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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 13, 2018 · 3h 0m

An all-British concert launches the 2018 season. Vaughan Williams atmospheric Whitman settings and Holst’s ever-popular 1918 suite The Plan…

BBC Young Musician 40th AnniversaryJul 15, 2018 · 3h 0m

BBC Young Musician celebrates its 40th birthday with a concert featuring illustrious past winners and finalists, including Nicola Benedetti…

Jacob Collier and FriendsJul 19, 2018 · 3h 0m

23-year-old vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and arranger Jacob Collier is already a multi-Grammy Award-winner. Here he teams up with Jules…

Youthful BeginningsJul 20, 2018 · 3h 0m

Mendelssohn’s precocious First Piano Concerto joins Schumann’s forward-looking Fourth Symphony and music by Lili Boulanger and Morfydd Owen…

Pioneers of SoundJul 23, 2018 · 3h 0m

The London Contemporary Orchestra leads a late-night tribute to the legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop – pioneers of experimental elect…

Beethoven, Shostakovich & RachmaninovJul 23, 2018 · 3h 0m

Karina Canellakis directs the BBC Symphony Orchestra in two Russian classics: Rachmaninov’s exhilarating Symphonic Dances and Shostakovich’…

Paul Lewis plays Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ concertoJul 25, 2018 · 3h 0m

A concert of darkness and light opens with the world premiere of Tansy Davies’s 9/11-inspired What Did We See? and closes with Brahms’s sun…

Parry, Vaughan Williams & HolstJul 27, 2018 · 3h 0m

Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and Pastoral Symphony sit alongside music by Holst and Parry’s stirring Fifth Symphony in this centen…

Havana Meets KingstonJul 31, 2018 · 3h 0m

Leading reggae and dancehall producer Mister Savona brings together some of Cuba and Jamaica’s most influential musicians for a concert com…

Folk Music around Britain and IrelandAug 3, 2018 · 3h 0m

The BBC Concert Orchestra collaborates with some of the folk world’s leading musicians, including Julie Fowlis, The Unthanks and Sam Lee, i…

NYO perform Mussorgsky, Ligeti and DebussyAug 4, 2018 · 3h 0m

George Benjamin and the National Youth Orchestra in a concert of orchestral masterworks that includes Debussy’s La Mer and Ligeti’s mesmeri…

Brahms's A German RequiemAug 7, 2018 · 3h 0m

Richard Farnes conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and soloists Golda Schultz and Johan Reuter in Brahms’s much-loved Requiem. Marking Thea…

New York: Sound of a CityAug 8, 2018 · 3h 0m

Celebrating the music of a modern New York, the Heritage Orchestra and conductor Jules Buckley present the sound of NYC. With guest artists…

Edward Gardner conducts Elgar & Vaughan WilliamsAug 12, 2018 · 3h 0m

The conflict of war runs through this concert by Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Vaughan Williams’s beautiful cantata Dona n…

Sir Simon Rattle conducts L’enfant et les sortilègesAug 18, 2018 · 3h 0m

Ravel’s magical opera The Child and the Spells follows his fairy-tale ballet Mother Goose and the oriental aura of Shéhérazade.

Mozart's Clarinet Concerto & Mahler's Fifth SymphonyAug 19, 2018 · 3h 0m

Recreating a Prom conducted by Leonard Bernstein in 1987, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard pair two of the best-lov…

Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra (II)Aug 23, 2018 · 3h 0m

Dance to the Gypsy rhythms of Hungarian folk music in works by Liszt and Sarasate, while Brahms’s dramatic First Symphony, with its transce…

John Wilson conducts Bernstein's On the TownAug 25, 2018 · 3h 0m

Launching a Bernstein bank-holiday weekend on what would have been the composer’s 100th birthday, John Wilson conducts Bernstein’s hit Broa…

Marin Alsop & Baltimore Symphony OrchestraAug 27, 2018 · 3h 0m

Bernstein-protégée Marin Alsop returns to the Proms with one of the great American symphony orchestras to perform a politically charged pro…

Sir András Schiff plays 'The Well-Tempered Clavier' (Book 2)Aug 29, 2018 · 3h 0m

Following his performance of Book 1 in 2017, distinguished pianist and Bach specialist Sir András Schiff returns to present the complete Bo…

Youssou Ndour & Le Super Étoile de DakarAug 31, 2018 · 3h 0m

Senegalese cultural icon Youssou Ndour makes his Proms debut in a special late-night appearance. He’s joined by his group Le Super Étoile d…

Tango PromSep 4, 2018 · 3h 0m

Explore the raw sensuality and charged rhythms of the tango in all its guises. The Britten Sinfonia join forces with a tango band to take t…

Last Night of the Proms - Part OneSep 8, 2018 · 1h 44m

The BBC Proms 2018 season comes to a close with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and their much-loved former chief conductor and Last Night of th…

Last Night of the Proms - Part TwoSep 8, 2018 · 1h 30m

Katie Derham presents live coverage as the Last Night of the Proms continues from the Royal Albert Hall with the ever-popular Marche milita…