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The 2025 First Night sees Mendelssohn’s ‘Hebrides’ Overture and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto featured alongside British classics from Bliss and Vaughan Williams, plus a world premiere from Master of the King’s Music Errollyn Wallen
Five-time Grammy winner Samara Joy makes her Proms debut with classic songs and unique twists on instrumental classics from across jazz and its fringes, backed by the BBC Concert Orchestra under Miho Hazama
In their Proms debut, French violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte and his ensemble Le Consort perform violin concertos by Vivaldi alongside works by Avison, Legrenzi, Marcello and Matteis Jr
Nicholas McCarthy – the world’s only professional one-handed concert pianist – makes his Proms debut with Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand. Mark Wigglesworth and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra him on stage
Tenor Allan Clayton gives the world premiere of Tom Coult’s Monologues for the Curious, while John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra stalk the shifting musical landscapes of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony