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Schott Music at the BBC Proms: Discover the 2025 Line-up
- 18 Jul 2025
For over 130 years, the BBC Proms has curated phenomenal musical programmes for diverse audiences through its iconic summer concert series at the Royal Albert Hall in London. What began as a series of affordable “promenade” concerts has grown into a prestigious platform for live orchestral music and contemporary works.
Spanning eight weeks, this year’s Proms (18 July – 13 September 2025) features several acclaimed composers from the Schott Music roster, from 20th-century masters to some of the most distinctive voices composing today. In this blog, we shine a light on those composers, share fascinating facts about their work, and offer listening links so you can enjoy their music wherever you are.
Featured composers and works
Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor
Concert date: Friday 18th July 2025
The only violin concerto written by the composer, Sibelius' Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 47 is a striking blend of lyricism and technical brilliance. Composed in 1904 and revised a year later, the work channels the Finnish landscape through rich orchestration and one of the most compelling violin solos in the repertoire. It holds a central place in the violin repertoire and is regularly performed worldwide.
Ryan Wigglesworth
for Laura, after Bach (world premiere)
Concert date: Sunday 27th July 2025
Commissioned by the BBC, Ryan Wigglesworth’s for Laura, after Bach pays hommage to the former BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Leader Laura Samuel and was inspired by her recording of a Bach Partita, which was played at her funeral.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Straussiana
Concert date: Saturday 2nd August 2025
A late orchestral work by Korngold, Straussiana is a reminiscence of the composer's youth in Vienna. Dedicated to the king of waltzes, Johann Strauss II, this piece is packed full of Viennese charm and lush orchestration. Straussiana usually appears in concert programmes during the holiday season and as an encore piece, but it is also suitable for ballet performances.
Die tote Stadt - 'Marietta's Lied'
Concert date: Saturday 6th September 2025
A combination of late-Romantic intensity with dreamlike drama, Die tote Stadt is considered to be one of Korngold's masterpieces. The opera is best known for its soaring arias, particularly "Marietta's Lied", and its rich scoring, resulting in a surreal atmosphere.
Michael Tippett
The Rose Lake
Concert date: Sunday 10th August 2025
Tippett’s final orchestral work, The Rose Lake, is a shimmering, singing, ecstatic response in musical terms to the visual transformation that he had witnessed. His deep, lifelong relationship with the natural world and its luminous power finds a distilled essence in The Rose Lake.
Triumph: A Paraphrase on Music from ‘The Mask of Time’
Concert date: Saturday 30th August 2025
Drawn from his large-scale oratorio The Mask of Time, this orchestral work celebrates Tippett’s rhythmic complexity and thematic grandeur. It compresses the work’s cosmic vision into a powerful standalone piece.
Divertimento on 'Sellinger’s Round’
Concert date: Sunday 31st August 2025
Based on a Tudor dance tune, this charming suite showcases Tippett’s affection for early English music. Quoting from Gibbons, Purcell, Arne, Field and Sullivan, this five-movement work is united by a variation of Sellinger's Round which is presented during each movement.
Percy Grainger
The Lads of Wamphray
Concert date: Saturday 30th August 2025
Despite only being in his early 20s at the time of writing this work, The Lads of Wamphray is considered to be one of Grainger’s earliest masterpieces. Written for wind band, this piece is full of energy and bold colours, with the composer himself describing it as a "musical wild ride".
George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess: 'Summertime'
Concert date: Saturday 6th September 2025
Gershwin’s American opera classic returns to the Proms with a timeless favourite, “Summertime”. Drawing from jazz, blues, spirituals and classical forms, Gershwin effortlessly blends these genres along with poignant lyrics, to create the much-loved jazz standard that we know today.
Schott at the Proms 2025 Playlist
Curious about the pieces we've mentioned above? We've curated a Spotify playlist so that you can explore these pieces in more depth and discover something new!
Which performances are you looking forward to this year? Let us know in the comments!
