Thu 23 Jul 2026

• 10:30

  Middlesbrough: BBC Young Composer Workshop

  Middlesbrough

  BBC Young Composer workshops offer 12- to 18-year-olds the opportunity to create, collaborate and hone their music making skills together with support from experienced composers and musicians.

  
• 19:30

  The Unthanks and friends with Royal Northern Sinfonia (Middlesbrough)

  Middlesbrough

  The Unthanks join Royal Northern Sinfonia and conductor Ellie Slorach for a concert of songs shaped by the North

  Also part of

  Proms Across the UK

  
• 19:30

  Afterlife: Visions of the Beyond

  Royal Albert Hall

  For their first Prom of the 2026 season, Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform spiritually charged works by Lili Boulanger, Szymanowski, Messiaen and Strauss, each reflecting on death and the afterlife

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  For their first Prom of the 2026 season, Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform spiritually charged works by Lili Boulanger, Szymanowski, Messiaen and Strauss, each reflecting on death and the afterlife

  Programme

  • • • Lili Boulanger
      • Vieille prière bouddhique(7 mins)
    • • Karol Szymanowski
      • Stabat mater(28 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Olivier Messiaen
      • L’Ascension – four symphonic meditations(27 mins)
    • • Richard Strauss
      • Death and Transfiguration(23 mins)

  Performers

  • Mari Eriksmoen

    soprano
    soprano
  • Paula Murrihy

    mezzo-soprano
    mezzo-soprano
  • James Way

    tenor
    tenor
  • Szymon Mechliński

    baritone
    baritone
  • BBC National Chorus of Wales
  • London Philharmonic Choir
  • BBC National Orchestra of Wales
  • Ryan Bancroft

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Lili Boulanger
  • Karol Szymanowski
  • Olivier Messiaen
  • Richard Strauss

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• 20:00

  BBC Introducing from The Glasshouse: Live at the Proms (Gateshead)

  The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Gateshead

  A celebration of musicians who have launched their careers under the groundbreaking BBC Introducing scheme, featuring a line-up of fresh performers that you’ll want to tell friends you saw here first

  Also part of

  Proms Across the UK