BBC Proms 2018

The early trailing of the season focused on anniversaries for Debussy and Parry, neither of which were of much interest to me, but in fact I have quite a long list which will need to be whittled down.

• Prom 4 - every time I've been to see Shostakovich's Leningrad the quiet bits have been drowned out by noise, so it's tempting fate, but it has been on my playlist quite a lot recently


• Prom 6 - Messiaen's Turangalîla


• Prom 8 - Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto, and an opportunity to sample Lili Boulanger without Debussy or Ravel


• Prom 10 - Widor's famous Toccata, and other light organ classics


• Prom 14 - Overture to Die Meistersinger, Schubert songs, Liszt orchestrations, and Sibelius 7


• Prom 17 - The Lark Ascending and others


• Prom 18 - two Beethoven symphonies


• Prom 31 - Bernstein, Gershwin and Ives


• Prom 33 - Brahms German Requiem


• Prom 37 - the Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia with a Haydn, Bernstein and Mahler programme


• Prom 40 - Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, and others


• Prom 42 - Pärt, Grieg, Sibelius


• Prom 49 - Chopin and Tchaikovsky, followed by Prom 50 - Mozart and Mahler


• Prom 55 - Brahms and Liszt, with the Budapest Festival Orchestra


• Prom 60 - Marin Alsop with a Bernstein and Shostakovich programme


• Prom 64 - Verdi's Requiem


• Proms at ... Alexandra Palace - G&S Trial by Jury


• Prom 69 - Shostakovich 4


• Prom 70 - hoping for some Piazzolla at the Tango Prom


• Prom 71 - an all-Berlioz event

Other notable events include late night proms featuring the work of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Dido, Dido, and more Dido; a pair of concerts featuring the complete Brandenburg concerti interspersed with some UK premieres; Sir Simon Rattle with the LSO and an all-Ravel programme; Britten's War Requiem, Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande and Handel's Theodora.