| Saint-Saëns, Camille (1835-1921) | Danse macabre | |
| Guy Barker | The Lanterne of Light (BBC commission: world première) | |
| Orff, Carl (1895-1982) | Carmina Burana: O Fortuna |
| Charles Mutter | Violon |
| Alison Balsom | Trompette |
| Olena Tokar | Soprano |
| Thomas Walker | Ténor |
| Benjamin Appl | Baryton |
| Southend Boys' and Girls' Choirs | |
| BBC Symphony Chorus | |
| London Philharmonic Choir | |
| BBC Concert Orchestra | |
| Keith Lockhart | Direction |
This year’s free Prom is an ideal opportunity to introduce family and friends to classical music. Carmina burana is as musically inventive as it is irreverent – a choral cantata based on a medieval text charting the joys, fickleness and excesses of human life. The BBC Concert Orchestra’s Composer-in-Association Guy Barker provides a new concerto for trumpet virtuoso Alison Balsom and the orchestra’s own Charles Mutter is the soloist in Saint-Saëns’s devilish Danse macabre.
Free Prom