Friday 18 July 2025 at 6:45pm - 11pm
First Night of The Proms
Royal Albert Hall
Tickets
£0.00 (RAH Ballot)
BBC Proms presents: First Night of the Proms 2025
The crash of the seas, the crumbling of city walls and a glimpse of the heavens: all come together in the 2025 First Night. There’s a Scottish sound-picture from Mendelssohn and cool Nordic grandeur from Sibelius.Errollyn Wallen harnesses primal forces in her colourful new orchestral commission, while visions from the Book of Revelation are the starting point for Vaughan Williams’s Sancta civitas.
Broadcast live on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.
Programme:
Bliss Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood 2’
Mendelssohn Overture ‘The Hebrides’ (Fingal’s Cave) 10’
Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor 35’
Interval
Errollyn Wallen The Elements. c10’
BBC commission: world premiere
Vaughan Williams Sancta civitas 30’
Lisa Batiashvili violin
Caspar Singh tenor
Gerald Finley bass baritone
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, Members of London Youth Choirs, BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor