When are the BBC Proms on TV in 2023?

We bring you the schedule for the 2023 Proms broadcasts across BBC Two, BBC Four and BBC iPlayer

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Published: August 10, 2023 at 2:15 pm

If you’re unable to make it to the Royal Albert Hall for this year’s BBC Proms, you can catch up on what you’ve missed by tuning into BBC Radio 3 or visiting the Proms website and BBC Sounds, which will have broadcasts of every single Prom.

What's more, BBC television and BBC iPlayer will broadcast 24 programmes from the Proms season, including the First Night and Last Night of the Proms, and these will all be available to watch on iPlayer for 12 months.

It's likely that these Proms will all be broadcast on BBC Four, with a handful on BBC Two. The exact schedule and broadcast details of the Proms are yet to be announced, but we will update this page with any further information when it becomes available.

Check out the full concert schedule for the 2023 BBC Proms here.

Find out more about the history of the BBC Proms on TV.

If you want to attend the concerts in person, we explain how to buy tickets for the BBC Proms here.

The following Proms will be broadcast for BBC TV and iPlayer:

When are the BBC Proms on TV in 2023?

Friday 14 July Broadcast on Friday 14 July, BBC TWO

Presenter of the First Night of the Proms: Clive Myrie

Royal Albert Hall First Night of the Proms 2023

Sibelius: Finlandia Bohdana Frolyak: New work (BBC commission: world premiere) Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor Sibelius: Snöfrid Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

Paul Lewis (piano) BBC Singers BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

Find out about all the premiere performances in this year's BBC Proms.

Picture of the BBC Singers
The BBC Singers perform Poulenc's choral masterpiece, 'Figure humaine'

Saturday 15 July Broadcast 25 Aug, 7.45pm, BBC TWO

Royal Albert Hall

Keep the Faith: Northern Soul

BBC Concert Orchestra Edwin Outwater (conductor)

Sunday 16 July Broadcast live, BBC FOUR

Royal Albert Hall

Andrea Tarrodi: Birds of Paradise Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 Vivaldi: Four Seasons (with improvisation between movements)

Ale Carr (cittern) Pekka Kuusisto (violin/conductor) Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

Monday 17 July Broadcast on Sun 30 July, BBC FOUR

Royal Albert Hall

Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor Brahms: Hungarian Dances: Nos. 1, 3, 10 Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

Bomsori (violin) BBC Philharmonic Anja Bihlmaier (conductor)

Wednesday 19 July Broadcast on Fri 21 July, BBC FOUR

Royal Albert Hall

Rachmaninov orch. Respighi: Five Etudes-tableaux Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto in G minor Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor

Elena Urioste (violin) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

A picture of the violinist Elena Urioste
Elena Urioste

Saturday 22 July

Royal Albert Hall

Horrible Histories: ‘Orrible Opera

PROGRAMME TO INCLUDE

Mozart: The Magic Flute Puccini: Turandot Bizet: Carmen Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance Rossini: The Barber of Seville

The English National Opera Chorus The English National Opera Orchestra Keri-Lynn Wilson (conductor) Neal Foster (stage director) Angie Newman (BSL interpreter)

Sunday 23 July Broadcast live, BBC FOUR

Royal Albert Hall

Helen Grime: Meditations on Joy (BBC co-commission: UK premiere) Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, ‘Choral’

Eleanor Dennis (soprano) Karen Cargill (mezzo soprano) Nicky Spence (tenor) Michael Mofidian (bass-baritone) BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Ryal Wigglesworth (conductor)

Nicky Spence
Nicky Spence. Pic: Ki Price

Friday 28 July

Broadcast live, BBC FOUR

Royal Albert Hall

Tribute to Lata Mangeshkar – Bollywood Legend

Palak Muchhal (singer) Palash Muchhal (singer) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Michael Seal (conductor)

Tuesday 1 August Broadcast on Sun 6 Aug, BBC FOUR

Royal Albert Hall

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

Tuesday 1 August Broadcast live on Fri 4 Aug, 7pm, BBC FOUR

Royal Albert Hall

Late Night Prom

NYO Jazz (USA) with Dee Dee Bridgewater

Duke Ellington, trans. David Berger: Braggin’ In Brass Sean Jones: The 29ers Roy Hargrove, arr. David Gibson: Strasbourg/St. Denis Wycliffe Gordon: We’re Still Here Mongo Santamaria, arr. John Clayton: Afro Blue Spencer Williams, arr. John Clayton: Basin Street Blues Billie Holiday, arr. Cecil Bridgewater: Fine and Mellow Duke Ellington, arr. Slide Hampton: Cottontail Herbie Nichols, arr. Edsel Gomez and Cecil Bridgewater: Lady Sings The Blues Leonard Lee, arr. Frank Foster: Let The Good Times Roll

