Katie Derham presents the first night of the live classical music festival, featuring the works of Beethoven, Aaron Copland and young British composer Hannah Kendall. With special guest Stephen Fry. Show more
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Sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar takes to the stage in an evening dedicated to her father and musical guru, Ravi, in what would have been his centenary year. Show more
Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO with a programme of unmissable music featuring star pianist Mitsuko Uchida playing Beethoven, works by Elgar and Vaughan Williams, and a new composition by Thomas Adès. Show more
Nicola Benedetti leads a high-energy evening of baroque music with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, led by Jonathan Cohen. Show more
Laura Marling teams up with the 12 Ensemble for a retrospective journey through her back catalogue, as well as showcasing tracks from her 2020 album, Song for Our Daughter. Show more
The Aurora Orchestra and their conductor, Nicholas Collon, unpick Beethoven's Seventh Symphony to explore the inner workings of the composer's creative genius before performing the work - from memory! Show more
Superstar siblings Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason perform their first Prom together, an evening of chamber music for cello and piano. Show more
Featuring South African soprano Golda Schultz with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under its principal guest conductor Dalia Stasevska. Presented by Katie Derham. Show more
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales comes together for the first time since lockdown to play in a socially distanced concert where the audience is watching at home. Show more
2 hours, 59 minutes
Petroc Trelawny and Georgia Mann introduce the First Night of the 2020 BBC Prom season, launching six weeks of unforgettable highlights from the Proms archives. Show more
2 hours, 28 minutes
Riccardo Chailly leads the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Beethoven’s First Symphony and Prokofiev’s Third. Show more
55 minutes
Proms Chamber Music from the archive. Works by Webern and Beethoven frame the European premiere of Colin Matthews’s Fifth String Quartet, given by the Apollon Musagete Quartet. Show more
2 hours, 28 minutes
Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra perform Beethoven’s Second and Fifth Piano Concertos alongside Stravinsky’s Octet for wind instruments. Show more
Proms chamber music from the archive. American pianist Jeremy Denk performs Beethoven’s final piano sonata, plus Bartók’s Piano Sonata and Scriabin’s ‘Black Mass’ Piano Sonata. Show more
1 hour, 59 minutes
Beethoven’s titanic Mass is performed by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Arnold Schoenberg Choir under conductor Nikolous Harnoncourt. Show more
2 hours, 28 minutes
Oliver Knussen conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in works by three 20th-century British composers, including the first performance of John Tavener's The Protecting Veil. Show more
1 hour, 59 minutes
Christian Thielemann conducts one of Europe’s finest orchestras, the Staatskapelle Dresden, in works by Beethoven, Reger and Richard Strauss, with soloist Nikolaj Znaider. Show more
3 hours, 29 minutes
Beethoven’s Leonore at the 1996 Proms. Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts his Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in a landmark period instrument performance. Show more
2 hours, 28 minutes
The late, great Mariss Jansons and his Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra mark the centenary of Dvořák’s death in a 2004 Prom also featuring a popular tone poem by Richard Strauss. Show more
1 hour, 30 minutes
Marc Minkowski and his period-instrument ensemble Les Musiciens du Louvre perform Handel opera arias and Bach’s Cantata No 170 with Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter. Show more