An all-British concert launches the 2018 season. Vaughan Williams atmospheric Whitman settings and Holst’s ever-popular 1918 suite The Planets sit alongside a new collaboration by Anna Meredith and 59 Productions.
An all-British concert launches the 2018 season. Vaughan Williams atmospheric Whitman settings and Holst’s ever-popular 1918 suite The Planets sit alongside a new collaboration by Anna Meredith and 59 Productions.
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In this WWI centenary year, Georg Solti’s World Orchestra for Peace returns under Donald Runnicles with Beethoven’s Ninth – an iconic statement of brotherhood and fellowship – Britten’s haunting Sinfonia da Requiem, and a new work by Ēriks Ešenvalds.
In this WWI centenary year, Georg Solti’s World Orchestra for Peace returns under Donald Runnicles with Beethoven’s Ninth – an iconic statement of brotherhood and fellowship – Britten’s haunting Sinfonia da Requiem, and a new work by Ēriks Ešenvalds.
Mark Elder conducts the Ჹé in Stravinsky's colourful symphonic poem The Song of the Nightingale and the fairy-tale ballet The Firebird. Wagner's Tannhäuser overture opens the Prom, which also features Debussy’s sensual cantata La damoiselle élue.
Mark Elder conducts the Ჹé in Stravinsky's colourful symphonic poem The Song of the Nightingale and the fairy-tale ballet The Firebird. Wagner's Tannhäuser overture opens the Prom, which also features Debussy’s sensual cantata La damoiselle élue.
Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and Pastoral Symphony sit alongside music by Holst and Parry’s stirring Fifth Symphony in this centenary celebration of Hubert Parry – father of 20th-century English music. Martyn Brabbins conducts the ѿý NOW.
Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and Pastoral Symphony sit alongside music by Holst and Parry’s stirring Fifth Symphony in this centenary celebration of Hubert Parry – father of 20th-century English music. Martyn Brabbins conducts the ѿý NOW.
Teodor Currentzis and his period-instrument ensemble MusicAeterna are ripping up the classical rulebook with thrilling, award-winning results. Their all-Beethoven programme pairs the vivacious Second Symphony with the highly charged Fifth.
Teodor Currentzis and his period-instrument ensemble MusicAeterna are ripping up the classical rulebook with thrilling, award-winning results. Their all-Beethoven programme pairs the vivacious Second Symphony with the highly charged Fifth.
Bring all the family along to sing Kerry Andrew’s Ten Pieces song 'No Place Like'. No experience of singing required.
Discover the characters and stories behind some spectacular orchestral pieces in the annual Ten Pieces Proms. Cѿý’s Naomi Wilkinson presents a thrilling musical adventure for all the family, featuring music by Elgar, Dvořák, Copland and more.
Discover the characters and stories behind some spectacular orchestral pieces in the annual Ten Pieces Proms. Cѿý’s Naomi Wilkinson presents a thrilling musical adventure for all the family, featuring music by Elgar, Dvořák, Copland and more.
A chance for children to pose questions to leading musicians from across the Proms season and to find out more about what it takes to make it in music!
Discover the characters and stories behind some spectacular orchestral pieces in the annual Ten Pieces Proms. Cѿý’s Naomi Wilkinson presents a thrilling musical adventure for all the family, featuring music by Elgar, Dvořák, Copland and more.
Discover the characters and stories behind some spectacular orchestral pieces in the annual Ten Pieces Proms. Cѿý’s Naomi Wilkinson presents a thrilling musical adventure for all the family, featuring music by Elgar, Dvořák, Copland and more.
Join professional musicians for a family-friendly introduction to this evening's Prom. Bring your instrument and join in!
Guitarist Miloš Karadaglić is the soloist in a new concerto by Joby Talbot, whose dancing rhythms take inspiration from Karadaglić’s Balkan heritage. The dance continues with Act I of Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballet The Nutcracker.
Guitarist Miloš Karadaglić is the soloist in a new concerto by Joby Talbot, whose dancing rhythms take inspiration from Karadaglić’s Balkan heritage. The dance continues with Act I of Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballet The Nutcracker.
Join us for a rousing session of folk songs from across Britain and Ireland. No experience of singing is required.
Join musicians from the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at this unique and friendly event for teenagers hosted by the NYO’s Young Promoters – a great chance to find out about the music in this evening’s Prom.
George Benjamin and the National Youth Orchestra in a concert of orchestral masterworks that includes Debussy’s La Mer and Ligeti’s mesmerising Lontano. Pianist Tamara Stefanovich is the soloist in Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand.
George Benjamin and the National Youth Orchestra in a concert of orchestral masterworks that includes Debussy’s La Mer and Ligeti’s mesmerising Lontano. Pianist Tamara Stefanovich is the soloist in Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand.
