BBC Proms: Songs of Wars

Commissioned by the Southbank Centre to mark the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall, the two orchestras reunite under fast-rising conductor Chloe Rooke for a London revival of this landmark setting of wartime diary entries by Gertrude Stein, a work that manages to prove harrowing, poignant and consoling all at once, and whose visions of war have scarcely been more relevant.