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.

St.Vincent at the Proms

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’.

Prom 18: Sam Smith

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!

Prom 2: Everybody Dance! The Sound of Disco

Katie Derham invites you to join her for the season's glittering finale, with all the traditional favourites and some exciting surprises.

Last Night of the Proms, Part 2

The world's biggest classical music party gets under way live at the Royal Albert Hall. Katie Derham presents alongside a host of special guests, with performances from conductor Elim Chan, soprano Louise Alder and star trumpeter Alison Balsom, who is playing for the final time after an illustrious career.

Highlights include Dukas's mischievous Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Hummel's Trumpet Concerto and Mussorgsky’s exciting A Night on the Bare Mountain.

Last Night of the Proms

The 2025 Proms season is crowned with a brand new, specially commissioned, orchestral arrangement of Queen's masterpiece, Bohemian Rhapsody, celebrating the song's 50th anniversary in grand style with guest soloists and surprises.

Also on the programme, superstar soprano Louise Alder enchants in a My Fair Lady medley, and iconic trumpeter Alison Balsom performs Bernstein. And of course, all the traditional favourites return to close the season, including Sea Songs, Rule, Britannia!, Elgar, Parry and Auld Lang Syne.

Presented by Katie Derham, who is joined by special guests including Ted Lasso star Nick Mohammed.

Last Night of the Proms: Finale

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.

Last Night of the Proms, Part 1

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.

Prom 34: 21st-Century Soundtracks

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.

New Music at the Proms 2024

(Prom 49)

Viewers are taken to the Royal Albert Hall for the first television visit to the 'Proms'.

On this last night, the BBC Symphony Orchestra is conducted by each of the conductors taking part in this series.

Sung by Trefor Jones

Conductor, Stanford Robinson

8.0 The Prom Season reviewed by a Music Critic

(From the Studio)

Pianist, Natasha Litvin

Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Last Night of the Fifty-Third Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

(Prom 49) Viewers are taken to the Royal Albert Hall for the second part of the last Promenade Concert of the winter season.

Margherita Grandi (soprano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult

Royal Hunt and Storm (The Trojans) - Berlioz

Aria: Vissi d'arte (Tosca) - Puccini

Spanish Caprice - Rimsky-Korsakov

The Last Night of the Proms

(Prom 1) Television cameras at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

First Night of the Proms

(Prom 49) Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for the second half of the closing concert in the 1953 summer series of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.

Constance Shacklock (contralto)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

(Leader, Paul Beard)

Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Introduced by Alvar Lidell.

March: Pomp and Circumstance No. 1. in D - Elgar

Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell - Benjamin Britten

Rule, Britannia - Arne-Sargent

Jerusalem - Parry

(Constance Shacklock appears by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)

(Prom 1) Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for part of the opening concert in the Diamond Jubilee season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.

BBC Symphony Orchestra

(Leader, Paul Beard)

Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Eileen Joyce (piano)

Introduced by Alvar Lidell.

(Prom 15) Television cameras are in the Royal Albert Hall for part of this Anniversary Concert of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, which were inaugurated on August 10, 1895.

BBC Symphony Orchestra

(Leader, Paul Beard)

Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Mark Hambourg (piano)

Introduced by Alvar Lidell.

An Impression on a Windy Day - Malcolm Sargent

Hungarian Fantasia for piano and orchestra - Liszt

Diamond Jubilee Season: Anniversary Prom

(Prom 49) The close of the Diamond Jubilee Season

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Paul Beard

Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Constance Shacklock (contralto)

March: Pomp and Circumstance No. 1, in D - Elgar

Spanish Caprice - Rimsky-Korsakow

Sea Songs - arr. Wood

Rule, Britannia - Arne-Sargent

Jerusalem - Parry

Introduced by Alvar Lidell

From the Royal Albert Hall, London

(Prom 1) Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, London,

for part of the first of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

MOISEIWITSCH

(piano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

(Leader, Paul Beard)

Conductor

Sir Malcolm Sargent

Piano Concerto No. 5, in E flat

(The Emperor)......Beethoven

Introduced by

ALVAR LIDELL

Television presentation by

ANTONY CRAXTON

at 8.15

(Prom 49) Robert Beatty 'The Man with the Mike' invites you to join him at the Royal Albert Hall, London for the Last Night of the Proms.

