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American violinist Randall Goosby makes his Proms debut with the Orchestre National de performing Joseph Bologne’s graceful Violin Concerto in G major, Op. 8, and Chausson’s ionate musical love letter, the Poème
Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra soloist Augustin Hadelich for Mendelssohn’s vivacious, melody-filled Violin Concerto. We also hear Stravinsky’s The Song of the Nightingale and Strauss’s tone-poem Till Eulenspiegel
Maxim Emelyanychev and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra perform Saint-Saëns’s ‘Egyptian’ Piano Concerto with Alexandre Kantorow, plus Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and selections from Rameau’s ballet Les Indes galantes
Marking 200 years since the birth of ‘Waltz King’ Johann Strauss II, Anna-Maria Helsing and the BBC Concert Orchestra celebrate the opulence and enchantment of Vienna’s Golden Age
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Nil Venditti celebrate Britain’s land- and sea-scapes with works including Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’
Chineke! Orchestra returns to the Proms with Duke Ellington’s jazzed-up take on Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker, Stewart Goodyear’s celebration of Caribbean music, Callaloo, and Tchaikovsky’s heartbreaking ‘Pathétique’ Symphony.
Holst’s suite The Planets is one of classical music’s most extraordinary acts of imagination. Student musicians from Helsinki and London unite to perform the work alongside Sibelius’s The Wood Nymph and a new piece from Finnish-American composer Lara Poe.
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Kazuki Yamada present Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition in an orchestration by Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood. Meanwhile Paul Lewis is the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27
Aurora Orchestra and Nicholas Collon mark the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s monumental Ninth Symphony by bringing their unique Orchestral Theatre approach to the iconic work with the help of the BBC Singers and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Tianyi Lu conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Puccini’s lyrical Preludio sinfonico, Dukas’s retelling of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice tale and a new Cello Concerto by Francisco Coll. Rounding off the evening is Stravinsky’s iconic ballet The Firebird
