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RADIO-LISTS: PROMS 2025
Unofficial Listings for the 131st Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts: 18th July - 13th September

First Night of the Proms 2025
18:45 Friday 18 July 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Arthur Bliss
Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood (2 mins)

Felix Mendelssohn
Overture ‘The Hebrides’ (‘Fingal’s Cave’) (10 mins)

Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor (35 mins)

Errollyn Wallen
The Elements (10 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sancta civitas (30 mins)

Lisa Batiashvili violin
Caspar Singh tenor
Gerald Finley bass-baritone
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
London Youth Choirs (members from)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor


The Great American Songbook and Beyond with Samara Joy
19:00 Saturday 19 July 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Nacio Herb Brown
You Stepped Out of a Dream (5 mins)
arr. Jason Charos/Andrew Cottee

Erroll Garner
Misty (5 mins)
arr. Paul Sikivie

Hoagy Carmichael
Stardust (4 mins)
arr. David Mason

Jimmy Davis
Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) (4 mins)
arr. Andrew Cottee

Thelonious Monk
Worry Later (San Francisco Holiday) (4 mins)

Ugly Beauty (6 mins)
arr. David Mason

Axel Stordahl
Day by Day (5 mins)

Sam Coslow
Beware My Heart (7 mins)
arr. Jason Charos/Andrew Cottee

Duke Ellington
I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good) (4 mins)
arr. Samara Joy/Donavan Austin

Samara Joy
Peace of Mind/Dreams Come True (7 mins)
medley of ‘Peace of Mind’ by Samara Joy/Kendric McCallister and ‘Dreams Come True’ by Sun Ra/Jae Mayo, arr. Evan Sherman/David Mason/Connor Rohrer

Five Stages of Love (Love’s Impression) (8 mins)
arr. Kendric McCallister

Teddy Wilson
Little Things That Mean So Much (4 mins)

Mal Waldron
Left Alone (8 mins)
arr. Donavan Austin

Antônio Carlos Jobim
Chega de saudade (7 mins)
arr. Jason Charos/Andrew Cottee

Samara Joy
Samara Joy Octet
BBC Concert Orchestra
Miho Hazama conductor


Vivaldi and Bach
11:00 Sunday 20 July 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Nicola Matteis, Jr
Two Fantasies for Solo Violin – No. 2 in A minor (5 mins)

Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in D minor, RV 813 (9 mins)

Giovanni Legrenzi
The Division of the World – ‘Occhi miei si dormire’ (2 mins)

Alessandro Marcello
Oboe Concerto in D minor – Adagio (4 mins)
transcr. Johann Sebastian Bach

Marco Uccellini
Aria sopra La bergamasca (5 mins)

Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 – Air (4 mins)

Antonio Vivaldi
Trio Sonata in D minor, ‘La follia’ (10 mins)

Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in A minor, RV 356 (7 mins)

Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Concerto in G minor, BWV 1056R – Largo (6 mins)

Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for Strings in G minor, RV 157 (6 mins)

The Four Seasons – Summer (10 mins)

Le Consort
Théotime Langlois de Swarte violin/director


Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
19:30 Sunday 20 July 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Dmitry Shostakovich
Suite for Variety Orchestra (22 mins)
arr. Atovmyan

Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (19 mins)

William Walton
Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor (43 mins)

Nicholas McCarthy piano
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Mark Wigglesworth conductor


Mahler’s Seventh
19:30 Monday 21 July 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Tom Coult
Monologues for the Curious (24 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 7 (77 mins)

Allan Clayton tenor
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
John Storgårds conductor


Berlioz’s ‘Symphonie fantastique’
19:30 Tuesday 22 July 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Richard Strauss
Death and Transfiguration (23 mins)

Mark Simpson
ZEBRA (or, 2-3-74: The Divine Invasion of Philip K. Dick) (20 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Hector Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique (49 mins)

Sean Shibe electric guitar
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Anja Bihlmaier conductor


French Night with the Orchestre National de France
18:30 Wednesday 23 July 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Maurice Ravel
Rapsodie espagnole (16 mins)

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Violin Concerto in G major, Op. 8 (22 mins)

Charlotte Sohy
Danse mystique (13 mins)
UK première

Ernest Chausson
Poème (17 mins)

Maurice Ravel
La valse (12 mins)

Randall Goosby violin
Orchestre national de France
Cristian Măcelaru conductor


Boulez and Berio: 20th-Century Giants
22:15 Wednesday 23 July 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Luciano Berio
Sequenza V (6 mins)

Pierre Boulez
Dialogue de l’ombre double (18 mins)

Luciano Berio
Recital I (for Cathy) (35 mins)

Sarah Aristidou soprano
Jérôme Comte clarinet
Lucas Ounissi trombone
IRCAM live electronics
Ensemble intercontemporain
Pierre Bleuse conductor


Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
19:30 Thursday 24 July 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Igor Stravinsky
Song of the Nightingale (21 mins)

Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor (26 mins)

Anthony Davis
Tales (Tails) of the Signifying Monkey (15 mins)
European première

Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks (15 mins)

Augustin Hadelich violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor


’Round Midnight with Soweto Kinch (Sunderland)
20:00 Thursday 24 July 2025
The Fire Station, Sunderland

Rivkala
Theo Croker trumpet
Joe Webb Trio ensemble
Soweto Kinch presenter


Beethoven’s Fifth
18:30 Friday 25 July 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Les Indes galantes – suite (24 mins)

Camille Saint‐Saëns
Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, ‘Egyptian’ (29 mins)

Jay Capperauld
Bruckner’s Skull (16 mins)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor (31 mins)

Alexandre Kantorow piano
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Maxim Emelyanychev conductor


JADE & Royal Northern Sinfonia (Glasshouse)
20:15 Friday 25 July 2025
The Glasshouse International Centre for Music

JADE
Finn Forster support
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Robert Ames conductor


BBC Young Composer Free Workshop: Gateshead
10:00 Saturday 26 July 2025
The Glasshouse International Centre for Music


The Traitors (3pm)
15:00 Saturday 26 July 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Hayla vocals
Andrea Lykke vocals
Andrés Presno tenor
Darrell Smith vocals
Robert Jordan bagpipes
Claudia Winkleman presenter
BBC Symphony Chorus ensemble
BBC Singers
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Karen Ní Bhroin conductor


Angeline Morrison: The Sorrow Songs (Folk Songs of Black British Experience) (Glasshouse)
17:30 Saturday 26 July 2025
The Glasshouse International Centre for Music

Angeline Morrison vocals/autoharp/double bass
Eliza Carthy violin/fiddlesticks/vocals
Alex Neilson drums/vocals


Bach and Mendelssohn with the Royal Northern Sinfonia (Glasshouse)
19:30 Saturday 26 July 2025 ON TV
The Glasshouse International Centre for Music

Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052 (22 mins)

Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, ‘Lobgesang’ (63 mins)

Hera Hyesang Park soprano
Adèle Charvet mezzo-soprano
Benjamin Hulett tenor
David Fray piano
Voices of the River’s Edge
Huddersfield Choral Society
Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Dinis Sousa conductor


The Traitors (7.30pm)
19:30 Saturday 26 July 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Hayla vocals
Andrea Lykke vocals
Andrés Presno tenor
Darrell Smith vocals
Robert Jordan bagpipes
Claudia Winkleman presenter
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Singers
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Karen Ní Bhroin conductor


CBeebies Prom: Wildlife Jamboree (1.30pm) (Glasshouse)
13:30 Sunday 27 July 2025
The Glasshouse International Centre for Music

Chantelle Lindsay presenter
Puja Panchkoty presenter
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Tess Jackson conductor


Sean Shibe and Friends (Glasshouse)
15:00 Sunday 27 July 2025
The Glasshouse International Centre for Music

James Dillon
12 Caprices (10 mins)

Cassandra Miller
Bel canto (17 mins)

Pierre Boulez
Le marteau sans maître (40 mins)

Sean Shibe guitar
Ema Nikolovska mezzo-soprano
George Barton percussion
Sam Wilson percussion
Iris van den Bos percussion
Adam Walker alto flute
Emma Wernig viola
Matthew Hunt clarinet
Mira Benjamin violin
Colin Alexander cello
Alphonse Cemin conductor


CBeebies Prom: Wildlife Jamboree (4pm) (Glasshouse)
16:00 Sunday 27 July 2025
The Glasshouse International Centre for Music

Chantelle Lindsay presenter
Puja Panchkoty presenter
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Tess Jackson conductor


Mozart and Bruckner
19:30 Sunday 27 July 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Ryan Wigglesworth
for Laura, after Bach (10 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor (30 mins)

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 7 in E major (64 mins)

Mariam Batsashvili piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth conductor


Beethoven and Birtwistle
19:30 Monday 28 July 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Harrison Birtwistle
Earth Dances (38 mins)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, ‘Eroica’ (47 mins)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth conductor


Arooj Aftab and Ibrahim Maalouf
19:30 Tuesday 29 July 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Arooj Aftab
Ibrahim Maalouf
BBC Singers
The Trumpeters of Michel-Ange ensemble
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jules Buckley conductor


Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto
19:30 Wednesday 30 July 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Grażyna Bacewicz
Concerto for String Orchestra (14 mins)

Sergey Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (33 mins)

Witold Lutosławski
Concerto for Orchestra (28 mins)

Vadym Kholodenko piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka conductor


Rachmaninov and Copland
18:30 Thursday 31 July 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Elsa Barraine
Symphony No. 2 (17 mins)

Aaron Copland
Clarinet Concerto (18 mins)

Artie Shaw
Clarinet Concerto (8 mins)

