Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Verdi’s Requiem: a truly spectacular First Night of the 2022 BBC Proms.

Following their sensational concert debut at last year's Proms, John Wilson conducts his Sinfonia of London in an all-British programme of Elgar, Walton, Bax, Vaughan Williams and Huw Watkins.

Grammy Award-winning vocalist Cynthia Erivo joins forces with the BBC Concert Orchestra to salute the legendary women who have inspired her: artists like Nina Simone, Shirley Bassey, Billie Holiday and Gladys Knight.

Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra weave a darkly dramatic soundscape, including music by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Hildur Guðnadóttir and Jóhann Jóhannsson.

Happy and glorious: the BBC Singers join the BBC Concert Orchestra for a Platinum Jubilee celebration of music and royalty spanning six centuries.

Join your CBeebies friends on a magical, ocean-going family adventure, in this relaxed Prom for our very youngest listeners.

Join your CBeebies friends on a magical, ocean-going family adventure, in this relaxed Prom for our very youngest listeners.

Jordan de Souza conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Johan Dalene is the soloist in Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, in a concert that also features music by Bernstein, Tchaikovsky and George Walker.

Xenakis’s Jonchaies meets Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring: explosive masterpieces from opposite ends of the 20th century, with Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

In the first ever Gaming Prom, an electronically expanded Royal Philharmonic Orchestra explores the musical universe of gaming: from the classic console titles of the 1980s to the European concert premiere of a suite from Battlefield 2042.

‘An absolute tour de force’: Under founder-conductor Nicholas Collon, the Aurora Orchestra collaborates with violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja – and then performs Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony entirely from memory.

The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain brings all its signature energy and joy to a truly kaleidoscopic programme: works by Danny Elfman and Gershwin, followed by Ravel’s luscious complete ballet Daphnis and Chloe.

Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes stands in for Mozart with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, as he directs and plays two contrasting piano concertos from 1785: the dark-hued Concerto No. 20, and the gloriously playful Concerto No. 22.

Leif Ove Andsnes and three Mahler Chamber Orchestra members perform some of the loveliest chamber music Mozart ever created.

Ryan Bancroft unleashes the full power of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, and joins forces with the Tredegar Band for the world premiere of Gavin Higgins’s new Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra.

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.

Three composers in three landscapes. Eva Ollikainen and the BBC Philharmonic join Kian Soltani in Elgar’s hugely popular Cello Concerto – alongside powerful Scandinavian soundscapes from Sibelius and Anna Thorvaldsottir.

A matinee concert from Dinis Sousa and the Royal Northern Sinfonia, featuring sunlit masterworks by Haydn, Saariaho and Beethoven. Nicholas Daniel is the soloist in Vaughan Williams’s pastoral Oboe Concerto.

Music from two great ballets, Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet and Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake – and Missy Mazzoli’s new Violin Concerto, ‘Procession’ – played by the Philharmonia Orchestra under its new Music Director Santtu-Matias Rouvali.

Nielsen’s ebullient Sinfonia espansiva, Ravel’s La valse and Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto – played by pianist Behzod Abduraimov at the heart of a supercharged Prom from Thomas Dausgaard and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

‘Music is life’: Sibelius and Nielsen take the 20th century head-on while Beethoven looks inward in his Fourth Piano Concerto. Thomas Dausgaard conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with Jan Lisiecki as pianist.

Aretha Franklin was the undisputed Queen of Soul. Tonight, Jules Buckley conducts his all-new orchestra in a symphonic tribute, featuring singer-songwriter Sheléa in powerful new arrangements of Aretha Franklin’s very greatest hits.

The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra are inspired by nature with Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony, a Thomas Adès premiere and Vaughan Williams’s gently soaring The Lark Ascending – played by the unfailingly original Finnish firebrand Pekka Kuusisto.

A stunning audio-visual celebration of the BBC’s world-famous Natural History Unit, from David Attenborough’s pioneering adventures through to the landmark series of the 21st century – with live music by Hans Zimmer and George Fenton.

A stunning audio-visual celebration of the BBC’s world-famous Natural History Unit, from David Attenborough’s pioneering adventures through to the landmark series of the 21st century – with live music by Hans Zimmer and George Fenton.

A showcase for the most lively voices in contemporary South African jazz: Siyabonga Mthembu, ESKA, Soweto Kinch and Theon Cross are just some of the modern legends on stage tonight, accompanied by the dynamic Metropole Orkest.

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

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony meets George Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Lilacs in this Prom from Chineke! – Europe’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra.

The Philadelphia Orchestra visits the Proms under its Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. In the first of two concerts they perform Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony and two modern American classics, sung by soprano Angel Blue.

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Lise Davidsen and Dalia Stasevska all star as the world’s biggest classical music festival comes to a close – with all the tradition and fun of the Last Night of the Proms!