The BBC Proms are back! The world’s biggest classical music festival features six weeks of live music from 30 July through 11 September. The 52 concerts will be performed in front of live audiences, and be broadcast on BBC TV and radio channels, BBC Sounds and iPlayer.
Tickets will be released in two booking periods: 26 June for concerts taking place between 30 July and 20 August, and 17 July for concerts taking place between 21 August and 10 September.
We look forward to seeing you at BBC Proms performances featuring:
3 August – 19:30
Omer Meir Wellber conducts BBC Philharmonic and Eli Danker, actor
Programme
Schubert: Symphony No. 2 in B-flat Major
Ella Milch-Sherif: The Eternal Stranger – BBC co-commission – UK Premiere
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major
4 August – 19:30
Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Sayaka Shoji, violin
Programme
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Respighi: Concerto gregoriano
Mendelssohn: Symphony NO. 5 in D Major “Reformation”
6 August – 19:30
Joanna Carneiro conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and soloists Carolyn Sampson, soprano; Tim Mead, counter-tenor; Benjamin Hulett, tenor; Simon Shibambu, bass-baritone
Programme
Pergolesi: Stabat mater
Stravinsky: Pulcinella
7 August – 19:30
Jonathon Heyward conducts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain; Nicola Benedetti, violin
Jessie Montgomery: Banner – UK premiere
Laura Jurd: New work – London premiere
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, ‘Eroica’
12 August – 19:30
Vladimir Jurowski conducts Steven Isserlis, cello and London Philharmonic Orchestra
Programme
Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes
Walton: Cello Concerto
Bach: 14 Canons (Goldberg Variations) arr F.Goldmann (UK premiere)
Hindemith: Symphony ‘Mathis der Maler’
24 August – 19:30
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano with Chineke! Orchestra
Programme
Florence Price: Piano Concerto in One Movement
Programme also includes
Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast
Fela Sowande: African Suite
Coleridge-Taylor: Symphony in A minor
25 August – 19:30
Joshua Bell, director/violin; Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Programme
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (arr. Leonid Desyatnikov)
28 August – 19:30
Thomas Dausgaard conducts BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin
Programme
Bartók: Second Violin Concerto
29 August – 14:30 and 19:00 – Family Prom
The Kanneh-Masons: Isata, piano; Braimah, violin; Sheku, cello; Jeneba, piano; Konya, piano: Aminata, violin; Mariatu, cello; with Ayla Sahin, violin; Timothy Ridout, viola; Toby Hughes, double bass; Adam Walker, flute; Mark Simpson, clarinet
Programme
Daniel Kidane: New Work – BBC Commission – World Premiere
Saint‐Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals – with new narration by Michael Morpurgo
3 September – 19:30
Semyon Bychkov conducts Kirill Gerstein, piano and the BBC Symphony Orchestra
Programme to be announced
5 September – 19:30
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Domingo Hindoyan, conductor
Programme
Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor
Programme also includes
Grace-Evangeline Mason: The Imagined Forest – BBC co-commission with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra: world premiere
R. Strauss: Don Juan
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Semyon Bychkov, Kirill Gerstein, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, The Kanneh-Masons are managed in association with Enticott Music Management; Jeneba Kanneh-Mason is managed by Enticott Music Management
Vladimir Jurowski, Vasily Petrenko and Omer Meir Wellber are managed in association with Nicholas Mathias, Ltd.