Performances of BBC National Orchestra of Wales at BBC Proms

For their first Prom of the 2026 season, Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform spiritually charged works by Lili Boulanger, Szymanowski, Messiaen and Strauss, each reflecting on death and the afterlife

Join Albert Einstein and Marie Curie as they present CBBC’s hit sketch show Horrible Science live at the Royal Albert Hall with some scientifically proven bangers from the classical canon, including Holst’s The Planets and John Williams’s Star Wars

Join Albert Einstein and Marie Curie as they present CBBC’s hit sketch show Horrible Science live at the Royal Albert Hall with some scientifically proven bangers from the classical canon, including Holst’s The Planets and John Williams’s Star Wars

Elena Schwarz and the BBC National Orchestral of Wales perform Dvořák’s passionate Symphony No. 7 alongside Zimmermann’s 1950 Fairy-Tale Suite and Mendelssohn’s famous Violin Concerto, with Proms regular Alina Ibragimova as soloist

The National Open Youth Orchestra – the world’s first disabled-led national youth ensemble – and members of BBC NOW perform music by Vivaldi, Charlotte Harding and Michael Betteridge

Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform two 20th-century ballets – Copland’s Billy the Kid and Stravinsky’s Petrushka – alongside a new Clarinet Concerto by Portland-based composer and songwriter Gabriel Kahane