Sergey Rachmaninov
Symphonic Dances (35 mins)

Martin Fröst clarinet
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Joshua Weilerstein conductor


Arvo Pärt at 90
22:15 Thursday 31 July 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Arvo Pärt
Da pacem Domine (6 mins)

Veni creator (3 mins)

Magnificat (7 mins)

The Deer’s Cry (5 mins)

Für Jan van Eyck (3 mins)
UK première

Galina Grigorjeva
Svyatki – ‘Spring is Coming’ (3 mins)

Sergey Rachmaninov
All Night Vigil (Vespers) – ‘Slava v vyshnikh Bogu’ (3 mins)

All Night Vigil (Vespers) – ‘Bogoroditse Devo’ (3 mins)

Johann Sebastian Bach
Motet ‘Ich lasse dich nicht’, BWV 1165 (5 mins)

Arvo Pärt
Peace upon you, Jerusalem (6 mins)

De profundis (7 mins)

Vater unser (3 mins)

Veljo Tormis
Curse upon Iron (10 mins)

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Kadri Tomooja organ
Tõnu Kaljuste conductor


Yunchan Lim Plays Rachmaninov
19:30 Friday 1 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

John Adams
The Chairman Dances (12 mins)

Sergey Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor (29 mins)

Luciano Berio
Sinfonia (27 mins)

Yunchan Lim piano
BBC Singers
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Kazuki Yamada conductor


Viennese Waltzes
11:00 Saturday 2 August 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Johann Strauss II
Die Fledermaus – overture (8 mins)

‘Mein Herr Marquis’ (Laughing Song) (5 mins)

Josef Strauss
Brennende Liebe – polka-mazurka (6 mins)

Emmerich Kálmán
Das Veilchen vom Montmartre – ‘Ich sing mein Lied im Regen und Schne’ (7 mins)

Robert Stolz
Wiener Café – waltz (6 mins)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Straussiana (7 mins)

Franz Lehár
The Land of Smiles – overture (8 mins)

Carl Zeller
Der Vogelhändler – ‘Schenkt man sich Rosen in Tirol’ (3 mins)

Amy Beach
Bal masqué (5 mins)

Nico Dostal
Fröhliches Spiel (5 mins)

Johann Strauss II
Frühlingsstimmen – waltz (8 mins)

By the Beautiful Blue Danube – waltz (6 mins)

Erin Morley soprano
BBC Concert Orchestra
Anna-Maria Helsing conductor


Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony
20:00 Saturday 2 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 2 in C minor, ‘Resurrection’ (80 mins)

Mari Eriksmoen soprano
Emily D’Angelo mezzo-soprano
Hallé Choir
Hallé Youth Choir
Hallé
Kahchun Wong conductor


Soul Revolution
19:30 Sunday 3 August 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Beverley Knight
Jacob Lusk
Reginald Mobley
Annahstasia
James Emmanuel
Tony Momrelle
Yomi Ṣode
Lawrence Johnson Singers ensemble
Trevor Nelson presenter
BBC Concert Orchestra
Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser conductor


Mahler and Boulez
19:30 Monday 4 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Pierre Boulez
Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna (32 mins)

Gustav Mahler
Das klagende Lied (original version, 1880) (65 mins)

Carlos Gonzalez Napoles treble
Malakai Bayoh boy alto
Natalya Romaniw soprano
Jennifer Johnston mezzo-soprano
Russell Thomas tenor
James Newby baritone
Constanza Chorus
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu conductor


Great British Classics
19:00 Tuesday 5 August 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

William Walton
Coronation March ‘Crown Imperial’ (6 mins)
arr. Tausky

Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending (13 mins)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Isle of Beauty (3 mins)

The Evening Star (3 mins)

Benjamin Britten
Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’ (16 mins)

William Mathias
Dance Overture (6 mins)

John Rutter
Bird Songs (10 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Avril Coleridge-Taylor
The Rustling of Grass (3 mins)
arr. Zoë Birtwhistle

The Shepherd (4 mins)

Grace Williams
Elegy for Strings (7 mins)

Edward Elgar
‘Enigma’ Variations (31 mins)

BBC Singers
Liya Petrova violin
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Nil Venditti conductor


Beethoven and Bartók from Budapest
19:30 Wednesday 6 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 7 in A major (36 mins)

Béla Bartók
Duke Bluebeard’s Castle (55 mins)
(sung in Hungarian, with English surtitles)

Dorottya Láng Judith
Krisztián Cser Duke Bluebeard
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer conductor


Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony
19:30 Thursday 7 August 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Adolphus Hailstork
An American Port of Call (9 mins)
European première

Jennifer Higdon
blue cathedral (11 mins)

Arturo Márquez
Concierto de otoño (19 mins)

Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, ‘From the New World’ (40 mins)

Pacho Flores trumpet
Percussionists from Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Company and In Harmony Liverpool
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Domingo Hindoyan conductor


