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Here's the big moment when @jbartonmezzo entered into the flag-waving spirit of the Last Night of the Proms! #LNOP
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As a mark of respect to the victims of the Nice tragedy, the @BBCSO opened the 2016 @BBCProms with La Marseillaise snpy.tv/29WQ34Z
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Has Armageddon ever sounded so good?👼😈 The main theme from #GoodOmens, composed by @DavidGArnold, was one of the delights performed by @BBCCO & @HuddsChoral at #BBCProms this year. Conducted by Anna-Maria Helsing. 📺 Watch Fantasy Film Music at the Proms now on @BBCiPlayer.
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And the gorgeous, unforgettable final notes of Vaughan Williams' 'The Lark Ascending' (with applause from orchestra and from around the country). Thank you @NickyBenedetti #LNOP
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The first episode of @bbcdoctorwho aired 58 years ago today! In celebration of #DoctorWhoDay here's a little throwback to the 2013 Doctor Who Prom. #BBCProms
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Meanwhile, among the tenors! #LNOP
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Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'You'll Never Walk Alone' has provided consolation and encouragement for decades and has become the anthem of support for the NHS, key workers and those in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Take my tears and that's not nearly all! Tainted Love is just one of many anthems given epic orchestral arrangements for Northern Soul at the #BBCProms. Performed here by @BBCCO, conductor @eoutwater and singer @vulavox. Join the party and watch now on @BBCTwo & @BBCiPlayer.
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Following the very sad news of the death of Her Majesty The Queen, as a mark of respect we will not be going ahead with Prom 71 on Friday 9 September, or the Last Night of the Proms on Saturday 10 September.
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Celebrating the fantastic #SherlockProm with @CHIMPSINSOCKS Martin Freeman, Christine Rice, Una Stubbs, Mark Gattis
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What a silence! The final heartstopping moments of Mahler's Ninth Symphony, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in his final UK performance with @londonsymphony. Watch the amazing 'farewell symphony' in, alongside Poulenc's Figure humaine with the @BBCSingers, on @BBCiPlayer now.
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You had me at cello. What a stunning performance. #BBCProms
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What was Beethoven's favourite fruit? Ba-na-na-naaaaa! 🍌 #NationalTellAJokeDay
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The Night has finally come... The roof of the @RoyalAlbertHall nearly comes off in this special Prom dedicated to Northern Soul, with @BBCCO and conductor @eoutwater. Enjoy this party preview featuring Darrell Smith and join us tonight at 7.45pm on @BBCTwo and @BBCiPlayer.
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The phenomenal highlights from our Chineke! Prom on @BBCFOUR 🎶 #BBCProms
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He rises and begins to round, He drops the silver chain of sound, of many links without a break, in chirrup, whistle, slur and shake. The incredible Tai Murray (@xtaizy) performing The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams.
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The unmistakeable introduction to Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending. This is @NicolaBenedetti's 10th appearance at the BBC Proms - and her second in this season. She performed The Lark Ascending in her first appearance, with the @BBCSSO in 2010 #LNOP
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Just for future reference, this is how you do 'Land of Hope and Glory'. #LNOP #LastNightOfTheProms
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Last night was a magical evening at the #BBCProms celebrating the 15 year anniversary of @florencemachine’s BRIT Award-winning debut album, Lungs, which made Florence Welch a global phenomenon 🌍✨
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Mark your calendars #Whovians. Tickets for the @bbcdoctorwho Proms go on sale from 9am on Friday 17 May 🚀📆 @BBCNOW and special guests present two concerts at the @RoyalAlbertHall on Monday 26 August, celebrating the latest adventures of the Doctor. 🎟️ bbc.co.uk/events/r9xj3d
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The end notes of Jean Sibelius's Finlandia ring out at @RoyalAlbertHall, with @BBCSingers, @BBCSO and Symphony Chorus, conducted by @DaliaStasevska. 🎵
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A stunning rendition of "The Man That Got Away" by the incredible @LouiseDearman. Tune in to @BBCFOUR now or catch up on iPlayer. #BBCProms
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Thank you and farewell.
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#BBCProms 2021 will take place from 30 Jul - 11 Sep @RoyalAlbertHall, on radio, TV and online. As the Hall marks its 150th birthday, we hope to welcome live audiences back to our glorious home this summer, in line with government guidance. Further details to be announced soon.
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Vivaldi's The Four Seasons with folk music improvisations. Enjoy @pekka_kuusisto, Ale Carr and @DKAMbremen's interpretation on @BBCiPlayer
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Spend 30 seconds with the extraordinary @JessGillamSax at the Last Night of the Proms. Live now with Darius Milhaud's extraordinary 'Scaramouche'. #LNOP #LastNightofTheProms
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We are pleased to announce the 2018 BBC Proms season. Full details are available now at bbc.co.uk/proms
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We are excited to announce the 2019 #BBCProms. A summer of unmissable moments lie ahead, see the full programme here bbc.co.uk/proms
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🚀 Superstar pianist @YujaWang dazzles us with Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. 📺 Watch her spectacular performance with the @BBCSO and conductor @klausmakela tonight from 7pm on @BBCiPlayer and BBC Four.
