Here is the complete 2025 BBC Proms schedule, featuring comprehensive listings of all this year's Proms.
This year's BBC Proms features 86 concerts, 72 at London's Royal Albert Hall and 14 at venues elsewhere around the UK.
Among the highlights, Sakari Oramo opens the First Night of the Proms, joined by tenor Caspar Singh, baritone Gerald Finley, and violinist Lisa Batiashvili. The programme includes the world premiere of The Elements by Errollyn Wallen, Master of the King’s Music and BBC Music Magazine Personality of the Year. The season ends with Elim Chan conducting the Last Night, featuring trumpeter Alison Balsom and soprano Louise Alder, plus two world premieres by Camille Pépin and Oscar-winner Rachel Portman.
This year, the BBC Proms expands its reach with exciting debuts in Bradford—part of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture—and Sunderland, bringing the festival to brand new audiences. The Proms also return to Bristol and Gateshead for two vibrant three-day weekend residencies, while a special Belfast Prom celebrates 100 years of Radio 4’s beloved Shipping Forecast.
The season welcomes world-class international orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Star soloists include pianists Yunchan Lim (a triple winner at this year's BBC Music Magazine Awards!) and Sir András Schiff, violinists Hilary Hahn and Janine Jansen, and soprano Golda Schultz.
All Proms are broadcast on BBC Radio 3, many of them live. Additional broadcast information below.
2025 BBC Proms schedule: Royal Albert Hall concerts
Friday 18 July
Live on BBC Two
PROM 1
6.45pm Royal Albert Hall, £26-£86
First Night of the Proms 2025
Bliss Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood, Mendelssohn Overture ‘The Hebrides’, Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Errollyn Wallen The Elements(BBC commission: world premiere), Vaughan Williams Sancta civitas
Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Caspar Singh (tenor), Gerald Finley (bass-baritone); BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, London Youth Choirs, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo
Saturday 19 July
The Great American Songbook and Beyond with Samara Joy
7pm Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Samara Joy (vocals), BBC Concert Orchestra/Miho Hazama
Sunday 20 July
Vivaldi and Bach
11am Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Vivaldi Violin Concertos in A minor and D minor, Trio Sonata in D minor ‘La follia’, Concerto for Strings in G minor, 'Summer' from The Four Seasons, Bach Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068, Largo from Violin Concerto in G minor, BWV 1056R
Théotime Langlois de Swarte (violin/director), Le Consort
Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand
7.30pm Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Shostakovich arr. Atovmyan Suite for Variety Orchestra, Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, Walton Symphony No. 1
Nicholas McCarthy (piano), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Mark Wigglesworth
Sample it: Walton Symphony No. 1
Monday 21 July
Mahler's Seventh
7.30pm Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Tom Coult Monologues for the Curious(BBC commission: world premiere), Mahler Symphony No. 7
Allan Clayton (tenor), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/John Storgårds
Tuesday 22 July
Berlioz’s ‘Symphonie fantastique’
7.30pm Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Richard Strauss Death and Transfiguration, Mark Simpson ZEBRA (or, 2-3-74: The Divine Invasion of Philip K. Dick: BBC commission: world premiere), Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
Sean Shibe (electric guitar), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/Anja Bihlmaier
Wednesday 23 July
French Night with the Orchestre National de France
6.30pm Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Ravel Rapsodie espagnole, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges Violin Concerto in G major, Op. 8, Charlotte Sohy Danse mystique (UK premiere), Chausson Poème, Ravel La valse
Randall Goosby (violin), Orchestre National de France/Cristian Măcelaru
Boulez and Berio: 20th-Century Giants
10.15pm Royal Albert Hall, £11-£37
Berio Sequenza V, Boulez Dialogue de l’ombre double, Berio Recital I (for Cathy)
Sarah Aristidou (soprano), Jérôme Comte (clarinet), Lucas Ounissi (trombone), IRCAM (live electronics); Ensemble intercontemporain/Pierre Bleuse
