2025

1. First Night of the Proms 2025

The 2025 First Night sees Mendelssohn’s ‘Hebrides’ Overture and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto featured alongside British classics from Bliss and Vaughan Williams, plus a world premiere from Master of the King’s Music Errollyn Wallen

2025-07-18 • 134 min

2. Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

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.

2025-07-20 • 110 min

3. Vivaldi and Bach at the Proms

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.

2025-07-25 • 99 min

4. The Great American Songbook with Samara Joy

Grammy Award-winning sensation Samara Joy sings Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra and Sun Ra’s timeless classics. Andi Oliver hosts this Proms debut from a rising star.

2025-07-27 • 100 min

5. Bach and Mendelssohn at the Proms

The first televised Prom from The Glasshouse in Gateshead, featuring two classical masterpieces. David Fray plays Bach's dark and dramatic Keyboard Concerto in D Minor, and some 200 singers perform in Mendelssohn's rousing 'Lobgesang' Symphony with soloists Hera Hyesang Park, Adele Charvet & Benjamin Hulett. Conducted by Dinis Sousa with Royal Northern Sinfonia.

2025-08-01 • 95 min

6. Beethoven’s Fifth at the Proms

The most iconic four notes in music history open Beethoven’s famous symphony, performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev. Saint-Saëns’ much loved Fifth Piano Concerto, known as ‘The Egyptian’, follows, with French pianist and star of the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony Alexandre Kantorow as the soloist.

2025-08-02 • 80 min

7. Dvorak's 'New World' Symphony at the Proms

A concert of musical postcards from the Americas featuring Dvorák’s masterful ‘New World’ Symphony. The Prom features two pieces from North America alongside a trumpet concerto full of the sounds of Latin America by Mexican composer Arturo Márquez, where Venezuelan virtuoso Pacho Flores performs on four types of trumpet. The prom is presented by fellow trumpeter Alison Balsom.

2025-08-08 • 105 min

8. Viennese Waltzes at the Proms

Step into a glittering world of waltzes, romance and high-kicking operetta as the BBC Concert Orchestra marks 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. Soprano Erin Morley joins conductor Anna-Maria Helsing for this joyful journey through Vienna’s golden age.

2025-08-10 • 99 min

9. Anoushka Shankar at the Proms

Anita Rani introduces a concert that sees sitar superstar Anoushka Shankar join forces with conductor Robert Ames and London Contemporary Orchestra to perform a newly 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.

2025-08-15 • 80 min

10. Aurora Orchestra Plays Shostakovich's Fifth

Explore this 20th-century masterpiece from the inside out as Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra return to the Proms with a signature memorised performance marking the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death. Actors join the orchestra in this immersive performance, bringing to life a symphony born in the shadows of Stalinist Russia, but which would emerge as a powerful statement of artistic defiance.

2025-08-17 • 105 min

11. Beethoven's Ninth at the Proms

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony – one of the most iconic and uplifting works in the classical canon – roars to life in the Royal Albert Hall. Presented by trumpet superstar Alison Balsom, this is a celebration of music at its most profound and exhilarating. Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Choir with a stellar quartet of soloists for an unforgettable performance.

2025-08-22 • 90 min

12. Great British Classics at the Proms

A musical celebration of landscapes and seascapes from the Royal Albert Hall performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. From the soaring flight of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, Elgar’s beloved Enigma Variations featuring Nimrod, Britten’s stormy Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, and Walton’s Crown Imperial Coronation March, to lesser known gems from some of Britain’s most illustrious composers, this is musical Britain at its very best. Clive Myrie presents and is joined by special guests Alison Balson and Gyles Brandreth.

2025-08-24 • 135 min

13. Mahler’s Fifth at the Proms

The electrifying combination of young superstar Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra brings Mahler’s epic and life-affirming symphony with its famous Adagietto to the Proms. It sits alongside Berio’s Rendering – an ingenius work inspired by Schubert. Presented by Alison Balsom.

2025-08-29 • 119 min

14. Soul Revolution with Trevor Nelson

Featuring hits by Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield and more. Trevor Nelson hosts at the BBC Proms, tracing the musical path of the United States’ civil rights movement from spirituals through gospel to soul. Sixteen voices, including Beverley Knight and Jacob Lusk, join conductor Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser, the LJ Singers and the BBC Concert Orchestra to celebrate music that took risks, pleaded for freedom and soundtracked history.

2025-08-30 • 89 min

15. Modern Classics at the Proms

Tom Service curates a musical snapshot in a special compilation of new music performed at the 2025 Proms. Featuring seven new pieces, including two world premieres, a dazzling trumpet concerto and cinematic soundscapes. Interviews with composers, including Errollyn Wallen, John Rutter and Anna Clyne, reveal the inspiration behind their pieces.

2025-08-31 • 120 min

16. Classic Thriller Soundtracks at the Proms

A night of thrills and suspense awaits as Alfred Hitchcock’s favourite composer – Bernard Herrmann – is celebrated at the Royal Albert Hall. Highlights include the themes from Vertigo, Psycho and Taxi Driver, as well as Erich Korngold’s sumptuous cello concerto from superstar American Sterling Elliott. Charismatic conductor Edwin Outwater leads the BBC Concert Orchestra, while Edith Bowman presents.

2025-09-05 • 109 min