Mozart was a child prodigy who rejected norms and rewrote the rule book. Tonight’s concert opens with the overture from The Marriage of Figaro, an opera that changed music ...
07-08-2022
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Petroc Trelawny and special guests introduce a Prom that promises to be one of the most poignant and moving of the season as the Royal Albert Hall becomes the first stop on a wo ...
07-08-2022
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For the first time, the BBC Proms dedicates an entire concert to gaming music. Conductor Robert Ames leads the electronically enhanced Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in this speci ...
05-08-2022
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Conductor Daniel Barenboim joins Martha Argerich at the piano to perform Schubert in this extract from the 2016 BBC Proms.
31-07-2022
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Magic and mischief at the Proms as Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra bring Dukas's much-loved The Sorcerer's Apprentice, to kick-start an evening of highly ...
31-07-2022
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Andrew Manze conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a Prom with an atmospheric nautical theme.\n\nDoreen Carwithen’s powerful and vivid overture depicts the harsh ...
29-07-2022
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The Royal Albert Hall is in a particularly regal mood, as Clive Myrie, with special guests, presents a Prom of music written for royal occasions in honour of the Queen’s p ...
24-07-2022
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Radio 1 presents this late-night Prom, featuring Ivor Novello and Mobo Awards-nominated Kojey Radical. The genre-defying London musician, poet and visual artist released his deb ...
22-07-2022
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The eagerly anticipated return of audience favourite John Wilson kicks off BBC Four's 2022 Proms season. He conducts award-winning orchestra Sinfonia of London in a packed ...
17-07-2022
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Clive Myrie and special guests present the first night of the Proms, live from the Royal Albert Hall. The eight-week season of exceptional music is kicking off with a bang as co ...
15-07-2022
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Jacob Collier's musical career has been meteoric. Still only 23, the multi-instrumentalist has been hailed as a musical genius and jazz prodigy, picking up two Grammy award ...
02-05-2022
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Live from the Royal Albert Hall Clive Anderson introduces a Prom celebrating 75 years of classic MGM film musicals. Songs from unforgettable movies including The Wizard of Oz, G ...
30-01-2022
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Katie Derham presents a dazzling evening of musical hits from the Golden Age of Broadway, including showstoppers from South Pacific, Oklahoma!, Carousel, High Society and Anythi ...
02-01-2022
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Marking the eightieth birthday of one of Broadway's great innovators, the first ever all-Sondheim Prom at the Royal Albert Hall. The concert includes excerpts from hit show ...
27-12-2021
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Joining Beethoven Unleashed, a year-long, BBC-wide marathon marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, a BBC Grand Virtual Orchestra made up of over 300 BBC music ...
25-12-2021
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The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra perform Mozart's overture to the Marriage of Figaro and Ravel pieces including Rapsodie espagnol, Pavane for a Dead Princess and Bolero.
19-12-2021
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A celebration of the Broadway sound with music from Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Frank Loesser and Leonard Bernstein performed by John Wilson. Retur ...
05-12-2021
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Katie Derham hosts continued live coverage from the Royal Albert Hall, at the climax of the world’s greatest classical music festival. Latvian accordionist Ksenija Sidoro ...
11-09-2021
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Katie Derham welcomes a live audience back to the Royal Albert Hall for the climax of the world’s greatest classical music festival, the Last Night of the Proms.\n\nLatvia ...
11-09-2021
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Bach’s profound choral masterpiece, the St Matthew Passion, transcends eras and faiths with its exploration of courage, compassion, sacrifice and redemption. Here, it crow ...
10-09-2021
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Suzy Klein presents a glorious evening of music inspired by Vienna. John Wilson conducts the award-winning Sinfonia of London in Johann Strauss’s sumptuous overture to Die ...
09-09-2021
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Marking his sixtieth appearance at the Proms, Sir John Eliot Gardiner directs the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists in a celebration of the early works of Handel ...
05-09-2021
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Former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo joins star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and his siblings at the Royal Albert Hall for a unique, dramatically staged performance o ...
04-09-2021
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Genre-defying Ghanaian-American musician Moses Sumney makes his Proms debut with conductor Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra as they perform new orchestral arrangemen ...
03-09-2021
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The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra returns for their second Prom of the season under the baton of Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov, with a programme that collides the old ...
02-09-2021
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American violinist Joshua Bell and the string orchestra of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields mix up the familiar with the unfamiliar, 18th-century Italy with 20th-century A ...
27-08-2021
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Tom Service hosts a Prom bursting with premieres from around the world, performed by Britain’s foremost diverse ensemble, the Chineke! Orchestra. \n\nPianist Jeneba Kanneh ...
26-08-2021
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Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra return to the Proms with an evening celebrating one of the trailblazers of 20th-century music, Igor Stravinsky. Marking the fi ...
22-08-2021
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British saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia brings her inventive brand of Afrobeat and Latin American-influenced jazz to the Royal Albert Hall. The rising star performs a set ...
20-08-2021
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Six of the UK's finest opera singers take to the Royal Albert Hall stage to star in a gala concert packed with operatic favourites from Puccini’s La bohème, Bi ...
19-08-2021
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Tom Service, conductor Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra continue their impressive feat of explaining complex works and then performing them from memory. \n\nThis year, t ...
13-08-2021
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The much-anticipated annual Prom from the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain returns, this year under the baton of one of the most exciting young conductors on the intern ...
