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First Night of the Proms: Part 1
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Conductor Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra kick off a six-week season with Vaughan Williams’s ravishing Serenade to Music and Poulenc’s dazzling Organ Concerto. They’re .. show full overview
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First Night of the Proms: Part 2
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Katie Derham presents from the Royal Albert Hall, as the opening concert of the 2021 Proms season continues in front of a live audience. Conductor Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony .. show full overview
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Mozart's Final Symphonies
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The Scottish Chamber Orchestra and their dynamic new principal conductor, Maxim Emelyanychev, kick off the BBC Four Proms 2021 season with a night dedicated to Mozart. For the first .. show full overview
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Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla Conducts the CBSO
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Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla returns to the BBC Proms to conduct the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in a concert featuring Brahms’s beloved Third Symphony as its lyrical .. show full overview
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Saint-Saëns and Brahms’s Fourth Symphony
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The BBC National Orchestra of Wales present a concert featuring composers who found inspiration in music that came before them. Musical echoes resonate in a programme featuring .. show full overview
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The Golden Age of Broadway
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Katie Derham presents a dazzling evening of musical hits from the Golden Age of Broadway, including showstoppers from South Pacific, Oklahoma!, Carousel, High Society and Anything .. show full overview
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Nicola Benedetti and the NYO
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The much-anticipated annual Prom from the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain returns, this year under the baton of one of the most exciting young conductors on the international .. show full overview
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Discovering Stravinsky's Firebird Suite
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Tom Service, conductor Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra continue their impressive feat of explaining complex works and then performing them from memory. This year, their .. show full overview
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Víkingur Ólafsson and the Philharmonia : Víkingur Ólafsson Plays Bach and Mozart
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Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson joins the Philharmonia for his hotly anticipated Proms debut. Here his skills are on display in JS Bach’s intricate Keyboard Concerto in F minor along .. show full overview
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A Night at the Opera
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An evening of opera excerpts on the themes of separation and reconciliation A host of British opera stars join Ben Glassberg and the BBC Philharmonic for a night rich in emotion and .. show full overview
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Nubya Garcia
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British saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia brings her inventive brand of Afrobeat and Latin American-influenced jazz to the Royal Albert Hall. The rising star performs a set drawing .. show full overview
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Sir Simon Rattle Conducts the London Symphony Orchestra
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The London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle mark 2021’s Stravinsky anniversary with a series of symphonic snapshots. We follow Stravinsky’s view of the symphony from the .. show full overview
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Chineke! with Jeneba Kanneh-Mason
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Tom Service hosts a Prom bursting with premieres from around the world, performed by Britain’s foremost diverse ensemble, the Chineke! Orchestra. Pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason gives the .. show full overview
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Joshua Bell’s Seasons
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American violinist Joshua Bell and the string orchestra of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields mix up the familiar with the unfamiliar, 18th-century Italy with 20th-century Argentina, .. show full overview
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The Carnival of the Animals with the Kanneh-Masons
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Former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo joins star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and his siblings at the Royal Albert Hall for a unique, dramatically staged performance of Saint-Saëns’s .. show full overview
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George Lewis & Beethoven: Beethoven’s Second Symphony
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The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra returns for their second Prom of the season under the baton of Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov, with a programme that collides the old with the .. show full overview
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Moses Sumney Meets Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Genre-defying Ghanaian-American musician Moses Sumney makes his Proms debut with conductor Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra as they perform new orchestral arrangements of .. show full overview
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Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists
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Marking his sixtieth appearance at the Proms, Sir John Eliot Gardiner directs the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists in a celebration of the early works of Handel and .. show full overview
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John Wilson Conducts the Sinfonia of London
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The Sinfonia of London makes its much-anticipated official concert debut under John Wilson, who re-established the ensemble in 2018. Following on from their award-winning recording, this .. show full overview
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Bach’s St Matthew Passion
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Bach’s profound choral masterpiece, the St Matthew Passion, transcends eras and faiths with its exploration of courage, compassion, sacrifice and redemption. Here, it crowns the BBC .. show full overview
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Last Night of the Proms: Part 1
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Katie Derham welcomes a live audience back to the Royal Albert Hall for the climax of the world’s greatest classical music festival, the Last Night of the Proms. Latvian Accordionist .. show full overview
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Last Night of the Proms: Part 2
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Katie Derham hosts continued live coverage from the Royal Albert Hall, at the climax of the world’s greatest classical music festival. Latvian accordionist Ksenija Sidorova and .. show full overview

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