Late Night Proms Events
Wed 23 Jul 2025
- 22:15Royal Albert Hall
The Ensemble intercontemporain celebrates 100 years since the birth of two 20th-century modernist icons, performing Pierre Boulez’s Dialogue de l’ombre double alongside Luciano Berio’s Recital I and Sequenza V
The Ensemble intercontemporain celebrates 100 years since the birth of two 20th-century modernist icons, performing Pierre Boulez’s Dialogue de l’ombre double alongside Luciano Berio’s Recital I and Sequenza V
Programme
- Sequenza V(6 mins)
- Dialogue de l’ombre double(18 mins)
- Recital I (for Cathy)(35 mins)
Performers
- Sarah Aristidousoprano
- Jérôme Comteclarinet
- Lucas Ounissitrombone
- IRCAMlive electronics
- Pierre Bleuseconductor
Composers
Also part ofProms 2025Seats from £11 to £37
Thu 31 Jul 2025
- 22:15Royal Albert Hall
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
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
Programme
- Da pacem Domine(6 mins)
- Veni creator(3 mins)
- Magnificat(7 mins)
- The Deer’s Cry(5 mins)
- Für Jan van Eyck(3 mins)UK premiere
- Svyatki – ‘Spring is Coming’(3 mins)
- All Night Vigil (Vespers) – ‘Bogoroditse Devo’(3 mins)
- All Night Vigil (Vespers) – ‘Slava v vyshnikh Bogu’(3 mins)
- Motet ‘Ich lasse dich nicht’, BWV 1165(5 mins)
- Peace upon you, Jerusalem(6 mins)
- De profundis(7 mins)
- Vater unser(3 mins)
- Curse upon Iron(10 mins)
Performers
- Tõnu Kaljusteconductor
Also part ofProms 2025Seats from £10 to £28 (plus booking fee)
Tue 12 Aug 2025
- 22:15Royal Albert Hall
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
Also part ofProms 2025Seats from £10 to £28 (plus booking fee)
Tue 9 Sep 2025
- 22:15Royal Albert Hall
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
Also part ofProms 2025Seats from £10 to £28 (plus booking fee)
Thu 12 Sep 2024
- 22:15Royal Albert Hall
Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho performs a recital of solo piano works by Ravel and Liszt
Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho performs a recital of solo piano works by Ravel and Liszt
Programme
- Miroirs(18 mins)No. 2 ‘Oiseaux tristes’; No. 3 ‘Un barque sur l’oceán’; No. 4 ‘Alborada del gracioso’
- Years of Pilgrimage, Second Year: Italy(45 mins)
Composers
Also part ofProms 2024
Wed 4 Sep 2024
- 22:30Royal Albert Hall
Eric Whitacre leads the BBC Singers and the 12 Ensemble in the world premiere of his new BBC co-commission Eternity in an Hour, which takes its title from William Blake’s great poem Auguries of Innocence
Eric Whitacre leads the BBC Singers and the 12 Ensemble in the world premiere of his new BBC co-commission Eternity in an Hour, which takes its title from William Blake’s great poem Auguries of Innocence
Programme
- Eternity in an Hour(60 mins)BBC co-commission: world premiere
Performers
- Christopher Glynnpiano
- Lesjamusicelectronics
- Eric Whitacreconductor/electronics
Composers
Also part ofProms 2024
Wed 28 Aug 2024
- 22:15Royal Albert Hall
All the way from northern Mali, Tinariwen comes to London for a Late Night Prom that combines traditional Tuareg and African music with elements of Western rock and jazz.
Also part ofProms 2024
Fri 9 Aug 2024
- 22:30Royal Albert Hall
The London Sinfonietta and period-instrument outfit the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment come together to perform Heiner Goebbels’s Songs of Wars I Have Seen, 17 years after they gave the work’s premiere
The London Sinfonietta and period-instrument outfit the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment come together to perform Heiner Goebbels’s Songs of Wars I Have Seen, 17 years after they gave the work’s premiere
Also part ofProms 2024
Tue 23 Jul 2024
- 22:15Royal Albert Hall
Multi-skilled, golden-voiced counter-tenor Jakub Józef Orliński joins Il Pomo d’Oro for a journey through the music of the early Baroque, showcasing composers including Caccini, Cavalli, Frescobaldi, Monteverdi and Strozzi.
Multi-skilled, golden-voiced counter-tenor Jakub Józef Orliński joins Il Pomo d’Oro for a journey through the music of the early Baroque, showcasing composers including Caccini, Cavalli, Frescobaldi, Monteverdi and Strozzi.
Programme
- L’incoronazione di Poppea – ‘E pur io torno qui’(7 mins)
- Voglio di vita uscir(5 mins)
- Per ogni sorte di strumenti musicale, Op. 22 – Passacaglia(5 mins)
- Le nuove musiche – ‘Amarilli, mia bella’(3 mins)
- Arie musicali, Book I – ‘Così mi disprezzate’(3 mins)
- Sonata for two violins and continuo in F major(5 mins)
- Cantate, ariette e duetti, Op. 2 – ‘L’amante consolato’(4 mins)
- Pompeo Magno – ‘Incomprensibil nume’(3 mins)
- Demetrio – Sinfonia(4 mins)
- La Filli – ‘Misero core’(2 mins)
- La Filli – ‘Sì, sì, sì, scioglia sì’(2 mins)
- La Filli – ‘Dolcissime catene’(2 mins)
- Antonino e Pompeiano – ‘La certezza di sua fede’(3 mins)
- L’Adamiro – ‘Quanto più la donna invecchia’(2 mins)
- L’Adamiro – ‘Son vecchia, pazienza’(3 mins)
- Canzoni e concerti – Tamburetta(3 mins)
- La faretra smarrita – ‘Lungi dai nostri cor’(5 mins)
Performers
- Jakub Józef Orlińskicounter-tenor
Also part ofProms 2024