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BBC Proms

A celebration of show-stopping highlights from the world's biggest classical music festival, featuring The Lark Ascending, Star Wars, Vivaldi, Bach, Elgar and Shostakovich.

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September 2025
The world's greatest classical music party gets under way from the Royal Albert Hall, with soprano Louise Alder and the last ever performance from star trumpeter Alison Balsom.
Celebrate 50 years of Bohemian Rhapsody with a dazzling new orchestral score. Louise Alder sings My Fair Lady, and Alison Balsom plays Bernstein.
French baroque at its very best as Rameau’s Les Indes galantes suite is performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under the baton of their charismatic maestro Maxim Emelyanychev.
One of the world’s great orchestras is at the Royal Albert Hall with two landmark symphonies, Mozart’s ‘Prague’ and Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pathétique’.
A performance by Chineke! Orchestra at the 2023 Proms, conducted by Anthony Parnther.
Clive Myrie presents as Europe’s first majority black and ethnically diverse orchestra celebrates its tenth anniversary, performing Coleridge-Taylor, Valerie Coleman and Shostakovich.
Britain’s best young musicians light up the Proms with a cosmic concert of John Williams and Holst. Presented by actor, comedian and amateur violinist Nick Mohammed.
One of the UK's favourite pieces of classical music performed by violinist Liya Petrova.
Frighteningly good film music at the Royal Albert Hall to celebrate Alfred Hitchcock’s favourite composer, Bernard Herrmann, with iconic themes from Vertigo, Psycho and Taxi Driver.
August 2025
Tom Service curates a special compilation of new music, featuring two world premieres, a dazzling trumpet concerto, cinematic soundscapes and insightful interviews with composers.
Featuring hits by Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye at the BBC Proms. Beverley Knight and friends bring an emotional night celebrating music that soundtracked history.
Superstar Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra bring Mahler’s epic symphony with its famous Adagietto to the Proms, alongside Berio’s Rendering.
Movie magic from John Williams's back catalogue, including Star Wars, Harry Potter and ET, as the Proms celebrates the 85th birthday of the world's favourite film composer.
Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, Elgar’s much-loved Nimrod, and Britten’s Four Sea Interludes in this musical celebration of landscapes and seascapes.
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra takes over the Royal Albert Hall in a monumental night of music, presented by trumpet superstar Alison Balsom.
Explore this 20th-century masterpiece from the inside out as the Aurora Orchestra mark the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death with a signature memorised performance.
The sitar superstar joins forces with conductor Robert Ames and London Contemporary Orchestra to perform a newly orchestrated version of Chapters, her trilogy of studio albums.
Mendelssohn’s romantic masterpiece from the First Night of the Proms.
A joyful celebration of ballroom classics from Vienna’s golden age of music, marking the 200th anniversary of Johann Strauss II.
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