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Highlights from the BBC Proms, the UK's greatest classical music festival

Highlights from the BBC Proms, the UK's greatest classical music festival.

Memorable performances from the Proms season of classical concerts, recorded in the unique atmosphere of the Royal Albert Hall in London.

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BBC Proms on the World Service: Pianist Yuja Wang with the Oslo Philharmonic

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Yuja Wang at BBC Proms 2022

27/08/2022 GMT

Pianist Yuja Wang with the Oslo Philharmonic

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Highlights from the 2022 season of BBC Proms, UK’s greatest classical music festival

Highlights from the 2022 season of BBC Proms, UK’s greatest classical music festival.

Sibelius’s awe-inspiring panorama of Finnish forests opens a concert with one of Europe’s great orchestras and an acclaimed soloist who’s said that she ‘feels like a rock star’ when playing at the Proms. Liszt may have been the most feted piano virtuoso of the 19th century but the spectacular pyrotechnics of his playing sometimes obscured the fact that he was also an extremely innovative composer. Ever the perfectionist, he worked on his First Concerto for a quarter of a century before settling on its final, highly individual form in the 1850s. It has remained a favourite of audiences - as well as a proving-ground for pianists - ever since.

BBC presenter Andrew McGregor and pianist Keval Shah introduce the concert.

Broadcast programme:
Jean Sibelius - Tapiola
Franz Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major

Performers:
Yuja Wang - piano
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Klaus Mäkelä - conductor

{Photo: Yuja Wang at BBC Proms 2022. Credit: Chris Christodoulou/BBC)

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