First Aired: September 6th, 1947
Status: Continuing
Genre: Music
Network: BBC One
Summary: 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.
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Season 2023
Episode 7: Prom 23: NYO Jazz (USA) with Dee Dee Bridgewater
Air Date: August 4th, 2023
Summary: Grammy 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.
Episode 8: Prom 22: Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Prokofiev
Air Date: August 6th, 2023
Summary: The 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.
Episode 10: Prom 24: Felix Klieser plays Mozart
Air Date: August 13rd, 2023
Summary: The 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.
Episode 11: Prom 37: Budapest Festival Orchestra
Air Date: August 18th, 2023
Summary: Budapest 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.
Episode 13: Prom 30: Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto
Air Date: August 25th, 2023
Summary: John 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.
Episode 16: Prom 56: Rattle conducts Mahler’s Ninth
Air Date: August 30th, 2023
Summary: Sir 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.
Episode 17: Prom 61: Chineke! performs Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony
Air Date: September 1st, 2023
Summary: The 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.
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