The biggest night in classical music is back! After eight weeks and over 80 concerts, the 2025 BBC Proms celebrates with a Last Night spectacular, packed with musical surprises, star turns and all the traditional favourites

John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London present a passion-soaked programme of 20th-century orchestral showpieces: Ravel’s ballet Daphnis and Chloe, Bernstein’s lyrical Serenade and Richard Strauss’s Don Juan

Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra present two works by Gabrieli alongside Stravinsky’s last major work, the Requiem Canticles. Brahms’s happiest symphony, the Second, makes up the second half

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Delyana Lazarova are joined by Anastasia Kobekina for Shostakovich’s supremely demanding Cello Concerto No. 1. Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony makes up the second half

Join mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital and his Between Worlds Ensemble for a sonic tour of the countries that border the Black Sea, as they perform traditional Crimean Tatar music, Turkish folk and klezmer plus works by Bartók and David Bruce

Franz Welser-Möst and the Vienna Philharmonic round off their Proms visits with two late, great symphonies: Mozart’s ‘Prague’ and Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pathétique’

One of the world’s great orchestras, the Vienna Philharmonic concludes this year’s triptych of ninth symphonies with the grandest of them all, Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9. The concert opens with Berg’s Lulu Suite

Prize-winning young Viennese pianist Lukas Sternath makes his Proms debut in Grieg’s beloved Piano Concerto, accompanied by Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Five-time Grammy winner Angélique Kidjo presents a showcase as part of Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, paying tribute to her African heritage and taking in iconic tracks from legends such as Miriam Makeba, Fela Kuti, Hugh Masekela and Youssou N’Dour

Rome, Paris, London: Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra take us on a musical tour of Europe, performing works by Respighi, Milhaud and Vaughan Williams

South African soprano Golda Schultz returns to the Proms with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, performing songs by Bernstein, Gershwin, Weill and others. Schreker’s sensuous Chamber Symphony and Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird also feature

The Chineke! Orchestra, conducted for the first time by Sir Simon Rattle, performs Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony: a portrait of life – and death – in Stalin’s Russia

Join the BBC Concert Orchestra and its Principal Guest Conductor and Curator Edwin Outwater for a concert rich with suspense and drama, as they celebrate anniversary composer Bernard Herrmann and his iconic film scores

St. Vincent makes her BBC Proms debut in a unique collaboration with Jules Buckley and his orchestra, performing brand-new symphonic arrangements of tracks from her eclectic back catalogue

Composer and conductor Thomas Adès joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a performance of music from his own opera The Tempest alongside Sibelius’s tone-poem The Swan of Tuonela

A chance to hear Shostakovich’s blistering operatic tragedy with Amanda Majeski starring as Katerina and Nicky Spence as her lover Sergey

Pekka Kuusisto brings the strings of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra to the Proms with singer and composer Katarina Barruk, performing songs that combine the traditional and the modern

Award-winning Baroque dynamos Peter Whelan and the Irish Baroque Orchestra make their Proms debut with Handel’s oratorio Alexander’s Feast, given here in the three-part version the composer made for performances in Dublin in 1742

Sir Simon Rattle teams up with the wind, brass and percussion of the London Symphony Orchestra to perform folk-song arrangements by Vaughan Williams, Grainger and Arnold alongside Gunther Schuller’s eclectic trombone concerto

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra makes its first visit to the Proms under Chief Conductor Jaime Martín, performing two Romantic classics: Dvořák’s Symphony No. 6 and Tchaikovsky’s beloved Piano Concerto No. 1

An all-French programme from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Marie Jacquot sees Bizet’s incidental music for The Girl from Arles performed alongside a fantasy on themes from his popular opera Carmen, reimagined with explosive virtuosity by Sarasate

The Proms presents a concert staging of the Glyndebourne Festival’s brand-new production of Mozart’s sharpest and sexiest operatic comedy, The Marriage of Figaro

