This year’s festival kicks off with Tchaikovsky’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Fantasy-Overture before Sol Gabetta performs Elgar’s Cello Concerto. Finally, hear one of the greatest cantatas of the 20th century – Prokofiev’s 'Alexander Nevsky'.

The Choir of King’s College Cambridge joins forces with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for music including Fauré’s Requiem and Haydn’s Mass in Time of War.

This evening’s programme opens with Ravel’s Boléro and closes with Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier suite. In between there’s a rare chance to hear Galina Ustvolskaya’s Third Symphony.

In the second ever Gospel Prom, hear some of the best Gospel music on offer, courtesy of the London Community Gospel Choir, the London Adventist Chorale and the V9 Collective.

Katie Derham – who reached the final in the most recent series of Strictly Come Dancing – presents a Prom dedicated to all things ballroom, tango and waltz. Gavin Sutherland conducts.

Conductor Mark Wigglesworth pairs the finale of Wagner’s opera *Die Walküre* with Michael Tippett’s *Child of our Time*, a pacifist oratorio infused with American spirituals.

Bernard Haitink celebrates 50 years since his first Proms appearance with a performance of Mahler’s monumental Third Symphony. Sarah Connolly is the soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

The Proms pays tribute to David Bowie, the rock and pop legend, who died at the age of 69 in January this year and whose influence was felt in every field of the arts.