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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    BBC Proms Season 74 Episode 8 - Anoushka Shankar and Gold Panda
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Anoushka Shankar and Gold Panda

    S74:E8

    Sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar takes to the stage in an evening dedicated to her father and musical guru, Ravi, in what would have been his centenary year. Anoushka is joined in the first half by electronic music producer and performer Gold Panda for a new imagining of Ravi’s music. In the second half, Jules Buckley, the Britten Sinfonia and soloist Manu Delago accompany Anoushka in a selection of her music. Josie d’Arby presents this unique evening from the Royal Albert Hall.

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  2. BBC Proms Season 79 Episode 9 - Anoushka Shankar at the Proms
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #2 - Anoushka Shankar at the Proms

    S79:E9

    Anita Rani introduces a concert that sees sitar superstar Anoushka Shankar join forces with conductor Robert Ames and London Contemporary Orchestra to perform a newly orchestrated version of her Chapters trilogy. Each Chapter of her three albums is inspired by one of the three countries she has called home, and the trilogy sonically carries the listener from afternoon, to night, to the dawn of a new day.

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  3. BBC Proms Season 79 Episode 24 - St. Vincent at the Proms
    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #3 - St. Vincent at the Proms

    S79:E24

    The multiple Grammy Award-winning singer joins a full orchestra for this one-off gig at the Royal Albert Hall, with incredible new arrangements of some of her most-loved songs. St. Vincent is musician Annie Clark, whose artistry is in full hypnotic flow in this one-off spectacular. Conductor and arranger Jules Buckley brings the full might of his 60-strong orchestra to revel in other-wordly new arrangements of songs from seven St Vincent albums. Rachel Eckroth co-arranges and plays keyboards amongst the ensemble. A night of wonder and inimitable artistry which had the audience spellbound.

    Director:Marcus Viner
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  4. BBC Proms Season 73 Episode 12 - Mozart's Requiem
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Mozart's Requiem

    S73:E12

    The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann, with Fatma Said, Kathryn Rudge, Sunnyboy Dladla and David Shipley in Mozart's Requiem.

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  5. BBC Proms Season 73 Episode 17 - Strauss, Sibelius and Prokofiev
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Strauss, Sibelius and Prokofiev

    S73:E17

    Katie Derham presents flavours of Finland, Russia and Germany from three 20th-century favourites, featuring Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

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  6. BBC Proms Season 74 Episode 9 - Proms @ City Halls, Glasgow, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Proms @ City Halls, Glasgow, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    S74:E9

    Stephen Hough plays Beethoven in a concert featuring a World Premiere from Jay Capperauld.

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  7. BBC Proms Season 75 Episode 2 - First Night of the Proms: Part 2
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - First Night of the Proms: Part 2

    S75:E2

    Katie Derham presents from the Royal Albert Hall, as the opening concert of the 2021 Proms season continues in front of a live audience. Conductor Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Sibelius’s thrilling Second Symphony. They are joined by soloists including soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn and tenor Allan Clayton for the world premiere of When Soft Voices Die, a poignant piece for our times by Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan.

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  8. BBC Proms Season 75 Episode 6 - Prom 2: The Golden Age of Broadway
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Prom 2: The Golden Age of Broadway

    S75:E6

    Smell the greasepaint and feel the blaze of those Broadway lights, as the BBC Concert Orchestra whisks you away for a night at the musicals. The toe-tapping favourites include songs from musicals including South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Anything Goes, Annie Get Your Gun and High Society, all performed by the ever-versatile BBC Concert Orchestra – and some special guest soloists.

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  9. BBC Proms Season 77 Episode 15 - Prom 34: Mindful Mix Prom
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Prom 34: Mindful Mix Prom

    S77:E15

    Relax into a late-night musical meditation with Grammy-nominated vocal group VOCES8 and a playlist that drifts from the Renaissance to Radiohead.

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  10. BBC Proms Season 79 Episode 10 - Aurora Orchestra Plays Shostakovich's Fifth
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Aurora Orchestra Plays Shostakovich's Fifth

    S79:E10

    Explore this 20th-century masterpiece from the inside out as Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra return to the Proms with a signature memorised performance marking the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death. Actors join the orchestra in this immersive performance, bringing to life a symphony born in the shadows of Stalinist Russia, but which would emerge as a powerful statement of artistic defiance.

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  11. BBC Proms Season 79 Episode 12 - Great British Classics at the Proms
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Great British Classics at the Proms

    S79:E12

    A musical celebration of landscapes and seascapes from the Royal Albert Hall performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. From the soaring flight of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, Elgar’s beloved Enigma Variations featuring Nimrod, Britten’s stormy Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, and Walton’s Crown Imperial Coronation March, to lesser known gems from some of Britain’s most illustrious composers, this is musical Britain at its very best. Clive Myrie presents and is joined by special guests Alison Balson and Gyles Brandreth.

