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The , as the biggest classical music festival in the world, presents an embarrassment of musical riches every summer. With 76 main concerts in the Royal Albert Hall, not to mention countless additional events across the summer, there really is something for everyone.

We are lucky enough to broadcast the festival across 麻豆约拍 TV, Radio and Online which means it’s also the world’s largest broadcast classical music festival - accessible to millions of music lovers who can’t make it to the live event. For a television commissioner, however, that presents a challenge as well as an opportunity. How do we curate the in the right way for audiences who can, and do, access the joys of the Proms in so many different ways?  

Our starting point is that every single concert is broadcast in its entirety on . That means any member of the public can stream or download a full concert for 30 days in beautifully mixed HD sound on anything from their TV to their phone - and in the case of the Royal Albert Hall concerts, in a live surround sound mix that places you right in the hall. That means that our TV plans can afford to be much more curated – formulated to guide viewers through a particular theme in the Proms season, or to provide more context than we would be able to in a standard concert ‘capture’. So, together with the Proms team, we peruse the programme and see which concerts lend themselves to that kind of curation.

This kind of programming takes many forms. Despite the occasional suggestion that we have deserted showing full concerts, many of our broadcasts are effectively showing exactly what happens in the Royal Royal Albert Hall. Sometimes, when a particular theme suggests it, we alter the content of the concert a little to allow for more editorial content alongside the music.

This year we have picked out several major threads from the season to form our series of primetime 麻豆约拍 Four broadcasts on Thursday, Friday and Sunday nights. One is the emphasis on the concerto which we explore on Thursday nights – so we have three concerts in which former 麻豆约拍 Young Musicians perform concerti and discuss them with our presenters – for instance, and . We also couldn’t resist the solo Bach series, so we have full concerts by Andras Schiff, and Yo-Yo Ma. Again, the broadcasts will allow us to interview these stars and bring their unique insights into the programme.

Friday nights are our opportunity to reach the broadest possible audience, to really evangelise for the world of music that the Proms embodies. So we offer some of the ‘big ticket’ concerts – , – alongside some of the less traditional Proms focussing on or . Across the whole season our emphasis is still, of course, on the core classical repertory, and the new music for which the Proms is renowned. We’re determined, though, to represent the whole panoply of concerts the season offer.

On Sunday nights, we have chosen to take a slightly different approach. The symphony is at the heart of the Proms programme, and we have asked the extraordinary Sir Mark Elder to use this season to take us on a journey through the world of the symphony. Each programme focusses on one work, and Sir Mark explains it movement by movement. For those less familiar with symphonic form, we hope this will open up and illuminate their understanding of the works and the form. Obviously we appreciate that those who already know the pieces might not welcome the introductions between movements – that’s why the whole concerts are available uninterrupted on the 麻豆约拍 Proms website.

In picking these concerts and these themes, we are, of course, having to make hard choices. There are some marvellous concerts we won’t be able to televise and some works which will only be available online. Modern technology, though, helps improve what we can offer. In seasons past, many works would end up on the cutting room floor – now, they’re all available at the touch of a button, an increasingly popular trend (last year 56% of online viewing was by mobile and tablet). We also have Saturday night’s on 麻豆约拍 Two to showcase even more of the Proms, alongside special performances and interviews.  

We transmit as many Proms now as we ever have. We’ve come a long way from the early days of television Proms broadcasts in the '30s where they took just snippets from the opening and closing of the Proms. In addition to our 麻豆约拍 Four series, we broadcast the live on 麻豆约拍 Two, the Last Night – with the anticipated return of conductor Marin Alsop – will be live on 麻豆约拍 Two (first half) and 麻豆约拍 One (second half) and the Ten Pieces Prom goes out on C麻豆约拍 this weekend. Our Proms television broadcasts bring millions of television viewers to classical music and represent probably the biggest commitment to classical music of any broadcaster anywhere in the world.  In our mission to make the 麻豆约拍 Proms available to as many people as possible I don’t think we’ve ever been in a better position.

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• airs on Sunday 2 August 2015 at 9.30am on C麻豆约拍