BBC Proms Season 2017

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2017x01 First Night of the Proms - Part One aired Jul 14, 2017

BBC Proms 2017 kicks off in style tonight at the Royal Albert Hall. Beethoven's dramatic Third Piano Concerto is performed by star soloist Igor Levit with th... read more

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2017x02 First Night of the Proms - Part Two : John Adams: Harmonium aired Jul 14, 2017

The First Night of the Proms culminates with Harmonium, a dazzling choral work from American music titan John Adams, who celebrates his 70th birthday this ye... read more

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2017x03 Haitink's Mozart aired Jul 23, 2017

BBC Proms legend Bernard Haitink returns to The Royal Albert Hall to conduct his beloved Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Acclaimed German violinist Isabelle Fau... read more

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2017x04 Barenboim's Elgar aired Jul 16, 2017

Inspirational maestro Daniel Barenboim makes his second appearance in this opening weekend of the 2017 Proms season. Conducting his German orchestra Staatska... read more

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2017x05 Sibelius, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich aired Jul 17, 2017

A concert of emotional extremes opens with Sibelius’s tempestuous Symphony No. 7 and closes with the horror of Shostakovich’s Stalin-inspired Symphony No. 10... read more

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2017x08 John Williams Film Prom aired Jul 21, 2017

The BBC Proms celebrates the 85th birthday of the world's favourite film composer, John Williams. The BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Keith Lockhart perf... read more

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2017x09 Beethoven - Fidelio aired Jul 30, 2017

The first of three politically charged stage works this season is Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio – a passionate musical protest against political oppression... read more

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2017x10 Aurora Orchestra - Beethoven's 'Eroica' aired Aug 18, 2017

No symphony pulses more vigorously with the rhythms of political protest than Beethoven's 'Eroica', whose defiant opening chords mark the arrival of the Roma... read more

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2017x13 Malcolm Sargent's 500th Prom aired Jul 28, 2017

Sir Malcolm Sargent was the chief conductor of the Proms for two decades, bringing the concerts to TV audiences for the first time. To mark the 50th annivers... read more

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2017x15 Scott Walker Revisited aired Jul 28, 2017

Jarvis Cocker leads an eclectic line-up in this late night tribute to the 60s cult icon Scott Walker. Conductor Jules Buckley has arranged tracks from Walker... read more

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2017x21 Beethoven – Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’ aired Jul 30, 2017

Beethoven’s great hymn to humanity joins Sir James MacMillan’s European Requiem, which also makes a plea for unity.

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2017x22 Beethoven: Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen aired Jul 30, 2017

The annual Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, founded in 1895, featuring orchestral classical music and centred around the Royal Albert Hall in London. Richar... read more

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2017x27 Ella and Dizzy: A Centenary Tribute aired Aug 04, 2017

Described by The New York Times as 'the most admired jazz diva since the heyday of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday', Dianne Reeves is joine... read more

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2017x28 National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain aired Aug 06, 2017

Hear some of the UK's finest young musical talent, directed by composer and conductor Thomas Adès, in a bold programme of works that push the orchestra to it... read more

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2017x35 John Wilson conducts Oklahoma! aired Aug 11, 2017

‘*Oklahoma!* really is different – beautifully different,’ wrote one reviewer of the 1943 musical. Bursting not just with tunes but also with emotions, this ... read more

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2017x37 Rachmaninov – Piano Concerto No. 3 aired Aug 13, 2017

In tonight’s all-Rachmaninov Prom prize-winning pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk makes his Proms debut in the composer’s demanding Third Piano Concerto (continuin... read more

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2017x41 Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar aired Aug 18, 2017

In the mid-1960s a rising star of Western classical music met the ‘Godfather’ of the Indian classical tradition. The result was a collision of musical worlds... read more

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2017x46 Schoenberg - Gurrelieder aired Sep 03, 2017

Gurrelieder is a tale of a love that even death cannot vanquish, of rage against the heavens, and ultimately of consolation in a closing musical sunrise of u... read more

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2017x49 Reformation Day - Bach's St John's Passion aired Aug 20, 2017

