Brahms Symphony no 4 from the BBC Proms

Elizabeth Alker introduces a week of highlights from the BBC Proms, featuring some of the festival's standout performances. The Munich Philharmonic, conducted by Lahav Shani, perform Brahms' fourth symphony.

Elsewhere, there's chamber music from this year's Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival on the Baltic Coast. The programme also includes highlights from the International Sacred Music Festival in Fribourg with music by Isabella Leonarda.

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival:
Felix Mendelssohn
Octet in E flat, Op 20
Julia Fischer, violin
Lena Neudauer, violin
Valerie Steenken, violin
Eva Zavaro, violin
Nils Mönkemeyer, viola
Wen Xiao Zheng, viola
Maximilian Hornung, cello
Benjamin Nyffenegger, cello

BBC Proms:
Leoš Janáček
Sinfonietta
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jakub Hrůša (conductor)

BBC Proms:
Johannes Brahms
Symphony no 4
Munich Philharmonic
Lahav Shani (conductor)

International Sacred Music Festival, Fribourg:
Isabella Leonarda
Ad arma
The Kapsber'girls
Albane Imbs (director)

Imperial Hall Concerts, Füssen:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio no 4 in B flat op 11’Gassenhauer’
Ib Hausmann, (clarinet)
Lea Hausmann, (violin)
Mengjie Han (piano)

BBC Proms:
Benjamin Britten
Violin Concerto
Simone Lamsma (violin)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manze (conductor)