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Music for beginnings and endings. It’s hard to find a more famous, or iconically flamboyant, first few seconds than the clarinet solo at the start of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

Karina Canellakis conducts the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ SSO in a programme featuring Messiaen's Les Offrandes Oubliées, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with Hugh Cutting, and Stravinsky's reorchestrated Petrushka.

South African soprano Golda Schultz returns to the Proms with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, performing songs by Bernstein, Gershwin, Weill and others. Schreker’s sensuous Chamber Symphony and Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird also feature

John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London present a passion-soaked programme of 20th-century orchestral showpieces: Ravel’s ballet Daphnis and Chloe, Bernstein’s lyrical Serenade and Richard Strauss’s Don Juan

Rachmaninov, Bernstein and Davóne Tines – a fresh perspective on America’s past, present and future from Daniele Rustioni and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra.

We mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the document of independence with an all American programme featuring some of the most famous American composers in history, from Copland, Barber and Bernstein to William Grant Still and Christopher Tin.