Sun 2 Aug 2026

• 11:00

  Mahler’s First by Heart

  Royal Albert Hall

  Proms favourites Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra lift the bonnet on Mahler’s First Symphony. A dramatised first half featuring mezzo-soprano Natalie Lewis introduces the piece, before a complete performance after the interval

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  Proms favourites Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra lift the bonnet on Mahler’s First Symphony. A dramatised first half featuring mezzo-soprano Natalie Lewis introduces the piece, before a complete performance after the interval

  Programme

  • • • Gustav Mahler
      • A musical and dramatic exploration of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1(45 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Gustav Mahler
      • Symphony No. 1 in D major(53 mins)performed from memory

  Performers

  • Natalie Lewis

    mezzo-soprano
    mezzo-soprano
  • Aurora Orchestra
  • Nicholas Collon

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Gustav Mahler

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  Also part of

  British Sign Language-interpreted Proms

  
• 19:30

  Kavakos Plays Tchaikovsky

  Royal Albert Hall

  Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos joins Paavo Järvi and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Bookending the evening are Scriabin’s iconoclastic Symphony No. 2 and the world premiere of Dani Howard’s Concerto for Brass

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  Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos joins Paavo Järvi and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Bookending the evening are Scriabin’s iconoclastic Symphony No. 2 and the world premiere of Dani Howard’s Concerto for Brass

  Programme

  • • • Dani Howard
      • Concerto for Brass, ‘SIGNAL’(18 mins)BBC co-commission: world premiere
    • • Pyotr Tchaikovsky
      • Violin Concerto in D major(33 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Alexander Scriabin
      • Symphony No. 2 in C major(41 mins)

  Performers

  • Leonidas Kavakos

    violin
    violin
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra
  • Paavo Järvi

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Dani Howard
  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky
  • Alexander Scriabin

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  Also part of

  Proms on TV