Episode guide
BBC Proms: 2021
22 episodes · premiered Jul 30, 2021
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- Episode 1: First Night of the Proms: Part 1 Jul 30, 2021 · 3h Conductor Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra kick off a six-week season with Vaughan Williams’s ravishing Serenade to Music and Poulenc’s dazzling Organ Concerto. They’re…
- Episode 2: First Night of the Proms: Part 2 Jul 30, 2021 · 3h Katie Derham presents from the Royal Albert Hall, as the opening concert of the 2021 Proms season continues in front of a live audience. Conductor Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony…
- Episode 3: Prom 4: An Evening of Mozart with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Aug 1, 2021 · 3h The Scottish Chamber Orchestra and their young Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev showcase Mozart’s final three symphonies – composed over a period of just two months in the summer of…
- Episode 4: Prom 8: Gražinytė-Tyla Conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Aug 5, 2021 · 3h The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla champion the music of a too-long neglected composer. A pupil of Vaughan Williams, Ruth Gipps started her…
- Episode 5: Prom 5: Ryan Bancroft Conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales Aug 6, 2021 · 3h Musical borrowings, reworkings and reinventions run through this season’s Proms. The invisible thread linking tonight’s concert really begins with Bach. A lilting chaconne from his Cantata…
- Episode 6: Prom 2: The Golden Age of Broadway Aug 7, 2021 · 3h Smell the greasepaint and feel the blaze of those Broadway lights, as the BBC Concert Orchestra whisks you away for a night at the musicals. The toe-tapping favourites include songs from…
- Episode 7: Prom 10: Nicola Benedetti and the NYOGB Aug 8, 2021 · 3h Rising star Jonathon Heyward conducts the talented teenagers of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in one of the all-time symphonic greats. Propelling the symphony into the…
- Episode 8: Prom 14/15: Stravinsky from Memory Aug 13, 2021 · 3h Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra’s from-memory performances have become a thrilling recent fixture of the Proms. Now, following symphonies by Beethoven, Brahms, Shostakovich and…
- Episode 9: Prom 17: Víkingur Ólafsson Plays Bach and Mozart Aug 15, 2021 · 3h Award-winning Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson makes his much-anticipated Proms debut, as soloist in both Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in F minor, whose energised outer movements frame a…
- Episode 10: Prom 20: To Soothe the Aching Heart (A Night at the Opera) Aug 19, 2021 · 3h A host of British opera stars join Ben Glassberg and the BBC Philharmonic for a night rich in emotion and drama. After a year of lockdowns and social distancing, the themes of isolation…
- Episode 11: Prom 22: Nubya Garcia Aug 20, 2021 · 3h British saxophonist, composer, DJ and bandleader Nubya Garcia is one of the brightest of a new generation of jazz talent, drawing comparison with greats such as Sonny Rollins and Dexter…
- Episode 12: Prom 26: Sir Simon Rattle Conducts the London Symphony Orchestra Aug 22, 2021 · 3h The London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle mark 2021’s Stravinsky anniversary with a series of symphonic snapshots. We follow Stravinsky’s view of the symphony from the…
- Episode 13: Prom 28: Chineke! Orchestra Aug 26, 2021 · 3h The Chineke! Orchestra returns for its fourth visit to the Proms, celebrating diversity in composers as well as performers. Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s overture to his…
- Episode 14: Prom 29/30: Joshua Bell's Seasons: Vivaldi vs Piazzolla Aug 27, 2021 · 3h From an icy Italian winter to the heady, sensual warmth of a South American summer: violinist Joshua Bell leads the Academy of St Martin in the Fields on a musical journey through the…
- Episode 15: Prom 34/35: Family Prom - The Carnival of the Animals with the Kanneh-Masons Aug 29, 2021 · 3h Author Michael Morpurgo joins the seven talented Kanneh-Mason siblings and starry musical friends for this special Family Prom. Saint-Saëns’s much-loved suite The Carnival of the Animals –…
- Episode 16: Prom 31: George Lewis & Beethoven Sep 2, 2021 · 3h The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov pair Beethoven’s dramatic concert aria ‘Ah! perfido’ with the Second Symphony – a work whose vitality and…
- Episode 17: Prom 25: Moses Sumney Meets Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra Sep 3, 2021 · 3h Blending soul, jazz, art-pop and spoken word, singer-songwriter Moses Sumney defies traditional categories. His ever-evolving voice has channelled political rage and emotional optimism…
- Episode 18: Prom 38: Sir John Eliot Gardiner Conducts the Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists Sep 5, 2021 · 3h Sir John Eliot Gardiner makes his 60th Proms appearance directing his own Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Handel’s vividly theatrical Dixit Dominus – a concerto for choir…
- Episode 19: Prom 42: John Wilson Conducts the Sinfonia of London Sep 9, 2021 · 3h The Sinfonia of London makes its much-anticipated official concert debut under John Wilson, who re-established the ensemble in 2018. Following on from their award-winning recording, this…
- Episode 21: Prom 47: Bach’s St Matthew Passion Sep 10, 2021 · 3h Bach’s crowning masterpiece, the St Matthew Passion combines moments of extraordinary fragility and tenderness with raw choral power and explosive jubilation, bitter grief with passages of…
- Episode 22: Last Night of the Proms 2021 - Part 1 Sep 11, 2021 · 3h With his ‘thrilling vocal heroics’ and ‘magnetic stage presence’, Stuart Skelton is one of the great tenors of his generation, a regular in all the major international opera houses. The…
- Episode 23: Last Night of the Proms - Part 2 Sep 11, 2021 · 3h Katie Derham hosts continued live coverage from the Royal Albert Hall, at the climax of the world’s greatest classical music festival. Latvian accordionist Ksenija Sidorova and Australian…