{"id":1794172,"date":"2026-06-20T11:02:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/?p=1794172"},"modified":"2026-06-20T11:02:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:02:40","slug":"survey-of-2025-bbc-proms-classical-music-events-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/survey-of-2025-bbc-proms-classical-music-events-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey of 2025 BBC Proms classical music events in London"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"subscription-content\">\n<p>\n  A feast of music like no other, the BBC Proms (running from Friday 17th July to Saturday 12th September) illuminates London\u2019s famous Royal Albert Hall for eight action-packed weeks, offering music lovers the sheer joy of seeing and hearing some of the world\u2019s greatest orchestras and soloists playing some of the world\u2019s greatest music in one of London\u2019s most iconic venues that rock guitarist Eric Clapton fondly dubs \u2018The Albert\u2019.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Pint of twos, please!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051284\/?type=mds-article-575 575w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051284\/?type=mds-article-962 962w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051284\/?type=mds-article-642 1400w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051284\/?type=mds-article-620 1401w\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"Angel-Blue_credit-Dario-Acosta\" \/><span class=\"inline-image-caption\">Angel Blue <em>(Image: Dario Acosta)<\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  So closely associated with Sir Henry Wood\u2014lovingly known as \u2018Old Timber\u2019\u2014who, incidentally, was no stranger to Norwich as he was artistic director\/conductor of the Norfolk &amp; Norwich Triennial Festival from 1908 to 1930, this year\u2019s Prom series features UK premi\u00e8res of major new works co-commissioned by the BBC from American composers Wynton Marsalis and Jessie Montgomery, with appearances from prime conductors and star soloists such as Simon Rattle, Marin Alsop, Angel Blue, and Joyce DiDonato.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Interestingly, there are so many associations with conductors and composers linked to Norwich and the Proms.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  For instance, the N&amp;N Triennial commissioned Scottish-born composer Thea Musgrave to write \u2018The Five Ages of Man,\u2019 a masterful choral\/orchestral work based on Hesiod\u2019s \u2018Works and Days\u2019\u2014the scenario depicting the Greek myth of the decline and fall of humanity through five distinct ages: gold, silver, bronze, heroes, and iron\u2014premi\u00e8red in St Andrew\u2019s Hall on 6th June 1964, conducted by Charles Mackerras.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051308\/?type=mds-article-575 575w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051308\/?type=mds-article-962 962w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051308\/?type=mds-article-642 1400w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051308\/?type=mds-article-620 1401w\" width=\"100%\" \/><span class=\"inline-image-caption\">Charles Mackerras-1960 <em>(Image: Supplied)<\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Now 97 years old, Musgrave\u2014who lived in Norfolk, Virginia (twinned, by the way, with Norfolk, England) for over a quarter of a century with her husband, Peter Mark, general music director of Virginia Opera from 1975 to 2010\u2014has come up with a new work for this year\u2019s Prom series (a BBC commission) offering a bassoon concerto entitled \u2018Out of the Darkness,\u2019 performed by Amy Harman (matinee show: 23 August), who has had works written for her by Olav Berg, Helo\u00efse Werner, Brian Elias, Roxanna Panufnik, Robin Holloway, and Simon Holt.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A pretty good tally!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Broadening the range of choral\/orchestral music heard at the N&amp;N Triennial, Sir Henry Wood persuaded many young English composers to perform and conduct their own compositions in Norwich, such as Holst (\u2018Hymn of Jesus\u2019) and Vaughan Williams (\u2018A Sea Symphony\u2019), while Frank Bridge\u2019s \u2018Enter Spring\u2019 received its premi\u00e8re in St Andrew\u2019s Hall in 1927 with the young Benjamin Britten as a member of the audience.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  After the performance, he was introduced to the composer, which led to Bridge taking Britten on as one of his very few composition pupils.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Such is history!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051317\/?type=mds-article-575 575w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051317\/?type=mds-article-962 962w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051317\/?type=mds-article-642 1400w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051317\/?type=mds-article-620 1401w\" width=\"100%\" \/><span class=\"inline-image-caption\">Aurora Orchestra <em>(Image: Nick Rutter)<\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Stamping the centenary of the Triennial in 1924, E.J. Moeran\u2014whose mother, Ada Esther Smeed, came from Norfolk while his father, the Rev. Joseph William Wright Moeran, an Anglo-Irish clergyman, served the parish of Salhouse near Norwich\u2014came up with Rhapsody No.2 in E major, a rewarding and tender piece based on the well-known Norfolk folksong \u2018Polly on the Shore\u2019 (or \u2018The Valiant Sailor\u2019), telling the story of a young man pressed into naval service who regrets leaving his love Polly.