BBC Proms 2021

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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.

BBC Proms: 2021: First Night of the Proms

First night of the Proms 2021

First Night of the Proms

2021

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Live at the BBC Proms, BBC SO and conductor Dalia Stasevska

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Singers, conductor Dalia Stasevska and organist Daniel Hyde play Vaughan Williams, Poulenc and Sibelius's Second Symphony.

Live at the BBC Proms: BBC SO and Singers, conductor Dalia Stasevska and organist Daniel Hyde play Vaughan Williams, Poulenc and Sibelius's Second Symphony.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London 
Presenter by Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny.

Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
Poulenc: Organ Concerto

c.8.10pm
INTERVAL: Georgia and Petroc look ahead to six weeks of exciting live music-making at the Proms. They are joined by a much-loved and familiar face to the Proms,   Tasmin Little, who hung up her violin last year.  She chats to Georgia and Petroc about her highlights of the up-coming season.

c.8.35pm
MacMillan: When Soft Voices Die
(BBC co-commission with Help Musicians: world premiere)
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D major

Elizabeth Llewellyn, soprano
Jess Dandy, contralto
Allan Clayton, tenor
Michael Mofidian, bass-baritone
Daniel Hyde, organ
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska, conductor

Dalia Stasevska leads a First Night featuring Vaughan Williams’s ravishing Serenade to Music – written to celebrate Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood’s 50 years on the podium and premiered by him at his jubilee concert in the Royal Albert Hall in 1938. Sir James MacMillan offers a new companion piece to the Serenade and Poulenc’s Organ Concerto is a piquant foil, showcasing the instrument in a vivid play of light and shade.

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