Performances of Gustav Mahler at BBC Proms

Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Mahler’s brooding Sixth Symphony, and celebrate the centenary of Hungary’s greatest living composer, György Kurtág, with a rare performance of his powerful orchestral elegy Stele

Proms favourites Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra lift the bonnet on Mahler’s First Symphony. A dramatised first half featuring mezzo-soprano Natalie Lewis introduces the piece, before a complete performance after the interval

Proms favourites Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra lift the bonnet on Mahler’s First Symphony. A dramatised first half featuring mezzo-soprano Natalie Lewis introduces the piece, before a complete performance after the interval

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

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

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

Musicians from across Europe come together under Philipp von Steinaecker in the Mahler Academy Orchestra’s Proms debut. They perform Mahler’s monumental Ninth Symphony, journeying from the first movement’s brooding farewell to the radiant finale