Thursday 24 July
Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
7.30pm Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Stravinsky Song of the Nightingale, Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Anthony Davis Tales (Tails) of the Signifying Monkey (UK premiere), Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Augustin Hadelich (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo
Sample it: Strauss Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Friday 25 July
Beethoven’s Fifth
6.30pm Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Rameau Les Indes galantes – suite, Saint‐Saëns Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, ‘Egyptian’, Jay Capperauld Bruckner’s Skull, Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor
Alexandre Kantorow (piano), Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Maxim Emelyanychev
Saturday 26 July
The Traitors
3pm, Royal Albert Hall, £33-£110
Claudia Winkleman (presenter), BBC Singers, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Karen Ní Bhroin
The Traitors
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £33-£110
Claudia Winkleman (presenter), BBC Singers, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Karen Ní Bhroin
Sunday 27 July
Mozart and Bruckner
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £10-£46
Ryan Wigglesworth for Laura, after Bach(BBC commission: world premiere), Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E major
Mariam Batsashvili (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Ryan Wigglesworth
Monday 28 July
Beethoven and Birtwistle
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £10-£46
Harrison Birtwistle Earth Dances, Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, ‘Eroica’
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Ryan Wigglesworth
Tuesday 29 July
Arooj Aftab and Ibrahim Maalouf
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Arooj Aftab (vocals), Ibrahim Maalouf (trumpet), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Jules Buckley
Wednesday 20 July
Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £10-£46
Grażyna Bacewicz Concerto for String Orchestra, Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Lutosławski Concerto for Orchestra
Vadym Kholodenko (piano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Tadaaki Otaka
Thursday 31 July
Rachmaninov and Copland
6.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £10-£46
Elsa Barraine Symphony No. 2, Copland Clarinet Concerto, Artie Shaw Clarinet Concerto, Rachmaninov
Symphonic Dances
Martin Fröst (clarinet), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/Joshua Weilerstein
Sample it: Copland Clarinet Concerto
Arvo Pärt at 90
10.15pm, Royal Albert Hall, £10-£28
Arvo Pärt Da pacem Domine / Veni creator / Magnificat / The Deer’s Cry / Für Jan van Eyck(UK premiere) etc, Galina Grigorjeva Svyatki – ‘Spring is Coming’, Rachmaninov All Night Vigil (Vespers) – ‘Bogoroditse Devo’ and ‘Slava v vyshnikh Bogu’, Bach Motet ‘Ich lasse dich nicht’, BWV 1165, Veljo Tormis Curse upon Iron
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Tõnu Kaljuste
2025 BBC Proms: Royal Albert Hall concerts, August
Friday 1 August
Yunchan Lim plays Rachmaninov
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £15-£66
John Adams The Chairman Dances, Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Berio Sinfonia
Yunchan Lim (piano), BBC Singers, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Kazuki Yamada
Saturday 2 August
Viennese Whirl
11am, Royal Albert Hall, £15-£66
Johann Strauss II Die Fledermaus – overture; ‘Mein Herr Marquis’ (Laughing Song), Josef Strauss Brennende Liebe – polka-mazurka, Korngold Straussiana Stolz Wiener Café – waltz, Dostal Fröhliches Spiel, Johann Strauss II By the Beautiful Blue Danube – waltz
Erin Morley (soprano), BBC Concert Orchestra/Anna-Maria Helsing
Mahler's 'Resurrection' Symphony
8pm, Royal Albert Hall, £15-£66
Mahler Symphony No. 2 in C minor, ‘Resurrection’
Mari Eriksmoen (soprano), Emily D’Angelo (mezzo-soprano); Hallé Choir, Hallé Youth Choir, Hallé/Kahchun Wong
Sunday 3 August
Soul Revolution
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
With guest vocalists, a gospel choir and Radio 2 presenter Trevor Nelson, the BBC Concert Orchestra and Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser trace a path from spirituals through gospel to soul, revealing the role of these genres in supporting the Civil Rights movement.