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Need we say more? Jamie Barton's Somewhere over the Rainbow is fabulous... #LNOP
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Oh Finlandia! The emotional piece by Sibelius is blowing the audience away at #LNOP.
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We have lift off! 🚀 The #BBCProms 2024 has officially launched, and a scorching summer of music is just on the horizon 🌞 Head to bbc.co.uk/proms to check out all 90 of our concerts 🎺
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This is absolutely lovely...
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❤️‍🔥 Do I love you? Indeed I do! Northern Soul at the Proms is a euphoric night of dance anthems supercharged by epic new orchestral arrangements. The party starts tonight at 7.45pm on @BBCTwo and @BBCiPlayer. Don't miss it!
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Who better to turn it up to 11? 🎶 Organist @annalapwood tells us about performing at the #DoctorWho Prom and her Doctor Who memories... 🎧 Listen to Anna perform with @BBCNOW and @LPChoir on @bbcsounds from 7PM BST.
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❄️ Enjoy a sneak peek of the brand new song by @HansZimmer and @Camila_Cabello, which will be premiered live at the #EarthProm concerts at the @RoyalAlbertHall tomorrow, played by @BBCSSO & @ConductorBen, with a special guest singing Camila’s part. 🎟️ bit.ly/3QV0HJ8
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We can't Handel Jeanine De Bique's brilliant performance! Our Chineke! Prom is on @BBCFour now 📺 #BBCProms
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The famous #LNotP singalong is in full swing with the audience joining @LiseDavidsen, @BBCSingers and @BBCSO Chorus in Rule, Britannia!
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Barber’s Adagio was also played at the Last Night in 2001, just four days after the 9/11 attacks, with American conductor Leonard Slatkin on the podium. He asked the audience not to applaud at the end. #LNOTP
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We're officially raising the roof of the @RoyalAlbertHall! @Laura_Karpman’s Higher. Further. Faster. Together., the main theme for the upcoming American superhero film, The Marvels. With @ShekuKM on cello ⚡ Join us now on @BBCOne
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We’re delighted to announce the 2021 #BBCProms. Live music every day for six weeks. See programme and concert information here: bbc.co.uk/proms
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Spine-tingling. Igor Levit's Ode to Joy stunned the First Night of the Proms audience. Watch the concert here: bbc.co.uk/events/e556q9
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The wonderful @HanWaddingham will present our Fantasy, Myths and Legends Prom @RoyalAlbertHall on Mon 28 Aug. 🐉 With music from Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones & more, listen live @BBCRadio3 on Monday or watch on @BBCTwo on Sat 2 Sep. bbc.co.uk/events/evwj6q
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Sargent’s arrangement of Rule Britannia has been performed regularly at the #LNotP since 1953 🎶 Verses are usually sung by a soloist – tonight, Angel Blue – with audience participation during the refrain, whether singing from your sitting room or standing in the stalls! 🤩
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Highlights now on @BBCiPlayer! ✨ @NYO_GB performed Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, & @DannyElfman’s new work, Wunderkammer 🎹 @MarinAlsop conducted Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto with @grosvenorpiano 🎧 @rsowien performed Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7 Watch ➡ bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/b007…
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In his own score, at the beginning of ‘Rule, Britannia’, Sir Henry Wood wrote: ‘Conductor turn to public’, so as to remind himself to bring in the Prommers behind him! The @BBCSingers don’t need any such reminder! #LNOP
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In the second of their two Proms this season, the @CzechPhil & Jakub Hrůša performed Janáček’s tremendous Glagolitic Mass & Dvořák’s Piano Concerto featuring the brilliant soloist @maofujita_piano 🎹✨ Bravo to everyone involved! 👏 🎧 Listen on @bbcsounds 📸 Andy Paradise
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Yes, oh yes, it's good to be back! Grieg's Piano Concerto, performed by Paul Lewis and @BBCSO, conducted by @DaliaStasevska. Watch now on @BBCTwo and @BBCiPlayer.
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Who could ask for anything more? Seriously. Jamie Barton's 'I Got Rhythm' is a Gershwin wonder. #LNOP
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Soprano @MasabaneCecilia joins the @NYO_GB on Errollyn Wallen's joyful new piece, The Whole World 🌍 📺 Watch NYO at the Proms on @BBCiPlayer and BBC Four from 8pm tonight.