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And as he lies bleeding on deck, he dreams of his beloved on shore.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Therefore, enjoying a chequered history, the origins of the Triennial can be traced back to the founding of the Norfolk &amp; Norwich Hospital following a successful fundraising concert held for the hospital in Norwich Cathedral in 1772.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051322\/?type=mds-article-575 575w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051322\/?type=mds-article-962 962w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051322\/?type=mds-article-642 1400w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051322\/?type=mds-article-620 1401w\" width=\"100%\" \/><span class=\"inline-image-caption\">Henry Wood <em>(Image: Supplied)<\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This duly paved the way for the festival becoming an annual event launched in 1788 by a four-day Grand Music Festival in St Peter Mancroft Church (morning concerts) and St Andrew\u2019s Hall (evening concerts).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The N&amp;N Triennial Festival was founded in 1824, and from a historical perspective, Norwich shared it on a rotating basis with the cities of Birmingham and Leeds, just as the Three Choirs Festival (the oldest choral\/classical music festival of its kind) does to this very day, rotating between the English cathedral cities of Hereford, Gloucester, and Worcester.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Equally, the Proms has a rich and chequered history.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051328\/?type=mds-article-575 575w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051328\/?type=mds-article-962 962w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051328\/?type=mds-article-642 1400w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051328\/?type=mds-article-620 1401w\" width=\"100%\" \/><span class=\"inline-image-caption\">Henry wood <em>(Image: Supplied)<\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Founded by Robert Newman in 1895 with Sir Henry Wood as chief conductor, the first concert fell on 10 August at the Queen\u2019s Hall, London.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And pioneering as ever, Wood established the tradition of mixing popular classics with new and adventurous modern works, thereby offering a healthy, challenging, and interesting repertoire.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And barmy as it may seem today, the early Prom concerts allowed Prommers to eat, drink, and smoke in the arena to create an informal and democratic atmosphere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, the BBC\u2019s relationship with the Proms started in 1927 following the death of Robert Newman, when the 32nd season was broadcast to the nation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Sir Henry Wood continued to be the conductor and the driving force behind the whole shooting match, and conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Proms on 14 June 1944.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Sadly, Wood died in August of that year at the age of 75.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  His ashes are interred in the Musicians\u2019 Chapel, St Sepulchre\u2019s Church, London.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Come 1930, the BBC Symphony Orchestra was formed, thus becoming the main orchestra for the Proms, and when the Queen\u2019s Hall was destroyed by enemy action in 1941, the series of Prom concerts moved to the Royal Albert Hall.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051342\/?type=mds-article-575 575w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051342\/?type=mds-article-962 962w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051342\/?type=mds-article-642 1400w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051342\/?type=mds-article-620 1401w\" width=\"100%\" \/><span class=\"inline-image-caption\">Jessie Montgomery <em>(Image: Jiyang Chen)<\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  After Wood\u2019s death, he was followed by Sir Malcolm Sargent, chief conductor from 1950 to 1966, who established the tradition of humorous engaging speeches and the flag-waving antics punctuating the \u2018Last Night\u2019 dearly loved by the Prommers and Uncle Tom Cobley and all!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As the 20th century progressed, so did the Proms.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Therefore, from the 1960s, the repertoire expanded to include avant-garde music, non-Western music, and jazz, while numerous international orchestras received invitations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This year, a host of orchestras, composers, and musicians from the USA will be beating a path to Kensington Gore, taking part in an American season marking 250 years since the signing of the US Declaration of Independence.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A co-commission between the BBC and the Lincoln Center, New York, Jessie Montgomery\u2019s new Cello Concerto receives its UK premi\u00e8re (20 July), while the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by their outgoing artistic director Gustavo Dudamel, will perform a couple of Proms: a programme of Beethoven and Thomas Ad\u00e8s (11 August) and Beethoven and Gabriela Ortiz (12 August).