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Floral Tribute is a gentle new piece composed in memory of the late Queen Elizabeth II.
Roxanna Panufnik's composition, performed by vocal group VOCES8, is featured in New Music at the Proms with Tom Service. Watch it now on BBC iPlayer.
🎶 Fancy a Sunday evening boogie with Northern Soul at the Proms?
Tainted Love, sung by Vula Malinga is just one of many tracks to get you dancing, so turn up the volume, and watch the party now on BBC iPlayer
Studio Ghibli's beloved My Neighbour Totoro is just one of the spellbinding soundtracks that feature in Fantasy Film Music at the Proms. Watch it now on BBC iPlayer
Ukrainian composer Bohdana Frolyak’s spine-tingling Let There Be Light is one of the brand new pieces unveiled at this year's Proms.
Watch New Music at the Proms with Tom Service from 8pm tonight on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer.
We’re going on an adventure to Hobbiton and beyond in tonight’s Fantasy Film Music at the Proms.🐲
Join BBC Concert Orchestra, Huddersfield Choral, mezzo-soprano Felicity Buckland and conductor Anna-Maria Helsing for a spellbinding evening of magical soundtracks.
Watch on BBC Two & BBC iPlayer @ 6.10PM.
🎂Happy birthday Keanu Reeves! We have two ideas for how to mark this special day...
🌊Watch Point Break on BBC iPlayer to see Keanu in action as Johnny Utah: bbc.in/3q3tX4w
🎞️Watch this #InsideCinema episode all about the Cult of Keanu by James King 👇
'Languages have a flavour to me.'
J. R. R. Tolkien died #onthisday 50 years ago, in 1973.
In this BBC Archive film from 1968, the Lord of the Rings author reflects on his passion for inventing languages such as Elvish.
The 100th performance of Beethoven’s sunny Fourth Symphony at the #BBCProms 🎉 Performed by Chineke! Foundation and conductor Anthony Parnther at the Royal Albert Hall
📺 Watch now on BBC iPlayer
Trumpeter Aaron Akugbo takes centre stage with Chineke! Foundation to perform Haydn’s joyful Trumpet Concerto, with its famous third movement.
📺 Watch now on BBC iPlayer and BBC Four.
🎧 Listen live on BBC Sounds.
The ending of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's lyrical Four Noveletten, performed tonight at the #BBCProms by Chineke! Foundation and conductor Anthony Parnther.
📺 Watch now on BBC iPlayer and BBC Four.
🎧 Listen live on BBC Sounds.
🥁 Edvard Grieg's instantly-recognised In the Hall of the Mountain King, written in 1875 for Ibsen's play Peer Gynt, takes over the Royal Albert Hall during the Fantasy Film Music Prom. Anna-Maria Helsing conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra 🎺.
Watch on Saturday, 6.10pm @BBC Two & BBC iPlayer.
Mournful and passionate, and possibly one of the most recognisable pieces of classical music in the world. Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei is a choral arrangement of his own Adagio for Strings.
Let go of your pressures and stresses with Mindful Mix at the Proms now on BBC iPlayer.
It's almost the last of the @BBCProms and we ask @TheKatieDerham what her personal highlights were... 🎻
#TheOneShow 👉 bbc.in/3OYHnev
What a silence! The final heart-stopping moments of Mahler's Ninth, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in his final UK performance as music director of the London Symphony Orchestra.
The amazing 'farewell symphony', alongside Poulenc's Figure humaine with the BBC Singers, is on BBC iPlayer.
👋 An emotional night as Sir Simon Rattle takes a bow for his final UK concert with the London Symphony Orchestra.
After Poulenc's Figure humaine with BBC Singers, we are treated to Mahler's Ninth - known as the 'farewell symphony'.
Watch on @BBC Two and BBC iPlayer from 7.30pm tonight.