Choral music and opera

For their second concert of the season The Met Orchestra is joined by Joyce DiDonato for Mahler’s Rückert- Lieder. We also heard the composer’s nature-loving Symphony No. 4 and Kaija Saariaho’s Lumière et pesanteur

Jakob Lehmann and period-instrument group Les Siècles bring to life Berlioz’s ‘Dramatic Legend’ in a concert performance with an international cast of soloists, including American tenor John Osborn, Gerald Finley and Véronique Gens

The Gesualdo Six and the Colin Currie Group appear in a Late-Night Prom that combines choral works by Renaissance composers including Hildegard of Bingen, Josquin and Pérotin with Steve Reich’s take on traditional Hebrew Psalms, Tehillim

John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London present a concert of English music, pairing two works by Britten – the Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge and orchestral song-cycle Les illuminations – with music by Berkeley, Bridge and Imogen Holst

Paweł Kapuła conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for its final Prom of the season. They perform works by Hans Werner Henze, Schubert and Mahler before soprano Natalya Romaniw takes to the stage for Richard Strauss’s famous musical farewell

The Metropolitan Opera’s Met Orchestra and Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin present a sumptuous all-Strauss programme that includes the final scene of the composer’s Salome, performed with celebrated South African soprano Elza van den Heever

The Chineke! Orchestra returns to the Proms under Jonathon Heyward, bringing with it Dvořák’s ecstatic hymn to nature, the Symphony No. 8, and Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with star American soprano Angel Blue

Star mezzo Jamie Barton joins Anja Bihlmaier and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra for Mahler’s epic collision of symphony and song. The first half sees the witty musical parting of Haydn’s ‘Farewell’ Symphony and Bushra El-Turk’s meditative Mosaic

Fresh from the Glyndebourne Festival, the Proms presents Strauss’s opera-within-an-opera Ariadne auf Naxos, performed complete at the festival for the first time in nearly half a century

Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in one of the repertoire’s most monumental musical statements: Berlioz’s Requiem, a sonic portrait of ‘mankind gathered together on the last day’