BBC Proms (1947)
The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and in recent years has explored an innovative series of Proms around the UK with concerts in all four nations. Its aim: to bring the best in classical music to the widest possible audience, which remains true to founder-conductor Henry Wood’s original vision in 1895. Whether you are a classical connoisseur or think classical music isn’t for you, there is something for everyone in the eight-week stretch of concerts.
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- 1 1. First Night of the Proms: Part 12021-07-30 · 3h 0mConductor 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 Concerto. They’
- 2 2. First Night of the Proms: Part 22021-07-30 · 3h 0mKatie 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 Symph
- 3 3. Prom 4: An Evening of Mozart with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra2021-08-01 · 3h 0mThe Scottish Chamber Orchestra and their young Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev showcase Mozart’s final three symphonies – composed over a period of just two months in the su
- 4 4. Prom 8: Gražinytė-Tyla Conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra2021-08-05 · 3h 0mThe City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla champion the music of a too-long neglected composer. A pupil of Vaughan Williams, Ruth Gipps start
- 5 5. Prom 5: Ryan Bancroft Conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales2021-08-06 · 3h 0mMusical borrowings, reworkings and reinventions run through this season’s Proms. The invisible thread linking tonight’s concert really begins with Bach. A lilting chaconne from his
- 6 6. Prom 2: The Golden Age of Broadway2021-08-07 · 3h 0mSmell the greasepaint and feel the blaze of those Broadway lights, as the BBC Concert Orchestra whisks you away for a night at the musicals. The toe-tapping favourites include song
- 7 7. Prom 10: Nicola Benedetti and the NYOGB2021-08-08 · 3h 0mRising star Jonathon Heyward conducts the talented teenagers of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in one of the all-time symphonic greats. Propelling the symphony into
- 8 8. Prom 14/15: Stravinsky from Memory2021-08-13 · 3h 0mNicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra’s from-memory performances have become a thrilling recent fixture of the Proms. Now, following symphonies by Beethoven, Brahms, Shostakovic
- 9 9. Prom 17: Víkingur Ólafsson Plays Bach and Mozart2021-08-15 · 3h 0mAward-winning Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson makes his much-anticipated Proms debut, as soloist in both Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in F minor, whose energised outer movements fr
- 10 10. Prom 20: To Soothe the Aching Heart (A Night at the Opera)2021-08-19 · 3h 0mA host of British opera stars join Ben Glassberg and the BBC Philharmonic for a night rich in emotion and drama. After a year of lockdowns and social distancing, the themes of isol
- 11 11. Prom 22: Nubya Garcia2021-08-20 · 3h 0mBritish saxophonist, composer, DJ and bandleader Nubya Garcia is one of the brightest of a new generation of jazz talent, drawing comparison with greats such as Sonny Rollins and D
- 12 12. Prom 26: Sir Simon Rattle Conducts the London Symphony Orchestra2021-08-22 · 3h 0mThe London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle mark 2021’s Stravinsky anniversary with a series of symphonic snapshots. We follow Stravinsky’s view of the symphony from the exp
- 13 13. Prom 28: Chineke! Orchestra2021-08-26 · 3h 0mThe Chineke! Orchestra returns for its fourth visit to the Proms, celebrating diversity in composers as well as performers. Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s overtur
- 14 14. Prom 29/30: Joshua Bell's Seasons: Vivaldi vs Piazzolla2021-08-27 · 3h 0mFrom an icy Italian winter to the heady, sensual warmth of a South American summer: violinist Joshua Bell leads the Academy of St Martin in the Fields on a musical journey through
- 15 15. Prom 34/35: Family Prom - The Carnival of the Animals with the Kanneh-Masons2021-08-29 · 3h 0mAuthor Michael Morpurgo joins the seven talented Kanneh-Mason siblings and starry musical friends for this special Family Prom. Saint-Saëns’s much-loved suite The Carnival of the A
- 16 16. Prom 31: George Lewis & Beethoven2021-09-02 · 3h 0mThe BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov pair Beethoven’s dramatic concert aria ‘Ah! perfido’ with the Second Symphony – a work whose vitality
- 17 17. Prom 25: Moses Sumney Meets Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra2021-09-03 · 3h 0mBlending soul, jazz, art-pop and spoken word, singer-songwriter Moses Sumney defies traditional categories. His ever-evolving voice has channelled political rage and emotional opti
- 18 18. Prom 38: Sir John Eliot Gardiner Conducts the Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists2021-09-05 · 3h 0mSir John Eliot Gardiner makes his 60th Proms appearance directing his own Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Handel’s vividly theatrical Dixit Dominus – a concerto fo
- 19 19. Prom 42: John Wilson Conducts the Sinfonia of London2021-09-09 · 3h 0mThe Sinfonia of London makes its much-anticipated official concert debut under John Wilson, who re-established the ensemble in 2018. Following on from their award-winning recording
- 21 21. Prom 47: Bach’s St Matthew Passion2021-09-10 · 3h 0mBach’s crowning masterpiece, the St Matthew Passion combines moments of extraordinary fragility and tenderness with raw choral power and explosive jubilation, bitter grief with pas
- 22 22. Last Night of the Proms 2021 - Part 12021-09-11 · 3h 0mWith his ‘thrilling vocal heroics’ and ‘magnetic stage presence’, Stuart Skelton is one of the great tenors of his generation, a regular in all the major international opera houses
- 23 23. Last Night of the Proms - Part 22021-09-11 · 3h 0mKatie Derham hosts continued live coverage from the Royal Albert Hall, at the climax of the world’s greatest classical music festival. Latvian accordionist Ksenija Sidorova and Aus
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