BBC Symphony Orchestra

(Leader, Paul Beard)

Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Constance Shacklock (contralto)

Introduced by Alvar Lidell.

March: Pomp and Circumstance No. 1, in D - Elgar

Minuet of the Will o' the Wisp; Hungarian March (The Damnation of Faust) - Berlioz

Sea Songs - arr. Henry Wood

Rule, Britannia - Arne

Jerusalem - Parry

Saturday-Night Out

(Prom 1) Television cameras are at the ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON for part of the opening concert

BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

(Leader, Paul Beard)

Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Denis Matthews (piano)

Overture: Cockaigne by Elgar

Piano Concerto No. 23 in A (K.488)  by Mozart

Introduced by  Alvar Lidell  Television presentation at 7.30 by Antony Craxton

(Prom 49) Constance Shacklock (contralto)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

(Leader, Paul Beard)

Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Introduced by Alvar Lidell.

(Prom 1) The second part of the opening concert of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

BBC Symphony Orchestra

(Leader, Paul Beard)

Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Soloist, Eileen Joyce

Overture: The Mastersingers......... Wagner

Piano Concerto No. 2, in G minor Saint-Saens

Variations and Fugue on a theme of Purcell (The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra) Benjamin Britten

Introduced by Alvar Lidell.

(Prom 49) Constance Shacklock

(mezzo-soprano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

(Leader, Paul Beard)

Conductor; Sir Malcolm Sargent

Introduced by Alvar Lidell.

(Prom 1) Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, London for the first part of the opening concert of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

BBC Symphony Orchestra

(Leader, Paul Beard)

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Soloists Gloria Lane (mezzo-soprano), Moiseiwitsch (piano)

Overture: The Mastersingers...Wagner

Aria: Softly Awakes my Heart (Samson and Delilah)...Saint-Saens

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, for piano and orchestra...Rachmaninov

Introduced by Alvar Lidell

First Night of The Proms

(Prom 49) Monica Sinclair (contralto)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

(Leader, Paul Beard)

Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Introduced by Alvar Lidell.

(Prom 1) Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for the first part of the opening concert of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.

Introduced by Alvar Lidell

BBC Symphony Orchestra

(Leader, Paul Beard)

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Norma Procter (contralto)

A London Overture - John Ireland

In Haven: Sabbath Morning at Sea; Where Corals Lie (Sea Pictures) - Elgar

Scherzo: L'Apprenti Sorcier - Dukas

(Prom 25) From the Royal Albert Hall, London

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

Conducted by Walter Susskind

Kathleen Jones (piano)

Mozart...Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor (K.466)

Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

(Prom 49) From the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Constance Shacklock (mezzo-soprano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

(Leader, Paul Beard)

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

March: Pomp and Circumstance No.1, in D...Elgar

Symphonic Poem: From Bohemia's Woods and Fields...Smetana

Sea Songs...arr. Henry Wood

Rule, Britannia...Arne

Jerusalem...Parry

National Anthem

Introduced by Alvar Lidell

Last Night of The Proms

(Prom 1) Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

First Night

Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for the first part of the opening concert of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

BBC Symphony Orchestra

(Leader, Paul Beard)

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Soloists, Clifford Curzon (piano), Amy Shuard (soprano)

Prelude: The Mastersingers...Wagner

Aria: In questa reggia (Turandot)...Puccini

Piano Concerto No.4, in G...Beethoven

Introduced by Alvar Lidell

(Amy Shuard appears by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)

(Prom 49) March: Pomp and Circumstance No. 1, in D...Elgar

Suite: Beni Mora...Holst

Sea Songs...arr. Henry Wood

Rule, Britannia...Arne

Jerusalem...Parry

Constance Shacklock (contralto)

BBC Symphony Orchestra (Leader, Paul Beard) Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Introduced by Alvar Lidell

(Prom 1) First Night of the Proms

Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, for the first part of the opening concert of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader, Paul Beard

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Introduced by Alvar Lidell

Rossini Overture: The Journey to Rheims

Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 102 - John Ogdon, Piano

(Prom 19) From the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, excerpts from 'The Gondoliers'.

Gilbert and Sullivan

(Prom 1) Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for the first part of the opening concert of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Paul Beard

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Patricia Carroll, piano

Introduced by Kenneth Kendall.

(Prom 49) Monica Sinclair contralto

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Paul Beard

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

The National Anthem

Introduced by Tom Fleming.

From the Royal Albert Hall, London

Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 - Elgar

From Bohemia's Fields and Woods - Smetana

Sea Songs - arr. Henry Wood

Rule, Britannia - Arne

Jerusalem - Parry

(Prom 1) BBC Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for the first part of the opening concert of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Hugh Maguire

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Jose Luis Garcia (violin), Roy Malan (violin), Kenneth Sillito (violin), Ronald Thomas (violin), Moura Lympany (piano)

Introduced by Robert Hudson.

(Prom 3) Leopold Stokowski conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Hugh Maguire

Recording of part of Tuesday's concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Henry Wood Promenade Concert

(Prom 49) Monica Sinclair (contralto)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Hugh Maguire

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

The National Anthem

Introduced by Robert Hudson from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

(Prom 1) Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for part of the opening concert of the 70th Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Hugh Maguire

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Derek Collyer (violin)

Introduced by Richard Baker.

(Prom 9) by Benjamin Britten.

Text from the Latin Mass for the Dead and poems by Wilfred Owen.

Direct from the Promenade Concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Heather Harper soprano; Peter Pears tenor; Thomas Hemsley baritone

The Melos Ensemble

Conducted by Benjamin Britten

BBC Chorus and Choral Society

Boys from Emanuel School

Conductor, Christian Strover

London Philharmonic Choir

Conductor, Frederic Jackson

Simon Preston organ and chamber organ

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Hugh Maguire

Conducted by Meredith Davies

Introduced by Richard Baker.

War Requiem

(Prom 13) Part of the concert recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London on Saturday, August 8.

Norma Fisher (piano)

Philharmonia Orchestra

Leader, Hugh Bean

Conducted by Norman Del Mar

Introduced by Richard Baker.

(Prom 19)  The first of a series of five outstanding programmes recorded from the BBC's 1964 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Valerie Masterson (soprano), Ann Hood (soprano), Walter Midgley (tenor), John Cameron (baritone), Owen Brannigan (bass), William McCue (bass)

BBC Chorus Royal Choral Society

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Led by Norman Nelson

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Introduced by Richard Baker.

Part 1: Excerpts from "The Yeomen of the Guard", "The Mikado"

In The Interval:

Richard Baker talks to Sir Malcolm Sargent about the Savoy Operas

Part 2: "Trial by Jury"

Valerie Masterson and Ann Hood appear by permission of Bridget D'Oyly Carte. Ltd.

Sunday Prom: Gilbert and Sullivan

(Prom 15) The second of a series of five outstanding programmes recorded from the BBC's 1964 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Stephen Bishop (piano)

London Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Erich Gruenberg

Conducted by Colin Davis

Introduced by Corbet Woodall.

Part 1: Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4, in G major

During the Interval: Comments from Martin Cooper and Colin Davis about "The Rite of Spring"

Part 2: Stravinsky: "The Rite of Spring"

Recorded on August 11

Sunday Prom: Beethoven and Stravinsky

(Prom 22) Part of the concert recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on Wednesday, August 19.

The twentieth anniversary of Sir Henry Wood's death

Raimund Herincx (baritone)

BBC Chorus

BBC Choral Society

London Philharmonic Choir

Conductor, Fredric Jackson

Royal Choral Society

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Led by Norman Nelson

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

(Prom 30) The third of a series of five outstanding programmes recorded from the BBC's 1964 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) playing two concertos

with the London Philharmonic Orchestra

Leader, David McCallum

Conductor, John Pritchard

Introduced by Richard Baker.

