Proms 2025 Classic Thriller Soundtracks

From the shrieking strings of Psycho to the brooding jazz-club sleaze of Taxi Driver: Bernard Herrmann’s music is the soundtrack to the greats of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Join the BBC Concert Orchestra and its Principal Guest Conductor and Curator Edwin Outwater to celebrate the composer’s iconic film scores. A programme rich with suspense and drama also includes excerpts from film scores by Quincy Jones, David Raskin and Miklós Rózsa.

There will be one interval

Broadcast on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer this season

Edwin Outwater © David J. Kim