Florence + The Machine have announced a special performance of their debut album, Lungs, in celebration of its 15th anniversary. Entitled “Symphony of Lungs,” the concert is set to go down on September 11th at the Royal Albert Hall in London as part of the BBC Proms classical music festival. It will be aired live on BBC Radio 3.
The concert will see Florence Welch perform the album in full with backing from Jules Buckley and his Orchestra. In addition to its live airing, the performance will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 1, BBC TWO, and BBC iPlayer.
“This album was such a patchwork of a period of time of my messy teenage years and early twenties,” Welch said of the upcoming anniversary show in a press release. “I had no idea what I was doing or where it would go, and a lot of the songs are simply an exhalation of joy. But that’s really where the sound of Florence + The Machine was born. So, to have it still be so present in people’s hearts 15 years later and to be invited to play through it orchestrally at the BBC Proms is such an honour.”
The BBC Proms festival is an eight-week event focused on classical music. Billed as the world’s largest classical music festival, BBC Prom offers 90 concerts running from July 19th to September 14th. Tickets for BBC Proms, including Florence + The Machine’s special anniversary performance of Lungs, go on sale May 18th.
Florence + The Machine’s most recent album was 2022’s Dance Fever. Welch also recently collaborated with Taylor Swift on “Florida!!!” from The Tortured Poets Department and covered “White Cliffs of Dover” for Jack Antonoff’s soundtrack of The New Look.
Check out where all of Florence + The Machine’s Jack Antonoff-produced cuts rank on our list of every Jack Antonoff production. You can also read our ranking of Florence + The Machine’s 10 best songs.