Wed 5 Aug 2026

• 18:00

  Rachmaninov’s Second

  Royal Albert Hall

  Manchester’s Hallé orchestra and its Principal Conductor Kahchun Wong return to the Proms for Rachmaninov’s lush, expansive Symphony No. 2. We also hear French masterpieces by Nadia Boulanger and Ravel

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  Manchester’s Hallé orchestra and its Principal Conductor Kahchun Wong return to the Proms for Rachmaninov’s lush, expansive Symphony No. 2. We also hear French masterpieces by Nadia Boulanger and Ravel

  Programme

  • • • Maurice Ravel
      • La vallée des cloches (orch. C. Matthews)(6 mins)
    • • Nadia Boulanger
      • Fantasy for piano and orchestra(20 mins)
    • • interval
    • • Sergey Rachmaninov
      • Symphony No. 2 in E minor(60 mins)

  Performers

  • Alexandra Dariescu

    piano
    piano
  • Hallé
  • Kahchun Wong

    conductor
    conductor

  Composers

  • Maurice Ravel
  • Nadia Boulanger
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

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• 22:15

  Under African Skies: The Songs of ‘Graceland’

  Royal Albert Hall

  South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo make their Proms debut 50 years on from the Soweto Uprising and 40 years since the release of Paul Simon’s era-defining album Graceland, which brought the group to international attention

  Also part of

  Late Night Proms Proms on TV