Four conductors pass the baton in an all-English First Night featuring works by Turnage, Elgar, Delius and Tippett.

Lush Strauss favourites (Four Last Songs and Also sprach Zarathustra) feature alongside music by Finns Sibelius and Saariaho.

Handel’s resplendent Water Music suites and Music for the Royal Fireworks get an upsized French period-instrument treatment.

Daniel Barenboim begins his Beethoven symphony cycle at the beginning, with the First and Second; plus Boulez’s Dérive 2.

Boulez’s work for solo clarinet and its electronic double appears in between Beethoven’s Fourth and the mighty Third (‘Eroica’).

Daniel Barenboim reaches the midpoint of his Beethoven cycle, exploring Nature and Fate in the ‘Pastoral’ and Fifth symphonies.

Two more Beethoven symphonies frame Boulez’s Anthèmes, for violin and electronics, under Daniel Barenboim’s baton.

Daniel Barenboim’s Beethoven cycle concludes with the universal message of the Ninth, on the opening day of the London Olympics.

An all-British Prom including Vaughan Williams’s spacious ‘Tallis’ Fantasia and Walton’s riotous choral Belshazzar’s Feast.