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This page lists coverage of the Proms 2020 eight-week season on TV, Radio, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds.
This page will update with the links to watch and listen throughout the season.

The season comprises of six weeks of concerts from previous seasons of the BBC Proms with a final two weeks of live performances from London’s Royal Albert Hall. Details of some performances being streamed exclusively on iPlayer will be announced soon.

Proms on TV

Sun 19 Jul - Sun 23 Aug

Fri 28 Aug - Sun 30 Aug

Mon 31 Aug - Sun 6 Sep

Mon 7 Sep - Sat 12 Sep

Proms on Radio 3

Fri 17 Jul - Sun 19 Jul

  • Fri 17 Jul

    First Night of the Proms: new Beethoven mash-up by Iain Farrington. Also – Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 | Sir H. Birtwistle: Panic | Mahler: Symphony No. 3

  • Sat 18 Jul

    Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann and Nikolaj Znaider (2016). Beethoven: Violin Concerto | Reger: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart | R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

  • Sat 18 Jul

    Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts his Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in Beethoven’s Leonore (1996)

  • Sun 19 Jul

    Jeremy Denk piano recital (2015). Bartók: Piano Sonata | Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 9 | Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32

  • Sun 19 Jul

    Nikolous Harnoncourt conducts Beethoven’s Missa solemnis (1998)

Mon 20 Jul - Sun 26 Jul

  • Mon 20 Jul

    Apollon Musagète Quartet play Webern: Langsamer Satz | C. Matthews: String Quartet No. 5 | Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 18 No. 3 (2015)

  • Mon 20 Jul

    Xian Zhang conducts BBC NOW in Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 2 (2015). Also – Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, ‘Classical’ | Qigang Chen: Iris dévoilée; and G. Benjamin: Ringed by the Flat Horizon (BBC SO, 2008)

  • Mon 20 Jul

    Leif Ove Andsnes directs the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (2015). Stravinsky: Octet | Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 2 and 5

  • Tue 21 Jul

    Rafael Payare leads Narek Hakhnazaryan and the Ulster Orchestra in Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C major (2016). Also – P. Hellawell: Wild Flow | Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; and works by Palestrina and J. Weir (BBC Singers, 2017)

  • Tue 21 Jul

    Tavener’s The Protecting Veil, with the BBC SO and Steven Isserlis (1989). Also – Knussen, Debussy, Keal, Mussorgsky & Stravinsky

  • Wed 22 Jul

    Brahms’s First Piano Concerto with Stephen Hough, Mark Wigglesworth and the BBC Philharmonic (2017). Also: David Sawyer: the greatest happiness principle | Haydn: Symphony No. 99

  • Wed 22 Jul

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with Riccardo Chailly (1990). Rossini: Semiramide – overture | Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 | Prokofiev Symphony No. 3

  • Thu 23 Jul

    Michael Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage with the BBC SO and BBC Singers under Sir Andrew Davis

  • Thu 23 Jul

    Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Mariss Jansons (2004). Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 & Slavonic Dances | R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

  • Thu 23 Jul

    Les Musiciens du Louvre with Marc Minkowski and Anne Sofie von Otter (2003). Bach: Cantata No. 170 | Rameau: L’Apothéose de la dance – suite | Handel: Ariodante – excerpts

  • Fri 24 Jul

    The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Messiaen’s Concert à quatre (2008). Also – Jonathan Harvey: Tombeau de Messiaen; Mortuos plango, vivos voco; Speakings | Varèse: Poème électronique; Déserts

  • Fri 24 Jul

    Hollywood Rhapsody: John Wilson and the John Wilson Orchestra (2013). Music by Newman, Herrmann, Korngold, Steiner and others

  • Sat 25 Jul

    Daniel Barenboim conducts Wagner’s Die Walküre, featuring Bryn Terfel and Nina Stemme (2013)

  • Sun 26 Jul

    Nash Ensemble and BBC Singers (2013). G. Holst: Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda – Group 3. | I. Holst: Hallo, my fancy | Sir Harrison Birtwistle The Moth Requiem

  • Sun 26 Jul

    Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 with Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon (2017)

Mon 27 Jul - Sun 2 Aug

  • Mon 27 Jul

    Emmanuel Pahud in recital with Eric Le Sage (2011). Martinů: Flute Sonata | Dutilleux: Sonatine | Prokofiev: Flute Sonata

  • Mon 27 Jul

    Sir Roger Norrington conducts his London Classical Players (1989). Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 | Schubert: Symphony No. 9

  • Tue 28 Jul

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Bernard Haitink and Murray Perahia (2008). Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4

  • Wed 29 Jul

    Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston SO in Mahler’s Sixth Symphony (2015). Also – B. Dean: Dramatis personae

