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BBC Proms (1947)

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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 16, 2004

Promenaders donning their finery can only mean one thing - it's that time of year once more. The highlight of the classical music season is…

First Night of the BBC Four PromsJul 19, 2004

Elgar's Enigma Variations are performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and there's his Cockaigne to enjoy. Delius's Sea Drift is s…

Proms on Four: An Alpine SymphonyJul 20, 2004

Live at the Royal Albert Hall, Leonard Slatkin conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Richard Strauss 's Alpine Symphony, the premiere of Z…

Proms on Four: Mozart's Prague SymphonyJul 21, 2004

There's a Czech flavour to tonight's concert as Jiri Belohlavek conducts the Prague Philharmonia in Mozart's dramatic Prague Symphony, whil…

Proms on Four: Stravinsky's FirebirdJul 22, 2004

Under the baton of Gianandrea Noseda, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra launch a 75th anniversary tribute to the Russian ballet impresario Ser…

Proms on Four. A Messiaen TributeJul 23, 2004

In the mid-1970s George Benjamin studied composition with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire. Tonight at the Royal Albert Hall he…

Proms on Four: Stravinsky and BernsteinJul 24, 2004

Charles Ives's Symphony No 4 is played, as well as Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and Stravinsky's ballet, Petrushka. The City of Birmingham…

Proms on Four: Zukerman Plays ElgarJul 25, 2004

Israeli violinist Pinchas Zukerman performs Elgar's Violin Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Davis. Plus a perf…

The Nation's Favourite PromJul 25, 2004

Alan Titchmarsh introduces an evening of popular works from the classical canon from London's Royal Albert Hall , two of which have been ch…

Proms on Four: Eigar's Third SymphonyJul 26, 2004

Anthony Payne 's reconstruction of Elgar's unfinished work is performed alongside Beethoven's enduringly popular Fourth Piano Concerto and…

Proms on Four Sabit-Saens's Second Piano ConcertoJul 27, 2004

Popular music from the Romantic period - Dvorak's Czech Suite, Schumann's Second Symphony and Saint Saens 's Second Piano Concerto. Macedon…

Proms on Four: Janacek's Glagolitic MassJul 28, 2004

Kurt Masur conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Schubert's haunting Unfinished Symphony, while Petr Fiala directs the Czech Philha…

Proms on Four: Mozart and MahlerJul 29, 2004

Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Martinu's luminous The Frescoes ofPiero della Francesca and Janacek's…

Proms on Four: Dvorak and StraussJul 30, 2004

Mariss Jansons conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Dvorak's lyrical Eighth Symphony and Strauss's autobiographical tone poem…

BBC Proms 2004Jul 31, 2004

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, chief conductor Mariss Jansons leads the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in an all-Russian programme. Ch…

Proms on Four: Wynton Marsalis - Out Here to Swing!Jul 31, 2004

Trumpet virtuoso Marsalis - a regular visitor to the Proms - returns with his Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra for a late-night celebration of…

Proms on Four: Britten's Curlew RiverAug 1, 2004

Birmingham Opera Company present the first of Britten's three "church parables".

BBC Proms 2004Aug 7, 2004

ive from the Royal Albert Hall, Roger Norrington - who recently turned 70 - conducts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in its a…

BBC Proms 2004Aug 21, 2004

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, the English Concert is directed by violinist and conductor Andrew Manze with sopranos Emma Bell and Ailish…

BBC Proms 2004Aug 28, 2004

The transience of human life is the theme as the Orchestre de Paris and London Voices are conducted by Christoph Eschenbach with mezzo Yvon…

Russian Night at the PromsSep 2, 2004

Musorgsky's demonic tone poem Night on Bare Mountain is paired with Stravinsky's 20th-century masterpiece The Rite of Spring, a piece that…

BBC Proms 2004Sep 4, 2004

Rich in tradition and regarded as the world's oldest orchestra - its roots lying in the 16th century - the Dresden Staatskapelle perform in…

Proms on FourSep 5, 2004

Simon Rattle unites the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and the Berliner Philharmoniker for the annual Proms performance of Beethoven's…

Proms on FourSep 6, 2004

Conductor Simon Rattle and his Berliner Philharmoniker perform La Mer , the sea symphony by Debussy, then Messiaen's Eclairs sur I'Audela..…

Proms on FourSep 7, 2004

Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts the British premiere of Kaija Saariaho's Orion.

Proms on FourSep 7, 2004

Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Bartok's only opera, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jukka-Pekka Saraste.

Proms on FourSep 8, 2004

On the day of Dvorak's birthday, leading champion of Czech music Charles Mackerras conducts the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in the compose…

Proms on FourSep 9, 2004

A 300thanniversary celebration of the music of the 18th-century French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Conductor William Christie leads…

Proms on FourSep 10, 2004

Superstar Russian soprano Anna Netrebko sings popular arias by Puccini, Bellini and Dvorak accompanied by the BBC Philharmonic and their co…

Last Night of the PromsSep 11, 2004

Live coverage from London's Royal Albert Hall of the final evening of performances from this year's Proms. The BBC Symphony Orchestra under…

Last Night of the PromsSep 11, 2004

The Proms season comes to a spectacular close as BBC1 takes over coverage. Introduced by Alan Titchmarsh. The second-half programme commenc…