A live Proms edition of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3’s In Tune, presented by Sean Rafferty.
JanáÄek’s monumental Glagolitic Mass launches the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms with thunderous spiritual drama. Karina Canellakis conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra & Chorus in one of the 20th century’s great choral masterpieces.
JanáÄek’s monumental Glagolitic Mass launches the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms with thunderous spiritual drama. Karina Canellakis conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra & Chorus in one of the 20th century’s great choral masterpieces.
An introduction to Smetana’s Má vlast with Czech-born former manager of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service, Sir John Tusa, and academic Nicholas Baragwanath.
Soloist Joshua Bell performs Dvořák’s lively, folk-infused Violin Concerto, paired with another 19th-century Czech classic, Smetana’s symphonic suite Má vlast – a colourful celebration of a nation’s landscape, history and identity.
Soloist Joshua Bell performs Dvořák’s lively, folk-infused Violin Concerto, paired with another 19th-century Czech classic, Smetana’s symphonic suite Má vlast – a colourful celebration of a nation’s landscape, history and identity.
Take a musical trip to the Moon with favourite CBeebies characters and presenters. A brand-new work by Hans Zimmer – film music’s living legend – is the centrepiece of a Prom celebrating this weekend’s 50th anniversary of the manned Moon landing.
Take a musical trip to the Moon with favourite CBeebies characters and presenters. A brand-new work by Hans Zimmer – film music’s living legend – is the centrepiece of a Prom celebrating this weekend’s 50th anniversary of the manned Moon landing.
50 years to the day since men first walked on the Moon, Professor Richard Wiseman and Melanie Vandenbrouck, curator at the Royal Museums Greenwich reflect on the long footprint of those small steps.
The scope, symbolism and the sheer thrill of space travel are all celebrated here by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Holst’s The Planets is framed by an exhilarating Minimalist masterpiece by John Adams and Samuel Barber’s elegiac Violin Concerto.
The scope, symbolism and the sheer thrill of space travel are all celebrated here by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Holst’s The Planets is framed by an exhilarating Minimalist masterpiece by John Adams and Samuel Barber’s elegiac Violin Concerto.
Take a musical trip to the Moon with favourite CBeebies characters and presenters. A brand-new work by Hans Zimmer – film music’s living legend – is the centrepiece of a Prom celebrating this weekend’s 50th anniversary of the manned Moon landing.
Take a musical trip to the Moon with favourite CBeebies characters and presenters. A brand-new work by Hans Zimmer – film music’s living legend – is the centrepiece of a Prom celebrating this weekend’s 50th anniversary of the manned Moon landing.
From the supple plainchant melodies of Hildegard of Bingen to the sophisticated choral polyphony of Palestrina, Byrd and Lassus, Proms debut artists VOCES8 return to music’s origins to launch a sequence of lunchtime concerts spanning 800 years.
From the supple plainchant melodies of Hildegard of Bingen to the sophisticated choral polyphony of Palestrina, Byrd and Lassus, Proms debut artists VOCES8 return to music’s origins to launch a sequence of lunchtime concerts spanning 800 years.
In the first of a series of talks focusing on Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood, Hannah French and Tim Jones explore his relationship with the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied, and whose orchestra he trained for 20 years.
Pagan dances meet the music of the spheres. Stravinsky’s riotous ballet score contrasts with Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s luminous Metacosmos and Britten’s elegiac Violin Concerto. Edward Gardner conducts musicians from the Juilliard and Royal Academy of Music.
Pagan dances meet the music of the spheres. Stravinsky’s riotous ballet score contrasts with Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s luminous Metacosmos and Britten’s elegiac Violin Concerto. Edward Gardner conducts musicians from the Juilliard and Royal Academy of Music.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3 New Generation Thinker Daisy Fancourt asks if music can heal the mind and body.
Schumann’s mould-breaking Fourth Symphony, moving from darkness to blazing light, is paired with Schoenberg’s revolutionary Five Orchestral Pieces. South-Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son is the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 15 in B flat major.
Schumann’s mould-breaking Fourth Symphony, moving from darkness to blazing light, is paired with Schoenberg’s revolutionary Five Orchestral Pieces. South-Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son is the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 15 in B flat major.
A discussion about Bartók with musicologists Erik Levi and Nigel Simeone.
Dance – whether in the insistent Russian folk rhythms of Stravinsky’s Firebird suite, the exotic pulse of Bartók’s Dance Suite, or the languorous, sensual stretches of Debussy’s faun – runs right through this concert featuring three orchestral classics.
Dance – whether in the insistent Russian folk rhythms of Stravinsky’s Firebird suite, the exotic pulse of Bartók’s Dance Suite, or the languorous, sensual stretches of Debussy’s faun – runs right through this concert featuring three orchestral classics.
An introduction to the music in tonight’s Prom with researcher, writer and presenter Katy Hamilton and musicologist David Trippett.
Markus Stenz conducts ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ NOW in a programme celebrating the dramatic power of the orchestra. Strauss’s exuberant tone-poem Till Eulenspiegel and Brahms’s turbulent First Symphony are joined by a thrilling new double concerto by Tobias Broström.
