BBC Proms 2015: It's a season with practically everything

With innovation, anniversaries, late-night solo Bach and Sherlock Holmes, the 2015 Proms tick every box

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I’m afraid I give up. Every year at about this time, I look at the new Proms season programme and, being a cynical journalist, every year I look for an angle to criticise what’s on offer. And every year I fail.

Take this year’s programme, revealed today. It’s got practically everything. Lots of dependables who bring in the punters, not least Beethoven, Mahler and Shostakovich. But lots of new music too, including world premieres by Tansy Davies, HK Gruber, James MacMillan and Hugh Wood. Plenty of star conductors – Simon Rattle, Daniel Barenboim, Andreis Nelsons and Semyon Bychkov. Glitzy soloists including Daniil Trifonov, Nicola Benedetti, Bryn Terfel and Jonas Kaufman. And Marin Alsop back for the Last Night after her brilliant success as the first woman to conduct the shindig in 2013.

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