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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 14, 2006 · 3h 0m

Czech maestro Jiri Belohlavek lifts the baton for the first time in his new role as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in order…

Proms on FourJul 17, 2006

Bruch's Violin Concerto performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.

BBC Proms 2006Jul 19, 2006

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are guests at a concert to celebrate the monarch's 80th birthday. Children's choirs, the Scots Guards a…

BBC Proms 2006Aug 5, 2006

One of today's greatest interpreters of Sibelius, Colin Davis conducts the composer's tone poem Pohjola's Daughter and his Seventh Symphony…

Mozart at the PromsAug 9, 2006

Alan Titchmarsh introduces the first of two Proms celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, recorded live at the Royal Albert Ha…

BBC Proms 2006Aug 12, 2006

Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts the European Union Youth Orchestra as they perform Shostakovich's Symphony No 4 before Promenaders at London's…

Mozart at the PromsAug 16, 2006

Nicola Benedetti introduces the second of two Proms celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, recorded live at the Royal Albert…

BBC Proms 2006Aug 19, 2006

The Shostakovich centenary continues with Valery Gergiev conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre in the choral Symphon…

Proms on Four PreviewAug 20, 2006

Highlights of two concerts earlier in the season. Maxim Vengerov plays Mozart's fourth violin concerto with the Verbier Festival Chamber Or…

Proms on FourAug 21, 2006

Colin Davis conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a programme featuring his twin passions, Berlioz and Elgar. Berlioz's Overture: Les F…

Proms on FourAug 22, 2006

Conductor Philippe Jordan makes his Proms debut with the Mahler Youth Orchestra. Featuring Strauss's Don Juan, Chausson's Poeme de l'Amour…

Proms on FourAug 23, 2006

The London Philharmonic Orchestra play the UK premiere of A Relic of Memory by Mark-Anthony Turnage. Vladimir Jurowski conducts Prokofiev's…

Proms on FourAug 24, 2006

The Minnesota Orchestra and conductor Osmo Vanska visit London to perform Mahler's much-loved Symphony No 5. Also featuring Barber's First…

Proms on FourAug 25, 2006

Magnus Lindberg's Sculpture receives its UK premiere, conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Plus Mendelssohn's…

BBC Proms 2006Aug 26, 2006

The NDR Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor, Christoph von Dohnanyi, present two neoclassical masterworks: Ravel's Le tombeau de Cou…

Proms on FourAug 27, 2006

New. Mozart's Meistermusik, Symphony No 39 in E flat and Requiem in D minor. Plus poetry with Roger McGough.

Proms on FourAug 28, 2006

The Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra play Mozart. Ivor Bolton conducts Symphonies No 34 and 38 (Prague). Lars Vogt performs Piano Concerto No 2…

Proms on FourAug 29, 2006

Hans Werner Henze 's Five Messages for the Queen of Sheba receives its London premiere, followed by Shostakovich's Symphony No 7 (Leningrad…

Proms on FourAug 30, 2006

Charles Haziewood conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra. The programme is Ibert's Divertissement, Pauline Malefane singing Weill, Gershwin's R…

Proms on FourSep 1, 2006

The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Simon Rattle join the Mozart celebrations with Symphony No 25 in G minor and Symphony No 4 in G minor…

BBC Proms 2006Sep 2, 2006

Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic. Tonight's programme opens with Szymanowski's impressionistic Violin Concerto No 1 featuring…

Proms on FourSep 3, 2006

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Matthias Pintscher 's Hérodiade-Fragmente, based on verse by Mallarme. Christoph Eschenbach conducts the Phi…

Proms on FourSep 4, 2006

Two minor-key fifth symphonies by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, both concerning mankind's struggle with fate and the ineluctable triumph of li…

Proms on FourSep 5, 2006

Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat, featuring Rostropovich protégée Han-Na Chang , and Rachmaninov's lyrical Symphony No 2 in E m…

Proms on FourSep 6, 2006

Bernard Haitink conducts the combined voices of the BBC Symphony and London Symphony Choruses in a performance of Mahler's mighty Symphony…

Proms on FourSep 8, 2006

Conductor Daniele Gatti conducts the Royal Philharmonic in a performance of the last of this season's eight Shostakovich symphonies in cele…

Proms on FourSep 8, 2006

Rounding up the series of Mozart anniversary Proms, Charles Mackerras directs the Orchestra and Choir of the Age of Enlightenment in a perf…

Last Night of the PromsSep 9, 2006

Live at London's Royal Albert Hall, Alan Titchmarsh introduces the final concert in the Proms season. In Shostakovich's centenary year, a R…

Last Night of the Proms on FourSep 9, 2006

Soprano Lesley Garrett, violinist Nicola Benedetti, the Ulster Orchestra and the Ulster Youth Choir feature in a live concert from the grou…

Last Night of the PromsSep 9, 2006

The pomp and circumstance continues at the Royal Albert Hall as the Proms season reaches its climax. All the traditional rousing, flag-wavi…