KPR is thrilled to showcase the most memorable performances of the 2022 BBC Proms, the UK’s annual celebration of classical music from London’s Royal Albert Hall. This eight-week stretch of concerts, which KPR will begin airing on Wednesday, August 3, brings the best in classical music to the widest possible audience, which remains true to founder-conductor Henry Wood's original vision in 1895. Tune in to KPR on Wednesday evenings at 7 p.m. for the next several weeks to enjoy this special broadcast!
AUGUST 3: FIRST NIGHT OF THE BBC PROMS
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Crouch End Festival Chorus
VERDI: Requiem
AUGUST 10
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Singers
JOHANNSSON: The Miners’ Hymns – They Being Dead Yet Speaketh
RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 2 in c minor
HILDUR GUANADOTTIR: The Fact of the Matter
TCHAIKOVSKY: Fantasy-Overture ‘Romeo and Juliet’
AUGUST 17
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
RAVEL: Sheherazade – ouverture de feerie
SALLY BEAMISH: Hive
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade
AUGUST 24
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
DANNY ELFMAN: Wunderkammer
GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue (orch. Grofe)
RAVEL: Daphnis et Chloe
AUGUST 31
Ulster Orchestra
WAGNER: Tannhauser – Overture
WAGNER: Tannhauser – Venusberg Music
STRAUSS: Four Last Songs
MAHLER: Blumine
SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 4 in d minor
SEPTEMBER 7
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
BARTOK: The Miraculous Mandarin – Suite
PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C
HANNAH EISENDLE: Heliosis
DVORAK: Symphony No. 7 in d
SEPTEMBER 14
London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Chorus
BIRTWISTLE: Donum Simoni MMXVIII
MAHLER: Symphony No. 2 in c minor, ‘Resurrection’
SEPTEMBER 21
Chineke! Orchestra
Chineke! Chorus
WALKER: Lilacs
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9 in d minor, ‘Choral’
SEPTEMBER 28: LAST NIGHT OF THE BBC PROMS
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Singers
WILSON: 1922
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Deep River
WAGNER: Tannhauser – ‘Dich, teure Halle’
MASCAGNI: Cavalleria rusticana – Easter Hymn
VERDI: Macbeth – ‘Vieni! T’affretta!’
CARWITHEN: Overture ‘ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another)’
DAVYDOV: At the Fountain; Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
ARNE: Rule, Britannia!
ELGAR: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
PARRY: Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)
UNKNOWN: The National Anthem (arr. Britten)
TRADITIONAL: Auld Lang Syne
