BBC Proms - Season 23 / Year 2025

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Petroc Trelawny and Georgia Mann present the concert which kicks off the summer's Proms season. The music includes Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture, Bliss's Birthday Fanfare and Sibelius's majestic Violin Concerto, performed by soloist Lisa Batiashvili. A world premiere by Errollyn Wallen - The Elements - starts the second half, followed by Vaughan Williams' powerful Sancta Civitas with tenor Caspar Singh, baritone Gerald Finley, and the BBC Singers and Symphony Chorus. Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Nicholas McCarthy, the world's only professional one-handed concert pianist, makes his Proms debut alongside the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in a concert of 20th-century classics.

Summer from The Four Seasons and Bach's Air are among the highlights in a concert of Baroque delights featuring violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte making his Proms debut.

Andi Oliver presents a BBC Proms concert in which American jazz singer Samara Joy and her octet join the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Miho Hazama to perform classic songs and musical standards at the Royal Albert Hall. Fresh from another double win at this year's Grammys, Joy makes her much-anticipated Proms debut, introducing audiences to her electric combination of youthful energy and old-soul musical style with classic songs and unique twists on instrumental classics from across jazz and its fringes, from bossa nova to the Great American Songbook. She salutes figures including Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus and Oscar Peterson. Nacio Herb Brown: You Stepped out of a Dream. Hoagy Carmichael: Stardust Davis, Ramirez and Sherman: Loverman (Oh Where Can You Be). Erroll Garner: Misty. Thelonius Monk: Worry Later (San Francisco Holiday). Billie Holiday and Max Waldron: Left Alone. Axel Stordahl and Paul Weston: Day by Day. Interval: Jazz singer and broadcaster Clare Teal joins Petroc to reflect on Samara Joy's Proms debut and to discuss the enduring fascination of the Great American Songbook. Betty Carter: Beware My Heart. Duke Ellington: I Got it Bad and That Ain't Good. Sun Ra, Samara Joy, Jae Mayo & Kendric McCallister: Peace of Mind/Dreams Come True. Samara Joy and Kendric Mccallister: Five Stages of Love (Love's Impression). Teddy Wilson and Harold Adamson: It's the Little Things that Mean So Much Monk: Ugly Beauty. Jobim: Chega de Saudade (No More Blues). Samara Joy (singer), Samara Joy Octet, BBC Concert Orchestra, Miho Hazama (conductor).

The first televised Prom from the Glasshouse in Gateshead, featuring two classical masterpieces: Bach's dramatic Keyboard Concerto in D Minor and Mendelssohn's 'Lobgesang' Symphony.

The most iconic four notes in music history open Beethoven's famous symphony, performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra alongside Saint-Saëns's popular Fifth Piano Concerto.

Alison Balsom makes her Proms presenting debut with a concert of musical postcards from the Americas. Featuring Dvorak's New World Symphony, Arturo Márquez's Trumpet Concerto and Venezuelan virtuoso Pacho Flores performs on four different types of trumpet.

The BBC Concert Orchestra are joined by soprano Erin Morley and conductor Anna-Maria Helsing as they mark 200 years since the birth of Johann Strauss II with favourites like the Blue Danube and the Laughing Song. Plus, gems from Lehár, Kalman and Korngold.

Anita Rani introduces a concert that sees sitar superstar Anoushka Shankar join forces with conductor Robert Ames and London Contemporary Orchestra to perform an orchestrated version of her Chapters trilogy. Each Chapter of her three albums is inspired by one of the three countries she has called home, and the trilogy sonically carries the listener from afternoon, to night, to the dawn of a new day.

Linton Stephens presents a Prom from the Royal Albert Hall in which Nicholas Collon conducts the orchestra in a performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No 5 from memory. Actors join the musicians to bring to life a symphony born in the shadow of Stalin's regime - music on the edge of life and death by a composer treading a dangerous line between political obedience and artistic defiance.

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is brought to life in the Royal Albert Hall by conductor Fabio Luisi, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Choir, and a quartet of soloists - Clare Cecilie Thomsen, Jasmin White, Issachah Savage, and Adam Palka. Presented by trumpet superstar Alison Balsom.

