29 episodes

BBC Proms - 2019

First aired Jul 19, 2019Season 73

Browse all 29 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

First Night of the Proms (Part One)

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Jul 19, 2019180 min

The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Karina Canellakis, perform Dvorak’s The Golden Spinning Wheel and a commission commemorating the 50th anniversary of the moon landings.

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Episode 2

First Night of the Proms (Part Two)

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Jul 19, 2019180 min

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Chorus, conducted by Karina Canellakis, perform Janácek’s Glagolitic Mass in the second half of First Night of the Proms 2019.

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Episode 3

Joshua Bell plays Dvořák

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Jul 21, 2019180 min

Join Katie Derham and Jess Gillam at the Royal Albert Hall for a Proms Bohemian rhapsody. The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jakob Hrusa, perform Smetana’s legendary Ma Vlast and, with American superstar violinist Joshua Bell, Dvorak’s Violin Concerto.

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Episode 4

Schumann, Schoenberg and Mozart

7.0
Jul 26, 2019180 min1 votes

Suzy Klein introduces the BBC Philharmonic and Omer Meir Wellber in a performance of works by Ben-Haim, Schumann, Schoenberg and, with Yeol Eum Son, Mozart's Piano Concerto No 15 in B flat, K450.

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Episode 5

Public Service Broadcasting

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Jul 26, 2019180 min

Cult band Public Service Broadcasting join the Multi-Story Orchestra and London Contemporary Voices to perform a specially commissioned new arrangement of their 2015 album The Race for Space.

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Episode 6

Nicola Benedetti with the NYO

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Jul 28, 2019180 min

Mark Wigglesworth conducts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in Auerbach, Prokofiev and, with Nicola Benedetti, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.

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Episode 7

Britten and Mahler

7.0
Aug 2, 2019180 min1 votes

Katie Derham introduces two pieces originally premiered by Proms founder Sir Henry Wood. Leif Ove Andsnes performs Britten’s Piano Concerto while Claudia Mahnke and Stuart Skelton sing Mahler’s poignant Das Lied von der Erde. Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

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Episode 8

Rachmaninov and Shostakovich

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Aug 4, 2019180 min

The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by John Storgårds, performs Rachmaninov's The Isle of the Dead, Shostakovich’s Symphony No 11 and the world premiere of Outi Tarkiainen’s Midnight Sun Variations.

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Episode 9

Angélique Kidjo

7.0
Aug 4, 2019180 min1 votes

Three-time Grammy Award-winner Angélique Kidjo makes her Proms debut together with her nine-piece band in a late-night tribute to salsa legend Celia Cruz.

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Episode 10

John Wilson Orchestra

7.0
Aug 9, 2019180 min1 votes

John Wilson's virtuoso orchestra celebrates the music of one of the world's most famous film studios, Warner Brothers, including works by Max Steiner and Erich Korngold.

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Episode 11

The Sound of Space

7.0
Aug 9, 2019180 min1 votes

Cerys Matthews introduces the London Contemporary Orchestra in a late-night Prom featuring sci-fi film music including excerpts from Alien: Covenant, Interstellar, Under the Skin and Gravity.

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Episode 12

Mozart's Requiem

8.0
Aug 11, 2019180 min1 votes

The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann, with Fatma Said, Kathryn Rudge, Sunnyboy Dladla and David Shipley in Mozart's Requiem.

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Episode 13

Pappano and the National Youth Orchestra of the USA

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Aug 16, 2019180 min

Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the National Youth Orchestra of the USA in Benjamin Beckman's Occidentalis, Strauss's Alpine Symphony and, with mezzo Joyce DiDonato, Berlioz's Les nuits d'été.

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Episode 14

Queen Victoria's Playlist

7.0
Aug 18, 2019180 min1 votes

An evening of music to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth including Mendelssohn's 'Scottish' Symphony and First Piano Concerto, performed by Stephen Hough on Victoria's piano.

