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The London Adventist Chorale, London Community Gospel Choir, People’s Christian Fellowship Choir, Muyiwa & Riversongz and Pastor David Daniel raise the roof of the Royal Albert Hall in a late-night celebration of gospel music’s powerful songs of praise and passion.

Jeffrey Skidmore and Ex Cathedra perform Welt-Parlament, the a cappella Babel tower centrepiece of Stockhausen’s opera Mittwoch aus ‘Licht’. Sound-projectionist Kathinka Pasveer oversees Gesang der Jünglinge, the visionary composer’s first masterpiece.

Fresh from their residency at the O2, the inimitable vocalists of Naturally 7 build on the gospel legacy in a Late Night Prom of a cappella soul with a hip hop tang. Drums, harmonica, brass, turntable ‘scratching’ and electric guitars are all in the mix – recreated with nothing more than the human voice.

Fasten your seat belts as Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra plunge into Frank Zappa’s counter-culture satire The Adventures of Greggery Peccary, with a car-chase, a coughing mountain and a choir of stenographers. A wild Study for player piano by Conlon Nancarrow and the UK premiere of Philip Glass’s Tenth Symphony complete a far-reaching Late Night Prom.

Hail, ice, thunder, rain … and the bark of a dog on a sunny afternoon. Iconoclastic violinist Nigel Kennedy plays Vivaldi’s endlessly fascinating set of concertos, The Four Seasons, in a Late Night Prom with players from Palestine and Poland.

A late-night feast of sinfonias, arias and chorales as Sir John Eliot Gardiner, 70 this year, conducts the singers and players of the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Bach’s Easter Oratorio and Ascension Oratorio.

Cerys Matthews, Laura Marling and The Stranglers join London Sinfonietta for an eclectic Late Night Prom including 20th-century classics by Berio, Varèse and Xenakis, plus a live remix mash-up by composer Anna Meredith.

Celebrating their 40th anniversary, the Tallis Scholars return to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms in a Late Night Prom interweaving the movements of John Taverner’s Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas with motets by the infamous aristocratic madrigalist Carlo Gesualdo.

Ilan Volkov conducts the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of Rzewski’s Piano Concerto (with the composer as soloist), Gerald Barry’s No other people., John White’s Chord-Breaking Machine and Morton Feldman’s late masterpiece, Coptic Light.

London-Azerbaijani World Routes Academy protégée Fidan Hajiyeva, Azerbaijani mugham mentor Gochaq Askarov, Malian blues musicians Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba and newly formed Trio Da Kali appear in the late-night World Routes Prom.

British jazz luminary Django Bates appears with his piano trio, Belovèd, and Swedish visitors the Norrbotten Big Band in a late-night tribute to bebop legend Charlie Parker.

David Hill conducts the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers and the Choristers of Temple Church in Britten’s choral variations A Boy was Born, written when the composer was just 19 years old, and George Lloyd’s Requiem, dedicated to the memory of Diana, Princess of Wales.

In the final Late Night Prom of the season, pianist Imogen Cooper plays Schubert’s late Sonata in C minor. Paul Lewis joins her for the composer’s ‘Grand Duo’, written in Slovakia in the summer of 1824 when Schubert was music-master to Marie and Caroline Esterházy.