Clive Myrie is joined at the Royal Albert Hall by guests Alison Balsom and Gyles Brandreth.for a musical celebration of landscapes and seascapes performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Featuring Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending, Elgar's Enigma Variations featuring Nimrod, Britten's Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, and Walton's Crown Imperial Coronation March, as well as lesser-known gems from some of Britain's most illustrious composers.

Alison Balsom presents as Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra brings Mahler's life-affirming fifth symphony with its famous Adagietto to the Proms. It sits alongside Berio's Rendering - a work inspired by Schubert.

The broadcaster presents a Prom celebrating soul music recorded at the Royal Albert Hall on August 3, with the BBC Concert Orchestra joined by vocalists Beverley Knight, Jacob Lusk, Reginald Mobley, Tony Momrelle, James Emmanuel, Annahstasia and the LJ Singers. The orchestra and conductor Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser trace a path from spirituals through gospel to soul, revealing the role of these genres in supporting the US civil rights movement. Inspirational tracks made famous by Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone and Aretha Franklin rub shoulders with hidden gems in a celebration of music that gave a voice to disenfranchised people and fostered a sense of community.

Tom Service curates a special compilation of new music performed at the 2025 Proms, featuring two world premieres, a trumpet concerto and cinematic soundscapes. Plus, composers including Errollyn Wallen, John Rutter and Anna Clyne reveal the inspirations behind their pieces.

Edith Bowman presents a Prom from the Royal Albert Hall celebrating Alfred Hitchcock's favourite composer Bernard Herrmann. Conductor Edwin Outwater leads the BBC Concert Orchestra in music including the themes from Vertigo, Psycho and Taxi Driver, as well as Korngold's cello concerto with soloist Sterling Elliott.

Actor, comedian and amateur violinist Nick Mohammed presents a concert from August 9, with Dalia Stasevska conducting the National Youth Orchestra in John Williams' Star Wars suite, Caroline Shaw's The Observatory and Holst's The Planets.

Clive Myrie presents from the Royal Albert Hall as Europe's first majority black and ethnically diverse orchestra celebrates its 10th anniversary. For this landmark concert, Chineke! performs Shostakovich's epic Symphony No 10 alongside classics from Coleridge-Taylor and Valerie Coleman.

One of the world's great orchestras make a much-anticipated return to the Royal Albert Hall, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst with two landmark symphonies that each broke the musical mould - Mozart's Prague and Tchaikovsky's Pathétique. Petroc Trelawny presents.

Katie Derham presents live coverage from the Royal Albert Hall of the climax of the classical music festival, with performances from conductor Elim Chan and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, soprano Louise Alder and trumpeter Alison Balsom's final performance after an illustrious career. Pieces include Dukas's Sorcerer's Apprentice, Hummel's Trumpet Concerto and Mussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain.

Further live coverage from the Royal Albert Hall of the climax of the classical music festival, including a brand-new, specially commissioned orchestral version of Bohemian Rhapsody, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Queen classic. Louise Alder sings a My Fair Lady medley, and trumpeter Alison Balsom performs Bernstein. And of course, all the traditional favourites return to close the season. Presented by Katie Derham, with special guests including Ted Lasso star Nick Mohammed.

Highlights from the world's biggest classical music festival, featuring performances by Anoushka Shankar, Pacho Flores, Liya Petrova, Nicholas McCarthy, Klaus Makela, Dalia Stasevska and Le Consort Ensemble and pieces by Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Mahler, Vaughan Williams and Shostakovich.

Grammy-winning singer and guitarist St Vincent, also known as Annie Clark, joins a full orchestra for this performance at the Royal Albert Hall, with arrangements of some of her best-loved songs. Conductor and arranger Jules Buckley brings the full might of his 60-strong orchestra to revel in arrangements of songs from seven St Vincent albums. Presented by Clara Amfo.

The singer and member of Little Mix performs with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and conductor Robert Ames at the Glasshouse International Centre for Music in Gateshead. Featuring material from her debut solo album, including Angel of My Dreams, It Girl and Midnight Cowboy and a cover of Sam Fender's Remember My Name, all reimagined in an orchestral arrangements by Ames.