What BBC Proms concerts are on TV in 2021?

Jon Jacob Blog, News

The BBC has announced which of this year’s Prom concerts will be broadcast on TV. The season starts on Friday 30 July and finishes with the Last Night of the Proms on Saturday 11 December. Twenty concerts will be broadcast across BBC One, BBC Two, and BBC Four.

Every Prom concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and via the BBC Sounds app.

Friday 30 July

First Night Of The Proms
Part one is broadcast on BBC Two (8pm). Part two is broadcast on BBC Four (9pm).

Read more about tonight’s music in All You Need to Know: Vaughan Williams, Poulenc and Sibelius		Katie Derham
Sunday 1 AugustScottish Chamber Orchestra/ Maxim Emelyanychev BBC Four, 8:30pm

Read more about tonight’s music in All You Need to Know: Mozart Symphonies 39, 40, and 41		Tom Service
Thursday 5 AugustCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/ Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla BBC Four, 8pmPetroc Trelawny
Friday 6 AugustBBC National Orchestra of Wales/ Elim Chan with Sol GabettaBBC Four, 7pmSuzy Klein
Saturday 7 AugustThe Golden Age of Broadway BBC Two, time TBCKatie Derham
Sunday 8 AugustNational Youth Orchestra/ Jonathon Heyward with Nicola BenedettiBBC Four, 7pmJess Gillam
Friday 13 AugustAurora Orchestra/ Nicholas Collon BBC Four, 7pmTom Service
Sunday 15 AugustPhilharmonia Orchestra/ Santtu- Matias Rouvali with Víkingur Ólafsson
BBC Four, 7pm		Josie d’Arby
Thursday 19 AugustOpera Gala: To Soothe the Aching Heart BBC Four, 7pmPetroc Trelawny
Friday 20 AugustNubya Garcia
BBC Four, 7pm		Clive Myrie
Sunday 22 AugustLondon Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle BBC Four, 8pmSuzy Klein
Thursday 26 AugustChineke! / Kalena Bovell with Jeneba Kanneh-Mason BBC Four, time TBCTom Service
Friday 27 AugustAcademy of St Martin in the Fields with Joshua Bell BBC Four, 7pmJosie d’Arby 
Sunday 29 AugustCarnival of the Animals with the Kanneh-Mason Family and Michael Morpurgo
BBC Four, 8pm		Katie Derham
Thursday 2 SeptemberBBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/ Ilan Volkov with Lucy Crowe
BBC Four, 7pm		Jess Gillam
Friday 3 SeptemberMoses Sumney meets Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony OrchestraBBC Four, time TBCClara Amfo
Saturday 4 SeptemberCarnival of the Animals with the Kanneh-Mason Family and Michael Morpurgo
BBC Two, time TBC		Katie Derham
Saturday 5 SeptemberEnglish Baroque Soloists/ Monteverdi Choir/ John Eliot Gardiner BBC Four, 7pmPetroc Trelawny
Thursday 9 SeptemberSinfonia of London/ John Wilson with Miah Persson BBC Four, 7pmSuzy Klein
Friday 10 SeptemberArcangelo and Jonathan Cohen in Bach’s St Matthew Passion BBC Four, 7pmAnna Lapwood
Saturday 11 SeptemberLast Night of the Proms BBC Two/ BBC One, time TBCKatie Derham