Marking 200 years since the birth of ‘Waltz King’ Johann Strauss II, Anna-Maria Helsing and the BBC Concert Orchestra celebrate the opulence and enchantment of Vienna’s Golden Age

With guest vocalists, a gospel choir and renowned Radio 2 presenter Trevor Nelson, the BBC Concert Orchestra and Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser trace a path from spirituals through gospel to soul

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Nil Venditti celebrate Britain’s land- and sea-scapes with works including Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra presents a musical postcard from America, performing Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony, Jennifer Higdon’s Blue Cathedral and Arturo Márquez’s Concierto de otoño

Britain’s most talented teenagers present a concert of intergalactic musical giants: The National Youth Orchestra and Dalia Stasevska perform Holst’s The Planets alongside music from John Williams’s mighty Star Wars soundtracks

Sitar virtuoso and composer Anoushka Shankar returns to the Proms for the world-premiere performance of music from her three ‘Chapter’ albums

Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra reflect this year’s Shostakovich anniversary with a Prom that takes the audience under the hood of a 20th-century masterpiece – the Fifth Symphony – and into the mind of the man who made it

Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra reflect this year’s Shostakovich anniversary with a Prom that takes the audience under the hood of a 20th-century masterpiece – the 5th Symphony – and into the mind of the man who made it.

Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in a programme that charts the extremes of human experience and emotion, featuring Bent Sørensen’s Evening Land, Anna Clyne’s The Years and Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Ninth Symphony.

Hear Klaus Mäkelä at the Proms for the first time as Chief Conductor Designate of the mighty Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, performing Berio’s Rendering alongside Mahler’s Fifth Symphony with its famous Adagietto

Join Sinfonia Smith Square, CBeebies friends and a special guest in the Bedtime Stories chair as they share an enchanting musical tale. Don’t miss this entertaining introduction to the orchestra for little ones

Join Sinfonia Smith Square, CBeebies friends and a special guest in the Bedtime Stories chair as they share an enchanting musical tale. Don’t miss this entertaining introduction to the orchestra for little ones