150 years of gustav holst

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

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

1 TUESDAY 6.30-9.30am Breakfast 9.30am-1pm Essential Classics 1-4pm Classical Live CHOICE 4-5pm Composer of the Week Satie 5-7pm In Tune 7-7.30pm Classical Mixtape 7.30-9.45pm Radio 3 In Concert from

Opera: The Queen of Spades/L’elisir d’amore Garsington ...

Symphony No. 5; Swanwhite Suite etc Christian Tetzlaff (violin); Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Nicholas Collon Ondine ODE 1468-2 77:16 mins One of the features of Finland’s impressive music educati

Works by Joanna Marsh, Roxanna Panufnik, James MacMillan, Dobrinka Tabakova et al The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge/ Christopher Gray et al Signum Classics SIGCD893 68:02 mins Christopher Gray