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We’re back with your daily BBC Proms<\/a><\/strong> preview from BBC Music Magazine. Below you’ll find information on Prom 55, which takes place on the evening of Saturday 31 August. It features one of the world’s most acclaimed pianists, the Icelander V\u00edkingur Olafsson<\/a><\/strong>, and one of the most acclaimed orchestras in the Berlin Philharmonic<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p> Make sure you keep coming back to www.classical-music.com<\/a><\/strong> all the way through to the Last Night of the Proms<\/a><\/strong>, which takes place this year on Saturday 14 September. Every day, we’ll have an informative guide to that evening’s Prom. And, if you want to see the whole lot of concerts in one place (which includes chamber music<\/a><\/strong> concerts and weekend festivals in cities across the UK), visit our packed 2024 BBC Proms guide<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p> Today we begin with a performance of Robert Schumann’s scintillating, mercurial Piano Concerto, surely one of the greatest piano concertos of all time<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p> Schumann<\/a><\/strong>‘s largest work for piano and orchestra, the Piano Concerto in A minor features a bewitching mix of Romantic drama and joyous, infectious melodies – much like the later Piano Concerto by Edvard Grieg<\/a><\/strong>. Some of the greatest pianists of today and of the past, including Martha Argerich<\/a><\/strong>, Murray Perahia, Leif Ove Andsnes, Radu Lupu and Stephen Kovacevich, have made the Schumann concerto<\/a><\/strong> one of their calling cards.<\/p>What’s on at the BBC Proms today?<\/h2>