BBC Proms: Joe Hisaishi and Steve Reich
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This event took place on Thursday 14 August 2025.
- Thursday 14 August 2025
- Royal Albert Hall
BBC Proms: Joe Hisaishi and Steve Reich
Thu 14 Aug 2025
Need to know
Repertoire
- Hisaishi Symphonic Suite: The Boy and the Heron for Piano and Orchestra
- Hisaishi The End of the World
- Reich The Desert Music
Features
- Joe Hisaishi Conductor
- John Holiday Counter-Tenor
- BBC Singers Choir
- National Youth Voices Choir
- Philharmonia Chorus Choir
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Location
Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore,
South Kensington,
London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
Legendary Studio Ghibli composer Joe Hisaishi makes his Proms debut conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in two large-scale works exploring themes of destruction and loss. The cinematic soundscapes of Hisaishi’s own The End of the World are set against the restless electric pulse and shimmer of Steve Reich’s The Desert Music – a scorched-earth vision of a post-nuclear wasteland.