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And, as tradition requires, we end this glorious Last Night of the Proms with a rousing 'Auld Lang Syne'. What a night it's been! #LNOP #LastNightOfTheProms
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We're delighted to share that #BBCProms saw record-breaking figures on @BBCiPlayer and @BBCSounds, with 93% capacity audiences for 2023. 🎉 And nearly half of audiences at the @RoyalAlbertHall were attending a Prom for the first time.🌟 Read more here: bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/b…
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Today #BBCProms celebrate literature's most famous violinist #sherlockprom @BBCCO
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Farewell to legendary pianist Alfred Brendel, who has died aged 94.   Brendel first graced the #BBCProms stage in 1968, playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He then returned to play over 30 Proms, becoming a true icon of the festival.
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The Estonian Festival Orchestra and @paavo_jarvi receive some unusual feedback from composer Arvo Pärt. Will they take his advice on board? You'll need to watch right to the end to find out... 🎧
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And we're off! This year's #FNotP features music by Britten, Sibelius & Grieg as well as a world premiere from Bohdana Frolyak. With @BBCSO & Chorus, @BBCSingers, pianist Paul Lewis & narrator Lesley Manville, conducted by @DaliaStasevska 🎉 📺Watch live now on @BBCTwo!
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Following her virtuosic performance of Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto last year, @IsataKm returns as the soloist in Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto. Clara Schumann began composing her Piano Concerto when she was just 13. The premiere occurred nearly three years later, in 1835.
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The #BBCProms but not as you know them - across TV, @BBCiPlayer, @BBCRadio3, @BBCSounds and plans for some live performance from the @RoyalAlbertHall Find out more about the shape of the Proms this summer: bbc.co.uk/programmes/article…
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And from Proms in the Park it's goodbye from us, and goodbye from him. Thanks to @mrmichaelball for being a wonderful host. #PITP #BBCProms
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It's good to be back! 🥁
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Virtuoso horn player Felix Klieser, who was born without arms and plays the instrument with his toes, makes his Proms debut with Mozart’s sunny Concerto No 4. Watch tonight from 8PM on BBC Four and @BBCiPlayer.
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The Adagietto slow movement in Mahler's Fifth Symphony is one of the most searingly beautiful in the entire symphonic repertoire. Performed by @the_halle and conductor Sir Mark Elder. Watch now on @BBCiPlayer.
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‘I’ve got a tune that will knock ’em – knock ’em flat,’ said Elgar of his iconic ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ melody 😌 Land of Hope and Glory has been a staple at the #LNotP for many years, with the words of Arthur Christopher Benson’s poem lent to the central trio section 📝
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Travel back in time to 2013 and watch the @bbcdoctorwho Prom on @BBCiPlayer now: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0… #Doctorwho #BBCProms
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Bring me my bow of burning gold! Bring me my arrows of desire! Bring me my spear! O clouds unfold! Bring me my Chariot of Fire! Hubert Parry, composer of 'Jerusalem' died in the 1918 Spanish flu. His memorial reads: ‘Long these familiar walls shall re-echo thy song'. #LNOP
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Here's the full player list for tonight's Proms Festival Orchestra, made up entirely of freelance musicians.
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We are delighted to announce that the BBC Proms 2022 will take place from 15 Jul - 10 Sep 2022 @RoyalAlbertHall, on @BBCRadio3, @BBC TV & online. We can't wait to welcome you to a stunning summer of music. Full programme & details to be announced 26 April, booking opens 21 May.
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Watch the full performance from @ShekuKM & @IsataKm on #PromsEncore with @thekatiederham Tonight @BBCTwo at 7pm
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We are very sorry to hear of the death of Sir Andrew Davis. A major musical figure at the Proms since 1968 and a favourite with audiences and musicians alike. His concerts will be remembered, and he will be greatly missed. bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment…
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Tune in to @BBCTwo now to enjoy Multi-award-winning Cynthia Erivo join forces with @BBCCO and conductor @eoutwater to celebrate the great American songbook of the 1950s and 60s. @andisn16 presents from the @RoyalAlbertHall On @BBCTwo & @BBCiPlayer: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bmm…
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The #BBCProms start on TV this Sunday with @TheCBSO playing Beethoven’s Fifth. 📺Join us on @BBCFOUR from 7pm.
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You're in a for something special tonight. A Homage to Nina Simone is on @BBCFOUR and @BBCiPlayer at 10.30pm. #BBCProms
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Violinist @ElenaUrioste joins @BBCNOW to perform Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s sumptuous Violin Concerto – a piece that brims with songfulness. Conducted by Tadaaki Otaka. Watch tonight on BBC Four and @BBCiPlayer at 8PM
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An electric atmosphere at @RoyalAlbertHall as Northern Soul came to the BBC Proms 2023. Thank you @BBCCO conducted by @eoutwater for a Prom that had audiences dancing in the aisles. The full concert is on @BBCSounds now and will be on BBC TV soon.
