Performances of Béla Bartók at BBC Proms

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

Josep Pons conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Bartók’s ‘grotesque pantomime’ The Miraculous Mandarin, and Italian pianist Beatrice Rana is soloist in Rachmaninov’s thrilling Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Klaus Mäkela and Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra are joined by celebrated violinist Janine Jansen for Prokofiev’s effervescent Violin Concerto No. 1. Mozart’s ‘Paris’ Symphony and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra bookend the evening