Pippa’s 10 Proms picks

❍ July 15 40 years of the BBC Young Musician, with Sheku Kanneh-mason (cello), Nicola Benedetti (violin), Freddy Kempf (piano) and Emma Johnson (clarinet)

❍ July 21 War and Peace: Georg Solti’s World Orchestra for Peace in Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony

❍ August 5 The Brandenburg Concertos Project: all six of Bach’s ‘Brandenburg’ concertos and six new companion works

❍ August 6 Inside Shostakovich: the Aurora Orchestra plays his 9th

Symphony from memory

❍ August 11 Bernstein’s West Side Story, conducted by John Wilson*

❍ August 16 Orchestra de la Suisse Romande and Renaud Capucon (violin) in Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky

❍ August 18 Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra with Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano) in Ravel’s Shéhérezade*

❍ August 19 Seong-jin Cho plays Chopin’s Piano Concerto No 2 with the European Union Youth Orchestra*

❍ August 20 The Sense of an Ending: Vaughan Williams, Bridge, Holst and Parry performed by the BBC Singers

❍ September 1 Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Yuja Wang in Prokoviev’s Piano Concerto No 3

* sold out—listen on Radio 3