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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: 2023-07-14Clive Myrie presents live from the Royal Albert Hall as the annual music festival is launched with Sibelius, Grieg, Britten and a world premiere from Ukrainian composer Bohdana Frolyak.
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Episode 2 - Prom 4: Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons
Release Date: 2023-07-16Finnish violinist and conductor Pekka Kuusisto leads The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in a concert of works by Beethoven, Vivaldi and Andrea Tarrodi.
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Episode 3 - Prom 7: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
Release Date: 2023-07-21The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and their conductor laureate, Tadaaki Otaka, perform perhaps the most famous classical symphony ever written, Beethoven’s Fifth.
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Episode 4 - Prom 12: Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony
Release Date: 2023-07-23The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and new Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 for the first of their two Proms together this season.
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Episode 5 - Prom 18: Lata Mangeshkar: Bollywood Legend
Release Date: 2023-07-28Celebrating the musical legacy of Bollywood, the Proms pays tribute to Lata Mangeshkar, the voice behind the hit songs that defined Indian cinema’s greatest films.
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Episode 6 - Prom 5: Bruch’s First Violin Concerto
Release Date: 2023-07-30South Korean star violinist Bomsori performs Bruch’s First Violin Concerto with conductor Anja Bihlmaier and the BBC Philharmonic.
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Episode 7 - Prom 23: NYO Jazz (USA) with Dee Dee Bridgewater
Release Date: 2023-08-04Grammy award-winning jazz legend Dee Dee Bridgewater joins trumpeter Sean Jones and Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Jazz Orchestra, comprising outstanding young musicians from across the USA, as they make their BBC Proms debut.
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Episode 8 - Prom 22: Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Prokofiev
Release Date: 2023-08-06The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft return for the second of their consecutive Proms. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 is paired with Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with soloist Isata Kanneh-Mason.
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Episode 9 - Prom 27: Yuja Wang plays Rachmaninov
Release Date: 2023-08-11Klaus Mäkelä and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform Walton’s choral symphony Belshazzar’s Feast, while Yuja Wang is the soloist in Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
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Episode 10 - Prom 24: Felix Klieser plays Mozart
Release Date: 2023-08-13The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Kirill Karabits present Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 2 alongside a work by Karabits’s own father. Horn virtuoso Felix Klieser makes his Proms debut with Mozart’s sunny Concerto No. 4.
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Episode 11 - Prom 37: Budapest Festival Orchestra
Release Date: 2023-08-18Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer are joined by Sir András Schiff for one of the great Romantic piano concertos from Schumann. Weber’s overture to Der Freischütz and Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’ Symphony complete the programme.
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Episode 12 - Prom 28: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Release Date: 2023-08-20Works by Copland and Hindemith bookend Strauss’s Four Last Songs – featuring South African soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha – in this Prom from the National Youth Orchestra.
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Episode 13 - Prom 30: Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto
Release Date: 2023-08-25John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London perform Rachmaninov’s famous Second Piano Concerto with soloist Alim Beisembayev. Bookending the Prom are Lili Boulanger’s tone-poem D’un matin de printemps and Walton’s First Symphony.
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Episode 14 - Prom 2: Northern Soul
Release Date: 2023-08-26The BBC Concert Orchestra brings a symphonic edge to the beats that took the industrial North and Midlands by storm in the 1960s and 1970s, in a stomping celebration of underground British club culture.
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Episode 15 - Prom 34: Mindful Mix Prom
Release Date: 2023-08-27Relax into a late-night musical meditation with Grammy-nominated vocal group VOCES8 and a playlist that drifts from the Renaissance to Radiohead.
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Episode 16 - Prom 56: Rattle conducts Mahler’s Ninth
Release Date: 2023-08-30Sir Simon Rattle’s final UK performance as Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra. He conducts Mahler’s epic farewell symphony, haunted by loss but urgently clinging to dance and song, alongside Poulenc’s choral masterpiece Figure humaine.
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Episode 17 - Prom 61: Chineke! performs Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony
Release Date: 2023-09-01The Chineke! Orchestra – Europe’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse ensemble – returns to the Proms with Beethoven’s joyful Fourth Symphony, and continues our focus on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
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Episode 18 - Prom 57: Fantasy, Myths and Legends
Release Date: 2023-09-02Encounter music from The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones and other titles in a Prom celebrating soundtracks from the worlds of film, TV and gaming.
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Episode 19 - Prom 10: Horrible Histories: ’Orrible Opera
Release Date: 2023-09-08Join the Horrible Histories team and the English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra for a high-decibel dive into ’Orrible Opera.
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Episode 20 - Prom 29: Mozart’s Mass in C minor
Release Date: 2023-09-08John Butt and the award-winning Dunedin Consort perform Mozart’s magnificent Mass in C minor with soloists including Lucy Crowe, Jess Dandy and Nardus Williams.
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Episode 21 - Prom 71: Last Night of the Proms 2023, Part 1
Release Date: 2023-09-09Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and soprano Lise Davidsen join conductor Marin Alsop and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for the biggest musical party of the year.
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Episode 22 - Prom 71: Last Night of the Proms 2023, Part 2
Release Date: 2023-09-09Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and soprano Lise Davidsen join conductor Marin Alsop and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for the biggest musical party of the year.