With 86 concerts featuring more than 3,000 musicians and many of the finest performing groups, orchestras, choirs and soloists from across the UK and around the world, the BBC Proms returns for 2025.

This year's festival begins on July 18, with the first night to be opened with A Birthday Fanfare by Arthur Bliss. The festival runs until The Last Night of the Proms on September 13, which includes the world premiere of a new work by Oscar-winning composer Rachel Portman.

As always the BBC Proms features a huge variety of music including many works by Wise Music Group composers.

July 18 | First Night of the Proms
Broadcast live on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer
Arthur Bliss
A Birthday Fanfare
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sancta civitas
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London Youth Choirs
Sakari Oramo, conductor

July 22
Richard Strauss
Death and Transfiguration
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Anja Bihlmaier, conductor

July 24
Anthony Davis
Tales (Tails) of the Signifying Monkey (UK Premiere)
Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor

July 27 (The Glasshouse)
Tyshawn Sorey
New Work (World Premiere)
Sean Shibe, guitar
Alphonse Cemin, conductor

July 30
Witold Lutosławski
Concerto for Orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka, conductor

July 31
Artie Shaw
Clarinet Concerto
Martin Fröst, clarinet
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Joshua Weilerstein, conductor

August 1
John Adams
The Chairman Dances
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Kazuki Yamada, conductor

August 9
Broadcast on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer
Gustav Holst
The Planets
National Youth Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska, conductor

August 12
Broadcast on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer
Anoushka Shankar
Chapters
London Contemporary Orchestra
Robert Ames, conductor

August 13
Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Before we fall (UK Premiere)
Maurice Ravel
Bolero
BBC Symhpony Orchestra
Eva Ollikainen, conductor

August 15
Sofia Gubaidulina
Revuemusik for Orchestra and Jazz Band
Synergy Vocals
BBC National Chorus of Wales (lower voices)
Welsh National Opera Chorus (lower voices)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft conductor

August 20
Modest Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel
Pictures at an Exhibition
Philharmonia Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali

August 21
Broadcast on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer
Bent Sørensen
Evening Land
Danish National Concert Choir
Danish National Symhpony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi, conductor

August 22
Henryk Górecki
Symphony No.3 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska, conductor

August 23
Broadcast on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor

August 26
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No.2
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor

August 30
Gunther Schuller
Eine Kleine Posaunenmusik
Percy Grainger
A Lincolnshire Posy
Country Gardens
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle

August 31
Philip Glass
String Quartet No. 3 'Mishima'
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Pekka Kuusisto

September 2
Jean Sibelius
The Tempest - Suite no. 1
James McVinnie, organ
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Adès, conductor

September 5
Broadcast on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Bamboula: Rhapsodic Dance
Chineke! Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor

September 6
Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird - Suite (1945)
Golda Schultz, soprano
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Robin Ticciati, conductor

September 7
Arthur Bliss
The Beatitudes
Elizabeth Watts, soprano
Laurence Kilsby, tenor
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo, conductor

September 10
Lili Boulanger
D'un matin de printemps
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Delyana Lazarova, conductor

September 12
Richard Strauss
Don Juan
Sinfonia of London Chorus
Sinfonia of London
John Wilson, conductor

September 13 | The Last Night of the Proms
Paul Dukas
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Rachel Portman
The Gathering Tree (World Premiere)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Elim Chan, conductor

Find the full programme and details about tickets at the BBC Proms website.

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