Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Verdi’s Requiem: a truly spectacular First Night of the 2022 BBC Proms.

Following their sensational concert debut at last year's Proms, John Wilson conducts his Sinfonia of London in an all-British programme of Elgar, Walton, Bax, Vaughan Williams and Huw Watkins.

The Proms relaxes into a late-night decompression session with Radio 1 Relax – presented by Sian Eleri, host of Radio 1’s Chillest Show.

Grammy Award-winning vocalist Cynthia Erivo joins forces with the BBC Concert Orchestra to salute the legendary women who have inspired her: artists like Nina Simone, Shirley Bassey, Billie Holiday and Gladys Knight.

Three generations of genius: live in Belfast, the Hebrides Ensemble performs 20th-century classics by Ravel, Messiaen and Iannis Xenakis

Juanjo Mena conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Bruckner’s mighty Sixth Symphony, alongside Webern’s take on Bach and Sir James MacMillan’s Viola Concerto.

Two uncompromising landmarks of 20th-century British music, as Sir Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Vaughan Williams’s and Michael Tippett’s Fourth symphonies.

David Bates and La Nuova Musica join a stellar cast for this concert performance of Purcell’s greatest and most popular opera.

Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra weave a darkly dramatic soundscape, including music by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Hildur Guðnadóttir and Jóhann Jóhannsson.

Harpist Catrin Finch is the soloist as Ariane Matiakh conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in tales of musical wonder by Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov and Sally Beamish.

Happy and glorious: the BBC Singers join the BBC Concert Orchestra for a Platinum Jubilee celebration of music and royalty spanning six centuries.

Join your CBeebies friends on a magical, ocean-going family adventure, in this relaxed Prom for our very youngest listeners.

Join your CBeebies friends on a magical, ocean-going family adventure, in this relaxed Prom for our very youngest listeners.

Under its new Principal Conductor Dinis Sousa, the Royal Northern Sinfonia explores the folk roots of music by John Adams and Dvořák – live at Sage Gateshead.

Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers: an opera of love and tragedy in a community lashed by the sea. Glyndebourne Festival Opera presents a concert version of its landmark new production.

Live in Truro, 2021 Leeds International Piano Competition winner Alim Beisembayev plays virtuoso showpieces by Scarlatti, Chopin and Liszt.

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Designate Kazuki Yamada perform emotionally charged masterworks by Glinka, Rachmaninov and Ethel Smyth.

Jordan de Souza conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Johan Dalene is the soloist in Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, in a concert that also features music by Bernstein, Tchaikovsky and George Walker.

‘Behold, the sea itself!’ In Vaughan Williams’s anniversary year, Andrew Manze and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform his majestic A Sea Symphony alongside musical seascapes by Grace Williams and Doreen Carwithen.

Brahms’s A German Requiem and Jennifer Walshe’s The Site of an Investigation – performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and National Youth Choir of Great Britain, conducted by Ilan Volkov.

Music and politics collide in Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. Alpesh Chauhan conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and percussionist Colin Currie premieres a new concerto by Canadian sonic magician Nicole Lizée.

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New music has always been at the heart of the BBC Proms. Alice Farnham and the BBC Concert Orchestra perform freshly minted orchestral works by some of the brightest new talents to emerge from the BBC Young Composer competition in this free concert.

Longing, loneliness and deadly passion: Puccini’s one-act opera Il tabarro crowns a colourful programme from the Hallé and its long-serving Music Director Sir Mark Elder.

Ukrainian musicians – from their besieged country and from around Europe – join together in a special addition to the Proms, to play Chopin, Brahms, Beethoven and Ukraine’s leading living composer, Valentin Silvestrov.

Xenakis’s Jonchaies meets Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring: explosive masterpieces from opposite ends of the 20th century, with Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cédric Tiberghien form a chamber music dream-team in soaring romantic showpieces by Ysaÿe, Franck and Havergal Brian.

In the first ever Gaming Prom, an electronically expanded Royal Philharmonic Orchestra explores the musical universe of gaming: from the classic console titles of the 1980s to the European concert premiere of a suite from Battlefield 2042.

‘An absolute tour de force’: Under founder-conductor Nicholas Collon, the Aurora Orchestra collaborates with violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja – and then performs Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony entirely from memory.

Tom Service and the Aurora Orchestra give an illustrated guide to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony – before the orchestra performs the entire symphony from memory, with founder-conductor Nicholas Collon.

