BBC Proms Season 2018

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2018x01 First Night of the Proms aired Jul 13, 2018

BBC Proms 2018 launches with a feast for the eyes and ears in the world premiere of Five Telegrams, with music by Anna Meredith and stunning digital projecti... read more

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2018x02 Gustav Holst: The Planets (Prom 1) aired Jul 13, 2018

Holst’s ever-popular suite premiered in 1918, composed as a response to The First World War. With the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and BBC Symphony ... read more

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2018x03 BBC Young Musician 40th Anniversary aired Jul 15, 2018

A star-studded line-up of BBC Young Musician winners and finalists, including Nicola Benedetti, Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Emma Johnson, come together to celebra... read more

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2018x07 Jacob Collier and Friends aired Jul 19, 2018

Jacob Collier's musical career has been meteoric. Still only 23, the multi-instrumentalist has been hailed as a musical genius and jazz prodigy, picking up t... read more

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2018x08 Youthful Beginnings aired Jul 20, 2018

Romantic titans Schumann and Mendelssohn share the night's bill with a pair of phenomenal female composers who died 100 years ago - two talents whose lives w... read more

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2018x12 Beethoven, Shostakovich & Rachmaninov aired Jul 23, 2018

Conductor Karina Canellakis returns with the BBC Symphony Orchestra after her triumphant 2017 Proms debut. Two 20th-century Russian masterpieces lead the bil... read more

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2018x13 Pioneers of Sound aired Jul 23, 2018

Groundbreaking British composer Anna Meredith presents this special Proms tribute to the godmothers of electronica, the pioneers of the BBC Radiophonic Works... read more

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2018x15 Beethoven, Brahms and Tansy Davies aired Jul 25, 2018

Exploring light and dark, life and loss, through the music of Beethoven, Brahms and the contemporary composer Tansy Davies, this Prom sees the BBC Philharmon... read more

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2018x17 Parry, Vaughan Williams & Holst - English Elegy aired Jul 27, 2018

Three of the most loved English composers, Hubert Parry, Gustav Holst and Vaughan Williams, reflect on a country transformed by war at the beginning of the 2... read more

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2018x23 Havana Meets Kingston aired Jul 31, 2018

Australia’s leading reggae and dancehall producer Mista Savona (aka Jake Savona) has gathered together some of Cuba’s and Jamaica’s most influential musician... read more

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2018x27 Folk Music around Britain and Ireland aired Aug 03, 2018

Traditional music for modern times as the ever-versatile BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Stephen Bell collaborate with leading musicians in this celebrat... read more

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2018x28 NYO perform Mussorgsky, Ligeti and Debussy aired Aug 04, 2018

The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain return to conjure a series of vivid worlds, both real and imagined. The sea roars and shimmers in Debussy’s La... read more

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2018x33 Brahms Requiem aired Aug 07, 2018

Inspired by the death of his mother, Brahms’s tender, consoling A German Requiem couldn’t be further from Verdi’s and Berlioz’s settings of the standard Lati... read more

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2018x35 New York Now aired Aug 08, 2018

An eclectic mix of musicians with rich New York roots join Jules Buckley and the Heritage Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall to celebrate the changing sounds... read more

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2018x41 Elgar Cello Concerto aired Aug 12, 2018

Tom Service presents a performance of Elgar's much-loved Cello Concerto, composed in the wake of the First World War, with French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras... read more

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2018x42 Grieg Piano Concerto aired Aug 13, 2018

Nordic composing giants Grieg and Sibelius anchor this Proms debut performance by the Estonian Festival Orchestra, conducted by Paavo Jarvi. Pianist and form... read more

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2018x48 Rattle Conducts Ravel aired Aug 18, 2018

In a highlight of the season, Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO bring childlike wonder and fairy-tale to the Proms with an evening of music by French orchestral i... read more

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2018x50 Mozart and Mahler aired Aug 19, 2018

Performances of two of the best-loved works in the repertoire. Starting with Mozart's ever-popular Clarinet Concerto, written two months before his death, Th... read more

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2018x55 Hungarian Gypsy Folk aired Aug 23, 2018

Hungary's folk rhythms beat through the heart of this concert as the inimitable forces of the Budapest Festival Orchestra and founder and conductor Ivan Fisc... read more

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2018x57 John Wilson conducts Bernstein's On the Town aired Aug 25, 2018

On what would have been Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, and launching a bank-holiday Bernstein weekend at the Proms, John Wilson returns to conduct his s... read more

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2018x59 Relaxed Prom aired Aug 27, 2018

Programme to include music by Bernstein, Holst, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky, plus the London premiere of a new work by Alexander Campkin. The Bournemouth ... read more

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2018x60 Marin Alsop & Baltimore Symphony Orchestra aired Aug 31, 2018

Marin Alsop, a protégée of Leonard Bernstein, returns to the Proms with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for a politically charged climax to our bank-holiday... read more

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2018x63 Sir András Schiff plays 'The Well-Tempered Clavier' (Book 2) aired Aug 31, 2018

The two volumes of Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier are a window onto an extraordinary musical imagination – an infinitely varied, beguiling series of musica... read more

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2018x64 Elgar Cello Concerto aired Sep 02, 2018

Tom Service presents a performance of Elgar's much-loved Cello Concerto, composed in the wake of the First World War, with French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras... read more

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2018x65 Youssou Ndour & Le Super Étoile de Dakar aired Sep 07, 2018

Senegalese cultural icon Youssou Ndour makes his Proms debut in a special late-night appearance. This largely acoustic performance spotlights Ndour’s charact... read more

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2018x70 Tango Prom aired Sep 07, 2018

A celebration of the heady, sexually charged Latin American tango, from its origins in the bars of 1880s Buenos Aires, through to Ástor Piazzolla’s Nuevo Tan... read more

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2018x75 Last Night of the Proms - Part One aired Sep 08, 2018

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 Si... read more

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2018x76 Last Night of the Proms - Part Two aired Sep 08, 2018

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 S... read more

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2018x77 The Last Night of the Proms from around the UK aired Sep 16, 2018

The traditional Last Night of the Proms is celebrated in style with concerts from parks around the UK. Sean Fletcher and YolanDa Brown present a stunning mix... read more

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2018x78 Proms in the Park - Live from Glasgow aired Sep 08, 2018

Jamie MacDougall presents coverage of part one of Scotland's Proms in the Park live from Glasgow Green. Featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conduct... read more

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2018x80 Proms in the Park 2018 Highlights aired Dec 30, 2018

Jamie MacDougall presents coverage of part one of Scotland's Proms in the Park live from Glasgow Green. Featuring the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conduct... read more

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2018x81 BBC Proms in the Park 2018 - Live from Colwyn Bay aired Sep 08, 2018

Josie d'Arby and Tim Rhys-Evans present the first half of BBC Proms in the Park live from Colwyn Bay. They are joined by Welsh mezzo soprano Katherine Jenkin... read more

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2018x82 Colwyn Bay Highlights (BBC Proms in the Park 2018) aired Sep 14, 2018

The BBC Proms in the Park returns to north Wales and Colwyn Bay for an evening of popular, classical, musical theatre and film favourites, plus all the tradi... read more

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