The Cardinall’s Musick performs Tallis’s extravagant 40-part motet ‘Spem in alium’ alongside other sumptuous sacred music in the first of this year’s Proms Chamber Music concerts.

The world-famous contemporary music ensemble celebrates the 90th-birthday year of one of the most important figures in contemporary music, Pierre Boulez.

The winds of the Royal Northern Sinfonia mark Nielsen’s 150th anniversary with his Wind Quintet before pianist Christian Blackshaw joins them for Mozart’s elegant Quintet for piano and winds.

One of today’s most exciting young string ensembles, the Apollon Musagète Quartet, performs a varied programme including music by Beethoven and a UK premiere by Colin Matthews.

This small Belgian ensemble has set out to revolutionise the world of early music: they make their Proms debut with music by Vivaldi, Caldara and Geminiani.

Celebrate the 50th birthday of percussion legend in a lunchtime concert which features two world premieres and showcases the Halo and the Aluphone – two new instruments.

Violinist Alina Ibragimova joins harpsichordist/director Jeannette Sorrell and ensemble Apollo’s Fire to perform a wealth of early music, including works by C. P. E. Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann and J.S. Bach.

Celebrate the iconic musicals of Stephen Sondheim – from 'Follies' and 'Sweeney Todd', to 'Company' and 'A Little Night Music' – with a cabaret marking his 85th birthday this year.

The brilliant American pianist Jeremy Denk performs Beethoven’s final piano sonata in a programme which also includes Bartók’s Piano Sonata and Scriabin’s ‘Black Mass’ Piano Sonata.

The London Sinfonietta continues our celebration of the work of Pierre Boulez, whose 90th birthday falls this year. This anniversary programme includes 'Éclat/Multiples' and 'Domaines'.

The Emerson String Quartet and pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja come together to perform a great chamber work – Shostakovich's Quintet – as well as the original, string quartet movement that late became Barber's famous 'Adagio for strings'.

Three of today’s leading musicians – Nicola Benedetti, Leonard Elschenbroich and Alexei Grynyuk – pair Brahms’s Piano Trio No. 1 with Arlene Sierra’s 2013 work 'Butterflies Remember a Mountain'.