The climax of the Proms Reformation Day is a complete performance of Bach’s St John Passion. ‘More daring, forceful and poetic’ than the St Matthew Passion, ... read more

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2017x50 Beethoven, Stravinsky and Gerald Barry aired Aug 27, 2017

The CBSO and Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla explore the theme of political and artistic freedom. Beethoven’s Leonore overture No. 3, written for his rescue opera Fidel... read more

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2017x53 Beneath the Underdog: Charles Mingus Revisited aired Aug 25, 2017

A giant of jazz, Charles Mingus (1922–79) combined the classic style of Duke Ellington and Jelly Roll Morton with the radical spirit of black music of the 19... read more

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2017x55 Classical Music of India and Pakistan aired Sep 03, 2017

The Proms marks the 70th anniversary of partition and independence on the Indian subcontinent with a concert curated by Darbar Trust producers of Darbar Fest... read more

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2017x57 Swing No End aired Sep 01, 2017

From stomps and shuffles to boogie-woogie and blues, from bebop to Latin, this Sunday matinee Prom presents a slice of musical action from the 1930s and 1940... read more

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2017x62 Chineke! Orchestra with Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Jeanine De Bique aired Sep 08, 2017

Katie Derham introduces another unforgettable Prom from the BBC archive. This week she is joined by one of the brightest young stars of classical music, cell... read more

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2017x65 Stax Records: 50 Years of Soul aired Sep 01, 2017

Founded in 1957, Memphis-based Stax Records was synonymous with Southern Soul – a distinctive blend of funk, gospel and R & B that brought listeners across A... read more

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2017x70 Missy Mazzoli, Bartók and Dvořák aired Sep 08, 2017

Following her recent UK debut, American conductor Karina Canellakis now makes her first visit to the Proms, joining the BBC Symphony Orchestra and fellow Ame... read more

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2017x73 Andras Schiff plays Bach aired Sep 07, 2017

The two volumes of Bach's The Well-Temperd Clavier together represent one of Western music’s greatest achievements. Once described as the ‘Old Testament’ of ... read more

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2017x75 Last Night of the Proms - Part One aired Sep 09, 2017

Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra weave together many of this season’s musical strands into the exuberant celebration that is the Last Night of the... read more

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2017x76 Last Night of the Proms - Part Two aired Sep 09, 2017

Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra weave together many of this season’s musical strands into the exuberant celebration that is the Last Night of the... read more

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2017x77 Proms in the Park - Live from Glasgow aired Sep 09, 2017

Live from Glasgow Green, Jamie MacDougall introduces the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and a host of guests as part of the UK-wide Last Night of the Proms ... read more

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2017x78 Proms in the Park - Live from Swansea aired Sep 09, 2017

Josie d'Arby and Tim Rhys-Evans present the first half of BBC Proms in the Park live from Singleton Park, Swansea. In an evening celebrating the music of fil... read more

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2017x79 Proms in the Park - Hyde Park aired Sep 09, 2017

Join in the Last night of the Proms celebrations in Hyde Park, hosted by Michael Ball, with Proms in the Park favourites the BBC Concert Orchestra under the ... read more

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2017x80 The Last Night of the Proms from Around the UK aired Sep 17, 2017

The traditional Last Night, Proms in the Park celebrations from venues around the UK. Gethin Jones and YolanDa Brown present a stellar mix of classical and c... read more

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2017x81 Proms in the Park - Swansea Highlights aired Dec 28, 2017

BBC Proms in the Park returns to Singleton Park, Swansea, with a show that features some of film and TV's greatest hits, plus all of the best of the traditio... read more

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2017x82 Proms in the Park - Co Fermanagh Highlights aired Dec 17, 2017

This year's extravaganza from Castle Coole, Co Fermanagh, features a stellar line-up including Sir James and Lady Jeanne Galway, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Adrian ... read more

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2017x83 Proms in the Park - Highlights from Glasgow 2017 aired Dec 23, 2017

Highlights from Glasgow Green as Jamie MacDougall introduces the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and a host of guests as part of the UK-wide Last Night of th... read more

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