Soprano Miah Persson, violinist Clara-Jumi Kang and Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft join the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music by Mahler, Mendelssohn and Caroline Shaw.

Imagine pulling music out of thin air. John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic perform Shostakovich’s enigmatic final symphony, alongside music by Kaija Saariaho and Kalevi Aho’s haunting Theremin Concerto Eight Seasons.

Semyon Bychkov conducts the UK premiere of Julian Anderson’s keenly awaited Second Symphony – plus Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, and a Martinů concerto with the extraordinary Labèque sisters.

The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain brings all its signature energy and joy to a truly kaleidoscopic programme: works by Danny Elfman and Gershwin, followed by Ravel’s luscious complete ballet Daphnis and Chloe.

Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes stands in for Mozart with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, as he directs and plays two contrasting piano concertos from 1785: the dark-hued Concerto No. 20, and the gloriously playful Concerto No. 22.

In the second of three all-Mozart Proms with his Mahler Chamber Orchestra colleagues, Norwegian conductor-pianist Leif Ove Andsnes zooms in on the year 1786, and finds Amadeus at the absolute peak of his game.

Leif Ove Andsnes and three Mahler Chamber Orchestra members perform some of the loveliest chamber music Mozart ever created.

Ryan Bancroft unleashes the full power of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, and joins forces with the Tredegar Band for the world premiere of Gavin Higgins’s new Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra.

Conductor Daniele Rustioni gets seriously Romantic with the Ulster Orchestra in music by Mahler, Wagner and Schumann, as well as Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs – sung by soprano Louise Alder.

With an unbroken history spanning nearly 150 years, the Tredegar Band is a true virtuoso ensemble. Their second Prom this season embraces centenary tributes to Elmer Bernstein and Judy Garland, as well as works by Richard Strauss and Vaughan Williams.

Ryan Wigglesworth brings a composer’s ear to Holst’s The Planets, and British baritone Roderick Williams premieres Matthew Kaner’s haunting new commission Pearl – in which an ancient lament unlocks emotions that transcend time.

Three composers in three landscapes. Eva Ollikainen and the BBC Philharmonic join Kian Soltani in Elgar’s hugely popular Cello Concerto – alongside powerful Scandinavian soundscapes from Sibelius and Anna Thorvaldsottir.

Superstar pianist Yuja Wang takes centrestage in the first Proms appearance of the Oslo Philharmonic under its new Chief Conductor Klaus Makëlä. Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben ends the concert in roof-raising style.

The Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra comes to the Proms with its American Music Director Marin Alsop. Music by Bartók, Dvořák, Hannah Eisendle and Prokofiev – with Benjamin Grosvenor at the piano.

A matinee concert from Dinis Sousa and the Royal Northern Sinfonia, featuring sunlit masterworks by Haydn, Saariaho and Beethoven. Nicholas Daniel is the soloist in Vaughan Williams’s pastoral Oboe Concerto.

Music from two great ballets, Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet and Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake – and Missy Mazzoli’s new Violin Concerto, ‘Procession’ – played by the Philharmonia Orchestra under its new Music Director Santtu-Matias Rouvali.

Playing from memory, and turning every performance into exuberant physical theatre, the Carion Wind Quintet performs colourful 20th-century classics by Nielsen, Ligeti and Stravinsky.

Elgar’s First Symphony, Vaughan Williams’s Tuba Concerto and a swinging new showpiece from Mark-Anthony Turnage: music that could have been made for the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo.

Forged in a time of war and tyranny, Prokofiev said that his Fifth Symphony embodied ‘the greatness of the human spirit’. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Music Director Vasily Petrenko pairs it with American classics by Copland and George Walker.

Nielsen’s ebullient Sinfonia espansiva, Ravel’s La valse and Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto – played by pianist Behzod Abduraimov at the heart of a supercharged Prom from Thomas Dausgaard and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

‘Music is life’: Sibelius and Nielsen take the 20th century head-on while Beethoven looks inward in his Fourth Piano Concerto. Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with Jan Lisiecki as pianist.

‘Thy harmony’s divine, great king’: Handel’s lavish 1749 oratorio Solomon, performed by The English Concert and the BBC Singers, starring Iestyn Davies as the music-loving King of Israel.

Ethel Smyth wasn’t especially religious, but her majestic Mass in D major is one of the crowning glories of the British choral tradition. Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra give the first Proms performance since the composer’s own lifetime.