THE ALBERT HALL AT 150

We celebrate the r ich histor y of London’s iconic venue

FULL BBC PROMS GUIDE!

Complete details of this year’s long-awaited festival

The world’s best-selling classical music magazine

Carnival of the Animals Our beast-by-beast guide

to Saint-Saëns’s magical

musical menagerie

PLUS! Ruth Gipps Anna Lapwood

Peter Donohoe

and much more…

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