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First Night of the Proms 2025

BBC Proms2025

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra launch the 2025 season including a world premiere The Elements by Master of the King's Music Errollyn Wallen

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra launch the 2025 season including a world premiere 'The Elements' by Master of the King's Music Errollyn Wallen.

Georgia Mann and Petroc Trelawny present live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, and are joined by comedian & actor Nick Mohammed.

Arthur Bliss: Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood
Felix Mendelssohn: Overture ‘The Hebrides’ (‘Fingal’s Cave’)
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor

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Interval: Petroc & Georgia are joined live in the box by tonight's soloist, Lisa Batiashvili, fresh from her performance of the Sibelius Violin Concerto and by composer Errollyn Wallen whose brand new piece The Elements will receive its world premiere in just a few minutes time.

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Errollyn Wallen: The Elements (BBC commission: world premiere)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sancta civitas

Lisa Batiashvili, violin
Caspar Singh, tenor
Gerald Finley, bass-baritone
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
London Youth Choirs
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor

The crash of the seas, the crumbling of city walls and a glimpse of the heavens: all come together in the 2025 First Night. There’s a Scottish sound-picture from Mendelssohn and cool Nordic grandeur from Sibelius. Errollyn Wallen harnesses primal forces in her colourful new orchestral commission, while visions from the Book of Revelation are the starting point for Vaughan Williams’s Sancta civitas.

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Fri 18 Jul 202518:45
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Arthur Bliss

    Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Overture The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave)

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Violin Concerto in D minor

    Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    The Elements

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Sancta Civitas

    Singer: Caspar Singh. Singer: Gerald Finley. Choir: BBC Singers. Choir: BBC Symphony Chorus. Choir: London Youth Choirs. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106 'Hammerklavier'

    Performer: Beatrice Rana.
    • Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 35 "Funeral March" - Beethoven: Piano Sonata No..
    • Warner Music UK Limited.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Study in G flat major, Op 25 No 9 (Butterfly)

    Performer: Beatrice Rana.
    • Chopin: 12 Études, Op. 25 & 4 Scherzi.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.

Broadcast

  • Fri 18 Jul 202518:45
    BBC Radio 3