Trevor Nelson (presenter), BBC Concert Orchestra/Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser
Monday 4 August
Mahler and Boulez
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £10-£46
Boulez Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna, Mahler Das klagende Lied (original version, 1880
Natalya Romaniw (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano), Russell Thomas (tenor), James Newby (baritone); Constanza Chorus, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Hannu Lintu
Tuesday 5 August
Great British Classics
7pm, Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Walton Coronation March ‘Orb and Sceptre’, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor The Lee Shore/Isle of Beauty/The Evening Star, Avril Coleridge-Taylor The Shepherd, Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending, Britten Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, William Mathias Dance Overture, John Rutter new work (BBC commission: world premiere), Grace Williams Elegy for Strings, Elgar ‘Enigma’ Variations
Liya Petrova (violin); BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Nil Venditti
Sample it: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor The Lee Shore
Wednesday 6 August
Beethoven and Bartók from Budapest
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £15-£66
Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A major, Bartók Duke Bluebeard’s Castle (sung in Hungarian, with English surtitles)
Dorottya Láng, Krisztián Cser; Budapest Festival Orchestra/Iván Fischer
Thursday 7 August
Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Hailstork An American Port of Call, (European premiere), Jennifer Higdon Blue Cathedral, Arturo Márquez Concierto de otoño, Dvořák Symphony No. 9 in E minor, ‘From the New World’
Pacho Flores (trumpet), Percussionists from Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Company and In Harmony Liverpool; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Domingo Hindoyan
Friday 8 August
Rachmaninov’s ‘Paganini’ Variations
6pm, Royal Albert Hall, £10-£46
Dukas La Péri – Poème dansé, Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Bartók
The Miraculous Mandarin
Beatrice Rana (piano), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Josep Pons
From Dark Till Dawn
11pm, Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Organist and TikTok star Anna Lapwood is guest curator and brings choral classics with her choir from Pembroke College.
Anna Lapwood (organ/conductor), Barokksolistene/Bjarte Eike (violin/director), Pembroke College Chapel Choir, Anastasia Kobekina (cello), Hayato Sumino (piano)
Saturday 9 August
The Planets and Star Wars
7pm, Royal Albert Hall, £15-£66
John Williams Star Wars – suite, Caroline Shaw The Observatory, Holst The Planets
The National Youth Orchestra/Dalia Stasevska
Sunday 10 August
Relaxed Prom: The Planets
11am, Royal Albert Hall, £10-£28
John Williams Star Wars - excerpts, Caroline Shaw The Observatory - excerpt,
Holst Mars; Venus; Mercury; Jupiter from The Planets
Linton Stephens (presenter); The National Youth Orchestra/Tess Jackson
Sample it: Holst: 'Venus' from The Planets
Edward Gardner Conducts the LPO
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Sibelius The Oceanides, Tippett The Rose Lake, Ravel Shéhérazade, Debussy La mer
Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra/Edward Gardner
Monday 11 August
Mahler's Third
7pm, Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Mahler Symphony No. 3 in D minor
Beth Taylor (mezzo-soprano); CBSO Children’s Chorus, BBC National Chorus of Wales, Welsh National Opera Chorus, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Orchestre National de Bretagne/Ryan Bancroft
Sample it: Mahler Symphony No. 3, III: 'What the Animals in the Forest Tell Me'
Tuesday 12 August
Anoushka Shankar: ‘Chapters’
7pm, Royal Albert Hall, £26-£86
Multi-Grammy-nominated sitar virtuoso and composer Anoushka Shankar returns to the Proms for the world-premiere performance of music from her three ‘Chapter’ albums, tracing her musical and geographical journeys.
Anoushka Shankar; London Contemporary Orchestra/Robert Ames
The Cavemen
10.15pm, Royal Albert Hall, £10-£28
Nigerian sensations Kingsley Okorie and Benjamin James bring their distinctive brand of ‘highlife fusion’ to the BBC Proms, blending Igbo highlife – all bright horns, plucked guitar riffs and pulsing percussion – with jazz and soul.
Wednesday 13 August
Boléro and The Rite of Spring
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £10-£46
Varèse Intégrales, Anna Thorvaldsdottir Before we fall (Cello Concerto: BBC co-commission: UK premiere), Ravel Boléro, Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Johannes Moser (cello); BBC Symphony Orchestra/Eva Ollikainen
Thursday 14 August
Joe Hisaishi and Steve Reich
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £26-£86
Legendary Studio Ghibli composer Joe Hisaishi makes his Proms debut conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in two large-scale works exploring themes of destruction and loss. The cinematic soundscapes of Hisaishi’s own The End of the World are set against the restless electric pulse and shimmer of Steve Reich’s The Desert Music – a scorched-earth vision of a post-nuclear wasteland.
