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Full sail for new shores: Sakari Oramo conducts Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony, Britten’s Double Concerto and the London premiere of Oliver Knussen’s exquisite Cleveland Pictures.

The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra present an all-British Prom, with Elgar’s ‘Cockaigne’ overture, Holst’s Hammersmith and Vaughan Williams’s A London Symphony featuring alongside a selection of Stanford’s songs performed by baritone Christopher Maltman

Patricia Kopatchinskaja returns to the Proms to perform Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto with the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra and Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski. We also hear Vaughan Williams’s ‘Greensleeves’ Fantasia and Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony.

An evening-long meditation on life and the hereafter, devised by Sakari Oramo and featuring the UK premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s astonishing final masterpiece Hush.

England’s dreaming: Sakari Oramo rediscovers rare and wonderful British masterpieces by Vaughan Williams, Doreen Carwithen and Malcolm Arnold.