Join professional musicians to create your own music inspired by this afternoon's Prom.
Join professional musicians for a family-friendly introduction to this evening's Prom. Bring your instrument and join in!
Presenter Tom Service, Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra take their audience inside Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony – taking it apart to reveal its intricate construction, before putting it back together again in a complete performance from memory.
Presenter Tom Service, Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra take their audience inside Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony – taking it apart to reveal its intricate construction, before putting it back together again in a complete performance from memory.
This transatlantic programme from Juanjo Mena and the ѿý Philharmonic pairs Britten’s evocative Sea Interludes and his exquisite orchestral song-cycle Les Illuminations with music by their American colleagues and contemporaries Copland and Barber.
This transatlantic programme from Juanjo Mena and the ѿý Philharmonic pairs Britten’s evocative Sea Interludes and his exquisite orchestral song-cycle Les Illuminations with music by their American colleagues and contemporaries Copland and Barber.
Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra take a journey from the aphoristic brilliance of Webern through the bittersweet beauty of Mahler’s unfinished Tenth Symphony, to Wagner’s expansive music-drama Die Walküre.
Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra take a journey from the aphoristic brilliance of Webern through the bittersweet beauty of Mahler’s unfinished Tenth Symphony, to Wagner’s expansive music-drama Die Walküre.
Bernstein’s emotive First Symphony is the work that put the young composer on the map. Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia here pair it with another symphonic debut – Mahler’s arresting, visionary First Symphony.
Bernstein’s emotive First Symphony is the work that put the young composer on the map. Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia here pair it with another symphonic debut – Mahler’s arresting, visionary First Symphony.
Join us to explore the songs and story of Bernstein's West Side Story. For ages 12-18. Booking required.
Join professional musicians for a family-friendly introduction to this evening's Prom. Bring your instrument and join in!
Join professional musicians for a family-friendly introduction to this evening's Prom. Bring your instrument and join in!
Strauss’s luminous Four Last Songs and Wagner’s shimmering Prelude to Act I of Parsifal set the tone for a concert rich in melody and orchestral beauty, which climaxes in Danish composer Per Norgard’s extraordinary, eclectic Third Symphony.
Strauss’s luminous Four Last Songs and Wagner’s shimmering Prelude to Act I of Parsifal set the tone for a concert rich in melody and orchestral beauty, which climaxes in Danish composer Per Norgard’s extraordinary, eclectic Third Symphony.
There’s a Nordic flavour to this concert from Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic that includes Sibelius’s folk-inspired Second Symphony and the world premiere of Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin’s violin concerto, with Alina Ibragimova as soloist.
There’s a Nordic flavour to this concert from Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic that includes Sibelius’s folk-inspired Second Symphony and the world premiere of Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin’s violin concerto, with Alina Ibragimova as soloist.
James Redwood and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra present a Relaxed Prom with music by Tchaikovsky, Bernstein and Holst. All are welcome – adults and children, those with autism, learning disabilities, dementia and sensory impairments.
Bernstein-protégée Marin Alsop returns to the Proms with one of the great American symphony orchestras to perform a politically charged programme that includes Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony alongside Bernstein’s own Second Symphony.
Bernstein-protégée Marin Alsop returns to the Proms with one of the great American symphony orchestras to perform a politically charged programme that includes Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony alongside Bernstein’s own Second Symphony.
Join professional musicians for a family-friendly introduction to music found in the Proms this year. Bring your instrument and join in!
Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra pair Beethoven’s much-loved Seventh Symphony “the apotheosis of the dance” two contrasting Strauss tone poems: the passionate Don Juan and the contemplative Death and Transfiguration.
Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra pair Beethoven’s much-loved Seventh Symphony “the apotheosis of the dance” two contrasting Strauss tone poems: the passionate Don Juan and the contemplative Death and Transfiguration.
Explore the raw sensuality and charged rhythms of the tango in all its guises. The Britten Sinfonia join forces with a tango band to take the dance from it dusty beginning in the streets of Buenos Aires right up to the present day.
Explore the raw sensuality and charged rhythms of the tango in all its guises. The Britten Sinfonia join forces with a tango band to take the dance from it dusty beginning in the streets of Buenos Aires right up to the present day.
Baritone Gerald Finley and saxophonist Jess Gillam join Sir Andrew Davis and the ѿý SO for the musical party that is the Last Night of the Proms. The programme includes music by Stanford, Parry and Elgar.
Baritone Gerald Finley and saxophonist Jess Gillam join Sir Andrew Davis and the ѿý SO for the musical party that is the Last Night of the Proms. The programme includes music by Stanford, Parry and Elgar.