One of the great choral classics of Western classical music, Bach’s Mass in B minor, under Baroque specialist Harry Bicket.

Feted interpreter of the late Romantic repertoire, Donald Runnicles conducts Wagner and Bruckner, with his BBC Scottish Symphony.Feted interpreter of the late Romantic repertoire, Donald Runnicles conducts Wagner and Bruckner, with his BBC Scottish Symphony.

Curve-ball pieces from Varèse and Anna Meredith and Messiaen’s ecstatic Turangalîla Symphony from the National Youth Orchestra.

Part concert piece, part theatrical spectacle, Bernstein’s Mass is an unmissable rarity, receiving it first Proms performance.

Bruckner (Sixth Symphony) and James MacMillan (Credo), associated with religious expression, are joined by Wagner’s hymn to love.

Sir Mark Elder honours Ivor Novello – the tunesmith and matinee idol who dominated London’s stage musicals in the 1930s and 1940s.

A wide-ranging set, taking in tributes to Thelonious Monk and HM The Queen plus a new, flamenco-inspired piece from Tim Garland.

Dvořák’s popular ‘New World’ Symphony, written in the USA, plus old- and new-world works by Copland, Ginastera and others.

A triple helping of differently powerful symphonies by Vaughan Williams – Andrew Manze conducts the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth.

Russian Vladimir Jurowski conducts Tchaikovsky’s Byron-inspired Manfred; Alice Coote is the soloist in Mahler’s wayfaring songs.

Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard, one of the duo’s grandest Savoy operas, celebrates London in this Olympic year.

Wagner’s 'Prelude' and 'Good Friday Music' from Parsifal and Berg’s Violin Concerto preface waltz-inspired works by Strauss and Ravel.

John Wilson and his orchestra pay tribute to the composers who created the ‘Broadway sound’ – with excerpts from favorite shows.

Elgar’s First was a turning point in the British symphony. Martyn Brabbins conducts it, as well as Howells’s Hymnus Paradisi.