BBC Proms Season 2022

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2022x01 First Night of the Proms aired Jul 15, 2022

Giuseppe Verdi had a complicated relationship with religion: he asked to be buried with just ‘one priest, one candle, one cross’. But as a born dramatist, he... read more

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2022x02 Prom 2: John Wilson conducts the Sinfonia of London aired Jul 17, 2022

British conductor John Wilson has long been a Proms favourite, but last year’s debut appearance of his new super-orchestra the Sinfonia of London caused a se... read more

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2022x03 Prom 3: Radio 1 Relax at the Proms aired Jul 22, 2022

Celebrating the BBC’s centenary year, the Proms partners with Radio 1 Relax for a late-night wind-down featuring visionary hip-hop and rap artist Kojey Radic... read more

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2022x04 Prom 10: Music for Royal Occasions aired Jul 24, 2022

Cynthia Erivo is a creative phenomenon: a London-born, Tony, Grammy and Emmy award-winning actress, singer, songwriter and producer, whose career has taken h... read more

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2022x05 Prom 16: Sea Sketches with Andrew Manze and BBC NOW aired Jul 29, 2022

Happy and glorious: the story of British music is inextricably linked with royalty, and down the centuries composers ranging from Handel and Elgar to Walton,... read more

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2022x06 Prom 19: Puccini’s Il tabarro aired Jul 31, 2022

At the BBC Proms, we believe that music is for all ages – and we know that when it comes to singing, dancing and generally making themselves heard, our young... read more

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2022x07 Prom 21: Gaming Prom – From 8-Bit to Infinity aired Aug 05, 2022

‘Behold, the sea itself!’ Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony takes the poetry of Walt Whitman and opens the floodgates to a spring tide of inspiration. Andrew... read more

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2022x08 Prom 19a: Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra aired Aug 07, 2022

Life on a French river barge is tough, and for a young wife it can be lonely too. But in this closed and arduous world, even a dream of a better world can sp... read more

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2022x09 Prom 28: Leif Ove Andsnes – Mozart Momentum 1 aired Aug 07, 2022

The newly formed Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, made up of Ukrainian musicians – some from Ukraine’s major cities, some now displaced as refugees, and others w... read more

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2022x10 Prom 35: Yuja Wang with the Oslo Philharmonic and Klaus Mäkelä aired Aug 12, 2022

When Mozart composed his piano concertos, he had a very specific performer in mind – himself. For Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, that’s part of the appe... read more

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2022x11 Prom 34: Thorvaldsdottir, Elgar and Sibelius aired Aug 14, 2022

No prizes for identifying the real hero of Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben. With its swashbuckling self-confidence and self-mocking humour, this ‘Hero’s Li... read more

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2022x12 Prom 27: NYOGB plays Elfman, Gershwin and Ravel aired Aug 19, 2022

Three composers, three landscapes. Elgar wrote his Cello Concerto in the woodlands of Sussex; for many listeners, its autumnal colours evoke emotions too dee... read more

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2022x13 Prom 36: Marin Alsop conducts the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra aired Aug 21, 2022

‘I think and feel in sounds,’ said Maurice Ravel. So, when he wrote his ballet Daphnis and Chloe, he created a sumptuous musical panorama in which you can he... read more

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2022x14 Prom 47: Aretha Franklin – Queen of Soul aired Aug 26, 2022

Viennese orchestral playing is a byword for excellence, rooted in generations of tradition. But under its distinguished (and adventurous) American Music Dire... read more

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2022x15 Prom 4: Cynthia Erivo – Legendary Voices aired Aug 27, 2022

In her 80th-anniversary year – and 50 years since the release of her album Young, Gifted and Black – the Proms pays tribute to the ‘Queen of Soul’, Aretha Fr... read more

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2022x16 Prom 49: Rattle conducts Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony aired Aug 28, 2022

Cynthia Erivo is a creative phenomenon: a London-born, Tony, Grammy and Emmy award-winning actress, singer, songwriter and producer, whose career has taken h... read more

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2022x17 Prom 54: Earth Prom aired Aug 29, 2022

The end has come, and in the silence after the Last Trumpet, a solitary bird is the only sound heard on Earth. The ambition of Gustav Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’... read more

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2022x18 Prom 58: Public Service Broadcasting – This New Noise aired Sep 02, 2022

Over a century of public service broadcasting, the BBC has forged a global reputation for its coverage of the planet we call home – from the oceans and mount... read more

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2022x19 Prom 61: Chineke! performs Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony aired Sep 04, 2022

Archive footage, dancing astronauts and a flashing, blinking Sputnik right here in the Royal Albert Hall – when cult ‘retro-futurists’ Public Service Broadca... read more

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2022x20 Prom 67: Nicola Benedetti plays Wynton Marsalis aired Sep 09, 2022

‘Be embraced, all you millions!’ Since the earliest days of the Proms, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony has had a special place in each season – and with its clima... read more

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2022x21 Last Night of the Proms 2022 - Part 1 aired Sep 10, 2022

‘Nicola Benedetti – now, she really can play,’ says the American composer, trumpeter and all-round jazz legend Wynton Marsalis, and after Benedetti gave the ... read more

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2022x22 Last Night of the Proms 2022 - Part 2 aired Sep 10, 2022

It’s time to put on your party clothes, grab your favourite flag and raise the roof of the Royal Albert Hall! There’s nothing quite like the Last Night of th... read more

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2022x23 Last Night of the Proms 2022 - Part 2 aired Sep 10, 2022

It’s time to put on your party clothes, grab your favourite flag and raise the roof of the Royal Albert Hall! There’s nothing quite like the Last Night of th... read more

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