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The Ensemble intercontemporain celebrates 100 years since the birth of two 20th-century modernist icons, performing Pierre Boulez’s Dialogue de l’ombre double alongside Luciano Berio’s Recital I and Sequenza V
Celebrate the 90th birthday of Arvo Pärt, ‘the father of Holy Minimalism’, with a Late Night Prom from acclaimed Pärt interpreters Tõnu Kaljuste and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Praised for their ‘bewitching, colourful and easy-listening grooves’, Nigerian sensations Kingsley Okorie and Benjamin James bring their distinctive brand of ‘highlife fusion’ to the BBC Proms
mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital and his Between Worlds Ensemble for a sonic tour of the countries that border the Black Sea, as they perform traditional Crimean Tatar music, Turkish folk and klezmer plus works by Bartók and David Bruce
Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho performs a recital of solo piano works by Ravel and Liszt
Eric Whitacre leads the BBC Singers and the 12 Ensemble in the world premiere of his new BBC co-commission Eternity in an Hour, which takes its title from William Blake’s great poem Auguries of Innocence
All the way from northern Mali, Tinariwen comes to London for a Late Night Prom that combines traditional Tuareg and African music with elements of Western rock and jazz.
The London Sinfonietta and period-instrument outfit the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment come together to perform Heiner Goebbels’s Songs of Wars I Have Seen, 17 years after they gave the work’s premiere
Multi-skilled, golden-voiced counter-tenor Jakub Józef Orliński s Il Pomo d’Oro for a journey through the music of the early Baroque, showcasing composers including Caccini, Cavalli, Frescobaldi, Monteverdi and Strozzi.
