The 2023 Proms features a huge breadth of programming; from Berlioz to Bollywood, large scale symphonic and choral work to intimate chamber concerts and exciting Proms debuts. The 2023 BBC Proms will run from Friday 14 July to Saturday 9 September 2023 comprising 84 Proms: 72 Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, six at venues across the UK, and the first weekend-long festival of Proms at Sage Gateshead

Season 77 Episode 14 - Prom 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. Air Date : 26th-Aug-2023

Season 77 Episode 1 - First 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. Air Date : 14th-Jul-2023  Read More

Season 77 Episode 2 - Prom 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. Air Date : 16th-Jul-2023  Read More

Season 77 Episode 3 - Prom 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. Air Date : 21st-Jul-2023  Read More

Season 77 Episode 4 - Prom 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. Air Date : 23rd-Jul-2023  Read More

Season 77 Episode 5 - Prom 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. Air Date : 28th-Jul-2023  Read More

Season 77 Episode 6 - Prom 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. Air Date : 30th-Jul-2023  Read More

Season 77 Episode 7 - Prom 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. Air Date : 4th-Aug-2023  Read More

Season 77 Episode 8 - Prom 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. Air Date : 6th-Aug-2023  Read More

Season 77 Episode 9 - Prom 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. Air Date : 11th-Aug-2023  Read More

Season 77 Episode 10 - Prom 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. Air Date : 13th-Aug-2023  Read More

Season 77 Episode 11 - Prom 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. Air Date : 18th-Aug-2023  Read More

Season 77 Episode 12 - Prom 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. Air Date : 20th-Aug-2023  Read More

Season 77 Episode 13 - Prom 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. Air Date : 25th-Aug-2023  Read More

Season 77 Episode 14 - Prom 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. Air Date : 26th-Aug-2023  Read More

Season 77 Episode 15 - Prom 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. Air Date : 27th-Aug-2023  Read More

Season 77 Episode 16 - Prom 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. Air Date : 30th-Aug-2023  Read More

Season 77 Episode 17 - Prom 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. Air Date : 1st-Sep-2023  Read More

Season 77 Episode 18 - Prom 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. Air Date : 2nd-Sep-2023  Read More

Season 77 Episode 19 - Prom 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. Air Date : 8th-Sep-2023  Read More

Season 77 Episode 20 - Prom 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. Air Date : 8th-Sep-2023  Read More

Season 77 Episode 21 - Prom 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. Air Date : 9th-Sep-2023  Read More

Season 77 Episode 22 - Prom 71: Last Night of the Proms 2023, Part 2

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. Air Date : 9th-Sep-2023  Read More