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BBC Proms (1947)

7.7 80 seasons 1181 episodes Returning Series

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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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Seasons & episodes

First Night of the PromsJul 20, 2001

James Naughtie introduces live coverage of the First Night live from London's Royal Albert Hall in a special concert to welcome American-bo…

BBC Proms 2001Jul 29, 2001

Live broadcast of Sally Beamish's Proms commission Knotgrass Elegy, Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto, and Stravinsky's The Firebird.

BBC Proms 2001Jul 30, 2001

A live broadcast of Nielsen's Symphony No 2 (The Four Temperaments), Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 1, played by Louis Lortie, and Vaughan W…

BBC Proms 2001Jul 31, 2001

A live broadcast from the Royal Albert Hall, London, featuring Berlioz's Le Corsaire, the world premiere of Stuart MacRae's Violin Concerto…

BBC Proms 2001Aug 1, 2001

Live from London's Royal Albert Hall where American soprano Renee Fleming makes her long-awaited Proms debut singing Mozart's motet Exsulta…

BBC Proms 2001Aug 2, 2001

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, a performance of Schoenberg's Variations for Orchestra Op 31, Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 1 in F sharp…

BBC Proms 2001Aug 3, 2001

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, a concert featuring Varese's Arcana, violinist Joshua Bell playing Bernstein's Serenade and his West Side…

The Nation's Favourite PromAug 5, 2001

Mariella Frostrup presents highlights of a concert from the Royal Albert Hall featuring classical music voted for in a Radio Times poll of…

BBC Proms 2001Aug 5, 2001

Including works by Debussy, Britten and Finzi. Featuring singers Lillian Watson, Pamela Helen Stephen and Philip Langridge.

BBC Proms 2001Aug 11, 2001

Stephanie Hughes introduces tonight's programme live from London's Albert Hall, consisting of a single work and featuring the annual appear…

BBC Proms 2001Aug 12, 2001

Sir Andrew Davis conducts Sally Beamish's Knotgrass Elegy.

BBC Proms 2001Aug 19, 2001

Nielsen's Symphony No 2, Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 1 and London Symphony by Vaughan Williams.

BBC Proms 2001Aug 23, 2001

Manfred Honeck, who stands in for an indisposed Neeme Jarvi, conducts the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers in a concert re…

BBC Proms 2001Aug 26, 2001

Including Le Corsair by Berlioz and Britten's Les Illuminations.

BBC Proms 2001Aug 27, 2001

Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, James Naughtie presents an evening of music performed by Japan's leading orchestra, the NHK Symp…

BBC Proms 2001Aug 30, 2001

Wayne Marshall the celebrated pianist, organist and conductor presents a concert of American and Russian music from London's Royal Albert H…

BBC Proms 2001Sep 2, 2001

Featuring music by Schoenberg and Weill, from the Royal Albert Hall.

BBC Proms 2001Sep 6, 2001

Tonight featuring the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra with their music director Herbert Blomstedt who is making his Proms' debut. Michael Aspe…

BBC Proms 2001Sep 13, 2001

James Naughtie introduces live coverage from London's Royal Albert Hall. This year's Proms have explored the countryside and nature. Tonigh…

Last Night of the PromsSep 15, 2001

Stephanie Hughes introduces the first half of this evening's traditional celebration live from the Royal Albert Hall, with Leonard Slatkin…

Last Night of the PromsSep 15, 2001

BBC1 takes over live coverage of the spectacular finale to the 2001 Prom season. The BBC Symphony Orchestra's American conductor, Leonard S…

Proms 2001Sep 16, 2001

Highlights from this year, featuring a tribute to composer Gerald Finzi. Conducted by Richard Hickox.

Helene Grimaud at the PromsDec 20, 2001

The young French pianist gives a stylish performance of Beethoven's Fourth Concerto.

The Best of the Proms 2001Feb 17, 2002

A musical retrospective featuring Sally Beamish's first Proms commission, Knotgrass Elegy, Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto (played by Ca…

The Best of the Proms 2001Feb 21, 2002

Featuring Varese's Arcana, a work inspired by the occult philosophy of Paracelsus. Plus American violinist Joshua Bell plays Bernstein's Se…

The Best of the Proms 2001Feb 28, 2002

Featuring Berlioz's Overture Le Corsaire; the world premiere of Stuart MacRae's Violin Concerto, played by Tasmin Little; Britten's Les Ill…