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Manchester’s ±á²¹±ô±ôé orchestra and its Principal Conductor Kahchun Wong return to the Proms for Rachmaninov’s lush, expansive Symphony No. 2. We also hear French masterpieces by Nadia Boulanger and Ravel

South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo make their Proms debut 40 years since the release of Paul Simon’s era-defining album Graceland, which brought the group to international attention

Sir Mark Elder conducts the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir and star soloists in Weber’s final opera, featuring a new narration that brings fresh life and wit to this chivalric fantasy of shipwrecks and magic horns

The Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Symphony Orchestra and Chorus join forces with the Epiphoni Consort and a quartet of star soloists for Rossini’s operatic Stabat mater. Nil Venditti also conducts the Proms premiere of Respighi’s Church Windows

The Paraorchestra brings an immersive take on Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians, presenting this seminal work with the players distributed across Beacon Hall

Elena Schwarz and the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ National Orchestral of Wales perform Dvořák’s passionate Symphony No. 7 alongside Zimmermann’s 1950 Fairy-Tale Suite and Mendelssohn’s famous Violin Concerto, with Proms regular Alina Ibragimova as soloist

Kirill Gerstein is soloist in Rachmaninov’s glittering Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. He joins Thomas Søndergård and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, who also perform Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 and Knussen’s Flourish with Fireworks

Proms favourites Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra lift the bonnet on Mahler’s First Symphony. A dramatised first half featuring mezzo-soprano Natalie Lewis introduces the piece, before a complete performance after the interval

Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos joins Paavo Järvi and the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Symphony Orchestra for Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Bookending the evening are Scriabin’s iconoclastic Symphony No. 2 and the world premiere of Dani Howard’s Concerto for Brass

Proms favourites Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra lift the bonnet on Mahler’s First Symphony. A dramatised first half featuring mezzo-soprano Natalie Lewis introduces the piece, before a complete performance after the interval