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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 2024
Release Date: 2024-07-19In her First Night of the Proms debut, conductor Elim Chan presents Beethoven’s iconic Fifth Symphony alongside Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks and Clara Schumann’s tender Piano Concerto, featuring star soloist Isata Kanneh-Mason.
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Episode 2 - Prom 4: Sir Mark Elder conducts Mahler’s Fifth
Release Date: 2024-07-21The entire Hallé family visits from Manchester to celebrate Sir Mark Elder’s last season as Music Director after 25 years in the role. Together they present Sir James MacMillan’s Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia and Mahler’s life-affirming Symphony No. 5.
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Episode 3 - Prom 6: Verdi’s Requiem
Release Date: 2024-07-26Verdi’s Requiem was first performed 150 years ago and given its British premiere at the Royal Albert Hall the following year. Ryan Bancroft leads the BBC NOW and massed singers in a performance of this vivid choral masterpieces.
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Episode 4 - Prom 13: Sarah Vaughan – If You Could See Me Now
Release Date: 2024-07-28The BBC Concert Orchestra and Guy Barker are joined by a starry line up of singers for a celebration of one of the most iconic voices of the 20th century, Sarah Vaughan, with songs including 'If You Could See Me Now’ and ‘Broken-Hearted Melody’.
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Episode 5 - Prom 15: Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony
Release Date: 2024-08-02Nicholas Collon and the BBC Philharmonic perform the most vibrant and unignorable symphony of the 20th century, Messiaen’s Turangalîla, after the world premiere of Anna Clyne’s The Gorgeous Nothings, written specially for the Proms
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Episode 6 - Prom 21: The Sinfonia of London and John Wilson
Release Date: 2024-08-04John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London perform a programme of scintillating American classics including Copland’s ballet Billy the Kid, haunting works by Barber and Ives, Gershwin’s jazz-infused Rhapsody in Blue and John Adam’s Harmonielehre.
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Episode 7 - Prom 20: Songs and Dances with the Kanneh-Masons
Release Date: 2024-08-09Brothers Braimah and Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the Brazilian guitarist Plínio Fernandes join forces with the dynamic Fantasia Orchestra for a family-friendly concert of folk songs, dances, prayers and incantations
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Episode 8 - Prom 30: The National Youth Orchestra plays Mahler’s First
Release Date: 2024-08-11The National Youth Orchestra, comprising some of Britain’s most talented young players, performs Mahler’s anguished, ultimately triumphant Symphony No.1, alongside works by Wagner and Missy Mazzoli and a new commission from Dani Howard.
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Episode 9 - Prom 34: 21st-Century Soundtracks
Release Date: 2024-08-16Edith Bowman presents a night for film lovers, with music from blockbusters including Everything Everywhere All at Once, All Quiet on the Western Front and Tár.
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Episode 10 - Prom 37: Britten’s War Requiem
Release Date: 2024-08-18Sir Antonio Pappano and his London Symphony Orchestra are joined by three choirs and three outstanding vocal soloists for a work of hope that emerged from the ashes of destruction: Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem
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Episode 11 - Prom 36: Gemma New conducts Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Release Date: 2024-08-23Gemma New joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for Mendelssohn’s musical retelling of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, following Mozart’s heavenly Clarinet Concerto with Anthony McGill and Mel Bonis’s colourful Salomé
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Episode 12 - Prom 18: Sam Smith
Release Date: 2024-08-24For their only UK appearance of 2024, Sam Smith joins the BBC Concert Orchestra for a retrospective look at their seminal debut solo album In the Lonely Hour, released 10 years ago and featuring tracks such as ‘Stay With Me’ and ‘Lay Me Down’.
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Episode 13 - Prom 46: Holst’s The Planets
Release Date: 2024-08-25Holst’s suite The Planets is one of classical music’s most extraordinary acts of imagination. Student musicians from Helsinki and London unite to perform the work alongside Sibelius’s The Wood Nymph and a new piece from Finnish-American composer Lara Poe.
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Episode 14 - Prom 42: Beethoven’s Ninth by Heart
Release Date: 2024-08-30Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon mark the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s monumental Ninth Symphony by bringing their unique Orchestral Theatre approach to the iconic work with the help of the BBC Singers and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain
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Episode 15 - Prom 2: Everybody Dance! The Sound of Disco
Release Date: 2024-08-31The BBC Concert Orchestra lends its power and exuberance to an evening that celebrates a pivotal movement in late 20th-century club culture. Get ready for all the glitz, glamour and groove of disco at the Proms!
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Episode 16 - Prom 54: Beethoven for Three
Release Date: 2024-09-01Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma come together to form a classical supergroup, bringing greater intimacy than ever before to Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Sixth Symphony while also performing one of the composer’s best-loved chamber works.
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Episode 17 - Prom 57: Ultra Lounge – Henry Mancini and Beyond
Release Date: 2024-09-06Marking a century since Henry Mancini’s birth, Edwin Outwater and the BBC Concert Orchestra celebrate the man and his music in styles ranging from jazz to light classical and film music.
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Episode 18 - Prom 41: Mozart with Ensemble Resonanz
Release Date: 2024-09-07Riccardo Minasi conducts his dynamic Ensemble Resonanz in a pair of Mozart’s most thrilling overtures – from The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni – alongside his achingly beautiful Sinfonia concertante and the ‘Jupiter’ Symphony
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Episode 19 - New Music at the Proms 2024
Release Date: 2024-09-08A celebration of some of the most exciting new classical music premiered in the Royal Albert Hall this summer chosen by Tom Service, presenter of Radio 3’s New Music Show.
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Episode 20 - Unmissable Moments at the Proms 2024
Release Date: 2024-09-13A journey through 2024’s five-star BBC Proms season, celebrating Mozart, Sam Smith, Beethoven, Mancini, Holst, Bob Marley and so much more.
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Episode 21 - Prom 11: CBeebies Prom – Wildlife Jamboree
Release Date: 2024-09-14Join Duggee, Bluey, the Octonauts and lots more of your CBeebies friends to celebrate the natural world in music and song at the spectacular Wildlife Jamboree. Kwamé Ryan leads the Sinfonia Smith Square, BBC Singers & CBeebies East London Schools’ Choir.
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Episode 22 - Last Night of the Proms, Part 1
Release Date: 2024-09-14Katie Derham hosts classical music's biggest party of the year, with soloists Sir Stephen Hough and Angel Blue and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo.
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Episode 23 - Last Night of the Proms, Part 2
Release Date: 2024-09-14Katie Derham invites you to join her for the season's glittering finale, with all the traditional favourites and some exciting surprises.
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Episode 24 - Prom 69: Florence + The Machine – Symphony of Lungs
Release Date: 2024-10-19Florence Welch – aka Florence + The Machine – joins Jules Buckley and his Orchestra for a celebration of Lungs, her BRIT Award-winning debut album, released to huge acclaim 15 years ago.