque

  Royal Albert Hall

  The Jupiter Ensemble makes its Proms debut with British tenor Laurence Kilsby in a programme celebrating two jewels of the English Renaissance and Baroque – John Dowland and Henry Purcell – as well as ‘honorary’ Englishman George Frideric Handel

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  The Jupiter Ensemble makes its Proms debut with British tenor Laurence Kilsby in a programme celebrating two jewels of the English Renaissance and Baroque – John Dowland and Henry Purcell – as well as ‘honorary’ Englishman George Frideric Handel

  Programme

  • • • John Dowland
      • Can she excuse my wrongs?(3 mins)
      • Now, O now, I needs must part(4 mins)
    • • Henry Purcell
      • The Fairy Queen – ‘If love’s a sweet passion’(5 mins)
      • Strike the viol(4 mins)
      • An Evening Hymn(5 mins)
    • • George Frideric Handel
      • Theodora – ‘From virtue springs each gen’rous deed’(8 mins)

  Performers

  • Laurence Kilsby

    tenor
    tenor
  • Jupiter Ensemble
  • Thomas Dunford

    director/lute
    director/lute

  Composers

  • John Dowland
  • Henry Purcell
  • George Frideric Handel

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  Also part of

  Late Night Proms