Performances of BBC Symphony Orchestra at BBC Proms

Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra join soloist Augustin Hadelich for Mendelssohn’s vivacious, melody-filled Violin Concerto. We also hear Stravinsky’s The Song of the Nightingale and Strauss’s tone-poem Till Eulenspiegel

A chance to encounter two leading contemporary artists in collaboration with Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra

The sonic scope of Mahler’s Das klagende Lied meets its match in the musical spectacle of Pierre Boulez’s ‘majestic processional’ Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Hannu Lintu

Josep Pons conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Bartók’s ‘grotesque pantomime’ The Miraculous Mandarin, and Italian pianist Beatrice Rana is soloist in Rachmaninov’s thrilling Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

From the primal, hypnotic dances of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring to the sensual throb of Ravel’s Boléro and the edgy thrum and twitch of Varèse’s Intégrales, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Eva Ollikainen get the musical pulse racing

Sir Mark Elder conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, massed choirs and four star soloists in Delius’s A Mass for Life, which celebrates the transcendent power and triumph of the human spirit in the face of death

Joshua Bell is the soloist in Ukraine-born Thomas de Hartmann’s emotive, cinematic Violin Concerto, heard here with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Dalia Stasevska

An all-French programme from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Marie Jacquot sees Bizet’s incidental music for The Girl from Arles performed alongside a fantasy on themes from his popular opera Carmen, reimagined with explosive virtuosity by Sarasate

Composer and conductor Thomas Adès joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a performance of music from his own opera The Tempest alongside Sibelius’s tone-poem The Swan of Tuonela

Prize-winning young Viennese pianist Lukas Sternath makes his Proms debut in Grieg’s beloved Piano Concerto, accompanied by Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra

The biggest night in classical music is back! After eight weeks and over 80 concerts, the 2025 BBC Proms celebrates with a Last Night spectacular, packed with musical surprises, star turns and all the traditional favourites