What's On / Proms by Day

PLEASE NOTE that Julia Fischer has been unwell and has therefore had to cancel her BBC Proms Chamber Music concert with Yakov Kreizberg originally scheduled for this date.

She will, however, still appear as scheduled in Prom 25 on Tuesday, August 5, to perform the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Yakov Kreizberg.

The artists and programme for this Chamber Prom are now as follows:

Born 150 years ago into an upper middle-class military London family, Ethel Smyth rebelled against her background to become not only one of the most successful British women composers but also an important figure in the suffragette movement.

Her unusually scored concerto dates from 1927, when she was almost 70. It's a work she dedicated to Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood, whose large-scale arrangements we also hear tonight. An early champion of Rachmaninov in England, Wood conducted the Russian's richly Romantic Second Symphony at the Proms in 1924.