Boulanger's music is performed in two Proms this week. Pour les funerailles d'un soldat tonight at 8 pm by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and Psalm 130 'Du fond de l'abîme' on Wednesday at 7.30 pm performed by City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. There is a Proms Plus talk about Boulanger's music on Wednesday too.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e9fxp6
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e5q9hn
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/enp6gw
Lisa Illeans' BBC Commission Sleeplessness ... Sails receives its premiere at lunchtime today performed by Dame Sarah Connolly and Joseph Middleton.
Aello - ballet mécanomorphen by Olga Neuwirth receives its UK premiere in the second of two concerts of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and some modern-day responses by living composers. Performed by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/eqv4mb
If, like me, you missed Wednesday's performance of Smyth's magnificent Prelude, On the Cliffs of Cornwall, from her opera The Wreckers, you can still listen to it here
Jessica Wells' prom commission Rhapsody for solo oud receives its premiere on Monday at Cadogan Hall at 1 pm. The soloist is Joseph Tawadros.
Kerry Andrew's No Place Like, written for the BBC Proms in 2017, will be performed tomorrow by the Ten Pieces Children's Choir at the Ten Pieces Proms at 1 pm and 5 pm, and families can take part in it at Proms Family Chorus at 10.30 am at Imperial College Union.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/errbc8
The BBC Philharmonic give the premiere of Tansy Davies' What Did We See?, an orchestral suite from her recent opera Between Worlds.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/enj5q9
Davies also gives a Proms Plus Talk at Imperial College Union at 5.45 pm, some of which will be broadcast in the interval of the evening concert.
A tribute concert to women who worked in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop includes new work by contemporary women composers, 10.15 pm
New music for harpsichord at Cadogan Hall, French composer Eve Risser's Furakèla
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/edv2rz