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  That popular American composer\/trumpeter Wynton Marsalis brings to The Albert his brand-new work \u2018Concerto for Orchestra,\u2019 co-commissioned by the BBC (13 August), while there\u2019ll also be a special Miles Davis Prom marking the centenary of this great jazz musician\u2019s birth (20 August) as well as an American Classics Prom featuring music by Bernstein, Gershwin, and Copland (24 August), conducted by Marin Alsop.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And making their Proms d\u00e9but this year, The Met Orchestra, New York, conducted by their flamboyant and dynamic music director Yannick N\u00e9zet\u2011S\u00e9guin, offers a couple of great concerts\u2014a programme of Richard Strauss with mezzo-soprano Elza van den Heever (26 August) and Mahler with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato (27 August).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The celebrated American soprano Angel Blue, who made her Last Night d\u00e9but in 2024 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Sakari Oramo, famously throwing red-and-white roses to excited Prommers to great delight, joins the Chineke! Orchestra for a Prom featuring music by Charleston-born composer Edmund Thornton Jenkins (22 August).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A plethora of anniversaries and centenaries of composers therefore dutifully mark the current season, which features music by John Coltrane, Morton Feldman, Edmund Thornton Jenkins, Gy\u00f6rgy Kurt\u00e1g, and Steve Reich, while the season includes 20 premi\u00e8res including 17 BBC commissions, including a 15-minute work from the hundred-year-old French-American composer Betsy Jolas, \u2018Tales of a Summer Sea,\u2019 performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under John Storg\u00e5rds (24 July).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Families are never forgotten about in the Proms, and this year they can gather in their droves in the comfort and vastness of the Royal Albert Hall to enjoy the music of composer Alan Menken for Disney, a relaxed matinee with the Fantasia Orchestra, and a relaxed Prom at the Bristol Beacon with the National Open Youth Orchestra featuring the world\u2019s first concerto written for the Clarion, an app that transforms a tablet computer into a musical instrument, plus a new commission from Charlotte Harding inspired by Britten\u2019s \u2018Young Person\u2019s Guide to the Orchestra.\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051351\/?type=mds-article-575 575w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051351\/?type=mds-article-962 962w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051351\/?type=mds-article-642 1400w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051351\/?type=mds-article-620 1401w\" width=\"100%\" \/><span class=\"inline-image-caption\">Joyce DiDonato <em>(Image: Simon Pauly Photography)<\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As an aside, the first public concert of this well-loved work by Britten took place on 15 October 1946 in Liverpool, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent, yet another legendary figure who was no stranger to Norwich as he took charge of the 1947 Triennial, the first to be held following World War II, conducting this significant event alongside that supreme and well-loved English contralto, Kathleen Ferrier.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He returned to Norwich in 1951 to take charge of the Triennial, which was specially postponed to align with the nationwide Festival of Britain.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A dominant figure of the BBC Proms, Sargent was famous for sporting a white carnation in his buttonhole while on the famous Albert Hall rostrum.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This signature flower was part of his immaculately groomed \u2018Flash Harry\u2019 appearance\u2014which included white tie and tails\u2014thus becoming a hallmark and stamping his tenure as chief conductor of the Proms from 1947 to 1966.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  What an innings!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A good ambassador, too, for classical music in its widest sense, Sargent introduced the Proms to BBC television and over the course of his long reign, he notched up 500 appearances while his arrangement of \u2018Rule, Britannia!\u2019 has been used at the Last Night since 1953.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Wave that flag!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But stamping the Proms\u2019 First Night this year (17 July) is the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus led by Dalia Stasevska, performing alongside the BBC Singers with tenor Thomas Atkins and pianist and global phenomenon Yunchan Lim.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Their concert includes Copland\u2019s \u2018Fanfare for the Common Man\u2019 and Gershwin\u2019s \u2018An American in Paris,\u2019 while Lim takes to the keyboard to perform Ravel\u2019s Piano Concerto in G major.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There\u2019s also a brand-new, eight-minute work coming from French-British composer Josephine Stephenson, commissioned by the BBC, entitled \u2018That the sunrise not leave us unmoved.\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A rare performance in the programme comes with Finzi\u2019s \u2018For St Cecilia\u2019 (premi\u00e8red at the RAH nearly 80 years ago), scored for tenor solo (Nicky Spence), mixed chorus, and orchestra, set to words by Edmund Blunden, inspired, of course, by the patron saint of music whose feast day falls on 22 November, which, incidentally, happens to be Britten\u2019s birthday\u2014born in Lowestoft in 1913.