Part 1: Bach: Piano Concerto No. 1, in D minor

During the Interval: Richard Baker talks with Vladimir Ashkenazy

Part 2: Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2, in F minor

Recorded on August 28

Sunday Prom: Bach and Chopin

(Prom 35) The fourth of a series of five outstanding programmes recorded from the BBC's 1964 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Jacqueline du Pre (cello)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Hugh Maguire

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Introduced by Corbet Woodall.

Before the Concerto:

Jacqueline du Pre talks to Sydney Edwards of the Evening Standard.

Recorded on September 3

Sunday Prom

(Prom 36) Last of a series of five outstanding programmes recorded from the BBC's 1964 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Amadeus String Quartet

London Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Erich Gruenberg

Conducted by David Willcocks

Introduced by Richard Baker.

Part 1:

String Quartet in C major. Op. 76 No. 3 (Emperor)

During the Interval:

H.C. Robbins Landon talks about Haydn.

Part 2:

Symphony No. 104, in D major (London)

Sunday Prom: Music by Haydn

(Prom 49) Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for the second half of the final concert in the 70th Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Hugh Maguire

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Constance Shacklock contralto

Introduced by Richard Baker.

Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for the first half of the opening concert of the 71st Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Hugh Maguire

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Gillian Weir (organ)

Introduced by Richard Baker.

The first of a series of six outstanding programmes recorded from the BBC's 1965 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Norma Fisher (piano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Hugh Maguire

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Introduced by Tom Fleming.

Recorded on Saturday, July 24

The second of a series of six outstanding programmes recorded from the BBC's 1965 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Yehudi Menuhin (violin)

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Leader, Charles Taylor

Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult

Introduced by Jeremy James.

Recorded on Wednesday, July 21

Part of the concert recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on Thursday, July 29.

Tessa Robins (violin), Patrick Ireland (viola)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Hugh Maguire

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Introduced by Geoffrey Lewis.

The third of a series of six outstanding programmes recorded from the BBC's 1965 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Halle Orchestra

Leader, Martin Milner

Conductor, Sir John Barbirolli

Introduced by Jeremy James.

Part of the concert recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London on Saturday, August 7.

Henryk Szeryng (violin)

London Symphony Orchestra

Leader, John Georgiadis

Conducted by Istvan Kertesz

Introduced by Richard Baker.

The fourth of a series of six outstanding programmes recorded from the BBC's 1965 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Michael Roll (piano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Hugh Maguire

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Introduced by John Dunn.

(Recorded on July 27)

Part of the concert recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on Saturday, August 14.

Selections from The Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Gondoliers.

with Elaine Blighton (soprano), Yvonne Minton (contralto), Richard Lewis (tenor),

John Cameron (baritone), Owen Brannigan (bass).

BBC Chorus, Royal Choral Society

BBC Symphony Orchestra

led by Norman Nelson

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Introduced by Jeremy James.

Henry Wood Promenade Concert: Gilbert and Sullivan

The fifth of a series of six outstanding programmes recorded from the BBC's 1965 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

William Fellowes (piano), Gary Karr (double-bass)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Hugh Maguire

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Introduced by Geoffrey Lewis.

The last of a series of six outstanding programmes recorded from the BBC's 1965 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Barry Tuckwell (horn), Simon Streatfeild (viola)

London Symphony Orchestra

Leader, John Georgiadis

Conducted by Colin Davis

Introduced by Richard Baker.

Recorded on August 26

Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall for the second half of the final concert in the 71st Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.

BBC Symphony Orchestra

leader, Hugh Maguire

conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Josephine Veasey (mezzo-soprano)

Introduced by Richard Baker.

An account of the birth and continuing life of the famous 'entertainment' with poems by Edith Sitwell and music by William Walton.

[Starring] Hermione Gingold, Russell Oberlin

Including part of the rehearsal and a complete performance recorded at the Royal Albert Hall during the 1965 series of Promenade Concerts.