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Episode 15

Rattle conducts Belshazzar's Feast

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Aug 23, 2019180 min

The London Symphony Orchestra, LSO Chorus, Orfeó Català and the Orfeó Català Youth Choir, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, perform works by Koechlin, Varèse and Walton's cantata, Belshazzar's Feast.

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Episode 16

Sheku Plays Elgar

7.0
Aug 25, 2019180 min1 votes

BBC 2016 Young Musician winner and superstar Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs Elgar's passionate Cello Concerto with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and their music director Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla. Introduced by Tom Service and Sheku's sister, pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason.

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Episode 17

Strauss, Sibelius and Prokofiev

8.0
Aug 30, 2019180 min1 votes

Katie Derham presents flavours of Finland, Russia and Germany from three 20th-century favourites, featuring Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

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Episode 18

Homage to Nina Simone

7.0
Aug 30, 2019180 min1 votes

First transmitted in 2019. Clara Amfo introduces a celebration of jazz and blues legend Nina Simone with The Metropole Orkest led by Jules Buckley, Ledisi, Lisa Fisher and more.

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Episode 19

Happy Birthday Henry Wood!

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Sep 1, 2019180 min

A 150th anniversary tribute to Sir Henry Wood, founder-conductor of the Proms, featuring many of the works he both premiered and arranged across nearly 50 years of the festival.

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Episode 20

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

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Sep 6, 2019180 min

The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Long Yu, makes its Proms debut in a programme including works by Qigang Chen, Rachmaninov and, with Eric Lu, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 23 in A major.

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Episode 21

Ellington's Sacred Music

7.0
Sep 6, 2019180 min1 votes

Cerys Matthews introduces an evening of jazz, gospel and Broadway-style music inspired by Duke Ellington's three sacred concerts. In a Proms premiere, Peter Edwards conducts the Nu Civilisation Orchestra in a new version of these landmark works, written originally between 1965 and 1973.

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Episode 22

Elgar's Enigma

7.0
Sep 8, 2019180 min1 votes

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs music by Vaughan Williams, Brahms and a new work - a birthday tribute to conductor Martyn Brabbins - inspired by Elgar's 'Enigma' Variations.

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Episode 23

Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique

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Sep 13, 2019180 min

Mathew Baynton, Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra present Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique from memory, in a specially devised production incorporating elements of theatre, spectacular lighting and choreography as well as Berlioz’s own words about his music.

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Episode 24

Jonny Greenwood Curates

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Sep 13, 2019180 min

Radiohead lead guitarist and award-winning film composer Jonny Greenwood curates a late-night Prom culminating in the world premiere of his work Horror vacui, written for solo violin and 68 strings.

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Episode 25

Last Night of the Proms, Part 1

NR
Sep 14, 2019180 min

Katie Derham hosts the climax of the world's greatest classical music festival live from London's Royal Albert Hall.

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Episode 26

Last Night of the Proms, part 2

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Sep 14, 2019180 min

Katie Derham introduces live coverage from the Royal Albert Hall of the climax of the world’s greatest classical music festival, including the traditional Last Night classics.

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Episode 27

CBeebies Prom: Off to the Moon

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Sep 14, 201960 min

To celebrate 50 years since the first astronauts walked on the moon, join the CBeebies Prommers for this third CBeebies Prom, which sees them taking a musical journey to the moon. Featuring music performed by the orchestra Chineke! conducted by Kwamé Ryan, with additional performances by the Chineke! Junior Orchestra and the first ever CBeebies Proms Choir, the preschool audience can hear pieces by composers such as Handel, Puccini, John Adams, Benjamin Britten and Jessie Montgomery as well as the world premiere of Hans Zimmer's new work, Earth. With specially made pieces of animation from some of CBeebies' most popular shows such as Clangers, Go Jetters and Moon and Me, an interactive song inspired by Neil Armstrong and special Nasa archive footage from the moon landing itself, join some of CBeebies's favourite presenters as they take you on a musical voyage to the stars.

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Episode 28

Episode 28

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Episode 101

Episode 101

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