American David Robertson conducts two US classics, including Barber’s enduring Adagio, as well as Tippett’s A Child of Our Time.

One of the great choral classics of Western classical music, Bach’s Mass in B minor, under Baroque specialist Harry Bicket.

Bob Chilcott’s cantata The Angry Planet deploys massed choirs and schoolchildren from across London to voice an ecological theme.

Part concert piece, part theatrical spectacle, Bernstein’s Mass is an unmissable rarity, receiving it first Proms performance.

Bruckner (Sixth Symphony) and James MacMillan (Credo), associated with religious expression, are joined by Wagner’s hymn to love.

Rebecca Evans and Alice Coote appear in Elgar’s oratorio The Apostles with the Hallé under leading Elgarian Sir Mark Elder.

Berlioz’s grand Requiem makes full use of the Royal Albert Hall’s cavernous space, featuring massed choirs and tenor Toby Spence.

A musical introduction to Schoenberg’s epic cantata with Andrew McGregor and musicians from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers.

Schoenberg’s epic Gurrelieder – a medieval love-tragedy couched in rich post-Romanticism – is conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek.

Russian Vladimir Jurowski conducts Tchaikovsky’s Byron-inspired Manfred; Alice Coote is the soloist in Mahler’s wayfaring songs.

Musicians from the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers present a musical exploration of tonight’s operetta with Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard, one of the duo’s grandest Savoy operas, celebrates London in this Olympic year.

Musicians from ENO provide an illustrated guide to Britten’s first operatic masterpiece. Andrew McGregor presents.

Britten’s Peter Grimes, based in a Suffolk fishing village, transformed British opera. Edward Gardner conducts his ENO forces.

A great way to explore opera for the first time with the Glyndebourne Opera Land team. Suitable for 12- to 18-year-olds.

Join Rachel Leach and musicians from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for a musical introduction to Mozart’s comic opera.

Mozart’s comic opera in which the Count receives his comeuppance, with Glyndebourne forces under rising star Robin Ticciati.

Popular American choral composer Eric Whitacre makes his Proms debut, as does songwriter Imogen Heap: both bring new works.