Claudio Abbado conducts tonight's Prom featuring the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, which draws its players from all over the world and which Abbado helped to create. The concert begins with the dramatic Songs and Dances of Death by Musorgsky, featuring the Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky who won the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 1989. He says: "I am very excited to be making my Proms debut and to be working with one of the world's greatest maestros, Abbado, for the first time and with such an exciting youth orchestra with players from many Eastern European countries. And I'm proud to be singing one of the strongest song-cycles in the Russian repertoire." Part 2 is Anton Bruckner's monumental Fifth Symphony. During the interval, there is a look behind the scenes with the orchestra on its summer course in Bolzano, northern Italy, as Abbado prepares the young players for the Prom. Introduced by Michael Berkeley.
| Title | BBC Proms - Season 47 Episode 4 : BBC Proms - Live |
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| Alternative Titles | The Proms, Proms |
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| First Air Date | 1947-09-13 |
| Last Air Date | 2026-07-26 |
| Number of Episodes | 1169 |
| Number of Seasons | 80 |
| Genres | Documentary, |
| Networks | BBC One, CBBC, BBC Four, CBeebies, BBC Two, BBC iPlayer, BBC Television, |
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Episodes List
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BBC Proms Season 47 :Episode 1 First Night of the Proms
1993-07-16The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and...
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BBC Proms Season 47 :Episode 2 BBC Proms
1993-07-26The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and...
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BBC Proms Season 47 :Episode 3 BBC Proms - Live
1993-08-05The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and...
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BBC Proms Season 47 :Episode 4 BBC Proms - Live
1993-08-09The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and...
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BBC Proms Season 47 :Episode 5 BBC Proms - Live
1993-08-19The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and...
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BBC Proms Season 47 :Episode 6 BBC Proms - Live
1993-08-23The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and...
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BBC Proms Season 47 :Episode 7 BBC Proms - Live
1993-08-30The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and...
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BBC Proms Season 47 :Episode 8 BBC Proms - Live
1993-09-06The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and...
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BBC Proms Season 47 :Episode 9 Last Night of the Proms
1993-09-11The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and...
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BBC Proms Season 47 :Episode 10 Last Night of the Proms
1993-09-11The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and...
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BBC Proms Season 47 :Episode 11 BBC Proms 93
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