The Melos Ensemble

Conducted by the composer

(Hermione Gingold is appearing in "Oh Dad, Poor Dad" at the Piccadilly Theatre, London)

Music on Two: Facade

Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall for the first half of the opening concert in the 72nd Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.

Moura Lympany (piano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Hugh Maguire

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

The National Anthem

Overture: Roman Carnival.. Berlioz

Piano Concerto in A minor. Schumann

Before the concert begins Richard Baker talks to Sir Malcolm Sargent who is conducting his 500th Promenade Concert.

The first in a series of six programmes recorded from the BBC's 1966 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Halle Orchestra

Leader, Martin Milner

Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli

Overture: The Gypsy Baron

Waltz: Tales from the Vienna Woods

Pizzicato Polka

Thunder and Lightning Polka

Emperor Waltzes

Sunday Prom: Music of Johann Strauss

The second in a series of six programmes recorded from the BBC's 1966 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Hugh Maguire

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Introduced by Richard Baker.

The third in a series of six programmes recorded from the BBC's 1966 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.

Clifford Curzon (piano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Hugh Maguire

Conducted by Gary Bertini

Introduced by Richard Baker.

Part of the Promenade Concert recorded at the Royal Albert Hall to celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday of The Master of The Queen's Musick, Sir Arthur Bliss.

John Ogdon is soloist in Bliss's Piano Concerto (1939)

Written for the 1939 New York World's Fair

with the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Hugh Maguire

Conducted by Sir Arthur Bliss

Before the concerto Sir Arthur and Lady Bliss, in conversation with Richard Baker, recall some of the memorable events in their lives.

Bliss Birthday Prom

The fourth in a series of six programmes recorded from the BBC's 1966 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.

Moscow Radio Orchestra

Leader, Mikhail Cherniachovsky

Conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Introduced by Richard Baker.

The monthly feature about the making of music.

In this programme the distinguished French composer talks about his life and music and conducts a performance of his Improvisation No. 2 on Mallarme.

With Halina Lukomska (soprano)

and The New Music Ensemble: Elizabeth Fletcher (harp), Susan Bradshaw (celesta), Patricia Brady (vibraphone), Richard Rodney Bennett (piano), Eric Allen (bells), Gilbert Webster, Terence Emery, Jack Lees Jr., and Tristan Fry (percussion)

Workshop presents: Pierre Boulez: Portrait - Analysis - Performance

The fifth in a series of six programmes recorded from the BBC's 1966 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.

Elaine Blighton (soprano), Patricia Kern (contralto), Richard Lewis (tenor), John Cameron (baritone), Owen Brannigan (bass)

BBC Chorus

Goldsmiths' Choral Union

Conductor, Frederick Haggis

Royal Choral Society

BBC Concert Orchestra

Leader, Arthur Leavins

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Gilbert and Sullivan

Selections from The Yeomen of the Guard, The Mikado, Iolanthe

Last in a series of six programmes recorded from the BBC's 1966 season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.

Pierre Boulez conducts

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Hugh Maguire

Introduced by Richard Baker.

with comment by Pierre Boulez.

Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for the second half of the final concert in the 72nd Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Hugh Maguire

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Monica Sinclair (contralto)

Introduced by Richard Baker.

Television cameras were at the Royal Albert Hall earlier this evening to record the first half of the opening concert in the 73rd Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.

Fou Ts'ong (piano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Trevor Williams

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Introduced by Richard Baker.

The first in a series of five programmes recorded from the 1967 Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Andre Tchaikowsky (piano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Trevor Williams

Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

Beethoven

Overture: Egmont

Piano Concerto No. 3, in C minor

Introduced by James Fisher.

The second in a series of five programmes recorded from the 1967 Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Victoria Postnikova (piano)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Leader, John Ronayne

Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult

Introduced by Richard Baker.

BBC-2 presents a performance of William Walton's dramatic oratorio.

Conducted by John Pritchard

with Raimund Herincx (baritone)

BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society, Alexandra Choir, Goldsmiths' Choral Union, Harrow Choral Society, London Philharmonic Choir, Royal Choral Society

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Trevor Williams

Before the performance Sir William Walton talks to John Warrack about the work and its origins.

