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2022
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First Night of the Proms
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Clive Myrie and special guests present the first night of the Proms, live from the Royal Albert Hall. The eight-week season of exceptional music is kicking off with a bang as conductor .. show full overview
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Prom 2: John Wilson conducts the Sinfonia of London
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British conductor John Wilson has long been a Proms favourite, but last year’s debut appearance of his new super-orchestra the Sinfonia of London caused a sensation. ‘Astonishing,’ wrote .. show full overview
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Prom 3: Radio 1 Relax at the Proms
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Celebrating the BBC’s centenary year, the Proms partners with Radio 1 Relax for a late-night wind-down featuring visionary hip-hop and rap artist Kojey Radical and friends, including the .. show full overview
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Prom 10: Music for Royal Occasions
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Happy and glorious: the story of British music is inextricably linked with royalty, and down the centuries composers ranging from Handel and Elgar to Walton, Parry and Vaughan Williams .. show full overview
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Prom 16: Sea Sketches with Andrew Manze and BBC NOW
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‘Behold, the sea itself!’ Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony takes the poetry of Walt Whitman and opens the floodgates to a spring tide of inspiration. Andrew Manze’s Vaughan Williams .. show full overview
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Prom 19: Puccini’s Il tabarro
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Life on a French river barge is tough, and for a young wife it can be lonely too. But in this closed and arduous world, even a dream of a better world can spark jealousy. Il tabarro is a .. show full overview
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Prom 21: Gaming Prom – From 8-Bit to Infinity
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In the first ever Gaming Prom, an electronically expanded Royal Philharmonic Orchestra explores the musical universe of gaming: from the classic console titles of the 1980s to the European concert premiere of a suite from Battlefield 2042.
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Prom 19a: Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra
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The newly formed Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, made up of Ukrainian musicians – some from Ukraine’s major cities, some now displaced as refugees, and others who play in European .. show full overview
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Prom 28: Leif Ove Andsnes – Mozart Momentum 1
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When Mozart composed his piano concertos, he had a very specific performer in mind – himself. For Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, that’s part of the appeal. ‘When you realise how .. show full overview
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Prom 35: Yuja Wang with the Oslo Philharmonic and Klaus Mäkelä
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No prizes for identifying the real hero of Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben. With its swashbuckling self-confidence and self-mocking humour, this ‘Hero’s Life’ is very much the world .. show full overview
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Prom 34: Thorvaldsdottir, Elgar and Sibelius
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Three composers, three landscapes. Elgar wrote his Cello Concerto in the woodlands of Sussex; for many listeners, its autumnal colours evoke emotions too deep for words. From his home in .. show full overview
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Prom 27: NYOGB plays Elfman, Gershwin and Ravel
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‘I think and feel in sounds,’ said Maurice Ravel. So, when he wrote his ballet Daphnis and Chloe, he created a sumptuous musical panorama in which you can hear every drop of dew, every .. show full overview
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Prom 36: Marin Alsop conducts the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
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Viennese orchestral playing is a byword for excellence, rooted in generations of tradition. But under its distinguished (and adventurous) American Music Director Marin Alsop, the Vienna .. show full overview
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Prom 47: Aretha Franklin – Queen of Soul
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In her 80th-anniversary year – and 50 years since the release of her album Young, Gifted and Black – the Proms pays tribute to the ‘Queen of Soul’, Aretha Franklin. A singer, songwriter, .. show full overview
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Prom 4: Cynthia Erivo – Legendary Voices
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Cynthia Erivo is a creative phenomenon: a London-born, Tony, Grammy and Emmy award-winning actress, singer, songwriter and producer, whose career has taken her from her childhood in .. show full overview
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Prom 49: Rattle conducts Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony
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The end has come, and in the silence after the Last Trumpet, a solitary bird is the only sound heard on Earth. The ambition of Gustav Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony staggers the .. show full overview
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Prom 54: Earth Prom
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Over a century of public service broadcasting, the BBC has forged a global reputation for its coverage of the planet we call home – from the oceans and mountains to rivers, glaciers, .. show full overview
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Prom 58: Public Service Broadcasting – This New Noise
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Archive footage, dancing astronauts and a flashing, blinking Sputnik right here in the Royal Albert Hall – when cult ‘retro-futurists’ Public Service Broadcasting brought The Race to .. show full overview
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Prom 61: Chineke! performs Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
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‘Be embraced, all you millions!’ Since the earliest days of the Proms, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony has had a special place in each season – and with its climactic choral ‘Ode to Joy’, .. show full overview
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Prom 67: Nicola Benedetti plays Wynton Marsalis
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‘Nicola Benedetti – now, she really can play,’ says the American composer, trumpeter and all-round jazz legend Wynton Marsalis, and after Benedetti gave the world premiere of the .. show full overview
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Last Night of the Proms 2022 - Part 1
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It’s time to put on your party clothes, grab your favourite flag and raise the roof of the Royal Albert Hall! There’s nothing quite like the Last Night of the Proms – the happiest annual .. show full overview
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Last Night of the Proms 2022 - Part 2
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It’s time to put on your party clothes, grab your favourite flag and raise the roof of the Royal Albert Hall! There’s nothing quite like the Last Night of the Proms – the happiest annual .. show full overview

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