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  12. BBC Proms Season 79 Episode 17 - The Planets and Star Wars at the Proms
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - The Planets and Star Wars at the Proms

    S79:E17

    A galaxy of sound from Britain’s brightest young musicians. The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and conductor Dalia Stasevska blast off on a celestial musical journey featuring Holst’s The Planets and John Williams’s Star Wars. Presented by actor, comedian and amateur violinist Nick Mohammed, who himself conducted in his university orchestra, this is a night of music that’s truly out of this world.

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  13. BBC Proms Season 80 Episode 6 - Bolero at the Proms
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Bolero at the Proms

    S80:E6

    The Spanish National Orchestra makes its Proms debut with a set of heat-soaked musical postcards that includes Ravel’s hypnotic Boléro and Rodrigo’s much-loved Concierto de Aranjuez with guitar phenomenon Rafael Aguirre as soloist

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  14. BBC Proms Season 78 Episode 12 - Prom 18: Sam Smith
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Prom 18: Sam Smith

    S78:E12

    For their only UK appearance of 2024, Sam Smith joins the BBC Concert Orchestra for a retrospective look at their seminal debut solo album In the Lonely Hour, released 10 years ago and featuring tracks such as ‘Stay With Me’ and ‘Lay Me Down’.

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  15. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 1 - First Night of the Proms
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - First Night of the Proms

    S72:E1

    An all-British concert launches the 2018 season. Vaughan Williams atmospheric Whitman settings and Holst’s ever-popular 1918 suite The Planets sit alongside a new collaboration by Anna Meredith and 59 Productions.

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  16. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 7 - Paul Lewis plays Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ concerto
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Paul Lewis plays Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ concerto

    S72:E7

    A concert of darkness and light opens with the world premiere of Tansy Davies’s 9/11-inspired What Did We See? and closes with Brahms’s sunny Second Symphony. Paul Lewis joins Ben Gernon and the BBC Philharmonic for Beethoven’s 'Emperor' Concerto.

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  17. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 13 - New York: Sound of a City
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - New York: Sound of a City

    S72:E13

    Celebrating the music of a modern New York, the Heritage Orchestra and conductor Jules Buckley present the sound of NYC. With guest artists drawn from across the Big Apple, expect anything from pagan-gospel and disco-punk to feminist rap or DIY indie.

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  18. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 17 - Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra (II)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra (II)

    S72:E17

    Dance to the Gypsy rhythms of Hungarian folk music in works by Liszt and Sarasate, while Brahms’s dramatic First Symphony, with its transcendent finale, is at the heart of this second concert by Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.

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  19. BBC Proms Season 73 Episode 4 - Schumann, Schoenberg and Mozart
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Schumann, Schoenberg and Mozart

    S73:E4

    Suzy Klein introduces the BBC Philharmonic and Omer Meir Wellber in a performance of works by Ben-Haim, Schumann, Schoenberg and, with Yeol Eum Son, Mozart's Piano Concerto No 15 in B flat, K450.

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  20. BBC Proms Season 73 Episode 7 - Britten and Mahler
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Britten and Mahler

    S73:E7

    Katie Derham introduces two pieces originally premiered by Proms founder Sir Henry Wood. Leif Ove Andsnes performs Britten’s Piano Concerto while Claudia Mahnke and Stuart Skelton sing Mahler’s poignant Das Lied von der Erde. Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

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  21. BBC Proms Season 73 Episode 9 - Angélique Kidjo
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Angélique Kidjo

    S73:E9

    Three-time Grammy Award-winner Angélique Kidjo makes her Proms debut together with her nine-piece band in a late-night tribute to salsa legend Celia Cruz.

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  22. BBC Proms Season 73 Episode 10 - John Wilson Orchestra
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - John Wilson Orchestra

    S73:E10

    John Wilson's virtuoso orchestra celebrates the music of one of the world's most famous film studios, Warner Brothers, including works by Max Steiner and Erich Korngold.

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  23. BBC Proms Season 73 Episode 11 - The Sound of Space
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - The Sound of Space

    S73:E11

    Cerys Matthews introduces the London Contemporary Orchestra in a late-night Prom featuring sci-fi film music including excerpts from Alien: Covenant, Interstellar, Under the Skin and Gravity.

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  24. BBC Proms Season 73 Episode 14 - Queen Victoria's Playlist
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Queen Victoria's Playlist

    S73:E14

    An evening of music to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth including Mendelssohn's 'Scottish' Symphony and First Piano Concerto, performed by Stephen Hough on Victoria's piano.

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  25. BBC Proms Season 73 Episode 16 - Sheku Plays Elgar
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Sheku Plays Elgar

    S73:E16

    BBC 2016 Young Musician winner and superstar Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs Elgar's passionate Cello Concerto with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and their music director Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla. Introduced by Tom Service and Sheku's sister, pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Anoushka Shankar and Gold Panda" is the best rated episode of "BBC Proms". It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/4/2020. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Anoushka Shankar at the Proms".