Introduced by Richard Baker

(Recorded at a Promenade Concert from the Royal Albert Hall on Aug. 9)

Belshazzar's Feast

The third in a series of five programmes recorded from the 1967 Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Sir John Barbirolli conducts the Halle Orchestra

Leader, Martin Milner

in Viennese music by Johann Strauss and Richard Strauss

Overture: Die Fledermaus Tritsch-Tratsch Polka Champagne Polka

Waltz: The Blue Danube

Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

Introduced by John Dunn.

The fourth in a series of five programmes recorded from the 1967 Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

with the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Trevor Williams

Conducted by Colin Davis

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 ('Emperor')

Introduced by Richard Baker.

Direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London the second part of tonight's Henry Wood Promenade Concert in which Colin Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Trevor Williams

Introduced by Richard Baker.

Elgar: Symphony No. 1, in A flat major

The last in a series of five programmes recorded from the 1967 Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Introduced by John Warrack.

Bernard Haitink conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam

Leader, Herman Krebbers

in Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C major

Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for the second half of the final concert in the 73rd Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Trevor Williams

Conducted by Colin Davis

Monica Sinclair (contralto)

Introduced by Richard Baker.

Part of the First Night of the 74th Season of Proms, recorded in the Royal Albert Hall earlier this evening.

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Led by Hugh Maguire

Conductor, Colin Davis

Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music

with sixteen soloists

William Walton's Viola Concerto

with Peter Schidlof as soloist

Sir Malcolm Sargent Memorial Promenade Concert

First of four visits to the 74th Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Hugh Bean

Conductor, Colin Davis

Peter Katin (piano)

Introduced by Richard Baker.

(Part of the concert recorded on Saturday, July 27)

An Evening at the Proms

The second of four visits to the 74th Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Led by Hugh Maguire

Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult

in a performance of Holst's Suite "The Planets"

with the BBC Women's Chorus

Introduced by Richard Baker.

(Part of the concert recorded on July 30)

The third of four visits to the 74th Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.

New Philharmonia Orchestra

Guest Leader, Jack Rothstein

Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult, Frederik Prausnitz

with Michael Roll (piano)

Introduced by John Warrack.

(Part of the concert recorded on August 19)

Last of four visits to the 74th Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.

State Orchestra of the U.S.S.R.

Leader, Isaac Zhuk

Conductor, Evgeny Svetlanov

in a performance of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, in B minor (Pathetique).

Introduced by Richard Baker.

(Part of the concert recorded on August 22)

Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose, Eugene Istomin perform Beethoven's Concerto in C major for piano, violin, cello and orchestra.The work is preceded by Overture: Armida by Haydn

with the BBC Symphony Orchestra

led by Hugh Maguire

Conductor, Colin Davis

Part of the Promenade Concert recorded on Thursday, September 5

Introduced by Richard Baker. (Colour)

Triple Concerto

BBC television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for a live transmission of part of the final concert in the 74th season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Led by Hugh Maguire

Conductor, Colin Davis

Sybil Michelow, contralto

Introduced by Richard Baker.

This occasion is steeped in tradition, which is very jealously guarded by the enthusiastic Promenaders. But this year sees two 'firsts'. Although Colin Davis stepped in for Sir Malcolm Sargent last year, this is his first official 'Last Night.' And South African - born contralto Sybil Michelow makes her 'Last Night' debut as the soloist in 'Rule, Britannia.'

A series of visits to the seventy-fifth season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Tonight: The London Sinfonietta

Conductor, David Atherton

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, in G major

Soloists: Andrew McGee (violin), Sebastian Bell (flute), Judith Pearce (flute)

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major (K.622)

Soloist, Antony Pay

Introduced by Derek Hart

Omnibus at the Proms

The second in a series of five programmes from the 1969 season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Hugh Bean

Conductor, Colin Davis

John Lill (piano)

Liszt - Piano Concerto No. in E flat major

Stravinsky - Ballet: Petrushka

Introduced by Derek Hart

A series of visits to the 75th season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London

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Sir Adrian Boult conducts

Schubert:

