Bbc Proms

You can still catch the magnificent performance of On the Town on iplayer until Monday. Watch here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/…/bbc-proms-2018- bernstein-on-the-town

Last chance to watch! Available on iplayer until Sunday - Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra #BBCProms https://www.bbc.co.uk/…/b0bgg31h/bbc-pr oms-2018-hungarian-g…

Last Chance! Watch the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Annelien Van Wauwe performing Mozart's Clarinet Concerto on BBC iPlayer before it expires tomorrow night. https://www.bbc.co.uk/…/b0…/bbc-proms -2018-mozart-and-mahler

Take a look at @Jess Gillam's dash from the stage at Hyde Park's Proms in the Park to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday 🏃‍♀️🎶 We're tired just watching this!

All the biggest and best moments from the Last Night of the Proms 2018!

All the action from Proms in the Parks around the nations.
An array of stars including Sophie Ellis-Baxtor in Glasgow, Gladys Knight in London, Midge Ure in Belfast and Katherine Jenkins in Colwyn Bay join the celebrations which bring the BBC Proms 2018 to a close.

The Last Night of the Proms in all its glory! A spectacular end to a memorable 8-weeks of music-making.

And, as tradition requires, we ended this evening's glorious Last Night of the Proms with a rousing 'Auld Lang Syne'. What a night it was!

For future reference, this is how you do 'Land of Hope and Glory'.

This is the bit that makes the Prommers cry! It's the cello solo from 'Tom Bowling' in Henry Wood's 'Fantasia on British Sea Songs'

Wow. Darius Milhaud's 'Scaramouche' is quite a ride. Extraordinary playing from Jess Gillam and the BBC Symphony Orchestra (and it's another BBC Proms premiere!)

The story of the Last Night of the Proms - as it happens
All the biggest and best moments from the Last Night of the Proms.

You've got a few minutes... Try our hideously difficult classical music quiz... https://bbc.in/2MbVGd1

This fabulous passage from Hubert Parry's 'Blest Pair of Sirens', first heard at the Proms in 1938, is what the TV people call a 'bow-tie pan'

Meanwhile, a quick reminder, from the camera operator up in the highest gallery at the Last Night of the Proms, that the Royal Albert Hall has the loveliest candelabras!

🎶 Our fabulous LNOP soloist Gerald Finley holds the Prommers transfixed with Stanford's 'Songs of the Sea'.

A stirring #LNOP finale - from the World Premiere performance of Roxanna Panufnik's 'Songs of Darkness, Dreams of Light'

Take a look back at 8 weeks of extraordinary music-making...

The incredible Jess Gillam warming up ahead of tonight's double duty. You can catch her at both #LNOP and at #PITP

We came to the relaxed prom. I must admit to some anxiety after the CBeebies prom last year (too much queuing, some of the pieces were too long, some of it seemed too stilted). This was totally different. So much thought had gone into even the tiny details. The hand dryers were turned off, there were more staff around and they were more than willing to help. The work that had gone into the printed programmes, images on screen, audio description, sign interpreters all made a special event something to treasure. At no point did we feel like this was a box ticking exercise to meet disability criteria. This was concert for all. The standard of musicianship was as high as any prom I've attended. Please do it again next year (because my son will be watching this repeatedly as soon as it's broadcast).

This is the first time I have ever seen this by the Chineke Foundation and it was phenomenal. It was so beautifully performed and arranged by the ensemble it left me with a newfound appreciation for classical music and musicians.

I would love to one day see a live performance and know it will leave breathless. To all of the performers thank you for an engaging and remarkable performance.

The relaxed Prom was completely fantastic

Brilliantly done and so relaxed it was great

Thank you so much BSO

The greatest concert in Proms history a truly outstanding tribute to Ella and Dizzy ,

Dianne Reeves and a James Morrison superb , brilliant , amazing ,

The BBC orchestra stunning ,

The best concert for many many years ,

Ella and Dizzy must be smiling

I am still buzzing , if you missed get it on catch up

Encore , Encore , Encore .

The Berlin Philharmonic was, as expected superb. Its new conductor, Kirill Petrenko, was in total control with beautiful conducting. The star of the evening had to be Yuja Wang in her performance of Prokofiev’s Third Plano Concerto. Such power and skill, unlike anything I have heard before.

