Taibhithe de Richard Strauss ag BBC Proms

Anja Bihlmaier and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra give the world premiere of Mark Simpson’s ZEBRA between performances of two iconic 19th-century tone-poems: Richard Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique

Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra join soloist Augustin Hadelich for Mendelssohn’s vivacious, melody-filled Violin Concerto. We also hear Stravinsky’s The Song of the Nightingale and Strauss’s tone-poem Till Eulenspiegel

Two of the 20th-century’s most powerful operas – Puccini’s one-act Suor Angelica and Strauss’s darkly ambiguous fable Die Frau ohne Schatten – come together in this concert by Sir Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra

John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London present a passion-soaked programme of 20th-century orchestral showpieces: Ravel’s ballet Daphnis and Chloe, Bernstein’s lyrical Serenade and Richard Strauss’s Don Juan