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The Worst Episodes of BBC Proms

Every episode of BBC Proms ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of BBC Proms!

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Worst Episodes Summary

"First Broadcast" is the worst rated episode of "BBC Proms". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/6/1947. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Prom 21: Sir Neville Marriner at the Proms".

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    #1 - 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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  • Prom 21: Sir Neville Marriner at the Proms
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    #2 - 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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  • Last Night of the Proms
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    #3 - 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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  • Michael Berkeley, Benjamin Britten and Vaughan Williams
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    #4 - 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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  • Wednesday 19 July 2006
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    #5 - Wednesday 19 July 2006

    Season 60 Episode 7 - Aired 7/19/2006

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    #6 - 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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  • Doctor Who at the Proms
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    #7 - 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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  • National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
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    #8 - 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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  • Prom 22 - A Celebration of Classic MGM Film Musicals
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    #9 - 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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  • Prom 59: Tonhalle Orchestra
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    #10 - 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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  • First Night -Mahler Symphony no 8 in E Flat major
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    #11 - 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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  • Wagner - Die Meistersinger
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    #12 - 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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  • Royal Liverpool Philharmonic - Manfred
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    #13 - 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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  • Britten-Prokofiev-Shostakovich
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    #14 - 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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  • Doctor Who at the Proms
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    #15 - 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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  • Dean-Mahler-Shostakovich
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    #16 - 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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  • Prom 19 - Sondheim at 80
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    #17 - 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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  • Mahler Symphony No.3 in D minor
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    #18 - 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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  • Mahler Symphony No.5 in C-Sharp minor(Gergiev)
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    #19 - 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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    #20 - National Youth Orchestra

    Season 64 Episode 29 - Aired 8/7/2010

    Paul Dukas - L' apprenti sorcier Julian Anderson - Fantasias Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique, Op 14

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  • Chopin-Ravel
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    #21 - Chopin-Ravel

    Season 64 Episode 36 - Aired 8/12/2010

    Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor Encore - Gluck, transcribed Sgambati: Excerpt from Orfeo et Eurydice Nelson Freire: piano Ravel: Daphnis and Chloë – Suite No. 2 BBC Symphony Orchestra Lionel Bringuier conductor Katy Derham, Hostess

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  • Verdi-Dallapiccola-Bruch-Schumann
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    #22 - Verdi-Dallapiccola-Bruch-Schumann

    Season 64 Episode 37 - Aired 8/13/2010

    Verdi: La forza del destino – overture (8 mins) Dallapiccola Partita (27 mins) Sarah Tynan: soprano Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor (25 mins) James Ehnes: violin Encore - Paganini: Caprice 16 Schumann Symphony No. 4 in D minor (revised version) (38 mins) BBC Philharmonic Gianandrea Noseda conductor Vocals with fixed English subtitles Commentary in English Interval cut

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  • J.S. Bach
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    #23 - J.S. Bach

    Season 64 Episode 39 - Aired 8/14/2010

    J. S. Bach, orch. Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (10 mins) J. S. Bach, orch. Henry Wood: 'Suite No. 6' - Prelude; Finale (6 mins) Tarik O'Regan: Latent Manifest (5 mins) (BBC commission: world premiere) Walton: The Wise Virgins – suite (21 mins) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Andrew Litton conductor During interval: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, recorded earlier in the day English Baroque Soloists Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor Grainger: Blithe Bells (4 mins) J. S. Bach, arr. Sargent: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 - Air (6 mins) Alissa Firsova: Bach Allegro (5 mins) (BBC commission: world premiere) J. S. Bach, arr. Bantock: Chorale Prelude 'Wachet auf, ruft uns due Stimme', BWV 645 (5 mins) J. S. Bach, arr. Respighi: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582 (13 mins) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Andrew Litton conductor Commentary in English

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  • In memoriam Benjamin Britten
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    #24 - In memoriam Benjamin Britten

    Season 64 Episode 42 - Aired 8/17/2010

    Arvo Pärt: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten (7 mins) Britten: Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes' (17 mins) Huw Watkins: Violin Concerto (BBC commission: world premiere) (20 mins) Alina Ibragimova: violin Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor (50 mins) BBC Symphony Orchestra Edward Gardner conductor

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  • The Philharmonia Orchestra
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    #25 - The Philharmonia Orchestra

    Season 64 Episode 46 - Aired 8/20/2010

    The Philharmonia Orchestra play Mosolov's The Foundry, Pärt's Symphony No. 4 "Los Angeles", Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand & Scriabin's The Poem of Ecstasy.

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