Great orchestras from Prague and Berlin - both conducted by British Knights - top and tail the Proms' penultimate week. Two opera companies are also bound for the Royal Albert Hall: Glyndebourne in its annual visit and the Early Opera Company.
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Prom 58: Sunday 29 August at 6.30pm Dvorák: Overture Carnival Martinu: Fantaisies symphoniques (Symphony No 6) Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor with Lars Vogt Janácek: The Ballad of Blaník Dvorák; Symphony No 8 in G Sir John Eliot Gardiner brings the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra to the Proms
Prom 59: Monday 30 August at 11am: Children's Prom Brahms: Hungarian Dance No 5 in F sharp minor Lully: two dances from Alceste Prokofiev: Montagues and Capulets from Romeo and Juliet Suite No 1 Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee Satie orch Debussy: Gymnopédie No 1 and music by John Adams, J S Bach, Bernstein, G Gabrieli and Shostakovich Nicholas Collon conducts his Aurora Orchestra with members of the National Children's Chamber Orchestra and National Youth Chamber Orchestra
Prom 60: Monday 30 August at 7pm Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue G Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow Arnold: Four Cornish Dances Graham Fitkin: PK (BBC commission: world première) with the BBC Proms Family Orchestra & Chorus conducted by the composer and Lincoln Abbots Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Gershwin: Promenade (Walking the Dog) from Shall We Dance? John Williams: Flight to Neverland from Hook Various: You Must Remember This: A Cinematic Sing-Along Warren arr Don Sebesky: 42nd Street Keith Lockhart conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a concert of two halves (Britain and America) for Bank Holiday Monday
Prom 61: Tuesday 31 August at 7pm Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel (semi-staged, sung in German) The annual visit by Glyndebourne Festival Opera marks Robin Ticciati's Proms debut, at the helm of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Alice Coote and Lydia Teuscher star as the titular children with Irmgard Vilsmaier and William Dazeley as their parents, Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke as the witch, Tara Erraught (Sandman) and Ida Falk Winhead (Dew Fairy)
Prom 62: Wednesday 1 September at 7.30pm Hindemith: Symphony Mathis der Maler Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with baritone Christian Gerhaher Bruckner: Symphony No 9 in D minor Herbert Blomstedt makes a very welcome return to the Proms with the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Prom 63: Thursday 2 September at 7pm Rameau: Suite Dardanus Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne (selection) with soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci Martin Matalon: Lignes de fuite(UK première) Musorgsky arr Henry Wood: Pictures at an Exhibition Leading up to Sunday's Sir Henry Wood day, François-Xavier Roth conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a complete performance of Wood's expansive orchestration of Musorgsky's solo piano classic
Prom 64: Thursday 2 September Late Night at 10pm W F Bach: Sinfonia in D minor Arne: Symphony No 4 in C minor Pergolesi: Stabat mater A trio of tercentenarians - all born in 1710 - are celebrated by Christian Curnyn and the Early Opera Company with, in the Pergolesi, soprano Elizabeth Watts and mezzo Anna Stephany
Two concerts by Sir Simon Rattle and his Berliner Philharmoniker:
Prom 65: Friday 3 September at 7.30pm Beethoven: Symphony No 4 in B flat Mahler: Symphony No 1 in D
Prom 66: Saturday 4 September at 7.30pm Wagner: Act 1 Prelude Parsifal Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs with soprano Karita Mattila Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces Op 16 Webern: Six Pieces for Orchestra Op 6 Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra Op 6 Rattle salutes Sir Henry Wood, who gave the world première of Schoenberg's Op 16 in 1912
