All London's live music

Only 21 people in the world are EGOTs – winners of the coveted quartet of Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards. One of those is Alan Menken, the American composer whose acclaimed catalogue of shows, songs and scores includes so many of Disney’s greatest hits.

The Trafalgar Sinfonia performs Vivaldi’s much-loved Four Seasons, alongside works by Handel and Bach.

Enter a new dimension of decade-defining album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness at a collaborative performance filled with operatic drama.

An afternoon spent listening to a military band in a Bohemian park inspired the arresting fanfares and jagged folk-rhythms of Janáček’s last and best-loved orchestral work, composed 100 years ago, the Sinfonietta: less a conventional symphony than a sequence of sonic frescoes.

‘An artist lives a double life,’ Tchaikovsky wrote. The Berlin Philharmonic and Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko return to the Proms with a concert of concealed identities and confessions, musical secrets and hidden selves, explored in two Romantic orchestral classics.

Enter a new dimension of decade-defining album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness at a collaborative performance filled with operatic drama.

The ‘sumptuous’ and ‘sublime’ Berlin Philharmonic and Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko pair Beethoven’s Violin Concerto – with the singing lyricism of its slow movement and exuberant dancing Rondo...

Andrew Manze conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in a celebration of English music, including a commission from Carmel Smickersgill exploring resilience in the face of tragedy.

A live orchestra brings the sound of contemporary RnB to the stage, tracing the genre’s evolution from the 90s and 00s through to today.

Yuja Wang calls her the ‘pure goddess’ of the piano, to others, she’s simply the world’s greatest living pianist. Martha Argerich is back at the Proms, joining Lahav Shani and the Munich Philharmonic for the singing beauty and light-hearted delight of Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto.

Ponnonam 2026 by KCWA TRUST, in association with Sangeetha of the UK are thrilled to invite you to Ponnonam 2026, a grand celebration of music and culture.

BBC Young Musician has launched many classical careers since it began in 1978.

‘I alone hold the key to this wild parade.’ Benjamin Britten is the keystone of this second concert by John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London (see 24 July), a family tree of English music.

The elusive, troubled visionary Robert Schumann is in the spotlight for Sir Simon Rattle and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra – ‘one of the most polished period-instrument ensembles in the world’ – which brings its distinctive tang and timbre to three of the composer’s best-loved works.

Brothers in Harmony brings the Philharmonia Orchestra together with brothers Kevin and Carey Tan for a distinctive evening at Cadogan Hall, pairing two of the most celebrated piano concertos in the repertoire with bold, original symphonic works.

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth celebrate the orchestra’s 90th anniversary with a snapshot of a golden year in musical history...

Following unique collaborations with the likes of Laura Mvula, Jacob Collier, Florence + The Machine and St. Vincent, Jules Buckley and his own hand-picked ensemble return to the Proms...

Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’, one of at least three symphonies he left incomplete at his death, is one of his most popular, combining private drama with lyrical sweetness.

Following its debut at the United Nations in 2024 and five-star reviews at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2025, A Panorama of Hunan comes to London for a special performance at Central Hall Westminster.

Death haunts Mahler’s monumental Ninth Symphony, woven right through it from the brooding farewell of a first movement – ‘the greatest Mahler ever composed’, according to Alban Berg – to the finale’s radiant, distant vision of a world beyond.

The culmination of a summer of over 80 concerts – including at venues around the country – classical music’s greatest international party draws the 2026 Proms to a close while echoing some of the themes of the season.

The Euphoria Season closes with Mozart Great Mass in C minor, one of the mightiest and most moving choral pieces in music history, written when he was 27. The Mass was first performed at St. Peter's Church in Salzburg in 1783.

Join the London Metropolitan Orchestra (LMO) for a remarkable evening celebrating the music of acclaimed composer Christoph Schnell, conducted by Robert Bokor.

90 years of Peter and the Wolf with Hugh Bonneville

An Evening of Musical Stories celebrates the 90th anniversary of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf in a gala concert supporting Brass for Africa – the charity transforming young lives through music in Uganda, Rwanda, and Liberia.

Andrew Morley Conductor