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The Best Episodes of BBC Proms Season 72

Every episode of BBC Proms Season 72 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of BBC Proms Season 72!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 1 - First Night of the Proms
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    #1 - 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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  2. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 2 - BBC Young Musician 40th Anniversary
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    #2 - BBC Young Musician 40th Anniversary

    S72:E2

    BBC Young Musician celebrates its 40th birthday with a concert featuring illustrious past winners and finalists, including Nicola Benedetti, Freddy Kempf and Sheku Kanneh-Mason, as well as this year’s winner. With music by Ravel and Saint-Saëns.

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  3. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 3 - Jacob Collier and Friends
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    #3 - Jacob Collier and Friends

    S72:E3

    23-year-old vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and arranger Jacob Collier is already a multi-Grammy Award-winner. Here he teams up with Jules Buckley, the Metropole Orkest and special guests Sam Amidon and Take 6 for a special Proms performance.

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  4. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 4 - Youthful Beginnings
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    #4 - Youthful Beginnings

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    Mendelssohn’s precocious First Piano Concerto joins Schumann’s forward-looking Fourth Symphony and music by Lili Boulanger and Morfydd Owen – both of whom died tragically young – in the BBC National Orchestra of Wales’s first Prom of the season.

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  5. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 5 - Pioneers of Sound
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    #5 - Pioneers of Sound

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    The London Contemporary Orchestra leads a late-night tribute to the legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop – pioneers of experimental electronic music – which includes Daphne Oram’s groundbreaking Still Point and music by RW stalwart Delia Derbyshire.

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  6. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 6 - Beethoven, Shostakovich & Rachmaninov
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    #6 - Beethoven, Shostakovich & Rachmaninov

    S72:E6

    Karina Canellakis directs the BBC Symphony Orchestra in two Russian classics: Rachmaninov’s exhilarating Symphonic Dances and Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto, with Alisa Weilerstein as soloist. Beethoven’s spirited overture Coriolan opens the concert.

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  7. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 7 - Paul Lewis plays Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ concerto
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    #7 - 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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  8. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 8 - Parry, Vaughan Williams & Holst
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    #8 - Parry, Vaughan Williams & Holst

    S72:E8

    Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and Pastoral Symphony sit alongside music by Holst and Parry’s stirring Fifth Symphony in this centenary celebration of Hubert Parry – father of 20th-century English music. Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC NOW.

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  9. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 9 - Havana Meets Kingston
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    #9 - Havana Meets Kingston

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    Leading reggae and dancehall producer Mister Savona brings together some of Cuba and Jamaica’s most influential musicians for a concert combing the sounds of roots reggae, dub and dancehall with son, salsa and Afro-Cuban to create a new musical fusion.

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  10. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 10 - Folk Music around Britain and Ireland
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    #10 - Folk Music around Britain and Ireland

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    The BBC Concert Orchestra collaborates with some of the folk world’s leading musicians, including Julie Fowlis, The Unthanks and Sam Lee, in a concert that celebrates traditional music while also looking to the future of this ever-evolving genre.

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  11. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 11 - NYO perform Mussorgsky, Ligeti and Debussy
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    #11 - NYO perform Mussorgsky, Ligeti and Debussy

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    George Benjamin and the National Youth Orchestra in a concert of orchestral masterworks that includes Debussy’s La Mer and Ligeti’s mesmerising Lontano. Pianist Tamara Stefanovich is the soloist in Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand.

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  12. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 12 - Brahms's A German Requiem
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    #12 - Brahms's A German Requiem

    S72:E12

    Richard Farnes conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and soloists Golda Schultz and Johan Reuter in Brahms’s much-loved Requiem. Marking Thea Musgrave’s 90th birthday, the performance opens with her dramatic Phoenix Rising.

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  13. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 13 - New York: Sound of a City
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    #13 - New York: Sound of a City

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    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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  14. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 14 - Edward Gardner conducts Elgar & Vaughan Williams
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    #14 - Edward Gardner conducts Elgar & Vaughan Williams

    S72:E14

    The conflict of war runs through this concert by Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Vaughan Williams’s beautiful cantata Dona nobis pacem and Lili Boulanger frame Elgar’s elegiac Cello Concerto.