The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra returns to the Proms under Music Director Andris Nelsons for Sibelius’s elemental Symphony No. 2. They are joined in the first half by Hilary Hahn, soloist in Dvořák’s colourful, folk-inspired Violin Concerto

Join Sinfonia Smith Square, CBeebies friends and a special guest in the Bedtime Stories chair as they share an enchanting musical tale. Don’t miss this entertaining introduction to the orchestra for little ones

Join Sinfonia Smith Square, CBeebies friends and a special guest in the Bedtime Stories chair as they share an enchanting musical tale. Don’t miss this entertaining introduction to the orchestra for little ones

Carlo Rizzi and the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera perform sumptuous works by Italian composers Respighi, Verdi, Rossini and Puccini

Klaus Mäkela and Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra are joined by celebrated violinist Janine Jansen for Prokofiev’s effervescent Violin Concerto No. 1. Mozart’s ‘Paris’ Symphony and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra bookend the evening

Hear Klaus Mäkelä at the Proms for the first time as Chief Conductor Designate of the mighty Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, performing Berio’s Rendering alongside Mahler’s Fifth Symphony with its famous Adagietto

The Britten Sinfonia performs music by anniversary composer Arvo Pärt, Sibelius, Gavin Higgins and Mozart

The Danish National Vocal Ensemble presents works by Ethel Smyth, Paola Prestini and the great Dane Carl Nielsen

Following acclaimed Proms performances of The Well-Tempered Clavier and the ‘Goldberg’ Variations, Sir András Schiff returns to the Proms for a musical high point of his career-long relationship with Bach’s music: The Art of Fugue

This special Proms edition of Radio 3’s Late Junction welcomes guest artists DJ Sarahsson and Wojciech Rusin for a late-night listening swerve that takes a sharp left off the beaten track

Joshua Bell is the soloist in Ukraine-born Thomas de Hartmann’s emotive, cinematic Violin Concerto, heard here with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Dalia Stasevska

Charles Hazlewood and the Paraorchestra return to the Proms for a unique collaboration with award-winning duo The Breath, supported by composer Oliver Vibrans

Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in a programme that charts the extremes of human experience and emotion, featuring Bent Sørensen’s Evening Land, Anna Clyne’s The Years and Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Ninth Symphony.

Bruce Liu makes his Proms debut with Tchaikovsky’s rarely performed Second Piano Concerto. He joins the Philharmonia Orchestra and Principal Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali, who also perform works by Gabriela Ortiz and Mussorgsky

Two of the 20th-century’s most powerful operas – Puccini’s one-act Suor Angelica and Strauss’s darkly ambiguous fable Die Frau ohne Schatten – come together in this concert by Sir Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra

Sir Mark Elder conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, massed choirs and four star soloists in Delius’s A Mass for Life, which celebrates the transcendent power and triumph of the human spirit in the face of death

French period-instrument outfit Le Concert Spirituel and Hervé Niquet perform two works by Alessandro Striggio alongside music by 16th- and 17th-century Italian composers Benevolo, Corteccia and Palestrina

Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra reflect this year’s Shostakovich anniversary with a Prom that takes the audience under the hood of a 20th-century masterpiece – the 5th Symphony – and into the mind of the man who made it.

Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra reflect this year’s Shostakovich anniversary with a Prom that takes the audience under the hood of a 20th-century masterpiece – the Fifth Symphony – and into the mind of the man who made it

Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor performs Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, before Shostakovich’s deeply poignant memorial to Jewish suffering, the Symphony No. 13

Celebrated classical and film composer Joe Hisaishi makes his Proms debut conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in his own The End of the World, alongside Steve Reich’s scorched-earth vision of a post-nuclear wasteland The Desert Music

From the primal, hypnotic dances of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring to the sensual throb of Ravel’s Boléro and the edgy thrum and twitch of Varèse’s Intégrales, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Eva Ollikainen get the musical pulse racing

