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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 Proms: Part 1Jul 30, 2021 · 3h 0m

Conductor Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra kick off a six-week season with Vaughan Williams’s ravishing Serenade to Music and…

First Night of the Proms: Part 2Jul 30, 2021 · 3h 0m

Katie Derham presents from the Royal Albert Hall, as the opening concert of the 2021 Proms season continues in front of a live audience. Co…

Prom 4: An Evening of Mozart with the Scottish Chamber OrchestraAug 1, 2021 · 3h 0m

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra and their young Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev showcase Mozart’s final three symphonies – composed o…

Prom 8: Gražinytė-Tyla Conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony OrchestraAug 5, 2021 · 3h 0m

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla champion the music of a too-long neglected composer. A pu…

Prom 5: Ryan Bancroft Conducts the BBC National Orchestra of WalesAug 6, 2021 · 3h 0m

Musical borrowings, reworkings and reinventions run through this season’s Proms. The invisible thread linking tonight’s concert really begi…

Prom 2: The Golden Age of BroadwayAug 7, 2021 · 3h 0m

Smell the greasepaint and feel the blaze of those Broadway lights, as the BBC Concert Orchestra whisks you away for a night at the musicals…

Prom 10: Nicola Benedetti and the NYOGBAug 8, 2021 · 3h 0m

Rising star Jonathon Heyward conducts the talented teenagers of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in one of the all-time sympho…

Prom 14/15: Stravinsky from MemoryAug 13, 2021 · 3h 0m

Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra’s from-memory performances have become a thrilling recent fixture of the Proms. Now, following sym…

Prom 17: Víkingur Ólafsson Plays Bach and MozartAug 15, 2021 · 3h 0m

Award-winning Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson makes his much-anticipated Proms debut, as soloist in both Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in F…

Prom 20: To Soothe the Aching Heart (A Night at the Opera)Aug 19, 2021 · 3h 0m

A 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…

Prom 22: Nubya GarciaAug 20, 2021 · 3h 0m

British saxophonist, composer, DJ and bandleader Nubya Garcia is one of the brightest of a new generation of jazz talent, drawing compariso…

Prom 26: Sir Simon Rattle Conducts the London Symphony OrchestraAug 22, 2021 · 3h 0m

The London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle mark 2021’s Stravinsky anniversary with a series of symphonic snapshots. We follow Strav…

Prom 28: Chineke! OrchestraAug 26, 2021 · 3h 0m

The Chineke! Orchestra returns for its fourth visit to the Proms, celebrating diversity in composers as well as performers. Black British c…

Prom 29/30: Joshua Bell's Seasons: Vivaldi vs PiazzollaAug 27, 2021 · 3h 0m

From an icy Italian winter to the heady, sensual warmth of a South American summer: violinist Joshua Bell leads the Academy of St Martin in…

Prom 34/35: Family Prom - The Carnival of the Animals with the Kanneh-MasonsAug 29, 2021 · 3h 0m

Author Michael Morpurgo joins the seven talented Kanneh-Mason siblings and starry musical friends for this special Family Prom. Saint-Saëns…

Prom 31: George Lewis & BeethovenSep 2, 2021 · 3h 0m

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov pair Beethoven’s dramatic concert aria ‘Ah! perfido’ with the…

Prom 25: Moses Sumney Meets Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony OrchestraSep 3, 2021 · 3h 0m

Blending soul, jazz, art-pop and spoken word, singer-songwriter Moses Sumney defies traditional categories. His ever-evolving voice has cha…

Prom 38: Sir John Eliot Gardiner Conducts the Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque SoloistsSep 5, 2021 · 3h 0m

Sir John Eliot Gardiner makes his 60th Proms appearance directing his own Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Handel’s vividly…

Prom 42: John Wilson Conducts the Sinfonia of LondonSep 9, 2021 · 3h 0m

The Sinfonia of London makes its much-anticipated official concert debut under John Wilson, who re-established the ensemble in 2018. Follow…

Prom 47: Bach’s St Matthew PassionSep 10, 2021 · 3h 0m

Bach’s crowning masterpiece, the St Matthew Passion combines moments of extraordinary fragility and tenderness with raw choral power and ex…

Last Night of the Proms 2021 - Part 1Sep 11, 2021 · 3h 0m

With his ‘thrilling vocal heroics’ and ‘magnetic stage presence’, Stuart Skelton is one of the great tenors of his generation, a regular in…

Last Night of the Proms - Part 2Sep 11, 2021 · 3h 0m

Katie Derham hosts continued live coverage from the Royal Albert Hall, at the climax of the world’s greatest classical music festival. Latv…