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17 Jul 2026, Royal Albert Hall
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Proms 2026 First Night of the Proms 2026

Prom 1
First Night of the Proms 2026
19:00 Fri 17 Jul 2026 Royal Albert Hall
Piano superstar Yunchan Lim joins Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for Ravel’s bluesy Concerto in G major. We also hear music by Copland, Gershwin and Finzi, alongside a world premiere from French-British composer Josephine Stephenson
Piano superstar Yunchan Lim joins Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for Ravel’s bluesy Concerto in G major. We also hear music by Copland, Gershwin and Finzi, alongside a world premiere from French-British composer Josephine Stephenson

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Dalia Stasevska and massed BBC forces launch the 2026 season with an American accent. The widescreen vision of Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man zooms in to teeming city streets in Gershwin’s ‘rhapsodic ballet’ An American in Paris, before piano superstar Yunchan Lim performs Ravel’s bluesy Concerto in G major, a musical postcard inspired by the composer’s time in the States. The second half sees a world premiere from French-British composer Josephine Stephenson, before Finzi’s ode to the patron saint of music, premiered in this same Hall nearly 80 years ago.

Broadcast live on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer

Dalia Stasevska © Veikko Kähkönen

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