BBC Music Magazine

WELCOME TO THE PROMS

Details of Proms to be broadcast on BBC TV, either live or later in the season, are included below. All Proms will also be broadcast on BBC Radio 3, many of them live; check schedules for details. For detailed ticket prices and booking fees, visit bbc.co.uk/promstickets

Note: booking fee is not included in ticket prices.

FRIDAY 19 JULY

PROM 1

Live on BBC Two

6.30pm Royal Albert Hall £15-£64

First Night of the Proms 2024

Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks: Overture Bruckner Psalm 150 Clara Schumann Piano Concerto Ben Nobuto Hallelujah Sim (world premiere) Beethoven Symphony No. 5. Sophie Bevan (sop), Isata Kanneh-Mason (pf); BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra/Elim Chan

SATURDAY 20 JULY

PROM 2

Recorded for broadcast on BBC Two

7.30pm Royal Albert Hall £15-£64

Everybody Dance! The Sound of Disco

BBC Concert Orchestra/Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser

SUNDAY 21 JULY

PROM 3

11am Royal Albert Hall £11-£54

Programme to include Bob Chilcott High Flight Melissa Dunphy Totality Ēriks Ešenvalds Stars Holst The Evening Watch Van Heusen/B. Howard, arr. A L’Estrange Come Fly With Me. The King’s Singers, VOCES8

PROM 4

Live on BBC Four

7.30pm Royal Albert Hall £11-£54

James MacMillan Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia Mahler Symphony No. 5. Hallé Children’s Choir, Youth Choir & Choir, Hallé/Sir Mark Elder

MONDAY 22 JULY

PROM 5

7.30pm Royal Albert Hall £10-£44

Schoenberg Pelleas and Melisande Zemlinsky The Mermaid. BBC National Orch of Wales/Ryan Bancroft

TUESDAY 23 JULY

PROM 6

Recorded for broadcast on BBC Four

7pm Royal Albert Hall £15-£64

Verdi Requiem. Latonia Moore (sop), Karen Cargill (mez), SeokJong Baek (ten), Solomon Howard (bass); BBC National Chorus of Wales, Crouch End Festival Chorus, BBC National Orch of Wales/Ryan Bancroft

PROM 7

10.15pm Royal Albert Hall £10-£28

Programme to include Caccini Le nuove musiche – ‘Amarilli, mia bella’ Cavalli Pompeo Magno‘Incomprensibil nume’ Frescobaldi Arie musicali, Book I – ‘Così mi disprezzate’ Monteverdi L’incoronazione di Poppea‘E pur io torno qui’, plus vocal and instrumental works by Jarzębski, Kerll, Marini, Netti, Pallavicino and Sartorio. Jakub Józef Orliński (countertenor); Il Pomo d’Oro

WEDNESDAY 24 JULY

PROM 8

7.30pm Royal Albert Hall £11–£54

Nick Drake: An Orchestral Celebration. BBC Symphony Orchestra/Jules Buckley

THURSDAY 25 JULY

PROM 9

7.30pm Royal Albert Hall £10–£44

Brahms Symphony No. 3

Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht

Mahler . Alice Coote (mez); BBC Scottish

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