BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Sibelius’s epic Kalevala
This evening, Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo pairs two of Sibelius’s most engagingly descriptive works as part of a Proms season that marked 150 years since the composer’s birth. The folk...
Daniel Barenboim and his West–Eastern Divan Orchestra
Tonight, a memorable concert from the 2016 season, when Daniel Barenboim paired his orchestra of young Arabs and Israelis with the iconic pianist Martha Argerich in a thundering performance of...
Proms Chamber Music: Khatia Buniatishvili
Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Khatia Buniatishvili has for years been turning heads with her mesmerising stage presence and unique style of pianism, mixing uncanny sensitivity with old-school...
Elgar, Bliss and Walton from the 2006 BBC Proms
Ever the champion of British music, Richard Hickox conducts his final Prom at the helm of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, joined by Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel and massed...
A celebration of Henry Purcell
The centrepiece of this concert – introduced by Suzy Klein and originally presented to celebrate the 350th anniversary year of Purcell’s birth in 2009 – is an affecting tribute to...
Janáček’s The Makropulos Affair
Karita Mattila stars in a concert performance of Janáček’s opera The Makropulos Affair, a drama of immortality, death and the purpose of life, conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek with the BBC...
Stephen Sondheim 80th birthday Prom
Marking the 80th birthday in 2010 of one of Broadway's great innovators, this first ever Sondheim Prom drew together leading figures of the opera and theatre worlds, plus an array...
Mark Elder and the Hallé
Works inspired by the sea and night-time, plus Beethoven’s barnstorming ‘Eroica’ Symphony - Mark Elder conducts the Hallé in a classic BBC Prom from August 2014. The sunshine glitters on...
Mahler’s Sixth Symphony
Tonight's prom finds two contrasting heroes sharing the limelight in an evening of musical drama from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its then new Chief Conductor, Andris Nelsons. Brett Dean’s...
Haitink and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Murray Perahia and Bernard Haitink have a musical rapport that has given us countless magnificent performances. This performance from the BBC Proms in 2008 saw Perahia return to the Proms,...
Beethoven and Schubert from Roger Norrington
Sir Roger Norrington conducts his period instrument London Classical Players in symphonies by Beethoven and Schubert. Where some musicians follow trends, Roger Norrington has always led them, not least in...
Proms Chamber Music: Emmanuel Pahud
Emmanuel Pahud – principal flute of the Berlin Philharmonic and a featured artist at the 2011 Proms – returned following a concerto appearance earlier the same Proms season for a...
English choral music new and old
Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s long association with the Proms is reflected in this concert from 2013, in which Nicholas Kok conducts the UK premiere of The Moth Requiem for women’s voices,...
Wagner’s Die Walküre from the 2013 BBC Proms
This evening introduces a performance from the 2013 BBC Proms when Daniel Barenboim conducted the Staatskapelle Berlin and a starry cast in Wagner's Die Walküre, as part of the first...
Hollywood Rhapsody Prom
This evening's concert, from 2013, features Proms favourites John Wilson and his orchestra in a celebration of classic Hollywood film scores. Connecticut-born child prodigy Alfred Newman’s ‘Street Scene’, from the...
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