Rachmaninov’s ‘Paganini’ Variations
18:00 Friday 8 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Paul Dukas
La Péri – Poème dansé (18 mins)

Sergey Rachmaninov
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (25 mins)

Béla Bartók
The Miraculous Mandarin (32 mins)

Beatrice Rana piano
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Josep Pons conductor


100 Years of the Shipping Forecast (Belfast)
21:00 Friday 8 August 2025
Ulster Hall

Ronald Binge
Sailing By (3 mins)

Benjamin Britten
Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’ – Storm (5 mins)

María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir
Oceans (9 mins)

Trad.
Pórt na bPúcaí (5 mins)
arr. Neil Martin

LYR
Yonderland
BBC commission: world première

Anna Clyne
Restless Oceans (4 mins)

Maurice Ravel
Miroirs – Une barque sur l’océan (8 mins)

Malcolm Arnold
The Padstow Lifeboat (5 mins)

Caroline Nicholls presenter
Al Ryan presenter
LYR
Ulster Orchestra
Chloé van Soeterstède conductor


From Dark Till Dawn: All Night Prom
8 – 9 August 2025 Friday 8 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Anna Lapwood organ/conductor
Barokksolistene
Bjarte Eike violin/director
Pembroke College Chapel Choir
Anastasia Kobekina cello
Hayato Sumino piano
12 Ensemble ensemble
Seckou Keita
Sleeping At Last ensemble


The Planets and Star Wars
19:00 Saturday 9 August 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

John Williams
Star Wars – suite (25 mins)

Caroline Shaw
The Observatory (14 mins)

Gustav Holst
The Planets (51 mins)

The National Youth Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska conductor
Farnham Youth Choir


Relaxed Prom: The Planets
11:00 Sunday 10 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

John Williams
Star Wars (15 mins)
excerpts

Caroline Shaw
The Observatory (5 mins)
excerpt

Gustav Holst
The Planets (27 mins)
Mars; Venus; Mercury; Jupiter

The National Youth Orchestra
Tess Jackson conductor
Linton Stephens presenter


Edward Gardner Conducts the LPO
19:30 Sunday 10 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Jean Sibelius
The Oceanides (11 mins)

Michael Tippett
The Rose Lake (29 mins)

Maurice Ravel
Shéhérazade (17 mins)

Claude Debussy
La mer (23 mins)

Aigul Akhmetshina mezzo-soprano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor


Mahler’s Third
19:00 Monday 11 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 3 in D minor (96 mins)

Beth Taylor mezzo-soprano
CBSO Children’s Chorus
BBC National Chorus of Wales upper voices
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Orchestre National de Bretagne
Ryan Bancroft conductor


Anoushka Shankar: ‘Chapters’
19:00 Tuesday 12 August 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Anoushka Shankar
London Contemporary Orchestra
Robert Ames conductor


The Cavemen.
22:15 Tuesday 12 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

The Cavemen.


Boléro and The Rite of Spring
19:30 Wednesday 13 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Edgard Varèse
Intégrales (12 mins)

Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Before we fall (Cello Concerto) (26 mins)
BBC co-commission: UK première

Maurice Ravel
Boléro (13 mins)

Igor Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring (33 mins)

Johannes Moser cello
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Eva Ollikainen conductor


Joe Hisaishi and Steve Reich
19:30 Thursday 14 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Joe Hisaishi
Symphonic Suite: The Boy and the Heron for piano and orchestra (15 mins)
European première

The End of the World (36 mins)
2015 version

Steve Reich
The Desert Music (48 mins)

John Holiday counter-tenor
BBC Singers
National Youth Voices
Philharmonia Chorus
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Joe Hisaishi conductor


Benjamin Grosvenor Plays Ravel
19:30 Friday 15 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Sofia Gubaidulina
Revue Music for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band (10 mins)
UK première

Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G major (23 mins)

Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, ‘Babi Yar’ (59 mins)

Benjamin Grosvenor piano
Kostas Smoriginas bass-baritone
BBC National Chorus of Wales lower voices
Synergy Vocals
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft conductor


BBC Young Composer Free Workshop: London
10:00 Saturday 16 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall


Shostakovich’s Fifth by Heart (16 Aug, 7pm)
19:00 Saturday 16 August 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5 in D minor (59 mins)
(performed from memory)

Max Revell actor/dancer
Aurora Orchestra
Polly Frame actor
Craig Stein actor
Sarah Twomey actor
Jane Mitchell Co-Director and scriptwriter
James Bonas Co-Director
Scott Graham for Frantic Assembly Co-director
Sean Hollands for Frantic Assembly Associate to Scott Graham
Zakk Hein video design
David Bishop lighting design
Nicholas Collon conductor


Shostakovich’s Fifth by Heart (17 Aug, 11am)
11:00 Sunday 17 August 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5 in D minor (59 mins)
(performed from memory)

Max Revell actor/dancer
Aurora Orchestra
Polly Frame actor
Craig Stein actor
Sarah Twomey actor
Jane Mitchell Co-Director and scriptwriter
James Bonas Co-Director
Scott Graham for Frantic Assembly Co-director
Sean Hollands for Frantic Assembly Associate to Scott Graham
Zakk Hein video design
David Bishop lighting design
Nicholas Collon conductor


Le Concert Spirituel
19:30 Sunday 17 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Alessandro Striggio
Mass ‘Ecco sì beato giorno’ (29 mins)

Motet ‘Ecce beatam lucem’ (8 mins)

Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet conductor


Elder Conducts ‘A Mass of Life’
19:30 Monday 18 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Frederick Delius
A Mass of Life (100 mins)
(sung in German, with English surtitles)

Jennifer Davis soprano
Claudia Huckle contralto
David Butt Philip tenor
Roderick Williams baritone
BBC Symphony Chorus
London Philharmonic Choir
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder conductor


Pappano Conducts Puccini and Strauss
19:30 Tuesday 19 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Richard Strauss
Die Frau ohne Schatten – Symphonic Fantasy (22 mins)

Giacomo Puccini
Suor Angelica (60 mins)
(sung in Italian, with English surtitles)

Carolina López Moreno Sister Angelica
Kseniia Nikolaieva Princess
Elena Zilio Monitress
Angela Schisano Mistress of the novices
Sarah Dufresne Sister Genovieffa
Monika-Evelin Liiv Abbess
Jenny Stafford Prima Cercatrice
Katie Lowe Infermiera
Manon Ogwen Parry Una Conversa/Una Novizia
Julia Solomon Una Conversa II
Hayley Meth Suor Dolcina
Caroline Bourg Seconda Cercatrice
Tiffin Choir
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappano conductor


Bruce Liu Plays Tchaikovsky
19:30 Wednesday 20 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Gabriela Ortiz
Antrópolis (10 mins)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major (44 mins)

Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Maurice Ravel) (35 mins)

Bruce Liu piano
Philharmonia Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali conductor


Beethoven’s Ninth
19:30 Thursday 21 August 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Bent Sørensen
Evening Land (13 mins)

Anna Clyne
The Years (20 mins)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, ‘Choral’ (65 mins)

Clara Cecilie Thomsen soprano
Jasmin White contralto
Issachah Savage tenor
Adam Pałka bass
Danish National Concert Choir
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi conductor


Paraorchestra and The Breath (Bristol)
18:00 Friday 22 August 2025
Bristol Beacon

Ríoghnach Connolly voice/flute/shruti
Stuart McCallum guitars
Paraorchestra
Charles Hazlewood conductor


Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
19:30 Friday 22 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Johann Sebastian Bach
Three Chorales – No. 1: ‘Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland’ (5 mins)
orch. Respighi

Thomas de Hartmann
Violin Concerto (30 mins)
UK première

Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Symphony No. 3, ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’ (55 mins)

Joshua Bell violin
Francesca Chiejina soprano
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska conductor


Late Junction (Bristol)
21:00 Friday 22 August 2025
Bristol Beacon

Angel Bat Dawid
Jo Hellier
Wojciech Rusin
Sarahsson
Verity Sharp presenter


BBC Young Composer Free Workshop: Bristol
10:00 Saturday 23 August 2025
Bristol Beacon


András Schiff Plays Bach
11:00 Saturday 23 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Johann Sebastian Bach
The Art of Fugue (90 mins)

Sir András Schiff piano
Schaghajegh Nosrati piano


Danish National Vocal Ensemble (Bristol)
14:00 Saturday 23 August 2025
St George's Bristol

Johann Sebastian Bach
Komm, Jesu, komm!, BWV 229 (8 mins)

Ethel Smyth
Five Sacred Partsongs – ‘Komm, süsser Tod’ (5 mins)

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Fratres ego enim accepi (4 mins)

Paola Prestini
Fratres, after Palestrina (7 mins)

Carl Nielsen
Three Motets (15 mins)

Anon.
Three traditional Danish summer songs (9 mins)

Uroš Krek
Three Autumn Songs (8 mins)

Alma Mahler-Werfel
Five Songs – ‘Laue Sommernacht’ (3 mins)
arr. C. Gottwald

Gustav Mahler
Rückert-Lieder – ‘Liebst du um Schönheit’ (5 mins)
arr. N. Forte

Danish National Vocal Ensemble
Graham Ross conductor


Mozart, Arvo Pärt and Gavin Higgins (Bristol)
17:30 Saturday 23 August 2025
Bristol Beacon

Jean Sibelius
Rakastava (11 mins)

Arvo Pärt
Tabula rasa (30 mins)

Gavin Higgins
Rough Voices (12 mins)
conducted by Tess Jackson

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 39 in E flat major (28 mins)

Zoë Beyers violin/director
Miranda Dale violin
Britten Sinfonia
Tess Jackson conductor


