Exuberant orchestral colours guaranteed in a transatlantic partnership of music colleges, conducted by composer John Adams.

Russian-born Kirill Gerstein is the soloist in one of tonight’s two Russian classics: Rachmaninov’s romantic Piano Concerto No. 2.

A Channel-crossing Prom featuring Elgar’s sunny In the South plus classics of the French repertoire under Ryan Wigglesworth.

François-Xavier Roth conducts Pierre Boulez's iconic Le marteau sans maître in a Late Night Prom with members of the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra.

Curve-ball pieces from Varèse and Anna Meredith and Messiaen’s ecstatic Turangalîla Symphony from the National Youth Orchestra.

Former and current BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme perform spirited sonatas by Debussy and Ravel’s delectable Piano Trio.

Katia & Marielle Labèque perform in a new concerto; Semyon Bychkov also conducts Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’ and a Strauss tone-poem.

Finnish John Storgårds leads a Scandinavian-themed Prom including Sibelius’s Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6 and Grieg’s Piano Concerto.

Four British works from the past 45 years – by Birtwistle, Elias, Ferneyhough and Finnissy – performed by the Britten Sinfonia.

Nicola Benedetti and friends in lunchtime solo and chamber music by Bach, Korngold and Brahms.

Charles Dutoit conducts Saint-Saëns’s bristling Piano Concerto No. 2, Delius’s view of nocturnal Paris and Tchaikovsky’s Fateful Fifth.

Dvořák’s popular ‘New World’ Symphony, written in the USA, plus old- and new-world works by Copland, Ginastera and others.

A Prom marking the centenary of John Cage – music’s most irreverent experimenter: expect cassette players and plucked cactuses.

Christine Rice concludes the series of events in which musicians from this year’s Proms season introduce readings from their favourite works of fiction and poetry.

Sir Simon Rattle returns with his Berlin super-orchestra, for Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Lutosławski’s Third Symphony.

Flamboyant organist Cameron Carpenter’s second concert this weekend playing J. S. Bach, both unalloyed and as the basis for improvisation.

Marking 70 years of Desert Island Discs, Kirsty Young introduces former castaways from the programme and their musical choices.