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The human voice ‘riding upon waves of rippling sound’ was the starting point for the glittering, pulsing soundscapes of John Adams’s Harmonium – one of the American composer’s defining works, harnessing the motoric energy of Minimalism to large-scale architectural form & textural richness.

Step into the Golden Age of Broadway for one night only with Anush Hovhannisyan and Sam Jewison

Step into the great outdoors with Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Kristine Tjøgersen’s Between Trees plunges listeners into the mossy shade of a Nordic forest.

Fifty years since Benjamin Britten’s death, former BBC Young Musician winner Guy Johnston brings the composer’s Cello Symphony to the Proms.

‘Human life … and a massive hope in the future’: this – no less – is Elgar’s sweeping subject for his First Symphony – a work once nicknamed ‘Brahms’s Fifth’ for its close relationship with the German tradition.

A symphony ‘on the greatness of the human soul’ and a cinematic concerto collide in a concert of widescreen orchestral soundscapes.

Step into a night of dark elegance and hauntingly beautiful melodies as we transform our historic converted church theatre venue into a cathedral of sound.

Haydn’s Symphony No. 44, written at the height of his fame in Europe, embodies the bracing rhythms, lyrical melodies, and dramatic silences typical of the ‘Storm and Stress’ movement, its nickname – ‘Trauer’ or ‘Mourning’...

‘All the floodgates within me have opened … my whole being points me towards this symphony.’ Proms favourites Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra are back to lift the bonnet on another symphonic masterwork.

‘Impeccable’ Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos joins Paavo Järvi and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for one of the great Romantic concertos.

‘All the floodgates within me have opened … my whole being points me towards this symphony.’ Proms favourites Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra are back to lift the bonnet on another symphonic masterwork.

Once described as ‘a film score without a film’, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 is subtitled ‘The Year 1905’. The work’s four movements pay vivid homage to the First Russian Revolution, plunging listeners into the violence of its Bloody Sunday massacre and the grief and anger that followed.

‘Flawless’ violinist and Proms regular Alina Ibragimova is back with one of the great Romantic concertos.

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Graceland – Paul Simon’s Grammy Award-winning, era-defining album, in a concert featuring Simon’s original collaborators Ladysmith Black Mambazo (making its Royal Albert Hall Proms debut) and special guest artists.

Described as ‘one of the most remarkable combinations of fantasy and technical skill in music’, Weber’s final opera – first performed 200 years ago – follows the battle of wills between Fairy King and Queen Oberon and Titania.

Fragments of Gregorian chant are reassembled in the jewel-toned mosaic that is Respighi’s 1927 Church Windows – given its Proms debut by Nil Venditti and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Does the Devil really have all the best tunes? When it comes to classical music, he just might. Thomas Adès conducts the National Youth Orchestra – over 150 of Britain’s most talented teenagers – in a thrilling musical journey to Hell and back.

We are delighted to be working with John Warner, Founder & Artistic Director of Orchestra for the Earth, on realising this special project.

A musical postcard from 18th-century Vienna. The threat to Austria from Napoleon’s army is vividly rendered in the turbulent opening of Haydn’s choral tour de force, the ‘Nelson Mass’, but it’s Nelson’s victory we hear in the celebratory ending.

An informal, Transatlantic-themed matinee in the year we celebrate the 250th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence.

Join the orchestra for their final performance of the year!

Hot off the plane from their annual Festival in Tuscany, Sinfonia Smith Square bring a taste of Italy to their home in Westminster with a whistle-stop tour of some much-loved Italian music.

Join the orchestra for their final performance of the year!

Hot off the plane from their annual Festival in Tuscany, Sinfonia Smith Square bring a taste of Italy to their home in Westminster with a whistle-stop tour of some much-loved Italian music.

CLAPHAM COMMON BANDSTAND CONCERTS 2026

Join the orchestra for their final performance of the year!

Hot off the plane from their annual Festival in Tuscany, Sinfonia Smith Square bring a taste of Italy to their home in Westminster with a whistle-stop tour of some much-loved Italian music.

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the combined orchestras of London’s Royal Academy of Music and New York’s Juilliard School in three 20th-century orchestral masterworks.