Mäkelä Conducts Mahler’s Fifth
20:00 Saturday 23 August 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Luciano Berio
Rendering (25 mins)

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor (68 mins)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Klaus Mäkelä conductor


Mäkelä Conducts Mozart, Prokofiev & Bartók
14:00 Sunday 24 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 31 in D major, ‘Paris’ (17 mins)

Sergey Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major (22 mins)

Béla Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra (36 mins)

Janine Jansen violin
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Klaus Mäkelä conductor


Under the Italian Sun (Bristol)
19:00 Sunday 24 August 2025
Bristol Beacon

Gioachino Rossini
William Tell – overture (12 mins)

Giacomo Puccini
Capriccio sinfonico (12 mins)

Luciano Berio
Folk Songs (23 mins)

Giuseppe Verdi
I vespri siciliani – overture (9 mins)

Ottorino Respighi
Il tramonto (16 mins)

Edward Elgar
In the South (Alassio) (20 mins)

Virginie Verrez mezzo-soprano
Welsh National Opera Orchestra
Carlo Rizzi conductor


CBeebies Prom: A Magical Bedtime Story (12.30pm)
12:30 Monday 25 August 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Lydia Kirton Story Fairy
Nigel Clarke Frog
Rose-Marie Christian Bee
Justin Fletcher Story Tree
Molly Mae Fisher Story Helper
Tarik Frimpong Story Helper
Charlotte Willmott Story Helper
Tara Young Story Helper
Sinfonia Smith Square
Ellie Slorach conductor
Angie Newman British Sign Language interpreter


CBeebies Prom: A Magical Bedtime Story (3.30pm)
15:30 Monday 25 August 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Lydia Kirton Story Fairy
Nigel Clarke Frog
Rose-Marie Christian Bee
Justin Fletcher Story Tree
Molly Mae Fisher Story Helper
Charlotte Willmott Story Helper
Tarik Frimpong Story Helper
Tara Young Story Helper
Sinfonia Smith Square
Ellie Slorach conductor
Angie Newman British Sign Language interpreter


Sibelius’s Second
19:30 Tuesday 26 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Arvo Pärt
Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten (6 mins)

Antonín Dvořák
Violin Concerto in A minor (32 mins)

Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 2 in D major (46 mins)

Isabelle Faust violin
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Andris Nelsons conductor


‘The Marriage of Figaro’ from Glyndebourne
18:30 Wednesday 27 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Marriage of Figaro (170 mins)
(semi-staged; sung in Italian, with English surtitles)

Tommaso Barea Figaro
Johanna Wallroth Susanna
Huw Montague Rendall Count
Louise Alder Countess
Alessandro Corbelli Bartolo
Madeleine Shaw Marcellina
Adèle Charvet Cherubino
Robert Forrest Don Basilio
Elisabeth Boudreault Barbarina
Alexander Vassiliev Antonio
Vincent Ordonneau Don Curzio
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Riccardo Minasi conductor
Talia Stern stage director


Saint-Saëns’s ‘Organ’ Symphony
19:30 Thursday 28 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Georges Bizet
L' Arlésienne – Suite No. 1 (17 mins)

Pablo de Sarasate
Carmen Fantasy (12 mins)

Augusta Holmès
Andromède (15 mins)

Camille Saint‐Saëns
Symphony No. 3 in C minor, ‘Organ’ (36 mins)

Inmo Yang violin
Rachel Mahon organ
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Marie Jacquot conductor


Khatia Buniatishvili Plays Tchaikovsky
19:30 Friday 29 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Margaret Sutherland
Haunted Hills (15 mins)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor (35 mins)

Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 6 in D major (43 mins)

Khatia Buniatishvili piano
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Jaime Martín conductor


Folk Songs and Dances
11:00 Saturday 30 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Ralph Vaughan Williams
English Folk Song Suite (14 mins)

Gunther Schuller
Eine kleine Posaunenmusik (16 mins)

Michael Tippett
Triumph: A paraphrase on music from ‘The Mask of Time’ (15 mins)

Malcolm Arnold
English Dances, Set No. 1 (9 mins)
(version for wind band)

Percy Grainger
The Lads of Wamphray (9 mins)

Trad.
Country Gardens (6 mins)
arr. Percy Grainger

Percy Grainger
A Lincolnshire Posy (16 mins)

Peter Moore trombone
London Symphony Orchestra wind, brass and percussion
Ryan Bancroft conductor


Handel’s ‘Alexander’s Feast’
19:30 Saturday 30 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

George Frideric Handel
Alexander’s Feast (107 mins)
1742 version (sung in English)

Hilary Cronin soprano
Hugh Cutting counter-tenor
Stuart Jackson tenor
Irish Baroque Chorus
Irish Baroque Orchestra
Peter Whelan conductor


Pekka Kuusisto and Katarina Barruk
19:30 Sunday 31 August 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Katarina Barruk
songs based on the joik indigenous song-type from Sábmie

