BBC Proms

A thrilling mix of highlights from the world's greatest classical music festival.

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

This popular clip has travelled in time from the 2013 Proms.

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

With the BBC Orchestras and Choirs, many broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.

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.

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

Filmed inside and outside the Royal Albert Hall, 'Five Telegrams' draws on communications sent by young soldiers in 1918.

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

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

As the BBC Proms celebrates the Tango, we take a look at some of the more unusual facts and figures behind this most passionate of Latin dances.

Interesting facts about Senegalese cultural icon Youssou Ndour.

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

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).

Prommers were blown away by this Cuban-Jamaican supergroup: here's why.

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.

An at-a-glance view of the |Proms 2018 season's themes and highlights.

Six conductors take the time to calm it all down!

Bernstein was born 25 August 1918 and the BBC Proms marks his centenary with a series of concerts featuring his music. So who was he?

Rethink music with The Listening Service. Tom Service presents a journey of imagination and insight, exploring how music works

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.

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

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

Stream a selection of music programmed in the Proms this summer

An at-a-glance view of the |Proms 2018 season's themes and highlights.

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

Test your knowledge with a dozen questions about Bernstein's West Side Story.

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

Only the most dedicated of music fans need apply themselves to our super-hard quiz.

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.

Composer Anna Meredith and Richard Slaney from 59 Productions interviewed.

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Find out about the scheme for budding young composers aged 12 to 18.