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BBC Proms: 2021

22 episodes · first aired Jul 30, 2021

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  1. 1 First Night of the Proms: Part 1 Jul 30, 2021 · 3h Conductor Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra kick off a six-week season with Vaughan Williams’s ravishing Serenade to Music and Poulenc’s dazzling Organ Concerto. They’re…
  2. 2 First Night of the Proms: Part 2 Jul 30, 2021 · 3h Katie Derham presents from the Royal Albert Hall, as the opening concert of the 2021 Proms season continues in front of a live audience. Conductor Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony…
  3. 3 Prom 4: An Evening of Mozart with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Aug 1, 2021 · 3h The Scottish Chamber Orchestra and their young Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev showcase Mozart’s final three symphonies – composed over a period of just two months in the summer of…
  4. 4 Prom 8: Gražinytė-Tyla Conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Aug 5, 2021 · 3h The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla champion the music of a too-long neglected composer. A pupil of Vaughan Williams, Ruth Gipps started her…
  5. 5 Prom 5: Ryan Bancroft Conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales Aug 6, 2021 · 3h Musical borrowings, reworkings and reinventions run through this season’s Proms. The invisible thread linking tonight’s concert really begins with Bach. A lilting chaconne from his Cantata…
  6. 6 Prom 2: The Golden Age of Broadway Aug 7, 2021 · 3h Smell the greasepaint and feel the blaze of those Broadway lights, as the BBC Concert Orchestra whisks you away for a night at the musicals. The toe-tapping favourites include songs from…
  7. 7 Prom 10: Nicola Benedetti and the NYOGB Aug 8, 2021 · 3h Rising star Jonathon Heyward conducts the talented teenagers of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in one of the all-time symphonic greats. Propelling the symphony into the…
  8. 8 Prom 14/15: Stravinsky from Memory Aug 13, 2021 · 3h Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra’s from-memory performances have become a thrilling recent fixture of the Proms. Now, following symphonies by Beethoven, Brahms, Shostakovich and…
  9. 9 Prom 17: Víkingur Ólafsson Plays Bach and Mozart Aug 15, 2021 · 3h Award-winning Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson makes his much-anticipated Proms debut, as soloist in both Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in F minor, whose energised outer movements frame a…
  10. 10 Prom 20: To Soothe the Aching Heart (A Night at the Opera) Aug 19, 2021 · 3h A host of British opera stars join Ben Glassberg and the BBC Philharmonic for a night rich in emotion and drama. After a year of lockdowns and social distancing, the themes of isolation…
  11. 11 Prom 22: Nubya Garcia Aug 20, 2021 · 3h British saxophonist, composer, DJ and bandleader Nubya Garcia is one of the brightest of a new generation of jazz talent, drawing comparison with greats such as Sonny Rollins and Dexter…
  12. 12 Prom 26: Sir Simon Rattle Conducts the London Symphony Orchestra Aug 22, 2021 · 3h The London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle mark 2021’s Stravinsky anniversary with a series of symphonic snapshots. We follow Stravinsky’s view of the symphony from the…
  13. 13 Prom 28: Chineke! Orchestra Aug 26, 2021 · 3h The Chineke! Orchestra returns for its fourth visit to the Proms, celebrating diversity in composers as well as performers. Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s overture to his…
  14. 14 Prom 29/30: Joshua Bell's Seasons: Vivaldi vs Piazzolla Aug 27, 2021 · 3h From an icy Italian winter to the heady, sensual warmth of a South American summer: violinist Joshua Bell leads the Academy of St Martin in the Fields on a musical journey through the…
  15. 15 Prom 34/35: Family Prom - The Carnival of the Animals with the Kanneh-Masons Aug 29, 2021 · 3h Author Michael Morpurgo joins the seven talented Kanneh-Mason siblings and starry musical friends for this special Family Prom. Saint-Saëns’s much-loved suite The Carnival of the Animals –…
  16. 16 Prom 31: George Lewis & Beethoven Sep 2, 2021 · 3h The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov pair Beethoven’s dramatic concert aria ‘Ah! perfido’ with the Second Symphony – a work whose vitality and…
  17. 17 Prom 25: Moses Sumney Meets Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra Sep 3, 2021 · 3h Blending soul, jazz, art-pop and spoken word, singer-songwriter Moses Sumney defies traditional categories. His ever-evolving voice has channelled political rage and emotional optimism…
  18. 18 Prom 38: Sir John Eliot Gardiner Conducts the Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists Sep 5, 2021 · 3h Sir John Eliot Gardiner makes his 60th Proms appearance directing his own Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Handel’s vividly theatrical Dixit Dominus – a concerto for choir…
  19. 19 Prom 42: John Wilson Conducts the Sinfonia of London Sep 9, 2021 · 3h The Sinfonia of London makes its much-anticipated official concert debut under John Wilson, who re-established the ensemble in 2018. Following on from their award-winning recording, this…
  20. 21 Prom 47: Bach’s St Matthew Passion Sep 10, 2021 · 3h Bach’s crowning masterpiece, the St Matthew Passion combines moments of extraordinary fragility and tenderness with raw choral power and explosive jubilation, bitter grief with passages of…
  21. 22 Last Night of the Proms 2021 - Part 1 Sep 11, 2021 · 3h With his ‘thrilling vocal heroics’ and ‘magnetic stage presence’, Stuart Skelton is one of the great tenors of his generation, a regular in all the major international opera houses. The…
  22. 23 Last Night of the Proms - Part 2 Sep 11, 2021 · 3h Katie Derham hosts continued live coverage from the Royal Albert Hall, at the climax of the world’s greatest classical music festival. Latvian accordionist Ksenija Sidorova and Australian…