Michael Tippett
Divertimento on ‘Sellinger’s Round’ (6 mins)

Philip Glass
String Quartet No. 3, ‘Mishima’ – Blood Oath (fifth movement) (3 mins)

Hannah Kendall
Weroon Weroon (5 mins)
UK première

Johann Sebastian Bach
Chorale Prelude ‘O Mensch, bewein’ dein’ Sünde gross’, BWV 622 (arr. Reger) (6 mins)

Caroline Shaw
Plan & Elevation – The Beech Tree (fifth movement) (3 mins)

Arvo Pärt
Fratres (9 mins)

Dmitry Shostakovich
Chamber Symphony (String Quartet No. 8, arr. R. Barshai) (24 mins)

Katarina Barruk vocals
Arnljot Nordvik guitar
Christer Jørgensen drums
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Pekka Kuusisto violin/director


Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’
18:30 Monday 1 September 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Dmitry Shostakovich
The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (160 mins)
(semi-staged; sung in English with English surtitles)

Amanda Majeski Katerina
Brindley Sherratt Boris/Ghost of Boris
John Findon Zinovy
Thomas Mole Mill-hand/Priest
Nicky Spence Sergey
Ava Dodd Aksinya/Convict
Ronald Samm Shabby Peasant
Alaric Green Steward
Chuma Sijeqa Police Sergeant
William Morgan Teacher
Sir Willard White Old Convict
Niamh O'Sullivan Sonyetka
BBC Singers
Chorus of English National Opera
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Brass Section of the Orchestra of English National Opera
John Storgårds conductor
Ruth Knight director


Adès Conducts the BBC SO
19:30 Tuesday 2 September 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Jean Sibelius
The Swan of Tuonela (10 mins)

Gabriella Smith
Breathing Forests (28 mins)
UK première

Thomas Adès
Five Spells from The Tempest (22 mins)

Jean Sibelius
The Tempest – Suite No. 1 (19 mins)

James McVinnie organ
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Adès conductor


St. Vincent
20:00 Wednesday 3 September 2025
Royal Albert Hall

St. Vincent
We Put a Pearl in the Ground

Hell Is Near

Reckless

Violent Times

I Prefer Your Love

The Strangers

Black Rainbow

Marrow

The Bed

Smoking Section

Now, Now

Live In The Dream

The Nowhere Inn

Digital Witness

Los Ageless

The Party

New York

Paris Is Burning

Candy Darling

Slow Disco

St. Vincent
Rachel Eckroth keyboards
Jules Buckley Orchestra
Jules Buckley conductor


Classic Thriller Soundtracks
19:30 Thursday 4 September 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Bernard Herrmann
North by Northwest – Prelude (3 mins)

Psycho – A Short Suite for String Orchestra (7 mins)

David Raksin
Laura (3 mins)
arr. Juliette Pochin

Bernard Herrmann
Vertigo Suite (12 mins)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Cello Concerto in C major

Quincy Jones
Ironside – Theme (4 mins)
arr. Callum Au

In the Heat of the Night (3 mins)
arr. Guy Barker

Bernard Herrmann
Twisted Nerve – Theme (2 mins)
arr. Callum Au

Taxi Driver – A Night Piece (9 mins)
arr. Christopher Palmer

Isaac Hayes
Shaft – Theme (4 mins)
arr. Fiona Brice

Quincy Jones
The Italian Job – On Days Like These (4 mins)

Lalo Schifrin
Bullitt – Shifting Gears (4 mins)
arr. Juliette Pochin

Quincy Jones
The Italian Job – It's Caper Time (3 mins)
arr. Callum Au

Edith Bowman presenter
Lance Ellington vocals
Ashton Jones vocals
Jonas Pap whistler
Sumudu Jayatilaka backing vocals
Louise Marshall backing vocals
Melanie Marshall backing vocals
Andrew Playfoot backing vocals
Sterling Elliott cello
BBC Concert Orchestra
Edwin Outwater conductor


Chineke! plays Shostakovich at the Proms
19:30 Friday 5 September 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
The Bamboula (10 mins)

Valerie Coleman
Fanfare for Uncommon Times (7 mins)

James Lee III
Visions of Cahokia (13 mins)
European Premiere

Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No. 10 in E minor (57 mins)

Chineke! Orchestra
Jonathon Heyward conductor


Golda Schultz Sings Gershwin and Bernstein
19:30 Saturday 6 September 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Franz Schreker
Chamber Symphony (28 mins)

George Gershwin
By Strauss (3 mins)

Kurt Weill
Youkali (Tango Habanera) (6 mins)

George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess – ‘Summertime’ (3 mins)

Kurt Weill
Lost in the Stars – title song (4 mins)

Igor Stravinsky
The Rake’s Progress – ‘No word from Tom’ (8 mins)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Die tote Stadt – ‘Marietta’s Lied’ (6 mins)

