The Proms honours old boys' birthdays

Peter Maxwell Davies's 75th and John McCabe's 70th marked with concertos given by Daniel Hope and David Pyatt among others

Proms task marks a high for young composers

Six teenage composers prepare for the biggest night of their lives with their scores facing an audience of 40 million people

Prom 72: BBCSO/Belohlavek

Mendelssohn’s overture plays to Belohlávek’s strengths and it received an appropriately noble and fervent performance

Proms 70 & 71: RPO/ Maxwell Davies; BBC Singers/Hill

Wave patterns have always suffused Peter Maxwell Davies’s music, providing evocative colour and mathematical conundrums

Prom 69: Leipzig Gewandhaus/Chailly

Mahler’s Tenth is particularly close to Chailly’s heart; he now breathes with its every dying and regenerating breath

Prom 68: Messiah

The national “Sing Hallulejah” scheme, mounted by Radio 3 and English National Opera, couldn’t have had a brighter send-off

Proms 65, 66 & 67: Nash Ensemble/Masson, GMYO, BBCNOW

The Nash Ensemble took us back to the future with the American George Crumb, whose music 40 years ago heralded a new world of wonder

Prom 64: LPO/Jurowski

Vladimir Jurowski might wish not to put his orchestra through such an elaborate preamble the next time they play Brahms

Prom 63: BBC SO/Robertson at the Royal Albert Hall/Radio 3

An imaginative conductor finds a link between modernist and romantic composers

Prom 62: RCO/Jansons

It’s hard to imagine another team finding as much clarity in Shostakovich as Jansons and the Concertgebouw manage

Prom 61: RCO/Jansons

The joy lay in the orchestra’s tone-painting and the mature wisdom of its great conductor, Mariss Jansons

New Generation Artists

This party significantly highlighted BBC commissions that encourage musicians to broaden their repertoire

New Generation Artists

Although focused on solo star turns, the imaginative programmes also celebrated some significant musical relationships

Prom 56: Dresden Staatskapelle/Luisi

Hear the Staatskapelle strings’ silky tone and you can forgive a lot of Strauss’s more flatulent moments of scene-setting

Prom 57: BBCSO/ Robertson

David Robertson had his hands full with Tchaikovsky in this Prom, and was joined by Stephen Hough and Steven Isserlis

Mendelssohn and Handel at the BBC Proms

Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra impressed, while Semyon Bychkov and LSO's second visit topped off the week

Prom 55: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Runnicles

The BBCSSO's new chief conductor has been gaining international experience that shone through Strauss, Adams and Mozart

Prom 54: three stars for Michael Nyman Band

Michael Nyman’s band, superb musicians, were beautiful in their own way, but his art is a limited one for the Proms

Prom 52: LSO/Gergiev

Schnittke’s oratorio about Nagasaki was worth hearing once, but it was a relief to hear real music (Shostakovich) afterwards

Prom 51: BBCSO/Vänskä

Szymanowski’s Stabat mater has been a rare visitor; here it was with Brahms’s Violin Concerto played by Joshua Bell