BBC Proms

The London Contemporary orchestra’s Late Night Prom puts a futuristic spin on the best sci-fi music for film and television. Among the soundtracks featured are those for Alien: Covenant, Gravity, Moon and Interstellar.

John Wilson and his orchestra take us back to where it all began in a concert of classic songs and scores from the Warner Brothers. The programme includes music by Korngold, Loewe and Steiner, including numbers from My Fair Lady and The Sea Hawk.

Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique is an autobiographical cinematic fantasy full of tragedy and passion. Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra perform it from memory, with elements of design, lighting and choreography that bring the work to life.

Celebrate the rich musical landscape of nature in a Prom inspired by the bestselling book The Lost Words, which revives disappearing words that describe the natural world.

Schumann’s mould-breaking Fourth Symphony, moving from darkness to blazing light, is paired with Schoenberg’s revolutionary Five Orchestral Pieces. South-Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son is the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 15 in B flat major.

A concert of folk songs and tales from the BBC SSO. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2 takes a different Ukrainian folk melody as theme for each movement, while a gruesome Czech legend provides the starting point for Janáček’s atmospheric The Fiddler’s Child.

Check out a broad range of treats for music-lovers in the late night listing.

The BBC Philharmonic performs Russian classics by Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky in a more relaxed environment

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Jazz, showbiz and spirituality come together in Duke Ellington’s spectacular Sacred Concerts, which spawned three critically acclaimed, boundary-crossing albums. Drawing on all three, the Proms presents an exhilarating evening of dance, song and spectacle

Described as ‘the undisputed queen of African music’, three-time Grammy Award-winner Angélique Kidjo makes her Proms debut with her nine-piece band in late-night tribute to the celebrated salsa songstress Celia Cruz.

A non-stop exploration into 'the breaks' - the beat-driven music that has influenced the world of scratch DJs and b-boying/b-girling (i.e breakdancing) since the 1970s. Jules Buckley and the Heritage Orchestra are joined by special guests.

The season has over 150 events and over 80 concerts. Need some pointers? This might help.

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Saxophonist Jess Gillam in conversation with Proms Director David Pickard.

Find a Prom featuring music by your favourite composer.

Find your favourite performers and conductors at the 2019 Proms.

Whether you're new to classical music, a budding amateur, a music-loving family, or even a poet, there's something for you this season.

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

Musicians pick the music that calms their mind to mark the BBC's Mental Health season.

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

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

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

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.

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Discover the BBC's eclectic programming and mixes covering classical and beyond that is capturing imaginations.