BBC Proms

The 2025 BBC Proms season brings together many of the world’s finest international artists and orchestras, featuring more than 40 outstanding ensembles from across the UK: a series of concerts that can only be experienced at the world’s greatest classical music festival. Running from Friday 18 July to Saturday 13 September 2025, the season features 86 Proms, with 72 at the Royal Albert Hall and 14 at venues across the UK

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   E1. First Night of the Proms 2025

   Jul 18, 2025 · 134m

   The 2025 First Night sees Mendelssohn’s ‘Hebrides’ Overture and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto featured alongside British classics from Bliss and Vaughan Williams, plus a world premiere from Master of the King’s Music Errollyn Wallen

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   E2. Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

   Jul 20, 2025 · 110m

   Nicholas McCarthy, the world’s only professional one-handed concert pianist, makes his Proms debut alongside the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in a concert of 20th-century classics.

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   E3. Vivaldi and Bach at the Proms

   Jul 25, 2025 · 99m

   Summer from The Four Seasons and Bach’s Air are among the highlights in a concert of Baroque delights featuring violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte making his Proms debut.

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   E4. The Great American Songbook with Samara Joy

   Jul 27, 2025 · 100m

   Grammy Award-winning sensation Samara Joy sings Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra and Sun Ra’s timeless classics. Andi Oliver hosts this Proms debut from a rising star.

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   E5. Bach and Mendelssohn at the Proms

   Aug 1, 2025 · 95m

   The first televised Prom from The Glasshouse in Gateshead, featuring two classical masterpieces. David Fray plays Bach's dark and dramatic Keyboard Concerto in D Minor, and some 200 singers perform in Mendelssohn's rousing 'Lobgesang' Symphony with soloists Hera Hyesang Park, Adele Charvet & Benjamin Hulett. Conducted by Dinis Sousa with Royal Northern Sinfonia.

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   E6. Beethoven’s Fifth at the Proms

   Aug 2, 2025 · 80m

   The most iconic four notes in music history open Beethoven’s famous symphony, performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev. Saint-Saëns’ much loved Fifth Piano Concerto, known as ‘The Egyptian’, follows, with French pianist and star of the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony Alexandre Kantorow as the soloist.

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