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The 麻豆约拍 Proms is the world’s largest broadcast classical music festival. It’s a truly massive beast, built around 75 full concerts over eight weeks at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Since the very first festival in 1895 its vision has been to bring the best of the world’s classical music to the widest possible audience, and if you’ve seen this year’s programme you’ll know that the 2016 season will deliver that in spades. 

When the Proms first appeared on television back in the late 1940s, we showed little more than highlights of the First and Last Nights. Today it’s very different – alongside Radio 3 who broadcast every Prom live, we’re able to film dozens of Proms in full and broadcast them right across the summer, many of them on the same night, bringing the festival to millions of people at home. We’re lucky that modern media now also allows us to give our many different audiences the flexibility to watch the Proms whenever and however works for them – whether that’s on television or mobile, online or on catch-up, as whole programmes or in shorter clips. Responding to constantly evolving audience habits allows us to keep our offer fresh every year across all our platforms.

We’ve had an embarrassment of riches to choose from this year, and we’re really excited by the variety and scope of music making in our schedule. At the heart of our television broadcasts is a parade of classical giants in concert, the greatest conductors, soloists and orchestras performing the jewels of the classical repertoire – from composers like Mahler, Wagner, Mozart and Boulez conducted by Simon Rattle, Marin Alsop, Bernard Haitink and Mirga Gra啪inyt臈-Tyla, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic, the Sao Paulo Symphony, the LSO and the CBSO. There’s new music by living composers from Britain, Europe and beyond. And we’re also bringing a real taste of the breadth of music-making that the Proms represents. We’re particularly excited to be filming some of the distinctive late night events that are becoming such a feature of the Proms, from the Gospel Prom, to Jamie Cullum’s Prom to a very special Proms tribute to the legendary David Bowie. We’re also celebrating orchestral music in its many glorious forms - whether that’s with Quincy Jones, with the first ever Strictly Prom, with the Aurora Orchestra’s thrilling performances of Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony from memory, or the National Youth Orchestra performing The Planets and other celestial music. There’s a particular celebration of young performers in this year’s festival, and we’ll also be featuring the Proms Youth Choir in our broadcast of the Verdi Requiem, as well as some stand-out school children from across the country in the Ten Pieces II Prom.

This year our family of Proms presenters, led by Katie Derham, will be joined by some new faces, including the brilliant clarinetist and composer Lloyd Coleman, musicologist Hannah French and star baritone Roderick Williams. They join our roster of regular presenters including Samira Ahmed, Angel Blue, Clemency Burton-Hill, Suzy Klein, Clarke Peters, Tom Service and Petroc Trelawny. 

This year filmed concerts are broadcast on 麻豆约拍 One, 麻豆约拍 Two, 麻豆约拍 Four, C麻豆约拍, Cbeebies and iPlayer. 麻豆约拍 Four is the home of music on television and most of our broadcasts have a natural home there on Fridays and Sundays. We also have a regular presence on 麻豆约拍 Two on Saturday nights through our weekly magazine show, Proms Extra, which is returning for a fourth series throughout the festival presented by Katie Derham. 

Every year there are other events that we respond to on television and during the Olympic Games we’ll be offering a cultural counter to that abundance of sport with two stand-out concerts on 麻豆约拍 Two on Saturday nights, the first with John Wilson Orchestra’s Gershwin tribute, and the second with the Munich Philharmonic performing Ravel, Rachmaninov and Strauss.

When the Olympic Games have ended, 麻豆约拍 Four will offer its own Olympian Prom week, with nightly broadcasts culminating in a Mozartian double Prom evening on the Friday night. As always, the Last Night is broadcast across 麻豆约拍 Two and 麻豆约拍 One, and this year the First Night is broadcast across 麻豆约拍 Two and 麻豆约拍 Four in response to scheduling considerations. 

With every concert we think very carefully about the experience of the audience at home – we don’t just cover the Proms, we try to curate them as a viewing experience for television. We often cut down the lengthy concert interval which viewers at home on the sofa don’t need and on two occasions this year we are dividing concerts across platforms. We are devoting one broadcast to Tippett’s passionate oratorio A Child of Our Time, a work of such powerful urgency that we felt it formed a complete television experience on its own. The other music in the concert, given by the 麻豆约拍 National Orchestra of Wales, will be available to watch immediately afterwards on red button and online with clear messaging of how to find it. In another programme we’ll be following the process of Aurora Orchestra memorising Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony, with all other music from the concert available to watch in full online. 

There was a 50% increase in people viewing and listening to the Proms online last year, and this year we’re excited to be broadcasting some Proms exclusively online and on the red button. We’re working closely with the National Youth Orchestra on developing new ways of presenting broadcast classical concerts to the younger “digital” generation, and we’re streaming the late-night Gospel Prom, the Ten Pieces II Prom and a concert of popular Brazilian orchestral music direct to iPlayer and online.

As we head towards the start of the festival and prepare ourselves to move to our summer home at the Royal Albert Hall we hope that, however you choose to immerse yourself, you take every opportunity to explore and enjoy the eight spectacular weeks of world-class music at the 2016 麻豆约拍 Proms.

Francesca Kemp is Executive Producer, Classical Music

• The 麻豆约拍 Proms starts on Friday 15 July 2016 at 7.30pm and is broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Two and, later, on 麻豆约拍 Four
• The full schedule of 麻豆约拍 Proms concerts on 麻豆约拍 Television and 麻豆约拍 iPlayer is available on the .
• Find out more about the classical music festival at the .