  • Thu 30 Jul

    The Hallé with Sir Mark Elder and Alice Coote (2014). Berlioz: Overture ‘Le corsaire’ | Elgar: Sea Pictures | H. Grime: Near Midnight | Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

  • Thu 30 Jul

    Nils Frahm: Late Night with BBC Radio 6 Music (2015). Also featuring A Winged Victory for the Sullen, London Brass & members of Random Dance

  • Fri 31 Jul

    Sondheim at 80 with the BBC Concert Orchestra and special guests, including Dame Judi Dench, Simon Russell Beale and Maria Friedman (2010)

  • Sat 1 Aug

    Janáček’s The Makropulos Affair with the BBC SO and Jiří Bělohlávek, featuring Karita Mattila (2016)

  • Sun 2 Aug

    Music by Purcell and Blow with the Academy of Ancient Music under Richard Egarr (2009)

  • Sun 2 Aug

    Richard Hickox conducts BBC NOW and Bryn Terfel (2006). Elgar: In the South (Alassio) | Bliss: A Colour Symphony | Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast

Mon 3 Aug - Sun 9 Aug

  • Mon 3 Aug

    Khatia Buniatishvili recital. Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor & Liebesträum No. 3 | Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7 (2011)

  • Mon 3 Aug

    Vassily Sinaisky conducts the BBC Philharmonic (2007). A. Pärt: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten | Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini | Glière: Symphony No. 3, ‘Ilya Muromets’; also G. Williams: Fairest of Stars (BBC NOW, 2015)

  • Mon 3 Aug

    Martha Argerich plays Liszt’s First Piano Concerto with the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra under Barenboim (2016). Also – Jörg Widmann: Con brio | Wagner: Tannhäuser & The Mastersingers – overtures | Götterdämmerung (extracts)

  • Tue 4 Aug

    Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC Scottish SO (2018). Wagner: Parsifal – Prelude to Act 1 | R. Strauss: Four Last Songs | P. Nørgård: Symphony No. 3. Also – Rafael Payare conducts the Ulster Orchestra (2019). C. Schumann: Piano Concerto | S. Gubaidulina: Fairytale Poem | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1

  • Tue 4 Aug

    Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus: Sibelius’s En saga and Kullervo (2015).

  • Wed 5 Aug

    Pierre Boulez conducts the BBC SO (2002). Varèse: Intégrales | Boulez: Le visage nuptial; Le soleil des eaux | Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 version)

  • Wed 5 Aug

    Bournemouth SO with Marin Alsop and James Ehnes (2007). Beethoven: Overture ‘Leonore’ No. 3 | Barber: Violin Concerto | Copland: Symphony No. 3

  • Thu 6 Aug

    Messiaen’s La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ conducted by Kazushi Ono (2008). Also: M.-A. Turnage: Hibiki

  • Thu 6 Aug

    Sir Neville Marriner conducts the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (1994). Haydn: Symphony No. 96 & Violin Concerto No. 1 | Beethoven: Ah! Perfido! & Symphony No. 4

  • Thu 6 Aug

    Pioneers of Sound: celebrating the legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (2018). Robert Ames conducts the London Contemporary Orchestra

  • Fri 7 Aug

    Nigel Kennedy plays Elgar’s Violin Concerto (2008). Also Bax: The Garden of Fand | Finzi: Intimations of Immortality

  • Fri 7 Aug

    Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic (2014). Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances | Stravinsky: The Firebird

  • Sat 8 Aug

    Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades with Sir Andrew Davis (1992)

  • Sun 9 Aug

    Benedetti–Elschenbroich– Grynyuk Trio (2015). Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 | A. Sierra: Butterflies Remember a Mountain

  • Sun 9 Aug

    Mozart’s Requiem with Stephen Layton and Polyphony (2011). Also – Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge | C. Matthews: No Man’s Land

Mon 10 Aug - Sun 16 Aug

  • Mon 10 Aug

    Renée Fleming sings Strauss’s Four Last Songs (2001). Also – Dvořák: Carnival Overture | Brahms: Variations on the St Anthony Chorale | Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate. R. Strauss: Don Juan

  • Tue 11 Aug

    National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and Vassily Petrenko (2012). Varèse: Tuning Up | N. Muhly: Gait | Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony | A. Meredith: HandsFree

  • Wed 12 Aug

    Andrew Manze conducts the BBC Scottish SO in Vaughan Williams’s Symphonies Nos 4, 5 & 6 (2012)

  • Thu 13 Aug

    Sir Charles Mackerras with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Alfred Brendel (2001). Mozart: Symphony No. 32 & Piano Concerto No. 25 | Stravinsky: Concerto in D | Schubert: Symphony No. 4