John Holiday (countertenor); BBC Singers, National Youth Voices, Philharmonia Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Joe Hisaishi
- We named Joe Hisaishi one of the greatest movie composers of all time
Sample it: Joe Hisaishi, The End of the World
Friday 15 August
Benjamin Grosvenor Plays Ravel
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £15-£66
Sofia Gubaidulina Revue Music for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band (UK premiere), Ravel
Piano Concerto in G major, Shostakovich Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, ‘Babi Yar’
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano); Synergy Vocals, BBC National Chorus of Wales, BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Ryan Bancroft
Saturday 16 August
Shostakovich’s Fifth by Heart
7pm, Royal Albert Hall, £15-£66
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D minor (performed from memory)
Aurora Orchestra/Nicholas Collon
Sunday 17 August
Shostakovich’s Fifth by Heart
11am, Royal Albert Hall, £10-£28
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D minor (performed from memory)
Aurora Orchestra/Nicholas Collon
Le Concert Spirituel
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Before there was Tallis’s mighty Spem in alium there was Striggio’s 40-part Mass: a sumptuous Renaissance epic in surround sound. Lost for centuries, it returns to the Proms in the expert hands of period specialists Le Concert Spirituel under Hervé Niquet. The programme will also be interspersed with works by Benevolo, Corteccia and Palestrina.
Striggio Mass ‘Ecco sì beato giorno’, Motet ‘Ecce beatam lucem’
Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet
Sample it: Striggio 'Ecce beatam lucem'
Monday 18 August
Elder Conducts ‘A Mass of Life’
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £10-£46
Delius A Mass of Life (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
Tuesday 19 August
Pappano Conducts Puccini and Strauss
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £26-£86
Richard Strauss Die Frau ohne Schatten – Symphonic Fantasy, Puccini Suor Angelica (sung in Italian, with English surtitles)
Carolina López Moreno, Kseniia Nikolaieva et al; Tiffin Choir, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano
Wednesday 20 August
Bruce Liu Plays Tchaikovsky
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Gabriela Ortiz Antrópolis, Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
Bruce Liu (piano); Philharmonia Orchestra/Santtu-Matias Rouvali
Sample it: Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition I. Gnomus
Thursday 20 August
Beethoven's Ninth
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £15-£66
Bent Sørensen Evening Land, Anna Clyne The Years, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, ‘Choral’
Clara Cecilie Thomsen (soprano), Jasmin White (contralto), Issachah Savage (tenor), Adam Pałka (bass); Danish National Concert Choir, Danish National Symphony Orchestra/Fabio Luisi
Friday 22 August
Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Bach Three Chorales – No. 1: ‘Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland’ orch. Respighi, Thomas de Hartmann Violin Concerto (UK premiere), Górecki Symphony No. 3, ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’
Joshua Bell (violin), Francesca Chiejina (soprano); BBC Symphony Orchestra/Dalia Stasevska
Saturday 23 August
András Schiff Plays Bach
11am, Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Bach The Art of Fugue
Sir András Schiff (piano), Schaghajegh Nosrati (piano)
Danish National Vocal Ensemble
2pm, Royal Albert Hall, £20-£30
Bach Komm, Jesu, komm!, BWV 229, Ethel Smyth Five Sacred Partsongs – ‘Komm, süsser Tod’, Palestrina Missa Fratres ego enim accepi, Paola Prestini Fratres, after Palestrina, Nielsen Three Motets,
Uroš Krek Three Autumn Songs, Alma Mahler-Werfel Five Songs – ‘Laue Sommernacht’, Mahler Rückert-Lieder – ‘Liebst du um Schönheit’
Danish National Vocal Ensemble/Martina Batič
Sample it: Mahler ‘Liebst du um Schönheit’
Mäkelä Conducts Mahler’s Fifth
8pm, Royal Albert Hall, £26-£86
Berio Rendering, Mahler Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Klaus Mäkelä
- We named the Royal Concertgebouw one of the world's best orchestras
Sunday 24 August
Mäkelä Conducts Mozart, Prokofiev & Bartók
2pm, Royal Albert Hall, £26-£86
Mozart Symphony No. 31 in D major, ‘Paris’, Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Bartók Concerto for Orchestra
Janine Jansen (violin), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Klaus Mäkelä
Monday 25 August
CBeebies Prom: A Magical Bedtime Story
12.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £10-£28
Join CBeebies’ friends and a special guest in the Bedtime Stories chair as they share a magical musical tale. An entertaining exploration of the orchestra for little ones – full of fun and laughs for all the family.
Sinfonia Smith Square/Ellie Slorach
CBeebies Prom: A Magical Bedtime Story
3.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £10-£28
See above.
