The BBC Proms Festival in London will be held this year between 17^th July and 12^th September; the concept has remained the same for 120 years, since the festival was founded by Sir Henry Wood: concerts dedicated to large audiences, where people do not necessarily sit on their chairs, suffused with a 100% British atmosphere. Most of the concerts are held at the moment at the Royal Albert Hall in London with a capacity of 5,300 seats.

Throughout the summer of 2015, you will be able to listen to several live concerts from the BBC Proms Festival broadcast by Radio Romania Music, one of which being the one that will open event. The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo and pianist Lars Vogt will open the BBC Proms Festival on 17^th July, at 21:30. The programme includes two works by two Nordic composers, whose 150th anniversaries of their birth are being celebrated this year: Denmark's Carl Nielsen and Finland's Jean Sibelius. The central theme is one of the most well-known Concerts for piano and orchestra by Mozart, No. 20, performed by Lars Vogt, a famous German pianist. The evening includes a work performed for the first time audition as it was ordered by the BBC Proms Festival to composer Gary Carpenter, and will end with two works bearing the same theme, Belshazzar's Feast, one by Sibelius, the other one signed by the British William Walton.

Radio Romania Music will broadcast live this special concert, on Friday, 17^th July, at 21:30; the concert is presented by Anca Ioana Andriescu. Listeners will be able to listen to it again on the website www.romania-muzical.ro until 16^th August.

Next live broadcasts from the BBC Proms Festival, broadcast through the European Broadcasting Union, are scheduled between 18^th and 19^th August, and several other concerts will be available for listening during the "The European Stage" programme.