Symphony No. 9, in C major 'The Great' with the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Eli Goren

Introduced by Derek Hart

A series of visits to the 75th season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Emil Gilels plays

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor

with the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leader, Eli Goren

Conducted by Colin Davis

Also in the programme:

Wagner: Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhauser

with the BBC Women's Chorus and the Ambrosian Singers

Introduced by Derek Hart

A series of visits to the 75th season of Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Colin Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Bela Dekany in a performance of

Berlioz: Symphony: Harold in Italy

with Peter Schidlof (viola)

Introduced by Derek Hart

BBC outside broadcast cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall to bring you the second part of the closing concert in the 75th season Colin Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leader Eli Goren

Elgar Overture: Cockaigne

Fantasia on British Sea Songs (arr. Wood)

Parry Jerusalem

Introduced by Richard Baker

In part of the first Promenade Concert to be given by this world-famous orchestra from Prague

Vaclav Neumann conducts

Smetana Overture: The Bartered Bride

Smetana Symphonic Poem Blanik (Ma vlast)

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2, in B flat major

with Eva Bernathova (piano)

Introduced by Richard Baker

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

The first in a series of five programmes from the 1970 season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts from the Royal Albert Hall.

The first English appearance of the Russian violinist Mark Lubotsky

Britten Violin Concerto, Op 15 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Eli Goren conducted by James Loughran

The programme begins with Schubert Symphony No 8, in B minor (Unfinished)

Introduced by Richard Baker

Omnibus at The Proms: Schubert and Britten

The second in a series of five programmes from the 1970 Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.

Pierre Boulez conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Bela Dekany.

Geza Anda (piano)

Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1911)

Bartok Piano Concerto No 2

Introduced by Richard Baker.

The third in a series of five programmes from the 1970 Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.

Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, leader Alan Loveday, conductor Neville Marriner, Simon Preston, Philip Ledger, Christopher Hogwood (harpsichords)

Bach Concerto No 2 in C major, for three harpsichords and strings

The Soft Machine

Hugh Hopper (guitar), Mike Ratledge (organ/electric piano), Robert Wyatt (drums), Elton Dean (saxophones)

Introduced by Richard Baker

The fourth in a series of five programmes from the 1970 Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.

Stanford Robinson conducts the BBC Choral Society, BBC Concert Orchestra in excerpts from The Yeomen of the Guard, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado

with Valerie Masterton (soprano), Patricia Kern (mezzo-soprano), Jean Allister (contralto), John Mitchinson (tenor), Derek Hammond-Stroud (baritone), Donald Adams (bass)

Introduced by Richard Baker

Omnibus at the Proms: Gilbert and Sullivan

The last in a series of five programmes from the 1970 Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall

Halle Orchestra, leader Martin Milner, conducted by Charles Groves

Jean Fonda (piano)

Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 1, in C major

Delius - In a Summer Garden

This concert, which was to have been conducted by Sir John Barbirolli, will include the last filmed interview he gave, shortly before his death, when he talked about himself and his long association with the Henry Wood Proms.

Introduced by Richard Baker

Omnibus at the Proms: In Memoriam Sir John Barbirolli

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, BBC outside broadcast cameras bring you the second half of the closing concert in the 76th season.

Colin Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Bela Dekany

Elgar March: Pomp and Circumstance No 1, in D major

Copland El Salon Mexico

Arnold Fantasy for Audience and Orchestra (commissioned by the BBC: first performance)

Parry - Elgar Jerusalem

Introduced by Richard Baker

The Last Night of The Proms

The first of two programmes recorded from the 1970 season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.

Peter Katin (piano)

with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, leader Rodney Friend, conducted by John Pritchard

Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3, in D minor

Introduced by Antony Hopkins

Music on 2: From The Proms: Glinka and Rachmaninov

The last of two programmes recorded from the 1970 season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.

Berlioz - Fantastic Symphony

played by the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, conducted by Bernard Haitink

Introduced by Antony Hopkins

Music on 2: From The Proms: Berlioz

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Season 1

Last Night of the Fifty-Third Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1947