8.0/101 votesLoading...#1 - Prom 18: Sam Smith
Season 78 Episode 12 - Aired 8/24/2024
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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5.0/101 votesLoading...#2 - Prom 2: Everybody Dance! The Sound of Disco
Season 78 Episode 15 - Aired 8/31/2024
The BBC Concert Orchestra lends its power and exuberance to an evening that celebrates a pivotal movement in late 20th-century club culture. Get ready for all the glitz, glamour and groove of disco at the Proms!
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5.0/101 votesLoading...#3 - Last Night of the Proms, Part 2
Season 78 Episode 23 - Aired 9/14/2024
Katie Derham invites you to join her for the season's glittering finale, with all the traditional favourites and some exciting surprises.
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4.0/101 votesLoading...#4 - Last Night of the Proms, Part 1
Season 78 Episode 22 - Aired 9/14/2024
Katie Derham hosts classical music's biggest party of the year, with soloists Sir Stephen Hough and Angel Blue and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo.
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2.0/101 votesLoading...#5 - Prom 34: 21st-Century Soundtracks
Season 78 Episode 9 - Aired 8/16/2024
Edith Bowman presents a night for film lovers, with music from blockbusters including Everything Everywhere All at Once, All Quiet on the Western Front and Tár.
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2.0/101 votesLoading...#6 - New Music at the Proms 2024
Season 78 Episode 19 - Aired 9/8/2024
A celebration of some of the most exciting new classical music premiered in the Royal Albert Hall this summer chosen by Tom Service, presenter of Radio 3’s New Music Show.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#7 - First Broadcast
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/1947
The BBC broadcast the Last Night at the Proms for the first time on Saturday the 6th of September 1947
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#8 - Prom 21: Sir Neville Marriner at the Proms
Season 37 Episode 21 - Aired 9/4/1983
Neville Marriner conducts leader Kenneth Sillito and the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields on Fri 12 Aug 1983 at Royal Albert Hall
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#9 - Last Night of the Proms
Season 58 Episode 74 - Aired 9/11/2004
Dvořák - Overture 'Carnival' R. Strauss - Concerto for Horn No. 1 in E flat major, Op 11 Vaughan Williams - 5 Mystical Songs Barber - Toccata festiva, Op 36 Sir Peter Maxwell Davies - Ojai Festival Overture Puccini - Madama Butterfly Rodgers - Oklahoma! (arr. Robert Russell Bennett) Cole Porter - Kiss Me, Kate Sullivan - The Mikado John Philip Sousa - March 'The Liberty Bell' Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major ('Land of Hope and Glory') Henry Wood - Fantasia on British Sea Songs (with additional Songs arranged by Stephen Jackson) Parry - Jerusalem Anonymous - National Anthem (arr. Henry Wood)
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#10 - Michael Berkeley, Benjamin Britten and Vaughan Williams
Season 59 Episode 1 - Aired 7/19/2005
BBC National Orchestra of Wales - conducted by Richard Hickox - performs a new concerto by Michael Berkeley. Soprano Susan Gritton sings four songs by Benjamin Britten, and there is a performance of Vaughan Williams' 1913 work 'A London Symphony'. Live from Royal Albert Hall.
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#11 - Wednesday 19 July 2006
Season 60 Episode 7 - Aired 7/19/2006
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#12 - Thursday 31 August 2006
Season 60 Episode 62 - Aired 8/31/2006
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Concerto for Piano No. 23 in A major, K 488 BBC Symphony Orchestra Richard Goode piano Jiří Bělohlávek conductor Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D minor BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiří Bělohlávek conductor
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#13 - Doctor Who at the Proms
Season 62 Episode 13 - Aired 7/27/2008
Murray Gold - Doctor Who Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man Mark-Anthony Turnage - Three Asteroids Holst - The Planets Wagner - Die Walküre, WWV 86b Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet, Suite No. 2, Op 64b Ron Grainer - Doctor Who Theme (arr. Murray Gold)
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#14 - National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Season 62 Episode 49 - Aired 8/23/2008
A trio of works from America. Copland's great Third Symphony - with its portrayal of the wide, open spaces of North America - includes a striking reprise of the classic Fanfare for the Common Man at the start of the last movement. The symphony dates from the end of the Second World War and captures something of the sense of optimism of the American people at the time. From 25 years earlier, though sounding far more recent, comes Edgard Varèse's Amériques, whose title, he claimed, was 'symbolic of discoveries, of new worlds on Earth, in the sky or in the minds of men'; the first work that the Frenchman completed after arriving in New York, this still strikingly original score was premiered in Philadelphia by Leopold Stokowski. So too was Rachmaninov's Fourth (and last) Piano Concerto, also composed in the USA, where the composer had settled after leaving Russia in 1917. Rachmaninov himself was the soloist at the 1927 premiere; tonight it's the fearlessly virtuosic Boris Berezovsky.
