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BBC Proms: 2018

24 episodes · first aired Jul 13, 2018

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  1. 1 First Night of the Proms Jul 13, 2018 · 3h 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…
  2. 2 BBC Young Musician 40th Anniversary Jul 15, 2018 · 3h 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…
  3. 3 Jacob Collier and Friends Jul 19, 2018 · 3h 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…
  4. 4 Youthful Beginnings Jul 20, 2018 · 3h 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…
  5. 5 Pioneers of Sound Jul 23, 2018 · 3h 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…
  6. 6 Beethoven, Shostakovich & Rachmaninov Jul 23, 2018 · 3h 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…
  7. 7 Paul Lewis plays Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ concerto Jul 25, 2018 · 3h 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…
  8. 8 Parry, Vaughan Williams & Holst Jul 27, 2018 · 3h 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…
  9. 9 Havana Meets Kingston Jul 31, 2018 · 3h 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…
  10. 10 Folk Music around Britain and Ireland Aug 3, 2018 · 3h 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…
  11. 11 NYO perform Mussorgsky, Ligeti and Debussy Aug 4, 2018 · 3h 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…
  12. 12 Brahms's A German Requiem Aug 7, 2018 · 3h 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…
  13. 13 New York: Sound of a City Aug 8, 2018 · 3h 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…
  14. 14 Edward Gardner conducts Elgar & Vaughan Williams Aug 12, 2018 · 3h 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…
  15. 15 Sir Simon Rattle conducts L’enfant et les sortilèges Aug 18, 2018 · 3h Ravel’s magical opera The Child and the Spells follows his fairy-tale ballet Mother Goose and the oriental aura of Shéhérazade.
  16. 16 Mozart's Clarinet Concerto & Mahler's Fifth Symphony Aug 19, 2018 · 3h 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…
  17. 17 Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra (II) Aug 23, 2018 · 3h 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…
  18. 18 John Wilson conducts Bernstein's On the Town Aug 25, 2018 · 3h 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…
  19. 19 Marin Alsop & Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Aug 27, 2018 · 3h 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…
  20. 20 Sir András Schiff plays 'The Well-Tempered Clavier' (Book 2) Aug 29, 2018 · 3h 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.
  21. 21 Youssou Ndour & Le Super Étoile de Dakar Aug 31, 2018 · 3h 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…
  22. 22 Tango Prom Sep 4, 2018 · 3h 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…
  23. 23 Last Night of the Proms - Part One Sep 8, 2018 · 1h 44m 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…
  24. 24 Last Night of the Proms - Part Two Sep 8, 2018 · 1h 30m 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…