Listen to concerts from the BBC Proms when you want to on ABC Classic and the ABC listen app.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Throughout September, hear a hand-picked selection of over 30 Proms concerts broadcast across Lunchtime Concert, Evenings, Weekend Baroque, Screen Sounds and Saturday Night At The Opera.<\/p>\n
A major event in this year’s calendar is Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s performance at the BBC Proms.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With chief conductor Jaime Mart\u00edn, the orchestra performs Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with piano superstar Khatia Buniatishvili, as well as Dvo\u0159\u00e1k’s Sixth Symphony, and Haunted Hills by Australian Composer Margaret Sutherland.<\/p>\n
You’ll hear some of the finest musicians recorded live from the Royal Albert Hall.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There’s a formidable line-up of artists, including Janine Jansen, Augustin Hadelich, Martin Fr\u00f6st, Joshua Bell, and Anna Lapwood, as well as major touring orchestras like the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Danish National Symphony, Budapest Festival Orchestra, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.<\/p>\n
There is something for everyone in this year’s Proms coverage on ABC Classic.<\/p>\n
Guide to ListeningMonday 8 September<\/p>\n
Lisa Batiashvili performs the Sibelius Violin Concerto at the First Night of the Proms. (BBC\/Euroradio: Chris Christodoulou)<\/p>\n
1pm First Night of the Proms including Sibelius’s Violin Concerto
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, BBC Singers, Sakari Oramo (conductor), Lisa Batiashvili (violin)<\/p>\n
7pm Prom 7: French Night with the Orchestre National de France
Cristian M\u0103celaru (conductor), Randall Goosby (violin)<\/p>\n
Tuesday 9 September<\/p>\n
1pm Prom 10: Scottish Chamber Orchestra with Alexandre Kantorow perform Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No. 5
Maxim Emelyanechev (conductor), Alexandre Kantorow (piano)<\/p>\n
7pm Prom 9: BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
Sakari Oramo (conductor), Augustin Hadelich (violin)<\/p>\n
Wednesday 10 September<\/p>\n
1pm Prom 17: BBC Philharmonic with Martin Fr\u00f6st perform Clarinet Concertos by Copland and Shaw
Joshua Weilerstein (conductor), Martin Fr\u00f6st (clarinet)<\/p>\n
7pm Prom 27: Rachmaninov’s ‘Paganini’ Variations
BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers, Josep Pons (conductor), Beatrice Rana (piano)<\/p>\n
9pm Prom 18: Late Night \u2014 Arvo P\u00e4rt at 90
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, T\u00f5nu Kaljuste (conductor), Kadri Toomoja (organ)<\/p>\n
Thursday 11 September<\/p>\n
1pm Prom 20: Matinee \u2014 Viennese Waltzes
BBC Concert Orchestra, Anna-Maria Helsing (conductor), Erin Morley (soprano)<\/p>\n
7pm Prom 6: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra performs a new work by Mark Simpson and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique
Anja Bihlmaier (conductor), Sean Shibe (electric guitar)<\/p>\n
9pm Anoushka Shankar: ‘Chapters’<\/p>\n
Friday 12 September<\/p>\n
1pm Prom 29: The Planets and Star Wars
National Youth Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska (conductor)<\/p>\n
7pm Prom 35: BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Anna Thorvaldsdotti’s new cello concerto
Eva Ollikainen (conductor), Johannes Moser (cello)<\/p>\n
9pm Prom 25: Beethoven and Bartok from Budapest
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iv\u00e1n Fischer (conductor)<\/p>\n
Saturday 13 September<\/p>\n
1pm Prom 24: Great British Classics
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Singers, Nil Venditti (conductor), Liya Petrova \u00a0(violin)<\/p>\n
Sunday 14 September<\/p>\n
Khatia Buniatishvili performs Tchaikovsky with the Melbourne Symphony at the BBC Proms. (BBC Proms: Chris Christodoulou)<\/p>\n
1pm Prom 54: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra with Khatia Buniatishvili perform Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto
Jaime Martin (conductor), Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)<\/p>\n
3pm Prom 40: Le Concert Spirituel and Herv\u00e9 Niquet (conductor)<\/p>\n
6pm Prom 42: London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform Puccini’s Suor Angelica
Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor)<\/p>\n
Monday 15 September<\/p>\n
1pm Prom 44: Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
Fabio Luisi (conductor)<\/p>\n
7pm Prom 47: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra performs Mahler’s Fifth Symphony
Klaus M\u00e4kel\u00e4 (conductor)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tuesday 16 September<\/p>\n
1pm Prom 48: Matinee \u2014 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with Janine Jansen perform Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto
Klaus M\u00e4kel\u00e4 (conductor), Janine Jansen (violin)<\/p>\n
7pm Prom 36: Joe Hisaishi and Steve Reich
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Joe Hisaishi (conductor), John Holiday (countertenor)<\/p>\n
9pm Prom 45: BBC Symphony Orchestra and Joshua Bell perform De Hartmann’s Violin Concerto and Gorecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Dalia Stasevska (conductor), Joshua Bell (violin)<\/p>\n
Wednesday 17 September<\/p>\n
1pm Prom 37: BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales perform Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G
Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)<\/p>\n
7pm Prom 57: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra perform Tippett, Glass, Kendall, P\u00e4rt and more
Pekka Kuusisto (director\/violin), Katarina Barruk (singer)<\/p>\n
9pm Prom 68: Late Night \u2014 Avi Avital: Between Worlds<\/p>\n
Thursday 18 September<\/p>\n
1pm Prom 51: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Isabelle Faust perform Dvo\u0159\u00e1k’s Violin Concerto
Andris Nelsons (conductor), Isabelle Faust (violin)<\/p>\n
7pm Prom 53: BBC Symphony Orchestra performs Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy and Saint-Sa\u00ebns’s Organ Symphony
Marie Jacquot (conductor), Inmo Yang (violin), Rachel Mahon (organ)<\/p>\n
9pm Prom 63: Golda Schultz Sings Gershwin and Bernstein
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Robin Ticciati (conductor)<\/p>\n
Friday 19 September<\/p>\n
1pm Prom 71: Sinfonia of London performs music by Richard Strauss, Bernstein and Ravel
John Wilson (conductor), James Ehnes (violin)<\/p>\n
7pm Prom 28: From Dark Till Dawn
Anna Lapwood (organ), Anastasia Kobekina (cello), Barokksolistene, Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge<\/p>\n
Saturday 20 September<\/p>\n
1pm Prom 67: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performs symphonies by Mozart and Tchaikovsky
Franz Welser-Most (conductor)<\/p>\n
6pm Prom 61: Classic Thriller Soundtracks
BBC Concert Orchestra, Edwin Outwater (conductor)<\/p>\n
8pm Prom 58: BBC Philharmonic performs Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
English National Opera Chorus, BBC Singers, John Storgards (conductor)<\/p>\n
Sunday 21 September<\/p>\n
1pm Prom 72: Last Night of the Proms 2025<\/p>\n
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