  • Thu 13 Aug

    Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with the OAE and Richard Egarr, featuring Sarah Connolly and Christopher Purves (2003)

  • Fri 14 Aug

    Beethoven’s Fifth with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and the City of Birmingham SO (2017). Also – Beethoven: ‘Leonore’ Overture | Stravinsky: Violin Concerto | Gerald Barry: Canada

  • Sat 15 Aug

    Strauss’s Salome with Donald Runnicles and the Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, starring Nina Stemme (2014)

  • Sun 16 Aug

    Stile Antico join Fretwork for a Shakespeare celebration (2016). Music by Morley, Byrd, H. Watkins, Tomkins, Ramsey, Johnson, N. Muhly, Gibbons & Wilbye

  • Sun 16 Aug

    Paul McCreesh conducts the Gabrieli Consort & Players in Handel’s Saul, featuring Andreas Scholl & Neal Davies (2003).

Mon 17 Aug - Sun 23 Aug

  • Mon 17 Aug

    Donald Runnicles conducts French classics (2011). Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune | Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain | Ravel: Bolero; Daphnis and Chloe. Also J. MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (1990)

  • Mon 17 Aug

    BBC Philharmonic under Gianandrea Noseda (2012). Mozart: Don Giovanni – overture | Knussen: Symphony No. 2 | Mahler: Symphony No. 7

  • Tue 18 Aug

    A Patchwork Passion – music from Schütz to MacMillan (2017). Also Günter Wand conducts Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony (1995)

  • Tue 18 Aug

    Carlo Maria Giulini conducts the EUYO in Brahms’s Second and Fourth Symphonies (1994)

  • Wed 19 Aug

    Gianandrea Noseda conducts Schubert’s Ninth Symphony (2006). Also – Haydn: Heiligenmesse

  • Wed 19 Aug

    Evgeny Kissin: recital in the round (1997). Haydn: Sonata No. 52 | Liszt: Liebesträum No. 3 & Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 | Chopin: Nocturnes Op. 27 Nos 1 & 2 & Piano Sonata No. 3

  • Thu 20 Aug

    Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard (2012). Jane Glover conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra

  • Thu 20 Aug

    Sir Colin Davis conducts the LSO (2001). Sibelius: The Oceanides | Tippett: The Rose Lake | Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

  • Thu 20 Aug

    Late-night Stockhausen: Stimmung (2008). Performed by Theatre of Voices, directed by Paul Hillier

  • Fri 21 Aug

    Thomas Søndergård conducts Shostakovich’s 11th Symphony (2013). Also – C. Matthews: Turning Point | Prokofiev: Violin Concerto; plus Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, with narration by Sir David Attenborough

  • Fri 21 Aug

    Thomas Dausgaard conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra (2010). Ligeti: Night; Morning & Lux aeterna | Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto | Langgaard: Music of the Spheres | Sibelius: Symphony No. 5

  • Sat 22 Aug

    Verdi’s Don Carlos with Bernard Haitink and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House (1996)

  • Sun 23 Aug

    Susan Graham: French song with Malcolm Martineau (2009). Music by Duparc, Chabrier, Bizet, Ravel, Debussy and others

  • Sun 23 Aug

    Orchestre de Paris and Paavo Järvi with Janine Jansen & Thierry Escaich (2013). A. Pärt: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten | Britten: Violin Concerto | Berlioz: Overture ‘Le corsaire’ | Saint‐Saëns: Symphony No. 3, ‘Organ’

  • Sun 23 Aug

    Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Ghent (1998)

Mon 24 - Sun 30 Aug

  • Mon 24 Aug

    Daniel Harding conducts the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Viktoria Mullova (2003). Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie –suite | Sibelius: Violin Concerto | Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

  • Tue 25 Aug

    Jonathan Nott conducts the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and Matthias Goerne (2009). Ligeti: Atmosphères | Mahler: Kindertotenlieder | Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces | R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

  • Wed 26 Aug

    Leonard Bernstein conducts the Vienna Philharmonic (1987). Mozart: Clarinet Concerto | Mahler: Symphony No. 5

  • Thu 27 Aug

    RLPO and Vasily Petrenko (2016). E. Howard: Torus (Concerto for Orchestra) | Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 | Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3

  • Thu 27 Aug

    Douglas Boyd conducts the Manchester Camerata (2005). Beethoven: Overture ‘The Creatures of Prometheus’ & Symphony No. 8 | Tippett: Divertimento on Sellinger’s Round | Mozart: two arias

  • Fri 28 Aug

    Sakari Oramo leads the BBC SO in Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony. Also – Hannah Kendall: Tuxedo: Vasco ‘de’ Gama | Eric Whitacre: Sleep | Copland: Quiet City

  • Sat 29 Aug

    Live: Jonathan Scott plays his own organ arrangements of symphonic classics, including works by Rossini, Mascagni and Dukas, as well as Saint-Saens’s ‘Organ’ Symphony

  • Sun 30 Aug

    Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano recital (2008). Schumann: Gesänge der Frühe | Carter: Night Fantasies | Messiaen: Catalogue d'oiseaux – L'alouette lulu | Bartók: Out of Doors Suite.

