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the BBC Symphony Orchestra, mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston and conductor Ben Palmer for a slow travel journey around the world by foot, boat and train, Friday Night is Music Night style. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.
Quentin Blake’s Box of Treasures bursts open, as the BBC Symphony Orchestra plays a live accompaniment to two wonderful animated adventures.
Conductor Junping Qian s the BBC Symphony Orchestra for a free afternoon studio concert at Maida Vale.
In her First Night of the Proms debut, conductor Elim Chan presents Beethoven’s iconic Fifth Symphony alongside Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks and Clara Schumann’s tender Piano Concerto, featuring star soloist Isata Kanneh-Mason.
Jules Buckley brings together a selection of artists to the BBC Symphony Orchestra for a unique celebration of Nick Drake, one of the great poets of the folk-rock movement who died half a century ago aged just 26.
Yunchan Lim makes his Proms debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi, performing Beethoven’s final piano concerto, the ‘Emperor’. Bookending the Prom are Bruckner’s First Symphony and Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür’s Aditus