Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto no 3 from the BBC Proms

Elizabeth Alker introduces a week of highlights from the BBC Proms, featuring some of the festival's standout performances. The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jakub Hrůša, is joined by pianist Lukáš Vondráček for Rachmaninov's fiendish third piano concerto.

Elsewhere, there's chamber music from this year's Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival on the Baltic Coast: a Mozart string quartet and Schumann's Dichterliebe.

BBC Proms:
Louise Farrenc
Overture no 2
Munich Philharmonic
Lahav Shani (conductor)

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet no 16
Armida Quartet

International Sacred Music Festival, Fribourg:
Thomas Tallis
Absterge Domine
The Gesualdo Six

BBC Proms:
Sergei Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto no 3
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Lukáš Vondráček (piano)
Jakub Hrůša (conductor)

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival:
Robert Schumann
Dichterliebe
Benjamin Appl (baritone)
Armida Quartet

BBC Proms:
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony no 9 in E minor
Simone Lamsma (violin)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manze (conductor)