  • Sun 30 Aug

    Live: Sir Simon Rattle conducts the LSO in a typically wide-ranging programme, culminating in Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No. 5

  • Sun 30 Aug - BBC Radio 2

    Stax Records - 50 years of soul. Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra pay tribute to this pioneering label

  • Sun 30 Aug

    The Latvian Radio Choir sings Rachmaninov’s Vespers (2017)

Mon 31 - Sun 6 Sep

  • Mon 31 Aug

    Elias Quartet and Julian Bliss (2011). Purcell: Fantasias Nos 6 & 7 | S. Beamish: Reed Stanzas (String Quartet No. 3) | Brahms: Clarinet Quintet

  • Mon 31 Aug

    A sparkling tribute to the gilded world of Viennese operetta, marking the 150th-anniversary of Franz Lehár’s birth

  • Tue 1 Sep

    London Sinfonietta

  • Wed 2 Sep

    John Storgards and the BBC Philharmonic in a Prom partly inspired by puppet theatre with music by Haydn and Tchaikovsky. Tenor Allan Clayton sings Britten's haunting Nocturne.

  • Thu 3 Sep

    Nicola Benedetti and Alina Ibragimova join the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for a showcase of Baroque concertos, including works by Vivaldi, Handel and Bach

  • Thu 3 Sep

    Laura Mvula and Esperanza Spalding join the Metropole Orkest and Jules Buckley (2014), featuring orchestral arrangements of Mvula’s album Sing to the Moon

  • Fri 4 Sep

    Live: Star sitarist Anoushka Shankar performs alongside electronic-music composer Gold Panda, and alongside the strings of the Britten Sinfonia

  • Sat 5 Sep

    Live: Stephen Hough plays Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Thomas Dausgaard and the BBC SSO. Also – Jay Capperauld: Circadian Refrains | Strauss: Metamorphosen

  • Sun 6 Sep

    Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques (2011). Jewels of the French Baroque by Couperin, Lully, Rameau and Montéclair

  • Sun 6 Aug

    Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Isata Kanneh-Mason perform works by Beethoven, Barber, Bridge and Rachmaninov.

  • Sun 6 Sep

    Live: Singer-songwriter Laura Marling is joined by pioneering London-based string group the 12 Ensemble

  • Sun 6 Sep

    Jessye Norman with the London Sinfonietta (2000). Stravinsky: Concerto ‘Dumbarton Oaks’ | J. Weir: woman.life.song | Ravel: Introduction and Allegro | Schoenberg: 6 Brettl Lieder

Mon 7 Sep - Sat 12 Sep

  • Mon 7 Sep - BBC 6 Music

    An eclectic mix of musicians with rich New York roots join Jules Buckley and the Heritage Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall to celebrate the changing soundscape of the Big Apple.

  • Mon 7 Sep

    The JACK Quartet and Colin Currie (2018). Xenakis: Rebonds B & Tetras | S. Holt: Quadriga | S. Farrin: Hypersea

  • Mon 7 Sep

    Live: London jazz group KOKOROKO will be making their Proms debut live at the Royal Albert Hall.

  • Tue 8 Sep

    Live: American conductor Ryan Bancroft conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in works by John Adams, Barber and Copland. Also – Martinů: Jazz Suite | Gavin Higgins: new work

  • Wed 9 Sep

    Live: Esa-Pekka Salonen the Philharmonia Orchestra, featuring pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin | Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 | Mozart: Symphony No. 41, ‘Jupiter’

  • Thu 10 Sep

    Live: The Aurora Orchestra perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 from memory. Also – Richard Ayres: No. 52; with introductions from Tom Service and Nicholas Colon

  • Thu 10 Sep

    Late-night Bach: Sir András Schiff plays the Goldberg Variations (2015)

  • Fri 11 Sep

    Klaus Tennstedt conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (1991).

  • Sat 12 Sep

    The Last Night of the Proms, with soprano Golda Schultz and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Dalia Stasevska.

  • Mon 21 Sep - BBC Radio 6 Music

    Singer-songwriter Laura Marling is joined by pioneering London-based string group the 12 Ensemble

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