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Semyon Bychkov conducts the UK premiere of Julian Anderson’s keenly awaited Second Symphony – plus Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, and a Martinů concerto with the extraordinary Labèque sisters.

Ryan Wigglesworth brings a composer’s ear to Holst’s The Planets, and British baritone Roderick Williams premieres Matthew Kaner’s haunting new commission Pearl – in which an ancient lament unlocks emotions that transcend time.

Elgar’s First Symphony, Vaughan Williams’s Tuba Concerto and a swinging new showpiece from Mark-Anthony Turnage: music that could have been made for the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo.

Ethel Smyth wasn’t especially religious, but her majestic Mass in D major is one of the crowning glories of the British choral tradition. Sakari Oramo and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra give the first Proms performance since the composer’s own lifetime.

Fabien Gabel conducts César Franck’s impassioned Symphony in D minor – a 200th-anniversary tribute, in a concert that also showcases the young Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovich in Brahms’s gloriously songful Violin Concerto.

Retro-futurist rockers Public Service Broadcasting perform This New Noise: a joyously eclectic, album-length celebration of 100 years of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio, told with visuals, soundscapes and a little bit of help from the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra.