Discovery at the Proms

American violinist Randall Goosby makes his Proms debut with the Orchestre National de France performing Joseph Bologne’s graceful Violin Concerto in G major, Op. 8, and Chausson’s passionate musical love letter, the Poème

Harrison Birtwistle’s monumental Earth Dances returns to the Proms for the first time this century, paired with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, the ‘Eroica’

The sonic scope of Mahler’s Das klagende Lied meets its match in the musical spectacle of Pierre Boulez’s ‘majestic processional’ Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Hannu Lintu

Britain’s most talented teenagers present a concert of intergalactic musical giants: The National Youth Orchestra and Dalia Stasevska perform Holst’s The Planets alongside music from John Williams’s mighty Star Wars soundtracks

Edward Gardner conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of 20th-century orchestral sound-pictures, including Debussy’s La mer, Sibelius’s The Oceanides and Ravel’s song-cycle Shéhérazade