BBC Proms
BBC Proms: Season 77

Air Date

July 14, 2023

Episodes

22 episodes

BBC Proms

Season 77

Overview

The 2023 Proms features a huge breadth of programming; from Berlioz to Bollywood, large scale symphonic and choral work to intimate chamber concerts and exciting Proms debuts. The 2023 BBC Proms will run from Friday 14 July to Saturday 9 September 2023 comprising 84 Proms: 72 Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, six at venues across the UK, and the first weekend-long festival of Proms at Sage Gateshead

Episodes

First Night of the Proms

1. First Night of the Proms

July 14, 2023
119 min

Clive Myrie presents live from the Royal Albert Hall as the annual music festival is launched with Sibelius, Grieg, Britten and a world premiere from Ukrainian composer Bohdana Frolyak.

Prom 4: Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons

2. Prom 4: Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons

July 16, 2023
120 min

Finnish violinist and conductor Pekka Kuusisto leads The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in a concert of works by Beethoven, Vivaldi and Andrea Tarrodi.

Prom 7: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

3. Prom 7: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

July 21, 2023
130 min

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and their conductor laureate, Tadaaki Otaka, perform perhaps the most famous classical symphony ever written, Beethoven’s Fifth.

Prom 12: Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony

4. Prom 12: Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony

July 23, 2023
80 min

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and new Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 for the first of their two Proms together this season.

Prom 18: Lata Mangeshkar: Bollywood Legend

5. Prom 18: Lata Mangeshkar: Bollywood Legend

July 28, 2023
120 min

Celebrating the musical legacy of Bollywood, the Proms pays tribute to Lata Mangeshkar, the voice behind the hit songs that defined Indian cinema’s greatest films.

Prom 5: Bruch’s First Violin Concerto

6. Prom 5: Bruch’s First Violin Concerto

July 30, 2023
113 min

South Korean star violinist Bomsori performs Bruch’s First Violin Concerto with conductor Anja Bihlmaier and the BBC Philharmonic.

Prom 23: NYO Jazz (USA) with Dee Dee Bridgewater

7. Prom 23: NYO Jazz (USA) with Dee Dee Bridgewater

August 4, 2023
75 min

Grammy award-winning jazz legend Dee Dee Bridgewater joins trumpeter Sean Jones and Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Jazz Orchestra, comprising outstanding young musicians from across the USA, as they make their BBC Proms debut.

Prom 22: Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Prokofiev

8. Prom 22: Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Prokofiev

August 6, 2023
90 min

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft return for the second of their consecutive Proms. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 is paired with Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with soloist Isata Kanneh-Mason.

Prom 27: Yuja Wang plays Rachmaninov

9. Prom 27: Yuja Wang plays Rachmaninov

August 11, 2023
89 min

Klaus Mäkelä and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform Walton’s choral symphony Belshazzar’s Feast, while Yuja Wang is the soloist in Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

Prom 24: Felix Klieser plays Mozart

10. Prom 24: Felix Klieser plays Mozart

August 13, 2023
120 min

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Kirill Karabits present Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 2 alongside a work by Karabits’s own father. Horn virtuoso Felix Klieser makes his Proms debut with Mozart’s sunny Concerto No. 4.

Prom 37: Budapest Festival Orchestra

11. Prom 37: Budapest Festival Orchestra

August 18, 2023
115 min

Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer are joined by Sir András Schiff for one of the great Romantic piano concertos from Schumann. Weber’s overture to Der Freischütz and Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’ Symphony complete the programme.

Prom 28: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

12. Prom 28: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

August 20, 2023
122 min

Works by Copland and Hindemith bookend Strauss’s Four Last Songs – featuring South African soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha – in this Prom from the National Youth Orchestra.

Prom 30: Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto

13. Prom 30: Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto

August 25, 2023
119 min

John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London perform Rachmaninov’s famous Second Piano Concerto with soloist Alim Beisembayev. Bookending the Prom are Lili Boulanger’s tone-poem D’un matin de printemps and Walton’s First Symphony.

Prom 2: Northern Soul

14. Prom 2: Northern Soul

August 26, 2023
90 min

The BBC Concert Orchestra brings a symphonic edge to the beats that took the industrial North and Midlands by storm in the 1960s and 1970s, in a stomping celebration of underground British club culture.

Prom 34: Mindful Mix Prom

15. Prom 34: Mindful Mix Prom

August 27, 2023
75 min

Relax into a late-night musical meditation with Grammy-nominated vocal group VOCES8 and a playlist that drifts from the Renaissance to Radiohead.

Prom 56: Rattle conducts Mahler’s Ninth

16. Prom 56: Rattle conducts Mahler’s Ninth

August 30, 2023
89 min

Sir Simon Rattle’s final UK performance as Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra. He conducts Mahler’s epic farewell symphony, haunted by loss but urgently clinging to dance and song, alongside Poulenc’s choral masterpiece Figure humaine.

Prom 61: Chineke! performs Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony

17. Prom 61: Chineke! performs Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony

September 1, 2023
120 min

The Chineke! Orchestra – Europe’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse ensemble – returns to the Proms with Beethoven’s joyful Fourth Symphony, and continues our focus on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Prom 57: Fantasy, Myths and Legends

18. Prom 57: Fantasy, Myths and Legends

September 2, 2023
109 min

Encounter music from The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones and other titles in a Prom celebrating soundtracks from the worlds of film, TV and gaming.

Prom 10: Horrible Histories: ’Orrible Opera

19. Prom 10: Horrible Histories: ’Orrible Opera

September 8, 2023
75 min

Join the Horrible Histories team and the English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra for a high-decibel dive into ’Orrible Opera.

Prom 29: Mozart’s Mass in C minor

20. Prom 29: Mozart’s Mass in C minor

September 8, 2023
105 min

John Butt and the award-winning Dunedin Consort perform Mozart’s magnificent Mass in C minor with soloists including Lucy Crowe, Jess Dandy and Nardus Williams.

Prom 71: Last Night of the Proms 2023, Part 1

21. Prom 71: Last Night of the Proms 2023, Part 1

September 9, 2023
119 min

Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and soprano Lise Davidsen join conductor Marin Alsop and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for the biggest musical party of the year.

Prom 71: Last Night of the Proms 2023, Part 2

22. Prom 71: Last Night of the Proms 2023, Part 2

September 9, 2023
70 min

Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and soprano Lise Davidsen join conductor Marin Alsop and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for the biggest musical party of the year.

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