BBC announces video game Prom in 2022

The BBC has announced that it will feature video game music as a key part of its Proms for the first time in 2022, per Video Games Chronicle.

The Proms were founded in 1895 and feature a number of classical music concerts which take place each summer.

They are mainly performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and one of the 72 Proms will be dedicated to the music from video games, it has now been announced.

On August 1, 2022, Prom 21 will be played, and has been tilted Gaming Prom: From 8-Bit to Infinity.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will be conducted by Robert Ames, who has previously been front and centre for a prom based around sci-fi music.

There has yet to be a full programme released but there has been confirmation that the gaming prom will include pieces from the following games:

The performance of the Battlefield 2042 suite will be the European concert premiere.

The BBC description reads: “Fantastic worlds, epic adventures, complex characters and huge moral choices – the universe of computer gaming is a natural match for orchestral music, and in the 21st century games have created a huge and passionate global audience for some of the most vivid, ambitious and inventive music currently being written for symphony orchestra.

“In this first ever Gaming Prom, Robert Ames – best-known at the Proms for his explorations of sci-fi and electroacoustic music – takes an electronically expanded Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on an odyssey from the classic console titles of the 1980s, through Jessica Curry’s haunted soundscapes to the European concert premiere of music from Hildur Guðnadóttir’s and Sam Slater’s score for Battlefield 2042.”

Tickets are set to go on sale on May 21 but don’t worry if you miss out, as it is