BBC Proms Season 72

July. 13,2018      
Rating:
4.5
Trailer Synopsis

Explore the breadth of music celebrated at the Proms via this weekly curated television show. The BBC Proms, or The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts presented by the BBC, is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Episode 107 : Proms in the Park - Highlights (Glasgow)
December. 30,2018
Jamie MacDougall presents highlights of Scotland's Proms in the Park on Glasgow Green. Featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stephen Bell, the show features music from a range of styles and a host of guest performers including Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year Hannah Rarity, soprano Elizabeth Watts and Scottish-Egyptian duet The Ayoub Sisters.
Episode 106 : Proms in the Park - Belfast Highlights
December. 30,2018
This year's extravaganza from Titanic Slipways, Belfast, features a stellar line-up including Midge Ure, Kim Criswell, Xuefei Yang, Avi Avital and Itamar Doari, Karl McGuckin, the Ulster Youth Choir and the Ulster Orchestra under the baton of David Brophy.
Episode 104 : The Last Night of the Proms from around the UK
September. 16,2018
The traditional Last Night of the Proms is celebrated in style with concerts from parks around the UK. Sean Fletcher and YolanDa Brown present a stunning mix of classical and contemporary performances. Artists include one of Britain's leading sopranos Elizabeth Watts and pop diva Sophie Ellis-Bextor in Glasgow Green. World-famous classical singer Katherine Jenkins and show-stopping West End star Lee Mead perform at Eirias Park in Colwyn Bay alongside 2018 BBC Young Musician of the Year, pianist Lauren Zhang. Internationally acclaimed Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital and Midge Ure entertain in Titanic Slipways, Belfast, while rising star saxophonist and former Young Musician finalist Jess Gillam, and the sensational voice of soul Gladys Knight, draw the crowds to London's Hyde Park. They all come together for the traditional Last Night celebrations - accompanied by the BBC's orchestras.
Episode 103 : Colwyn Bay Highlights
September. 14,2018
The BBC Proms in the Park returns to north Wales and Colwyn Bay for an evening of popular, classical, musical theatre and film favourites, plus all the traditional 'Last Night' celebrations. Josie d'Arby and Tim Rhys-Evans present highlights of this special concert featuring the Welsh mezzo soprano Katherine Jenkins, West End star and actor Lee Mead, BBC Young Musician 2018 Lauren Zhang and Only Kids Aloud - all performing with the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales.
Episode 102 : BBC Proms in the Park 2018 - Live from Colwyn Bay
September. 08,2018
Josie d'Arby and Tim Rhys-Evans present the first half of BBC Proms in the Park live from Colwyn Bay. They are joined by Welsh mezzo soprano Katherine Jenkins, West End star and actor Lee Mead, BBC Young Musician 2018 Lauren Zhang and Only Kids Aloud, performing popular classical, musical theatre and film favourites. They perform with the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, conducted by Grant Llewellyn.
Episode 101 : Proms in the Park - Live from Glasgow
September. 08,2018
Jamie MacDougall presents coverage of part one of Scotland's Proms in the Park live from Glasgow Green. Featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stephen Bell, the show features music from a range of styles and a host of guest performers including Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year Hannah Rarity, soprano Elizabeth Watts, Scottish-Egyptian duet The Ayoub Sisters and, marking their 10th anniversary, a group of young performers from Sistema Scotland.
Episode 76 : Last Night of the Proms - Part Two
September. 08,2018
Katie Derham presents live coverage as the Last Night of the Proms continues from the Royal Albert Hall with the ever-popular Marche militaire francaise by Saint-Saens. Award-winning 18-year-old saxophonist Jess Gillam performs Scaramouche by Milhaud, and baritone Gerry Finley performs the song Soliloquy from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel. To mark 100 years since 1918 there is a nationwide sing-around of traditional First World War songs, with contributions from the Proms in the Park events in Colwyn Bay, Glasgow and Belfast. The 2018 Proms are brought to a familiar and much-loved rousing close with Rule Britannia, Land of Hope and Glory, and Jerusalem. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and BBC Singers are conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.
Episode 75 : Last Night of the Proms - Part One
September. 08,2018
The BBC Proms 2018 season comes to a close with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and their much-loved former chief conductor and Last Night of the Proms veteran Sir Andrew Davis steering proceedings live from the Royal Albert Hall. Long-standing nautical traditions of the evening are extended in Stanford's Songs of the Sea, featuring Canadian baritone Gerald Finley. The centenary of the end of the Great War is marked with a new work from Roxanna Panufnik, which also rounds off the season's original premieres and features BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Chorus. The evening includes music by Hindemith, Berlioz and Charles Hubert Parry, who is celebrated 100 years after his death with a performance of Blest Pair of Sirens. Coverage also includes visits to Proms in the Parks across the Nation, also celebrating this annual great night in classical music.
Episode 70 : Tango Prom
September. 04,2018
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 its dusty beginning in the streets of Buenos Aires right up to the present day.
Episode 65 : Youssou Ndour & Le Super Étoile de Dakar
August. 31,2018
Senegalese cultural icon Youssou Ndour makes his Proms debut in a special late-night appearance. He’s joined by his group Le Super Étoile de Dakar for a performance embracing his signature mix of Cuban rumba, hip hop, jazz and soul.
