BBC Proms

Name: BBC Proms
Address: Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, London, SW72AP, GB
Telephone: +448454015040
Rating: 4.7

The world's greatest classical music festival. 19 Jul - 14 Sep 2024. At the Royal Albert Hall & venues around the UK. Watch selected concerts on BBC iPlayer.
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Listen to every note on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds.

02/09/2024

Tonight’s Prom was a special concert to mark 100 years since the birth of Henry Mancini, the legendary film composer 🤩🌟

Presenter for the evening charmed and enthralled the audience with her trademark wit as the ever excellent
and their newly appointed Principal Guest Conductor and Curator put on a fabulous show 🙌

A huge thank you to guests and , and Henry Mancini’s daughter Monica, who sang ‘Moon River’ 👏

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📺 Watch on Friday 6 September on BBC Four, 8pm

📸 Andy Paradise

02/09/2024

Another spellbinding week of music making at the Royal Albert Hall. Some highlights over the last week included;

🎻 The Czech Philharmonic performing music by Antonín Dvořák & Josef Suk with cellist Anastasia Kobekina and conductor Jakub Hrůša.

🎶 The distinctive sound of Tinariwen, who combined traditional Tuareg and African music with elements of Western rock and jazz in a compelling late night Prom.

🌹 Glyndebourne Festival Opera and London Philharmonic Orchestra with that most red-blooded of operas, Carmen, conducted by Anja Bihlmaier.

🎉 Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmoniker's second night at , celebrating Bruckner's 200th anniversary with a performance of Symphony No. 5, after Owain Park and the BBC Singers performed three of Bruckner's motets.

All concerts available to listen now on BBC Sounds.

02/09/2024

📣 We’re thrilled to announce that actress and comedian will be presenting Prom 57: Henry Mancini and Beyond! 💫

Music-lover Mel will be hosting a whole evening of music by Mancini alongside gems from the genres he helped inspire including easy-going tracks by Burt Bacharach, Les Baxter and Juan García Esquivel 🤩

A few tickets still available via the link in our bio 🎟️🌟

01/09/2024

Tonight the and their Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko performed the second of their two BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall – Bruckner’s Symphony No. 5 in B flat major.

The , celebrating their centenary this year, conducted by opened the concert with Os justi, Locus iste and Christus factus est, also by Bruckner.

Huge thanks to all the artists who performed in tonight’s BBC Prom. The packed-out crowd leapt to their feet in celebration of what was a truly incredible evening.

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📸 By Chris Christodoulou

01/09/2024

Superstars Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos and Emanuel Ax captivate in an intimate concert at the Royal Albert Hall featuring Beethoven’s ‘Archduke’ Piano Trio.

👀 Watch tonight at 8PM on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer.

01/09/2024

Last night the astonishing and their Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko graced the Royal Albert Hall’s stage for the first of their two concerts.

expertly performed Schumann’s Piano Concerto before the orchestra’s performance of Smetana’s Má vlast; a tribute marking the bicentenary of the composer’s birth.

It was a breathtaking night of gorgeous music and remarkable playing - a Prom to remember! 🌟🎶

🎧 Listen again on and join us live on BBC Radio 3 for tonight’s second concert at 7.30pm

📸 Chris Christodoulou and Stephan Rabold

01/09/2024

We're in Aberdeen! This afternoon at Cowdray Hall we'll be treated to a sequence of songs and arias for voice & lute, devised by and featuring soprano Nardus Williams, classicist & historian Dame Mary Beard and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny.

🎧 Listen live on BBC Radio 3 & BBC Sounds from 3PM
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31/08/2024

A stellar trio took the stage at this afternoon’s Prom.✨

, and Emanuel Ax offered two mighty masterpieces, beginning with Brahms’ Piano Trio No. 2. 🌱 For the second half of the Prom, the trio performed Beethoven’s ‘Archduke’ Trio - which today received its first performance at the Proms. 🎻🎹

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📺 Watch on tomorrow at 8pm

📸 BBC / Chris Christodoulou

31/08/2024

No disco is complete without the mirror ball! 🪩

The Disco Prom shimmered with 11 mirror balls weighing 210kg 👏

Andi Oliver presents this Studio 54 celebration with the BBC Concert Orchestra, Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser and an incredible line up of singers.

📺 Watch tonight on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer from 8.25pm

30/08/2024

At tonight’s Prom, Martyn Brabbins and the paid tribute to former BBC SO Chief Conductor Andrew Davis, who died earlier in the year.

