BBC Proms Announce Archive and Live Performances For 2020 Programme
In the year that the Proms turns 125 years old, the 2020 season brings the spirit of the Proms to music-lovers at home.
In the year that the Proms turns 125 years old, the 2020 season brings the spirit of the Proms to music-lovers at home.
The Last Night of the Proms is the culmination of the world's biggest musical festival.
Prom 50 featured the Orchestre de Paris playing three pieces: Robert Schumann's Genoveva-overture, Jörg Widmann's Babylon Suite, and Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No.
You may not have realised it at the time, but at some point or other in your life there's a strong chance you will have heard some of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in D minor.
Conductor Martyn Brabbins celebrated his 60th birthday in fine fashion: with a new commission for 14 composers to create their own set of orchestral variations on an anonymous theme, mirroring the shape of Elgar's Enigma Variations.
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted an evening of music where emotion overrode pristine beauty.
John Wilson and his orchestra return to the BBC Proms in a concert titled a?oeThe Warner Brothers Storya??, taking audiences on a whirlwind trip through the mammoth catalogue of music written for 1930-1960s Hollywood movies.
The BBC Philharmonic made a triumphant return to the BBC Proms for Prom 23: a concert showcasing the work of two of Russia's finest classical exports - Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky.
Prom 26: Mozart's Requiem, is the perfect expression of the Proms in a darker mood; a captivating evening of music redolent of love, loss and death.
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