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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
Harrison Birtwistle’s monumental Earth Dances returns to the Proms for the first time this century, paired with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, the ‘Eroica’
The sonic scope of Mahler’s Das klagende Lied meets its match in the musical spectacle of Pierre Boulez’s ‘majestic processional’ Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Hannu Lintu
Britain’s most talented teenagers present a concert of intergalactic musical giants: The National Youth Orchestra and Dalia Stasevska perform Holst’s The Planets alongside music from John Williams’s mighty Star Wars soundtracks
Edward Gardner conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of 20th-century orchestral sound-pictures, including Debussy’s La mer, Sibelius’s The Oceanides and Ravel’s song-cycle Shéhérazade
Celebrated classical and film composer Joe Hisaishi makes his Proms debut conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in his own The End of the World, alongside Steve Reich’s scorched-earth vision of a post-nuclear wasteland The Desert Music
Sir Mark Elder conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, massed choirs and four star soloists in Delius’s A Mass for Life, which celebrates the transcendent power and triumph of the human spirit in the face of death
An all-French programme from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Marie Jacquot sees Bizet’s incidental music for The Girl from Arles performed alongside a fantasy on themes from his popular opera Carmen, reimagined with explosive virtuosity by Sarasate
Award-winning Baroque dynamos Peter Whelan and the Irish Baroque Orchestra make their Proms debut with Handel’s oratorio Alexander’s Feast, given here in the three-part version the composer made for performances in Dublin in 1742
The Chineke! Orchestra, conducted for the first time by Sir Simon Rattle, performs Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony: a portrait of life – and death – in Stalin’s Russia
