BBC Proms Season 77
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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1947The 2023 Proms features a huge breadth of programming; from Berlioz to Bollywood, large scale symphonic and choral work to intimate chamber concerts and exciting Proms debuts. The 2023 BBC Proms will run from Friday 14 July to Saturday 9 September 2023 comprising 84 Proms: 72 Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, six at venues across the UK, and the first weekend-long festival of Proms at Sage Gateshead
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Cellist 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.
Cellist 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.
John 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.
Join the Horrible Histories team and the English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra for a high-decibel dive into ’Orrible Opera.
Encounter 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.
The 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.
Sir 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.
Relax into a late-night musical meditation with Grammy-nominated vocal group VOCES8 and a playlist that drifts from the Renaissance to Radiohead.
The 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.
John 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.
Works 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.
Budapest 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.
The 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.
Klaus 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.
The 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.
Grammy 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.
South Korean star violinist Bomsori performs Bruch’s First Violin Concerto with conductor Anja Bihlmaier and the BBC Philharmonic.
Celebrating 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.
The 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.
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and their conductor laureate, Tadaaki Otaka, perform perhaps the most famous classical symphony ever written, Beethoven’s Fifth.
Finnish violinist and conductor Pekka Kuusisto leads The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in a concert of works by Beethoven, Vivaldi and Andrea Tarrodi.
Clive 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.