All too soon the Last Night of the Proms was upon us, that uproarious party where audiences and performers let their hair down after eight weeks of serious music-making. As always the home teams of ...

The Proms has to be the greatest classical music festival on Earth, as welcoming to the nervous classical novice as it is to the cognoscenti. This year’s season has already delivered some ...

The line-ups and timings for the world's largest classical music festival have been released, with this year's performers ranging from Daniel Barenboim and Yo-Yo Ma to Florence Welch and even Daleks.

Britain is not short of pop festivals, but the BBC Proms is unique. It is the biggest and grandest classical music festival in the world, and once upon a time everyone knew what it stood for. Henry ...

The Proms season concluded on September 14th with the celebratory Last Night of the Proms, rounding off a run of 86 concerts: 72 at the Royal Albert Hall and 14 at venues across the UK. The BBC ...

The BBC Proms has announced the lineup for its 2025 edition. The BBC Proms will present an eight-week celebration of music featuring over 3,000 artists, the first overnight Prom in almost half a ...

Sheku Kanneh-Mason with Marin Alsop and the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the 2023 Last Night of the Proms. Kanneh-Mason appears this year with brother Braimah and the Fantasia Orchestra in Proms 20 and ...

In recent weeks, there has been an inundation of Union Jack flags popping up across the country, said to be motivated by patriotism. Just hours after thousands descended into London for the Unite the ...

The Last Night of the Proms is one of the most joyous events in classical music. There’s a degree of enthusiasm and audience participation that’s hard to top. We’ll hear live recordings from over the ...

The BBC Symphony Orchestra kicked off with Handel’s 1749 Music for the Royal Fireworks as an amuse bouche, which was rearranged in 1959 by the Australian conductor Charles Mackerras. Unlike the ...