BBC Concert Orchestra Conductor Robert Ames - Prog Rock: A Fanfare For The Common Man

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR ROBERT AMES - PROG ROCK: A FANFARE FOR THE COMMON MAN (320kbs-m4a/343mb/2hrs29mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 18th July 2026

Live at the BBC Proms: the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Robert Ames celebrate prog rock with BBC Radio 6 Music presenter Stuart Maconie and special guests.

Presented by Elizabeth Alker live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Copland, arr Robert Ames: Fanfare For The Common Man
Ian Anderson arr Sam Gale: Living In The Past
Mike Ratledge, arr Gale: Out-Bloody-Rageous
Tony Banks, arr Adam Dennis: A Trick Of The Tail; arr. Sam Gale: I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe); arr. Christian Balvig: Northern Lights
Justin Hayward, arr. Fiona Brice: Nights In White Satin
Peter Hammill, arr. Adam Dennis: Refugees
Yes, arr. CHAINES: And You and I - Close To The Edge - Siberian Khatru
Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells, Part One (excerpts)

c.8.25pm
Interval: David Baddiel grew up listening to Genesis. He talks about his musical tastes and recent projects including writing a family memoir and the Radio 4 series about the meaning of Englishness and football fandom: Sixty Years Of Hurt.

c.8.45pm
Keith Emerson, arr. Robert Ames: Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Part 2
Thijs van Leer, arr. Christian Balvig: Sylvia
Osibisa, arr. Christian Balvig: Komfo
Frank Zappa, arr. Christian Balvig: Peaches en Regalia
King Crimson, arr. Fiona Brice: 21st Century Schizoid Man - I Talk To The Wind - Court Of The Crimson King
Ian Anderson: Reasons For Waiting
Tony Banks, arr. Fiona Brice: Entangled; arr Sam Gale: On Reflection
The Incredible String Band, arr. Christian Balvig: Maker Of Islands
Richard Wright, arr. Fiona Brice: Great Gig In The Sky
Rick Davies, arr. Christian Balvig: Crime Of The Century
Greg Lake, adapted from Mussorgsky, arr. Robert Ames: The Great Gates Of Kiev

Guy Garvey
Jane Weaver
Gruff Rhys
Carl Palmer, drums
Peter Hammill, vocals
BBC Concert Orchestra
Robert Ames, conductor

Prog rock exploded the tight boundaries of pop music, amplifying it with new symphonic scope, ambition and influences and creating spectacular visual and musical statements. The Proms celebrates this pioneering, British-driven movement in a concert celebrating classic tracks on an orchestral scale. Award-winning broadcaster and BBC Radio 6 Music host Stuart Maconie presents brand new orchestral arrangements of music by ELP, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Mike Oldfield, Renaissance, Yes and others.

BBC Concert Orchestra & Robert Ames & Carl Palmer - Fanfare For The Common Man
BBC Concert Orchestra & Robert Ames & Gruff Rhys - Living In The Past
BBC Concert Orchestra & Robert Ames - Out Bloody Rageous
BBC Concert Orchestra & Robert Ames & Guy Garvey & The Staves - I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
BBC Concert Orchestra & Robert Ames & Jane Weaver - Northern Lights
BBC Concert Orchestra & Robert Ames & Jane Weaver - Nights In White Satin
BBC Concert Orchestra & Robert Ames & Peter Hammill - Refugees
BBC Concert Orchestra & Robert Ames & The Staves - And You And I
BBC Concert Orchestra & Robert Ames - Tubular Bells, Part One
Jethro Tull - One White Duck [Parlophone]
Focus - Hocus Pocus [Red Bullet Productions]
Genesis - More Fool Me [Rhino Atlantic]
BBC Concert Orchestra & Robert Ames - Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Part 2
BBC Concert Orchestra & Robert Ames - Non-Uk Prog Rock Medley
BBC Concert Orchestra & Robert Ames & Guy Garvey & Gruff Rhys & The Staves - 21st Century Schizoid Man/I Talk To The Wind/In The Court Of The Crimson King
BBC Concert Orchestra & Robert Ames & Guy Garvey & Jane Weaver - Entangled
BBC Concert Orchestra & Robert Ames - On Reflection
BBC Concert Orchestra & Robert Ames & Gruff Rhys - Maker Of Islands
BBC Concert Orchestra & Robert Ames & Vanessa Haynes - Great Gig In The Sky
BBC Concert Orchestra & Robert Ames & The Staves - Crime Of The Century
BBC Concert Orchestra & Robert Ames & Carl Palmer - Great Gates Of Kiev