Leonard Bernstein
West Side Story – ‘Somewhere’ (4 mins)

Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird – suite (1945 version) (28 mins)

Golda Schultz soprano
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Robin Ticciati conductor


Vaughan Williams’s ‘A London Symphony’
11:00 Sunday 7 September 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Ottorino Respighi
Pines of Rome (23 mins)

Darius Milhaud
Le boeuf sur le toit (19 mins)
(version for violin and orchestra)

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 2 (A London Symphony) (44 mins)

Arabella Steinbacher violin
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko conductor


Angélique Kidjo: African Symphony (Bradford)
15:00 Sunday 7 September 2025
St George's Hall, Bradford

Angélique Kidjo
African Symphony (80 mins)
arr. Derrick Hodge; UK première

Corinne Bailey Rae
Angélique Kidjo
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Chris Cameron conductor


Grieg’s Piano Concerto
19:30 Sunday 7 September 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Ruth Gipps
Death on the Pale Horse (8 mins)

Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor (30 mins)

Arthur Bliss
The Beatitudes (50 mins)

Elizabeth Watts soprano
Laurence Kilsby tenor
Lukas Sternath piano
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor


Vienna Philharmonic Plays Bruckner’s Ninth
19:30 Monday 8 September 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Alban Berg
Lulu Suite (28 mins)
Rondo; Variations; Adagio

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 9 in D minor (63 mins)

Vienna Philharmonic
Franz Welser‐Möst conductor


Vienna Philharmonic Plays Mozart and Tchaikovsky
18:30 Tuesday 9 September 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 38 in D major, ‘Prague’ (29 mins)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, ‘Pathétique’ (50 mins)

Vienna Philharmonic
Franz Welser‐Möst conductor


Avi Avital: Between Worlds
22:15 Tuesday 9 September 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Rustavi Choir
Between Worlds
Avi Avital mandolin/director


Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony
19:30 Wednesday 10 September 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Lili Boulanger
D’un matin de printemps (5 mins)

Dmitry Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major (30 mins)

Sergey Rachmaninov
Symphony No. 2 in E minor (60 mins)

Anastasia Kobekina cello
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Delyana Lazarova conductor


Brahms’s Second Symphony
19:30 Thursday 11 September 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Giovanni Gabrieli
In ecclesiis (ed. Maderna) (10 mins)

Igor Stravinsky
Requiem Canticles (15 mins)

Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzone a tre core (ed. Maderna) (5 mins)

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 2 in D major (45 mins)

Jess Dandy contralto
Ashley Riches bass-baritone
National Youth Choir
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov conductor


John Wilson Conducts Bernstein and Ravel
19:30 Friday 12 September 2025
Royal Albert Hall

Richard Strauss
Don Juan (20 mins)

Leonard Bernstein
Serenade (30 mins)

Maurice Ravel
Daphnis and Chloe (58 mins)

James Ehnes violin
Sinfonia of London Chorus
Sinfonia of London
John Wilson


Last Night of the Proms 2025
19:00 Saturday 13 September 2025 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall

Modest Mussorgsky
A Night on the Bare Mountain (original version, 1867) (12 mins)

Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (19 mins)

Lucy Walker
Today (2 mins)

Arthur Benjamin
Storm Cloud Cantata (from ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’) (8 mins)

Charles Gounod
Faust – ‘Ah, je ris de me voir’ (Jewel Song) (5 mins)

Franz Lehár
The Merry Widow – Vilja Song (5 mins)

Camille Pépin
Fireworks (6 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Paul Dukas
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (12 mins)

Freddie Mercury
Bohemian Rhapsody (8 mins)
arr. Stuart Morley

Dmitry Shostakovich
Festive Overture (7 mins)

Lerner & Loewe
Medley from My Fair Lady (8 mins)
arr. Paul Campbell

Leonard Bernstein
Prelude, Fugue and Riffs (4 mins)
arr. Simon Wright

Leroy Anderson
The Typewriter (3 mins)

Rachel Portman
The Gathering Tree (3 mins)
BBC commission: world première

Trad.
Fantasia on British Sea-Songs (13 mins)
arr. Wood

Thomas Arne
Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent) (3 mins)

Edward Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ (8 mins)

Hubert Parry
Jerusalem (orch. Elgar) (2 mins)

Trad.
The National Anthem (2 mins)
(arr. Britten)

Auld Lang Syne (2 mins)
(arr. P. Campbell)

Louise Alder soprano
Alison Balsom trumpet
Axelle Saint-Cirel mezzo-soprano
Bill Bailey typewriter
Sam Oladeinde tenor
Brian May
Roger Taylor
BBC Singers ensemble
BBC Symphony Chorus ensemble
National Youth Choir ensemble
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Elim Chan conductor


End of Proms Service
15:00 Sunday 14 September 2025
Holy Sepulchre London