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Live at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: Mark Wigglesworth conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra with a Proms debut for Nicholas McCarthy, the world's only professional one-handed pianist.

Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Shostakovich, arr. Atovmyan: Suite for Variety Orchestra
Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

c. 8.20pm
Interval: The writer and musicologist Daniel Grimley joins Martin Handley, live at the Royal Albert Hall, to discuss how William Walton overcame writer's block while composing his Symphony No. 1, and how the work secured his place as the heir to both Elgar and Sibelius.

c. 8.45pm
Walton: Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor

Nicholas McCarthy (piano)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Mark Wigglesworth

All swagger, originality and ‘orgiastic power’, one of the great 20th-century symphonies, Walton’s Symphony No. 1, put the composer on the map – as the heir to both Elgar and Sibelius. Ravel’s jazz-infused, darkly atmospheric Piano Concerto for the Left Hand also breaks new ground: only one hand plays, though the ear hears all the richness of two. McCarthy – the world’s only professional one-handed concert pianist – makes his Proms debut. The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra opens its first Prom under new Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth with Shostakovich’s jovial Suite for Variety Orchestra, packed with tunes from the composer’s music for ballet, theatre and cinema.