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#15 - Prom 22 - A Celebration of Classic MGM Film Musicals
Season 63 Episode 7 - Aired 8/1/2009
John Wilson and his hand-picked Orchestra celebrate 75 years of MGM musicals with songs from unforgettable movie classics, including The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St Louis, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, High Society, Gigi and Singin' in the Rain. Amazingly, although all the original orchestral parts were lost when the studio destroyed its music library to make way for a car park, Wilson has succeeded in reconstructing the scores by painstakingly transcribing each soundtrack by ear. He is joined by starry singers from the classical and musical theatre worlds, as well as by the elite Maida Vale Singers
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#16 - Prom 59: Tonhalle Orchestra
Season 63 Episode 19 - Aired 8/29/2009
A trio of works from America. Copland's great Third Symphony - with its portrayal of the wide, open spaces of North America - includes a striking reprise of the classic Fanfare for the Common Man at the start of the last movement. The symphony dates from the end of the Second World War and captures something of the sense of optimism of the American people at the time. From 25 years earlier, though sounding far more recent, comes Edgard Varèse's Amériques, whose title, he claimed, was 'symbolic of discoveries, of new worlds on Earth, in the sky or in the minds of men'; the first work that the Frenchman completed after arriving in New York, this still strikingly original score was premiered in Philadelphia by Leopold Stokowski. So too was Rachmaninov's Fourth (and last) Piano Concerto, also composed in the USA, where the composer had settled after leaving Russia in 1917. Rachmaninov himself was the soloist at the 1927 premiere; tonight it's the fearlessly virtuosic Boris Berezovsky.
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#17 - First Night -Mahler Symphony no 8 in E Flat major
Season 64 Episode 1 - Aired 7/16/2010
Mahler Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand' (82 mins) Mardi Byers: soprano Twyla Robinson: soprano Malin Christensson: soprano Stephanie Blythe: mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor: mezzo-soprano Stefan Vinke: tenor Hanno Müller-Brachmann: bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny: bass Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral Choristers of Westminster Abbey Choristers of Westminster Cathedral BBC Symphony Chorus Crouch End Festival Chorus Sydney Philharmonia Choirs BBC Symphony Orchestra Jirí Belohlávek conductor
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#18 - Wagner - Die Meistersinger
Season 64 Episode 2 - Aired 7/17/2010
Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg An Opera in Three Acts Concert staging, sung in German Bryn Terfel: Hans Sachs Raymond Very: Walther von Stoltzing Amanda Roocroft: Eva Christopher Purves: Beckmesser Andrew Tortise: David Anna Burford: Magdalene David Soar: Nightwatchman Brindley Sherratt: Pogner Simon Thorpe: Kothner David Stout: Nachtigall Paul Hodges: Schwartz Rhys Meirion: Zorn Andrew Rees: Eisslinger Stephen Rooke: Moser Arwel Huw Morgan: Foltz Geraint Dodd: Vogelgesang Owen Webb: Ortel Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera Lothar Koenigs conductor
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#19 - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic - Manfred
Season 64 Episode 4 - Aired 7/19/2010
Schumann - Manfred, Op 115 (orch. Gustav Mahler) Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Tchaikovsky - Manfred
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#20 - Britten-Prokofiev-Shostakovich
Season 64 Episode 8 - Aired 7/22/2010
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D flat major Alexander Toradze, piano Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C major, 'Leningrad' BBC National Orchestra of Wales Thierry Fischer conductor
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#21 - Doctor Who at the Proms
Season 64 Episode 10 - Aired 7/24/2010
Doctor Who returns to the Proms with a new show hosted by the stars of the series - Karen Gillan (aka the Doctor's companion Amy Pond), Arthur Darvill (aka Rory Williams) and featuring a special guest appearance by Matt Smith (aka the Doctor). The concert features Murray Gold's music for the television series, including his latest re-imagining of Ron Grainier's classic theme tune performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the London Philharmonic Choir, soloists Yamit Mamo and Mark Chambers, and conducted by Ben Foster. With exclusive behind-the-scenes access, specially-edited sequences from the most recent series, a host of monsters laying siege to the Royal Albert Hall and a new scene written especially for the Proms by Steven Moffat and featuring the Time Lord himself, this is an intergalactic musical adventure like no other.
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#22 - Dean-Mahler-Shostakovich
Season 64 Episode 18 - Aired 7/29/2010
Brett Dean: Amphitheatre (London premiere) (10 mins) Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn – selection (23 mins) Ekaterina Gubanova mezzo-soprano Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor (50 mins) The Australian Youth Orchestra Sir Mark Elder conductor
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#23 - Prom 19 - Sondheim at 80
Season 64 Episode 19 - Aired 7/30/2010
Marking the 80th birthday of one of Broadway's great innovators, this first ever all-Sondheim Prom draws together leading figures of the opera and theatre worlds, plus some further special guests. Bryn Terfel – a magnetic Sweeney Todd, as he proved at the Royal Festival Hall in 2007 – leads a starry cast, joined by aspiring young performers supported by the BBC Performing Arts Fund. On the bill are excerpts from the horror-opera Sweeney Todd, the Ingmar Bergman-inspired A Little Night Music and the fairy-tale compendium of Into the Woods, as well as excerpts from Company, Pacific Overtures and Sunday in the Park with George.
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#24 - Mahler Symphony No.3 in D minor
Season 64 Episode 24 - Aired 8/4/2010
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minor (100 mins) Karen Cargill: mezzo-soprano Edinburgh Festival Chorus (women's voices) Royal Scottish National Orchestra Junior Chorus BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Donald Runnicles conductor Sung in German, Fixed subtitles in English, commentary in English
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#25 - Mahler Symphony No.5 in C-Sharp minor(Gergiev)
Season 64 Episode 26 - Aired 8/5/2010
Mahler Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor World Orchestra for Peace Valery Gergiev conductor
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The Best Episodes of BBC Proms
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"Prom 18: Sam Smith" is the best rated episode of "BBC Proms". It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 8/24/2024. This episode scored 3.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Prom 2: Everybody Dance! The Sound of Disco".