2022
(2022)
Overview
This summer the world’s largest classical music festival returns in its full glory to the Royal Albert Hall for an unforgettable eight-week season. Running from 15 July to 10 September, the 2022 BBC Proms will showcase large-scale repertoire not heard at the festival since 2019.
Cast
Episodes
First Night of the Proms 2022 0.0
July 15, 2022
Giuseppe Verdi had a complicated relationship with religion: he asked to be buried with just ‘one priest, one candle, o…
Prom 2: John Wilson conducts the Sinfonia of London 0.0
July 17, 2022
British conductor John Wilson has long been a Proms favourite, but last year’s debut appearance of his new super-orches…
Prom 3: Radio 1 Relax at the Proms 0.0
July 22, 2022
Celebrating the BBC’s centenary year, the Proms partners with Radio 1 Relax for a late-night wind-down. Relax with Radi…
Prom 10: Music for Royal Occasions 0.0
July 24, 2022
Happy and glorious: the story of British music is inextricably linked with royalty, and down the centuries composers ra…
Prom 16: Sea Sketches with Andrew Manze and BBC NOW 0.0
July 29, 2022
‘Behold, the sea itself!’ Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony takes the poetry of Walt Whitman and opens the floodgates t…
Prom 19: Puccini’s Il tabarro 0.0
July 31, 2022
Life on a French river barge is tough, and for a young wife it can be lonely too. But in this closed and arduous world,…
Prom 21: Gaming Prom – From 8-Bit to Infinity 0.0
August 5, 2022
Fantastic worlds, epic adventures, complex characters and huge moral choices – the universe of computer gaming is a nat…
Prom 28: Leif Ove Andsnes – Mozart Momentum 1 0.0
August 7, 2022
When Mozart composed his piano concertos, he had a very specific performer in mind – himself. For Norwegian pianist Lei…
Prom 19a: Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra 0.0
August 7, 2022
The newly formed Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, made up of Ukrainian musicians – some from Ukraine’s major cities, some n…
Prom 35: Yuja Wang with the Oslo Philharmonic and Klaus Mäkelä 0.0
August 12, 2022
No prizes for identifying the real hero of Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben. With its swashbuckling self-confidence an…
Prom 34: Thorvaldsdottir, Elgar and Sibelius 0.0
August 14, 2022
Three composers, three landscapes. Elgar wrote his Cello Concerto in the woodlands of Sussex; for many listeners, its a…
Prom 27: NYOGB plays Elfman, Gershwin and Ravel 0.0
August 19, 2022
‘I think and feel in sounds,’ said Maurice Ravel. So, when he wrote his ballet Daphnis and Chloe, he created a sumptuou…
Prom 36: Marin Alsop conducts the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra 0.0
August 21, 2022
Viennese orchestral playing is a byword for excellence, rooted in generations of tradition. But under its distinguished…
Prom 47: Aretha Franklin – Queen of Soul 0.0
August 26, 2022
In her 80th-anniversary year – and 50 years since the release of her album Young, Gifted and Black – the Proms pays tri…
Prom 4: Cynthia Erivo – Legendary Voices 0.0
August 27, 2022
Cynthia Erivo is a creative phenomenon: a London-born, Tony, Grammy and Emmy award-winning actress, singer, songwriter …
Prom 49: Rattle conducts Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony 0.0
August 28, 2022
The end has come, and in the silence after the Last Trumpet, a solitary bird is the only sound heard on Earth. The ambi…
Prom 54: Earth Prom with Chris Packham 0.0
August 29, 2022
Over a century of public service broadcasting, the BBC has forged a global reputation for its coverage of the planet we…
Prom 58: Public Service Broadcasting – This New Noise 0.0
September 2, 2022
Archive footage, dancing astronauts and a flashing, blinking Sputnik right here in the Royal Albert Hall – when cult ‘r…
Prom 61: Chineke! performs Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony 0.0
September 4, 2022
‘Be embraced, all you millions!’ Since the earliest days of the Proms, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony has had a special pla…
Prom 67: Nicola Benedetti plays Wynton Marsalis 0.0
September 9, 2022
‘Nicola Benedetti – now, she really can play,’ says the American composer, trumpeter and all-round jazz legend Wynton M…
Last Night of the Proms 2022 - Part 1 0.0
September 10, 2022
It’s time to put on your party clothes, grab your favourite flag and raise the roof of the Royal Albert Hall! There’s n…
Last Night of the Proms - Part 2 0.0
September 10, 2022
It’s time to put on your party clothes, grab your favourite flag and raise the roof of the Royal Albert Hall! There’s n…
Unmissable Moments 0.0
September 11, 2022
Take a whistlestop tour through the very best music from the 2022 Proms season in this one-off special. Eight weeks of …
CBeebies Prom: Ocean Adventure 0.0
September 16, 2022
Join CBeebies for an ocean adventure travelling the musical world in the Royal Albert Hall submarine to find endangered…