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Live at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms: The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers with conductor Kazuki Yamada & pianist Yunchan Lim perform Adams, Rachmaninov & Berio.

Presented by Hannah French, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

John Adams: The Chairman Dances
Sergey Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor

8.15pm
Interval: Gillian Moore joins Hannah French to uncover the story of Berio's eclectic Sinfonia

8.35pm
Luciano Berio: Sinfonia

Yunchan Lim, piano
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Kazuki Yamada, conductor

After a ‘dazzling’ Proms debut last year, pianist and global phenomenon Yunchan Lim returns, joining Kazuki Yamada and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Rachmaninov’s final piano concerto. Rich in scope and ambition, tinged with the jazz rhythms and harmonies of the composer’s new homeland, it’s a technical tour de force

Musical visions from the New World continue in the two other works: John Adams’s ‘foxtrot for orchestra’ The Chairman Dances, a surreal set-piece from his hit opera Nixon in China, in which a young Mao Zedong dances with the future Madame Mao; and Berio’s iconic Sinfonia (dedicated to Leonard Bernstein) – an explosive, psychedelic remix of classical music’s past that asks big questions about its future