2023
22 episodes · Jul 14, 2023
The 2023 Proms features a huge breadth of programming; from Berlioz to Bollywood, large scale symphonic and choral work to intimate chamber concerts and exciting Proms debuts. The 2023 BBC Proms will run from Friday 14 July to Saturday 9 September 2023 comprising 84 Proms: 72 Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, six at venues across the UK, and the first weekend-long festival of Proms at Sage Gateshead
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S77E1First Night of the Proms
Jul 14, 2023119mClive Myrie presents live from the Royal Albert Hall as the annual music festival is launched with Sibelius, Grieg, Britten and a world premiere from Ukrainian composer Bohdana Frolyak.
S77E2Prom 4: Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons
Jul 16, 2023120mFinnish violinist and conductor Pekka Kuusisto leads The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in a concert of works by Beethoven, Vivaldi and Andrea Tarrodi.
S77E3Prom 7: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
Jul 21, 2023130mThe BBC National Orchestra of Wales and their conductor laureate, Tadaaki Otaka, perform perhaps the most famous classical symphony ever written, Beethoven’s Fifth.
S77E4Prom 12: Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony
Jul 23, 202380mThe BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and new Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 for the first of their two Proms together this season.
S77E5Prom 18: Lata Mangeshkar: Bollywood Legend
Jul 28, 2023120mCelebrating the musical legacy of Bollywood, the Proms pays tribute to Lata Mangeshkar, the voice behind the hit songs that defined Indian cinema’s greatest films.
S77E6Prom 5: Bruch’s First Violin Concerto
Jul 30, 2023113mSouth Korean star violinist Bomsori performs Bruch’s First Violin Concerto with conductor Anja Bihlmaier and the BBC Philharmonic.
S77E7Prom 23: NYO Jazz (USA) with Dee Dee Bridgewater
Aug 4, 202375mGrammy award-winning jazz legend Dee Dee Bridgewater joins trumpeter Sean Jones and Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Jazz Orchestra, comprising outstanding young musicians from across the USA, as they make their BBC Proms debut.
S77E8Prom 22: Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Prokofiev
Aug 6, 202390mThe BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft return for the second of their consecutive Proms. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 is paired with Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with soloist Isata Kanneh-Mason.
S77E9Prom 27: Yuja Wang plays Rachmaninov
Aug 11, 202389mKlaus Mäkelä and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform Walton’s choral symphony Belshazzar’s Feast, while Yuja Wang is the soloist in Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
S77E10Prom 24: Felix Klieser plays Mozart
Aug 13, 2023120mThe Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Kirill Karabits present Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 2 alongside a work by Karabits’s own father. Horn virtuoso Felix Klieser makes his Proms debut with Mozart’s sunny Concerto No. 4.
S77E11Prom 37: Budapest Festival Orchestra
Aug 18, 2023115mBudapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer are joined by Sir András Schiff for one of the great Romantic piano concertos from Schumann. Weber’s overture to Der Freischütz and Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’ Symphony complete the programme.
S77E12Prom 28: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Aug 20, 2023122mWorks by Copland and Hindemith bookend Strauss’s Four Last Songs – featuring South African soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha – in this Prom from the National Youth Orchestra.
S77E13Prom 30: Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto
Aug 25, 2023119mJohn Wilson and the Sinfonia of London perform Rachmaninov’s famous Second Piano Concerto with soloist Alim Beisembayev. Bookending the Prom are Lili Boulanger’s tone-poem D’un matin de printemps and Walton’s First Symphony.
S77E14Prom 2: Northern Soul
Aug 26, 202390mThe BBC Concert Orchestra brings a symphonic edge to the beats that took the industrial North and Midlands by storm in the 1960s and 1970s, in a stomping celebration of underground British club culture.
S77E15Prom 34: Mindful Mix Prom
Aug 27, 202375mRelax into a late-night musical meditation with Grammy-nominated vocal group VOCES8 and a playlist that drifts from the Renaissance to Radiohead.
S77E16Prom 56: Rattle conducts Mahler’s Ninth
Aug 30, 202389mSir Simon Rattle’s final UK performance as Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra. He conducts Mahler’s epic farewell symphony, haunted by loss but urgently clinging to dance and song, alongside Poulenc’s choral masterpiece Figure humaine.
S77E17Prom 61: Chineke! performs Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony
Sep 1, 2023120mThe Chineke! Orchestra – Europe’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse ensemble – returns to the Proms with Beethoven’s joyful Fourth Symphony, and continues our focus on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
S77E18Prom 57: Fantasy, Myths and Legends
Sep 2, 2023109mEncounter music from The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones and other titles in a Prom celebrating soundtracks from the worlds of film, TV and gaming.
S77E19Prom 10: Horrible Histories: ’Orrible Opera
Sep 8, 202375mJoin the Horrible Histories team and the English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra for a high-decibel dive into ’Orrible Opera.
S77E20Prom 29: Mozart’s Mass in C minor
Sep 8, 2023105mJohn Butt and the award-winning Dunedin Consort perform Mozart’s magnificent Mass in C minor with soloists including Lucy Crowe, Jess Dandy and Nardus Williams.
S77E21Prom 71: Last Night of the Proms 2023, Part 1
Sep 9, 2023119mCellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and soprano Lise Davidsen join conductor Marin Alsop and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for the biggest musical party of the year.
S77E22Prom 71: Last Night of the Proms 2023, Part 2
Sep 9, 202370mCellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and soprano Lise Davidsen join conductor Marin Alsop and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for the biggest musical party of the year.