BBC Proms

Pre-order your copy of the BBC Proms 2019: Festival Guide now! Published in April.

The programme will be announced on 17 April and booking will open on 11 May 2019. Keep checking for details.

The BBC Proms Inspire Competition for 12 - 18 years olds is now open!

The 2019 Proms Youth Choir Academy for 16 - 25 year olds is now open.

A host of well-loved guests & presenters guide us through the last 100 years in classical music in documentaries, features and performances.

BBC Radio 3 broadcasts more live and specially-recorded concerts and opera than any other station.

Don't miss this selection of performances from across the festival that reflects the quality, breadth and passion of a summer of music-making.

Find and play popular performances from the Proms and from classical music elsewhere on the BBC.

22 women composers are championed by the Proms this summer as the festival reflects on the moment 100 years ago when some women got the vote. Watch or listen to performances of their music at this year's Proms.

Put on your headphones for a binaural experience of selected works from the season.

Explore new music by recent winners of the BBC Proms Inspire Competition.

Go deeper into the music with prominent thinkers, musicians and artists on themes relating to the concerts.

It's classical music's biggest party – enjoy this recap with clips, insights and social.

Highlights from the Prom of Bernstein’s hit Broadway musical On The Town conducted by John Wilson

Highlights mix from the Tango Prom, with the Britten Sinfornia conducted by Clark Rundell (Prom 70).

Youssou Ndour and Le Super Étoile de Dakar at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

The world’s first professional disabled-led ensemble core to a major symphony orchestra.

Selected favourite songs and the best photos from the West Side Story Prom presented as a lovely collage.

Prom 35 New York Now: From jazz to hip hop, Greenwich Village folk to disco, punk rock to Broadway, no single sound has ever summed up New York, What does it sound like today? And who are the new voices speaking for the city?

A collaboration of some of the folk world’s leading musicians, including Julie Fowlis, The Unthanks and Sam Lee (Prom 27).

A tribute to the legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop – pioneers of experimental electronic music – which includes Daphne Oram’s groundbreaking Still Point and music by RW stalwart Delia Derbyshire.

Jacob Collier teams up with conductor Jules Buckley and his Metropole Orkest in a special collaboration for the Proms.

A feast of highlight musical moments from the 2018 season, as well as talks and interviews – and a selection of complete performances in binaural audio.

Download for free the award-winning BBC virtual reality experience, a further iteration of the Five Telegrams project. Available from 9 November.

Six conductors take the time to calm it all down!

Rethink music with The Listening Service. Tom Service presents a journey of imagination and insight, exploring how music works, including special editions for the Proms 2018 sseason.

Jess Gillam hosts the podcast about young musicians, for young musicians.

Clemmie Burton-Hill helps music fans curate their own classical playlists. If you fancy giving classical music a go, start here.

Have a bawl at the Royal Albert Hall with our list of Proms that could reduce you to tears.

10 multiple choice music questions drawn from the fiendishly difficult TV quiz show.

Enter the general knowledge vortex of current season Proms.

At this year's Proms, there are plenty of examples of pieces that were coolly received on premiere, or ignored at the time, only to become classics later...

Prom 45 features Debussy's Jeux - a ballet about tennis. And it's far from the only piece in the repertoire inspired by sport...

Ever since it started in 1895, the Proms has pushed musical boundaries and challenged tastes. At other times, the Proms has inadvertently taken on a political flavour.

The Proms has been going on for so many years, and is such a part of British cultural life, you sometimes forget what a revolutionary event it is.

Discover more about the music in the Proms and pit your wits with our fun quizzes!

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