Dalia Stasevska, Principal Guest Conductor to the BBC Symphony Orchestra returns to Royal Albert Hall to conduct the First Night of the 2021 Proms on 30 July. Programme includes Poulenc’s Organ Concerto performed by Daniel Hyde and Sibelius’ Symphony No.2. Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music – written to celebrate Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood’s 50 years on the podium and premiered by him at his jubilee concert in the Royal Albert Hall in 1938. Sir James MacMillan offers a new companion piece, When Soft Voices Die to the Serenade. 

This concert will be broadcast live on BBC Two (first half) / BBC Four (second half) TV as well as on BBC Radio 3, and will also be available for catch-up viewing or listening on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds.