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Performances of Sakari Oramo at BBC Proms

Sun 7 Sep 2025
- 19:30
  Grieg’s Piano Concerto
  Royal Albert Hall
  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
  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
  Programme
  Ruth Gipps
  Death on the Pale Horse(8 mins)
  Edvard Grieg
  Piano Concerto in A minor(30 mins)
  interval
  Arthur Bliss
  The Beatitudes(50 mins)
  Performers
  Elizabeth Watts
  soprano
  soprano
  Laurence Kilsby
  tenor
  tenor
  Lukas Sternath
  piano
  piano
  BBC Singers
  BBC Symphony Chorus
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Sakari Oramo
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Ruth Gipps
  Edvard Grieg
  Arthur Bliss
  Part of
  Proms 2025
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  Seats from £11 to £56 (plus booking fee)
  Seats from £11 to £56 (plus booking fee)
Thu 24 Jul 2025
- 19:30
  Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
  Royal Albert Hall
  Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra soloist Augustin Hadelich for Mendelssohn’s vivacious, melody-filled Violin Concerto. We also hear Stravinsky’s The Song of the Nightingale and Strauss’s tone-poem Till Eulenspiegel
  Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra soloist Augustin Hadelich for Mendelssohn’s vivacious, melody-filled Violin Concerto. We also hear Stravinsky’s The Song of the Nightingale and Strauss’s tone-poem Till Eulenspiegel
  Programme
  Igor Stravinsky
  Song of the Nightingale(21 mins)
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Violin Concerto in E minor(26 mins)
  interval
  Anthony Davis
  Tales (Tails) of the Signifying Monkey(15 mins)UK premiere
  Richard Strauss
  Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks(15 mins)
  Performers
  Augustin Hadelich
  violin
  violin
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Sakari Oramo
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Igor Stravinsky
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Anthony Davis
  Richard Strauss
  Part of
  Proms 2025 Classical for starters
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  Seats from £11 to £56 (plus booking fee)
  Seats from £11 to £56 (plus booking fee)
Fri 18 Jul 2025
- 18:45
  First Night of the Proms 2025
  Royal Albert Hall
  The 2025 First Night sees Mendelssohn’s ‘Hebrides’ Overture and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto featured alongside British classics from Bliss and Vaughan Williams, plus a world premiere from Master of the King’s Music Errollyn Wallen
  The 2025 First Night sees Mendelssohn’s ‘Hebrides’ Overture and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto featured alongside British classics from Bliss and Vaughan Williams, plus a world premiere from Master of the King’s Music Errollyn Wallen
  Programme
  Arthur Bliss
  Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood(2 mins)
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Overture ‘The Hebrides’ (‘Fingal’s Cave’)(10 mins)
  Jean Sibelius
  Violin Concerto in D minor(35 mins)
  interval
  Errollyn Wallen
  The Elements(10 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Sancta civitas(30 mins)
  Performers
  Lisa Batiashvili
  violin
  violin
  Caspar Singh
  tenor
  tenor
  Gerald Finley
  bass-baritone
  bass-baritone
  BBC Singers
  BBC Symphony Chorus
  London Youth Choirs
  ( from)
  ( from)
  BBC Symphony Orchestra
  Sakari Oramo
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Arthur Bliss
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Jean Sibelius
  Errollyn Wallen
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Part of
  Proms 2025 Proms on TV
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  Seats from £26 to £86 (plus booking fee)
  Seats from £26 to £86 (plus booking fee)