More new music at Lucerne than at BBC Proms

Here’s a telling comparison:

There are 14 world premieres this year at the BBC Proms, which runs for 8 weeks, July 15-September 10.

There are 14 world premieres at the Lucerne Festival which runs for 4 weeks, August 13-September 11.

Six of those premieres are short works, performed in the same concert.

But it does seem that the Proms are slipping on the new-music front.

UPDATE: The BBC would like it to be known that there are 31 premieres in total, 16 of which are BBC commissions (including co-commissions). Of these,

14 are world premieres

10 UK premieres

7 London premieres

UPDATE2: The year’s major premiere by a British composer takes place tonight at the Salzburg Festival. Thomas Ades’s Exterminating Angel will be seen at Covent Garden next April.