Markus Stenz conducts ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ NOW in a programme celebrating the dramatic power of the orchestra. Strauss’s exuberant tone-poem Till Eulenspiegel and Brahms’s turbulent First Symphony are joined by a thrilling new double concerto by Tobias Broström.
Cult London band Public Service Broadcasting marks the 50th anniversary of the first manned Moon landing with a brand-new orchestral arrangement of its 2015 studio album The Race for Space. The group is joined by The Multi-Story Orchestra.
Cult London band Public Service Broadcasting marks the 50th anniversary of the first manned Moon landing with a brand-new orchestral arrangement of its 2015 studio album The Race for Space. The group is joined by The Multi-Story Orchestra.
Poets Jacob Polley and Rachael Allen read from their work and respond to themes in the music of tonight’s concert.
Woodstock, the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, The Beatles’ final album to be recorded 1969 was a key year, and here the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra turns the clock back to explore the film and popular music of 1969 and revive the soundtrack of a special summer.
The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms takes over the newly refurbished Battersea Arts Centre for a showcase of provocative, witty and boundary-crossing composer-performers, who have been driving new music in previously unimagined directions.
Join professional musicians for a family-friendly introduction to tonight's Prom. Bring your instrument and join in!
Youthful passion and illicit love collide in Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet and the lyrical outpourings of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Mark Wigglesworth conducts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, with Nicola Benedetti as soloist.
Youthful passion and illicit love collide in Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet and the lyrical outpourings of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Mark Wigglesworth conducts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, with Nicola Benedetti as soloist.
In a live edition of The Listening Service, Tom Service responds to Messiaen’s ‘Interstellar Call’ – join us on the launch pad!
The ‘wild and colourful beauty’ of Arizona inspired one of the 20th century’s most striking works – a sprawling sonic meditation in which birdsong mingles with desert winds. Sakari Oramo conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ SO with soloists including Nicolas Hodges.
The ‘wild and colourful beauty’ of Arizona inspired one of the 20th century’s most striking works – a sprawling sonic meditation in which birdsong mingles with desert winds. Sakari Oramo conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ SO with soloists including Nicolas Hodges.
Soprano Mariana Flores and Cappella Mediterranea celebrate the 400th anniversary of pioneering Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi. A selection of love songs by Strozzi and her contemporaries includes the poignant ‘Lagrime mie’ and ‘Che si può fare’.
Soprano Mariana Flores and Cappella Mediterranea celebrate the 400th anniversary of pioneering Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi. A selection of love songs by Strozzi and her contemporaries includes the poignant ‘Lagrime mie’ and ‘Che si può fare’.
An introduction to The Creation with Revd Lucy Winkett and musicologist David Wyn Jones.
From its opening Representation of Chaos through the making of stars, seas and storms, The Creation is one of the great musical dramas. Haydn’s colourful oratorio returns to the Proms for the first time in a decade, conducted by Omer Meir Wellber.
From its opening Representation of Chaos through the making of stars, seas and storms, The Creation is one of the great musical dramas. Haydn’s colourful oratorio returns to the Proms for the first time in a decade, conducted by Omer Meir Wellber.
Musicologist Marina Frolova-Walker and cultural historian Pauline Fairclough discuss Shostakovich and his Symphony No. 5.
One of Europe’s greatest orchestras returns to the Proms. In the first of two concerts they pair two contrasting symphonies – Beethoven’s joyous Second and Shostakovich’s Fifth, written under the shadow of his public humiliation under Stalin's regime.
One of Europe’s greatest orchestras returns to the Proms. In the first of two concerts they pair two contrasting symphonies – Beethoven’s joyous Second and Shostakovich’s Fifth, written under the shadow of his public humiliation under Stalin's regime.
Described as ‘the undisputed queen of African music’, three-time Grammy Award-winner Angélique Kidjo makes her Proms debut with her nine-piece band in late-night tribute to the celebrated salsa songstress Celia Cruz.
Journalist and string-instrument expert Ariane Todes joins writer and broadcaster David Nice to explore Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 and the Russian school of violin-playing.
This second concert by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra pairs Sibelius’s tempestuous First Symphony with the deeply felt emotions of Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto, closing with Strauss’s waltz-filled Der Rosenkavalier suite.
This second concert by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra pairs Sibelius’s tempestuous First Symphony with the deeply felt emotions of Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto, closing with Strauss’s waltz-filled Der Rosenkavalier suite.
Hannah French and former Proms Controller Sir Nicholas Kenyon discuss Henry Wood’s relationship with 20th-century music in the second of three events celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Proms founder-conductor's birth.
Mahler’s orchestral song-cycle Das Lied von der Erde is a powerful exploration of loss, while Britten’s Piano Concerto overflows with youthful energy. Edward Gardner conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ SO with soloists Stuart Skelton, Claudia Mahnke and Leif Ove Andsnes.
Mahler’s orchestral song-cycle Das Lied von der Erde is a powerful exploration of loss, while Britten’s Piano Concerto overflows with youthful energy. Edward Gardner conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ SO with soloists Stuart Skelton, Claudia Mahnke and Leif Ove Andsnes.