The BBC Proms 2023 season runs from Friday 14 July to Saturday 9 September.
#1 | 07/14/2023First Night of the Proms
Clive Myrie presents live from the Royal Albert Hall as the annual music festival is launched with Sibelius, Grieg, Britten and a world premiere from Ukrainian composer Bohdana Frolyak.
#2 | 07/16/2023Prom 4: Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons
Finnish violinist and conductor Pekka Kuusisto leads The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in a concert of works by Beethoven, Vivaldi and Andrea Tarrodi.
#3 | 07/21/2023Prom 7: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and their conductor laureate, Tadaaki Otaka, perform perhaps the most famous classical symphony ever written, Beethoven’s Fifth.
#4 | 07/23/2023Prom 12: Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Symphony
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and new Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 for the first of their two Proms together this season.
#5 | 07/28/2023Prom 18: Lata Mangeshkar: Bollywood Legend
Celebrating the musical legacy of Bollywood, the Proms pays tribute to Lata Mangeshkar, the voice behind the hit songs that defined Indian cinema’s greatest films.
#6 | 07/30/2023Prom 5: Bruch’s First Violin Concerto
South Korean star violinist Bomsori performs Bruch’s First Violin Concerto with conductor Anja Bihlmaier and the BBC Philharmonic.
#7 | 08/04/2023Prom 23: NYO Jazz (USA) with Dee Dee Bridgewater
Grammy award-winning jazz legend Dee Dee Bridgewater joins trumpeter Sean Jones and Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Jazz Orchestra, comprising outstanding young musicians from across the USA, as they make their BBC Proms debut.
#8 | 08/06/2023Prom 22: Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Prokofiev
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft return for the second of their consecutive Proms. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 is paired with Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with soloist Isata Kanneh-Mason.
#9 | 08/11/2023Prom 27: Yuja Wang plays Rachmaninov
Klaus Mäkelä and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform Walton’s choral symphony Belshazzar’s Feast, while Yuja Wang is the soloist in Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
#10 | 08/13/2023Prom 24: Felix Klieser plays Mozart
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Kirill Karabits present Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 2 alongside a work by Karabits’s own father. Horn virtuoso Felix Klieser makes his Proms debut with Mozart’s sunny Concerto No. 4.
#11 | 08/18/2023Prom 37: Budapest Festival Orchestra
Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer are joined by Sir András Schiff for one of the great Romantic piano concertos from Schumann. Weber’s overture to Der Freischütz and Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’ Symphony complete the programme.
#12 | 08/20/2023Prom 28: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Works by Copland and Hindemith bookend Strauss’s Four Last Songs – featuring South African soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha – in this Prom from the National Youth Orchestra.
#13 | 08/25/2023Prom 30: Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto
John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London perform Rachmaninov’s famous Second Piano Concerto with soloist Alim Beisembayev. Bookending the Prom are Lili Boulanger’s tone-poem D’un matin de printemps and Walton’s First Symphony.
#14 | 08/26/2023Prom 2: Northern Soul
The BBC Concert Orchestra brings a symphonic edge to the beats that took the industrial North and Midlands by storm in the 1960s and 1970s, in a stomping celebration of underground British club culture.
#15 | 08/27/2023Prom 34: Mindful Mix Prom
Relax into a late-night musical meditation with Grammy-nominated vocal group VOCES8 and a playlist that drifts from the Renaissance to Radiohead.
#16 | 08/30/2023Prom 56: Rattle conducts Mahler’s Ninth
Sir Simon Rattle’s final UK performance as Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra. He conducts Mahler’s epic farewell symphony, haunted by loss but urgently clinging to dance and song, alongside Poulenc’s choral masterpiece Figure humaine.
#17 | 09/01/2023Prom 61: Chineke! performs Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony
The Chineke! Orchestra – Europe’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse ensemble – returns to the Proms with Beethoven’s joyful Fourth Symphony, and continues our focus on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
#18 | 09/02/2023Prom 57: Fantasy, Myths and Legends
Encounter music from The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones and other titles in a Prom celebrating soundtracks from the worlds of film, TV and gaming.
#19 | 09/08/2023Prom 10: Horrible Histories: ’Orrible Opera
Join the Horrible Histories team and the English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra for a high-decibel dive into ’Orrible Opera.
#20 | 09/08/2023Prom 29: Mozart’s Mass in C minor
John Butt and the award-winning Dunedin Consort perform Mozart’s magnificent Mass in C minor with soloists including Lucy Crowe, Jess Dandy and Nardus Williams.
#21 | 09/09/2023Prom 71: Last Night of the Proms 2023, Part 1
Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and soprano Lise Davidsen join conductor Marin Alsop and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for the biggest musical party of the year.
#22 | 09/09/2023Prom 71: Last Night of the Proms 2023, Part 2
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