Performances of Ludwig van Beethoven at BBC Proms

Maxim Emelyanychev and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra perform Saint-Saëns’s ‘Egyptian’ Piano Concerto with Alexandre Kantorow, plus Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and selections from Rameau’s ballet Les Indes galantes

Harrison Birtwistle’s monumental Earth Dances returns to the Proms for the first time this century, paired with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, the ‘Eroica’

Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra bring Hungary’s greatest opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, to the Royal Albert Hall, heard alongside Beethoven’s ebullient Symphony No. 7

Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in a programme that charts the extremes of human experience and emotion, featuring Bent Sørensen’s Evening Land, Anna Clyne’s The Years and Beethoven’s ‘Choral’ Ninth Symphony.