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We return to Blackpool for the first time in 8 years with an ambitious programme in Blackpool’s historic Opera House.

Lucas and Arthur Jussen make their Proms debut in Poulenc’s Concerto for two pianos. They join the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Kazuki Yamada, who also perform two 20th-century classics: John Adams’s Harmonium and Poulenc’s Sinfonietta

Friday Night Is Music Night comes to Bristol Beacon, with a road trip across American music in all its stars and stripes.

The raw power of Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony meets the anguished humanity of John Adams and Walt Whitman: Jukka-Pekka Saraste explores the terror and compassion of 20th century music at its most powerful.

Beethoven’s epic, uplifting ‘Choral’ Symphony No. 9 sits alongside Roderick Williams’s Ave Verum Corpus Re-imagined, Pauline Oliveros’s Tuning Meditation and John Adams’s Absolute Jest.

Pianist Pavel Kolesnikov collaborates with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at the RNCM for a programme of Mozart, Britten and John Adams.

Tales from a dark century: Isabelle Faust plays Berg’s Violin Concerto, in a concert that embraces nature myths, songs of loss, and the splitting of the atom.