BBC Proms Achieves Record Digital Reach With 8.3M Streams
by Rachel Stone - Sep 16, 2026
The BBC Proms concluded an eight-week run of 86 concerts across the Royal Albert Hall and UK venues, achieving 8.3 million streams on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds, along with 65.8 million social media views.
Review: BBC PROMS: LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS 2026, Royal Albert Hall
by Debbie Gilpin - Sep 14, 2026
“It’s tradition, Oliver. Traditions are important”, so says Dawn in the Inside No. 9 episode “Last Night of the Proms”, explaining the actions of the Prommers during the Fantasia on British Sea-Songs section of the concert to her teenage nephew. Anyone at the Royal Albert Hall (or watching from home) on Saturday night might have been forgiven for thinking that the first two thirds of the programme were incidental, given the insistence on party poppers being set off every two minutes and flags taking over nearly every spare inch of the auditorium - all while Sakari Oramo conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra through a mixture of pieces from the past two centuries.
Review: BBC PROMS: FIRST NIGHT OF THE PROMS 2025, Royal Albert Hall
by Josh Maughan - Jul 19, 2025
As classical performance continues to wrestle with relevance, accessibility and representation, the Proms are under pressure to lead this change. This opening night offered progress in places, but also showed how much further there is to go.
BBC Proms Makes Its Sunderland Debut At The Fire Station
by Stephi Wild - Jul 8, 2025
This summer, the BBC Proms will make history in the North East. For the first time, the world-famous festival comes to Sunderland. Over four days, audiences can enjoy live music across Gateshead and Sunderland in a unique regional programme.
The BBC Proms Reveals Lineup For 2025 Edition
by Stephi Wild - Apr 24, 2025
The BBC Proms has announced the lineup for its 2025 edition. The BBC Proms will present an eight-week celebration of music featuring over 3,000 artists, the first overnight Prom in almost half a century and more than 80 solo debuts.
Review: PROM 60: BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, Royal Albert Hall
by Louise Penn - Sep 3, 2023
Marking the Proms debut of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin), their artistic director Vladimir Jurowski conducted a lively and varied programme of works by Weill, Adès and Rachmaninov to a Royal Albert Hall high in anticipation.
Cynthia Erivo and More Set For BBC Proms; Full 2022 Programme Revealed
by Stephi Wild - Apr 26, 2022
The 2022 BBC Proms celebrates a homecoming of large-scale orchestral repertoire to the Royal Albert Hall. This year's festival will feature a programme of a scale not heard at the Proms since 2019: the symphonic music of our past responding vividly to the moment, from Verdi's Requiem on the First Night of the Proms, to Mahler's Second Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle, to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony performed by the Chineke! Orchestra and Chineke! Voices under Kevin John Edusei.
Tom Borrow Named a BBC New Generation Artist
by Sarah Jae Leiber - Jun 24, 2021
Borrow, a protege of Murray Perahia and student of Tomer Lev, Director of the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University, has been named 'One To Watch' by both Gramophone and International Piano magazines ('Tom Borrow is...the very definition of 'one to watch'').
MultiPiano Ensemble and Hyperion to Release 'New' Mozart Work
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 2, 2021
The MultiPiano Ensemble will focus on Mozart for its first-ever commercial recording, alongside the English Chamber Orchestra, on Hyperion Records. And the album, 'Mozart: The Complete Multipiano Concertos' includes, alongside the well-established Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra K365, and the Concerto for Three Pianos and Orchestra K242.
The Kathleen Ferrier Awards Competition Announces Winners
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 22, 2020
The prize winners of the 65th Kathleen Ferrier Awards Competition were announced last night (Sunday 13 December) at the end of the competition’s final, streamed from Southwark’s Henry Wood Hall.
BBC Proms Announce Archive and Live Performances For 2020 Programme
by Marianka Swain - Jul 3, 2020
In the year that the Proms turns 125 years old, the 2020 season brings the spirit of the Proms to music-lovers at home. BBC Radio 3 and BBC Four broadcasts treasures from the past 30 years of the Proms across six weeks, before two weeks of incredible live performances at the Royal Albert Hall.