Tuesday 26 August
Sibelius's Second
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £33-£110
Arvo Pärt Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten, Dvořák Violin Concerto in A minor,
Sibelius Symphony No. 2 in D major
Hilary Hahn (violin); Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Andris Nelsons
Sample it: Arvo Pärt Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Wednesday 27 August
The Marriage of Figaro from Glyndebourne
6.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £26-£86
Mozart The Marriage of Figaro (semi-staged; sung in Italian, with English surtitles)
Tommaso Barea (Figaro), Johanna Wallroth (Susanna), Huw Montague Rendall (Count), Louise Alder
(Countess) et al; Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Riccardo Minasi/dir. Talia Stern
- Our experts voted The Marriage of Figaro the greatest opera of all time
- Mozart's best operas, ranked
Thursday 28 August
Saint-Saëns’s ‘Organ’ Symphony
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Bizet L' Arlésienne – Suite No. 1, Sarasate Carmen Fantasy, Augusta Holmès
Andromède, Saint‐Saëns Symphony No. 3 in C minor, ‘Organ’
Inmo Yang (violin), Rachel Mahon (organ); BBC Symphony Orchestra/Marie Jacquot
Friday 29 August
Khatia Buniatishvili Plays Tchaikovsky
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £15-£66
Margaret Sutherland Haunted Hills, Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Dvořák Symphony No. 6 in D major
Khatia Buniatishvili (piano), Melbourne Symphony Orchestra/Jaime Martín
Saturday 30 August
Rattle Conducts Folk Songs and Dances
11am, Royal Albert Hall, £26-£86
Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite, Gunther Schuller Eine kleine Posaunenmusik, Tippett Triumph: A paraphrase on music from The Mask of Time, Arnold English Dances, Set No. 1 (version for wind band), Grainger The Lads of Wamphray, A Lincolnshire Posy, Trad. arr Grainger Country Gardens
Peter Moore (trombone); London Symphony Orchestra wind, brass and percussion/Sir Simon Rattle
Handel’s ‘Alexander’s Feast’
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Handel Alexander’s Feast (1742 version, sung in English)
Hilary Cronin (soprano), Hugh Cutting (countertenor), Stuart Jackson (tenor); Irish Baroque Chorus, Irish Baroque Orchestra/Peter Whelan
Sunday 31 August
Pekka Kuusisto and Katarina Barruk
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £15-£66
Katarina Barruk songs based on the joik indigenous song-type from Sábmie, Tippett
Divertimento on Sellinger’s Round, Glass String Quartet No. 3, ‘Mishima’ – Blood Oath (fifth movement), Hannah Kendall Weroon Weroon (UK premiere), Bach Chorale Prelude ‘O Mensch, bewein’ dein’ Sünde gross’, BWV 622 (arr. Reger), Caroline Shaw Plan & Elevation – The Beech Tree (fifth movement), Arvo Pärt Fratres, Shostakovich Chamber Symphony (String Quartet No. 8, arr. R. Barshai)
Katarina Barruk (vocals), Arnljot Nordvik (guitar), Christer Jørgensen (drums); Norwegian Chamber Orchestra/Pekka Kuusisto
Sample it: Arvo Pärt Fratres
2025 BBC Proms: Royal Albert Hall concerts, September
Monday 1 September
Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’
6.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £15-£66
Shostakovich The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (semi-staged; sung in English with English surtitles)
Amanda Majeski, Brindley Sherratt et al; BBC Singers, Chorus of English National Opera, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/John Storgårds
Tuesday 2 September
Adès Conducts the BBC SO
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £10-£46
Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela, Gabriella Smith Breathing Forests, Thomas Adès Five Spells from The Tempest, Sibelius The Tempest – Suite No. 1
James McVinnie (organ), BBC Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Adès
Sample it: Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela
Wednesday 3 September
St. Vincent
8pm, Royal Albert Hall, £15-£66
Fresh from three 2025 Grammy wins, American art-rock queen St. Vincent makes her BBC Proms debut.
St. Vincent; Rachel Eckroth (keyboards), Jules Buckley Orchestra/Jules Buckley
Thursday 4 September
Classic Thriller Soundtracks
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £15-£66
Bernard Herrmann Excerpts from the films Vertigo, Psycho, North by Northwest, Taxi Driver
BBC Concert Orchestra/Edwin Outwater
Friday 5 September
Rattle Conducts Chineke!
