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BBC Proms: 2020: Daniel Barenboim and his West–Eastern Divan Orchestra

Proms 2020 Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Daniel Barenboim and his West–Eastern Divan Orchestra

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Martha Argerich plays Liszt’s First Piano Concerto.

Legendary pianist Martha Argerich joins the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra for Liszt’s First Piano Concerto in E flat, before an all-Wagner second half.

In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts. Tonight, a memorable concert from the 2016 season, when Daniel Barenboim paired his orchestra of young Arabs and Israelis with the iconic pianist Martha Argerich in a thundering performance of Liszt’s First Piano Concerto. The concert begins with a work by Jörg Widmann. Entitled Con brio, it harnesses the energy of Beethoven’s fast movements in an ‘exercise in fury and rhythmic insistence’. Barenboim – who conducted Wagner’s Ring cycle at the Proms in 2013 – concludes with powerful excerpts from three of the composer’s most popular works.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

Jörg Widmann: Con brio
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major

c. 8.10pm
Interval

c.8.25pm
Wagner: Tannhäuser – Overture
Wagner: Götterdämmerung – Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey
Wagner: Götterdämmerung – Siegfried's Death and Funeral March 
Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg – Overture

Martha Argerich (piano)
West–Eastern Divan Orchestra 
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

(From the BBC Proms 2016, 17 August)

BBC Proms: 2020

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