Late Night Proms

Scottish composer Erland Cooper and special guests perform an intimate late-night concert of classical and ambient music inspired by Radio 3 Unwind’s Ultimate Calm series. A uniquely escapist night-time experience.

The Gesualdo Six and the Colin Currie Group appear in a Late-Night Prom that combines choral works by Renaissance composers including Hildegard of Bingen, Josquin and Pérotin with Steve Reich’s take on traditional Hebrew Psalms, Tehillim

Jules Buckley returns with his own ensemble in a new collaboration with American singer-songwriter Weyes Blood – a typically imaginative meeting of musical minds in an intimate late-night setting

Grammy Award-winning percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie joins the Fantasia Orchestra and BBC Singers for a genre-busting programme that features music by Vaughan Williams, Radiohead, John Coltrane and Caroline Shaw

South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo make their Proms debut 40 years since the release of Paul Simon’s era-defining album Graceland, which brought the group to international attention

The Jupiter Ensemble makes its Proms debut with British tenor Laurence Kilsby in a programme celebrating two jewels of the English Renaissance and Baroque: John Dowland and Henry Purcell

Join mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital and his ensemble Between Worlds for a sonic tour of the countries that border the Black Sea, as they perform traditional Crimean Tatar music, Turkish folk and klezmer plus works by Bartók, Taktakishvili and David Bruce

Praised for their ‘bewitching, colourful and easy-listening grooves’, Nigerian sensations Kingsley Okorie and Benjamin James bring their distinctive brand of ‘highlife fusion’ to the BBC Proms