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051360\/?type=mds-article-575 575w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051360\/?type=mds-article-962 962w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051360\/?type=mds-article-642 1400w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051360\/?type=mds-article-620 1401w\" width=\"100%\" \/><span class=\"inline-image-caption\">Malcom Sargent blue plaque Albert Hall Mansions <em>(Image: Supplied)<\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jump to the Last Night (12 September) and there\u2019s a star-spangled array of musical treats and talents in store, which includes the first performance at the Proms of Barber\u2019s Pulitzer Prize-winning Piano Concerto performed by Yuja Wang, who returns to the Proms after an absence of three years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  An interesting concert is punctuated by the Greek-born violinist Leonidas Kavakos, taking on Tchaikovsky\u2019s Violin Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra (2 August), which also features the world premi\u00e8re of Dani Howard\u2019s \u2018Concerto for Brass &#8211; Signal\u2019 (co-commissioned by the BBC), with the programme completed by Scriabin\u2019s Symphony No.2, a marvellous piece ending in a grand and triumphant manner as befitting a military parade.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Returning to the Proms after a two-year absence, Felix Klieser, born without arms and plays the French horn with his feet, will treat the audience to Mozart\u2019s Horn Concerto No.3 with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, while this promising concert also includes works by Britten and Elgar.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And to celebrate Steve Reich\u2019s 90th, Paraorchestra performs \u2018Music for 18 Musicians\u2019 at the Bristol Beacon (7 August), while the Colin Currie Group takes a late-night Prom at the Royal Albert Hall (2 September) featuring \u2018Tehillim,\u2019 a setting of Hebrew Psalms heard in stark contrast to early sacred choral music from the Renaissance sung by the Gesualdo Six, comprising pieces from Hildegard of Bingen, P\u00e9rotin Machaut, and Josquin des Prez.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Also making their Proms d\u00e9buts are the Spanish National Orchestra under their chief conductor and artistic director, David Afkham, performing a vibrant programme of Spanish music (19 July), while the well-loved international conductor, Mirga Gra\u017einyt\u0117-Tyla, returns to conduct the Oslo Philharmonic in a programme that includes Stravinsky\u2019s Violin Concerto performed by Patricia Kopatchinskaja (29 August).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051386\/?type=mds-article-575 575w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051386\/?type=mds-article-962 962w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051386\/?type=mds-article-642 1400w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051386\/?type=mds-article-620 1401w\" width=\"100%\" \/><span class=\"inline-image-caption\">Marin Alsop <em>(Image: Nancy Horowitz)<\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A veteran of the Proms, Simon Rattle takes to the podium conducting three works by Schumann with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra featuring violinist Isabelle Faust (7 September), followed by the Mahler Academy Orchestra conducted by their music director, Philipp von Steinaecker, playing Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 9 (11 September).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Global superstars of classical music make appearances throughout the season, and one such superstar is none other than Martha Argerich, who\u2019ll perform Beethoven\u2019s Piano Concerto No.2 with the Munich Philharmonic almost 60 years to the day since she made her Proms d\u00e9but at the Last Night in 1966.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  I attended (and well remember) Argerich\u2019s Edinburgh Festival d\u00e9but in 1966 shortly after she won the Chopin Piano Competition in Poland\u2014a treasured memory!\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The concert (5 September) also includes Farrenc\u2019s Overture No.2 and Brahms\u2019 Symphony No.4.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051441\/?type=mds-article-575 575w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051441\/?type=mds-article-962 962w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051441\/?type=mds-article-642 1400w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051441\/?type=mds-article-620 1401w\" width=\"100%\" \/><span class=\"inline-image-caption\">Simon Rattle <em>(Image: Supplied)<\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The supremely talented Italian-German-American Grammy-winning classical violinist, Augustin Hadelich, plays Beethoven\u2019s Violin Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic in a concert also featuring Scriabin\u2019s Symphony No.3 \u2018The Divine Poem\u2019 (3 September), a work expressing the spirit\u2019s journey from being shackled by past beliefs to a joyful affirmation of its freedom and unity with the universe.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The second of two Proms by the Berlin Philharmonic\u2014the first features Elgar\u2019s \u2018Enigma Variations\u2019 and Tchaikovsky\u2019s Symphony No.4 (2 September).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This season marks ten years since Sheku Kanneh\u2011Mason won the 2016 BBC Young Musician with a performance of Shostakovich\u2019s First Cello Concerto at the age of 17.