Opening the Prom was the Symphony in Three Movements by Stravinsky, the Russian émigré composer’s first big musical statement following his move to the USA in 1939. ✈️ Following the symphony was the beautifu UK premiere of Steve Reich’s work for vocal ensemble and orchestra Jacob’s Ladder, which is based on a famous scene from the Book of Genesis - performed with . 📖

The second half of the concert started with the ‘Ritual Dances’ from Tippett’s opera The Midsummer Marriage, followed by the Elgar’s evergreen ‘Enigma’ Variations.🔥

30/08/2024

🪩 I will Survive - the Gloria Gaynor floor-filler brilliantly performed by Vula Malinga. Yes, it's time for Disco at the Proms 🪩

Vula says, “Alongside the incredible Vanessa Haynes, Elisabeth Troy & Cedric Neal… we managed to create magic at the iconic Royal Albert Hall with the delightful BBC Concert Orchestra & deliciously masterful Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser steering this Studio 54-inspired musical ship!!”

Join Andi Oliver and the BBC Concert Orchestra for this celebration of 1970s club culture and a night of classic D-I-S-C-O hits 🎤

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30/08/2024

It’s another bumper TV weekend at the ! 🤩

A dramatic telling of Beethoven’s Ninth by Heart with Aurora Orchestra, dazzling Disco hits and Beethoven & Brahms with a star-studded trio ✨

Tune in on from Friday 30th August to Sunday 1st September 📺

28/08/2024

In the second of their two Proms this season, tonight the and performed a tremendous version of Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass as well as Dvořák’s Piano Concerto featuring the brilliant soloist 🎹

Thank you to everyone involved 👏

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📸 Andy Paradise

26/08/2024

Has there been a greater night in all of time and space?

Thank you presenter Catherine Tate, Anita Dobson aka Mrs Flood, soprano , conductor Alistair King, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and all the excellent performers tonight. And finally a big thank you to composers Murray Gold and Segun Akinola.🎶

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📺 Recorded for future broadcast on BBC TV

📷 Andy Paradise

26/08/2024

What does Doctor Who at the mean to you?

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26/08/2024

The Doctor Who Prom with BBC National Orchestra of Wales and London Philharmonic Choir is live now on BBC Sounds 🎶

🎧 https://bbc.in/4fSy0tg

26/08/2024

Who better to turn it up to 11? 🎶

Organist Anna Lapwood tells us about performing at the Prom and her Doctor Who memories...

🎧 Listen to Anna perform with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales on BBC Sounds from 7PM BST.

26/08/2024

The Doctor's theme sounding epic with a live orchestra 😍🎶

Here's a sneak peek of Fifteen from rehearsals of the Prom with BBC National Orchestra of Wales and London Philharmonic Choir!

🎧 Listen worldwide on BBC Sounds tonight from 7PM BST
📺 Recorded for future broadcast on BBC TV

26/08/2024

The Royal Albert Hall ✅
Catherine Tate ✅
The TARDIS ✅

It can only be the Prom 🪐

🎧 Listen worldwide on BBC Sounds tonight from 7PM BST
📺 Recorded for future broadcast on BBC TV

26/08/2024

It’s Doctor Who day at ! 🎶

With Catherine Tate as our presenter, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Alastair King showcase the epic music of the Whoniverse and celebrate the Doctor’s latest adventures.

Listen on BBC Sounds worldwide from 7PM BST. Recorded for future broadcast on BBC TV.

25/08/2024

Thank you to Dame Evelyn Glennie, and conductor for bringing day two of our weekend to a close with a stunning concert of music.

Together they treated us to Théodore Akimenko’s symphonic poem Angel, Jennifer Higdon’s Percussion Concerto with , the UK premiere of Niloufar Nourbakhsh’s Knell and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony.

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📷 Giulia Spadafora

25/08/2024

Tonight’s Prom had a distinctly other-worldy feel to it, travelling from mythology to astrology.🧚‍♂️🪐The concert started with Sibelius’s haunting early tone-poem The Wood Nymph. Then, the world-premiere of is Songs from the Countryside; written for . Ending with a Proms favourite, Holst’s The Planets.

led the Symphony Orchestra & Chamber Choir and Symphony Orchestra in this standing ovation Prom.

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📸 Chris Christodoulou

25/08/2024

Bravo and thank you to BBC Singers and Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin for a beautiful a ca****la Prom at Bristol Beacon.

