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1. Tchaikovsky - Fantasy-Overture 'Romeo and Juliet'

   Long Yu conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fantasy-Overture 'Romeo and Juliet'
2. Stravinsky - Petrushka (1911 version)

   A performance of Stravinsky’s vividly colourful ballet Petrushka
3. Sibelius - Symphony No. 5 in E flat major

   Sibelius's soaring Fifth symphony was inspired by a painting of a flight of swans
4. Richard Strauss - Four Last Songs

   Soprano Inger Dam-Jensen performs the autumnal Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss
5. Richard Strauss - Festival Prelude

   Richard Strauss's Festival Prelude packs symphonic weight into its brief duration
6. Richard Strauss - Deutsche Motette

   The Deutsche Motette by Richard Strauss is a concerto for choir by any other name
7. Respighi - Belkis, Queen of Sheba

   Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra perform Belkis, Queen of Sheba
8. Ravel - Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major

   Ravel’s atmospheric and virtuosic Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
9. Ravel - Daphnis and Chloe

   Ravel’s ballet Daphnis and Chloe evokes the colours of turn-of-the-century Paris
10. Ravel - Boléro

    The West–Eastern Divan Orchestra perform Ravel's Boléro
11. Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

    The China Philharmonic Orchestra performs Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition
12. Mozart - Requiem in D minor

    Mozart’s Requiem – the composer’s powerful and prescient anticipation of his own death
13. Mozart - Concerto for Piano No. 23 in A major

    Pianist Ingrid Fliter performs Mozart’s ever-popular Piano Concerto No. 23
14. Mahler - Symphony No. 6 in A minor

    The Sixth was the most personal and biographical of Mahler's symphonies to date.
15. Mahler - Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor

    An orchestral showpiece of shifting moods and intense emotions
16. Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major

    Haochen Zhang with The China Philharmonic Orchestra in Liszt’s First Piano Concerto
17. John Adams - Saxophone Concerto

    Timothy McAllister performs John Adams’s Saxophone Concerto, a piece written for him
18. John Adams - Saxophone Concerto

    Timothy McAllister performs John Adams’s Saxophone Concerto, a piece written for him
19. Elgar - The Kingdom

    Sir Andrew Davis opens the Proms with Elgar's biblical oratorio The Kingdom
20. Elgar - Symphony No. 2 in E flat major

    Elgar’s Second Symphony evokes a mood of late-Romantic nostalgia
21. Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 in G major

    Long Yu conducts the China Philharmonic Orchestra in Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance
22. Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor

    Truls Mørk performs Elgar’s last major work, the Cello Concerto.
23. Dvořák - Concerto for Violin in A minor

    Proms favourite Julia Fischer is soloist in Dvořák’s earthy, folk-infused violin concerto
24. Butterworth - Six Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad' (orch. P. Brookes)

    Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad reflects a world on the brink of collapse
25. Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 in F major 'Pastoral'

    Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra evokes the landscapes of Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony
26. Beethoven - Symphony No. 4 in B flat major

    Beethoven’s often-neglected Fourth Symphony
27. Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica'

    A stirring musical meditation on heroism and valour
28. Beethoven - Missa Solemnis

    The Monteverdi Choir perform Beethoven’s mighty setting of the Mass
29. Battle of the Bands

    Jazz singer Clare Teal transports us back to the swing band era of the 1930s and 1940s
30. Bach - St John Passion

    Few classical works have the urgency and dramatic immediacy of Bach’s St John Passion.

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