Praised for their ‘bewitching, colourful and easy-listening grooves’, Nigerian sensations Kingsley Okorie and Benjamin James bring their distinctive brand of ‘highlife fusion’ to the BBC Proms

Sitar virtuoso and composer Anoushka Shankar returns to the Proms for the world-premiere performance of music from her three ‘Chapter’ albums

Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 is performed by the combined forces of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Orchestre National de Bretagne, CBSO Children’s Chorus, Welsh National Opera Chorus and National Chorus of Wales, with mezzo-soprano soloist Beth Taylor

Edward Gardner conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of 20th-century orchestral sound-pictures, including Debussy’s La mer, Sibelius’s The Oceanides and Ravel’s song-cycle Shéhérazade

A chance to hear some of the music of last night’s Prom – including excerpts from Holst’s awe-inspiring The Planets and music from John Williams’s mighty Star Wars soundtracks – in a more relaxed and family-friendly environment

Britain’s most talented teenagers present a concert of intergalactic musical giants: The National Youth Orchestra and Dalia Stasevska perform Holst’s The Planets alongside music from John Williams’s mighty Star Wars soundtracks

Experience the Royal Albert Hall at its most magical and intimate: Anna Lapwood joins cellist Anastasia Kobekina, pianist Hayato Sumino and Norwegian ensemble Barokksolistene for this all-night Prom

The Proms celebrates the centenary of the Shipping Forecast with presenters from Radio 4’s Continuity team, music inspired by the oceans and the elements, and a new work by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and his group LYR

Josep Pons conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Bartók’s ‘grotesque pantomime’ The Miraculous Mandarin, and Italian pianist Beatrice Rana is soloist in Rachmaninov’s thrilling Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra presents a musical postcard from America, performing Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony, Jennifer Higdon’s Blue Cathedral and Arturo Márquez’s Concierto de otoño

Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra bring Hungary’s greatest opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, to the Royal Albert Hall, heard alongside Beethoven’s ebullient Symphony No. 7

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Nil Venditti celebrate Britain’s land- and sea-scapes with works including Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’

The sonic scope of Mahler’s Das klagende Lied meets its match in the musical spectacle of Pierre Boulez’s ‘majestic processional’ Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Hannu Lintu

With guest vocalists, a gospel choir and renowned Radio 2 presenter Trevor Nelson, the BBC Concert Orchestra and Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser trace a path from spirituals through gospel to soul

The Hallé’s new Principal Conductor Kahchun Wong directs his Manchester-based forces for Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony, featuring Norwegian soprano Mari Eriksmoen and Canadian mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo as soloists

Marking 200 years since the birth of ‘Waltz King’ Johann Strauss II, Anna-Maria Helsing and the BBC Concert Orchestra celebrate the opulence and enchantment of Vienna’s Golden Age

Pianist and global phenomenon Yunchan Lim returns to the Proms to perform Rachmaninov’s final piano concerto with Kazuki Yamada and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Berio’s iconic Sinfonia closes the concert

Celebrate the 90th birthday of Arvo Pärt, ‘the father of Holy Minimalism’, with a Late Night Prom from acclaimed Pärt interpreters Tõnu Kaljuste and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

Joshua Weilerstein and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra perform Rachmaninov’s enigmatic final masterpiece, the Symphonic Dances, alongside Copland’s jazz-inspired Clarinet Concerto

Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2, featuring Ukraine-born soloist Vadym Kholodenko, meets Lutosławski’s folk-inspired Concerto for Orchestra in this Prom from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Tadaaki Otaka

A chance to encounter two leading contemporary artists in collaboration with Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Harrison Birtwistle’s monumental Earth Dances returns to the Proms for the first time this century, paired with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, the ‘Eroica’

Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra join forces with Georgian pianist Mariam Batsashvili for Mozart’s stormy Piano Concerto No. 20, followed by Bruckner’s musical memorial to Richard Wagner, his Symphony No. 7