BBC Proms - 2023

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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

BBC Proms: Season 77 - 22 Episode s

77x1 - First Night of the Proms
July 14, 2023
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.
77x2 - Prom 4: Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons
July 16, 2023
Finnish violinist and conductor Pekka Kuusisto leads The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in a concert of works by Beethoven, Vivaldi and Andrea Tarrodi.
77x3 - Prom 7: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
July 21, 2023
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and their conductor laureate, Tadaaki Otaka, perform perhaps the most famous classical symphony ever written, Beethoven’s Fifth.
77x4 - Prom 12: Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony
July 23, 2023
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.
77x5 - Prom 18: Lata Mangeshkar: Bollywood Legend
July 28, 2023
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.
77x6 - Prom 5: Bruch’s First Violin Concerto
July 30, 2023
South Korean star violinist Bomsori performs Bruch’s First Violin Concerto with conductor Anja Bihlmaier and the BBC Philharmonic.
77x7 - Prom 23: NYO Jazz (USA) with Dee Dee Bridgewater
August 4, 2023
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.
77x8 - Prom 22: Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Prokofiev
August 6, 2023
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.
77x9 - Prom 27: Yuja Wang plays Rachmaninov
August 11, 2023
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.
77x10 - Prom 24: Felix Klieser plays Mozart
August 13, 2023
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.
77x11 - Prom 37: Budapest Festival Orchestra
August 18, 2023
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.
77x12 - Prom 28: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
August 20, 2023
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.
77x13 - Prom 30: Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto
August 25, 2023
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.
77x14 - Prom 2: Northern Soul
August 26, 2023
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.
77x15 - Prom 34: Mindful Mix Prom
August 27, 2023
Relax into a late-night musical meditation with Grammy-nominated vocal group VOCES8 and a playlist that drifts from the Renaissance to Radiohead.
77x16 - Prom 56: Rattle conducts Mahler’s Ninth
August 30, 2023
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.
77x17 - Prom 61: Chineke! performs Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony
September 1, 2023
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.
77x18 - Prom 57: Fantasy, Myths and Legends
September 2, 2023
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.
77x19 - Prom 10: Horrible Histories: ’Orrible Opera
September 8, 2023
Join the Horrible Histories team and the English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra for a high-decibel dive into ’Orrible Opera.
77x20 - Prom 29: Mozart’s Mass in C minor
September 8, 2023
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.
77x21 - Prom 71: Last Night of the Proms 2023, Part 1
September 9, 2023
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.
77x22 - Prom 71: Last Night of the Proms 2023, Part 2
September 9, 2023
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.

77x1 - First Night of the Proms

77x2 - Prom 4: Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons

77x3 - Prom 7: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

77x4 - Prom 12: Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony

77x5 - Prom 18: Lata Mangeshkar: Bollywood Legend

77x6 - Prom 5: Bruch’s First Violin Concerto

77x7 - Prom 23: NYO Jazz (USA) with Dee Dee Bridgewater

77x8 - Prom 22: Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Prokofiev

77x9 - Prom 27: Yuja Wang plays Rachmaninov

77x10 - Prom 24: Felix Klieser plays Mozart

77x11 - Prom 37: Budapest Festival Orchestra

77x12 - Prom 28: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

77x13 - Prom 30: Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto

77x14 - Prom 2: Northern Soul

77x15 - Prom 34: Mindful Mix Prom

77x16 - Prom 56: Rattle conducts Mahler’s Ninth

77x17 - Prom 61: Chineke! performs Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony

77x18 - Prom 57: Fantasy, Myths and Legends

77x19 - Prom 10: Horrible Histories: ’Orrible Opera

77x20 - Prom 29: Mozart’s Mass in C minor

77x21 - Prom 71: Last Night of the Proms 2023, Part 1

77x22 - Prom 71: Last Night of the Proms 2023, Part 2

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