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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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Episode 1 - First Night of the Proms
Release Date: 2015-07-17Sakari Oramo conducts this year’s opening concert, in a programme that includes Walton’s pithy choral masterpiece 'Belshazzar’s Feast' and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 with soloist Lars Vogt.
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Episode 2 - Ten Pieces Prom
Release Date: 2015-07-18Join CBBC presenters Barney Harwood and Dick and Dom for an introduction to some of the greatest pieces of classical music and a celebration of children’s creative responses to them.
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Episode 3 - Ten Piece Prom
Release Date: 2015-07-19Barney Harwood and Dick and Dom join the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to celebrate some of the best pieces to introduce children to classical music – and to inspire a life-long love of it.
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Episode 4 - Beethoven - Symphony No.9
Release Date: 2015-07-19Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony returns to the Proms in the hands of Andris Nelsons and the massed forces of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the CBSO Chorus.
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Episode 5 - Haydn, HK Gruber & Stravinsky
Release Date: 2015-07-20The BBC Philharmonic’s programme spans more than two centuries, opening with Haydn’s ‘La reine’ Symphony and closing with Stravinsky’s fairy-tale ballet 'Petrushka'.
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Episode 6 - Poulenc, Stravinsky, Haydn & Mozart
Release Date: 2015-07-21Poulenc’s Organ Concerto raises the curtain on this BBC National Orchestra of Wales Prom which also includes Stravinsky’s 'Symphony of Psalms' and Mozart’s Symphony No. 41.
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Episode 7 - Delius, Nielsen, Hugh Wood & Ravel
Release Date: 2015-07-22Mark Simpson performs the Clarinet Concerto by Carl Nielsen, whose 150th anniversary falls this year, in a programme which also includes an alluring suite from Ravel’s 'Daphnis and Chloe'.
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Episode 10 - Beethoven Piano Concertos
Release Date: 2015-07-24Leif Ove Andsnes continues his survey of Beethoven’s works for piano and orchestra with the Piano Concerto No. 3 and the ‘Choral Fantasy’.
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Episode 13 - Holst - The Planets
Release Date: 2015-07-27Susanna Mälkki conducts Holst’s masterpiece in a programme which also includes the UK premiere of a new violin concerto by Luca Francesconi, written for and performed by Leila Josefowicz.
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Episode 16 - Radio 1 Ibiza Prom
Release Date: 2015-07-29Pete Tong takes charge of the BBC Radio 1 Prom and decides to employ the Heritage Orchestra to play a selection of Ibiza classics. The Royal Albert Hall has never seen anything like it! Jules Buckley conducts the orchestra through dance masterpieces by Fatboy Slim, Eric Prydz, Shapeshifters, Robert Miles, ATB, Moby, Frankie Knuckles, Orbital, Inner City, Daft Punk, Faithless, Stardust and so many more, with the help of Ella Eyre and John Newman.
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Episode 17 - Hallé - Debussy, Vaughan Williams & Elgar
Release Date: 2015-07-30Sir Mark Elder conducts the Hallé in music they have made their own – Vaughan Williams and Elgar. Opening the programme is Debussy’s luscious 'Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune'.
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Episode 19 - Alina Ibragimova plays Bach (1)
Release Date: 2015-07-31Virtuoso violinist Alina Ibragimova has the stage to herself for an evening of solo works by Bach.
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Episode 21 - Alina Ibragimova plays Bach (2)
Release Date: 2015-08-01Violinist Alina Ibragimova concludes her performance of Bach’s complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin in the second of her two Late Night Proms.
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Episode 22 - Aurora Orchestra
Release Date: 2015-08-02The ever innovative Aurora Orchestra returns to the Proms with two ‘Pastoral’ Symphonies – the first by Brett Dean, the second by Beethoven – and a world premiere by Anna Meredith.
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Episode 24 - James MacMillan & Mahler
Release Date: 2015-08-03The world premiere of James MacMillan’s Symphony No. 4 is paired with Mahler’s monumental Fifth Symphony. Renowned Mahlerian Donald Runnicles conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
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Episode 30 - The John Wilson Orchestra performs Frank Sinatra
Release Date: 2015-08-07Seth MacFarlane and other guest vocalists join the John Wilson Orchestra to celebrate the centenary of Frank Sinatra in this Late Night Prom.
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Episode 31 - National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Release Date: 2015-08-08The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain brings Mahler’s epic Ninth Symphony to the Proms, paired with a brand-new work by Tansy Davies. Sir Mark Elder conducts.
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Episode 32 - Eric Whitacre and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Release Date: 2015-08-09Eric Whitacre, one of the biggest names in choral music, conducts a programme including his own 'Cloudburst', as well as other American Gershwin’s 'Rhapsody in Blue'.
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Episode 34 - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestr
Release Date: 2015-08-10Nicola Benedetti is the soloist in Korngold’s Violin Concerto as part of a programme which also sees the Bournemouth SO perform Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony and music from Britten’s 'Peter Grimes'.
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Episode 44 - West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and Daniel Barenboim
Release Date: 2015-08-18Daniel Barenboim returns to the BBC Proms to perform Beethoven and Tchaikovsky with the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra, an ensemble featuring musicians from across the Middle East.
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Episode 46 - Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Release Date: 2015-08-20The Danish National Symphony Orchestra celebrates the 150th anniversary of Carl Nielsen, performing some of his best-loved orchestral works, alongside Brahms’s Violin Concerto.
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Episode 50 - Bach - Goldberg Variations
Release Date: 2015-08-22Sir András Schiff brings Bach’s monumental work for solo keyboard to the Royal Albert Hall. Join the great pianist on a voyage through this masterpiece.
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Episode 57 - Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Bernard Haitink
Release Date: 2015-08-28One of today’s greatest conductors brings Schubert's Ninth Symphony (the 'Great') to the Proms, along with Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23, performed by the inimitable Maria João Pires.
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Episode 67 - Bernstein - Stage and Screen
Release Date: 2015-09-05Celebrate the music of Leonard Bernstein with John Wilson and his orchestra in this Prom which features highlights from 'Candide', 'Wonderful Town', 'Fancy Free', 'West Side Story' and 'Peter Pan'.
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Episode 68 - Bach - Six Cello Suites
Release Date: 2015-09-05Cellist Yo-Yo Ma has the Royal Albert Hall stage to himself for this Late Night Prom as he takes on the challenge of J. S. Bach’s Six Cello Suites.
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Episode 76 - Last Night of the Proms 2015
Release Date: 2015-09-12Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, soprano Danielle de Niese and tenor Jonas Kaufmann are the stars at this year’s Last Night. The programme includes Richard Strauss, Shostakovich, Grieg and much more …