Stephanie Hughes brings you live coverage of the opening night of the 108th Proms season, broadcast from London’s Royal Albert Hall. This year’s festival of classical music, a series of 73 concerts spanning from tonight until September 14th…

Charles Hazlewood presents the inaugural of fourteen Promenade concerts to be broadcast by BBC4 from London’s Royal Albert Hall. This evening, Charles Mackerras, a highly respected interpreter of eighteenth-century music, conducts the Orche…

Opera star Denyce Graves takes to the Royal Albert Hall for her Proms debut in a concert of beloved classics. The program features pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and includes works by Bernstein, Gershwin, and Bizet, culminating in Ravel's Bolé…

From the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Proms begin this week with a series of nightly concerts. The program features Bruch's celebrated first violin concerto in the first half, opening with Berlioz's Overture – Roman Carnival. The second…

Rolf Hind is featured as soloist in the first of this season’s BBC commissions: David Sawer’s Piano Concerto, which opens with Elgar’s *In the South*. Following intermission, the program presents Ravel’s *Sheherazade*, marking the Proms deb…

Charles Hazlewood welcomes us to tonight's Prom, broadcast live from the Royal Albert Hall in London. Continuing the theme of this year's season, the concert has a distinctly Spanish character. The Orquestra de Barcelona makes its Proms deb…

Charles Hazlewood presents the latest installment in the Royal Albert Hall’s celebrated summer concert series. The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra will perform Hans Werner Henze’s *Fandango*, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, feat…

The King’s Singers – Paul Phoenix (tenor), Robin Tyson and David Hurley (counter-tenors), Gabriel Crouch and Philip Lawson (baritones), and Stephen Connolly (bass) – present a distinctive repertoire of both Renaissance and contemporary madr…

The evening’s concert marks the 50th birthday of Glasgow-born composer Oliver Knussen with a presentation of his two operas for children, inspired by Maurice Sendak's beloved picture books, *Higglety, Pigglety, Pop!* and *Where the Wild Thi…

Richard Hickox leads the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Benjamin Britten’s *Christopher Columbus Suite*. Following this, the BBC National Chorus of Wales and the London Symphony Chorus join the orchestra for Antonín Dvořák’s *Stabat Mat…

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, alongside the Philharmonia Chorus and the Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, present Arnold Schoenberg's *Gurrelieder*, conducted by Donald Runnicles. The performance features soloists Christine Brewer, Jon Vill…

Osmo Vanska’s farewell performance as chief conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra features Sibelius’s *Tapiola*, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 with soloist Stephen Hough, and Nielsen’s Fourth Symphony, known as *The Inextinguish…

Charles Hazlewood presents the United Kingdom premiere of Per Nørgaard's Sixth Symphony, a performance by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Thomas Dausgaard. Nikolaj Znaider is featured as soloist in Carl Nielsen's Violin …

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales features two significant works by Polish composers in its upcoming performance: Lutosławski's Concerto for Orchestra and Szymanowski's First Violin Concerto. The orchestra is conducted by Tadaaki Otaka, w…

The BBC Symphony Orchestra presents the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s *Uninterrupted Sorrow*, sharing the program with Debussy’s *Prelude à l'après-midi d'un faune* and Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Andrew Davis condu…

Gianandrea Noseda conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a program featuring two Spanish operas: Granados's *Goyescas*, a work inspired by the paintings of Goya, and Ravel's *L'Heure Espagnole*, a lively comedy concerning a woman's frantic strugg…

Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, a leading figure in American music, finds himself immersed in the vibrant era of swing, revisiting the timeless sounds of jazz giants like Count Basie, Chick Webb, and Duke Ellington.

Stephanie Hughes will lead an evening of music featuring Vivaldi, with the Venice Baroque Orchestra performing his celebrated *Four Seasons*.

A celebratory concert performance of *Oklahoma!* took place at the Proms yesterday, marking the centenary of Richard Rodgers' birth. This special rendition of the beloved Broadway musical included Maureen Lipman reprising her role from the …

From the Royal Albert Hall, a performance by the esteemed Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. Valery Gergiev conducts a program featuring significant works by two of the foremost Russian composers of the 20th…

From London's Royal Albert Hall, Stephanie Hughes welcomes a performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, one of America's most celebrated orchestras. Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the ensemble in a program featuring two choral symphoni…

Simon Rattle leads a distinguished ensemble of international soloists and choruses, alongside the National Youth Orchestra, in a rendition of Gustav Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 8, the Symphony of a Thousand. This performance is capture…

Paco Pena, renowned flamenco guitarist, takes the stage tonight for the annual Blue Peter Prom, a celebration of Spain’s vibrant musical traditions. The evening’s festivities, held at London’s Royal Albert Hall, feature a diverse array of a…

From London's Royal Albert Hall, Stephanie Hughes welcomes the culmination of this summer's 108th season of Promenade Concerts. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11th in America, the evening in 2001 offered a subdued program refl…

The Proms season concludes with a grand finale as BBC1 assumes live broadcast, hosted by Stephanie Hughes. In commemoration of the composer's centenary, Broadway legend Audra McDonald performs some of Richard Rodgers’ most beloved songs …