Isabelle Faust plays Schumann's Violin Concerto from the BBC Proms

Elizabeth Alker introduces a week of highlights from the BBC Proms, featuring some of the festival's standout performances. Isabelle Faust plays Schumann's violin concerto with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle.

Back at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Benjamin Appl sings An die ferne Geliebte in an arrangement for voice and string quartet performed here by the Armida Quartet.

BBC Proms:
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Manze (conductor)

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival:
Ludwig van Beethoven
An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98
Benjamin Appl and the Armida Quartet

BBC Proms:
Gustav Mahler (arr. Benjamin Britten)
What the Wild Flowers Tell Me
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Paweł Kapuła (conductor)

BBC Proms:
Robert Schumann
Violin Concerto
Isabelle Faust
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)

International Sacred Music Festival, Fribourg:
Etienne Crausaz
Ave Generosa
Gesualdo Six

BBC Proms:
Sergei Rachmaninov
Symphony no 3
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)