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Here are some tip top highlights to bring you up to speed on what happened in the Proms 2015 season...

World-class performances are standard fare for the Proms but we've been incredibly lucky this year with some brilliant musicians and orchestras. It's sometimes hard to not take it for granted when , or violinist Alina Ibragimova just knocks it right out of the park at two extremely special Late Night Proms where she played the entire catalogue of J.S. Bach Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin. It's one thing to perform J.S. Bach from memory, but it's another thing entirely to reel it off with such skill and precision as if it were written especially for you in front of the entire Royal Albert Hall whilst owning the stage.

Well, quite Frankly (ahem), we've got Seth MacFarlane under our skin following the . The Proms celebrated 100 years of 'The Sultan of Swoon' Frank Sinatra with some excellent vocalists singing all the Sinatra hits, including Family Guy creator and actor Seth MacFarlane and the John Wilson Orchestra, conducted by John Wilson.

The joyous spirit and brassy brilliance in this opening chorus of the late, great J.S. Bach's Magnificat from a go a long way towards getting across what marvellous choral works have featured in the world's largest classical music festival this year.

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We have been treated to complete sets of several cycles this year. We're not talking about bicycles here, but an entire collection of a single genre of works by a composer. A wonderful experience early on in the Proms 2015 season was pianist Leif Ove Andsnes directing the Mahler Chamber Orchestra through all the . We've also had all five of in ONE Prom conducted by Valery Gergiev and the full set of eight of , to name but a few.

Alongside the great classical works that happen at the Prom every year, there are buckets of new works out there that you probably haven't heard before and world premieres that nobody on this planet (or any other planet, for that matter) has heard before. All these brand shiny new works have had as much air time as all the well-known favourites in Proms 2015 with fantastic outings in the Royal Albert Hall by world-class performers and orchestras. Take Jonathan Newman's Blow It Up, Start Again - a stream of big-band, funk and post-rock.

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One particularly special treat about this year's Proms has been the range of music available. From the where rappers like Wretch 32 and Stormzy tore up the stage (not literally) blending classical and urban styles to the featuring the very best big band tunes, there has been a Prom for every nook and cranny of your music tastes. Pete Tong turned the Royal Albert Hall into a dance-party with irresistable and played by the Heritage Orchestra and conductor Jules Buckley. It came complete with an epic laser-show, as you do.

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At the end of the day, the Proms is the biggest classical music festival in the world, and this season, like any other, has been a wonderful resource of fantastic concerts featuring classical favourites by great composers. With music as moving as , through to , the Proms 2015 has you covered for all your classical needs.

, which includes highlights of all the famous classical pieces from this year's Proms alongside a few things you may not have heard before.

Tenor Jonas Kaufmann took everybody's breath away at the Last Night of the Proms with his absolutely superb performance of the aria Nessun dorma from Puccini's Turandot. Listen and marvel!

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