BBC Singers at 100 featured choral delights from Tavener, Judith Weir, John Pickard, Judith Bingham, a world premiere from Asteryth Sloane and more. Listen now on BBC Sounds: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00224v3

📷 Giulia Spadafora

25/08/2024

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Disco Prom

No disco is complete without the mirror ball! 🪩 The Disco Prom shimmered with 11 mirror balls weighing 210kg 👏 Andi Oliver presents this Studio 54 celebration with the BBC Concert Orchestra, Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser and an incredible line up of singers. 📺 Watch tonight on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer from 8.25pm #bbcproms #disco

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We don't want to spoil the surprise ... 🤫 but just listen to those bells! 🔔 Tune in on BBC Radio 3 for the downbeat! 🪄 Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and more with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kazuki Yamada（山田和樹） at 7.30pm ⏰🎶

Ode to joy indeed ✨🎶 Conductor Nicholas Collon, Aurora Orchestra, BBC Singers, National Youth Choir, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Brenden Gunnell, Christopher Purves, and actors Rhiannon May and Thomas Simper, present a special performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony - from memory 🤯 🎧 Listen live tonight from 7:30pm on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds. 📺 Watch the full concert, along with a fully signed version, on BBC iPlayer on Friday 30 August.

Cate Blanchett and Hildur Guðnadóttir speak to Edith Bowman at BBC Proms 2024

Edith Bowman: What does music mean to you as a creative, as a performer? Cate Blanchett: How long have we got? We caught up with composer Hildur Guðnadóttir and Cate Blanchett, star of 2022 film Tár, at our Prom celebrating cutting edge 21st Century soundtracks. 📽️ Watch the full concert with the London Contemporary Orchestra and conductor Robert Ames on BBC iPlayer now.

vision string quartet and Mahan Mirarab at BBC Proms Newport

Prynhawn da! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 A joyful afternoon of Bloch, Dvořák, and original works awaits at the Riverfront, Newport with vision string quartet and Mahan Mirarab #BBCProms Across the UK 📻 Listen live on BBC Radio 3 from 3PM.

The Gorgeous Nothings is a series of poems written on envelopes by American poet Emily Dickinson 💌 Composer Anna Clyne's work of the same name is a response to the 'spellbinding wordsmithery' of Dickinson, scored for orchestra, amplified voices (@swinglesingers) and real-time electronic processing ⚡️ Look out for some unusual 2-wheeled orchestration! 🚴‍♂️ Clyne's piece comes before a full performance of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony ✨ 📺 Watch now on @BBCiPlayer 🎧 Listen on @BBCSounds

"This would've been her 100th year. And can you imagine? A century of Sarah." Thank you for celebrating Sarah Vaughan with us at #BBCProms. Here's Clarke Peters performing 'I Love the Rhythm in a Riff' with BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Guy Barker. 📺Watch the concert now on BBC iPlayer

‘Body and Soul’ launched Sarah Vaughan’s career. She sang it on 21 Oct 1942 when she won the Apollo Theater’s famed Amateur Night competition. Performed at the Royal Albert Hall by Lucy-Anne Daniels, BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Guy Barker. Watch now on BBC iPlayer. #BBCProms

Sarah Vaughan's unparalleled vocal technique married operatic grandeur with the coolness of jazz. Here's Tenderly, performed at the Royal Albert Hall by Lizz Wright, BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Guy Barker. #bbcproms

Sarah Vaughan made every song her own. She modernised the tune of ‘Mean to Me', giving the sentimental 1920s parlour song a fresh, innovative bebop treatment. Sung at the Royal Albert Hall by Cherise, with BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Guy Barker. 📺 Watch now on BBC iPlayer.

Tonight the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Guy Barker are joined by a starry cast of singers in a concert paying tribute to Sarah Vaughan.✨ Presented by Clarke Peters, watch now on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer. 🎶 I’m Gonna Live Till I Die, sung by Marisha Wallace.

Lucy-Anne Daniels has been chatting with Katie Derham ahead of this evening’s concert which celebrates the music of jazz icon, Sarah Vaughan 🌟📺 Watch on BBC iPlayer: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…🎧 Listen on BBC Radio 3 or BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0021bsz

We begin with the London premiere of Sir James MacMillan’s Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia, which uses a text by John Dryden that explores the power of music to transform and uplift, a sense of jubilation never far from the surface 🎵✨ Watch Sir Mark Elder, @the_halle and the Halle’s family of choirs now on @BBC Four and @BBCiPlayer 📺

"Please follow the instructions carefully. Are you ready to proceed...?" Receiving its world premiere, Ben Nobuto's Hallelujah Sim. takes its cue from the 'Hallelujahs' of Bruckner's Psalm-setting, combining electronics with choir & orchestra. With BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, BBC Singers and conductor Elim Chan. 📺 Watch now on BBC iPlayer.

🎶 Bruckner's majestic Psalm 150 with soprano Sophie Bevan, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and conductor Elim Chan. A resounding hymn of celebration invoking a variety of instruments in praise. Watch First Night of the Proms 2024 on @BBCiPlayer.