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He returns to the Proms alongside fellow finalists\u2014saxophonist Jess Gillam and French horn player Ben Goldscheider\u2014to perform the world premi\u00e8re of Gwilym Simcock\u2019s \u2018Triple Concerto for Soprano Saxophone, Horn and Cello,\u2019 commissioned by the BBC to mark this special anniversary (6 September).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As in past years, BBC orchestras and choirs remain the beating heart of the Proms, and this season they\u2019ll be making 42 appearances, while Ryan Bancroft takes his final bow as chief conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In total, there are performances from 41 orchestras and choirs from across the UK, including the Aurora Orchestra, returning to play Mahler&#8217;s Symphony No.1 (1 August\u2014matinee performance: 2 August).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The first half of the concert showcases actors bringing Mahler\u2019s creative process to life, while the second half features the symphony performed by the orchestra entirely from memory.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051452\/?type=mds-article-575 575w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051452\/?type=mds-article-962 962w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051452\/?type=mds-article-642 1400w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051452\/?type=mds-article-620 1401w\" width=\"100%\" \/><span class=\"inline-image-caption\">Wynton Marsalis <em>(Image: Supplied)<\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Dazzling a packed and wild house at the Last Night in 2025, soprano Louise Alder returns to The Albert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under their principal conductor Edward Gardner (27 July), while the celebrated BBC Singers perform a late-night Prom (11 August) at the Royal Albert Hall with Dame Evelyn Glennie and the Fantasia Orchestra playing a genre-bending programme to include works by Caroline Shaw, Radiohead, and the world premi\u00e8re of a BBC commission by H\u00e9lo\u00efse Werner, a French-British composer based in London.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Britten, and the celebrated cellist Guy Johnston salutes the occasion by performing the composer\u2019s highly exciting Cello Symphony, written for the renowned Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who gave the work its first showing in Moscow in March 1964 with the Moscow Philharmonic conducted by the composer (28 July).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Britten tribute continues to blaze a trail with Simone Lamsma performing the Violin Concerto (4 September) and the Sinfonia of London under their principal conductor, John Wilson, performing \u2018Les Illuminations\u2019 and \u2018Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge\u2019 in a matinee Prom (6 September).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Meanwhile, the iconic showpiece \u2018The Young Person\u2019s Guide to the Orchestra\u2019 will be performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo (6 September).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Proms celebrates some of the most influential sounds of the past century, too, beginning with a symphonic tribute to the British movement of Prog Rock as the BBC Concert Orchestra under Robert Ames reimagines classics by Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Genesis, Jethro Tull, and Mike Oldfield presented by BBC Radio 6 Music\u2019s Stuart Maconie (18 July), while a late-night Prom (5 August) honours Paul Simon\u2019s landmark album \u2018Graceland,\u2019 with Bond and Beyond bringing iconic 007 film music to the Royal Albert Hall (25 August) featuring Daniel Bartholomew\u2011Poyser and the BBC Concert Orchestra.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Spectacular moments, one-off large-scale performances, and rarely performed works of the kind only the Proms can offer include the first-ever Proms performance (6 August) of Weber\u2019s final opera, \u2018Oberon,\u2019 200 years after the composer\u2019s death.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Soloists Nicky Spence (tenor) and Jennifer Davis (soprano) stand alongside the Orchestre R\u00e9volutionnaire et Romantique and the Monteverdi Choir conducted by Sir Mark Elder.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The BBC Symphony Orchestra, led by Sakari Oramo, takes on Kurt\u00e1g\u2019s monumental work \u2018Stele\u2019 (Greek word meaning \u2018decorated stone slab\u2019), a major orchestral work from this well-respected and challenging Hungarian composer, written in 1994.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Known as a sombre, powerful, and deeply emotional elegy, it was commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic and is dedicated to the composer\/conductor Andr\u00e1s Mih\u00e1ly (1917-93), a close friend of Kurt\u00e1g (22 July).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There are also performances of Zimmermann\u2019s \u2018M\u00e4rchen\u2011Suite\u2019 (Fairy-Tale Suite) (4 August)\u2014an early tonal orchestral work dating from 1950 written over seven movements transporting listeners into the world of fairies, heard in stark contrast to an explosion of orchestral sound like no other that truly stamps Berlioz\u2019s monumental 1837 choral work \u2018The Damnation of Faust\u2019 (15 August).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051464\/?type=mds-article-575 575w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051464\/?type=mds-article-962 962w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051464\/?type=mds-article-642 1400w, https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/resources\/images\/21051464\/?type=mds-article-620 1401w\" width=\"100%\" \/><span 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