Let the proms begin!

MY PICK OF THE PROMS GEORGIA MANN ...

18 JULY

All Proms will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3, many of them live; check schedules for details. For detailed ticket prices and booking fees, visit bbc.co.uk/promstickets Note: booking fee is not included

On Friday 18 July, at the hands of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Sakari Oramo, the BBC Proms will be launched into life with Bliss’s Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood – two minu

1 FRIDAY 6.30-9.30am Breakfast 9.30am-1pm Essential Classics 1-4pm Classical Live 4-5pm Composer of the Week Arvo Pärt 5-7pm In Tune 7-7.30pm Classical Mixtape 7.30-10pm Proms Yunchan Lim Plays Rachma

Symphony No. 6 ‘Pathétique’; Souvenir de Florence Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Domingo Hindoyan Onyx ONYX4259 81:54 mins In 1890, Tchaikovsky returned home from a spell in Italy with the ske