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Performances of Edward Elgar at BBC Proms

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Sat 13 Sep 2025
- 19:00
  Last Night of the Proms 2025
  Royal Albert Hall
  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
  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
  Programme
  Modest Mussorgsky
  A Night on the Bare Mountain (original version, 1867)(12 mins)
  Johann Nepomuk Hummel
  Trumpet Concerto in E flat major(19 mins)
  Arthur Benjamin
  Storm Cloud Cantata (from ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’)(8 mins)(arr. Hermann)
  Franz Lehár
  The Merry Widow – Vilja Song(5 mins)
  Charles Gounod
  Faust – ‘Ah, je ris de me voir’ (Jewel Song)(5 mins)
  Camille Pépin
  Fireworks(6 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
  Paul Dukas
  The Sorcerer’s Apprentice(12 mins)
  Dmitry Shostakovich
  Festive Overture(7 mins)
  Rachel Portman
  The Gathering Tree(3 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
  Trad.
  Fantasia on British Sea-Songs(13 mins)arr. Wood
  Thomas Arne
  Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent)(3 mins)
  Edward Elgar
  Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and Glory’(8 mins)
  Hubert Parry
  Jerusalem (orch. Elgar)(2 mins)
  Trad.
  The National Anthem(2 mins)(arr. Britten)
  Auld Lang Syne(2 mins)(arr. P. Campbell)
  Performers
  Louise Alder
  soprano
  soprano
  Alison Balsom
  trumpet
  trumpet
  BBC Singers
  BBC Symphony Chorus
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Elim Chan
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Modest Mussorgsky
  Johann Nepomuk Hummel
  Arthur Benjamin
  Franz Lehár
  Charles Gounod
  Camille Pépin
  Paul Dukas
  Dmitry Shostakovich
  Rachel Portman
  Trad.
  Thomas Arne
  Edward Elgar
  Hubert Parry
  Part of
  Proms 2025 Proms on TV
Sun 24 Aug 2025
- 19:00
  Under the Italian Sun
  Bristol Beacon
  Carlo Rizzi and the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera perform sumptuous works by Italian composers Respighi, Verdi, Rossini and Puccini
  Carlo Rizzi and the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera perform sumptuous works by Italian composers Respighi, Verdi, Rossini and Puccini
  Programme
  Gioachino Rossini
  William Tell – overture(12 mins)
  Giacomo Puccini
  Capriccio sinfonico(12 mins)
  Luciano Berio
  Folk Songs(23 mins)
  interval
  Giuseppe Verdi
  I vespri siciliani – overture(9 mins)
  Ottorino Respighi
  Il tramonto(16 mins)
  Edward Elgar
  In the South (Alassio)(20 mins)
  Performers
  Avery Amereau
  mezzo-soprano
  mezzo-soprano
  Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera
  Carlo Rizzi
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Gioachino Rossini
  Giacomo Puccini
  Luciano Berio
  Giuseppe Verdi
  Ottorino Respighi
  Edward Elgar
  Part of
  Proms 2025 Proms Across the UK
  Book now
  Tickets from £15 to £45 (plus booking fee)
  Tickets from £15 to £45 (plus booking fee)
Tue 5 Aug 2025
- 19:00
  Great British Classics
  Royal Albert Hall
  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 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’
  Programme
  William Walton
  Coronation March ‘Crown Imperial’(6 mins)arr. Tausky
  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  The Lee Shore(3 mins)
  Isle of Beauty(3 mins)
  The Evening Star(3 mins)
  Avril Coleridge-Taylor
  The Shepherd(4 mins)
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  The Lark Ascending(13 mins)
  Benjamin Britten
  Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’(16 mins)
  interval
  William Mathias
  Dance Overture(6 mins)
  John Rutter
  new work(8 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
  Grace Williams
  Elegy for Strings(7 mins)
  Edward Elgar
  ‘Enigma’ Variations(31 mins)
  Performers
  Liya Petrova
  violin
  violin
  BBC National Orchestra of Wales
  Nil Venditti
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  William Walton
  Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  Avril Coleridge-Taylor
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Benjamin Britten
  William Mathias
  John Rutter
  Grace Williams
  Edward Elgar
  Part of
  Proms 2025 Classical for starters Proms on TV
  Book now
  Seats from £11 to £56 (plus booking fee)
  Seats from £11 to £56 (plus booking fee)