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

Thomas Adès conducts The National Youth Orchestra in a thrilling musical journey to Hell and back, featuring Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz No. 1, Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique and Purgatorio, the central panel of Adès’s own Dante-inspired ballet

The Los Angeles Philharmonic returns to the Proms for the first time in over two decades, led by Music Director Gustavo Dudamel. Together they perform Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony and Inferno, the first panel from Thomas Adès’s Dante ballet

The Proms marks Miles Davis’s centenary with a concert combining his influences – works by Rodrigo and Gershwin – with his own hits. Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire joins the BBC Concert Orchestra and Miho Hazama for a celebration of a jazz legend

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields spotlights the French horn and bassoon in concertos by Mozart and Thea Musgrave. Britten’s playful Simple Symphony and Mozart’s ‘Haffner’ Symphony bookend the concert.

Marin Alsop leads the Philharmonia Orchestra in a barn-storming celebration of American music, with works including Bernstein’s West Side Story, Gershwin’s jazz-infused Rhapsody in Blue and Copland’s Appalachian Spring

Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser and the BBC Concert Orchestra train their sights on the greatest hits from Skyfall, The Spy Who Loved Me and others, promising to leave you stirred, not shaken

The Metropolitan Opera’s Met Orchestra and Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin present a sumptuous all-Strauss programme that includes the final scene of the composer’s Salome, performed with celebrated South African soprano Elza van den Heever

The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra is joined by performers from the National Youth Music Theatre to celebrate the music of Alan Menken, with sets from his scores to classic Disney films such as The Little Mermaid and Aladdin