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The end of Sir Andrew Davis’s Last Night of the Proms conductor speech from 1992, which he memorably sang to the music of Gilbert & Sullivan.   Appearing in 132 Proms, conducting 13 First Nights and 12 Last Nights, Sir Andrew Davis will be dearly remembered by the BBC Proms.
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A delightful moment when the @BBCSSO had a birthday surprise for conductor Martyn Brabbins during rehearsals. You'll be able to watch their Prom on TV tonight. 7.30pm on @BBCFOUR #BBCProms
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The opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. ⚡️ Is it a thunderclap - or fate, knocking at the door? You decide. @BBCNOW and conductor Tadaaki Otaka perform at the #BBCProms. Watch now on @BBCiPlayer
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A truly awesome sight - hundreds of musicians on the @RoyalAlbertHall stage for tonight’s roof-raising performance of Mahler’s epic Symphony No 8
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"The chord at figure two is a calm and happy embrace." This is absolutely lovely...
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Another incredible West Side Story performance and another electric atmosphere. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. And with that we're over half way through the 2018 Proms season!
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Golda Schultz sings ‘Deh vieni, non tardar’ from Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro'. The last time it was heard at the Proms was in 1946. This seductive aria comes in the final act of the opera, as Susanna tries to teach her jealous husband a lesson! #LNOP
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Don't miss @ShekuKM and @TheCBSO on your TV this Sunday, 7pm on @BBCFOUR #BBCProms
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And that's the First Night done, 57 more to go! Here's to the next two months of unmissable music moments. #BBCProms
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We’re saddened to hear of the loss of the great conductor Bernard Haitink. He appeared at the Proms across more than 50 years, most recently in 2019 soon after he turned 90. He’ll be remembered with admiration and affection.
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Shostakovich's Symphony No.11 in full force. Watch now on @BBCFOUR or catch up shortly on @BBCiPlayer #BBCProms
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Of course our star tenor @jdiego_florez just sang Rule, Britannia in the costume of a 13th Century Inca ruler snpy.tv/2cucdLS
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The wait is over. The #BBCProms are back with a series of performances live from the @RoyalAlbertHall. 28 Aug – 12 Sep across: TV | Radio | @BBCiPlayer | @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/events/rxxnc8/by/d…
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Dame Sheila Hancock tells us that classical music is one of the greatest comforts and joys of her life, and we couldn't agree more 🎶 As we near the end of the #BBCProms 2023 season, we're reflecting on a wonderful 8 weeks of classical music. What are your season highlights?
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We've got a whole host of wonderful #BBCProms for you to enjoy over on iPlayer. Including Last Friday's concert with @ShankarAnoushka, #GoldPanda, @julesbuckley, @manudelagomusic and the @BrittenSinfonia Watch now: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
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And we're off! Vaughan William’s Serenade to Music opens the 2021 #BBCProms. Join us now on @BBCTWO
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We were treated to not one but TWO encores from @YujaWang 🎹🎹👏👏 Here's a clip of her electrifying performance of Bizet's Carmen Variations Watch the concert in full @BBCiPlayer
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🎼 “There’s not a dull bar in it.” Conductor John Wilson reflects on the melancholy beauty of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto, which he wrote after a 4-year struggle with depression. Watch John Wilson Celebrates Rachmaninov at the Proms tonight 7pm on BBC Four & iPlayer.
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Hold on, @GeraldFinley 🤣 🤣 A little flag 🇨🇦 confusion during 'Rule Britannia' there. #LNOP #LastNightOfTheProms
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Trumpeter @aarontrumpet37 takes centre stage with @Chineke4Change to perform Haydn’s joyful Trumpet Concerto, with its famous third movement. 📺 Watch now on @BBCiPlayer and BBC Four. 🎧 Listen live on @BBCSounds.
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Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity #BBCProms #FirstNightoftheProms
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Benjamin Britten's arrangement of the National Anthem rings out @RoyalAlbertHall. Sung beautifully by @BBCSingers, BBC Symphony Chorus with audience participation. #LNotP
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Relive 4 decades of outstanding concerts from the #BBCProms. We’re bringing you 6 weeks of some of our greatest performances and 2 weeks of special concerts live from the @RoyalAlbertHall. On: TV | Radio | @BBCiPlayer | @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/proms
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The Proms are coming! Wed 22 April - 2020 Season announced Sat 16 May - General booking opens #BBCProms
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Superstar musician @YujaWang shares her thoughts on being in London and performing Liszt's First Piano Concerto in E flat ahead of tonight's Prom. 📺 Catch her in action along with @Filharmonien, conducted by @klausmakela on BBC Four at 8pm tonight!
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