Sublime prom this evening with the bagpipes this evening...3/8

So many people leaving negative reviews for little foibles?! I have lived overseas for 11 years now, and every time I am back I have to go to a proms concert. Went to Prom 13 on Monday (Sargent prom). Was reminded how not only is this the greatest classical musical festival in the world, but that the audience are better than you'll find elsewhere, and most importantly it isn't an 'elite' night out. Incredible music played at the highest quality made accessible to all. What more do you need?!

Just watched the 'Pioneers of Sound' prom and thought it was absolutely amazing.

It's very silly to say one wants politics totally out of classical music. Classical music always live with politics, Beethoven, Chopin, Wagner, Schostakovich.... Artists have freedom to express their mind, and agree or not we listen. Well done Proms!

I have followed the Proms, and attended some which entails an overnight stay as I live in the north of England , for many years . I would like someone to explain why ALL proms can't be screened on BBC4 ? Why are we restricted to Friday's and Sunday's for heavens sake? Tonights Beethoven 9 was truly a 5* performance . Truly outstanding - on Radio 3 I wouldn't have been able to see the joyousness of Xian Zhang's face or the wonderful faces of those magnificent choirs . I go to concerts to be part of the atmosphere . Please BBC explain the reasons why the whole country can't join in with the atmosphere of the Royal Albert Hall every night ? And don't tell me that you can't interrupt the schedule of this station when night after night there are repeats of repeats ..... I look forward to an explanation . Valerie Bridgman

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Listening to Cadogan Hall Prom today - very pleased to hear and enjoy Conch Town - very proud of our son Tom Owen who worked with Nigel Simeone to sort it and complete it - rightly acknowledged for their work. So sad we and they weren’t able to get tickets to be there in person.

I don't like politics being brought into classical music. The Barenboim performance of the Elgar 2nd -for me the finest symphony ever written - was one of the best I've heard - then we had to be subjected to a thinly veiled homily about Brexit. Elgar died in 1934, was from a completely different age, wrote this symphony in 1911 at a time when Europe and indeed the world were a far different place to what it is today. Elgar and his music has nothing to do with modern day politics and I am quite appalled that this should be dragged into the Proms. Is it the case now that whenever we go to a theatre performance of music concert we have to endure some one lecturing about how we should think about Brexit, Corbyn, Refugees etc etc etc. What ever happened to just having a pleasant evening enjoying the performance ? Surely that's one of the reasons why we go - to have a few delightful hours away from all the pressures, and strains of life - and for Goodness sake BBC give us a break from Brexit !

Fortunate to have been bought tickets to Proms in the Park by my wife, Found the edge taken off this experience by VERY POOR sound in Hyde Park, it's bad when you can't even hear the quiet bits and when the orchestra were on full flow the conversations of the purple around you were easier to hear. As for the video both live and from the Albert Hall what a joke, they were out of sync by up to 2 seconds at times. Shame on you BBC, it's not rocket science to sort these problems out, everyone else appears to be able to do it.

I haven't looked closely at the BBC's TV Broadcasts yet however

Have We Now Moved To A Situation Where There Is More Non Classical Music Broadcast On TV than Classical ?

Which is exactly Bea New's comment last year, I think it's worse this year so far ?



How strange.. No BBC POST for the FOLK MUSIC PROMS, I wonder why ?

Could it be Sam Lee expressing his delight at being at the Fu****g Albert Hall ?



On the whole I found it disappointing

Have a Folk Proms if you must in what used to be a CLASSICAL music festival but why must it be contemporary !

Far too many backpacks on the floor of the arena this year making it difficult to enter and exit the hall, plus picnickers eating during concerts; and don't get me going about the people with the inability to stay off Facebook during performances or checking emails and texts. Otherwise, so far far the performances have been good apart from these unwanted distractions.

Am watching the Folk Prom. Its all a bit repetitive.

Yet again no Robert Simpson, Bax, Rubbra, Alwyn, Havergal Brian, Mathias, George Lloyd - I could go on.

So this is my first year as a season ticket holder for the Arena and they have introduced a new queuing system that its suppose to be fair and avoid the long queues. But it is not fair and if you work or have children and therefore can't arrive early in the day to get a queuing ticket you will always be at the back of the arena.

The whole ethos of the proms is that it should be viable to all and I accept the policy that as a ticket holder I should be there 30 minutes before the start to gain entry.



What I don;t agree with is that if you are retired, unemployed or a student and have to free time to get there at 9am or for the last night at midday on the Friday you can get tickets to the front of the arena. However I work and therefore this is not an option so I am always at the back.



For the last night there should be a better way of allocating queuing tickets.