BBC Proms

The Britten Sinfonia performs music by anniversary composer Arvo Pärt, Sibelius, Gavin Higgins and Mozart

The Danish National Vocal Ensemble presents works by Ethel Smyth, Paola Prestini and the great Dane Carl Nielsen

Following acclaimed Proms performances of The Well-Tempered Clavier and the ‘Goldberg’ Variations, Sir András Schiff returns to the Proms for a musical high point of his career-long relationship with Bach’s music: The Art of Fugue

Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in a programme that charts the extremes of human experience and emotion, featuring Bent Sørensen’s Evening Land, Anna Clyne’s The Years and Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Ninth Symphony.

Joshua Bell is the soloist in Ukraine-born Thomas de Hartmann’s emotive, cinematic Violin Concerto, heard here with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Dalia Stasevska

Charles Hazlewood and the Paraorchestra return to the Proms for a unique collaboration with award-winning duo The Breath, performed in orchestrations by award-winning composer Oliver Vibrans, in Bristol.

Carlo Rizzi and the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera perform sumptuous works by Italian composers Respighi, Verdi, Rossini and Puccini

Pekka Kuusisto brings the strings of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra to the Proms with singer and composer Katarina Barruk, performing songs that combine the traditional and the modern

Sitar virtuoso and composer Anoushka Shankar returns to the Proms for the world-premiere performance of music from her three ‘Chapter’ albums

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

Listen to musical highlights from across the Proms season. Featuring Sibelius to Soul to Star Wars and performers including JADE, Sir Simon Rattle, Samara Joy and more.

A chance to hear Shostakovich’s blistering operatic tragedy with Amanda Majeski starring as Katerina and Nicky Spence as her lover Sergey.

Sir Simon Rattle teams up with the wind, brass and percussion of the London Symphony Orchestra to perform folk-song arrangements by Vaughan Williams, Grainger and Arnold alongside Gunther Schuller’s eclectic trombone concerto

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

Take timeout with a 30-minute sounscape of classical favourites basking in spring sunshine.

Musical delights for you to focus and relax to.