Performances of Ralph Vaughan Williams at BBC Proms

Following their sensational concert debut at last year's Proms, John Wilson conducts his Sinfonia of London in an all-British programme of Elgar, Walton, Bax, Vaughan Williams and Huw Watkins.

Two uncompromising landmarks of 20th-century British music, as Omer Meir Wellber conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Vaughan Williams’s and Michael Tippett’s Fourth symphonies.

Happy and glorious: the BBC Singers join the BBC Concert Orchestra and Chief Conductor Bramwell Tovey for a Platinum Jubilee celebration of music and royalty spanning six centuries.

‘Behold, the sea itself!’ In Vaughan Williams’s anniversary year, Andrew Manze and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform his majestic A Sea Symphony alongside musical seascapes by Grace Williams and Doreen Carwithen.

With an unbroken history spanning nearly 150 years, the Tredegar Band is a true virtuoso ensemble. Their second Prom this season embraces centenary tributes to Elmer Bernstein and Judy Garland, as well as works by Richard Strauss and Vaughan Williams.

A matinee concert from Dinis Sousa and the Royal Northern Sinfonia, featuring sunlit masterworks by Haydn, Saariaho and Beethoven. Nicholas Daniel is the soloist in Vaughan Williams’s pastoral Oboe Concerto.

Elgar’s First Symphony, Vaughan Williams’s Tuba Concerto and a swinging new showpiece from Mark-Anthony Turnage: music that could have been made for the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo.

The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut with Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony, a Thomas Adès premiere and Vaughan Williams’s gently soaring The Lark Ascending – played by the unfailingly original Finnish firebrand Pekka Kuusisto.

Live in Birmingham, mezzo-soprano Claire Barnett-Jones and pianist Simon Lepper perform songs by Vaughan Williams, Ethel Smyth and Joseph Horovitz, and premiere something entirely new from Proms favourite Errollyn Wallen.