BBC Proms

BBC Proms The world's greatest classical music festival. Friday 18 July - Saturday 13 September 2025. Listen on BBC Radio 3 & Sounds and watch on iPlayer.
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13/11/2025

🎻 No one who heard the BBC SSO's 1990 Proms premiere of James MacMillan’s 'The Confession of Isobel Gowdie' will forget its impact - a bold new Scottish voice speaking with uncompromising emotional power.

Inspired by the Scottish witch trials (15th–18th centuries), in which nearly 4,000 people were accused and tried, the work tells the story of Isobel Gowdie from the village of Auldearn, tortured and executed for alleged witchcraft.

MacMillan called it “the Requiem that Isobel Gowdie never had... offering her the mercy and humanity she was denied in the last days of her life."

Since Jerzy Maksymiuk conducted the world premiere at London's Royal Albert Hall, the BBC SSO has performed the work across Scotland and around the world, from Rome to Frankfurt and Birmingham. The BBC SSO has performed a total of nearly 40 compositions by Sir James MacMillan.

On Thursday 20 November, during the BBC SSO's 90th Anniversary Season, experience it live at Glasgow City Halls or listen on BBC Radio 3 on 26 November.

06/11/2025

✨ JADE performs Angel of My Dreams with the Royal Northern Sinfonia 🎵

📺 A very special performance at the Glasshouse International Centre for Music in Gateshead - watch JADE at the Proms: A Homecoming on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer this Saturday Nov 8 from 8pm.

📺 Watch on BBC iPlayer now - Angel of My Dreams full song at BBC Proms Must Watch Tracks.

29/10/2025

CBeebies Prom: A Magical Bedtime Story is available to watch now on BBC iPlayer.

An enchanting musical tale with Sinfonia Smith Square and CBeebies friends, don’t miss this entertaining exploration of the orchestra for little ones. Here, the Story Fairy and the Story Helpers enjoy the Juba Dance from Florence Price's Symphony No. 1.

Watch now: http://bit.ly/43ExLxn

27/10/2025

Clap along!

The Story Fairy, conductor Ellie Slorach, Sinfonia Smith Square and the whole Royal Albert Hall join together to try and wake the Story Tree. Will the strutting, bouncy rhythms of Les Toréadors from Bizet's Carmen do the trick?

Full of fun and laughs for all the family, watch CBeebies Prom: A Magical Bedtime Story on BBC iPlayer now.

27/10/2025

We followed the cast backstage at the Royal Albert Hall for a behind-the-scenes peek…

👉 Watch CBeebies Prom: A Magical Bedtime Story BBC iPlayer on 26th October

27/10/2025

The BBC Proms hit the UK City of Culture, Bradford!

Five-time Grammy winner Angélique Kidjo joined BBC Philharmonic for a symphonic tribute of her African heritage. Joined by Corinne Bailey Rae and conducted by Chris Cameron, the Proms brought this joyous concert to Bradford's St George's Hall.

You can listen back to the celebration on BBC Sounds

27/10/2025

Join the magical cast of characters and experience the BBC Proms from the comfort of your home!

👉 Watch CBeebies Prom: A Magical Bedtime Story now on

25/10/2025

St. Vincent performs Now, Now - an early favourite from 2007 - with the Jules Buckley Orchestra at the .

Annie Clark spins ‘a glorious re-imagination’ of new arrangements from across seven albums - search ‘St Vincent' to watch on BBC iPlayer

24/10/2025

Stevie Wonder’s Living for the City performed by Beverley Knight at Soul Revolution, a very special night at the .

Soundtracking history 📻 This powerful concert traces the musical path of the civil rights movement in the United States from spirituals through gospel to soul.

Incredible singers - Beverley Knight, Jacob Lusk, Reginald Mobley, Annahstasia, James Emmanuel, Tony Momrelle, Yomi Sode and the LJ Singers - join conductor Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser and the BBC Concert Orchestra to celebrate music that soundtracked history; with hits by Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield and more.

📺 Watch Soul Revolution with Trevor Nelson on BBC iPlayer

22/10/2025

Suspicion sounds like THIS! 😱 Are you ready for another nail-biting episode of Celebrity Traitors?

Karen Ní Bhroin conducts Sam Watts' epic score with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in rehearsals for The Traitors Prom, July 2025.

21/10/2025

Watch some Great British Classics 🎻 on BBC iPlayer

The National Orchestra of Wales performs Britten's Four Sea Interludes from the opera Peter Grimes, part of a musical celebration of landscapes and seascapes at the .

📺 Watch in full on BBC iPlayer - search 'Great British Classics at the Proms’.

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