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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Finnish violinist and director Pekka Kuusisto returned to the Proms with the strings of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra,...
31/08/2025

Finnish violinist and director Pekka Kuusisto returned to the Proms with the strings of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, and singer and composer Katarina Barruk – who is one of only a handful of remaining speakers of the Ume Sámi language.

The wide-ranging programme included works by Katarina Barruk, based on the joik indigenous song-type from Sábmie, interspersed with music by J. S. Bach, Philip Glass, Hannah Kendall, Caroline Shaw and Tippett.

Listen back to the concert on BBC Sounds 🎻

31/08/2025

Ij gåssieke [Never, Ever] in rehearsal with Katarina Barruk, Pekka Kuusisto and the strings of the Det Norske Kammerorkester, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.

Katarina, one of the only remaining speakers of the Ume Sámi language, brings the ancient joik tradition to the Royal Albert Hall tonight, a unique form of vocal expression central to Sámi culture and spiritual life.

"Joik does not aim to describe something or tell a story...a joik is meant to capture the essence of a person, an animal, a place or an emotion. It is not about someone or something - it is that person or thing...It is not just music - it is a way of being, remembering and honouring what is meaningful."
- Katarina Barruk

🎧 Listen live tonight on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds.

Saturday night saw the Royal Albert Hall resound with the majestic brilliance of Handel’s oratorio ‘Alexander’s Feast’. ...
30/08/2025

Saturday night saw the Royal Albert Hall resound with the majestic brilliance of Handel’s oratorio ‘Alexander’s Feast’.

The Irish Baroque Orchestra and Chorus brought their all to an exhilarating Prom which also featured the sublime voices of soprano Hilary Cronin, countertenor Hugh Cutting and tenor Stuart Jackson. The audience’s thunderous applause was rewarded with a rousing encore of Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus, delivered by the full ensemble.

📻 You can listen back to the Prom now on BBC Sounds

30/08/2025

Katarina Barruk performing Miärralándda with the strings of the Det Norske Kammerorkester in Oslo, 2023.

Listen to this work and more live tomorrow as Katarina joins Pekka Kuusisto and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall. Together they combine the traditional and the modern with songs by Katarina and music by Bach, Philip Glass, Caroline Shaw and more.

🎟 Seats from £17.30 (incl. bkg fee).
Book now: bbc.co.uk/events/edgz3d

30/08/2025

The last question was impossible! 😅

Beverley Knight played Winner Stays On with songs featured in the Soul Revolution Prom. Luckily, you can hear them all live with the BBC Concert Orchestra 🤩 watch the full Prom on BBC iPlayer now.

Star pianist Khatia Buniatishvili shone in a sold-out Royal Albert Hall with Tchaikovsky’s iconic Piano Concerto No. 1. ...
30/08/2025

Star pianist Khatia Buniatishvili shone in a sold-out Royal Albert Hall with Tchaikovsky’s iconic Piano Concerto No. 1.

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor Jaime Martín also performed Margaret Sutherland’s Haunted Hills and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 6 in D major.

Listen back now on BBC Sounds

29/08/2025

🎙️ Soundtracking history 📻 Sam Cooke’s A Change is Gonna Come performed by Beverley Knight at Soul Revolution, a very special night at the .

Introduced and co-curated by Trevor Nelson, 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 from 6am on Saturday 30th August / and on from 7.40pm | and Listen now on 🎧

29/08/2025

Radiohead made into a rich piano fantasy in the hands of keyboard alchemist Hayato Sumino. 🎹

Hayato starred in a special All Night Prom, guest curated by Anna Lapwood. Listen to it all again on BBC Sounds.

There'll be two musical visions of Shakespeare’s The Tempest on Tuesday 2 September, when the BBC Symphony Orchestra tak...
29/08/2025

There'll be two musical visions of Shakespeare’s The Tempest on Tuesday 2 September, when the BBC Symphony Orchestra takes to the Royal Albert Hall stage. Conductor Thomas Adès directs his own thrilling work, alongside Sibelius's Shakespeare-inspired masterpiece.

You'll also hear Sibelius’s mystical tone poem The Swan of Tuonela, and James McVinnie as soloist in Gabriella Smith’s organ concerto Breathing Forests, which offers a ‘sonic forest’ and howl of protest against environmental destruction.

🎟️ Book your tickets now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e38rn3

This summer, Radio 3 Unwind is featuring soothing musical moments recorded at the world's greatest classical music festi...
29/08/2025

This summer, Radio 3 Unwind is featuring soothing musical moments recorded at the world's greatest classical music festival over the years.

Every Friday on Radio 3 Unwind, Dr Sian Williams presents Peaceful Proms Mornings, with a special selection of music for focus and calm, with star performers at the festival. Listen from 9am on Radio 3 Unwind, or afterwards on BBC Sounds.

28/08/2025

We asked star organist Anna Lapwood to be guest curator of an All Night Prom at the Royal Albert Hall. It was incredible... ✨

Listen to it all again on BBC Sounds .

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