Dee Dee Bridgewater NYO Jazz – Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Jazz Orchestra Sean Jones (trumpet/director)

Wednesday 2 August Broadcast on Sun 13 Aug, 8pm, BBC FOUR

Royal Albert Hall

Ivan Karabits: Concerto for Orchestra No. 1, ‘A Musical Gift to Kyiv’ (UK premiere) Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat major Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2 in E minor

Felix Klieser (horn) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Kirill Karabits (conductor)

Friday 4 August Broadcast on Fri 11 Aug, BBC FOUR

Jimmy López Bellido: Perú Negro (UK premiere) Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast

Yuja Wang (piano) Thomas Hampson (baritone)

BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Klaus Makela (conductor)

Pianist Yuja Wang
Pianist Yuja Wang. Pic: Julia Wesely

Saturday 5 August Broadcast on Sun 20 Aug, 8pm, BBC FOUR

Royal Albert Hall

Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber Strauss: Four Last Songs Copland: Symphony No. 3

Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (soprano) National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Carlos Miguel Prieto (conductor)

Sunday 6 August Broadcast Fri 8 Sept, 7-8.45pm, BBC FOUR

Royal Albert Hall

JS Bach: Sinfonia in D major, BWV 1045 JS Bach: Singet dem Herrn, BWV 225 CPE Bach: Heilig ist Gott Mozart (compl. Clemens Kemme): Mass in C minor, K427

Lucy Crowe (soprano) Nardus Williams (soprano) Jess Dandy (alto) Benjamin Hulett (tenor) Robert Davies (bass) Dunedin Consort John Butt (conductor)

Sunday 6 August Broadcast on Fri 25 Aug, 7pm, BBC FOUR

Royal Albert Hall

L Boulanger: D’un matin de printemps Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Walton: Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor

Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) Sinfonia of London John Wilson (conductor)

Saturday 12 August Broadcast Fri 18 Aug, 7pm, BBC FOUR

Royal Albert Hall

Weber: Der Freischutz – overture Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, ‘Scottish’

Andras Schiff (piano) Budapest Festival Orchestra Ivan Fischer (conductor)

Sunday 27 August Broadcast Wed 30 Aug, 7.30-9.30pm, BBC TWO

Royal Albert Hall

Poulenc: Figure Humaine Mahler: Symphony No. 9

BBC Singers London Symphony Orchestra Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

Pic of Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Schumann's oratorio 'Das Paradies und die Peri'

Monday 28 August Broadcast 2 Sept, 6.10-7.40pm, BBC TWO

Royal Albert Hall Fantasy, Myths and Legends

Encounter music from The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones and other titles in a Prom celebrating soundtracks from the worlds of film, TV and gaming

BBC Concert Orchestra Anna-Maria Helsing (conductor)

Friday 1 September Broadcast Live Fri 1 Sept, 8-10pm, BBC FOUR

Royal Albert Hall

Valerie Coleman: Seven O’Clock Shout Coleridge-Taylor: Four Novelletten Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E flat major Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: 3rd movement (Rondo) from Sinfonietta No. 1 Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major

Aaron Azunda Akugbo (trumpet) Chineke!

Anthony Parnther (conductor)

Picture of BME orchestra Chineke!
BME orchestra Chineke! perform

Saturday 9 September Broadcast Live 7-9pm (BBC ONE), 9-10.10pm (BBC TWO)

Last Night of the Proms

Royal Albert Hall

R Strauss: Don Juan Coleridge-Taylor: Deep River arr. S. Parkin Bruch: Kol nidrei, Op. 47 James B. Wilson: 1922 (BBC commission: world premiere) Wagner: Tannhäuser – ‘Dich, teure Halle’ Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana – Easter Hymn; Intermezzo Verdi: Macbeth – ‘Vieni! t’affretta!’ Emmerich Kálmán: The Gypsy Princess – ‘Heia, heia, in den Bergen ist mein Heimatland’ Trad.: Fantasia on British Sea Songs (arr. Wood) Thomas Arne: Rule, Britannia! (arr. Sargent) Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and GloryParry: Jerusalem (orch. Elgar) Unknown: The National Anthem 'God Save The King' (arr. Britten) Trad.: Auld Lang Syne (arr. Paul Campbell)

Lise Davidsen (soprano) Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)

BBC Singers BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop (conductor)

Picture of conductor Marin Alsop
2023 BBC Proms: conductor Marin Alsop, who conducts the 2023 Last Night of the Proms. Source: Alckmin prestigia abertura do 48° Festival de Inverno. CREDIT Governo do Estado de São Paulo
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