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The world's greatest classical music festival - stunning performances and collaborations.

The world's greatest classical music festival. Stunning performances, unique collaborations and the sheer joy of live music. Relive 2023's highlights before the new season begins.

2012

BBC Proms: 2012 Season: Prom 20

BBC Proms: 2012: Prom 20: Part 1: Aurora Orchestra Family Prom - Part 1

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Aurora Orchestra Family Prom - Part 1

Part 1 Part 1: Aurora Orchestra Family Prom - Part 1

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Nicholas Collon leads the Aurora Orchestra in Part 1 of a special Wallace and Gromit Prom.

Nicholas Collon conducts the Aurora Orchestra in the first part of a special Wallace and Gromit Prom, featuring the first performance of Wallace's My Concerto in Ee, Lad.

The Wallace & Gromit Prom

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London 

Introduced by Ian McMillan

The nation's favourite plasticine characters make their Proms debut in this programme of popular classics for all the family. 

With music by composers, John Adams, Debussy and Shostakovich and specially filmed Wallace & Gromit animations. Join the audience in the Royal Albert Hall as our dynamic duo prepare for the first performance of Wallace's brand-new Proms commission 'My Concerto in Ee, Lad'. After the Interval their short film about baking and murder - 'A Matter of Loaf and Death' - is performed with a live orchestral soundtrack.

Tasmin Little (violin)
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon (conductor).

BBC Proms: 2012

BBC Proms: 2012: Prom 20

Prom 20

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

All broadcasts from the 118th season of the BBC Proms.

Ian MacMillan introduces a special Wallace and Gromit Prom, featuring popular classics

Ian MacMillan introduces a family concert of popular classics, in which the characters from the Wallace and Gromit films make their Proms debut

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