Proms Extra 2013 - Episode 1

S00 E01 • Saturday, Jul 27, 2013 • Jul 27 • 3h

Katie Derham presents a new weekly review of the standout performances, artists and stories from the 2013 Proms season. In this episode, she looks back on the musical highlights of the opening fortnight, including a special report from Daniel Barenboim's Ring Cycle. Her studio guests include conductor Semyon Bychkov, soprano Susan Bullock and pianist Stephen Hough - and there is a special performance from one of the star soloists of the season, young Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii.

Proms Extra 2013 - Episode 2

S00 E02 • Saturday, Aug 3, 2013 • Aug 3 • 3h

Katie Derham looks back on another week of concerts from the BBC Proms, including a spectacular performance of Ravel's Bolero featuring Spanish dancers. Her studio guests include jazz pianist Julian Joseph, composer Tarik O'Regan, and ballerina Tamara Rojo.

Proms Extra 2013 - Episode 3

S00 E03 • Saturday, Aug 10, 2013 • Aug 10 • 3h

Katie Derham looks back on another week of concerts from the BBC Proms, including soloist Mitsuko Uchida's performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4. Her studio guests include conductor Vasily Petrenko, and trumpeter Alison Balsom, and we spend 24 hours with violinist Daniel Hope on a whirlwind day.

Proms Extra 2013 - Episode 4

S00 E04 • Saturday, Aug 17, 2013 • Aug 17 • 3h

Proms Extra 2013 - Episode 5

S00 E05 • Saturday, Aug 24, 2013 • Aug 24 • 3h

Proms Extra 2013 - Episode 6

S00 E06 • Unknown • Unknown • 3h

Unreleased

20th Century Classics - New Music at the Proms

S00 E07 • Sunday, Aug 18, 2013 • Aug 18 • 3h

Last Night from Around the UK

S00 E08 • Friday, Sep 20, 2013 • Sep 20 • 3h

Josie D'Arby and Zeb Soanes present highlights from the Last Night of the Proms celebrations around the UK, giving a flavour of the individual nations' unique concert events. Former Spice Girl Melanie C, Alfie Boe and violinist Jennifer Pike mark the return of the Scottish event to Glasgow Green. In Wales, set against the backdrop of Caerphilly Castle, featured performers include trumpeter Alison Balsom and West End stars John Owen Jones and Sophie Evans. Soprano Katherine Jenkins, violinist Chloe Hanslip and Lithuanian accordion player Martynas entertain the crowds gathered on the spectacular quayside at the Titanic Visitor Centre in Belfast, and in London's Hyde Park, Bryan Ferry, tenor Joseph Calleja and Nigel Kennedy provide added sparkle to the festivities, drawing this summer's Proms season to a close.

Beethoveniana

S00 E09 • Sunday, Jul 19, 2020 • Jul 19 • 7m

Joining Beethoven Unleashed, a year-long, BBC-wide marathon marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, a BBC Grand Virtual Orchestra made up of over 300 BBC musicians perform Beethoveniana by composer Iain Farrington, a brand new reworking of Beethoven’s nine symphonies commissioned by the BBC Proms to celebrate the opening of the 2020 Proms season. Farrington describes his work as 'taking Beethoven's music and putting it in a musical washing machine to see which colours run'. Director Toby Amies brings the music to life in this film, premiering exclusively on BBC Four, Choreographed by Cameron McMillan, starring dancers Emma Farnell-Watson and Joshua Smith together in their own lockdown bubble.

New Music at the Proms with Tom Service

S00 E10 • Sunday, Sep 3, 2023 • Sep 3 • 1h 30m

Celebrating cutting-edge classical works, presenter of Radio 3’s New Music Show Tom Service chooses his standout moments of premieres and commissions from this year’s Proms. All pieces respond to the world around us with joy, beauty and optimism. Highlights include Andrea Tarrodi’s atmospheric Birds of Paradise, inspired by footage from David Attenborough’s Planet Earth; Ukrainian composer Bohdana Frolyak’s spinetingling Let There Be Light, and Errolyn Wallen’s ecstatic new work The Whole World, for the National Youth Orchestra.

Unmissable Moments

S00 E11 • Sunday, Sep 10, 2023 • Sep 10 • 1h 59m

Unmissable Moments from the BBC Proms 2023 season. Take a whistlestop tour through eight weeks of world-class music making with standout performances from the spectacular array of superstar musicians who have graced the Royal Albert Hall stage this summer. This special programme is packed with some of the biggest tunes in classical music. Beethoven's biggest hits, memorable Mozart and a celebration of Rachmaninov sit alongside dazzling performances from the likes of Yuja Wang, Pekka Kuusisto and Isata Kanneh-Mason, while northern soul classics, jazz anthems and music all the way from Bollywood to Hollywood are given the symphonic treatment on the Proms stage. There really is something for everyone. An ensemble of this year’s Proms presenters brings us this celebration of the best of the best from the world's greatest classical music festival.