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BBC Proms

Royal Albert Hall

Thu 13 Aug at 19:00

Gershwin PC, Barber 1, Marsalis

Gaffigan, Son, BBC Symphony Orchestra

© No credit

Culture and Congress Centre: Concert Hall

Thu 13 Aug at 21:00

Various, Mozart, Davis, Oliva, Campo, Simons

Méndez Padrón, Willis, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Havana Lyceum Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra

© Priska Ketterer | Lucerne Festival

Culture and Congress Centre: Concert Hall

Thu 13 Aug at 19:30

Gershwin, Reich, Bernstein

Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra

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Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic © BBC | Chris Christodoulou

Gustavo Dudamel steers the LA Phil on wild ride into Hell at the BBC Proms

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Hamish Brown and Beth Taylor © Andrew Perry

Beth Taylor triumphs in her Edinburgh International Festival debut

By David Smythe

Yo-Yo Ma and Arooj Aftab © Hilary Scott, courtesy of the BSO

We The People: Our Future Together: Yo-Yo Ma curates a polyglot program at Tanglewood

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