Episode 63 : Sir András Schiff plays 'The Well-Tempered Clavier' (Book 2)
August. 29,2018
Following his performance of Book 1 in 2017, distinguished pianist and Bach specialist Sir András Schiff returns to present the complete Book 2 of J. S. Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier.
Episode 60 : Marin Alsop & Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
August. 27,2018
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.
Episode 57 : John Wilson conducts Bernstein's On the Town
August. 25,2018
Launching a Bernstein bank-holiday weekend on what would have been the composer’s 100th birthday, John Wilson conducts Bernstein’s hit Broadway musical On The Town, which follows the adventures of three sailors on shore leave in 1944.
Episode 55 : Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra (II)
August. 23,2018
Dance to the Gypsy rhythms of Hungarian folk music in works by Liszt and Sarasate, while Brahms’s dramatic First Symphony, with its transcendent finale, is at the heart of this second concert by Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
Episode 50 : Mozart's Clarinet Concerto & Mahler's Fifth Symphony
August. 19,2018
Recreating a Prom conducted by Leonard Bernstein in 1987, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard pair two of the best-loved and most beautiful works in the repertoire: Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony.
Episode 48 : Sir Simon Rattle conducts L’enfant et les sortilèges
August. 18,2018
Ravel’s magical opera The Child and the Spells follows his fairy-tale ballet Mother Goose and the oriental aura of Shéhérazade.
Episode 41 : Edward Gardner conducts Elgar & Vaughan Williams
August. 12,2018
The conflict of war runs through this concert by Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Vaughan Williams’s beautiful cantata Dona nobis pacem and Lili Boulanger frame Elgar’s elegiac Cello Concerto.
Episode 35 : New York: Sound of a City
August. 08,2018
Celebrating the music of a modern New York, the Heritage Orchestra and conductor Jules Buckley present the sound of NYC. With guest artists drawn from across the Big Apple, expect anything from pagan-gospel and disco-punk to feminist rap or DIY indie.
Episode 33 : Brahms's A German Requiem
August. 07,2018
Richard Farnes conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and soloists Golda Schultz and Johan Reuter in Brahms’s much-loved Requiem. Marking Thea Musgrave’s 90th birthday, the performance opens with her dramatic Phoenix Rising.
Episode 28 : NYO perform Mussorgsky, Ligeti and Debussy
August. 04,2018
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.
Episode 27 : Folk Music around Britain and Ireland
August. 03,2018
The BBC Concert Orchestra collaborates with some of the folk world’s leading musicians, including Julie Fowlis, The Unthanks and Sam Lee, in a concert that celebrates traditional music while also looking to the future of this ever-evolving genre.
Episode 23 : Havana Meets Kingston
July. 31,2018
Leading reggae and dancehall producer Mister Savona brings together some of Cuba and Jamaica’s most influential musicians for a concert combing the sounds of roots reggae, dub and dancehall with son, salsa and Afro-Cuban to create a new musical fusion.
Episode 17 : Parry, Vaughan Williams & Holst
July. 27,2018
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 BBC NOW.
Episode 15 : Paul Lewis plays Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ concerto
July. 25,2018
A concert of darkness and light opens with the world premiere of Tansy Davies’s 9/11-inspired What Did We See? and closes with Brahms’s sunny Second Symphony. Paul Lewis joins Ben Gernon and the BBC Philharmonic for Beethoven’s 'Emperor' Concerto.
Episode 13 : Pioneers of Sound
July. 23,2018
The London Contemporary Orchestra leads a late-night tribute to the legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop – pioneers of experimental electronic music – which includes Daphne Oram’s groundbreaking Still Point and music by RW stalwart Delia Derbyshire.
Episode 12 : Beethoven, Shostakovich & Rachmaninov
July. 23,2018
Karina Canellakis directs the BBC Symphony Orchestra in two Russian classics: Rachmaninov’s exhilarating Symphonic Dances and Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto, with Alisa Weilerstein as soloist. Beethoven’s spirited overture Coriolan opens the concert.
Episode 8 : Youthful Beginnings
July. 20,2018
Mendelssohn’s precocious First Piano Concerto joins Schumann’s forward-looking Fourth Symphony and music by Lili Boulanger and Morfydd Owen – both of whom died tragically young – in the BBC National Orchestra of Wales’s first Prom of the season.
Episode 7 : Jacob Collier and Friends
July. 19,2018
23-year-old vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and arranger Jacob Collier is already a multi-Grammy Award-winner. Here he teams up with Jules Buckley, the Metropole Orkest and special guests Sam Amidon and Take 6 for a special Proms performance.
Episode 3 : BBC Young Musician 40th Anniversary
July. 15,2018
BBC Young Musician celebrates its 40th birthday with a concert featuring illustrious past winners and finalists, including Nicola Benedetti, Freddy Kempf and Sheku Kanneh-Mason, as well as this year’s winner. With music by Ravel and Saint-Saëns.
Episode 1 : First Night of the Proms
July. 13,2018
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.

Seasons

Season 77
The BBC Proms 2023 season runs from Friday 14 July to Saturday 9 September.
Season 77 2023
Season 76
Running from 15 July to 10 September, the Proms returns this summer for its first full eight-week season in two years.
Season 76 2022
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The 119th season of the BBC Proms, broadcast in 2013.
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