BBC Proms 2025 - First Night of the Proms

First Night of the Proms 2025

18:45 Fri 18 Jul 2025 Royal Albert Hall

The 2025 First Night sees Mendelssohn’s ‘Hebrides’ Overture and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto featured alongside British classics from Bliss and Vaughan Williams, plus a world premiere from Master of the King’s Music Errollyn Wallen

Programme

• • • Arthur Bliss
    • Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood(2 mins)
  • • Felix Mendelssohn
    • Overture ‘The Hebrides’ (‘Fingal’s Cave’)(10 mins)
  • • Jean Sibelius
    • Violin Concerto in D minor(35 mins)
  • • interval
  • • Errollyn Wallen
    • The Elements(10 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
  • • Ralph Vaughan Williams
    • Sancta civitas(30 mins)

Performers

• Lisa Batiashvili

  violin
• Caspar Singh

  tenor
• Gerald Finley

  bass-baritone
• BBC Singers
• BBC Symphony Chorus
• London Youth Choirs

  (members from)
• BBC Symphony Orchestra
• Sakari Oramo

  conductor

Composers

• Arthur Bliss
• Felix Mendelssohn
• Jean Sibelius
• Errollyn Wallen
• Ralph Vaughan Williams