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £15-£66
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor The Bamboula, George Walker Sinfonia No. 5, ‘Visions’, Shostakovich
Symphony No. 10 in E minor
Chineke! Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle
Saturday 6 September
Golda Schultz Sings Gershwin and Bernstein
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £15-£66
Schreker Chamber Symphony, Gershwin 'By Strauss' / 'Summertime', Weill 'Youkali (Tango Habanera)', 'Lost in the Stars', Stravinsky The Rake's Progress – ‘No Word From Tom’, Korngold Die tote Stadt – ‘Marietta’s Lied’, Bernstein West Side Story – ‘Somewhere’, Stravinsky The Firebird – suite (1945 version)
Golda Schultz (soprano); Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Robin Ticciati
Sunday 7 September
Vaughan Williams’s ‘A London Symphony’
11am, Royal Albert Hall, £15-£66
Respighi Pines of Rome, Milhaud Le boeuf sur le toit (version for violin and orchestra), Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 2 (A London Symphony)
Arabella Steinbacher (violin); Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko
Grieg’s Piano Concerto
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Ruth Gipps Death on the Pale Horse, Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor, Bliss The Beatitudes
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Lukas Sternath (piano); BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo
Sample it: Ruth Gipps Death on the Pale Horse
Monday 8 September
Vienna Philharmonic Plays Bruckner’s Ninth
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £26-£86
Berg Lulu Suite, Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D minor
Vienna Philharmonic/Franz Welser‐Möst
Tuesday 9 September
Vienna Philharmonic Plays Mozart and Tchaikovsky
6.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £33-£110
Mozart Symphony No. 38 in D major, ‘Prague’, Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B minor, ‘Pathétique’
Vienna Philharmonic/Franz Welser‐Möst
Avi Avital: Between Worlds
10.15pm, Royal Albert Hall, £10-£28
Bordering Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine, the Black Sea is a musical crossroads – a junction between worlds. Join boundary-breaking mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital – making his Proms debut – his Between Worlds Ensemble and Georgia’s male-voice Ensemble Rustavi for a sonic tour of these vibrant neighbouring cultures that includes traditional Crimean Tatar music, Turkish folk and klezmer, as well as works by Bartók and Fazil Say.
Ensemble Rustavi, Between Worlds Ensemble/Avi Avital (mandolin/director)
Wednesday 10 September
Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £11-£56
Lili Boulanger D’un matin de printemps, Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2 in E minor
Anastasia Kobekina (cello), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Delyana Lazarova
Thursday 11 September
Brahms’s Second Symphony
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £10-£46
Giovanni Gabrieli In ecclesiis (ed. Maderna), Stravinsky Requiem Canticles,
Gabrieli Canzone a tre core, Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D major
Jess Dandy (contralto), Ashley Riches (bass-baritone); National Youth Choir, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Ilan Volkov
Sample it: Brahms Symphony No. 2, Finale
Friday 12 September
John Wilson Conducts Bernstein and Ravel
7.30pm, Royal Albert Hall, £15-£66
Richard Strauss Don Juan, Bernstein Serenade, Ravel Daphnis et Chloé
James Ehnes (violin); Sinfonia of London Chorus, Sinfonia of London/John Wilson
Saturday 13 September
Last Night of the Proms 2025
7pm, Royal Albert Hall
Mussorgsky A Night on the Bare Mountain (original version, 1867), Hummel Trumpet Concerto in E flat major, Arthur Benjamin Storm Cloud Cantata (from The Man Who Knew Too Much), Lehár The Merry Widow – 'Vilja Song' Gounod Faust – ‘Ah, je ris de me voir’ (Jewel Song), Camille Pépin Fireworks (BBC commission: world premiere), Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Shostakovich Festive Overture,
Rachel Portman The Gathering Tree(BBC commission: world premiere), Trad. arr Wood Fantasia on British Sea-Songs, Arne arr. Sargent Rule, Britannia!, Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, Land of Hope and Glory, Parry Jerusalem, Trad. The National Anthem, Auld Lang Syne
