A double date return to the BBC Proms

We’re making our sixth consecutive annual appearance at the BBC Proms this summer, with not one but two concerts.

Our appearances at the BBC Proms have truly become one of the highlights of our year, and we return this year on Friday 24 July with a rich programme that starts with Verdi’s Overture to La Forza Del Destino before moving onto Walton’s Cello Concerto with our Principal Cellist Jonathan Aasgaard.

We released an album with this work last year, also featuring Jonathan, and it met with huge acclaim, Gramophone Magazine making it record of the month, saying ‘the level of virtuosity displayed by this band can be, and is here, absolutely jaw dropping’.

The second half of the concert is a very rare chance to hear Respighi’s lavishly orchestrated Roman Trilogy in full: The Pines of Rome, The Fountains of Rome and Roman Festivals. Again, a work we’ve recorded, with BBC Music Magazine saying ‘Wilson’s handling is full of nuance, resulting in performances of light and shade, but mostly joyful exuberance.’

We return to the Proms with a very different concert on 6 September, when in a late morning performance we perform a programme of British music for strings. In this year in which we mark 50 years since the passing of composer Benjamin Britten, this concert includes two of his major works.

Les Illuminations, here featuring soprano Julie Roset, is one of the pieces that helped make a name for Britten, while the work that closes the concert, the Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, is a landmark of 20th century writing for strings. It’s a touching portrait of, and thank you to one of Britten’s treasured friends, Frank Bridge, whose music also appears in the concert.

Booking for the 2026 BBC Proms opens on 16 May.

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