The stars gather for an end-of-season party like no other. Joining the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC Singers are Grammy Award-winning American soprano Angel Blue and one of Britain’s best-loved pianists, Sir Stephen Hough. Sakari Oramo returns to the podium for the world’s biggest classical music party.

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Prom 73: Last Night of the Proms 2024

Royal Albert Hall

One of Britain’s best-loved choirs, The Sixteen – under Harry Christophers – returns to the Proms on Choral Day for some of the most serene and spiritual choral works written in England during the Victorian period – music in line with this ensemble’s singular combination of style and beauty, blend and expression.

Prom 63: Choral Day - The Sixteen

BBC Prom Choral Day: London

The Civil Service Choir return to Smith Square for the third time this year, with a charity concert featuring Norwegian composer Kim André Arnesen’s Holy Spirit Mass, in a programme celebrating the mixing of the Latin and English liturgies in sacred choral works.

Charity Concert: Holy Spirit Mass

Smith Square Hall

Awakening is a spiritual choral work based at Stonehenge near Salisbury. Setting 16 spiritual poems by Stephen Feltham,  Awakening portrays the cycle of hope experienced by humanity as it progresses through the celestial cycle exhibited by the equinoxes and solstices. The work is in four main sections: Spring Equinox; Summer Solstice; Autumn Equinox; Winter Solstice.

Awakening

Salisbury Cathedral

Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts

A performance by the Oberlin Chamber Singers under the direction of Gregory Ristow '01 in Fairchild Chapel.

Concert: Oberlin Chamber Singers

Oberlin College

Revel in the chance to hear a world premiere by our Composer-in-Association Gavin Higgins this new year.

Jaime Martin conducts...

Wales Millennium Centre

Brangwyn Hall

English Exhilaration

East Tennessee State University

Join us at Paisley Abbey for a truly uplifting concert featuring Saint-Saëns’s show-stopping Organ Symphony!

Saint-Saëns's Organ Symphony at Paisley Abbey

Paisley Abbey

Two great names in classical music come together to host the biggest musical party of the year. Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and soprano Lise Davidsen join conductor Marin Alsop and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for an evening of opera arias, songs, spirituals, choral anthems and world premieres, as well as all the traditional favourites by Arne, Elgar and Parry.

Prom 71: Last Night of the Proms 2023

Paul McCreesh joins the DSO to conduct a grand spiritual concert including vocal soloists, the Dallas Symphony Chorus and the Lay Family Organ. Also known as his Symphony No. 2, Mendelssohn described the work as a “symphonic cantata.” Bearing a superficial similarity to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, it begins with three instrumental movements although on a much smaller scale and closes with a cantata-like structure for chorus, solo voices and orchestra.

Blest Pair of Sirens is a short work for choir and orchestra by English composer Hubert Parry, who was commissioned to compose a piece for the Bach Choir of London to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. The Glories of our Blood and State was to be used, but subsequently scrapped possibly due to lines including “Sceptre and crown must tumble down” not being the most suitable for the event.

Parry then decided to set Milton’s At a Solemn Music garnering immediate success and eventually being recognized as an outstanding English choral work.

Mendelssohn’s “A Symphony Cantata”

Meyerson Symphony Center

In a performance inspired by her 2023 Grammy-Award winning album, experience the turbulence and resilience of Mother Nature's life as Renée Fleming performs music by Handel, Nico Muhly, Björk and Lord of The Rings' Howard Shore—all set against a backdrop of stunning film from the National Geographic Society.

Hubert Parry

Events

Upcoming events

May 24, 2025

VOICE OF NATURE: The Anthropocene · The May Festival

Past events

Sep 14, 2024

Prom 73: Last Night of the Proms 2024 · BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sep 7, 2024

Prom 63: Choral Day - The Sixteen · Royal Albert Hall

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