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BBC Proms: Joe Hisaishi and Steve Reich

Thursday 14 August 2025, 7.30pm
Royal Albert Hall

Joe Hisaishi The End of the World
Steve Reich The Desert Music

Joe Hisaishi Conductor
John Holiday Counter-tenor
BBC Singers
National Youth Voices
Philharmonia Chorus

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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.

Ticket information

£17.30 to £65.24 (exc. booking fees)

£9 Day Promming tickets will be available from 9.30am on the day of the Prom.