It’s time for a summer of music! Explore the world’s greatest classical music festival with our complete guide to this year’s wonderful season of concerts
RAH = Royal Albert Hall CH = Cadogan Hall = Television broadcast = Radio broadcast
FRIDAY 14 JULY
PROM 1 7pm RAH First Night of the Proms: Sibelius Finlandia, Bohdana Frolyak new work (BBC commission: world premiere), Grieg Piano Concerto, Sibelius Snöfrid, Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. Paul Lewis (piano), actor tbc, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Dalia Stasevska
SATURDAY 15 JULY
PROMS AT LONDONDERRY 2pm Guildhall, Derry Byrd Emendemus in melius, O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth, Sing joyfully, Ave verum corpus, Laudibus in sanctis, Morley Domine Dominus noster, Philips Ecce vicit Leo, Tomkins Too much I once lamented.
Stile Antico
PROM 2 8pm RAH Keep the Faith – Northern Soul: Singers tbc, BBC Concert Orchestra/Edwin Outwater
SUNDAY 16 JULY
PROM 3 11am RAH Debussy arr. Borwick
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Liszt Réminiscences de Norma, Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin, La valse Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)
PROM 4 7.30pm RAH
Andrea Tarrodi Birds of Paradise, Beethoven Symphony No. 1, Vivaldi Four Seasons (with improvisation between movements). Ale Carr (cittern), Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen/Pekka Kuusisto
MONDAY 17 JULY
PROM 5 7.30pm RAH
Coleridge-Taylor Ballade, Bruch
Violin Concerto No. 1, Brahms Hungarian Dances Nos 1, 3, 10, Bartók Concerto for Orchestra Bomsori Kim (violin), BBC Philharmonic/Anja Bihlmaier
TUESDAY 18 JULY
PROM 6 7.30pm RAH Grace-Evangeline Mason new work (BBC commission: world premiere), Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 1, Mahler Symphony No. 1.
Stephen Hough (piano), BBC Philharmonic/Mark Wigglesworth
WEDNESDAY 19 JULY
PROM 7 7pm RAH Rachmaninov, orch. Respighi Five Études-tableaux, Coleridge-Taylor Violin Concerto, Beethoven Symphony No. 5.
Elena Urioste (violin), BBC National Orchestra of Wales/ Tadaaki Otaka
THURSDAY 20 JULY
PROM 8 7.30pm RAH Falla La vida breve: Interlude and Dance, Lalo Symphonie espagnole, Debussy Images: Ibéria, Ravel Boléro.
María Dueñas (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra/Josep Pons
FRIDAY 21 JULY
PROMS AT SAGE GATESHEAD 7.30pm Sage ONE, Gateshead Set from Self Esteem, Royal Northern Sinfonia/ Rob Ames
PROM 9 8pm RAH Mariza sings Fado: Mariza and Luís Guerreiro (Portuguese guitar), Phelipe Ferreira (acoustic guitar), Dinga (bass guitar), João Freitas (percussion), João Frade (accordion)
PROMS AT SAGE GATESHEAD 10pm Sage TWO, Gateshead Yazz Ahmed (trumpet), Arun Ghosh (clarinet)
SATURDAY 22 JULY
PROM 10 2pm RAH Horrible
