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This year’s programme to feature ambitious pieces with lots of notes – and that’s just prog night

The BBC has announced the 2026 Proms season, the 99th under the broadcaster’s control (the so-called Promenade concerts began in 1895). Seventy-two concerts in the Royal Albert Hall and 14 across the UK – in Bristol, Gateshead and, in a Proms first, Mold – will showcase a vast range of UK classical music talent.

Sam Jackson, controller, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Proms, hailed a “creatively bold season that packs a punch when it comes to international orchestras and names”.