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  15. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 15 - Sir Simon Rattle conducts L’enfant et les sortilèges
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    #15 - Sir Simon Rattle conducts L’enfant et les sortilèges

    S72:E15

    Ravel’s magical opera The Child and the Spells follows his fairy-tale ballet Mother Goose and the oriental aura of Shéhérazade.

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  16. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 16 - Mozart's Clarinet Concerto & Mahler's Fifth Symphony
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    #16 - Mozart's Clarinet Concerto & Mahler's Fifth Symphony

    S72:E16

    Recreating a Prom conducted by Leonard Bernstein in 1987, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard pair two of the best-loved and most beautiful works in the repertoire: Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony.

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  17. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 17 - Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival Orchestra (II)
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    #17 - 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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  18. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 18 - John Wilson conducts Bernstein's On the Town
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    #18 - John Wilson conducts Bernstein's On the Town

    S72:E18

    Launching a Bernstein bank-holiday weekend on what would have been the composer’s 100th birthday, John Wilson conducts Bernstein’s hit Broadway musical On The Town, which follows the adventures of three sailors on shore leave in 1944.

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  19. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 19 - Marin Alsop & Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
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    #19 - Marin Alsop & Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

    S72:E19

    Bernstein-protégée Marin Alsop returns to the Proms with one of the great American symphony orchestras to perform a politically charged programme that includes Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony alongside Bernstein’s own Second Symphony.

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  20. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 20 - Sir András Schiff plays 'The Well-Tempered Clavier' (Book 2)
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    #20 - Sir András Schiff plays 'The Well-Tempered Clavier' (Book 2)

    S72:E20

    Following his performance of Book 1 in 2017, distinguished pianist and Bach specialist Sir András Schiff returns to present the complete Book 2 of J. S. Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier.

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  21. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 21 - Youssou Ndour & Le Super Étoile de Dakar
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    #21 - Youssou Ndour & Le Super Étoile de Dakar

    S72:E21

    Senegalese cultural icon Youssou Ndour makes his Proms debut in a special late-night appearance. He’s joined by his group Le Super Étoile de Dakar for a performance embracing his signature mix of Cuban rumba, hip hop, jazz and soul.

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  22. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 22 - Tango Prom
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    #22 - Tango Prom

    S72:E22

    Explore the raw sensuality and charged rhythms of the tango in all its guises. The Britten Sinfonia join forces with a tango band to take the dance from its dusty beginning in the streets of Buenos Aires right up to the present day.

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  23. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 23 - Last Night of the Proms - Part One
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    #23 - Last Night of the Proms - Part One

    S72:E23

    The BBC Proms 2018 season comes to a close with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and their much-loved former chief conductor and Last Night of the Proms veteran Sir Andrew Davis steering proceedings live from the Royal Albert Hall. Long-standing nautical traditions of the evening are extended in Stanford's Songs of the Sea, featuring Canadian baritone Gerald Finley. The centenary of the end of the Great War is marked with a new work from Roxanna Panufnik, which also rounds off the season's original premieres and features BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Chorus. The evening includes music by Hindemith, Berlioz and Charles Hubert Parry, who is celebrated 100 years after his death with a performance of Blest Pair of Sirens. Coverage also includes visits to Proms in the Parks across the Nation, also celebrating this annual great night in classical music.

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  24. BBC Proms Season 72 Episode 24 - Last Night of the Proms - Part Two
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    #24 - Last Night of the Proms - Part Two

    S72:E24

    Katie Derham presents live coverage as the Last Night of the Proms continues from the Royal Albert Hall with the ever-popular Marche militaire francaise by Saint-Saens. Award-winning 18-year-old saxophonist Jess Gillam performs Scaramouche by Milhaud, and baritone Gerry Finley performs the song Soliloquy from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel. To mark 100 years since 1918 there is a nationwide sing-around of traditional First World War songs, with contributions from the Proms in the Park events in Colwyn Bay, Glasgow and Belfast. The 2018 Proms are brought to a familiar and much-loved rousing close with Rule Britannia, Land of Hope and Glory, and Jerusalem. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and BBC Singers are conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.

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Season 72 Ratings Summary

"First Night of the Proms" is the best rated episode of "BBC Proms" season 72. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/13/2018. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "BBC Young Musician 40th Anniversary".