Louise Alder (soprano), Alison Balsom (trumpet); BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Elim Chan
2025 BBC Proms schedule: concerts elsewhere around the UK
2025 BBC Proms: Sunderland
'Round Midnight with Soweto Kinch
Thur 24 Jul, 8pm The Fire Station, Sunderland, from £23
Rivkala (vocals), Theo Croker (trumpet), Joe Webb Trio, Soweto Kinch (presenter)
2025 BBC Proms: Gateshead
Robert Ames and Royal Northern Sinfonia
Fri 25 Jul, 9.15pm, Sage One, Gateshead
Royal Northern Sinfonia/Robert Ames
Angeline Morrison: The Sorrow Songs (Folk Songs of Black British Experience)
Sat 26 Jul, 5.30pm, Sage Two, Gateshead, from £20
Angeline Morrison (vocals/autoharp/double bass), Eliza Carthy (violin/fiddlesticks/vocals), Alex Neilson
(drums/vocals)
Bach and Mendelssohn with the Royal Northern Sinfonia
Sat 26 Jul, 7.30pm, Sage One, Gateshead, £23-£51
Bach Keyboard Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052, Mendelssohn Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, ‘Lobgesang’
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
CBeebies Prom: Wildlife Jamboree (1.30pm)
Sun 27 Jul, 1.30pm, Sage One, Gateshead, £15-£36
Chantelle Lindsay (presenter), Puja Panchkoty (presenter), Royal Northern Sinfonia
Sean Shibe and Friends
Sun 27 Jul, 3pm, Sage Two, Gateshead, from £20
Tyshawn Sorey new work(BBC co-commission), Cassandra Miller Bel canto, Boulez
Le marteau sans maître
Sean Shibe (guitar), Ema Nikolovska (mezzo-soprano), George Barton (percussion) et al
CBeebies Prom: Wildlife Jamboree (4pm)
Sun 27 Jul, 4pm, Sage One, Gateshead, £15-£36
Chantelle Lindsay (presenter), Puja Panchkoty (presenter), Royal Northern Sinfonia
2025 BBC Proms: Ulster
100 Years of the Shipping Forecast
Fri 8 Aug, 9pm, Ulster Hall, Belfast
The Proms celebrates the centenary of the Shipping Forecast with presenters from Radio 4’s Continuity team, music inspired by the oceans and the elements, and a new work by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and his group LYR.
Ulster Orchestra/Chloé van Soeterstède
2025 BBC Proms: Bristol
Paraorchestra and The Breath
Fri 22 Aug, Bristol Beacon, 6pm, £20-£25
Paraorchestra returns for a unique collaboration. Award-winning duo The Breath – featuring guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly – is known for its understated take on folk and psychedelia. Led by its Artistic Director Charles Hazlewood, the Paraorchestra’s fearless and holistic approach to large-scale orchestral music-making expands on The Breath’s unique sound-world.
Ríoghnach Connolly (voice/flute/shruti), Stuart McCallum (guitars), Paraorchestra/Charles Hazlewood
Late Junction
Fri 22 Aug, Bristol Beacon, 9pm, £8 standing
From the music of after-hours Tokyo to Somalian disco, and from guest playlisters to the world’s smallest LP, made for Queen Mary’s dolls’ house, Radio 3’s Late Junction has been home to the adventurous listener for over 25 years. Featuring DJ Sarahsson and Wojciech Rusin, this special Proms edition offers a late-night listening swerve that takes a sharp left off the beaten track.
Mozart, Arvo Pärt and Gavin Higgins
Sat 23 Aug, Bristol Beacon, 5pm, £15-£45
Sibelius Rakastava, Arvo Pärt Tabula rasa, Gavin Higgins Rough Voices, Mozart
Symphony No. 39 in E flat major
Zoë Beyers (violin/director), Miranda Dale (violin), Britten Sinfonia/Tess Jackson
Sample it: Mozart Symphony No. 39, II. Andante con moto
Under the Italian Sun
Sun 24 Aug, Bristol Beacon, 7pm, £15-45
Rossini William Tell – overture, Puccini Capriccio sinfonico, Berio Folk Songs, Verdi I vespri siciliani – overture, Respighi Il tramonto, Elgar In the South (Alassio)
Avery Amereau (mezzo-soprano); Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera/Carlo Rizzi
2025 BBC Proms: Bradford
Angélique Kidjo: African Symphony
Sun 7 Sept, St George's Hall, Bradford, 3pm
Angélique Kidjo African Symphony arr. Derrick Hodge (UK premiere)
Angélique Kidjo, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/Chris Cameron
Five-time Grammy winner Angélique Kidjo presents a showcase as part of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, paying tribute to her African heritage and taking in iconic tracks from legends such as Miriam Makeba, Fela Kuti, Hugh Masekela and Youssou N’Dour.
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