July 15, 2022 • 1h 30m
Giuseppe Verdi had a complicated relationship with religion: he asked to be buried with just ‘one priest, one candle, one cross’. ...Read more
July 17, 2022
British conductor John Wilson has long been a Proms favourite, but last year’s debut appearance of his new super-orchestra the Sin...Read more
July 22, 2022
Celebrating the BBC’s centenary year, the Proms partners with Radio 1 Relax for a late-night wind-down. Relax with Radio 1’s Chill...Read more
July 24, 2022
Happy and glorious: the story of British music is inextricably linked with royalty, and down the centuries composers ranging from ...Read more
July 29, 2022
‘Behold, the sea itself!’ Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony takes the poetry of Walt Whitman and opens the floodgates to a spring ...Read more
July 31, 2022
Life on a French river barge is tough, and for a young wife it can be lonely too. But in this closed and arduous world, even a dre...Read more
August 5, 2022
Fantastic worlds, epic adventures, complex characters and huge moral choices – the universe of computer gaming is a natural match ...Read more
August 7, 2022 • 2h 4m
The newly formed Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, made up of Ukrainian musicians – some from Ukraine’s major cities, some now displace...Read more
August 7, 2022
When Mozart composed his piano concertos, he had a very specific performer in mind – himself. For Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsn...Read more
August 12, 2022
No prizes for identifying the real hero of Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben. With its swashbuckling self-confidence and self-mock...Read more
August 14, 2022
Three composers, three landscapes. Elgar wrote his Cello Concerto in the woodlands of Sussex; for many listeners, its autumnal col...Read more
August 19, 2022
‘I think and feel in sounds,’ said Maurice Ravel. So, when he wrote his ballet Daphnis and Chloe, he created a sumptuous musical p...Read more
August 21, 2022
Viennese orchestral playing is a byword for excellence, rooted in generations of tradition. But under its distinguished (and adven...Read more
August 26, 2022
In her 80th-anniversary year – and 50 years since the release of her album Young, Gifted and Black – the Proms pays tribute to the...Read more
August 27, 2022
Cynthia Erivo is a creative phenomenon: a London-born, Tony, Grammy and Emmy award-winning actress, singer, songwriter and produce...Read more
August 28, 2022
The end has come, and in the silence after the Last Trumpet, a solitary bird is the only sound heard on Earth. The ambition of Gus...Read more
August 29, 2022
Over a century of public service broadcasting, the BBC has forged a global reputation for its coverage of the planet we call home ...Read more
September 2, 2022
Archive footage, dancing astronauts and a flashing, blinking Sputnik right here in the Royal Albert Hall – when cult ‘retro-futuri...Read more
September 4, 2022
‘Be embraced, all you millions!’ Since the earliest days of the Proms, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony has had a special place in each ...Read more
September 9, 2022
‘Nicola Benedetti – now, she really can play,’ says the American composer, trumpeter and all-round jazz legend Wynton Marsalis, an...Read more
September 10, 2022
It’s time to put on your party clothes, grab your favourite flag and raise the roof of the Royal Albert Hall! There’s nothing quit...Read more
September 10, 2022
It’s time to put on your party clothes, grab your favourite flag and raise the roof of the Royal Albert Hall! There’s nothing quit...Read more
September 16, 2022 • 1h
Join CBeebies for an ocean adventure travelling the musical world in the Royal Albert Hall submarine to find endangered creatures ...Read more
September 11, 2022 • 1h 39m
Take a whistlestop tour through the very best music from the 2022 Proms season in this one-off special. Eight weeks of world-class...Read more