The season of celebrations is upon us once more. Music lovers will soon be dressing their finest and gathering across the nation to mark the pinnacle of the classical music year. Stephanie Andrews will bring you live coverage from the Royal…

Soprano Rosemary Joshua and tenor John Mark Ainsley, two leading British opera singers, perform arias selected by readers in the annual BBC Proms/Radio Times poll. The concert at London's Royal Albert Hall also features David Attenborough n…

The BBC4 Proms commence with a two-week broadcast featuring pianist Stephen Hough. The Budapest Festival Orchestra, under the direction of Ivan Fischer, will perform Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor and Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 2 …

Tonight's concert marks the 350th anniversary of Arcangelo Corelli's birth, featuring his Christmas Concerto alongside Handel's Dixit Dominus, HWV232. The English Concert and Academy of Ancient Music are joined by renowned soloists, all con…

The program features London symphonies by Vaughan Williams and Haydn, alongside William Schuman's "A Song of Orpheus." The BBC Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Leonard Slatkin, with cellist Paul Watkins, and Charles Hazlewood serves as ho…

The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, led by conductor Gianandrea Noseda, will present Richard Strauss's *Four Last Songs* and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor, featuring Italian soprano Barbara Frittoli. The program also includes the Europe…

The evening’s highlight is a new percussion concerto by Joe Duddell, performed by Colin Currie. Alongside this, Tommy Pearson presents works by Bartók and Tchaikovsky, as conductor Marin Alsop makes her debut at the Proms leading the Bourne…

The Halle Orchestra will present Elgar’s monumental Symphony No. 1 in A flat – a work first performed ninety-five years ago – as their only appearance at this year's Proms. Conductor Mark Elder joins host Tommy Pearson to discuss the perfor…

John Adams leads the European premiere of his work, *On the Transmigration of Souls*, a musical meditation on the events of September 11, 2001. The program also features compositions by Haydn, Bartók, and Copland, performed by the BBC Symph…

As part of the bicentenary marking the composer's birth, Berlioz's monumental "sacred trilogy," *L'Enfance du Christ*, is being performed. The conductor John Eliot Gardiner leads the Clare College, Cambridge choir, alongside the Monteverdi …

London Voices and the BBC Scottish Symphony, under the baton of Donald Runnicles, present Richard Strauss's opera *Elektra*. The cast features acclaimed singers such as Gabriele Schnaut, Janice Watson, and Felicity Palmer.

A 50th-anniversary celebration of the coronation will feature works by Grainger, Walton, Elgar, Turnage, Tippett, Bax, and Britten, performed with the BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra under the direction of Andrew Davis. The Queen and Duke…

Christopher Gunness presents a program featuring Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K. 211 (known as the "Turkish" concerto), Ligeti's *Lontano*, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F major, the "Pastoral." The BBC National Orchestra of Wal…

A concert program of stirring music by British composers will commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the coronation, a ceremony held last evening at London's Royal Albert Hall before the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. Michael Parkinson …

The BBC Philharmonic performs Tuur’s Violin Concerto, Musorgsky’s *Night on the Bare Mountain*, and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 6. During the intermission, Christopher Gunness interviews conductor Paavo Jarvi and violinist Isabelle van Keuien.

The evening opens with the United Kingdom premiere of HK Gruber’s *Dancing in the Dark*, followed by Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E minor. Vassily Sinaisky conducts the BBC Philharmonic, with an intro…

This evening’s concert features Ravel’s *Le Tombeau de Couperin*, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9, performed by Leif Ove Andsnes, and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 in A minor, in the Scottish style. The Mahler Chamber Orchestra is led by Alan …

Tonight's promenade concert from London's Royal Albert Hall features Stephanie Hughes leading the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in their annual performance. Guest conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier will guide the orchestra throug…

A showcase of some of Britain’s finest film scores, presented by actor Timothy West and performed live at London’s Royal Albert Hall by the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Rumon Gamba. The program features works from the 1930s and 40s, …

Viktoria Mullova, the violinist, performs Sibelius's passionate yet deeply lyrical Violin Concerto alongside the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, conducted by Daniel Harding. The concert, presented from the Royal Albert Hall, culminates …

In London's Royal Albert Hall, Leonard Slatkin, chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, raises his baton to lead a concert dedicated entirely to the vast and compelling world of Russian orchestral music. The program features notable …

Here is live coverage from London's Royal Albert Hall of Prom 54. The masterful conductor Mariss Jansons leads the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in their second Prom, a highlight of his farewell European tour as Music Director. The conce…

The final concert of the Proms season features soprano Angela Gheorghiu and violinist Leila Josefowicz, broadcast live from the Royal Albert Hall. The program is presented by Stephanie Hughes and performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the…

The Proms season concludes with a grand finale as BBC1 assumes live broadcast, hosted by Stephanie Hughes. The second half of the program opens with Vaughan Williams’ Overture: The Wasps, followed by Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances from *Pr…