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Here’s the lowdown on the fantastic BBC Proms<\/a><\/strong> concert taking place Friday, 23 August. Sibelius, Mahler, Jamie Barton… there’s plenty to tempt classical music lovers to today’s Prom.<\/p> Don’t forget to keep checking back at www.classical-music.com<\/a><\/strong> for your daily Proms fix. We’re previewing each day’s Prom, including repertoire, performers and more. And, if you want more of an overview of this year’s Proms, simply head to our full-to-bursting 2024 BBC Proms guide<\/a><\/strong>. That’s where we’ve listed all the concerts taking place this year. These include the more than 70 Proms taking place at the Royal Albert Hall, plus chamber music<\/a><\/strong> concerts in Aberdeen, Newport and Belfast, and weekend festivals in Bristol, Nottingham and Gateshead.<\/p> Today’s deliciously varied Prom includes a first-ever UK performance of the Second Symphony by American composer Julius Eastman<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0Subtitled \u2018The Faithful Friend: The Lover Friend\u2019s Love for the Beloved\u2019\u00a0<\/em>(UK premiere<\/em>), Eastman’s Second is his only large-scale orchestral work. And its concert life is still relatively young. The work got its premiere at the Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York in November 2018, to great acclaim.<\/p> We continue with Gustav Mahler<\/a><\/strong>‘s song cycle\u00a0R\u00fcckert-Lieder<\/em>. This cycle of five songs, or Lieder<\/a><\/strong>, for voice and orchestra (or piano) is based on poems written by the German poet Friedrich R\u00fcckert. Mahler wrote several sets of song cycles including Kindertotenlieder<\/em> (also based on poems by R\u00fcckert) and Des Knaben Wunderhorn<\/em> (based on German folk poems and songs). The R\u00fcckert-Lieder<\/strong><\/a><\/em> are on a smaller scale than the Wunderhorn<\/em> settings, and have a more lyrical style. Indeed, they bear some similarities with Mahler’s Fifth Symphony<\/a><\/strong>, composed at around the same time.<\/p>What’s on at the BBC Proms today?<\/h2>