Prom 29: Chopin, Franck, Saint-Saëns & Casella

Casella’s haunting ‘Heroic Elegy’, dedicated to the ‘unknown soldier’, continues our series of works written in the shadow of the First World War. Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor, still only 22, returns for his fourth Proms appearance in Chopin’s lyrical but virtuosic First Piano Concerto; he is also the soloist in Franck’s Symphonic Variations – once a Proms favourite (performed here on 60 occasions), though it has been largely absent since the 1960s. Saint-Saëns’s ‘Organ’ Symphony continues the French theme. ‘With it I have given all I could give,’ the composer observed. ‘What I did I could not achieve again.’

Seats  £7.50  to  £38  (plus  booking  fee).