BBC Proms - Season 23 / Year 2025

Season 23 / Year 2025

Episodes

First Night of the Proms
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Petroc Trelawny and Georgia Mann present the concert which kicks off the summer's Proms season. The music includes Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture, Bliss's Birthday Fanfare and Sibelius's majestic Violin Concerto, performed by soloist Lisa Batiashvili. A world premiere by Errollyn Wallen - The Elements - starts the second half, followed by Vaughan Williams' powerful Sancta Civitas with tenor Caspar Singh, baritone Gerald Finley, and the BBC Singers and Symphony Chorus. Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

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.

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.

The Great American Songbook with Samara Joy
Andi Oliver presents a BBC Proms concert in which American jazz singer Samara Joy and her octet join the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Miho Hazama to perform classic songs and musical standards at the Royal Albert Hall. Fresh from another double win at this year's Grammys, Joy makes her much-anticipated Proms debut, introducing audiences to her electric combination of youthful energy and old-soul musical style with classic songs and unique twists on instrumental classics from across jazz and its fringes, from bossa nova to the Great American Songbook. She salutes figures including Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus and Oscar Peterson. Nacio Herb Brown: You Stepped out of a Dream. Hoagy Carmichael: Stardust Davis, Ramirez and Sherman: Loverman (Oh Where Can You Be). Erroll Garner: Misty. Thelonius Monk: Worry Later (San Francisco Holiday). Billie Holiday and Max Waldron: Left Alone. Axel Stordahl and Paul Weston: Day by Day. Interval: Jazz singer and broadcaster Clare Teal joins Petroc to reflect on Samara Joy's Proms debut and to discuss the enduring fascination of the Great American Songbook. Betty Carter: Beware My Heart. Duke Ellington: I Got it Bad and That Ain't Good. Sun Ra, Samara Joy, Jae Mayo & Kendric McCallister: Peace of Mind/Dreams Come True. Samara Joy and Kendric Mccallister: Five Stages of Love (Love's Impression). Teddy Wilson and Harold Adamson: It's the Little Things that Mean So Much Monk: Ugly Beauty. Jobim: Chega de Saudade (No More Blues). Samara Joy (singer), Samara Joy Octet, BBC Concert Orchestra, Miho Hazama (conductor).

Bach and Mendelssohn at the Proms
The first televised Prom from the Glasshouse in Gateshead, featuring two classical masterpieces: Bach's dramatic Keyboard Concerto in D Minor and Mendelssohn's 'Lobgesang' Symphony.

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 alongside Saint-Saëns's popular Fifth Piano Concerto.
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