08-08-2021
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The BBC National Orchestra of Wales present a concert featuring composers who found inspiration in music that came before them. \n\nMusical echoes resonate in a programme featu ...
06-08-2021
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Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla returns to the BBC Proms to conduct the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in a concert featuring Brahms’s beloved Third Symphony as its lyrical ce ...
05-08-2021
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The Scottish Chamber Orchestra and their dynamic new principal conductor, Maxim Emelyanychev, kick off the BBC Four Proms 2021 season with a night dedicated to Mozart.\n\nFor th ...
01-08-2021
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Katie Derham presents from the Royal Albert Hall, as the opening concert of the 2021 Proms season continues in front of a live audience. Conductor Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Sy ...
30-07-2021
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Conductor Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra kick off a six-week season with Vaughan Williams’s ravishing Serenade to Music and Poulenc’s dazzling Organ ...
30-07-2021
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Groundbreaking British composer Anna Meredith presents this special Proms tribute to the godmothers of electronica, the pioneers of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The celebration ...
16-05-2021
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At the Royal Albert Hall, Katie Derham introduces the ever-popular John Wilson and his orchestra in a celebration of the music of Hollywood. Bernard Herrmann's Psycho, Eric ...
27-12-2020
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Performances of two of the best-loved works in the repertoire. Starting with Mozart's ever-popular Clarinet Concerto, written two months before his death, Thomas Dausgaard ...
19-08-2018
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Presenter Katie Derham is joined by three guests to discuss Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand, Debussy's La Mer and Grieg's Piano Concerto. David Owen Norris rev ...
18-08-2018
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Nordic composing giants Grieg and Sibelius anchor this Proms debut performance by the Estonian Festival Orchestra, conducted by Paavo Jarvi. Pianist and former BBC Radio 3 New G ...
17-08-2018
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The awe-inspiring orchestra of teenagers returns to the Royal Albert Hall with a packed bill of popular masterpieces, including Mussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain an ...
12-08-2018
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Katie Derham presents the weekly companion guide to the Proms season. This week's sofa guests are violinist Joshua Bell, ahead of his Prom performance, soprano Nadine Benja ...
11-08-2018
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An eclectic mix of musicians with rich New York roots join Jules Buckley and the Heritage Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall to celebrate the changing soundscape of the Big Appl ...
10-08-2018
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The Rev Richard Coles introduces a performance of Brahms's tender and consoling A German Requiem, inspired by the death of the composer's mother. Richard Farnes conduc ...
10-08-2018
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Exploring light and dark, life and loss, through the music of Beethoven, Brahms and the contemporary composer Tansy Davies, this Prom sees the BBC Philharmonic led by youthful p ...
05-08-2018
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Join Katie Derham for Proms Extra, the companion guide to the BBC Proms classical music festival. In this episode, the focus is on the BBC Symphony Orchestra tackling Shostakovi ...
04-08-2018
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A Caribbean spirit pulses through this late-night Prom from the Royal Albert Hall, led by leading reggae and dancehall producer Mista Savona. \n\nCuban and Jamaican musicians un ...
03-08-2018
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Traditional music for modern times as the ever-versatile BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Stephen Bell collaborate with leading musicians in this celebration of the diverse f ...
03-08-2018
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Conductor Karina Canellakis returns with the BBC Symphony Orchestra after her triumphant 2017 Proms debut. Two 20th-century Russian masterpieces lead the bill - the exhilarating ...
29-07-2018
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Joining Katie Derham for Proms Extra are violinist Tai Murray and director of music for the Southbank Centre Gillian Moore. The works of Lili Boulanger, Vaughan Williams and the ...
28-07-2018
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Three of the most loved English composers, Hubert Parry, Gustav Holst and Vaughan Williams, reflect on a country transformed by war at the beginning of the 20th century. \n\nPar ...
27-07-2018
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Romantic titans Schumann and Mendelssohn share the night's bill with a pair of phenomenal female composers who died 100 years ago - two talents whose lives were cut tragica ...
22-07-2018
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Katie Derham casts an eye over the first seven days of action at the BBC Proms in Proms Extra.\n\nIn the spotlight this week are Five Telegrams from the First Night of the Proms ...
21-07-2018
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A star-studded line-up of BBC Young Musician winners and finalists, including Nicola Benedetti, Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Emma Johnson, come together to celebrate the competition ...
15-07-2018
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BBC Proms 2018 launches with a feast for the eyes and ears in the world premiere of Five Telegrams, with music by Anna Meredith and stunning digital projections by 59 Production ...
13-07-2018
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Katie Derham is joined in the studio by baritone Roderick Williams and composer Hannah Kendall. Music featured comes from Rachmaninov's Second Symphony, Aurora Orchestra ...
19-08-2017
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Katie Derham presents the companion guide to the Proms. Tonight's show has the tenor Stuart Skelton, soprano Ailish Tynan and gospel conductor and composer Ken Burton discu ...
05-08-2017
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A stirring story of justice and liberty, Beethoven's only opera Fidelio is performed by a stellar cast, including Stuart Skelton, Ricarda Merbeth, James Creswell and Louise ...
30-07-2017
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Katie Derham returns with the magazine show Proms Extra to review the opening week of Proms 2017 with her special guests. This week's review includes Elgar's Second Sy ...
22-07-2017
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